Serena Ryder’s Homecoming performance this weekend was less of a concert and more a night spent catching up with an old friend.
“I’m 34, bitches. I am not succumbing to peer pressure,” Ryder joked with the crowd when they started chanting for her to chug her drink mid-performance.
Prior to the concert,...
Despite Serena Ryder headlining, this year’s ReUnion Street Festival is more than just a concert.
In its fourth year of operation since Queen’s Homecoming returned in 2013 the festival provides a controlled environment for students and alumni to connect.
Situated on Union Street between Division...
Arkells felt right at home at Queen’s Homecoming.
The AMS held its second annual ReUnion Street Festival on Saturday night, which brought food, music and dancing to students and alumni on Union St.
This year, the AMS hosted Hamilton rock-band Arkells for an unforgettable performance at the festival....
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Admin’s failure to be proactive: The University’s reactive approach to sexual assault, anti-vaccination course material and the inaccessibility of its campus shows a disregard for students’ well-being. It apparently takes public shaming at the national level for Queen’s to take student safety...
A mandatory $12.50 ReUnion Street Festival fee and a $24.43 Tricolour Yearbook and Studio Q opt-out fee passed at Tuesday’s AMS Annual General Meeting (AGM).
The AGM — which was held at Grant Hall and attended by over 100 people — is an annual meeting of AMS Assembly at which any undergraduate student...
After roughly five and a half hours of debate, AMS Assembly ratified the incoming 2015-16 council, established a new opt-out fee for Studio Q and passed the ReUnion Street Festival fee on Feb. 12.
Ratification of the incoming council is often done as a procedural measure — the candidates have already...
The AMS is asking for a $12.50 mandatory student fee to help cover the costs of next year’s ReUnion Street Festival, intended to become an annual event.
The fee proposal will be voted on by members of Assembly on Thursday and, if passed, will go to the Annual General Meeting (AGM) on March 10, to...
It’s in the University’s best interests to help establish the ReUnion Street Festival as a new Homecoming tradition.
The inaugural festival — held in October — proved to be a great success, with roughly 5,000-6,000 people attending. 94.3 per cent of students who participated in the AMS fall referendum...
Though Principal Daniel Woolf expressed hope last fall that the ReUnion Street Festival would become a new Homecoming tradition, the University is refusing to provide the AMS with funding to support the festival.
AMS Assembly decided last week to send an open letter to Principal Woolf in an effort...
Principal Woolf,
I am writing this letter as the Speaker of the Alma Mater Society Assembly, the highest legislative body in the undergraduate student government. This body, which is comprised of representatives from 10 faculty societies representing over 16,000 undergraduate and professional students,...