Cafeteria food fight causes $4,300 in damages
A food fight broke out in Leonard Cafeteria on St. Patrick’s day last Saturday and caused $4,300 worth of damage.
It began at approximately 6 p.m. and lasted roughly 15 minutes. Residence and Hospitality Services Director Bruce Griffiths said during the fight, students broke glasses and dishes.
At one point, Griffiths said, a student tried to throw dangerously hot soup directly from the pot until a staff worker at Leonard intervened.
“With the amount of plates flying, it was dangerous for those nearby,” Griffiths said. The cafeteria was closed shortly after the fight began.
“This was not a punitive action; it simply had to be done,” Griffiths said. “Safety and sanitation were the main concern.”
The cafeteria reopened at 9:30 a.m. Sunday for breakfast. Griffiths says the fight cost $4,300 in damager, which will be drawn from the student budget. “It is directly students who pay for this type of thing,” Griffiths said. When students request that the cafeteria provide certain foods more often, the status of the financial determines whether these requests are fulfilled. Engaging in a food fight means those requests are less likely to be fulfilled, Griffiths said.
“Our budget to spend on items like feta cheese will be spent paying off food fight damages,” he said. “The ideal situation would be to identify the students involved and bill them.”
— Valerie Kilian-Clark
AMS issues letter of regret for expulsions
The AMS has issued a letter of regret regarding the 1918 expulsion of 15 black medical students.
The announcement, released Tuesday, states that the AMS “wishes to acknowledge this shameful chapter in Queen’s history and to ensure that this incident is never forgotten.”
AMS Social Issues Commissioner Allison Williams said she e-mailed the release to Associate Vice-Principal and Dean of Student Affairs Jason Laker, and hopes the University will issue a similar acknowledgment.
“What we will probably be doing is continuing the conversation with his office and seeing if that’s something that he would … be interested in kind of pursuing further with the ,” she said.
— Anna Mehler Paperny
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