Hundreds of engineering students work together to retrieve a tam from atop the Grease Pole. (Katrina Ludlow)
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A slow pole climb for Sci ’09
As a tired but undefeated crowd broiled under Sunday’s hot sun, Matt Stanyon, Sci ’09, scaled the human tower, stretching his lanky frame to grasp a tightly-nailed-on tam. Getting a good grip, Stanyon dangled from the top of the Grease Pole, using his body weight as leverage to yank it from side to side. At the last moment, he secured some necessary support under his feet, successfully ripping off a large piece and ending the faculty of applied science’s annual challenge.
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Girls Gone Wild tour skips Kingston
A campus and community bracing for an X-rated film company’s visit to Kingston can put its mind at ease. Mantra Films Inc., the producers of Girls Gone Wild, completed a Canadian tour this month without making an anticipated stop in the city.
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Frosh canvass city for charity
When a father in need called out to the community last week, students from the class of 2009 answered with $26,000 in donations from Shinerama. Brian Childerhose, vice-president of the Kingston chapter of the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, made an emotional appeal Saturday morning to the large group.
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Weekend continues charges in Ghetto
Students continued to get ticketed by the police the weekend before school started, raking in a total of 35 charges from Thursday to Sunday nights. Kingston police spokesperson Mike Weaver said the number was a marked decrease from the 77 tickets handed out over the course of three nights at the start of Orientation Week.
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Downtown business is booming
A sharp increase in Nalgene water bottle sales heralds the return of students, according to staff working at downtown camping and wilderness store Trailhead. It’s one of many notable signs that almost 15,000 students are once again descending upon Kingston eager to fill their bellies, furnish their homes and clothe their bodies.
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Health Services moves to family plan
Both first-year and returning students will be greeted with new documents to sign and a package of information to read upon their first visit to Health Services this school year. Health, Counselling and Disability Services, located in the LaSalle Building, made the decision to adopt a ‘Family Health Group’ (FHG) model over the summer.
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Cross-Country Campus Briefs
New research at the University of Toronto suggests that even a single exposure to the common club drug speed can cause neurological birth defects in babies.
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News In Brief
The University received a financial boost last week with a new $9.1 million investment from the provincial government. The money, announced on Sept. 8, is part of the $250 million designated for colleges and universities this year by Chris Bentley, minister of training, colleges and universities.
