First thing Monday morning, students were faced with the reality of a campus under construction as they headed back to class.
Just after 8:30 a.m. students were still trying to pick a route to class, many with maps downloaded from the University’s website in hand.
Inside, Stauffer Library shook with the construction, and the noise took away the calm of the library setting.

The Toronto Star has cancelled its Campus Readership Program with Queen’s University due to lack of sponsorship.
JDUC Director Robert Burge said the newspaper contacted Queen’s about two months ago. He received an e-mail saying the program would be ending at the end of August if the newspaper didn’t find another sponsor.

The AMS Sustainability Office is teaming up with Destinations and the Living Energy Lab to help promote sustainable housing throughout the student ghetto through a new Greenovations project.
The Living Energy Lab is a project run by the Faculty of Applied Science that retrofits student houses, turning them into living laboratories for studying energy conservation.
Destinations will donate one per cent of the cost of each ticket on Tricolour Express, the student-run discount bus service, sold to the Sustainability Office in a lump sum—approximately $6,000 to $7,000, based on last year’s figures.

The class of Sci ’11 was treated to sunshine, muddy water and copious amounts of lanolin at Saturday’s annual Grease Pole climb.
Scott Irwin, Sci ’11, victoriously grabbed the tam from the top of the lanolin-covered Pole after exactly 1 hour, 47 minutes and 31 seconds of struggling.

For PhD student Margaret Bedore, the inconvenience of campus construction brings with it additional hardships.
Bedore, 61, suffers from rheumatoid arthritis, a chronic autoimmune disease that stiffens her joints and makes movement more laborious for her.
Because of her arthritis, she walks with a slight limp that makes it very easy for her to trip on uneven streets and sidewalks that are common on a campus under construction.

Ian Van Toch will be remembered for his effusive warmth and infectious laughter, says his friend and fellow Queen’s student Alex Caspary. Caspary was with Van Toch before he died of heart failure in his Toronto apartment on Aug. 24. It was later determined that the 22-year-old had been living with coronary heart disease.

Move-in day in residence was no more hectic than usual this year despite thousands of first-years and their parents negotiating a campus under construction. The group of arrivals was lessened by about one third, however, because Residence Life waived early arrival fees, allowing frosh to move in earlier.

Engineering Society President Charlie Scott, Clark Hall Pub’s closure and the resulting dismissal of the Science Constables has had no effect on the faculty’s Frosh Week events.
Traditionally supervised by pub staff, all activities, including tomorrow’s famed Grease Pole climb, will be monitored by AMS Student Constables.

In the event of an incident like the shooting at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in April, the police and the coroner’s office are the only people who have legal authority to ask Health, Counselling and Disability Services (HCDS) for personal information, said Dr. Mike Condra, director of HCDS. On Wednesday B.C. Privacy Commissioner David Loukidelis said B.C. law allows a university to share a student’s confidential medical records if there’s a perceived threat to public safety, regardless of the student’s age.

This year’s pre-registration period brought an unpleasant surprise for many upper-year politics students. After logging on to QCARD in July, they found most of the courses they needed to complete their degrees were already full.
Class enrollment caps at 55 students at the third-year level and 19 students at the fourth-year level.
The politics department had originally scheduled 28 courses at the third-year level and 32 at the fourth-year level. Four courses were cancelled before pre-registration because the instructors left without enough time for the department to find replacements.

David Mitchell, newly appointed vice-principal (advancement), has big shoes to fill—but he’s not worried.
After all, Mitchell took the high-profile job because he was intrigued by the challenge.
“It’s both a challenge and an opportunity,” he said. “It provides the opportunity to play the role of matchmaker.”
The vice-principal (advancement) job involves raising money and deal-making for Queen’s from alumni, donors and corporations, and comes with a salary of $279, 147.14.

Ongoing Queen’s Centre construction will continue to affect vehicle and pedestrian traffic across campus throughout the fall semester.
The intersection of Union Street and University Avenue will reopen at the end of September.
University Avenue north of Union Street will reopen in late November.

The influx of students to campus for fall semester has prompted the University to heighten security measures at construction sites. This decision came after a man was injured at a construction site near Ellis Hall.
He gained access to the site at about 1:15 a.m. Aug. 16, and was transported by regional ambulance service to Kingston General Hospital for observation, said Campus Security Director David Patterson.

Brian Sterling remembers a time when the biggest problem Clark Hall Pub had was running out of beer.
Sterling was social development convener for the Engineering Society in 1972, when Clark Hall Pub first opened.
On opening night, Sterling said, the new staff tried to provide an incentive for faculty to join students for drinks on Friday afternoon.

The Engineering Society executive closed Clark Hall Pub in June. EngSoc President Charlie Scott and Vice-President (Operations) Rob MacNamara cited budget inconsistencies and liability issues as reasons for the closure.
Erin Hall, the pub’s former business manager, said the practice of employees borrowing money from the pub, referred to as the “Bank of Clark”, has been going on for years.

The cell phone sounds its wake-up call at 7 a.m. as I rub my eyes and survey my dusty elephant-patterned mattress. I assess last night’s sweat factor and am thankful that tomorrow night I will get my turn in the fan rotation—it’s part of a deal that I have with my three project partners.

Queen’s psychology professor Brian Butler, accused of assaulting his neighbour, Andrew Hyett, with a ladder on Oct. 3, 2006, has received a conditional discharge. This means he receives no punishment on the condition that he does not contact Hyett, Hyett’s family or any visitors to the house either directly or indirectly. He also received a two-year probation.

The student code of conduct just got longer. The Senate Committee on Non-Academic Discipline (SONAD) released the draft of a revised student Code of Conduct. The committee is accepting feedback from students and faculty. Wendy Griesdorf, last year’s SONAD chair said the changes follow up on a recommendation of the Principal’s Task Force on Community Relations two years ago, suggesting the code of conduct be reviewed.