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An estimated 10 million Canadians say they have used marijuana at least once in their lives.
  • 14 years 4 months ago

Weeding out anti-drug attitudes

“Anyone who’s going to read your article has either used marijuana or knows someone who has, and they know that person is not a criminal.”Continue...

Economics department undergraduate chair Lorne Carmichael says some students have expressed interest in learning more about the current financial crisis.
  • 14 years 4 months ago

In the market for answers

To some, the worldwide financial crisis is a baffling assortment of diving graphs and daunting headlines.Continue...

Frances Henry says the term “culture of whiteness” isn’t unique to Queen’s.
  • 14 years 4 months ago

Confronting a culture of silence

The first time Enakshi Dua realized she wasn’t comfortable at Queen’s was during a trip to Toronto in December of her first year living in Kingston.

Dua, now a sociology professor at York University, taught at Queen’s from 1994 to 2001, when she was one of the first faculty members of colour to leave the University because of discrimination.Continue...

Chuck Campling, Sci ’44 and ArtSci ’90, joined the Signal Corps, part of the Canadian Officers’ Training Corps, in 1941.
  • 14 years 4 months ago

Changing from scholar to soldier and back: Queen’s in wartime

“When war broke out, the term had not yet begun.”Continue...
  • 14 years 5 months ago

Walking scared

A hanging corpse thrashes violently as the sound of distant screaming echoes across the stone walls.Continue...

Former Prime Minister John Turner speaks at a tribute event at Grant Hall on Friday.
  • 14 years 5 months ago

Talking trade with John Turner

At 79 years old, the Right Honourable John Turner’s pace has slowed since he took on Brian Mulroney in the 1988 so-called “free-trade debate.”Continue...

Emily Min, MA ’09, mends a torn canvas. Art conservation students choose to specialize in paper conservation, painting conservation, artifact conservation or conservation science.
  • 14 years 5 months ago

The fine art of conservation

Tucked away in the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s master’s program in art conservation is the only degree program of its kind in Canada and one of the University’s best-kept secrets.Continue...

Patrick Brazeau, national chief of the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples, says he was disappointed by Canada’s recent election campaigns.
  • 14 years 5 months ago

National chief talks transparency

When it comes to issues regarding aboriginal peoples in Canada, Patrick Brazeau isn’t afraid to stir the pot.Continue...

Faculty Support and Recruitment Co-ordinator Monica Stewart helps profs adjust to Queen’s.
  • 14 years 5 months ago

Making new faculty feel at home

Philosophy professor Udo Schuklenk worked at universities in Germany, Australia, South Africa and Scotland before he came to Queen’s in July 2007.Continue...

Kingston Penitentiary is one of five prisons with which the Queen’s Students for Literacy Prison Literacy Initiative volunteers.
  • 14 years 5 months ago

Reading behind the bars

When Angela Ruffo was six years old, she learned how to read See Spot Run.Continue...

Queen’s political studies professor Jonathan Rose says the emergence of online vote-swapping is a reflection of perceived problems with Canada’s electoral system.
  • 14 years 5 months ago

Voting virtually redefined

On Oct. 14, millions of Canadians will cast their ballots to elect the members of Canada’s 40th Parliament.Continue...

MCRC vice-president Jessica Cha says she’d like to see a stricter discipline system in residence.
  • 14 years 6 months ago

Peer-based discipline ‘more fair’

“I’m going to have to document this.”Continue...

Queen’s Computing Science professor David Skillicorn says campaign advertisements are harder to analyze than speeches because they’re more staged.
  • 14 years 6 months ago

Queen’s own spin doctor

In the throes of two major elections, it can be tough to detect which politicians are genuine and which are spinning tall tales.Continue...

Partiers on Aberdeen Street during Homecoming last year.
  • 14 years 6 months ago

Coming home in other places

Three years of Queen’s Homecomings may have led to numerous tickets and arrests, but all the students and alumni who attend Homecoming at the University of Missouri (MU) this year will be going to court.Continue...

Career Services Career Information Co-ordinator Debbie Mundell says students applying to master’s programs should spend time working on applications every day.
  • 14 years 6 months ago

Graduate admissions get personal

A glance at the empty bookshelves in the Career Services library this week makes one thing clear: deadlines for graduate school applications are fast approaching.Continue...

Alberta administers Diploma Tests in core subjects to grade 12 students. The tests count for 50 per cent of the students’ marks.
  • 14 years 6 months ago

Making the grade

Students arriving at Queen’s are often told they’re surrounded by only A-students.Continue...

Carleton University procrastination researcher Tim Pychyl says most students who think they work best under pressure work only under pressure.
  • 14 years 6 months ago

The pathology behind procrastination

“Suck it up.” That’s one expert’s advice to students when it’s time to hit the books.Continue...

Textbook costs have increased at 278 per cent of the rate of inflation over the past 12 years.
  • 14 years 6 months ago

A price tag for the books

You shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. But can you judge it by its price tag?Continue...

Students try out for the Queen’s Sailing Team on Lake Ontario Thursday. The team recently purchased 10 new boats with the Kingston Yacht Club’s help.
  • 14 years 6 months ago

Knot your average sport

Among the dizzying array of facts that bombard new students during frosh week, Kingston’s status as the freshwater sailing capital of the world is often overlooked.Continue...

  • 14 years 6 months ago

Talking Frosh

Why do you shop at the Farmers Market?Continue...

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