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Man jailed for harassing students

Written on November 16, 2018. Posted in News.

A man who harassed Queen’s students with racial slurs and sexually aggressive behaviour was jailed on Friday after pleading guilty to two counts. Matthew D. Schneider, a 26-year-old local man, pleaded guilty in the Ontario Court of Justice last week to two counts of criminal harassment and a violation of...

Changes made to Queen’s harassment and discrimination policy, consultation moves forward for sexual assault policy

Written on August 2, 2016. Posted in News.

Following changes to provincial legislation, Queen’s has drafted an update to its existing workplace harassment and discrimination policy, which will be open to feedback until August 10 at 4 p.m. Earlier in 2016, the province made amendments to its Health and Safety Act as part of the passing of Bill...

Province mandates Ontario campuses to adopt sexual assault policies

Written on March 8, 2016. Posted in News.

Just four days after Queen’s approved its sexual assault policy, the Ontario government passed new sexual violence legislation mandating that all Ontario college and universities create separate sexual assault policies. On Tuesday, the Ontario government passed Bill 132, the Sexual Violence and Harassment...

UPDATED: Reports of sexual harassment, verbal abuse in Political Studies

Written on November 27, 2015. Posted in News.

This article is an updated version of a previously published article from Nov. 26. After almost a year of silence, reported incidents of verbal, physical and sexual harassment of teaching assistants (TAs) by undergraduate students in Political Studies have been revealed to students. On Wednesday afternoon,...

Politics TAs sexually harassed and verbally abused, DSC presidents say

Written on November 26, 2015. Posted in News.

There have been reports of “credential questioning, verbal abuse, physical intimidation and sexual harassment” of teaching assistants by political studies students, according to an email sent out to undergraduate students in the program on Wednesday afternoon. The email — sent by Political Studies...

SGPS implements anti-harassment policy

Written on September 29, 2015. Posted in News.

New procedures for dealing with workplace harassment have been added to the policy of the Society of Graduate and Professional Students (SGPS) following a vote at their September council meeting two weeks ago. The policy, developed by Mark Asfar, SGPS vice-president professional, is a basic outline...

Letter to the editor: Shirkhanzadeh on his third strike

Written on September 18, 2015. Posted in Opinions.

Professor Shirkhanzadeh has been found guilty of harassment. What farce. To be found guilty of harassment at Queen’s, one thing is sufficient and one thing is necessary. First, what is necessary is for the so-called “harassed” to be people in positions of power. Voltaire well said: “To learn who...

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Man jailed for harassing students

Changes made to Queen’s harassment and discrimination policy, consultation moves forward for sexual assault policy

Province mandates Ontario campuses to adopt sexual assault policies

UPDATED: Reports of sexual harassment, verbal abuse in Political Studies

Politics TAs sexually harassed and verbally abused, DSC presidents say

SGPS implements anti-harassment policy

Letter to the editor: Shirkhanzadeh on his third strike

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