Our young minds have gotten lazy.
As I scroll through Facebook during my lectures, I’m often overwhelmed by the amount of click bait style articles I see with catchy titles that read “20 Things you Must do Before 20”.
Like most other students, I find myself clicking on these articles, spending hours...
If you could tell yourself something before going into your last year of undergrad at Queen’s, what would it be?
This is a question that I’ve been grappling with throughout my summer in Kingston. As I’m going into my fifth year at Queen’s, I’m beginning to realize the time I thought I had to value...
“It’s closed?” Michael Williams, Msc ‘17.
“I’m neutral” Joobin Sattar, Medicine ‘19.
“It really sucks.” Madeline Legg, ArtSci ‘19.
“Devastated. I don’t know what I am going to do.” Drew Zhang, Medicine ‘19.
Photos by Julia Balakrishnan.
When I was little, I had a book about sharks — I read it all the time and took it with me everywhere I went. In it, there was a chapter on how the pollution people create affects our oceans and poses a great risk to the lives of the animals that live within it. This book was how I first learned that...
At the surface, Queen’s University strives to promote a culture that is receptive to diversity and encouraging in the journey of self-discovery. In reality, both silent and spoken expectations allow that ideology to become warped, reinforcing time and time again that success is synonymous with superiority.
Although...
The CBC is stepping into territory that isn’t theirs to claim.
The national media outlet is planning to launch a new opinion section that features commentary on the day’s news. But as a publicly-funded body and a credible news source to many Canadians — particularly in places where other news sources...
Assistance Required
Kate Charboneau, ArtSci ’13
“It’s no secret that Queen’s isn’t the most accessible campus, but what they lack in accessibility, they make up for in accommodation.”
“When it comes to needing accommodations, I consider myself fortunate that I have an “obvious” disability. All of...
From covering news for the Journal last year to being this volume’s Opinions Editor, I’ve had the opportunity to meet a lot of students on this campus.
What I’ve learned about the Queen’s student body is that many of us are well informed, opinionated and intelligent, and we care about issues that...