How Eurocentric beauty standards get under the skin
The use of chemicals and potentially toxic makeup to meet societal expectations of beauty isn’t a new phenomenon. From ancient Egyptians who wore toxic eyeliner, to women in the 19th century coveri…
Calls for sexual assault centre on campus unanswered for more than thirty years
This article discusses sexual assault and may be triggering for some readers. The Journal uses “survivor” to refer to those who have experienced sexual assault. We acknowledge this term is not univ…
"I want help": Queen's student athletes call for more support
Student-athletes are immensely privileged—they have access to cutting-edge training equipment and techniques, advanced sports medicine, tutors, and alumni networks. But while the ‘student’ and the …
The alumni with power in Canada's fossil fuel industry
Queen’s has at least 11 alumni above the senior vice-president level at eight of Canada’s 10 largest fossil fuel companies, a Journal inquiry has found.
A broad survey of the University’s invest…
After a decade, Principal Woolf prepares to depart
Every year, the principal of Queen’s University loses 1,800 sugar cookies to Stauffer Library.
Armed with reusable grocery bags full of Card’s Bakery cookies, Daniel Woolf and his wife Julie Gor…
Inside Queen's unpublished foreign investments
When Queen’s passed a new responsible investment policy in 2017, it promised to publish its complete holdings across all portfolios. In the following two years, it didn’t.
Through multiple Freedom …
Realizing the duty to acknowledge
Queen’s was established 58 years after the British Crown acquired present-day Kingston. But that happened centuries after it was first inhabited.
Early Europeans began to arrive in Kingston in the…
How climate change will shape Kingston
In 2050, Kingston moves to Ohio.
According to City of Kingston projections, the city’s climate levels with Syracuse, New York in the 2020’s and the future takes shape. Heat waves, ice storms and…
The curtain on animal research at Queen’s lifts an inch
If Air Canada wasn’t going to fly the monkeys, Queen’s would find another way.
In 2012, the University faced a problem: Air Canada had stopped shipping non-human primates used for research. While…
Following OSAP changes, international student tuition could rise
The Province’s recent changes to OSAP are costing Ontario universities a collective $360 million—and international students may help cover the difference.
While domestic students paid an average o…
Altruism meets voluntourism
For many university students, a trip spent mixing volunteer work with tourism in the developing world is a rite of passage.
Coined as “voluntourism,” these blended trips have become a staple in m…
STI rates rising, but sex-ed adrift
*Names have been changed to protect the anonymity of students.
Most first-year students in residence know they can get condoms for free or cheap from their Dons or the Sexual Health Resource Centre…
Mind the confidence gap
The confidence gap is 40 per cent—the difference between the 100 per cent qualifications women feel they need for a job and the 60 per cent men do, according to a Harvard Business Review study.
W…
From a school of one to a campus of 24,000
When Kori Altenpohl walked into CHEM 112 three years ago, she had classmates for the first time.
Before that, Altenpohl’s only fellow student was her brother. Like roughly 30,000 other school-aged …
Head judicial officer fired after investigating AMS president
This story was updated with a statement from the Chair of the AMS Judicial Committee at 1:27 p.m., Nov. 9, 2018.
After investigating the conduct of AMS President, Miguel Martinez, the Society’s he…
The 1978 disappearance of a 27-year-old Queen’s lab technician goes unsolved
Forty years ago, Christine Ziomkiewicz vanished without a trace.
She was last seen on June 23, 1978. The following decades revealed little of the 27-year-old Queen’s lab technician’s disappearan…
As citywide opioid busts increase, campus prepares
Maybe it would all have been different if Emily* hadn’t fallen that day.
She slipped on ice when she was 15, falling down the stairs on her way to her car. It was her first day off crutches followi…
Invisible disabilities slip through the cracks
When Kaitlyn MacDonald entered Landmark Cinemas in Kingston this summer, she started to cry.
It was the first time since her Diabetes diagnosis in January that she’d seen a safe place to dispose of…
The unclear rules of student-TA relationships
As students and teaching assistants (TAs) return to classes, some will bond over more than their lessons.
As of Fall 2017, the University employed 1,850 TAs in a wide range of departments, class s…
