Queen’s University and St. Lawrence College have joined forces to form a unique program for students with learning disabilities.
On-Line to Success aims to help students gain a firm understanding of their disability as well as the technologies available to assist them in an academic setting, before they arrive on campus in the fall. The program also provides an opportunity for re-assessment before the school year.

It’s been a long, exhausting campaign for the Kingston Green candidate Janina Fisher Balfour, but also an extremely rewarding one.
Fisher Balfour had virtually no political experience before embarking on the campaign trail. In addition to her campaigning duties, she has been finishing courses in development studies at Queen’s.
Fisher Balfour, clad fittingly in a soft green pantsuit said that her experiences campaigning during this election have taught her far more than any class.

Blair MacLean, the Conservative candidate, finished with 22 per cent of the vote when ballots were counted yesterday. MacLean first entered his campaign party at around 10 p.m. to chants of “Blair, Blair,” that soon faded into handshakes and quiet congratulations. He left shortly afterwards to deliver a concession speech at Peter Milliken’s gathering, returning to Whiskey Willy’s to address his supporters around 11:30.

What is the sum of math capability, implementation skills and programming proficiency? For the Queen’s Association of Computing (ACM) Programming team, the answer is a bronze medal for a 12th place finish at the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals in Prague, Czech Republic.

Darren Ho, Mark Liu, Prakash Menon and Benson Yang will leave a lasting legacy at Queen’s, all because of their final year term project.
The graduating computer engineering students collaborated with Information Technology Services [ITS] Director Sean Reynolds, and JDUC Director Robert Burge to install wireless capability in the JDUC, allowing students to surf the internet inside the building from computers with wireless access hardware.

The outcome of the Queen’s TA vote for unionization will never be known because the ballots are being destroyed.
Although a vote was held on Feb. 5, the Board ruled against the validity of the vote on Mar. 31 because the necessary 40 per cent of the decided bargaining unit had not signed union cards.
The decision was made after the Board compared lists of TAs provided by the administration, by the union organizers and by the signed cards.

When Queen’s radio station CFRC volunteer Mike Cassells wrote a letter of resignation in November 2002 to Stu Mills, the station’s Operations Officer, it wasn’t because Cassells’ academic or extracurricular obligations were getting in the way of his volunteer work at the radio station, it was because he thought the station was giving him health trouble. Cassells was one of two employees forced to leave the station because of health concerns in 2002.

It’s bad enough to have to pay for damage for which you weren’t responsible, but it’s worse, say some Main Campus residents, to be charged an administration fee for the privilege.
Residents have complained that the residence damage charges system, which charges a minimum of $5 even if a student owes less, is inefficient and has not been applied fairly. One resident of Morris Hall e-mailed University Rector Ahmed Kayssi with concerns after the building was assessed damage charges.

On Tuesday evening at the University Club, professors and teaching assistants were rewarded with more than red apples and gold stars for their efforts in the classroom.
Physical education and history professor Geoff Smith and international business professor Marc Busch were presented with the Frank Knox award for excellence in teaching. The annual award recognizes professors who demonstrate an outstanding commitment to the education of students.

A political comic in a magazine handed out at an event organized by the Queen’s Palestinian Human Rights association last fall was interpreted as anti-Semitic by Sara Berger, president of Queen’s Hillel.
Members of the association, however, said they never intended to promote anti-Semitism on campus.