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Athletics departments need to be wary of keeping things behind closed doors

Written on January 29, 2021. Posted in Editorials.

Cultures of silence don’t end well. We learned as much last winter when The Globe and Mail published an expansive investigation into Guelph University’s cross country and track coach, Dave Scott-Thomas, who had sexually and emotionally abused an underage athlete, Megan Brown, in the early 2000s. Shielded...

Student journalists are journalists. They should be recognized as such.

Written on January 26, 2021. Posted in Editorials.

Despite the important news coverage provided by student-operated publications, student reporters often face hurdles in being recognized as legitimate journalists. Student journalists provide coverage of local topics that are often overlooked by major news outlets. Where major news outlets like The...

Universities should acknowledge unique experiences of separate minorities, not lump them in together

Written on September 22, 2020. Posted in Editorials.

A story originally titled “Too Asian?” appeared in Maclean’s in 2010, suggesting that Asian students were not only a threat to the admissions process but that if other minorities only worked hard enough, they could be as represented in university populations too. This logic is a racist fallacy universities...

Satisfaction survey needs the complexity of student perspectives

Written on January 15, 2019. Posted in Editorials.

Queen’s spirit can be distilled: tricolour face paint, the Oil Thigh, purple engineers, red Queen’s Bands kilts, or the silhouette of Grant Hall. But for senior students looking back on their years at the University, Queen’s is more complicated than that. The most recent National Survey of Student...

In defense of boring lectures

Written on November 23, 2018. Posted in Editorials.

Disliking a room packed with 200 people at 8:30 a.m. is no reason to give up on lectures. Over the course of university, lecture sizes dwindle from as large as 500 to as small as 50, and seminars, tutorials and labs take precedence. During that time, students learn to deride lectures for their...

UOttawa protects campus through student government scrap

Written on October 4, 2018. Posted in Editorials.

When a student government breaches trust, it’s up to the university to protect its students. In September, the University of Ottawa terminated its relationship with the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa (SFUO) after allegations of misappropriated funds were revealed. A police report filed...

LGBTQ+ students facing debt deserve university support

Written on September 21, 2018. Posted in Editorials.

As LGBTQ+ students face disproportionate student debt in Canada, it’s up to universities to support them in their struggles. Forum Research has conducted the first Canadian survey on student debt accounting for sexual orientation, and it’s revealed LGBTQ+ students are more likely to rack up student...

Liberal arts programs need to be protected at universities

Written on March 28, 2018. Posted in Editorials.

It shouldn’t take students launching a protest for universities to recognize there’s more value in studying liberal arts than pennies and dimes. At the University of Wisconsin at Steven’s Point, the school’s administration has proposed they drop 13 majors in the humanities and social sciences so...

Conservative professors aren’t held back at universities

Written on September 18, 2017. Posted in Editorials.

Conservative leaning professors may be a minority on university campuses, but they don’t face real discrimination in their workplace. In a New York Times article by Arthur C. Brooks, president of the conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute, argues that professors who hold conservative...

Revitalizing a dated education system

Written on September 20, 2016. Posted in Opinions.

How often do you sit in class and hear something that sparks your curiosity, but you’re afraid to ask about it in fear that your question may be considered off topic or besides the point? This was a common narrative for me throughout my education. I remember asking questions about why we were learning...

Fines are fine

Written on October 31, 2014. Posted in Editorials.

Library fines aren’t the most serious financial barrier university students have to face. The University of Sheffield in England has decided to stop levying fines for overdue library books. Instead, they’ll implement an automatic renewal system, where students are allowed to keep a book until someone...

Education not just about efficiency

Written on September 10, 2014. Posted in Opinions.

Directing Ontario universities to specialize could introduce some efficiencies to our post-secondary education system. It could also allow some Ontario schools to push boundaries in their areas of expertise. But we can’t forget about the mission of the system as a whole – to provide a comprehensive...

Students critically need thinking skills

Written on October 4, 2013. Posted in Opinions.

Patrick Baud , MA ’14 In mid-September, Ontario’s Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities, Brad Duguid, sent a draft policy to the province’s colleges and universities that, if adopted, would require them to focus attention on their high-performing programs and abandon low-performing ones. Performance...

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Athletics departments need to be wary of keeping things behind closed doors

Student journalists are journalists. They should be recognized as such.

Universities should acknowledge unique experiences of separate minorities, not lump them in together

Satisfaction survey needs the complexity of student perspectives

In defense of boring lectures

UOttawa protects campus through student government scrap

LGBTQ+ students facing debt deserve university support

Liberal arts programs need to be protected at universities

Conservative professors aren’t held back at universities

Revitalizing a dated education system

Fines are fine

Education not just about efficiency

Students critically need thinking skills

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