The Queen's Journal, Volume 143, Issue 6

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CODE OF CONDUCT HOUSING

NAD Incomplete 663 Princess St. under apartments leave tenants stranded review Patry Inc. questioned for stalled construction and unfinished units

J acob R osen News Editor

Queen’s announced on Friday that an interim protocol will replace its current student non-academic misconduct system while an advisory committee conducts a review of the system as a whole.

Principal Daniel Woolf will oversee the review. An advisory committee will be struck that includes representatives from the University Senate, the AMS, the Society of Graduate and Professional Students (SGPS), University Council and the university administration.

According to Principal Woolf, the process for the review is still being finalized, but it will include consultation with all major stakeholders, including Senate, AMS and SGPS. However, no body will have voting power other than See Review on page 5

The lobby (left) of 663 Princess St. is complete, but some hallways in the building remain under construction.

V ictoria G ibson Assistant News Editor Unfinished units at Patry Inc.’s 663 Princess St. apartment building have forced some tenants to scramble to find alternate

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became clear that many units wouldn’t be finished in time for the arrival of new tenants in September.

When September arrived, along with stalled construction and incomplete hallways, many students were informed that they

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POSTSCRIPT

Professor argues Principal Woolf’s letter academic review system to the editor is broken

Twenty-two artists respond to federal election

Coach McAuslan, trainer of all varsity athletes

From brunette to blonde

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accommodations — often hotel rooms — for an indeterminate amount of time.

The building’s misfortunes — with a fire in 2013 and legal battles to follow — continued throughout the summer as it

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wouldn’t be able to move in on the date specified on their lease.

Patrick Han, ArtSci ’18, signed a lease for a unit in the building with a move-in date for September.

However, the unit is not yet complete, and won’t be finished until October, Han said.

“Their initial statement asked to wait until the 15th [of September],” Han said in an interview with The Journal. “That promise was not kept.”

According to him, Patry Inc. has organized for hotel accommodation at the Four Points Sheraton for tenants who can’t move in until Oct. 15. After that date, residents are asked to find their own place to stay, although the company has promised to reimburse double the cost.

“That is what they promised,” Han said. However, he added this clause wasn’t included in the leases,

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The band Blve Hills performing at The Vault’s backyard festival.

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A music festival on Alfred St. The Vault hosted their third miniature backyard festival in the heart of the University District I sabella K resin Contributor Originally published online Sept. 22.

This Sunday, the University District became the temporary location for a miniature music festival.

Queen’s music blog The Vault hosted their third backyard festival on Sept. 20. The event, named the Welcome Back!-yard Festival 3.1, was hosted in an Alfred St. backyard. Stephen Barry, fourth-year engineering student and member of The Vault, said around 350 people attended the event over the course of the day.

The lineup consisted of Jared Chernoff, Lunch Hour Husbands, Blve Hills, Curfews, Attic Kids, Lost Cousins and The Lyonz. Each band brought their own unique musical sound, which made the event a showcase of multiple genres.

The Alfred St. house, along with its backyard, was large and well-kept as far as student houses go. Among trees wrapped with streamers, guests set up shop with lawn chairs and spread out their blankets facing the house’s back-porch, which acted as the event’s stage.

The miniature festival was made complete by a Justin Bieber cutout, a hot dog stand and a jewellery booth featuring handcrafted items

by Sophie Barkman, ArtSci ’16, a fourth-year drama student.

The Vault, an online music blog run by Queen’s students, aims to bring local and Canadian artists to the forefront. Spencer Swayze, a member of The Vault and the local band Curfews, said he hopes the event encourages students to explore different sources of entertainment in Kingston.

“It would be cool to see more students getting involved with this type of stuff, going out and

Jared Chernoff performing at the festival last Sunday.

supporting local musicians, because a lot of the time it’s just going out Friday and Saturday going to the same bars,” Swayze said.

With 989 Facebook users having clicked “attending” on the event page, Annie Brebner, another member of The Vault and Curfews, said they’ve never reached this level of attendance before.

The performance also invited people passing by to join in, which Brebner said helped make it inclusive and relaxed.

“You don’t have to know a lot of people — you can just come hang out and it’s free,” Brebner said.

The team ran into trouble when the original date was cancelled due to poor weather. As an unofficial part of Frosh Week, the event is

meant to be a final goodbye to summer, so The Vault decided to postpone it for the sake of good weather.

Nick Castell, member of The Vault and lead singer of Kingston’s The Attic Kids, said the backyard setting and intimate atmosphere are an important part of the event.

