There have recently been two separate unionization drives targeting istrative staff and teaching assistants/graduate students (henceforth used interchangeably).
ASUS President Jacob Mantle displayed a terrible lack of judgment and sensitivity to both the impact of his words and the nature of his role as ASUS President when he posted the comment “I like your Taliban picture” to a friend’s photo showing two headscarf-wearing women.
If Canadians were allowed to vote for President of the United States of America on Tuesday, they would overwhelmingly elect Illinois Senator Barack Obama.
Although I agree with Eveline Traxler that Health Services lacks a sufficient number of available appointments to meet the needs of the student body at Queen’s, I feel allowing medical and nursing students to care for their peers will compromise the integrity of Queen’s Health Services.
When graduate students are deciding whether to TAFA, they should ask themselves one question: Do Queen’s employment policies offer teaching assistants (TAs) and teaching fellows (TFs) any meaningful voice in determining their working conditions?
While many of you may recognize the words to “Little Boxes,” a song now popularized by the hit show “Weeds,” in truth they reflect the sad reality of the career search frenzy currently underway on campus.
As a former manager of Clark, it does hearten me to see that the pub has been reopened and that there is an obvious commitment by the Engineering Society ($60,000 worth by my count) to ensure it will be open for my 10th Homecoming and beyond.
Stephen Harper, the Toronto-born Buds fan, turned oil field working Alberta-isolationist, turned cat-loving right-of-centre centrist with a fetish for prudent fiscal conservatism.
It wasn’t my reunion year, but it was my first Homecoming since my 10th in 2001, and—even without the thorough shellacking we gave Western—a great celebration of my return to Canada after 12 years abroad.
Last week, the Dean of Arts and Science asked professors to read to their classes a letter expressing his deep concern about the offensive conduct of “a small group of students,” citing financial damage due to donors’ disgust, damage to additional government funding due to the negative image of the University and potential personal damage since those convicted on criminal charges face a criminal record and “culpable students face non-academic disciplinary charges from the University”—a joke since discipline is not in the hands of the University but of many of the perpetrators themselves.
