It would be difficult to conceive of an image that better justifies the allegations of unprofessionalism and cliquiness within the AMS than the tableaus of its latest Assembly.
Before their exit from this year’s AMS executive election, Team JNN was running uncontested. Their campaign sparked a counter crusade—a no-vote campaign led by Allison Mei, Noor Ghunaim, Molly McGill, all ArtSci ’24, and Sophie Sterling, ArtSci ’25.
Sexual harassment mustn’t go unpunished, no matter who perpetrated it. It’s difficult not to suspect those politicians opposing Bill 5 of having personal reasons for doing so, covering for themselves and their powerful cohorts so they don’t lose their jobs.
Jordan Peterson shouldn’t be allowed access to patients when the risk of him discriminating against them (explicitly or otherwise) remains so present, nor should he be able to lean on his certification as a psychologist to validate the harmful rhetoric he spews over the internet.
A paper published in the University of Toronto’s journal Canadian Public Policy in Dec. 2023 examined a decade of data from 20 Canadian municipalities and found no relationship between police spending and crime rates.
During town hall on Dec. 11, Provost Mathew Evans and Arts and Science Dean Barbara Crow announced Queen’s University expects to exhaust its reserve funds by 2025-26. The Faculty of Arts and Science (FAS) could run out as early as next year if cuts aren’t implemented, and students are demanding an explanation.
Inflated grades are a trend originating early in the COVID-19 pandemic and surviving the transition from virtual to in-person classrooms—across far more universities than Yale. The Health Sciences program at Queen’s is infamous among its students for similar grade inflation.