“We just like the backyard theme. We never really were planning on going bigger than the backyard,” Castell said.

The event featured a mix of campus talent and visiting bands from Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto.

Montreal natives Callahan Ioannou and Adrian Buccella, members of Lunch Hour Husbands, were among the performers. They describe their

Montreal’s Lunch Hour Husband performing on the makeshift stage.

music style as indie rock “with a sax”, and music you can dance or cry to. The band’s road trip to Kingston was their first show outside Montreal.

Ioannou said he was impressed by the event and the city of Kingston.

“It’s amazing; it’s so laid back.

I love it. Its good people and good vibes,” Ioannou said.

But The Vault also featured local Kingston bands, including The Attic Kids and Lost Cousins.

The Attic Kids, which was formed three years ago when Freddy Kwon and Nick Castel met in Victoria Hall, have become the closest thing to

on-campus celebrities for indie music-lovers. “We only play shows in Kingston, so it’s really concentrated,” Kwon said.

“We love playing for our friends, so it’s fun.”

The event ran from 2 p.m. until 9 p.m., when police interrupted the show in response to noise complaints. The concert was then moved to an indoor location on Alfred St. for the day’s final performances by the Lost Cousins and The Lyons.

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GALLERY

Myth Marks makes move to decolonize museums

Student artist Panaee Atta intertwines historical research with artistic expression An animation entitled Myth Marks being shown at the Union Gallery.

R amna S afeer Assistant Arts Editor Myth Marks tries to reverse a history of colonized museum spaces.

The exhibition is a series of short animations compiled by Pansee Atta, BFA ’10 and current Masters student of Cultural Studies. They’ll be shown in full starting Oct. 2 at the Union Gallery.

Atta’s pieces blur the lines between academic research and art production. They draw inspiration from the research she’s done for her Masters thesis, which revolves around depictions of Muslim women of historic Islamic empires.

She says the works are reactions to the way Islamic art is exhibited in contemporary museum and gallery spaces. They deal with this idea on the personal level of the

Muslim diaspora, she said.

“A big part of these reactions has to do with seeing my culture and background, racialized and gendered bodies that look like mine, being misrepresented or represented in ways that are unrecognizable to me,” Atta said.

“I’m going to spaces and seeing stuff from the culture of my upbringing that makes no sense to me, and I’m trying to think about what that means on a larger scale.”

Prior to the exhibition’s opening reception on the evening of Oct. 2, the Union Gallery is showing one of Atta’s short experimental videos in their Project Room.

The video is a visual representation of a historical manuscript, with two yellowed pages encompassing the frame. A single illegible signature is being signed repeatedly

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onto the page in dark ink until the screen is crowded with script.

Atta says the installation is a reaction to a piece she saw in the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto.

She says the Aga Khan exhibit was structured to centre around paintings that had very legible and recognizable signatures on them.

“I was thinking about who it is that historically has a signature of their own, and the sheer privilege of simply having a family name to put on a painting,” she said.

Historically, the process of

creating many of these pieces typically involved several people, Atta said, although a single person may have signed the piece upon its completion.

“To centre those individual pieces around a particular person … is actually something those very artists would actively reject at the time.”

Atta’s short videos are available online to view, download and experience outside of the conventional space of a museum.

Atta said the possibility of engaging with the art outside the prescribed

gallery walls extends the reach of her works.

For Atta, her work projects the types of representations of herself that she wants to see in a gallery about her culture — and therefore work to decolonize museum spaces.

“I’m putting my own body in the space, in a way, because I find myself missing from those spaces to begin with.”

The reception of Myth Marks will be held at the Union Gallery on Oct. 2, 5:30-7:30pm.

QPOP!

Born Ruffians go against the grain Indie-rock band set to play at QPop! on date of new record release L auren L uchenski Arts Editor Indie music artists are set to take over campus next week.

Queen’s own music festival, QPop!, is returning to campus to feature some of Queen’s and Canada’s most popular indie bands, including Alvvays, Devan and Khalid, The Wilderness and Born Ruffians.

Starting at 8:30 p.m. on Oct. 2, The Grad Club, The Underground and Clark Hall will host the festival, which will run until Oct. 3.

Indie-rock band Born Ruffians will be closing the show at The Underground on Oct. 2.

Originally from Midland, Ontario, the band moved to Toronto in 2004 to pursue their music careers. Today, Luke Lalonde, vocalist and guitarist,

Mitch Derosier, bassist, Andy Lloyd, guitarist and keyboardist, and Adam Hindle, drummer, make up the four-person band.

