Tag: Grey House

Levana Gender Advocacy Centre to be evicted from the Grey House

After operating in the Grey House for 42 years, the Levana Gender Advocacy Centre (LGAC) is now being evicted from the property and has lost their official club status with the AMS. When LGAC — under the name Women’s Centre — was founded in 1975, it functioned as an advocacy group focusing solely...

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SGPS officially out of Grey House

The Society of Graduate and Professional Students (SGPS) will no longer administer space in the Grey House as of May 1, making the house an exclusively AMS-run space. The Grey House, located on campus at 51 Bader Lane near Victoria Hall, was originally part of the Student Life Centre and was divided...

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OPIRG and Levana to remain in Grey House

After a month of uncertainty about their future club space, the Ontario Public Interest Research Group (OPIRG) and the Levana Gender Advocacy Centre have been told by the AMS that they can remain in the Grey House for the next year. The groups hadn’t re-ratified as AMS clubs over the summer, and were...

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Letters to the editor

Dear Editors, It is with growing concern that we, the executive committee of Queer McGill, have learned of the decision of the AMS of Queen’s University to evict certain key campus groups from the Grey House building that they presently occupy. To deny the Education on Queer Issues Project (EQuIP),...

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Others reallocated

In addition to the Kingston Ontario Public Interest Research Group (OPIRG), the Levana Gender Advocacy Centre and EQuIP, two other student groups were removed from their Grey House space by the AMS. The Queen’s Students for Literacy club has been located in the Grey House for two decades. Director...

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Grey House groups re-ratify with AMS

Kingston Ontario Public Research Interest Group (OPIRG) and the Levana Gender Advocacy Centre re-ratified as AMS clubs on Wednesday, making them eligible for AMS club space. The groups didn’t re-ratify during the summer and were delivered a notice of removal from their space in the Grey House on Aug....

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Poor housekeeping

The safe space in the Grey House, a place that caters to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered and Questioning (LGBTQ) students, is at risk. The impending evictions of the Levana Gender Advocacy Centre, Kingston Ontario Public Interest Research Group (OPIRG) and the Education on Queer Issues Project...

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Grey House groups face removal

Three student groups were told they have until Sept. 30 to vacate their Grey House spaces. The Kingston Ontario Public Interest Research Group (OPIRG), the Levana Gender Advocacy Centre and the Education on Queer Issues Project (EQuIP) were given notices on Aug. 29 by the AMS’s Space Allocation Committee. The...

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Fighting for Grey House

The recent AMS decision to evict several longstanding campus groups from the Grey House reflects an abuse of power and disregards the importance of both the historical and contemporary work of these groups. The decision, which came down on Aug. 29, requires the Education on Queer Issues Project (EQuIP),...

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Groups say space has historic importance

Leaving the Grey House would alter the way Kingston’s Ontario Public Research Interest Group (OPIRG), the Levana Gender Advocacy Centre and the Education for Queer Issues Project (EQuIP) operate, say representatives from each group. EQuIP, a committee under the umbrella of the AMS Social Issues Commission,...

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Groups to be moved from Grey House

Three groups will be removed from their space in the Grey House, located on Bader Lane near Victoria Hall. On Aug. 29, Ontario Public Interest Research Group (OPIRG), Levana Gender Advocacy Centre and Education for Queer Issues Project (EQuIP) were informed that they would have to leave the Grey House...

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