On April 23, Principal Tom Williams released a report that addressed the financial challenges facing Queen’s University. In response to his findings, the Queen’s University Faculty Association (QUFA), as reported by the Journal on May 26, accused the istration of misleading the public about negotiations to reduce the amount of the University’s budget allocated to salaries.
We would like to wish farewell to a downtown icon, S&R Discount Department Store. We wish S&R president, Michael Robinson, his family and staff all the best in their future endeavors.
Thousands of Tamil Torontonians have been protesting to draw the attention of the Canadian government, and its citizens, to the escalating warfare in Sri Lanka.
It boggles my mind when I ask many of my student peers who have beef with Queen’s if they’ve ever attempted to any s or expressed their concerns to their elected student representatives and the answer always seems to be a resounding “no.”
While I respect Don Rogers’ efforts (if not always his methods) to encourage students to foster a renewed sense of civility and respect in the Queen’s housing neighbourhood, his suggestion that many students “spend a bit of time attending the odd class and a lot of time partying” illustrates a lack of understanding about the Queen’s student community.
It appears that Mr. Treilhard is quick to jump on the “free speech” bandwagon instead of carefully considering all the facts about the prosecution of Dutch MP Geert Wilders.
Putting aside the fact that Valentine’s Day is a pseudo holiday, created as an excuse to encourage consumerism and completely inappropriate in this economic recession, I have my doubts that choosing what type of chocolate to buy their sweetheart is a top priority for many people.
It has been more than seven years since the U.S. and its NATO allies toppled the Taliban regime and uprooted a large safe haven belonging to the sectarians of Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.
I’m not sure which was harder to watch last semester: the Globe and Mail vilifying six average undergraduates for nothing worse than trying to teach first years about diversity, or the number of students who bought the hyperbole.
The AMS voted last week to the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations (CASA), one of the two federally-aligned post-secondary student lobby groups in Canada.
If Jason Laker is truly concerned with integrating first-year students from the International Study Centre (ISC) and reducing costs, this would not be his plan.
