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Health, Counselling and Disability Services (HCDS) started the school year with a new $400,000 urgent-care clinic.

This summer, the interior of the HCDS building, located in the La Salle Building at 146 Stuart St., was renovated to revamp its examination rooms.

While the renovations, which began in the third week of May, took place, the HCDS ran under regular hours.Continue...

First thing Monday morning, students were faced with the reality of a campus under construction as they headed back to class.

Just after 8:30 a.m. students were still trying to pick a route to class, many with maps downloaded from the University’s website in hand.

Inside, Stauffer Library shook with the construction, and the noise took away the calm of the library setting.Continue...

The AMS Sustainability Office is teaming up with Destinations and the Living Energy Lab to help promote sustainable housing throughout the student ghetto through a new Greenovations project.

The Living Energy Lab is a project run by the Faculty of Applied Science that retrofits student houses, turning them into living laboratories for studying energy conservation.

Destinations will donate one per cent of the cost of each ticket on Tricolour Express, the student-run discount bus service, sold to the Sustainability Office in a lump sum—approximately $6,000 to $7,000, based on last year’s figures.Continue...

For PhD student Margaret Bedore, the inconvenience of campus construction brings with it additional hardships.

Bedore, 61, suffers from rheumatoid arthritis, a chronic autoimmune disease that stiffens her joints and makes movement more laborious for her.

Because of her arthritis, she walks with a slight limp that makes it very easy for her to trip on uneven streets and sidewalks that are common on a campus under construction.Continue...

Move-in day in residence was no more hectic than usual this year despite thousands of first-years and their parents negotiating a campus under construction. The group of arrivals was lessened by about one third, however, because Residence Life waived early arrival fees, allowing frosh to move in earlier.Continue...

Engineering Society President Charlie Scott, Clark Hall Pub’s closure and the resulting dismissal of the Science Constables has had no effect on the faculty’s Frosh Week events.

Traditionally supervised by pub staff, all activities, including tomorrow’s famed Grease Pole climb, will be monitored by AMS Student Constables.Continue...

This year’s pre-registration period brought an unpleasant surprise for many upper-year politics students. After logging on to QCARD in July, they found most of the courses they needed to complete their degrees were already full.

Class enrollment caps at 55 students at the third-year level and 19 students at the fourth-year level.

The politics department had originally scheduled 28 courses at the third-year level and 32 at the fourth-year level. Four courses were cancelled before pre-registration because the instructors left without enough time for the department to find replacements.Continue...

Ongoing Queen’s Centre construction will continue to affect vehicle and pedestrian traffic across campus throughout the fall semester.

The intersection of Union Street and University Avenue will reopen at the end of September.

University Avenue north of Union Street will reopen in late November.Continue...

Brian Sterling remembers a time when the biggest problem Clark Hall Pub had was running out of beer.

Sterling was social development convener for the Engineering Society in 1972, when Clark Hall Pub first opened.

On opening night, Sterling said, the new staff tried to provide an incentive for faculty to join students for drinks on Friday afternoon.Continue...