Features Archive: 2011

Protesters occupied St. James Park in Toronto this month as part of a wider movement advocating for global equity. The protesters were evicted from the park last week.

6 years 7 months ago

Socialist writer speaks to students

Students and Kingston locals gather to hear writer Richard Dufour speak on the Occupy movement and its place in socialist discourse.Continue...

Christine Brazeau drives Routes 2 and 6 for Kingston Transit, taking student commuters from west campus to main campus daily.

6 years 7 months ago

Students in transit

Features takes a look at the day-to-day experiences of Kingston Transit drivers and how their services will change in 2013.Continue...

Students admitted to the Campus Observation Room must be able to walk alone or with little help from others as well as form semi-coherent answers to basic questions.

6 years 8 months ago

Res citations increase

Drunk students can end up in either the Campus Observation Room, Emergency Room or Detox CentreContinue...

The Canadian Officers’ Training Corps organized a Queen’s University Contingent for battle in the Second World War. The 1942-43 group is pictured above.

6 years 8 months ago

Interest in ceremony persists

Students, faculty and staff gather in Grant Hall to commemorate those lost in war.Continue...

AMS vice-president of university affairs Kieran Slobodin says bringing a fall reading week to Queen's would mean starting school earlier in August.

6 years 8 months ago

No plans for fall reading week

More universities adopt second reading weeks, but Queen's may not follow suit.Continue...

Paulina’s Curry Mix reported a 40 per cent decrease in sales at the Queen’s Farmer’s Market after organizers banned the sale of hot foods.

6 years 8 months ago

Hot food not an option

Vendors report a loss in profits after being told to discontinue the sale of hot foods.Continue...

Exhumation of the cemetery in McBurney Park was abandoned in 1893 after the community learned that the buried bodies weren’t fully decomposed.

6 years 8 months ago

Skeleton Park earns its name

Cemetery under Skeleton Park resurfaces after spring thaw.Continue...

If passed, new legislation could affect the way users of DC ++ are prosecuted under Canadian law

6 years 8 months ago

Campus file-sharing draws attention

Queen's Information Technology Services receives complaints from major film companies concerning illegally downloaded files on the network.Continue...

Students looking to transfer into the Queen’s School of Business will face a similar evaluation process to students who are applying directly from high school.

6 years 9 months ago

Room for faculty transfers limited

Features debunks the myth that upper-year students can easily transfer from Arts and Science into Commerce.Continue...

6 years 9 months ago

Trudeau stops by

In the first installment of the sit-down series this year, Justin Trudeau speaks to the Journal about student issues, engagement and his time in the political sphere.Continue...

Mock-campaign signs in the Student Ghetto are part of a full-year promotional campaign by beer company James Ready.

6 years 9 months ago

James Ready campaign targets students

Queen's was selected as one of six schools targeted by beer company James Ready's new advertising campaign.Continue...

Leonard cafeteria will host a new holiday dinner on Sunday for residents who stick around for the weekend.

6 years 9 months ago

On campus for the holiday

Students talk about Thanksgiving weekends spent in Kingston while their peers head home for a weekend with family.Continue...

Cpl. Jeff Cho is balancing a full-time job at the Joint Signals Regiment in Canadian Forces Base Kingston with distance studies at Queen's.

6 years 9 months ago

Student soldiers

Twenty-three Canadian Forces members are enrolled in undergraduate programs at Queen's.Continue...

Brothers Steve, Jimmy and Paul Nikitopoulos bought the store from their dad and uncle in 2003.

6 years 9 months ago

One Stop through time

The owners of Campus One Stop open up about their time in the Student Ghetto fixture.Continue...

A Queen’s exit poll found that the number of students heading into the job market after graduation dropped two per cent last year.

6 years 9 months ago

Graduates face job market realities

More Queen's graduates are opting for postgraduate education over immediate entry into the work force.Continue...

6 years 10 months ago

Candidates talk student issues

The Journal spoke to provincial candidates about the issues that affect students most.Continue...

Students with Registered Education Savings Plans invested in stocks face greater potential for loss, says Louis Gagnon, associate professor at Queen’s School of Business.

6 years 10 months ago

Risks and returns of RESP investments

The value of stock-invested RESPs fluctuates in a changing market and can leave students high-and-dry come tuition payment time.Continue...

Kingston Police gives high-powered light bulbs confiscated in grow-operation busts to the greenhouse.

6 years 10 months ago

Leaves and lamps

Day-to-day functions of BioSci's roof-top greenhouse facilities.Continue...

Taxi driver Mordeen Bondett says that many students ask her and her co-workers if they are ex-convicts.

6 years 10 months ago

Taxing nights behind the wheel

The Journal takes an inside look at one taxi driver’s experience in Kingston.Continue...

6 years 10 months ago

Top five STIs on campus

Chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, HPV and genital herpes are the most common sexually transmitted infections diagnosed at La Salle.Continue...

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