Kingston Police have made up their minds about Homecoming and they’ve settled on a price tag for the weekend.
Last Wednesday, the police force delivered two letters to Principal Karen Hitchcock and Vice-Principal (Academic) Patrick Deane spelling out the response police would like from the University concerning the unsanctioned Aberdeen Street party.
The first letter asks the University to pay an $84,036.44 bill to cover the cost of 100 officers who staffed the Ghetto during Homecoming weekend.

An unknown male punched a male student in the face on Frontenac Street on Oct. 13 at 4:45 p.m. A witness to the event said after the assault, the assailant continued walking north towards Princess Street. After receiving first aid treatment, the assaulted individual filed a report with Kingston Police, stating that he’d been walking with his head down when the unknown male punched him for no apparent reason.

The late September outbreak of legionnaire’s disease in Toronto has prompted a Queen’s University faculty member to investigate what caused the deaths of 17 elderly people.
Dr. David Walker, dean of health sciences, was appointed Monday by George Smitherman, provincial minister of health and long-term care, to lead an independent review into the outbreak.

According to Drew Brenders, MSc ’05, Principal Karen Hitchcock’s first “Engaging the World” town hall meeting left much to be accomplished. On Sept. 29, Hitchcock released a discussion paper outlining her desire to see the University take its place among top-ranked schools internationally. “My dream for Queen’s is that it be one of those universities that matter on an international stage,” Hitchcock told the forum, referring to her vision as an “I have a dream” paper.

Francis Darwin, ArtSci ’06, is determined to make an organized student voice heard on the topic of Homecoming. Darwin is organizing the first student-run symposium following Homecoming, which she has tentatively named “Student Symposium on Queen’s Identity 2005.” The symposium will discuss more than just the events of Sept. 24, she said. Darwin said she was motivated to organize a symposium after attending a sociology class about student power.

The “Committee to Restore Order” is looking for a student living on or near Aberdeen Street to join their new team.
Kingston city council has approved the framework for an 11-member committee to seek ways to prevent future illegal activity such as that which occurred during Homecoming.
At council’s Tuesday night meeting, it was announced that 10 of the committee members have already been named.

An underage student who failed to retrieve his student card from bar staff when leaving Alfie’s was sanctioned by the AMS Judicial Committee (JComm) last week for breaking All Ages Access (AAA) policy. According to a release, JComm met on Oct. 13 to rule on Andrew Y.C. Kong’s case. Kong had been charged with an alleged violation under Section 9 “AMS Access Sticker Policy” of the AMS Policy Manual, which stipulates that underage students who fail to retrieve their student cards from bar staff when leaving AAA events will have their privileges immediately revoked.

A student is facing a drug trafficking charge after Kingston Police executed a search at a house in the University Avenue area on Oct. 7.
The student will appear in court in mid-November to face the charge. Police also seized Canadian currency amounting to $3,000, he said.
Sharpe said the student is facing charges because of the amount of drugs seized

Called the Ghetto Green-Up, the event—-organized by the Municipal Affairs Commission—attracted 35 to 40 student volunteers and even some permanent residents.
The clean-up targeted Clergy, Earl and Aberdeen Streets, where participant picked up garbage on streets, lawns and sidewalks. Naomi Lutes, AMS municipal affairs commissioner, said she was satisfied with the volunteer turnout, especially considering that many students were busy with midterms and the weather was overcast.

The AMS Pub Services (TAPS) Head Manager Ian Anderson was suspended from his duties for a week earlier this month, after accumulating multiple internal disciplinary warnings for what he said were “problems of a personal nature.” Anderson’s suspension occurred from Oct. 1 to 8. TAPS is the combined service of QP and Alfie’s, which merged in 2004.

Hundreds of students were stranded in Scarborough Thanksgiving Monday, waiting hours for Tricolour Express buses to arrive and whisk them back to school. Three of the seven buses scheduled to arrive at the Scarborough City Centre at 7:50 p.m. came within a reasonable amount of time, but the majority of students were still waiting three hours later, when more buses finally showed up. It wasn’t until midnight that the last of the students left for Kingston, along with Destinations Head Manager William Howe and Student Services Director Ashik Bhat, who came to help coordinate the mix-up.