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Not a-loan in feeling the squeeze
Like many students returning to school after a summer of record unemployment, Saquib Siddiqui, ArtSci ’13, is counting every dollar of his Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP) loan to make the money stretch this year. Siddiqui may not ...Story
Frosh Week fumbles on inclusion issues
Not everyone was treated to a welcoming and inclusive environment during orientation. Last Wednesday, Andrea Chan, Queen’s Pride Project (QPP) social co-ordinator and ArtSci ’10, was at the Queen’s in the Park event in City Park when a frosh group approached her QPP booth.
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The nuts and bolts of starting a business
When Gilbert Tong, ArtSci ’10, couldn’t find a job this summer, he decided to cash in on a nutty idea. “I was looking for a job this summer and it was a bit rough,” he said.
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Grease Pole an ‘all-faculty event’
When the going got tough, it seems Sci ’13 needed some help to get it going. Three hours, 43 minutes and 31 seconds into the annual Grease Pole climb, it took Sci ’12 student Cian O’Neill-Kizoff to reach the top and show the engineering frosh how it was done.
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Consulting citizens on climate control
Helen Ma, ArtSci ’06, won’t be going to the United Nations’ Climate Change Conference this December, but her opinions on climate change might be. Ma, who lives in Kingston, is one of 100 Canadians who have been randomly selected to participate in World Wide Views on Global Warming, an international citizen consultation project.