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  • 5 years 9 months ago

1 grad counselor, 4,000 students

Grad students experiencing mental illness can expect to wait for a session with their school-specific counselor.Continue...
  • 5 years 10 months ago

Opposition to Commerce student rankings grows

Terry Zhang, Comm’ 18, says academic rankings are worth a second look.Continue...
The BISC is housed in Herstmonceux Castle at Herstmonceux, England.
  • 5 years 10 months ago

Castle's future in question

For almost two years, a series of dismissals, resignations and curriculum changes have rocked the Queen’s Bader International Study Centre (BISC) with scant attention from main campus.Continue...
The School of Graduate Studies has achieved the lowest percentage towards its goal among all of the priorities in Queen’s Initiative Campaign.
  • 5 years 10 months ago

Low donations won’t hinder goal

While Queen’s Initiative Campaign has raised $551,000,000 for Queen’s, one faculty lags behind.Continue...
17 Physical Plant Services employees were laid off in April 2014. Since then, there have been reductions to maintenance on campus.
  • 5 years 10 months ago

Budget cuts divide university

Queen’s custodial staff have continued to cope with layoffs as the University navigates a series of financial woes.Continue...
  • 5 years 10 months ago

A new home away from home

Kevin Rush, a former Wilfrid Laurier student, says transferring to Queen’s wasn’t as simple as it sounds.Continue...
Women's hockey celebrates their victory in game two of the 2011 OUA finals
  • 5 years 11 months ago

Cardiac Gaels: An oral history of the 2011 Queen's women's hockey playoff run

A historic hockey game took place on March 2, 2011, witnessed by just 312 spectators in a university rink.Continue...
Religious elements were part of convocation ceremonies — like this one from 1959 — until the early 1980s.
  • 5 years 11 months ago

A Presbyterian past

Despite more than a century as a secular institution, vestiges of the University’s Presbyterian heritage continue to impact student life today.Continue...
Queen's Imam Yasin Dwyer
  • 5 years 11 months ago

A universal chaplain

As a chaplain, Yasin Dwyer’s career has been unique — working with everyone from radicalized inmates to students at Queen’s.Continue...
  • 6 years 3 days ago

The typical Queen’s student

As the university’s population grows, the typical Queen’s student is more difficult to define than you’d expect.Continue...
The outside of the Queen's Physical Education Centre (PEC).
  • 6 years 2 weeks ago

Wait times persistent barrier to student health

Over the last half-decade, Queen’s has dramatically changed the way it provides student health services, but it has yet to make lengthy waiting times a thing of the past.Continue...
  • 6 years 2 months ago

Moving out of the “monster house”

Mould, flooding, poor insulation and inadequate locks were the norm for student housing in 2010 — often in converted “monster houses”.Continue...
Sex work encompasses professions ranging from prostitution and escorts to dancers at strip clubs, such as the Plaza.
  • 6 years 3 months ago

Sex in the city

Whether on the street, within massage parlours or at a strip club, sex is a commodity to be sold in Kingston.Continue...
  • 6 years 5 months ago

Editors' Note

March 26, 2016Continue...

The hallways in Jeffrey Hall are poorly lit and lecture halls in lower levels are inaccessible to wheelchair users.
  • 6 years 6 months ago

Accessibility progress slow at Queen’s

When Andrew Ashby went to give a talk on accessibility in Jeffrey Hall last year, he couldn’t enter the lecture hall in his wheelchair.Continue...

Chaplain Kate Johnson runs an office in the JDUC.
  • 6 years 6 months ago

Prayer space expands on campus

While Queen’s was founded by pious Scottish Presbyterians, students with religious beliefs today are in a firm minority.Continue...

Some lease conditions are impossible for landlords to legally enforce.
  • 6 years 6 months ago

Landlord agreements not always legal

When Madi Trenholm found a broken oven in her new apartment, she thought she would just have to ask her landlord to fix it.Continue...
  • 6 years 6 months ago

Racism alive but subtle at Queen’s

In her first week at Queen’s, Toni Akinwumi was approached by an intoxicated female student who said, “Oh my God, there’s a black chick. Oh my God, that’s crazy. I have no black friends — be
my friend.”Continue...

Afraj Gill has written for The Globe and Mail, worked for Google and campaigned for former Prime Minister Paul Martin.
  • 6 years 7 months ago

Student entrepreneur to speak at TEDx

When Afraj Gill emigrated from India in 2000, he never thought he’d write for The Globe and Mail l while in university.Continue...

Illustration from Jan. 28, 1986 of the Journal, Issue 29, Vol. 113.
  • 6 years 7 months ago

Students campaign against voter apathy

Some students and professors believe that voter turnout in student government elections will never improve.Continue...

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