Tag: Student health

Smoking ban won’t positively impact universities

Banning smoking on university campuses may create more problems than it actually solves. On Wednesday, McMaster University announced that their campus will become completely smoke-free starting in 2018. Cigarettes, marijuana, pipes, hookah, shisha, vapes, cigars and any other devices and substances...

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Queen’s reviews allergy procedures

Queen’s has begun an extensive review of its existing procedures to ensure that students on campus with allergies are given the right accommodations. This September, first-year student Andrea Mariano passed away due to an anaphylactic reaction. According to a Maclean’s report, Mariano had consumed...

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Campus clinics face funding barriers

Students are unfairly tasked with funding on-campus health care, says Undergraduate Student Trustee Lauren Long. A policy paper regarding student health was approved at last weekend’s Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance’s (OUSA) spring General Assembly. The research-based policy, presented to the...

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