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  • 11 years 10 months ago

Man up? Moan less

In an editorial published Oct. 2, the Toronto Star’s Robert Cribb considers the current plight of the masculine image.Continue...
  • 11 years 10 months ago

Fauxcoming still going

Regardless of a decrease in numbers for attendance and arrests compared to previous years, this year’s party on Aberdeen St. was no triumph for Queen’s or for the city of Kingston.Continue...

  • 11 years 10 months ago

Prostitution: on in Ontario

An Ontario Superior Court judge struck down a major portion of the province’s prostitution law on Tuesday.Continue...
  • 11 years 10 months ago

Cough-out smoking ads

The federal government has said it needs more time to consider how to move forward with more aggressive anti-smoking advertising measures.Continue...
  • 11 years 10 months ago

Don’t log in, hang out

Here’s a story that I’m sure we can all relate to. You’re at a party at some friend-of-a-friend’s house and you’ve had a bit to drink. You meet some great people, and of course, as soon as you get home, you add all of them on Facebook.Continue...

  • 11 years 10 months ago

One child, many troubles

Thirty years after China’s “one-child” policy was first introduced, the Chinese government has started to consider relaxing the rules in some provinces, the Globe and Mail reported Sunday.Continue...
  • 11 years 10 months ago

Places in your spaces

IPhone-owning Facebook users may quickly become the most visible users of the popular social networking site, due to a new feature made available Friday. Facebook’s “Places” feature allows a user with Facebook’s iPhone application to use the phone’s GPS to broadcast his or her location—following pre-input landmarks—to update his or her Facebook profile in real-time.Continue...
  • 11 years 10 months ago

Celeb news, isn’t

As an assistant news editor I am generally told what is newsworthy. But that doesn’t stop me from being horrified by what the general public looks for in the news.Continue...

  • 11 years 10 months ago

Getting short about form

As first-year students adjust to the Queen’s community every September, they never suffer a lack of acronyms. JDUC, QCARD, AMS—the list goes on. An article published in Intelligent Life magazine’s autumn edition considers the growing usage of acronyms like these.Continue...
  • 11 years 10 months ago

Learning levels-up

Students at the University of Calgary may soon find themselves hard-pressed to escape the distraction of video games—even at the library. While some may criticize the University of Calgary’s new collection, it’s encouraging that the library recognizes that playing video games doesn’t have to mean playing around.Continue...
  • 11 years 10 months ago

Fashion’s curve ball

I’m sure I’m not alone in flipping through this month’s issue of Vogue with a feeling of excitement and relief at the article “Va Va Boom,” which explores the increasing number of runway shows that are using curvier models instead of teenage waifs.Continue...
  • 11 years 10 months ago

Globe spins too far

In an article published Sept. 18, the Globe and Mail considered the status of Queen’s University’s reputation as an academic institution in which the least-representative elements of the Queen’s community are implicitly set up to stand for the whole.Continue...
  • 11 years 11 months ago

Upselling’s downside

If you’ve ever gone shopping, I’m sure you’ve experienced something called the ‘upsell’: the wonderfully irritating efforts of sales clerks to offer you every useless bell and whistle imaginable at the checkout.Continue...

  • 11 years 11 months ago

Stay abreast of reality

While it is easy to understand that some individuals might be uncomfortable seeing the breast or nipple of a stranger, it’s up to the individual to negotiate his or her discomfort.Continue...
  • 11 years 11 months ago

First aid for last call

The British Red Cross is promoting a new campaign intended to teach children how to help those suffering asthma attacks, epileptic seizures and other injuries. The most interesting component of the campaign is its emphasis on dealing with alcohol-related issues.Continue...
  • 11 years 11 months ago

Get in bed with Eds

Almost immediately after starting at the Journal, I realized that many people don’t understand how editorials are generated. As the year begins, I want to address the most common misconceptions in order to spare our regular readers unnecessary confusion.Continue...

  • 11 years 11 months ago

Software’s hard news

In a decision made Friday, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal concluded that software developers can place restrictions on the use of their products.Continue...
  • 11 years 11 months ago

Lectures lack lustre

Though lectures will always be a necessary teaching method, they must be properly taught and supplemented with more modern teaching tools.Continue...
  • 11 years 11 months ago

Refuse back-to-school blues

It’s easy to suggest in the mellow days before classes start that what students really need to do is take a deep breath or something equally useless, but what I think students really need to do is put things in perspective.Continue...

  • 11 years 11 months ago

Don’t judge Douglas

A Manitoba associate chief justice is facing calls for her resignation in a controversy around a series of sexually explicit photographs that were posted online.Continue...

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