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With the theme, “Get Cold to Keep Others Warm,” the Queen’s Helping Hand Association’s
Polar Bear Dip Fundraiser for the Ryandale Shelter for the Homeless took place last Saturday at 2 p.m.Continue...

The Carleton University Students’ Association (CUSA ), put forth a motion last week to not recognize
student groups on campus that oppose abortion. The motion states that CUSA respects abortion rights,
and that organizations that oppose abortion won’t be given funding or recognized in the CUSA space.Continue...

Queen’s uses a variety of animals for research in medicine, biology, neurosciences and other fields, but won’t disclose how many animals they have, what species they are or where exactly they’re kept.Continue...

The University Experience Program, which targets students who could be the first in their family to attend university and brings them to Queen’s to introduce them to university life. This program can target students from lower economic backgrounds, but that isn’t its primary motivation.Continue...

Yoni Levitan and Ira Goldstein, ArtSci ’07 and STAND divestment director, are hoping Queen’s will be the first Canadian university to stop doing business with companies providing indirect support to the Sudanese government.Continue...

As part of an ASUS Committee for the Environment (ACE) event, Joanna Szczepanski joins about 60 students in eating vegetarian food this past week.Continue...

Much of the discussion at an Aboriginal issues symposium held on Nov. 17 to 19 centered around
land claim issues—something that has been a hot button issue for Kingston since last week’s
confrontation between Tyendinaga Mohawks and Canadian military near Deseronto.Continue...

According to Statistics Canada, the percentage of female graduates compared to the national total grew from 57.83 per cent in 1996 to 58.55 per cent in 2000 and approximately 60 per cent in 2004. In 1999, 55.77 per cent of the degrees granted were granted to women; in 2005, that number was 56.93 per cent.Continue...

Outbreaks of the Norwalk virus at Mount Allison University, St. Francis Xavier University and the University of Alberta have prompted Queen’s to take steps to prevent a similar outbreak here. “Most communities will see outbreaks of Norovirus every year,” said Mike Condra, director of Health, Counselling, Disability Services at Queen’s, adding that a few cases are not uncommon at Queen’s.Continue...