Issue 37 - March 13, 2009
News
News in brief
There’s still no word as to how Queen’s is to proceed with the next stage of the Queen’s Centre after last Friday’s Board of Trustees meeting. Student trustee and AMS president-elect, Michael Ceci said the board is still waiting to hear how the recently announced $2 billion federal infrastructure funding towards universities will be allocated.
Contributors of the month
Cuts and the curriculum
Students play dead for climate change
Fee cut raises doubts
An Rx for transparency
Features
Testing the winds
But Erwin said she’s a big supporter of wind power, having spent time working on wind development in the 1970s and 80s.
Opinions
Letters to the editors
It appears that Mr. Treilhard is quick to jump on the “free speech” bandwagon instead of carefully considering all the facts about the prosecution of Dutch MP Geert Wilders.
Principles over soda pop
Supplement
Exploring the world of e-fiction
In today’s fast-paced world, where the Internet has the capacity to distil everything from daily news to health information to stock market analysis into bite-sized episodes, it seems only logical that someone take a crack at the novel.
Queen’s Reads
Student writing: a colourful history
The ins and outs of self-publishing
Queen’s writers: where are they now?
An award-winning read
Keeping creative writing alive
The Literary Companion
Arts
In the read
Somewhere, in the imagination of Chuck Klosterman, there’s a pretend town called Owl where pop culture does not exist.
One Strong
A free feast for the ears
Timbering on country death rock?
Sports
Athletes of the week
It’s not often the opportunity arises to represent one’s country on the international stage, but that chance came in late February for second-year kinesiology student and cross-country skier Alexandre Dumond.
From Kingston to the desert
Gaels come up short
School versus sport
Building better Gaels
Postscript
Forward Motion >>>>>>>>>>>>
The vinyl ripples ran lusciously under Jamie’s hands as he moved the records into the flimsy paper sleeves.
