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Move-in signs should move out

Written on November 27, 2015. Posted in Editorials.

While Orientation Week aims to welcome new students to Queen’s, the dozens of inappropriate move-in day banners that haunt the University District are hardly welcoming. I first arrived at Queen’s after the official move-in day, avoiding the numerous signs and banners thanking my dad for bringing me...

Arrest follows break and enter at Queen’s

Written on November 6, 2015. Posted in News.

At approximately 10 p.m. on the evening of Oct. 29, Kingston Police (KP) officers received a phone call summoning them to the Craine Building on Queen’s campus. Craine, located at 56 Arch St., was the reported location of a breaking and entering incident, according to a KP press release. The release...

Queen’s pulls plug on Campus Computer Store

Written on November 6, 2015. Posted in News.

Following a year-by-year trend of financial losses, Queen’s has decided to close its on-campus computer store. The University reported a growing deficit for the technological retail outlet in its review of ancillary operations during the 2014-15 academic year. Due to its findings, the review recommended...

Hot and heavy on campus

Written on April 2, 2015. Posted in Lifestyle.

There’s something taboo about having sex on campus. In an environment that’s meant to be studious and serious, the risk of getting caught only adds to the thrill. I’m perhaps the least qualified person to write this article. I’ve never hooked up on campus, in any definition of that ambiguous phrase....

Finding identity as an artist

Written on March 27, 2015. Posted in Arts.

For Jesse Wardell, defying the norm gives her art more meaning. Hanging in the fourth-year fine art student’s Ontario Hall studio are samplings of her recent work. Included is a sculpture piece featuring plaster hands suspended by strings and a stack of black and white print portraits. Wardell likes...

Nostalgia and nature

Written on March 13, 2015. Posted in Arts.

For fourth-year fine art student Brian Hoad, art is a way for him to reflect on his days growing up in rural Ontario. Hailing from the small town of Port Hope, Hoad spent much of his childhood immersed in nature and many of his summers at camp inspire his work. “Recreationally, I spend a lot of time...

The anatomy of sculpture

Written on February 27, 2015. Posted in Arts.

Inspired by the human body and her own experiences, Lindsey Wilson creates art that’s whimsical and expressive. The fourth-year Fine Art student takes a multidisciplinary approach — her main form focuses are sculpting and printmaking. Her most recent collection of sculptures, entitled On the Mend,...

Mental health goes beyond academic stress

Written on February 11, 2015. Posted in Opinions.

Emily Wong, ArtSci ’15 Everyone has mental health. It’s something that’s been repeated countless times by mental health support groups on campus. So far, the majority of discussions about mental health at Queen’s have centered on mental illnesses, such as depression and anxiety. It’s absolutely fantastic...

Painting in positive spirits

Written on February 6, 2015. Posted in Arts.

Fourth-year fine art student Francesca Pang uses art as a means of emotional expression, and also as a way to let loose and have fun. “The fact that I get to make art is a fun thing to be doing,” Pang said. “And I love the fact that I get to go to my studio and paint in my space and blast music.” Her...

Making the ordinary extraordinary

Written on January 23, 2015. Posted in Arts.

Fine art student Iris Fryer paints to transform mundane, everyday experiences into wistful, thought-provoking ones. The artist is in her fourth year, and although she has dabbled in printmaking and sculpting, painting is her speciality. “[Painting] really allows you to use a whole lot of different...

Tartan’s progress up for debate

Written on January 9, 2015. Posted in News.

The ASUS publication the Tartan was the subject of a tense debate at the society’s first winter assembly on Thursday night, with some members arguing the online publication has done little since current editors-in-chief Brendan Goodman and Scott Ramsay took office on May 1. Faculty of Arts and Science...

Dark expression

Written on January 9, 2015. Posted in Arts.

For fourth-year fine arts student Morgan Campbell, making art has always come naturally. “It’s just always been something that’s interested me as a kid and I guess being good at it helps, and then the passion just happened at university,” Campbell said. In the final year of completing her Bachelor...

Art with no boundaries

Written on November 27, 2014. Posted in Arts.

Visual art is perhaps one of the most powerful mediums of abstract communication. Queen’s fine art student Katherine Boxall hopes for her newest visual-art project Bite Your Tongue to speak to audiences on changing the way society looks at female beauty and expression. With a specialization in oil...

Art with a mission

Written on November 14, 2014. Posted in Arts.

Editor’s note: This is the first in a series featuring fine art students at Queen’s. Combining a passion for fine art, psychology and mental health awareness, Queen’s fine art student Cindy Kwong knows exactly what she wants to do with her degree. As a fifth-year student, Kwong discovered early in...

Union Gallery takes a stand

Written on November 7, 2014. Posted in Arts.

The Union Gallery has launched an awareness campaign and created validation reports to regain their student fee. The fee loss came into effect this school year after being cut in the Nov. 2012 AMS referendum by a margin of 28 votes. For the last 18 years, the Gallery received a mandatory fee to support...

