Dear Editors, WUTI$UPWITHTHEWORLD??? (Elon Musk’s 8th child’s name)Is it just me, or has the world we’ve created for ourselves become even more unusual as of late? One might even go so far as to call it a bit bizarre.
People are losing interest in challenging themselves.
Dear Editor,Are students selfish for desiring normalcy? If they were, would over 20,000 undergraduates students at Queen’s have accepted a sub-par education at sticker price despite knowing online schooling has disastrous impacts on physical and mental health?
Contrary to what the media would have you believe, there’s nothing funny about someone suffering through a mental health crisis.
Queen’s encourages students to enrol at Athabasca University to make up credits when completing them at Queen’s is not a timely or viable option.
The challenges of shifting to online learning have been well-documented.
University is a pivotal time for mental health
In 2019, there were 2,207 anti-Semitic incidents in Canada reported in an annual audit conducted by the League for Human Rights.
The average Arts and Science student at Queen’s University will pay roughly $28,000 for their four-year undergraduate degree.
The Rohingya refugee crisis affects more than 600,000 people by taking lives, tearing families apart, and burning homes to the ground.
While leading a clean lifestyle has always been important, it’s now become a popular trend. Unfortunately, not everyone has the means to participate.
Student engagement has been trending downward for the last 10 years.
Being a student in 2020 has come with its fair share of added stresses.
It’s often simple innovations that change our daily lives.
Society has a responsibility to ensure protest language is not delegitimized
Dear Editors,I have read media reports of the 29-3 law faculty/staff vote to delete the name of Sir John A. Macdonald, Canada’s first prime minister, from the law building.
The murder of George Floyd sparked a pandemic-fatigued, Trump-weary United States into a summer of protest against police violence and the enduring legacy of slavery and segregation within the United States. Ultimately, it forced every facet of American institutional society to enter a reckoning on race.
In 2018, Professor Bruce Pardy moderated the annual Liberty Lecture delivered by Jordan Peterson, a clinical psychologist, professor, and best-selling author. The lecture centered on compelled speech in Canada. Aside from a handful of radicals who tried to disrupt the proceedings, the captivated audience remained respectful and thoughtful.
American politics are a train wreck, but Canadians need to watch.
The “fake news” epidemic is more real than ever before.
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