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  • 6 years 4 months ago

Computing hiring system crashes

“Sum ergo computo. I am therefore I compute.” So reads the slogan for the Queen’s School of Computing, but budget cuts and a decade-long hiring drought threaten the school’s future as a cutting-edge program.Continue...
  • 6 years 4 months ago

Spray can aimed in the wrong direction

Accusatory vandalism has no place in promoting body positivity.Continue...
  • 6 years 4 months ago

Welcome international students

Recruiting students from around the world is vital to Queen’s progress — but we aren’t prepared.

When I travelled home to India this summer, I was asked a ton of questions about my studies...Continue...
  • 6 years 4 months ago

Tatted doesn’t mean taboo

When someone notices that I have a tattoo, they often ask me what it means. In my case, I have a typical answer — it’s something like a life mantra. But for others, it’s not like that.Continue...
  • 6 years 4 months ago

FIFA 16 makes an overdue stride forward

Celebrating EA Sports’ inclusion of female teams in FIFA 16 is somewhat like praising a broom for sweeping: acknowledging the presence of remarkable female athletes shouldn’t have taken this long.Continue...
  • 6 years 4 months ago

Educate to rehabilitate

Education shouldn’t be a last ditch effort to save someone from a life of crime — it should be the very first step.Continue...
  • 6 years 4 months ago

Arts research in demand

The importance of arts research is often overlooked but conducting hands-on work in oral history and archival research showed me that there’s a strong demand and interest in projects focused on the humanities.Continue...
  • 6 years 4 months ago

Pride over fear

The University of Toronto administration walked a fine line between ensuring student safety and spreading words of hate and violence.Continue...
  • 6 years 4 months ago

Internationalization requires supporting students

The success of Queen’s University Comprehensive International Plan (QUCIP) lies all in the execution.Continue...
  • 6 years 4 months ago

How not to talk to students: an administrator's guide

Reactive blaming and shaming without discretion was the wrong move for Principal Daniel Woolf’s PR team.Continue...
  • 6 years 4 months ago

Think before you “awww”

Scrolling through Free & For Sale, I see the fifth “Kittens for sale” post this week. Like many before me, I tagged my housemates, hoping they’d agree to a kitten for the house.Continue...
  • 6 years 4 months ago

Let's act our age about sex ed

Parents and public educators need to play ball before their kids strike out.Continue...
  • 6 years 4 months ago

Know where to draw the line

Frosh Week at Queen’s expends a lot of resources to discuss important topics like mental health and sexuality, but race is conspicuously absent.Continue...
  • 6 years 4 months ago

Grants or loans?

The most effective method of reducing student debt through financial aid has yet to be determined by Canadian provinces, but advertising grants already available might be the right approach for Ontario.Continue...
  • 6 years 4 months ago

Learn from gaming

Historically-set video games undergo criticisms for inaccuracy, but as their popularity increases, they can grow to be a powerful source of information as well as entertainment.Continue...
Protesters hidng behind a wall labeled "Freedom of Speech" hold up bloody signs towards a mother and a child. The mother covers her child's eyes.
  • 6 years 6 months ago

Obscenity laws leave us covering our eyes

Images of aborted fetuses have no place in public spaces, as they leave a graphic and mentally intrusive impression on onlookers of all ages who have no choice in their viewing.Continue...
  • 6 years 6 months ago

Reducing water flow dries up healthy options

Banning bottled drinks on universities campuses is an all-or-nothing game.Continue...
  • 6 years 6 months ago

The Imprint deserved better

If someone told me I had four months to find a new place to house The Queen’s Journal, I’d think they were joking, because that’s ridiculous.Continue...
  • 6 years 7 months ago

Education is the pathway to reconciliation

Earlier this month, after a five-year investigation into the brutal history of the residential school system, Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Committee released a report naming education as a pathway to reconciliation.Continue...
  • 6 years 7 months ago

Trend distracts from real issues

Discussions of “drunkorexia” and similar trends are more in the vein of worried parents than an informed look into drinking culture on campuses.Continue...

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