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Letters to the Editor

Written on February 6, 2015. Posted in Opinions.

Queen’s should be “for” vaccines Dear editors, As deeply concerned as I am that a professor has been allowed to teach misinformation regarding vaccines to students since 2011, I’m also quite disappointed to read Provost Alan Harrison’s comments on the issue in the Toronto Star article “Students...

Letter to the Editor

Written on September 4, 2014. Posted in Opinions.

Re: Venture Outside the Bubble I found the article Venture outside the bubble (published July 29, 2014) ridiculous. The byline of this article reads: There is more to Kingston than Queen’s. My understanding, then, is that the article recommends services that are not owned and operated by Queen’s,...

Letters to the Editor

Written on July 29, 2014. Posted in Opinions.

Men’s mental health needs more attention Until very recently, I had been operating as an undiagnosed manic-depressive. As as a direct consequence, I have a year of straight Fs on my transcript, little in the way of on-paper accomplishments, and even had to take a year off from school. I consider myself...

Letters to the Editor — April 3

Written on April 3, 2014. Posted in Opinions.

Stand up for your rights As men and women, feminists and Queen’s alumni, we write to you today to lend our solidarity and support to those who speak up for human rights, which include women’s rights. We stand beside you and defend your right to voice your opinion on campus without fear of retaliation....

Letters to the Editor

Written on March 28, 2014. Posted in Opinions.

The recent invitation and visit of a professor popular for her antifeminist views to our campus has given us cause to reflect upon the misinformed and divisive conversations that increasingly circulate on university campuses around what it means to take up and wear the label feminist. The invitation...

Letters to the Editor

Written on March 27, 2014. Posted in Opinions.

Track and field left in the dust Hello, I am a first-year Cross-Country and Track and Field athlete, and frequent reader of the Journal, but I am writing to you today with regards to my massive disappointment and frustration with the latest edition of the Queen’s Journal (March 14th). It is...

Letters to the Editor

Written on January 28, 2014. Posted in Opinions.

Accomodate, don’t hate Re: “Unaccomadating at York” Dear Journal Editorial Board, The Supreme Court of Canada has been clear in rejecting the creation of a “hierarchy of rights” and suggesting Charter principles dictate that a balance be reached that gives equal importance to both rights (Dagenais...

Letters to the Editor

Written on October 18, 2013. Posted in Opinions.

Sympathy for Victims Re: “Muslim students subject to hate crime” We were horrified to hear that six Muslim students — members of our Queen’s community — were victims of a recent hate-motivated attack. Such a disgusting incident is an attack on the values we all hold dear as Canadians, including the...

Letters to the Editor

Written on September 13, 2013. Posted in Opinions.

Facing Our Complicity Re: “Sign starts debate” I admit, I might have given a chuckle to the “Dads: Winter isn’t the only thing coming” sign recently posted in the Ghetto when I was an undergrad. It’s a clever play on words on a popular meme and immediately graspable to any young person who has the...

Letters to the Editor

Written on March 28, 2013. Posted in Opinions.

Research and time Re: “Leniency for limits” Dear Editors, I am writing in response to the editorial titled “Leniency for limits” that appeared in the March 22nd edition of The Journal. The editorial contains several misperceptions about the recently-revised policy on time-to-completion for graduate...

Letters to the Editor

Written on March 15, 2013. Posted in Opinions.

Defining “risky situation” Re: “Prescott censured” Dear Editors, I’d like to ask Alexander Prescott to define for us a “risky situation”. If they’re so obvious that any rape victim should have known better, this ought to be easy to answer. In the meantime, let me...

Letters to the Editor

Written on March 8, 2013. Posted in Opinions.

Prescott needs to go Re: “ASUS reps quit, Prescott censured at ASUS Special Assembly” Dear Editors, “University politics are so vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.”–(attributed to) Henry Kissinger, former Harvard Professor and United States Secretary of State. Never has a truer...

Letters to the Editor

Written on March 1, 2013. Posted in Opinions.

Outcry Deserved Re: “Sex Sells” Dear Editors, I was horrified to read a condemnation of the twitterverse’s reaction to Audi’s Super Bowl commercial in Friday’s issue of the Journal (“Sex Sells”). Calling the ad “relatively harmless,” the article simultaneously put down those who protested it and told...

Letters to the Editor

Written on February 14, 2013. Posted in Opinions.

Resources and Aid available Re: “Surviving rape culture at Queen’s” Dear Editors, Thank you for printing “Surviving rape culture at Queen’s” in the February 11th issue of the Journal. The author was brave to come forward with their experiences and to start a conversation about sexual violence (and...

Letters to the Editor

Written on February 12, 2013. Posted in Opinions.

Safety in Pride Re: “Pride week undergoing expansion” Dear Editors, I would like to believe that in a university community as intellectually driven, accepting and home to such a diverse student population, that homophobia would have no place among our students here at Queen’s. However, I am...

Letters to the Editor

Written on January 29, 2013. Posted in Opinions.