Their move to the big city has proven to be a success. Since 2004, the Born Ruffians have released five albums and two EPs with numerous singles, and toured worldwide with Franz Ferdinand and Tokyo Police Club.

The Journal spoke with lead singer Lalonde about their experience playing in Kingston and what to expect from their upcoming album RUFF. What kind of conceptual stuff and subject matter did you want to include in your upcoming album RUFF? Lalonde: A lot of it is about my relation as a performer to the

A still of the animation Erasure, in which a figure takes off her headscarf to reveal nothing underneath.

audience, but also taking that into a person’s relationship to the world.

I think that there are elements of what I’m singing that are very specific to my life that are also relatable to everyone’s life, which is what I always try to do.

Our first step was writing very, very personally about myself and my life and trying to expose these nerves and stuff that I normally wouldn’t talk about really.

I get a lot of emails and I have a lot of conversations with people who really relate to the lyrics that I write.

Some of these songs are coming from a fairly rough place. But a lot of it was stemming from tour, coming back from tours, feeling

very disconnected from what I was doing, feeling very miserable on stage and trying to figure out why that was happening and why I was getting so angry and mad and sad or whatever.

What have your previous experiences playing in Kingston been like?

Lalonde: We played a lot in Kingston. We’ve played at the Grad Club many times. Small, sweaty shows in there. They’re always really fun.

We played The Ale House a few times, we opened for Tokyo Police Club. One of our first shows in Kingston was opening for those guys.

Somebody stole something from me last time we played there! Someone took a pedal off my pedal board. I don’t know where or how, but it was beside the stage and somebody came up and took this distortion pedal off my pedal board … I never got it back and I had to buy a new one.

We had some friends that were going to school [at Queen’s] back in the day.

I think I’m a little too old to know anybody that goes to school now. But we’re always excited to come back to Kingston — it’s always good.

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GALLERY

Election inspires interactive artwork Studio22’s current exhibition dares viewers to express their own political beliefs A licia H ai Staff Writer Originally published online Sept. 22.

In light of the upcoming election, Kingston Studio22’s exhibition expresses artists’ deep-rooted political beliefs, encouraging viewers to do the same.

The exhibition, Citizen Vox — “vox” meaning voice in Latin — started off as just an idea a year ago. With the Canadian election date fixed for this fall, Studio22 co-owner Ally Jacob sent a call out to artists who had work that could speak in response to the election.

“Some of the submissions are pieces of work that artists created prior to the call to artists; they already had something political that spoke to them. However, other pieces were created for the show specifically,” Jacob said.

The gallery placed a list of words and phrases in the exhibition’s front room in order to stimulate a reaction from artists when submitting their own work as well as provoking a response from visitors.

“There’s all kinds of material we put out when we were trying to get a response from artists,” Jacob said. “The list of words up here are words that have been bandied about over the last 10 years.”

Placed under the list of words and phrases — some of which included ‘idle no

more’, ‘proportional representation’ and ‘the ugly Canadian’ — was a blank sheet of paper that allowed anyone to write down their own reactions.

Citizen Vox is more than just an exhibition for people to experience visually. It also breaks the confinement of the traditional museum by allowing visitors to touch and interact with some of the works on display.

Tell Us Mrs. Field…, created by Kingston-based artist Robin Laws Field, is a series of square cut fibre pieces with poetic segments reflective of her anti-Harper government views. One piece reads: “Harper is killing the CBC. Is it to balance his budget or avoid investigative journalism?”

Field then invited visitors to share their views by ‘telling Mrs. Field’ using the provided paper and pencil.

Other pieces, such as Rebecca Cowan’s Testament, are inspired by local history.

According to the exhibition catalogue, the piece is based on a newspaper article about a controversial series of events that happened 10 years ago at the Kingston Prison for Women. The events were those surrounding the questionable and unsettling death of a prisoner — whether it was a suicide or murder remains a mystery.

From sculptures to wood panels to embroidered and screen printed clothes, the 22 artists featured in Citizen Vox take the ordinary and create an extraordinary, unique vision using their creative voices.

“We wanted to take anything anyone wanted to give us. Our action here is to bring this show as an organized and put together collection, rather than to decidedly curate what we were given,” Jacob said.

For the artists showcased in Citizen Vox, art can make a powerful statement.

A Tony Richardson quote has been featured throughout the gallery and in

Robin Laws Field’s piece Tell Us Mrs. Field...

exhibition flyers as a part of the shows’s interdisciplinary theme.

“Art doesn’t change anything,” it reads. “But it’s the only thing that makes the horrors of politics and public life somewhat bearable.”

