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A participant at last year’s educational powwow.
  • 12 years 10 months ago

Third powwow’s the charm

Despite severe budget cuts over the past two years, the Four Directions Aboriginal Student Centre will host its annual educational powwow tomorrow at Agnes Benedickson Field.

Now in its third year, the event was planned with a budget of $15,000—$25,000 less than when it began in 2007.Continue...

First-year students are more likely to drop out than upper-year students, academic counsellor Joyce Hunter says.
  • 12 years 10 months ago

Queen’s posts high student retention rates

When students choose Queen’s, they tend to stay for the long haul.

Queen’s dropout rate is comparatively lower than the rates at other universities across the country.Continue...

Michael McNeely, Accessibility Queen’s chair (second from right), says his committee’s first capital project will be building a lift to make the second floor of the Grey House accessible.
  • 12 years 10 months ago

Accessibility Queen’s finds funds

Poor transitioning and mismanagement of the Accessibility Queen’s (AQ) fund in the past few years has led to a surplus of more than $250,000 for this year’s committee to spend on accessibility projects.

“It had just sort of gotten lost,” Vice-President (University Affairs) Adam Zabrodski said. “Last year, the chairs of Accessibility Queen’s thought they only had $50,000 to spend.”Continue...

  • 12 years 10 months ago

Warning signs

Student leaders, led by AMS President Michael Ceci, sent an e-mail to Queen's students Wednesday morning regarding the potential events at Aberdeen Street this Saturday.Continue...

Queen’s pipe band, a competitive branch of Queen’s Bands, won four regional titles last year.
  • 12 years 10 months ago

When pipers come to play

Since becoming competitive last January, Queen’s pipe band has been hitting high notes—four, to be exact.

The band, which has 22 members, won four competitions against other bands in eastern Ontario and New York in the past year.Continue...

Vice-Principal (Research) Kerry Rowe says he has nearly tripled research funding since taking on his position nine years ago.
  • 12 years 10 months ago

Kerry on the legacy

After nearly 10 years on the job, Vice-Principal (Research) Kerry Rowe is ready to say farewell.

Rowe will step down from his position on Aug. 31, 2010. His decade of service will make him the longest serving Vice-Principal of research among the G-13, Canada’s top 13 research schools.Continue...

  • 12 years 10 months ago

No longer bi themselves

Tomorrow, students will show their stripes as a pink, purple and blue flag flies over the JDUC to recognize the University’s first Celebrate Bisexuality Day.

Amanda Christie, Education on Queer Issues Project (EQuIP) chair and ArtSci ’12 said she hopes the flag will create visibility and awareness about the bisexual community.Continue...

Lauren McCormick, ArtSci ’12, is a member of the Facebook group “Aberdeen Street Party.”
  • 12 years 10 months ago

Fauxcoming, or going away?

Homecoming may be off the books officially, but students, administrators and the city are cautious about what to expect this weekend on Aberdeen Street.

Last year, then-Principal Tom Williams cancelled Homecoming, which would’ve taken place this weekend, for 2009-10 and 2010-11 in hopes of curbing the unsanctioned party that annually attracts about 5,000 people to Aberdeen Street on the Saturday night of Homecoming weekend.Continue...

Mike Condra, director of Health, Counselling and Disability Services, says experiencing violence can cause lasting psychological damage regardless of the victim’s gender.
  • 12 years 10 months ago

Men and women equally abuse victims, study says

According to a new study, violence is no longer a gendered term.

A report funded by Canadian Institutes of Health Research says male university students are almost as likely to experience violence as their female counterparts.Continue...

NDP leader Jack Layton gives a talk in Ellis Auditorium to a roomful of students, faculty and community members.
  • 12 years 10 months ago

Jack came back

From the U.S.’s ongoing healthcare debate to Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr, New Democratic Party (NDP) leader Jack Layton fielded a myriad of questions when he spoke in Ellis Auditorium on Tuesday night.

The town hall meeting was his second visit to Queen’s in six months.Continue...

  • 12 years 10 months ago

Staying in line online

Students could find themselves tangled in a web of trouble for breaching copyright and licensing laws under the Queen’s University Computer User Code of Ethics.

