A century after Spanish Flu, Queen's grapples with a new pandemic
On March 16, when Principal Patrick Deane ordered undergraduate classes suspended, it was the first time in more than 100 years Queen’s ceased academic operations because of a public health crisis,…
Where did all the feminism go?
Second-wave feminist issues, like birth control and abortion, don’t have the same visibility on campus today that they had in the 70s.
Last week, Campaign Life Coalition (CLC), a national anti-abor…
The year Rhinos invaded Queen’s
Birds have, for too long, held a monopoly as political parties’ mascots. Eagles stand for nationalism, and doves for peace and democracy. It follows then, that a party whose views range from “aboli…
For Kingston Penitentiary, a dark history revisited
Canada’s most notorious prison officially closed its doors on Sept. 30, 2013. Now, in 2019, questions surrounding the legacy of the Kingston Penitentiary have risen to a fever pitch.
The closure …
Queen's in print
Queen’s legacy is incomplete without mention of its student newspaper—one of Canada’s oldest student publications, at over 140 years old.
At every major turning point in the University’s history, …
1940s era anti-Semitism crept onto campus
During World War II, Canadian campuses faced the anti-Semitism streaming out of Europe.
Compared to the Nazis’ overt anti-Semitism, more subtle forms existed in Canada. Domestically, Jews were excl…
The women of Queen’s, as told through their campus paper
The first female Editor in Chief of The Journal took over while World War I raged overseas.
Charlotte “Lottie” Whitton was The Journal’s first female Editor in Chief in 1917. Formerly, she was one …
A campus history written in war
It was 1919. For the students entering or returning to Queen’s after the Great War, campus wouldn’t be the same.
When World War I ended, Canadians began the process of attempting to justify its e…
How a 1960s Queen’s student utopia fell from grace
Princess Towers—an aging 16-storey apartment building that looms over the Hub—began its life as a student-run utopian commune in the 1960s.
An idealistic solution to a campus-wide housing crisis, i…