Citizen Vox will be running until the night of the election on Oct. 19.

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SPORTS STRENGTH & CONDITIONING

Mentor to many McAuslan trainer of over 400 varsity athletes S pencer B elyea Contributor Wednesday morning’s football workout started at 8:00 a.m. sharp. The two stragglers who showed up less than 60 seconds late were given a stern look and 50 burpees by Colin McAuslan, Queen’s Athletics head strength and conditioning coach.

“Those guys, they’re rookies. They don’t play. They should be showing up on time,” a visibly annoyed McAuslan said.

The thought of 8:00 a.m being late is enough to make most Queen’s students recoil, but considering McAuslan’s first training session is at 6:00 a.m., it might not seem so bad.

McAuslan has been at Queen’s since August 2014. Over the course of a week, he’ll train all 400-plus players from the school’s 13 varsity teams, putting them through a mix of workouts designed to improve general athleticism, as well as including some concentrated, sport-specific variations.

“We work closely with the coaches, where everything is designed around their winning style of play,” McAuslan said. “They relay information, and we tailor our programs to work on the athlete’s deficiencies and get them where they need to be.”

While the strength and varsity coaches do work together, they focus on different things.

As McAuslan says, he and his team train good athletes, while the coaches make them good football players.

One of the hallmarks of the way McAuslan runs his strength and conditioning program is the emphasis he places on self-motivation.

“We’re not going to wake you up to get you here,” he said. “We want athletes who have the desire to compete when they come into a training session.”

The self-motivation is key, as it gets athletes in the gym not only for scheduled workouts, but also on their own time, working hard to improve their craft. The two latecomers notwithstanding, McAuslan is pleased with

his athletes’ motivation levels, saying they’ve displayed an incredible buy-in rate and that the vast majority of the players are on board and don’t miss any sessions. Given the punishment for being even a minute late, this doesn’t come as much of a surprise.

McAuslan always has at least one competition built into the training regimen, believing it’s important to get everyone competing not only against themselves, but against their teammates. On Wednesday, the competition was in the triple broad jump.

The football players took it seriously, with looks of disgust on a few faces after unsatisfactory attempts, and groans of despair when their jump came just short of the mark to beat (which ended up being 30 feet, six inches). The competitive element is appreciated by the players, mainly for the fact that it breaks up the monotony of a standard workout.

“Colin is really good at bringing different things to the program, having something new to look forward to. It makes it more interesting to come to the gym,” said Jesse Andrews, fourth-year running back and last year’s leading rusher.

“Every rep accounted for” is the mantra that lies at the heart of McAuslan’s program.

Repeated often by both players and coaches in the weight room, it means taking pride in what you do and being accountable for it, ultimately ensuring an athlete gets the most out of each rep of every exercise.

Working in concert with the philosophy of self-motivation, McAuslan hopes to get the most out his athletes, imparting them with skills that can be equally as valuable both in and out of the gym outside the gym.

It’s clear the players have taken this to heart, but they also know just how seriously McAuslan takes his philosophy, sending over a strength and conditioning intern to ensure that every burpee done by the late rookies was accounted for.

Former Queen’s Athletic Director Pat Galasso is now pushing for there to be a fieldhouse and arena on main campus.

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Colin McAuslan (right) directs men’s hockey defenceman Warren Steele on proper squatting form during a morning workout.

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ATHLETICS

Galasso’s quest for change ongoing Former Athletic Director pushing for facility upgrades A dam L askaris Sports Editor Unsatisfied with the current condition of the athletics program, Queen’s first Director of Athletics, Pat Galasso, is pushing hard for change on campus.

A Queen’s grad himself, PHE ’55, and holder of a PhD from the University of Michigan, Galasso is advocating for the construction of two new accessible buildings on main campus — a hockey arena and a fieldhouse, which would make up an indoor complex for field-based sporting events.

Queen’s has been without a rink since 2007, when the former Jock Harty Arena was removed to make way for a new rink.

Nearly a decade later, Queen’s still stands without an on-campus rink, and instead has a parking lot where Jock Harty once lay.

Galasso, 85, identified five groups who’ve struggled the most without an on-campus rink: men’s and women’s hockey, figure skating and track and field teams, as well as intramural participants, particularly those playing hockey.

The closest rink to campus is the Memorial Centre, which sits just under two kilometres away from the intersection of Union St. and University Ave. The facilities the track and field team uses at RMC are a similar distance, standing at about three-and-a-half kilometres away.