Talking Heads: Should smoking be banned on campus?

Written on October 3, 2014. Posted in Opinions.

Should smoking be banned on campus?

Campus catch-up

Written on July 29, 2014. Posted in News.

Calgary professor left in 2009 because of anti-Semitic student Aaron Hughes, a former professor at the University of Calgary with a PhD in Islamic Studies, left in 2009 after the university wouldn’t remove a student spreading radical Muslim views from his classroom. Hughes found a message written...

CFRC accused of discrimination

Written on July 29, 2014. Posted in News.

A former CFRC volunteer has accused the campus and community radio station of anti-Semitism and employment discrimination. Brent Holland, a former volunteer who hosts an independent paranormal radio show “Night Fright”, took issue with the show “Under The Olive Tree” — a rebroadcasted show on Palestinian...

Malicious blue light activations decrease

Written on April 3, 2014. Posted in News.

Malicious blue light activations have reduced since last year, according to Campus Security. More campaigns raising awareness about the danger caused by activating a blue light in a non-emergency situation could have contributed to the reduction, said Apollonia Karetos, AMS judicial affairs director. “This...

Small-time complaints unwarranted

Written on March 21, 2014. Posted in Editorials.

The Queen’s students and faculty who protested in order to express displeasure with conditions at the soon-to-be-opened Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts need to give it a rest. Last Friday, a group of Queen’s students held a protest hoping to pressure Queen’s administration into creating...

Outcry over Isabel Bader Centre

Written on March 21, 2014. Posted in News.

Arts students who will be attending classes at the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts in the fall have called into question Queen’s administration’s ability to meet student needs. A protest, staged by a group of students, was held last Friday as a walk from the BioSciences Complex on main...

Campus Master Plan becomes official

Written on March 21, 2014. Posted in News.

The new Campus Master Plan has been approved after almost a year and a half of consultation and development. The Board of Trustees approved the plan at a meeting on March 7. The plan, which sets out a framework for the physical landscape of the University, was developed by the Campus Master Plan Advisory...

Tough future for Union Gallery

Written on February 28, 2014. Posted in News.

The Union Gallery unsuccessfully sought a mandatory fee on Feb. 13 at AMS Assembly, throwing the student-run gallery into further financial uncertainty. The gallery opened in 1994 and operated for 18 years with a mandatory fee. In November 2012, the gallery lost its three-year mandatory fee of $3.71...

Fundraising falls short

Written on February 28, 2014. Posted in News.

CFRC held its 9th annual on-air funding drive two weeks ago, raising 86 per cent of their funding goal of $25,000. The drive, which ran from Feb. 7 to 16, raised just over $21,000. The goal was to buy a new digital broadcasting console, which would replace the station’s current analog console, a relic...

The Tartan to live on

Written on February 28, 2014. Posted in News.

The Tartan’s existence was debated Thursday night at the Arts and Science Undergraduate Society (ASUS) Assembly, with Assembly voting in favour of keeping the Tartan running for another year. ASUS President Scott Mason brought forward a motion to cut the Tartan as an ultimatum before the hiring period...

CFRC fee gets nod

Written on January 31, 2014. Posted in News.

CFRC successfully lobbied for a fee increase at AMS Assembly last night. In Motion 5, CFRC proposed raising its mandatory fee from $5.07 to $7.50, an increase of $2.43. AMS Assembly carried the motion by a majority, with two votes against it. The vote sends the CFRC fee to the AMS Annual General Meeting...

Building thoughts

Written on November 28, 2013. Posted in Arts.

The architecture at Queen’s is a mishmash of shockingly brutalist and older limestone buildings that give Queen’s its straight-from-a-college-movie feel. This sense, that the buildings at Queen’s are based more on the fantastical world of Hollywood than a real-world university campus, is heightened...

Wente is wrong, wrecks and rankles

Written on October 25, 2013. Posted in Editorials.

Margaret Wente’s recent column about alcohol and sexual assault had its reasonable moments, but unfortunately, these were overshadowed by the column’s many flaws. Wente argues that the easiest way to attack rape culture on university campuses is to address what she calls “booze culture” and, in particular,...

Exchange Diaries: Campus differences

Written on October 21, 2013. Posted in Lifestyle.

I’ve vowed to never complain about having an 8:30 a.m. class again. As luck would have it, my course schedule here in Lyon consists of four days in a row of 8 a.m. classes. Although the 30-minute time difference may not sound like much, it makes all the difference in the wee morning hours – especially...

Campus catch-up

Written on April 4, 2013. Posted in News.

No campus group for men’s issues Men’s issues won’t be getting their own official campus group at Ryerson University. The proposed group’s status was denied by Ryerson’s student government earlier this month amid concerns that it has ties with alleged hate groups. The students behind the group — Anjano...

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