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Campers at Eco-Adventure use microscopes to study biological samples on Elbow Lake.
  • 9 years 3 months ago

Queen's expands property north of Kingston

Queen's University Biological Station expands its 3,000 hectare property on Lake Opinicon to include another plot of land nearby.Continue...

Portions of the women's prison roof, walls and cell block are preserved by the city's heritage committee.
  • 9 years 4 months ago

Queen's shackled by small budget

Lack of funding restricts the University's ability to develop the former Prison for Women, purchased by Queen's in 2007 for $2.8 million.Continue...

First-year undergraduate classes at Queen’s are on the rise because of increased government funding for high levels of enrollment, says an education expert.
  • 9 years 5 months ago

Large class sizes raise questions

According to a recent study, an average first-year class at Queen’s is one of the largest in the country.Continue...

The AMS invests over $3 million into its stock portfolio, including over $30,000 in Alberta Oil Sands companies.
  • 9 years 6 months ago

Carbonated contention

Current AMS executives say there are no concrete plans to create an ethical investing mandate.Continue...

Eight students live in the Sci ‘44 Co-op at 30 Garrett St. Graeme Melcher, ArtSci ’12 (second from left) says that co-op fosters a commnity environment.
  • 9 years 7 months ago

Sci ’44 housing co-op turns 70

Seventy years ago, 12 students opened the first Queen’s co-op. Today, 21 houses sprinkle the Ghetto.Continue...
  • 9 years 7 months ago

Talking with Nick Day

Interview with Nick Day.Continue...
  • 9 years 7 months ago

Day not over

Principal Woolf says University Council has no power to remove rector.Continue...

Joe Hubble, of Dahm Painting and Decorating, refinishes the original woodpanneling in the Red Room. Rennovations on the soon-to-be ASUS lounge in Kingston Hall are expected to be done by early April.
  • 9 years 7 months ago

Red Room almost ready

Student lounge uses less than 25 per cent of ASUS budget surplus, students question where the rest of the money is going.Continue...

Laverty addresses Queen’s graduates at the 1970 Convocation ceremony in Grant Hall.
  • 9 years 7 months ago

Beloved chaplain dies at 99

Dr. A Marshall “Padre” Laverty supported Queen’s students for over 35 years.Continue...
  • 9 years 7 months ago

Checking out birth control

Yasmin and Yaz, two popular oral contraceptives, have become the target of a lawsuit alleging they cause serious health side effects in women.Continue...
  • 9 years 8 months ago

Stackhouse on the future of print media

In the second installment of the series, the Globe and Mail’s Editor in Chief sat down with the Journal’s editorial board to talk about the state of the newspaper industry.Continue...

Following a decision by then-Principal R.C Wallace to bar the Queen’s Atheist and Agnostic club from campus, an onslaught of coverage and strongly worded letters appeared in the Journal throughout Jan. 1950.
  • 9 years 8 months ago

Atheism throughout the ages

Queen’s Atheist and Agnostics club barred from campus 60 years ago, current campus atheists says they still face challenges.Continue...

David Walker, one of 21 alumni who travelled to Egypt on a Queen’s trip, photographed riot police protecting a local police station.
  • 9 years 8 months ago

Stranded in Egypt

Alumni Relations sends trip to Egypt and scrambles to retrieve them.Continue...
  • 9 years 8 months ago

The life of a res custodian

The Journal spends a day with one of Morris Hall’s cleaning staff.Continue...
  • 9 years 9 months ago

Barrington Walker on Black history

Queen’s history professor talks about his new book on debunking the myth of Canadian enlightenment in the age of slavery.Continue...

Last year’s Spring Reunion saw 44 classes return. 46 classes have registered for the 2011 event. The last Fall Homecoming in 2008 attracted 80 classes to campus.
  • 9 years 9 months ago

No Homecoming, no problem?

Complaints from alumni donors about Homecoming still occurring, but University statistics show an increase in donations.Continue...

Seventy-five people attended a debate featuring VP University Affairs candidates from Team CES and SDL last night at Jean Royce Hall. Voter-turnout for AMS elections is consistently higher than other Student Unions.
  • 9 years 9 months ago

Examining AMS voter turnout

Voter turnout for AMS elections historically higher than most other Ontario University student unions.Continue...

Philip Asselstine, Megalos’ head chef, blind taste-tests three local poutine options, choosing Smoke’s Poutinerie as the best.
  • 9 years 9 months ago

Kingston’s poutine phenomenon

The Journal investigates Kingston’s burgeoning Poutine arena in search of a clear winner.Continue...
  • 9 years 9 months ago

Leading the charge against lead

Utilities Kingston team tests water in local houses to prevent lead from contaminating water.Continue...

Kyle Hannah collects recyclable materials during his route through the Student Ghetto on Wednesday.
  • 9 years 9 months ago

Talking trash

The Journal spends a day on a recycling truck to learn the ins and outs of Ghetto garbage.Continue...

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