Distance, as well as priority of ice and field time, are three of the biggest concerns for these teams. Figure skating gets the shortest end of the stick, often having practices at 6 a.m., while intramural hockey games often occur past midnight.

Galasso’s recent meetings with both Principal Daniel Woolf and the Queen’s Advancement Office, including one last week, have been relatively stagnant. Although the principal stated in writing that there will eventually be a rink on main campus, no real progress seems to have been made.

“The principal has said: Queen’s is a family university; we are obligated to ensure that people feel safe,” Gallaso said. “They don’t feel safe going up to the Memorial Centre in the middle of the night.”

He said having these two buildings on main campus will not only benefit athletes, but the entire Queen’s community as well.

Galasso described the many stresses of student life and how they could be combatted by having a safe, accessible space for activities in the winter, including walking, running and skating. For those who dislike the use of a treadmill, Galasso said an indoor running area is a much better alternative.

A strong advocate of promoting mental health, Galasso believes these activities can help prevent many stresses from getting worse, stopping students from turning to pharmaceuticals for treatment.

Recent meetings with Paul McDonald, president of Ottawa-based McDonald Bros. Construction Inc., have provided Galasso with monetary estimates for his ideal buildings. Galasso cites $9 million as an approximation for an NHL-sized rink.

He came up with the idea to place a full fieldhouse on top of Tindall Field, although McDonald was unsure whether the parking garage below would be able to support the weight.

The two also considered the alternative of an air-supported dome, a less expensive but still practical option, allowing use of the facilities throughout the winter months.

McDonald estimated it’s cost to be about $4 million.

After his time at Queen’s, Galasso worked with the University of Windsor for 18 years, and was the founder and Dean of Human Kinetics. He said his involvement in building Windsor’s fieldhouse in the 1980s helped to further their athletic program greatly, and that Queen’s is lagging behind many Ontario schools that have a fieldhouse.

Beyond his time as director of Athletics, Galasso has a personal interest in the creation of a field house and rink.

Galasso’s son was an exceptional track athlete, being named the Canadian junior long jump champion at age 18. Though Queen’s was high on his list of school choices, he went with rival University of See Facility, Page 15

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FOOTBALL

New adventures for defensive star

Ex-Gaels lineman Derek Wiggan lives out dream playing for the CFL’s Calgary Stampeders joseph cattana

Assistant Sports Editor As the CFL season begins to wind down, one former Gael is prepping for the playoffs with a first-place team.

Derek Wiggan — a former Gaels standout defensive end — has found himself in the thick of the playoff hunt playing for the Calgary Stampeders.

During his time at Queen’s, Wiggan was at the heart of the team’s defense. During the first four years of his career, he played in 32 games, amassing 65 tackles, 15.5 sacks, 2 forced fumbles and 27 tackles for losses.

He was selected a first-team OUA all-star in 2012 and 2013 and participated in the 2013 East-West Bowl.

These efforts helped Wiggan rise up the CFL draft, being ranked as high as 14th by the CFL’s Scouting Bureau. In the 2014 draft, Wiggan was selected 34th overall by the Calgary Stampeders.

After performing strong at training camp with the Stampeders, Wiggan returned to the Gaels for one final year to work on his defensive technique.

While the team would struggle during his final year, finishing with a 3-5 record and missing the playoffs, Wiggan continued to shine. In eight games, he made 36 total tackles (12 for loss) and led the team with 5.5 sacks. He led the OUA with four fumble recoveries and was selected as a second-team OUA all-star.

To prepare for his second training camp

with the Stampeders, Wiggan changed positions on the defensive line. Instead of playing on the outside, Wiggan trained to be a defensive tackle, the position the Stampeders envisioned for him when he was drafted.

“The major transition for me was the strength of the offensive-line at the CFL level — they are much stronger than the CIS level,” Wiggan said. “At my first camp with Calgary, I was 250 lbs. — so I was getting pushed around a bit.”

During his time as a Gael, Wiggan was considered one of the quickest defensive linemen in the OUA, which helped his draft stock rise. While he needed to gain weight to be successful at his second training camp, Wiggan knew that he didn’t want to lose his speed.

“I needed to gain weight and not lose my explosiveness,” Wiggan said. “I trained very hard and ate right to put on the weight I needed in a healthy way.”

For Wiggan’s second camp, he arrived weighing in at 270 lbs.

“I was able to handle (the camp) a whole lot better,” he said.

A strong performance at camp earned Wiggan a roster spot with the Stampeders in July.

Currently, the Stampeders are first in the CFL West with a 9-3 record. When asked how it feels to be a part of the playoff hunt, Wiggan described it as an unbelievable experience.

