September 16, 2005

Issue in photos

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September 16, 2005

The woes of the Internet

Do you laugh when friends tell you a funny joke? Or do you “LOL” or “ROFL”? During summer, I LOL’ed so much, I often felt like I was going to crash headlong into my computer screen. Was it because …

September 16, 2005

The hidden woes of everyday life: taking out the trash

There’s an aesthetic problem in the middle of my lawn. A mop, a decapitated vacuum, and a mysterious white pole have decorated my small patch of grass for about a week. On Tuesday evening, we place…

September 13, 2005

Issue in photos

View all images from vol. 133, issue 5.

Bits and pieces: Kingston

September 13, 2005

•Some well-known names in hockey, like Doug Gilmore, Kirk Muller, and the ubiquitous Don Cherry, all lay claim to Kingston as their hometown •The more-ubiquitous Dan Aykroyd, of Coneheads movie fam…

Coast to coast: the end of a Canadian epic

September 13, 2005

Day 6: Brandon, Man. to Thunder Bay, Ont. A quick stop at Winnipeg (and a cup of organic coffee) made me become fond of that city, with its sturdy trees and aged houses. Winnipeg also offered us ma…

Orientation Week demystified

September 9, 2005

When I was asked to look into the meaning and history behind several of the most well-known or confusing aspects of Orientation Week, I realized, as I have so many times before, that I know nothing…

A Bnad, a Beetle and a pink tie

September 9, 2005

University of Toronto The Skule, UofT’s Engineering Society, holds a host of events during Frosh Week. Like Queen’s, the engineers dye themselves purple and sing the Lady Godiva hymn (“We are, we a…

Issue in photos

September 9, 2005

View all images from vol. 133, issue 4.

…and makes New Year’s resolutions

September 9, 2005

This is it. Fourth year, and my last first week of school at Queen’s has officially come to an end. Before the pressures of student life take hold, I’d like to take a moment to appreciate the fresh…

From cow heads to shaving cream

September 9, 2005

Alan Nicholls, ArtSci ’09, spent two hours somersaulting in mud and shaving cream during ASUS’s Carnival Day on Wednesday. He grinned through the splotches of shaving cream on his face and said he …

Postscript explores Canada

September 9, 2005

Sometimes, you just have to listen to your mother. When Aaron and Julia, my two good friends from high school, excitedly told me that we had a car to drive across Canada, my first reaction was (sha…

The joys of sinks, stinks and West

July 26, 2005

Chown, Adelaide and Ban Righ Halls All girls, all the time; single and double rooms; private washrooms and showers shared between two people (Chown), communal showers and washrooms (Adelaide and Ba…

The Journal’s Guide to Kingston

July 26, 2005

1. Bearance’s Grocery, 115 Livingston Ave. This is the closest you can get to a friendly, small-town grocer from the 1850s. It’s a family business with a butcher’s counter and food from local mark…

Dear Golden Gael: Help!

July 26, 2005

Dear Golden Gael, The amount of red ink my professor used on my first English essay left me seeing red. I don’t know what happened because in high school I never got anything lower than a B. I thou…

Navigating the sea of acronyms

July 26, 2005

Flashback to three summers ago: my Mom and I made the trip up to Kingston for our very first visit to Queen’s. Somewhere between the campus tour, the purchase of my brand new Queen’s hoodie, and my…

Golden moments in Gael athletics

July 26, 2005

While the aspiring varsity athletes among you may know a bit about the history of the Queen’s athletic program, chances are most of you are unaware of its rich athletic traditions. So here are 10 g…

The people behind campus landmarks

July 26, 2005

One of the many manifestations of history at Queen’s is the names of buildings. You can’t go more than two steps on campus without running into an edifice named for someone who made significant con…

Issue in photos

July 26, 2005

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The long walk to progress

July 26, 2005

In the 1950s, a woman beginning her studies at Queen’s was given a candle that was supposed to foretell her future: her husband would come from the faculty whose colour was ribboned to her candle, …

Seventy-eight glosses, one pair of lips

July 26, 2005

Last Friday, I bought myself my first red lipstick. This might seem insignificant, and even downright frivolous, but it does have some significance here. You see, I have a bit of an addiction to li…

Fun and games without a fake ID

July 26, 2005

allow me to explain Dear Incoming Frosh, Yes, your first year of university is stretching before you. And heck yes, it is going to be an adventure and three-quarters you will never forget. Freedom!…

Issue in photos

June 28, 2005

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The Harry Potter fling

June 28, 2005

For a serious person like me, having a summer fling is as natural as a fish swimming on land. According to my old Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, a fling is “a short time of satisfying …

Summer lovin’: how to have a blast

June 28, 2005

Summer is that carefree time that is supposed to be filled with excitement, which usually translates into “road trips” or, even better, “summer flings.” Two movies I watch religiously every summer …

Issue in photos

May 24, 2005

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Why I (secretly) enjoyed moving

May 24, 2005

allow me to explain Allow me to explain the gut-wrenching process called moving. It is a mad, mad process, my friends. As Murphy would have it, April 30—my appointed moving day—decided to pour rain…

Life after res—and missing it

May 24, 2005

Sitting comfortably in my chair in my new Ghetto house, I can recall the events of the past few weeks: the end of first-year exams, the frantic packing of the contents of my suddenly-enormous resid…

Issue in photos

September 28, 2004

View all images from vol. 132, issue 9.

Whatever happened to breaking bread?

September 28, 2004

In the 1980s, health-conscious North Americans would start their days with grapefruit and cottage cheese with black coffee, tossing their permed hair and turning a cold —and often padded—shoulder t…