Tag: attendance

Mandatory class attendance overlooks working students

Mandatory courses with required attendance only add stress in an already high-pressure environment—especially for working students.     In a university setting, many students are experiencing life on their own for the first time. This comes with more responsibilities, like buying groceries, attending...

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A deep dive into Queen's athletics attendance rates

  If you’ve attended a Queen’s sporting event within the last decade, often times you’ve probably found yourself in a similar predicament: ‘There’s so many seats I don’t even know which one to take.’  Up until the mid-2000s, drawing crowds into a campus stadium was never a problem.  Mervin Daub, a...

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Crowd behaviour must be addressed

You wouldn’t scream obscenities at a person on the street, so what makes it acceptable to do it to someone wearing another school’s jersey? This is a problem we’ve been seeing in the stands at Queen’s games and university sports in general over the last few years. There’s a point when school spirit...

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Attendance furies, not worries

Another school year means another debate about sporting event attendance at Queen’s. While it would be ideal if Queen’s athletes could look to full stands during every contest, ultimately, there are good reasons why this doesn’t happen. Queen’s reputation for school spirit might lead someone to assume...

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