With seven other students on Tuesday, I got a taste of what it’s like to be homeless in the middle
of Kingston’s winter. Students against Poverty, a committee under the AMS Social issues Commission does an “Out in the Cold” event every year to raise money for the North Kingston Community Health Centre, a Share the Warmth project that helps people from low-income families pay their utilities bill.

Next year, the Tricolour Market and the Greenroom will be managed by one four-member management team, and one of the Destinations managers will absorb the Queen’s Entertainment Agency in his or her portfolio.

Emily Toffanello is one of several students on campus who have been targeted by someone using the name Lyte Stacey and asking students to return money after sending them fake money orders or cheques for rent. Melissa Fedrigo, ArtSci ’08 and one of Toffanello’s housemates, said this is a security concern for the house. “They know where we live, they have pictures of our house— we sent pictures of what the rooms look like.”

Elamin Abdelmahmoud and Hakim Kassam, both ArtSci ’09, were acclaimed with 73.7 per cent of the vote, or 2,144 votes.
Final results came in at about 5:40 a.m.
ASUS Chief Returning Officer Kimberley Molina said ballot counting was slowed down by an unusually high number of spoiled ballots.

Shortly after midnight last night at Clark Hall Pub, engineering students of all years and disciplines raised their glasses to their new EngSoc president, Charlie Scott. Scott, Sci ’07, said he wasn’t surprised by the outcome of the vote.
“I wouldn’t be running for EngSoc if I didn’t think I would win,” he said.

At 2:38 a.m. this morning, Michael Ceci got a visit from the AMS elections team and Kingsley Chak, outgoing undergraduate student trustee and now AMS president-elect.
They told Ceci, ArtSci ’09, that he would be the next undergraduate student trustee to sit on the Board of Trustees.
And then they doused him with champagne. After he cleaned himself up, Ceci spoke about his campaign and his election win.

At 3:03 a.m., AMS President James Macmillan walked into a packed house on Johnson Street, eliciting loud cheers from the kitchen.
Screams grew louder as Macmillan made his way to the back where the candidates were sitting.
“I’m looking for AMS President Kingsley Chak,” he called out.

The idea of a campus-wide sustainability office is a radical one at Queen’s but has succeeded at other universities, said Blake Anderson, AMS sustainability co-ordinator.

Martijn Kuipers learned about the Chat program through the Queen’s university International Centre when he first arrived in Canada.
Kuipers, an ArtSci ’07 exchange student from Groningen, Netherlands, agreed the buttons helped him to meet new people for the first few days at Queen’s, when everybody tries to get to know each other.

Five candidates are vying to be part of the Commerce Society next year with elections taking place next week on Feb. 13 and 14.

Just after 1 a.m. on Nov. 9, 2006, Erik Orava was standing on the dance floor at Alfie’s when he felt
someone grab him and lock him into a choke hold. John Doe, whose name has been changed because he settled in a private hearing with the AMS Judicial Committee, maintained his hold. Orava tried to break free and then felt doe bite down on his finger.

Team CMM would encounter the most challenges implementing its promise to establish a university-wide sustainability office, said Julia Mitchell, vice-president (university affairs) candidate. CMM Vice-President (operations) candidate John Manning said even if they don’t succeed in creating the office this year, the goal is still worth campaigning on and pursuing anyway.