International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27 marks a pivotal day in both Jewish and world history.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year—or at least the most chaotic. Queen’s students are presented with the thrilling and mildly terrifying opportunity to step up and run for a student government role.

Memorial Centre is Kingston’s heart of community connection. Privatization risks turning it into an exclusive, inaccessible space.

When visualizing a menstruating individual, the picture that usually comes to mind is one of a cisgender woman. This restrictive view, however, ignores one important fact: menstruation isn’t limited to cisgender women but is also experienced by genderqueer people, including non-binary and transgender individuals.

It’s no surprise that, because this role is unlike any other at a Canadian university, it comes with privileges and challenges. While I’m not going to gripe about the challenges, I don’t want you to be fooled by my smiley social media feed.

Mary Schmich, a longtime columnist of the Chicago Tribune, once wrote “The race is long, and in the end, it’s only with yourself.”

Queen’s University’s recent budget cuts to the Faculty of Arts and Science (FAS) has left the department in a precarious position. While the Smith-funded School of Business and Engineering faculty thrive, the University continues to handle the situation with a lack of honesty and transparency, leaving students frustrated.

I’m sick of living in “unprecedented times.” I’m truly at my limit. In the last four years, my generation has lived through the COVID-19 pandemic, online school, rising temperatures, and six seasons of Too Hot to Handle.

More than a year has passed now since Oct. 7, 2023, and it’s been difficult to put into words and even fathom what that really means—what it means for a whole year to have passed since the massacre of our loved ones, our people.

For much of human history, academia was always treated as a holistic pursuit. Science was a type of natural philosophy, and it shared the same inquiry methods as history. It wasn’t uncommon to find an astronomer who was also a philosopher, or perhaps a historian who studied biology. It’s in this melting pot of subjects that teaching and learning flourished, and much of what we study in more well-defined fields today originates from this time.

On the night of Aug. 30, I was walking alone near Victoria Park when, all of a sudden, I saw a police officer running toward me.

You may have noticed a gap in your schedule on SOLUS for Sept. 30. At first glance, it might seem like an opportunity to get some extra sleep and catch up on—or procrastinate—your readings. In reality, that emptiness is a call to action.

As the new academic year begins, staff members at Queen’s are increasingly burdened by austerity measures—including widespread layoffs and persistent budget cuts—embedded within the University’s revised fiscal strategy.

Abortions are simply not talked about enough today outside of political contexts. When it comes to young adults who actually go through these experiences, the narratives are scarce and often negative.

This year, Kingston smashed its new housing targets by a whopping 250 per cent with 1465 new housing projects starting in the city. But as the demand for housing becomes fiercer and more competitive, Queen’s isn’t doing enough to support their students in finding a place to call home.

Over the next six years, $6.1 billion will be allocated to create a Canada Disability Benefit (CDB) to provide support to Canadians with disabilities.

Weeks after the rest of the world set up encampments in solidarity with Palestine, the Queen’s University Apartheid Divest (QUAD) and Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR) Queen’s groups gathered in front of Richardson Hall. Among other demands, protestors have called for Queen’s divestment from corporations profiting from human rights violations in Palestine.

Once hailed as the vanguard of student governance and representation, the AMS finds itself at a crossroads.