The female prisoners of Isabel McNeill House which is located at 525 King St. West, will be appealing a court decision next Friday in hopes of staying at the only women-only minimum security prison that remains in Canada. In a decision on March 1, Judge Thomas J. Lally ruled that the four women in McNeill House don’t have to leave until their appeal comes before the courts.

A food fight broke out in Leonard Cafeteria on St. Patrick’s day last Saturday and caused $4,300 worth of damage.
It began at approximately 6 p.m. and lasted roughly 15 minutes. Residence and Hospitality Services Director Bruce Griffiths said during the fight, students broke glasses and dishes.

Peter Christ is one of the original co-founders of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) and is part of a group advocating for the legalization of all drugs.
Christ, retired police captain and vice-director of LEAP, will be speaking at the University next Thursday on the prohibition of drugs.

Like all other universities, Queen’s is facing the tremendous challenge to grow in a time of great financial constraints, Principal Karen Hitchcock told a breakfast crowd of 120 Kingstonians at Ambassador Conference Resort Hotel.
Hitchcock cited partnerships with public and private organizations and businesses as a way to ease the financial burden.

Al Gore won’t be coming to Queen’s any time soon, but something of a stunt double is already here.
Queen’s alumnus Mike Gerbis was one of 18 canadians chosen by the former U.S. vice-president to present a canadian version of the slideshow from Gore’s academy award-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth.

The AMS unanimously condemned the University’s collection and sharing of information related to off-campus student activity at an emergency meeting Wednesday night.
The meeting was called after Shelley Aylesworth-Spink, assistant to Dean of Student Affairs Jason Laker sent Judicial Committee Chief Prosecutor Jenn Mansell on March 16 a list of 11 student keg parties planned for St. Patrick’s Day. The e-mail also said the list had been sent to Kingston police.

Last October, the Kingston Whig-Standard reported that an argument between two neighbours ended with one man, Brian Butler, hitting his neighbour with a 24-foot ladder, grabbing his neighbour’s neck and threatening him.
The two men were arguing over a willow tree on their property line when Butler’s neighbour threw a glass of wine at him, missed but hit Butler’s car, Kingston police told the Whig. That’s when Butler grabbed the ladder.

David Wright, executive director of housing, said Queen’s Apartment and Housing Service falls under the Ontario Residential Tenancies Act, but there are a few differences in the legislation due to the nature of the leases for Queen’s houses. “We can use termination agreements to keep the University property agreements available when students are looking,” he said …

On Wednesday night, the AMS’s Academic Affairs Commission presented the year’s final Last
Lecture on Earth. Instead of the series’ usual format of one professor giving a talk, this event featured four professors from different fields, all speaking about environment issues.

Street closures for Queen’s Centre construction began on Monday in order to accommodate the
re-routing of underground services that are making way for the $230-million student-life centre.
Division Street from Union Street to Earl Street and Union Street from Arch Street to Division Street are scheduled to be closed until April 27, with several other segments of Union Street, Division Street and University Avenue scheduled to close later this year.

Two students are working to ensure that students suffering from eating disorders will have an opportunity to seek anonymous help on campus.
Two weeks ago, AMS Assembly passed a motion expressing formal support of Andrea Sorichetti, Phys
Ed ’08, and Jessica Litman, ArtSci ’08, in their endeavour to establish an anonymous support group
on campus for students seeking treatment for eating disorders.