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The Royal Kingston Curling Club, where the University’s teams usually play, is moving from 75 Clergy St. to a new $3-million facility on Days Road, near the Kingston Airport, about three kilometres from campus. Because of the distance to the new rink, Queen’s will provide a shuttle for students. The shuttle will leave campus 20 minutes before the games and bring students back to campus at the end of the night.Continue...

The process of applying for financial aid can sometimes be arduous, but for students whose parents are divorced or separated, or who come from blended family situations, it can become even more complicated and confusing, said Teresa Alm, associate university registrar (awards).

When assessing a student’s family’s financial ability to contribute to the cost of university, the government looks solely at the income of a student’s legal guardian or guardians.Continue...

AMS Assembly wants Harvey Rosen to be the next mayor of Kingston.

The endorsement vote came last night at Assembly’s meeting in City Hall, and was the first time in recent history the student government threw its weight behind a candidate.

AMS Municipal AffairsCommissioner Ryan Quinlan-Keech said the AMS felt strongly about endorsing a candidate, but doesn’t want to make up students’ minds for them.Continue...

Journalists for Human Rights (JHR), an organization devoted to increasing awareness about human rights issues and fostering a free press in developing countries, ran its third annual Speak Silence event this weekend. Participants took a vow of silence for 25 hours as a tribute to the 25 million people who have died worldwide as a result of HIV/AIDS.Continue...

Queen’s first community outreach co-ordinator is surprised the University didn’t have a similar position before “Why isn’t there someone to help you find those resources, someone who already knows where to go so every student doesn’t have to pound the pavement on their own?” she asked.
Linjacki said she hopes to help other students get similarly involved by offering opportunities to interact with each other, the University and the community.Continue...

The University has revealed 10 recommendations following a review into the death of Sukaina Mohsin Ali.

Ali, a first-year international student from Pakistan, died of a cardiac arrest in her dorm room in April. She suffered from anorexia nervosa and depression.

Following Ali’s death, Vice-Principal (Academic) Patrick Deane launched a review into the circumstances surrounding her death.Continue...

Students across the Queen’s campus got a taste of what it’s like to go without food on Tuesday, when they participated in a Fastathon from dawn to dusk to raise money for the AMS Foodbank.

The event was organized by the Queen’s University Muslim Students’ Association (QUMSA).Continue...

Information Technology Services is investigating an e-mail sent anonymously to several Qlink e-mail accounts, villifying Islam as a religion that encourages its followers to “hatred and violence.” The AMS has condemned the letter, which claimed that phrases from the Koran justify Islam’s inherent violence and called on members of all religions to “stand firm against islam [sic] and pray for these evil sinners’ enlightenment.”Continue...

Few people at the University know there are about 500 students with disabilities enrolled here every year, said Disability Advisor Barbara Roberts. Michael McNeely is one of these people. The ArtSci ’10 has Usher Syndrome, an in herited condition that causes serious early hearing loss and progressive vision loss. McNeely is legally deaf-blind; he can see to a certain extent, although he has trouble adjusting to varying light levels, and he can hear with a cochlear implant he got when he was three years old. McNeely has an intervenor who accompanies him to his classes.Continue...