Features Archive: 2010

A City of Guelph senior policy offficer at the said the concerns were raised at a public forum about the University of Guelph student housing situation becoming similar to the Queen’s Student Ghetto.
  • 7 years 5 months ago

False panic increases average rent

Misconceptions that the Ghetto is experiencing a housing shortage caused average monthly rent to rise from around $450 to $600, says a Queen’s housing advisor.Continue...

Visitors at the Kuluta Buddhist Centre on Wellington St. participate in a meditation led by Kelsang Donsang on Tuesday night.
  • 7 years 6 months ago

Treating depression differently

Queen’s Blue Sky Project is looking to link depression to genetics and early childhood experiences.Continue...

According to staff responsible for training sales agents, it’s standard practice that door-to-door sales staff work on a commission-based salary.
  • 7 years 6 months ago

High pressure sales make bad impression

Door-to-door sales agents canvass the Ghetto looking to lock students onto contracts with independent energy companies.Continue...

The annual “Kill McGill” game is one of the Gaels’ more popular games at the Memorial Centre. On Oct. 30 about 350 fans watched the McGill Redmen beat the men’s hockey team 6-4.
  • 7 years 6 months ago

Gaels’ home north of Princess infringed

Queen’s Athletics renews lease for Memorial Centre for five years despite new schedule restrictions.Continue...

A manager at a local bar says he sees an increase in patrons using MDMA at special events, like the Oct. 6 Steve Aoki concert at Stages night club, pictured above.
  • 7 years 6 months ago

New kid in the narcotics neighborhood?

Contrary to police statistics, local bar and security staff claim an increase in use of MDMA in Queen’s nightlife.Continue...
  • 7 years 6 months ago

Queen's still in the red

University ran a $14.7 million dollar deficit in the 2009-10 fiscal year.Continue...

Assistant Dean of Students at Queen’s Law Jane Emrich said Queen’s students had a higher rate acceptance to Ontario Law Schools than other schools surveyed.
  • 7 years 6 months ago

The currency of a Queen’s grade

The Journal looks at how a Queen’s mark matches up to other Canadian Universities.Continue...

Rankings from Times Higher Education, Maclean’s and the Globe and Mail are the most renowned surveys of Canadian Universities.
  • 7 years 7 months ago

Queen’s absent from world rankings

University administration decided not to participate in Times Higher Education’s top 200 because of concerns over the the survey’s new research methods.Continue...

Denise Stockley is director of the Centre for Teaching and Learning. She instructs a course that teaches communication skills to teaching assistant candidates.
  • 7 years 7 months ago

Talking about communication

Students, faculty and administration discuss the topic of teachers with English as a second language.Continue...

Pictured above are pieces from the Kingston Museum of Healthcare’s collection of shock therapy equipment, ranging from the 1950s to the 1980s.
  • 7 years 7 months ago

Shock therapy: Not like the movies

Head of Queen’s psychiatry says Queen’s faculty members administer Electroconvulsive Therapy on a regular basis to over 10 patients at local healthcare facility.Continue...
  • 7 years 7 months ago

Council candidates weigh in

The Journal talks to candidates in surrounding districts about Queen’s, Town-Gown relations and student issues.Continue...

Richard Beninger, Queen’s psychology department head, said using amphetamine-based drugs can cause “people to be more alert, stimulated, interested and excited.”
  • 7 years 7 months ago

Prescription drugs used unprescribed?

Psychology department head says effects of ADHD treatment drugs like Adderall aren’t soley beneficial.Continue...

Queen’s has 250 lecturing Teaching Fellows, primarily in Arts and Science courses.
  • 7 years 7 months ago

Teaching fellowships in the ring

Cost effectiveness and experience for future professors make Teaching
Fellows an attractive alternative.Continue...

Barrie Chalmers
  • 7 years 7 months ago

Many faces in mayoral race

Mayoral candidates talk to the Journal’s Jake Edmiston about Kingston, Fauxcoming and Town-Gown relationsContinue...

H’art School prep program student Daniel Pinsonneault recieved 17 out of 20 during the winter semester on his history of music exam at Queen’s.
  • 7 years 8 months ago

Classrooms full of H’art

Students with intellectual disabilities from the H’art School bring enthusiasm and a love of learning to Queen’s.Continue...

Getting involved in political initiative during university can mimic real world experiences.
  • 7 years 8 months ago

Rules of engagement

Campuses of decades past may have had an aura of activism, but dean says students are as involved as ever.Continue...

118 arrests were made over last year’s Fauxcoming weekend.
  • 7 years 8 months ago

Weekend events under debate

Second Fauxcoming will decide fate of Queen’s defunct tradition.Continue...

An artist’s rendering of Norwegian architectural firm Snohetta’s design for the proposed Isabel Bader Centre.
  • 7 years 8 months ago

Heritage or hundreds of thousands?

City council committee wants Queen’s spend over $300,000 to restore 1920s chimney and windows on new arts centre.Continue...

  • 7 years 8 months ago

Two months, two bikes and five provinces

Environmental studies student Mike McHugh hit a railroad track and flipped over his handlebars on the first day of a two-month cross-Canada bike tour.Continue...

Above: Students use tennis courts behind Douglas Library circa 1925. Below: Douglas Library facing University Ave. circa 1930.
  • 7 years 8 months ago

Douglas yarn unravels

Blueprints from 1916 show construction of Douglas Library was true to Toronto architects’ original plans.Continue...

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