“Basically it regulates access to administrative and research systems,” Information Systems security manager George Farah said. “It doesn’t really describe regulating personal behaviour.”Continue...

More than 80 women took to Kingston’s streets last night for the 31st annual Take Back the Night event commemorating the fight to end violence against women and children.
  • 12 years 10 months ago

Vendetta against violence

“Tonight is the night we demand to be free from violence.”

Thirty-one years after the first Take Back the Night march, the annual event has grown into an international movement.Continue...

Helen Ma, ArtSci ’06, will participate in World Wide Views on Global Warming, an international citizen consultation project, in Calgary later this month.
  • 12 years 11 months ago

Consulting citizens on climate control

Helen Ma, ArtSci ’06, won’t be going to the United Nations’ Climate Change Conference this December, but her opinions on climate change might be.

Ma, who lives in Kingston, is one of 100 Canadians who have been randomly selected to participate in World Wide Views on Global Warming, an international citizen consultation project.Continue...

Cian O’Neill-Kizoff, Sci ’12, captures the tam at the Grease Pole on Saturday.
  • 12 years 11 months ago

Grease Pole an ‘all-faculty event’

When the going got tough, it seems Sci ’13 needed some help to get it going.

Three hours, 43 minutes and 31 seconds into the annual Grease Pole climb, it took Sci ’12 student Cian O’Neill-Kizoff to reach the top and show the engineering frosh how it was done.Continue...

Gilbert Tong, ArtSci ’10 (centre), started his own business when he couldn’t find a summer job.
  • 12 years 11 months ago

The nuts and bolts of starting a business

When Gilbert Tong, ArtSci ’10, couldn’t find a job this summer, he decided to cash in on a nutty idea.

“I was looking for a job this summer and it was a bit rough,” he said.Continue...

Queen’s Pride Project social co-ordinator Andrea Chan overheard a Gael make an inappropriate comment about their booth at the Queen’s in the Park event last Wednesday.
  • 12 years 11 months ago

Frosh Week fumbles on inclusion issues

Not everyone was treated to a welcoming and inclusive environment during orientation.

Last Wednesday, Andrea Chan, Queen’s Pride Project (QPP) social co-ordinator and ArtSci ’10, was at the Queen’s in the Park event in City Park when a frosh group approached her QPP booth.Continue...

Saquib Siddiqui, ArtSci ’13, waits for his OSAP loan in Gordon Hall. He’s opting out of a meal plan and working part-time to pay for school this year.
  • 12 years 11 months ago

Not a-loan in feeling the squeeze

Like many students returning to school after a summer of record unemployment, Saquib Siddiqui, ArtSci ’13, is counting every dollar of his Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP) loan to make the money stretch this year.

Siddiqui may not know how to cook yet, but hundreds of dollars says he will soon learn.Continue...

AMS President Michael Ceci, Vice-President (University Affairs) Adam Zabrodski and Vice-President (Operations) Leslie Yun say they’re ready to deliver on six major campaign promises.
  • 12 years 11 months ago

Six steps to success

With the start of the school year at their feet, Team CYZ say they’re ready to make good on their six major campaign promises made during their campaign last January.

AMS President Michael Ceci was elected along with Vice-President (Operations) Leslie Yun and Vice-President (University Affairs) Adam Zabrodski.Continue...

Film studies professor Sidney Eve Matrix’s Twitter page has 2,826 followers.
  • 12 years 11 months ago

Social media put to the test in classrooms

Abby Ho, Comm ’09, regularly watched YouTube videos and checked Twitter in class last year—with her professor’s encouragement.

Film studies professor Sidney Eve Matrix teaches FILM240, where she uses social media such as podcasts, clickers and YouTube in her lectures.Continue...

The Campus Bookstore has been offering free digital books since 1997. The first e-books were offered in HTML format but have recently been re-digitized as Digital Study Version texts.
  • 12 years 11 months ago

Downloadable textbooks take off

Thanks to a new Campus Bookstore initiative, students will be able to download some textbook debt away.

Students can now access free digital books in Digital Study Version (DSV) format on the bookstore’s new website, campusebookstore.com, potentially shaving off textbook costs for the school year.Continue...

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