Assembly sends athletics fee increase to AGM
At a special meeting on Sunday afternoon, AMS Assembly voted to put a motion to increase the annual Athletics and Recreation fee on the agenda for the AMS annual general meeting on March 16. The motion proposes an increase of $120 spread out over several years.
The final schedule of proposed fee increases differs from the original plan put forward by Athletics at the February 11 AMS Assembly, which proposed a $50 increase in 2009-10, an additional $40 increase in 2011-12 and a further $30 in 2012-13 with the fee to be indexed to inflation thereafter. The new schedule proposes a $35 increase in 2009-10, with a $40 increase to follow in 2011-12, and a $45 increase in 2012-13 before indexing the fee to inflation in 2013-2014.
Director of Athletics and Recreation Leslie Dal Cin said the change was due to feedback from the department’s meetings with the PHESA and ComSoc assemblies, which proposed that shifting the larger increases to later years would be fairer to the students graduating next year who would only have one year of access to the Queen’s Centre facilities.
Dal Cin said the revised schedule would force the department to run a deficit for one more year than the original plan would have, but the University has agreed to let the department run that deficit. John Doan of the Aesculapian Society brought forward an amendment to approve only the first year’s fee increase and send the other increases to a referendum, but his amendment was defeated and the original motion passed.
—Andrew Bucholtz
Leger earns all-star honours
Third-year men’s basketball year forward Mitch Leger was named to the OUA East All-Star second team this week.
This is not Leger’s first time on the team; he earned a spot on the second team last year and was named to the OUA East All-Rookie team two years ago.
Leger was selected as one of the top players in the league despite up a season-ending knee injury in January. He recorded 100 rebounds in the 12 games he played, averaging 8.33 per game, and put
up 193 points.
—Amrit Ahluwalia
Zeeman named an All-Canadian
Men’s volleyball second-year outside hitter Joren Zeeman was named to the CIS All-Canadian second team on Thursday.
Zeeman was ranked seventh in the province with 209 kills, 3.26 per game. He was 12th in the province with 17 service aces.
This is Zeeman’s second national award; he was last year’s CIS Rookie of the Year.
—Amrit Ahluwalia
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