On a chilly fall night in 2015, Mason* and his housemates hosted a party that started out like any other.  

Illicit drug use among university students might be more common than our parents would like to think.  

With the end of the semester in sight, students and faculty alike are preparing for the annual 15 minutes of class time where the students do the evaluating. 

Being a varsity athlete at a Canadian university often comes with a lifestyle filled with sacrifice.  

Starting a family, experiencing a miscarriage or getting an abortion are stressful and exhausting experiences for a woman at any stage of her life — but especially so for a young university student.

Since Queen Victoria signed the Royal Charter for ‘Queen’s College at Kingston’ 175 years ago, the campus has been host to royal guests on nearly 20 different occasions.

While street parties and pancake keggers have now become a staple for Homecoming, the original ‘alumni weekend’ — as it was called until the 1950s — was a nostalgic reunion of friends and a ing-on of traditions to a younger generation.

Although it’s hard to believe, before 1912 Queen’s was a religious institution. 

From 1978 to 1987, Queen’s University had a problem that wouldn’t go away: $23.3 million of investments sitting in the business assets of Apartheid in South Africa in pooled investments. 

While Queen’s still has a long way to go to being fully inclusive to of the LGBTQ+ community on campus, it has certainly taken strides from its past. 

In the basement of Botterell Hall, below the scattered study spaces and underground lecture halls, lie some of Queen’s more contentious research labs. 

Every year, thousands of students in Ontario trade in their sweatpants and backpacks for dress pants and briefcases as they transform into working interns. An increasing amount  of students are undertaking internships, often unpaid, to bolster their resumes and increase their chances of getting hired after graduation. 

To help offset the rising cost of university, students both on campus and across Canada have taken to a modern twist on an old — fashioned arrangement.

There were five women in the class of 1884. While each would go on to have a prosperous career  — a writer, a medical missionary, a teacher, a professor and a doctor — their journeys were not without struggle. Their graduation marked an important moment in history and the beginning of a new era for women at Queen’s. 

Only one year since their inauguration last March, the Kappa Sigma fraternity near Queen’s now boasts around 40 “brothers”. From focusing on philanthropy and building a strong social community, Mitch Wilson, ArtSci ‘18, one of the vice-presidents, said that their fraternity’s goal is to build connections.However, Kappa Sigma have to call their chapter the “Kingston Colony” as Queen’s has a student government sanctioned ban on fraternities and sororities.

In March of 2015, one Queen’s student found out that the man she was preparing to go to trial against for sexually assaulting her had been elected to the University Senate, one of Queen’s highest governing bodies

This time last year, students ing the corner of University and Union were stopped and searched.The simulated checkpoint was a part of Israeli Apartheid Week, organized by Queen’s Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR).

“It really became a game of ‘let’s do [it] one more time, and if I can not get blackout, then I’m good.’ It was just like Russian roulette.”When John* began to worry that he had a drinking problem, he tried alternative solutions before quitting altogether. He tried to limit himself, stick to certain types of alcohol, and swear off others, but nothing worked.