While most rookies struggle with the

During his Gael’s career, Derek Wiggan was a two-time first-team OUA All-star.

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Derek Wiggan has played nine games in the CFL so far.

magnitude of professional football, Wiggan credits former Gaels Defensive Coordinator Pat Tracey with making the adjustment easier.”

Coach [Tracey] gave me a pro mentality,” Wiggan said. “You show up to practice, meetings and have your notebook ready, take notes and make sure you understand everything.”

“It’s pretty much the whole program [at Queen’s] that brings a professional attitude to football, so once I reached [Calgary], I was already used to the professional atmosphere.”

When asked what he misses most about his days in Ontario, Wiggan’s biggest adjustment has been related to food.

“They don’t have a Chipotle out here,” he said. “Other than that the city is pretty great, there are a lot of Queen’s alumni that are in Calgary, so they have helped to ease the moving process.”

With a team filled with veterans, Wiggan

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has been pushed down the depth chart.

Though he isn’t the star anymore, the former Gael will continue to work in hope of becoming one at this level.

“Whatever role I’m given, I try to complete with all my effort,” Wiggan said.

“Even though I’m not a starter, I prepare as if I am one.”

“That’s one of the things I learned from Queen’s, always prepare to be ready. When the time comes for me to be the guy — if someone goes down injured or for whatever reason — I will be ready to go.”

While it’s still relatively early into his CFL career, Wiggan couldn’t be happier in his rookie season.

“When you’re growing up playing, you see the guys on TV playing, and you hope to be there one day,” he said. “It’s kind of crazy for me. I’m still pinching myself that I’m playing professional football.”

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MEN’S SOCCER

Goalie duo stands out Pair of keepers vital to strong start on pitch

J oshua F inkelstein Contributor

Morgan McHaffie is transitioning into her new job as an assistant coach for the Gaels following her playing career.

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WOMEN’S HOCKEY

Star talent behind bench Former captain McHaffie hired into coaching role A dam L askaris Sports Editor When women’s hockey head coach Matt Holmberg had to search for a new assistant coach this offseason, he turned to one of his own.

Former captain and five-year star of his team, Morgan McHaffie is one of two not-so-new faces behind the bench this year.

“I’ve had sort of an unwritten rule where I didn’t want players coaching former teammates, but I made an exception for Morgan,” Holmberg said.

Exceptional is certainly one way to describe the new coach, as McHaffie put up 153 points over her half-decade at Queen’s from 2008-09 through 2013-14, leaving just two points shy of the all-time OUA record.

She was crowned an OUA champion in 2011 — the team also finished third at the national championships — as well as 2013. Along with multiple appearances on the OUA AllStar team, McHaffie was named the 2011-12 OUA Player of the Year.

While not an official assistant coach last season, McHaffie frequently helped out at practice and skated with the team in preparation for her competing at the international FISU games. Also working full-time in Kingston since her graduation in 2014, McHaffie has a jam-packed schedule this season, but strives to make every game and practice she’s available for.

Holmberg said the conversations about

coaching the team started last summer. After a year of what Holmberg referred to as quasi-coaching, he offered McHaffie a more formal role.

“She always does what’s in the best interests of the team,” Holmberg said.

Though perhaps she never really left the program, McHaffie officially re-joined the Gaels earlier this September alongside Kingston native Brooke Beazer, the other addition to the coaching staff.

“It’s crazy how much the program has grown since my first year, seeing the talent and the skill level of the team now in comparison to when I came in,” McHaffie said.

While her hockey knowledge is obviously high, McHaffie relates to student-athletes, having been one so recently herself.

Adjusting to her off-ice role is occasionally difficult, but McHaffie recognizes the benefits of her new job.

“I find it hard sometimes because I just want to play and get on the ice,” she said.

“But I’ve really come to realize that coaching has so many rewards.”

At a recent team meeting, each team member was tasked with presenting their favourite life memory. Much to the delight of the team’s newcomers, McHaffie presented stories of her first OUA title.

“That was definitely the best experience I’ve ever had,” she said. “I could see the rookies with the fire in their eyes wanting to get to that point.”

At the heart of the men’s soccer team’s success this year is its strong goalkeeping tandem: fourth-year veteran Taylor Reynolds, and rookie Kyle Lanzinger.

The team has gotten off to a strong start this season, winning three of its first six matches, and amassing 11 total points — enough for fourth place in the East Conference standings. After recent away victories against first-placed Ryerson and third-placed U of T, the Gaels are in a position of strength they haven’t experienced in a long while.

