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Tom Howes, PHE ’11 (second from left), attends the protest in front of Frontenac Institution to support the prison’s farm, which is set to close in the next two years.
  • 11 years 8 months ago

Farm closures sow dissent

If Kingston’s two prison farms are closing down, it won’t be without a fight.

Last week, a group of Queen’s students and community members protested the closures in front of Frontenac Institution, a minimum-security prison on Bath Rd.Continue...

Laura Garner, Sci ’12, says she’s never felt out of place in engineering despite women making up a quarter of the class.
  • 11 years 8 months ago

More women choosing engineering, faculty says

Queen’s wants to make sure prospective female engineering students see themselves in the program—literally.

The Faculty of Applied Science is recruiting female students with a video blog feature on their new prospective student website.Continue...

  • 11 years 8 months ago

News in Brief

This weekend, the AMS will provide a shuttle bus between campus and the Via Rail train station to assess student demand for a bus travelling that route.

The shuttle is part of the executive’s campaign pledge for a new Kingston Transit route, AMS Vice-President (Operations) Leslie Yun said.Continue...

Filmmaker Darryl Roberts screens his documentary America the Beautiful in the Biosciences Complex yesterday.
  • 11 years 8 months ago

Film questions image industry

Does America have an unhealthy obsession with beauty?

America the Beautiful, a documentary by American filmmaker Darryl Roberts, tries to answer that question by exploring American society’s fixation on physical attractiveness.Continue...

Ian Clark, ArtSci ’12, says factory cows sometimes go up to 52 hours without food or water when transported.
  • 11 years 8 months ago

Marching against animal abuse

This Saturday, a group of Queen’s students will walk for farm animals to support local group Kingston Animal Trust.

Kingston Animal Trust will give the proceeds to Farm Sanctuary, a national non-profit organization committed to ending animal cruelty and advocating for animal regulation reform, Ian Clark, ArtSci ’12, said.Continue...

Wilfrid Peters, Law ’62, listens to a speech at the Robert Sutherland Hall dedication on Saturday in Wallace Hall.
  • 11 years 8 months ago

Sutherland plaque unveiled

Wilfrid Peters, Law ’62, has one more good memory to add to his experience at Queen’s.

Peters, a Caribbean native and Toronto resident, said he spent the best years of his life in law school at Queen’s, but wasn’t aware of alumnus Robert Sutherland’s legacy while on campus.Continue...

Jeff Welsh, Society of Graduate and Professional Students president, says he thinks the AMS will make up its budget shortfall with increased undergraduate student enrollment.
  • 11 years 8 months ago

Fee not option for ESS

The Society of Graduate and Professional Students (SGPS) won’t make the Education Students’ Society (ESS) fork over its Queen’s Centre fee to the AMS.

The ESS, which represents education students who have normally already completed an undergraduate degree, voted in January to leave the AMS and join the SGPS.Continue...

Sudanese-born Canadian citizen Abousfian Abdelrazik speaks at the public library on Monday. Earlier, he spoke to a law class in Macdonald Hall about the United Nations’ no-fly list.
  • 11 years 8 months ago

Finding justice on the road

Abousfian Abdelrazik isn’t sure where his connection with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) began and he won’t begin to guess where it will end.

“It’s the story of 12 years,” he said during a talk in Macdonald Hall yesterday. “It’s a long story with many details.”Continue...

Principal Daniel Woolf, Board of Trustees Chair Bill Young and Isabel and Alfred Bader break ground on the University’s new performing arts centre yesterday. See story above.
  • 11 years 8 months ago

News in Brief

Ahmed Hassan, professor in the School of Computing, received $1.4 million from Research In Motion (RIM), the company responsible for the creation of the BlackBerry, on Wednesday to continue his studies in large scale system testing.Continue...

Gauvin Bailey lectures in Colombia, where he spent a year conducting research on German influence in Colombian art.
  • 11 years 8 months ago

Roughing it for art history

He’s been labelled a real-life Indiana Jones, but Gauvin Bailey insists he’s just a regular man.

Bailey, a professor at Aberdeen University in Scotland, will give a public talk this Tuesday, Ellis Hall Auditorium at 6 p.m., on his studies of Baroque and Renaissance art in former European colonies.Continue...

Ludwig Wang, Comm ’11, sings in celebration of Chinese National Day.
  • 11 years 8 months ago

Queen’s marks China’s 60th

Last night, several dozen students gathered on campus to celebrate a very special birthday—the 60th birthday of modern China.

The Queen’s Association of Chinese Studies (QACS) organized Chinese National Day celebrations, which took place in Robert Sutherland Hall. Anyone with an interest in Chinese culture was invited to attend.Continue...

Craig Draeger
  • 11 years 9 months ago

Contributors of the month

Craig came to the sports section eager to write and continue his journalistic career, and hasn’t let us down. With very little training, he covered two games and did a fantastic job for us.Continue...

  • 11 years 9 months ago

Campus Catch-Up

Thompson Rivers University’s president was fired on Sept. 14 from the B.C. school after just one year on the job.

According to the board of directors’ report, the board lost confidence in Kathleen Scherf, president and vice-chancellor of Thompson Rivers since Sept. 2008.Continue...

Society of Graduate and Professional Students International Students Co-ordinator Aasma Khan says UHIP isn’t recognized uniformly across the province.
  • 11 years 9 months ago

Province-wide campaign seeks UHIP review

International students at Queen’s pay more for less when it comes to health care, Society of Graduate and Professional Students (SGPS) Equity Commissioner Usman Mushtaq said.

The University requires students who will be in Canada for more than three weeks to purchase the University Health Insurance Plan (UHIP) before being able to register for courses on QCARD.Continue...

Riot police line Aberdeen Street, keeping students off the street, on Saturday night
  • 11 years 9 months ago

Aberdeen attracts smaller turnout

What was supposed to be a quick stop on Aberdeen Street to show his out-of-town friend the street party turned into a nine-hour detention for Nick Holt, Sci ’12, this weekend.

Holt was arrested on Saturday night for a liquor law violation and kept in a holding cell at Kingston Police headquarters before being released at 7:30 a.m. on Sunday morning.Continue...

  • 11 years 9 months ago

Overheard on Aberdeen 2009

Overheard on AberdeenContinue...

  • 11 years 9 months ago

Aberdeen Street Live Blog Replay

Aberdeen Street Live Blog ReplayContinue...

Riot police line Aberdeen Street north of William Street at about midnight.
  • 11 years 9 months ago

Rainy weather, police presence curb Aberdeen Street party

Heavy rain and low temperatures thinned out a relatively small Aberdeen Street crowd by 2 a.m. last night.

The crowd peaked at midnight with about 2,000 partiers on the street.Continue...

  • 11 years 9 months ago

News in Brief

Residences may create focus groups on student safety

Focus groups may be created in residences this winter to get student feedback on residence security, Director of Housing and Hospitality Services Bruce Griffiths said.Continue...

Chen Liang, Sci ’07 and MSc ’09, says the GreenCentre will help promote the work of green chemistry students whose efforts might otherwise go ignored.
  • 11 years 9 months ago

PARTEQ brings science ‘into the real world’

The grass is looking green for Queen’s.

Last Friday, the province announced $13.6 million in funding for PARTEQ Innovations for a new GreenCentre.Continue...

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