The Queen's Journal, Volume 141, Issue 12

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Queen’s Players

The campus theatre troupe PAGE 14 fills us in on what they’re really about F R I D AY , O C T O B E R 4 , 2 0 1 3 — I S S U E 1 2

THE JOURNAL QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY — SINCE 1873

HOSPITALITY

Broccoli bug at Ban Righ Student finds larvae in lunch B Y A BBY A NDREW Assistant News Editor On Tuesday, Lena MacNicholas grabbed her lunch in the Ban Righ cafeteria, and found a caterpillar in her broccoli. The last academic year saw four similar incidents reported out of one million meals served, according to Housing and Ancillary Services. MacNicholas, ArtSci ’17, said she picked up her curry chicken and broccoli meal from an area of the cafeteria, which serves different meals daily. She described the bug as being dead and cooked. “I was just sitting down to eat, moved a piece of broccoli and lo and behold, a caterpillar kind of fell out,” she said. After finding the caterpillar, MacNicholas said she didn’t contact any of the cafeteria staff members. “I’m not even that disturbed by it,” she said. “All of my friends are freaking out ... it’s just a bug. “It didn’t seem like that big of a deal.” William Bendena, a biology professor specializing in insect molecular biology and biochemistry, identified the bug based on a photo MacNicholas posted on the Overheard at Queen’s Facebook page. “It resembles the diamondback moth larvae which is a common pest of vegetables in Ontario. But this is not a definite ID, just a guess,” he told the Journal via email. The Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food identifies the See Biologist on page 7

PHOTO BY ALISON SHOULDICE

CITY OF KINGSTON

Inside story A look behind the bars of Kingston Pen B Y A LISON S HOULDICE Editor in Chief May 7, 1999 was an unusual day for Monty Bourke. Bourke, the Warden at Kingston Penitentiary (KP) at the time, was notified early that morning of a line hanging over the prison’s wall. It looked like an inmate had escaped overnight, he was told, and he immediately had an idea of who it might be. “I got a call at 7:10 in my

office,” Bourke said. “I said, check two cells.” Overnight, prisoner Ty Conn had hopped over the 10-metre wall unseen, using a homemade ladder and a grappling hook. Bourke, who served as Warden at KP between 1997-2002, told this story as he led the prison’s first public tour Wednesday morning. The 178-year-old facility shut its doors for good earlier this week. “[Conn] hid up there and had a dummy in his cell,” Bourke said to the group, pointing to the second floor of KP’s industrial block. This had been the first breach of the prison’s wall in 41 years. Conn’s escape was initially successful — he made it to Toronto and hid. He died in an apparent suicide two weeks later upon being located by police. The Penitentiary has been home to the country’s most despised; rapists and murderers, among many others, have served their See Time on page 3

Tunnel vision Inside this trouble issue: PAGE 10

FIRST encounters with robots PAGE 24

Glengarry Glen Ross

A play about the dynamics of sheer masculine power. page 15

Homecoming preview Capacity crowd expected for tomorrow’s game. page 19

The Queen’s tradition PAGE 12

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AMS

CFRC in limbo Station still unsure of future financial state B Y O LIVIA B OWDEN Assistant News Editor Nearly two years since CFRC 101.9 FM announced its decision to split from the AMS next April, its long-term financial security remains uncertain. Following the Memorandum of Understand (MOU) signed with

the AMS in April 2012, which outlined the CFRC’s division from the AMS umbrella, the campus-based radio station has since cut one of their core staff positions, restructured their board of directors and is looking to up their student fee in hopes of stabilizing the financial break. CFRC came under the jurisdiction of the AMS in 2006 after it was decided that the University needed a student-run radio station. The AMS agreed to provide the CFRC with three grants before the split is officially enacted in April 2014. After this period, the AMS will no longer fund CFRC. Devin McDonald, AMS media services director, said one of the grants was given at the end of the 2012 fiscal year, with the See CFRC on page 7


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