Re: “Queen’s trails the rest” Dear Editors, In Tuesday’s Journal, you ran an editorial calling on Queen’s to create a co-op program similar to that of Waterloo. Queen’s already has an undergraduate internship/co-op program — QUIP (Queen’s Undergraduate Internship Program) — that serves the engineering,...

Letters to the Editor

Written on January 25, 2013. Posted in Opinions.

Re: “SciFormal policies come under fire” Dear Editors, I was disappointed in the portrayal of the conflict surrounding SciFormal hours reductions. The article quotes that “[Eric] Goldfarb, Sci’14 said the policy of reducing hours for students with on-campus jobs isn’t official and contravenes human...

Letters to the Editor

Written on January 15, 2013. Posted in Opinions.

Welcome return Re: “Homecoming to return in 2013” Dear Editors, I was happy and excited to announce in December that Queen’s Homecoming would be reinstated in the fall of 2013. But I thought it worthwhile to point out that this decision was about much more than “good student behaviour last October,”...

Letters to the Editor

Written on November 29, 2012. Posted in Opinions.

Re: “Removing barriers” Dear Editors, As the Co-Chairs of Women’s Worth Week (WWW) we feel it is important to address some errors we perceived in the article written about our initiative, published on Friday November 23rd. We felt our event was misrepresented. The article framed it as a celebration...

Letters to the Editor

Written on November 23, 2012. Posted in Opinions.

President Carter Deserves Degree Re: “Critical eye on Jimmy Carter” Dear Editors, In last week’s Queen’s Journal, alumnus Michael Shafron argued that President Jimmy Carter’s honorary degree from Queen’s University should be revoked. What followed in the pages of this newspaper was nothing less than...

Letters to the Editor

Written on November 16, 2012. Posted in Opinions.

Examining fraternities Re: “From fraternity to beyond” Dear Editors, As the AMS reviews the current ban on Greek Letter Organizations (GLOs) at Queen’s I hope they will include the alumni voice in their deliberations. As alumni, we bring a “post-campus” perspective of the value of the Queen’s community...

Letters to the Editor

Written on November 2, 2012. Posted in Opinions.

Re: “Call for change” Dear Editors, I was disappointed in the way which you oversimplified the Lance Armstrong scandal and cycling’s current situation in regards to doping and I was also alarmed at the number of factual errors in the article. Firstly USADA launched the most extensive investigation...

Letters to the Editor

Written on October 26, 2012. Posted in Opinions.

On fraternities Re: “AMS revisits fraternity ban” Dear Editors, There is a group of men in Kingston who contribute hundreds of hours of volunteer services annually. They have raised thousands of dollars for diverse charities. They have increased involvement and awareness for numerous philanthropic...

Letters to the Editor

Written on October 23, 2012. Posted in Opinions.

Assisting Professors Re: “Policy in the works for undergrad TAs” Dear Editors, The absence of a “distinctive policy” governing undergraduate Teaching Assistants (TAs) is worrying, but should come as no surprise. This is symptomatic of the same conditions that led graduate TAs to vote for unionization...

Letters to the Editor

Written on October 16, 2012. Posted in Opinions.

Re: “Ethical purchases not guaranteed” Dear Editors, Thank you for publishing such an insightful article about on-campus ethical purchasing. It reminds students so clearly of the inspiring power that students can exercise to effect necessary change, but it also highlights the need for further determined...

Letters to the Editor

Written on September 28, 2012. Posted in Opinions.

Two egregious fallacies made their way into last Friday’s (Sept 21) edition of The Journal. As a devoted professor of logic, it would be remiss of me not to correct them. The first occurs in the following passage from the front page article “Queen’s Criticized: University violated academic freedom,...

Letters to the Editor

Written on September 25, 2012. Posted in Opinions.

Dear Editors, I’d like to congratulate you on your recent editorial titled “Twitter travesty,” which encouraged the media to focus messages on sexual assault and sexual violence towards initiatives that target perpetrators rather than victims. Student-organized events including last year’s SlutWalk...

Letters to the editor

Written on March 9, 2012. Posted in Opinions.

Oil sands have negative effects Re: “Industry pros talk oil sands,” Feb. 14, 2012. Dear Editors, While I appreciate the efforts that the oil sands industry is putting into making their practices more environmentally friendly, I still disagree with the exploitation of the Albertan oil sands. Technologies...

Letter to the editor

Written on February 3, 2012. Posted in Opinions.

Dear Editors, We’d really like to give credit where credit is due. On Saturday, Jan. 28 our 12-year-old son had the day of his life. He took part in the Winter Adaptive Games (WAG) held at Queen’s University and organized by Queen’s Kinesiology, Rehab and Physical Health and Education students. The...

Letters to the editor

Written on November 25, 2011. Posted in Opinions.

Dear editors, As a design and development specialist with some 33 years international experience followed by over 20 years as an adjunct associate professor in the Chemical Engineering Department, I am quite disappointed in the decision to curtail the Fine Arts program. Design is the quintessential...

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