Much of this success can be owed to the team’s incredibly stingy defense, which has conceded just eight goals this season (a combined 1.33 goals against average).

Reynolds and Lanzinger have split the time between the posts this season, with Reynolds giving up six goals in his four matches for two wins, a draw and a loss, while Lanzinger has given up just two goals in a draw and a win.

The key to the backline’s collective success is the great chemistry between the defense and the keepers, according to Reynolds. This is a facet of the game which Reynolds, the senior goalkeeper and a key leader on the team, knows to be fundamental to his role.

He said that as a veteran, he must ensure the team plays with energy, as it can be “too easy to hang it up” when losing.

With the entire field in front of him, Reynolds also makes sure that he’s always “screaming his head off” if he sees any open space or defensive need.

“The guys may not even be listening to

me”, he said, “but I try to give [them] any advantage they can.”

The strong chemistry demonstrated on the field isn’t lost at the touchline. Both Reynolds and Lanzinger acknowledge the positive, competitive relationship they maintain off the field. As the veteran starter, Reynolds sees his role in the relationship as a guiding one which — when he himself was a first-year player — was something he valued dearly.

When describing his relationship with previous upper-year goalkeepers, Reynolds said, “they taught me how to prepare for a game, how to handle the mental side. You can’t get too high, too low.”

The present role reversal has led Reynolds to try to instill these same lessons in rookie Kyle Lanzinger.

“He is a mentor to me,” Lanzinger said.

“Always teaching me things.”

He described how learning from a senior keeper and maintaining their strong relationship has made him more confident in communicating on the pitch, a crucial component in defensive success.

Lanzinger also mentioned another important source of guidance: head coach Christian Hoefler. Lanzinger said he was fortunate enough to play under his current coach prior to the start of the season, while he was with the Kingston Clippers over the summer. The transition from the Clippers to varsity has been eased by Hoefler and Reynolds, who’ve ensured Lanzinger stays on top of his game.

With the Gaels making a push to be one of the OUA’s top teams this season, a stronger finish than last year’s OUA quarterfinals exit may be in sight with this strong duo behind them.

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Toronto, largely due to their access to an on-campus fieldhouse. Galasso looks at this missed recruiting opportunity as an extremely common event.

Galasso himself was the Canadian long jump champion back in 1952, while also serving as the track coach at Queen’s during his undergraduate career. “Jumps in the family,” he said with a laugh.

Galasso was told it was about $200,000 per year to rent the Memorial Centre, combined with the costs of having to pay large, undisclosed fees to rent RMC’s track and field facilities.

“I think the money can be brought in,” Galasso said. “I’d be willing to help.”

“You’d save money [in the long term],” he said. “It’d be a safer environment, everybody wins.”

Goalkeepers Taylor Reynolds (bottom photo) and Kyle Lanzinger (top) have been key to the Gaels’ early season success.

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How to balance stress with health Alternatives to reaching for comfort food PHOTO BY KAILUN ZHANG

G abi S andler Contributor We’ve all been there: the readings are piling up, the assignments are coming at you, exams are just around the corner, and on top of that, you haven’t done your laundry in weeks. You’re overwhelmed with stress, so you do what seems logical — eat.

Soon one cookie becomes a row of cookies, which turns into a box of cookies.

While it’s okay for us to indulge in our favourite foods here and there, when it comes to dealing with stress, there are healthier alternatives.

Talk to someone Let it all out! Sometimes all you need is a good cry, scream or venting session.

Queen’s has a lot of great resources on campus to turn to

if you ever feel stuck, such as the Peer Support Centre and the Student Wellness Services (formerly known as Health, Counselling, and Disability Services).

nervous breakdown, it’s best to take a break from work or school.

Sometimes all you need is some downtime with tea and Netflix to put your mind at ease. There’s nothing wrong with taking a break, in fact it’s healthier for you to do so.

Exercise Have you gotten your weekly 150?

150 minutes of exercise a week is a good starter to maintaining both physical and mental health.

Exercise has been shown to help relieve stress, aid memory and boost your immune system.

Whether it’s heading to the ARC, signing up for a class or just taking a walk around our beautiful campus, remember to set aside time to break a sweat. And as Elle Woods says, “Exercise gives you endorphins. Endorphins make you happy!”

Try something new Let’s face it — university is a lot more reading than hands-on learning. Take a bit of time out of the week to get outside of the library walls and try something new.

It’s a great way to meet new people and take your mind off school, even if just for a little while.

There are lots of different clubs and teams on campus that are more than happy to take newbies.

