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Although I commend Queen’s students for raising a significant amount of money ($23,500) towards cystic fibrosis, I have severe problems with the means by which this money was attained.

On Jan. 31, 2000, Ontario enacted the Safe Streets Act to prohibit squeegeeing and aggressive panhandling.Continue...

’m writing in regards to the article entitled “Hate graffiti found on West Campus” in the Sept. 17 edition of the Journal .

While this was an interesting and well-written article, I am at a loss to understand why a photograph of the offending hate speech was published along with the article. By including a photograph where the hate speech and swastika are clearly visible in a publication like the Journal with such a wide reader base, that offensive message was brought into a wider arena, where more people were able to see it than probably would have, regardless of the fact that it was not dealt with for six days.Continue...

Like it or not, Queen’s campus—both the physical structures as well as the institution itself—is an important and ingrained part of Kingston. Since the campus resides firmly within an important part of the city, and is surrounded by homes and businesses that belong to students and non-students alike, making the grounds accessible and enjoyable to the general community is imperative.Continue...

I may not have a Ph.D, but I recognize academic inanity and plain stupidity when I see it. In his letter to the editor, if one can call dozens of words spewed randomly on a paper a letter, Tim Birt suggests that I am being hypocritical because as far as he knows no conservative group has been charged under the elections gag law.Continue...

How fitting that the president of the Ontario Campus Conservatives would call for Michael Moore to be charged under the Canada Elections Act for having the nerve to suggest that Canadians not support Stephen Harper’s recent election campaign. As conservatives in Canada and the U.S. have lurched to the right in recent years their in-your-face hypocrisy has become all the more appalling.Continue...

This election seems to have resulted in an unclear mandate because no party won a majority in parliament. However, it is important to remember that the overwhelming majority of Canadians voted against Stephen Harper’s radical social conservative agenda.Continue...

I didn’t want to go to Queen’s. My parents had both gone there, my sister and my cousin are there currently, and my boyfriend had been raised knowing he was going to Queen’s. I wanted to be different.Continue...

It’s a new day for me and my keeper.

That’s right folks—I have joined the ranks of women who have found a new solution to the period challenge. Women, listen up. Men, you should listen too, because at some point in your life some female friend of yours is going to talk about the discomforts of menstruation.Continue...

It is Tuesday, May 11, 2004. I have finished my fourth and final year at Queen’s and at this very moment, I still don’t know what I’m going to be doing with the rest of my life.Continue...