The University has revealed 10 recommendations following a review into the death of Sukaina Mohsin Ali.
Ali, a first-year international student from Pakistan, died of a cardiac arrest in her dorm room in April. She suffered from anorexia nervosa and depression.
Following Ali’s death, Vice-Principal (Academic) Patrick Deane launched a review into the circumstances surrounding her death.

A little wind and rain wasn’t enough to stop this year’s Make Poverty History mission from wrapping Stauffer Library with a white banner more than one kilometre long.
Organized by Jennifer Morden and Kate Ciborowski, both ArtSci ’08, of Queen’s Make Poverty History chapter, Tuesday’s event was one of many that occurred around the world on Oct. 17 in honour of Make Poverty History’s annual International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.

Few people at the University know there are about 500 students with disabilities enrolled here every year, said Disability Advisor Barbara Roberts. Michael McNeely is one of these people. The ArtSci ’10 has Usher Syndrome, an in herited condition that causes serious early hearing loss and progressive vision loss. McNeely is legally deaf-blind; he can see to a certain extent, although he has trouble adjusting to varying light levels, and he can hear with a cochlear implant he got when he was three years old. McNeely has an intervenor who accompanies him to his classes.

From growing class sizes to an increasing reliance on technology, the future of undergraduate education is changing.
Economics Professor H. Lorne Carmichael spoke to a sparsely populated lecture hall yesterday morning.
Almost 200 students skipped class, with 136 of the 317 students registered in Econ 110 in attendance at 8:30 a.m.
Carmichael said his students’ background in economics differs, which results in poor attendance.

Richard Day never wanted to become a professor.
The assistant sociology professor said he believes that everyone gives up his or her power to choose
apathy. One example of this is working for someone else. “I’m giving away my power … by working at Queen’s,” Day told the Journal. “I’m a ward of the state.”

Ever since 1972, when Dr. Jack Preger graduated from the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin and ventured to Bangladesh to provide medical assistance to refugees of the Indo-Pakistan War, he has worked tirelessly to help the sick and impoverished in the region. In 1979 he traveled to Kolkata, set up an illegal street clinic, and started the Calcutta Rescue Foundation. Today, the group provides free medical care and education to the poorest people in Kolkata and rural West Bengal.

If students want a better in-class experience, then universities need more professors or fewer students, said Kim Nossal, head of the political studies department, at Sunday’s Great Debate.
The debate, organized by the AMS advancement and development office, featured Queen’s professors and provincial politicians discussing the state of post-secondary education in Canada.

When geography professor Audrey Kobayashi returned to Queen’s four years ago after months in the hospital, she got a rude awakening: because she was in a wheelchair, she couldn’t get into many campus buildings, including her own office and many of her classrooms in Mackintosh-Corry Hall. When it came to her lecture hall at room B201 in Mac-Corry, gaining accessibility was a bit more difficult, because it was only accessible from the back.

Since 1995, the group of 12-year-olds has grown into an international organization—Free the Children—that has built 450 primary schools in more than 40 countries in an attempt to give every child the opportunity to get an education.

After opting out of the Maclean’s rankings this summer, the University will standardize information about its enrollment, class sizes and other variables for current and prospective students. Queen’s was one of 22 universities to opt out of the Maclean’s annual university survey in August.
Principal Karen Hitchcock said the University will continue to offer a detailed source of information about Queen’s, and students can make their own judgments about the universities based on the information given.