In the June 24 edition of the Journal, the opinions and letters editor asked the question “How do you survive a Kingston summer?” Some of the respondents seemed less than impressed with Kingston this summer. I will admit that the prevalence of rain and chilly weather until mid-June was a disheartening start to the season, but I have recently found there is plenty to do in this lovely city.

There’s a story about a hung-over University of Waterloo varsity basketball player who fell asleep just as the team bus was pulling out of town. They were headed for a game against the University of Western Ontario.

On April 23, Principal Tom Williams released a report that addressed the financial challenges facing Queen’s University. In response to his findings, the Queen’s University Faculty Association (QUFA), as reported by the Journal on May 26, accused the administration of misleading the public about negotiations to reduce the amount of the University’s budget allocated to salaries.

Thousands of Tamil Torontonians have been protesting to draw the attention of the Canadian government, and its citizens, to the escalating warfare in Sri Lanka.

It boggles my mind when I ask many of my student peers who have beef with Queen’s if they’ve ever attempted to contact any administrators or expressed their concerns to their elected student representatives and the answer always seems to be a resounding “no.”

In January, the Education Students’ Society (ESS) asked its membership to consider whether its interests were best served by membership in the AMS or the SGPS.

For the first time in history, an arrest warrant has been issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for an acting Head of State.

Since 2000, Coca-Cola has held a monopoly on the provision of cold beverages on the Queen’s campus.

It’s amazing how things that brandish the Maple Leaf (pork products excepted) often go unquestioned.

It has been more than seven years since the U.S. and its NATO allies toppled the Taliban regime and uprooted a large safe haven belonging to the sectarians of Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.

I’m not sure which was harder to watch last semester: the Globe and Mail vilifying six average undergraduates for nothing worse than trying to teach first years about diversity, or the number of students who bought the hyperbole.