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“Contexts and Imperatives for Renewing the Curriculum,” a discussion paper on the curriculum released by Vice-Principal (Academic) Patrick Deane is seeking to start a conversation about keeping curriculum quality high despite financial challenges.

“In the context of our academic mission, change is on its own neither good nor bad, desirable nor undesirable."Continue...

On Mar. 24, The Society of Graduate and Professional Students (SGPS) will hold a referendum to decide whether or not to reduce the student fee of education students by half. President Jeff Welsh’s proposed plan is raising doubt in some who don’t believe the cuts are feasible.Continue...

For the second year in a row, Kingston landlords heaved a sigh of relief when the AMS didn’t hand out the Golden Cockroach Award at the annual ceremony recognizing Kingston’s best and worst landlords.

AMS Municipal Affairs Commissioner Paul Tye said this year’s ceremony focused on the positive because no landlords were nominated for the Golden Cockroach award.Continue...

The Government of Ontario has announced they’re giving $51.6 million in funding to create 3,300 new graduate spaces across the province over the next three years, 97 of which will go to Queen’s.

The announcement marks the second phase of the government’s Reaching Higher plan, which was first revealed in 2006 and aims to accommodate the high demand for graduate spaces.Continue...

American university students are becoming more high maintenance, according to a recent survey conducted by the University of California, Irvine.

In the survey, students were asked to give their opinion on how effort is evaluated within university marking schemes.Continue...

A Queen’s alumnus and Kingston resident is facing a $300 fine and up to three months in prison for refusing to fill out his 2006 census form. Todd Stelmach, Rehab ’00, will appear in court Mar. 5 to plead not guilty.Continue...

The Queen’s National Scholar program (QNS) is the latest casualty to the University’s budget cuts. The program was founded in 1983 to attract exceptional young researchers to Queen’s.Continue...

One hundred thirty-one years after his death, Robert Sutherland has returned to Queen’s.

On Feb. 23, the Board of Trustees unanimously voted in favour of a student-initiated motion to rename the Policy Studiesbuilding Robert Sutherland Hall to honour the legacy of Queen’s first major benefactor.

Sutherland, the first black person to graduate from a British-North American university and be called to the bar of Upper Canada, graduated from Queen’s in 1852. Upon his death in 1878, he left his entire estate to Queen’s—a $12,000 bequest that at the time was equal to the University’s annual operating budget.Continue...

On Tuesday, Jane Switzer and Michael Woods were announced as next year’s Journal’s co-editors in chief. Twenty-two people voted for the team of Switzer and Woods and seven voted in favour of Andrew Bucholtz, running for editor in chief.Continue...