April 1, 2004

March to redemption

The NCAA Final Four tournament is nearing completion for another year with the national championship game to be played on April 5. In the course of watching as many of the 64 games as possible, I was subjected to a set of advertisements by the NCAA regarding its student-athletes. Most student-ath…

April 1, 2004

The good and the bad

The Good Sarah-Dawn Schenk, MAC Commissioner—The municipal affairs commissioner, Sarah-Dawn Schenk, worked her tail off to get students’ attention on all things civic. Elections Team—During the b…

March 26, 2004

Sibling revelry

Growing up, I regularly witnessed the torture my friends had to suffer at the hands of their brothers and sisters. I once watched my good friend’s older brother chase her up the stairs, only to dra…

March 26, 2004

Blood begets blood

Thomas Carlyle stated, “Violence does even justice unjustly.” Sheik Ahmed Yassin, the leader of the Palestinian extremist group Hamas, was a violent leader who was not conducive to a peace-making p…

Freedom of Stern?

March 26, 2004

Howard Stern is very well known for being, well, Howard Stern. Stern broadcasts in a country that prides itself on freedom of speech. The U.S. has traditionally been very protective of the First Am…

Why no Sheerios?

July 31, 2001

There are two things that fascinate me about it: the randomness of the issue itself, and the fact no one appears to have noticed it. Except me, of course, who managed to take note of it in a flash …

Missing the real story

July 31, 2001

If all publicity is good publicity, the anti-globalization movement should be in great shape. The violence and destruction surrounding the major international summit meetings in Seattle, Prague, Qu…

False advertising 101

July 31, 2001

Interested in taking the History of the Vietnam War, History 264? Or how about Ancient Humour, Classics 205? Well, too bad. In spite of the inclusion of these courses in the Arts and Science course…

No stop in sight

June 26, 2001

When I moved into my first student house at the corner of Frontenac and Earl streets in 1999, I thought I would learn about bill payments, loan negotiation and how to make my mother’s cheese sauce….

That joke was not funny

June 26, 2001

It’s difficult not to encounter pornography when surfing the web. But up until last week, our student government was making accessing porn that much easier. As part of myams.org’s refurbishing, the…

Neither was this one…

June 26, 2001

Mel Lastman’s mouth has landed him in hot water. Again. The Toronto mayor’s comments about cannibalistic “natives” in Mombassa, Kenya “dancing around” while boiling him in a pot is a blunder of mon…

Nuts to Gimmicks

May 29, 2001

For three years, The Brass pub has served as something of a second home for me. When school is stressful, or when I simply want to relax and have a few drinks with friends, The Brass has always bee…

Give us some credit

May 29, 2001

Two weeks ago, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty announced in the provincial budget that parents who send their children to private schools will be eligible for a tax credit of up to $3,500. Teachers’ …

Explain, Doctor Leggett

May 29, 2001

Thursday afternoon in Jock Harty Arena, Principal Leggett will bestow an honourary doctorate degree on Catherine Brooks for her lifetime of work in aboriginal women’s shelters. The moment he does s…

Righty Tighty, Lefty Loosey

January 19, 2001

Every day I feel more torn. I’m being split from the left and the right. After years of giving credence to all issues based on ideology, I’m throwing in the towel and issuing an official statement …

Added incentive

January 19, 2001

AMS president Paul Heisler wrote to all qlink email addresses on Tuesday, offering free movie passes at Cineplex Odeon. Journal readers will also have noticed a full-page ad in Tuesday’s paper offe…

Til death do us part

January 19, 2001

By way of a loophole in Ontario marriage law, two gay couples, Kevin Bourassa and Joseph Varnell, and Anne and Elaine Vautour, were married in Toronto’s Metropolitan Community Church by Rev. Brent …

Lone Forgiveness

September 29, 2000

This past Sunday, at a committee meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Prague, Canadian Finance Minister Paul Martin issued a proposal that surprised the 14 representatives from the w…

Take Back the Men?

September 29, 2000

This past weekend, over one hundred proud women from the Kingston and Queen’s communities, marched through Kingston’s streets chanting “no more patriarchy, no more shit.” Despite the harsh rhetoric…

My Olympic Glory

September 19, 2000

I’m not an athlete by any stretch of the imagination, but boy oh boy, do I ever love to watch sports on T.V. As long as it’s not baseball or football, I have no problem with spending an entire day …

Shooting The Star

September 19, 2000

Last Monday, the readership program between TorStar and Queen’s kicked-off, and students are now able to get their hands on their first free copies of The Toronto Star. According to The Star, the p…

In search of our Roots

September 19, 2000

Our proud Olympians entered into Sydney’s extravagant opening ceremonies a little under-dressed in their hip Roots gear — despite the less-favorable, sexual use of the word on the island continent….

Canada’s Man

September 15, 2000

Last week the news of Pierre Elliott Trudeau’s illness spread with the same fever and intensity that he created in 1966 when he stepped onto the Canadian political-landscape. Millions of Canadians …

Rethinking AIDS

September 15, 2000

South African President Thabo Mbeki recently drew harsh criticism from around the world by organizing a conference of 500 AIDS researchers. These researchers constitute the loudest voice speaking o…

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September 15, 2000

This year’s Tricolour Yearbook looks great. Editor-in-chief Ben Arkin made good on his promise of last year to do away with the “high-schoolish” look of recent yearbooks, and he oversaw the product…

If only for the sake of legacy

September 12, 2000

In 1969, Neil Armstrong left a footprint on the surface of the moon to mark his visit well into the future. A symbol, that has forever left its mark on humanity’s view of space exploration. And rig…

Gimme a break, Scottie

September 12, 2000

There’s some bad blood in the William Shatner building at McGill, and it shouldn’t have made as much national press as it has. Heavy-handed grandstanding on the part of the McGill student union, an…

Nice ol’ college try

September 12, 2000

True to a campaign promise of the AMS executive, the Campus Activities Commission is offering a series of extra-curricular courses called ‘Q College.’ For a reasonable fee, students can take advant…

Java Caveat

September 8, 2000

In July 1997, the Queen’s Journal reported that a Starbuck’s Coffee Co. kiosk was set to open in the foyer of Stauffer Library. It didn’t. Then president of the Alma Mater Society, Maynard Plant, s…

Mind the gap

September 8, 2000

As everybody living on Johnson Street knows the city has decided to proceed with construction in the Student Village during one of this area’s busiest times. Neither torn up streets on move-in day,…