The University has narrowed down its search to replace Faculty of Applied Science Dean Tom Harris
to two candidates, but will only reveal one of their names.
The selection committee, headed by Vice-Principal (Academic) Patrick Deane, will meet with the final two candidates over the next couple of weeks. One of these candidates is David Wilkinson, director of the McMaster University Centre for Automotive Materials and the McMaster Manufacturing Research
Institute. Wilkinson visited Queen’s on Tuesday.

You’re told you need them to get into university, into graduate school, to get a good job and to have a
secure future.
You have probably spent years of your life worrying about whether yours are up to par.
But once you get out of school, how important are marks to the people who are hiring you?

As of Jan. 31, tenant-landlord legislation will get an overhaul when the Ontario Residential Tenancies Act replaces the Tenant Protection Act.
AMS Municipal Affairs Commissioner Ryan Quinlan-Keech said the new legislation won’t affect student tenants very much, but it should be an opportunity for them to educate themselves about their rights as tenants, and to ensure their landlords are up to date on the current legislation.

Principal Karen Hitchcock makes $306,425.04, David Walker, dean of Health Sciences, makes $320,073.32, and David Saunders, dean of the School of Business, makes $236,520.50. They are three
of the highest-paid employees of the University.
Vice-Principal (Human Resources) Roderick Morrison said the principal’s salary is determined by the Board of Directors based on what other principals and presidents in Canada are making.

In 2006, Queen’s had exchange agreements with 97 different institutions worldwide. The agreements mean that Queen’s students studying abroad will receive full credit for courses completed and pay all of their fees to Queen’s. It also means that a roughly equal number of students will travel between Queen’s and the other institution.

Tonight, a public consultation on democratic reform could be one step towards changing Ontario’s electoral process later this year. Members of the Citizen’s Assembly on Electoral Reform will be listening to presentations and discussions by Kingston and Queen’s community member.

If nothing else, the incredibly mild winter we’ve been experiencing up to now should be a signal that more effort needs to be put into helping the environment. With this in mind, the arrival of the Earth Centre is just the place where students can drop in to do their share. Located in Macgillvary-Brown Hall, next to the Fair Trade Co-op, this centre will provide both literature and products to educate students about the environment. Deputy Commissioner for the SIC Environment Committee, Tim Philpott, called it “the SHRC [Sexual Health Resource Centre] but for the environment.”

Hazel Gilchrist, manager of Recruitment and Retention at KGH, said of the total number of nursing students doing placements at KGH, only about 11 per cent are native to Kingston. At the end of their placements, said Gilchrist, a large number of students look for work elsewhere.

Underage students haven’t violated the AMS’s revamped All-Ages-Access program since it began in September, according to Head Student Constable Sean Kershaw and AMS VP (Operations) Ian Black. “I can’t think of single one this school year,” Kershaw said.

Foodbank usage dropped significantly this year from more than 1500 visits in 2003 to approximately 50 so far this year. Tara Tran, ArtSci ’07 and AMS Foodbank manager says broader patterns outside of the Queen’s community may be the answer.

In January 2004, the University Aboriginal Council created a policy that would allow for 10 aboriginal students to be admitted to the Faculty of Arts and Science under a separate admissions process. The council was aware that aboriginal students were under-represented and hoped to provide more opportunities for students of aboriginal heritage.

Vibrant, dynamic, upbeat, passionate, and genuine are some of the words that have been used to describe Queen’s University Professor Jacalyn Duffin. Last spring, Duffin was nominated by Ahmed Kayssi, Meds ’09, and Michel Shamy, Meds ’06, to submit a videotaped lecture to TVO’s annual Best Lecturer Competition. The submitted lecture discussed historical patterns of various plagues, spanning from the Plague of Athens in the fifth Century BC to current crises such as AIDS and SARS.

When Anthony Harris got off the plane on Sunday morning, he was greeted by at least 15 people, ranging from members of the SWAT team, to paramedics, firemen, airport officials and nurses. On his way back to Toronto from Miami after ten days in Costa Rica, Harris’ American Airlines plane was about to land when he felt something on the back of his left leg.

While most of the Queen’s population was on winter break, an estimated $60,000 worth of computers was stolen from Jeffery Hall. This was the highest-valued theft from campus since Campus Security started keeping statistics on reported thefts eight years ago, said Campus Security Director Dave Patterson. “It’s now estimated at 62 computers–the estimated value is at $60,000,” he said.

Students wondering how their tuition dollars are spent have their work cut out for them. Glenda Kaye, director of financial analysis and budget, said the budget isn’t designed to be able to track how much of a student’s tuition goes to what aspect of operating costs.

Kimberley Mosher, Comm ’08, was supposed to go to Thailand on Jan. 2, but on New Year’s Day, the Centre for International Management, which organizes exchanges for the Queen’s School of Business, asked her to delay her trip to Bangkok for about a week in order to assess the safety of the situation.

Much of the Arab indignation focused on the timing of Saddam Hussein’s execution, which coincided with the holy Muslim festival of Eid-Ul-Adha. The day following the execution, Egyptian newspaper Al-Wafd’s front-page headlines were “Bush slaughters Saddam in Eid-Ul-Adha,” and “America mocks Muslim sensitivities.” Traditionally, the Muslim festival of Eid-Ul-Adha—one of two main Muslim holidays of the year, the other being Eid-Ul-Fitr at the end of Ramadan—is considered a joyous occasion in which people are urged to reconcile their differences and make peace.