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The University has moved to immediately terminate the Intergroup Dialogue Program following a recommendation from a report assessing its usefulness in residences. The program, created by Assistant Dean of Student Affairs Arig Girgrah, consisted of six trained student intergroup facilitators who lived in residence and whose mandate was to engage students living in residence in discussions and activities related to diversity.Continue...

The African and Caribbean Students’ Association, together with CultureSHOCK, is hosting a visual timeline, “A Walk Through the Times: the Story of Black Canadians,” as part of the Black History Month events.

ACSA President Vanessa Denny, ArtSci ’09, said the ACSA executive decided to create the timeline as a way of bringing attention to eminent and little-known black Canadians and their contributions to the nation’s history.Continue...

After two town hall meetings in less than a week, details of the next step of Queen’s Centre construction are still uncertain. Although plans indicate installation of a pre-fabricated arena on west campus will go ahead, the project team has yet to decide which part of phase two will go up on main campus.Continue...

This weekend, Queen’s students are learning more about the compromises and backroom negotiations behind the global fight against climate change.

Feb. 6, 7 and 8 will mark the first Queen’s Interactive Crisis Simulation (QICSim), hosted by the Queen’s International Affairs Association (QIAA).Continue...

According to a new report by a Queen’s law professor, the 2009 federal budget is leaving women financially vulnerable.

In her report Budget 2009: Designed to Leave Women Behind—Again, professor Kathleen Lahey explains how the federal budget is unequal.Continue...

This 2009 was supposed to be supposed to be the first year students on exchange were able to vote in AMS elections and referenda while overseas, but the effort was thwarted due to the recent hacking of the AMS website.

Because about 200 business students go on exchange every year, the effort was largely spearheaded by Commerce Society President Matthew Price.Continue...

The writing of grievance policies is left up to individual faculties but none have comprehensive guidelines. No faculty requires its professors to submit exams for approval before they are administered nor do they have policy regarding WebCT use.Continue...

On Thursday night, AMS Assembly voted unanimously in favour of joining federal lobbying group Canadian Alliance of Student Associations (CASA) in an associate membership role for a one-year trial period. AMS Academic Affairs Commissioner Matthew Lombardi said the decision comes as a result of personal lobbying and positive student feedback.Continue...

The immediate reporting of sexual assault crimes is crucial to ensuring the victim’s health and to building a legal case, said Donna Joyce, manager of the Sexual Assault/Domestic Violence Program at Kingston General Hospital (KGH).

“A lot of the support that we offer to patients has to be done within the first 72 hours after the act has been committed,” she said.Continue...