Have you always wanted to learn to knit? How to breakdance? The difference between pinot grigio and sauvignon blanc? You’ll be surprised what you can accomplish in just a few weeks.

Hitting the gym can help relieve stress.

Relax and recharge When you’re on the brink of a

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Putting the “good” in good morning

With a little extra preparation, mornings can be a time you don’t have to dread.

V ishmayaa J eyamoorthy Copy Editor “I enjoy my 8:30 class in BioSci!” said no student ever. Mornings are the bane of my existence, and if the hours between 6 a.m. and 9 a.m. didn’t exist, I think we could probably achieve world peace.

That being said, mornings are still a time of day we all need to deal with, but no one says they have to be awful.

The following is a couple of tips to make your mornings somewhat more bearable.

Plan ahead Plan your outfit and your breakfast ahead of time. It’s actually really easy to do. You don’t even need to lay out your outfits, you just need to make that decision so that in the morning, you’re good to go.

The same goes for your

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breakfast — just by deciding what to eat, you’re making sure you aren’t facing the ever-so-important “eggs vs. cereal” debate the next day.

Pack your bag Your backpack probably holds your laptop, notebooks, pencils, chargers, food and everything in between. Throw them all into your bag before you go to bed so that you’re not doing a last minute

search for the essentials when you have three minutes left before class starts.

“But I like to watch Netflix before bed!” you say. And to be honest, so do I. I still pack everything else in my bag so that in the morning I only have to worry about finding my laptop instead of 14 other things.

Getting enough sleep means you wake up feeling refreshed as opposed to feeling like you should be an extra on The Walking Dead. Seven to nine hours is recommended not just by scientists, but by me, your resident morning conqueror.

Lay out coffee ingredients

Make a playlist specifically for your morning routine. Give yourself four songs to shower, three songs to eat breakfast, two songs to do your makeup, and so on. It’s a nicer way to keep track of time, and music will always brighten your mood.

If you’re like most humans and you need coffee before you can even begin to contemplate going to class, set out everything you need to make yourself a cup in the morning.

Fill your kettle with water, set out a cup and a spoon. That way when the morning arrives, all you need to do is flick a switch and stir some things before you’ve got yourself a nice brew.

Alternatively, get an automatic coffee machine that does all the work for you.

Get some sleep I know, it’s an unheard of proposition for students everywhere, but getting enough sleep truly does make mornings more bearable.

Make a morning playlist

Shower at night Showering at night means you can skip that step in the morning, giving yourself an extra half an hour to sleep in. It also relaxes you before bed so that you sleep better, and there’s truly no greater feeling than getting into bed feeling clean.

Also, showering before bed makes sure you don’t bring the dirt of the day into bed with you, which also keeps your sheets cleaner for longer.

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TRAVEL DIARIES

Six countries in six weeks

A nastasiya B oika Copy Editor When people ask me why I enjoy travelling so much, I explain my love of globe-trotting as a state of mind rather than a need to place another pin on a world map.

This past summer, what started off as a couple weeks of research in Minsk and St Petersburg turned into a six week adventure with stops in Iceland, England and Germany.

The first leg of my six-destination journey was a 48-hour layover in Reykjavik, Iceland. While time constraints didn’t allow me to gallivant

through the infamous fjords, hot springs and the blustery north, I was able to explore a nearby island, walk most of the small capital city and visit the Blue Lagoon.

The second stop in my trip involved traversing the UK by train, from London to Edinburgh, spending a week in the beautiful Scottish city where I had lived for nine months during an undergraduate exchange.

Although I was hounded by time constraints —- a common thread throughout my trip — a three-hour walk from downtown Edinburgh, through Holyrood Park, to Portobello Beach allowed for a glimpse of the unmissable

Tourists battling for boats in Oxford, England.

Our mode of transportation across Germany.

aspects of the land of plaid, ranging from effervescent greenery to glossy lakes.

Instead of indulging in fish and chips, I took advice from a few locals and tried out pancakes from a Brazilian food stand by Meadows Park. While pausing for a meal, the owner of the stand handed my friends and I an array of musical instruments to play. Together, we proceeded to rattle, hit and shake them to produce a wide variety of strange and cacophonous sounds, eliciting mixed reactions from passers-by.

Following my brief jaunt in the UK, I flew to Hamburg, an ex-port city located in North-Western Germany SUPPLIED BY ANASTASIYA BOIKA which brags of more canals Catherine Palace outside of St. Petersburg. than Amsterdam and Both my time in Belarus, While there, we continued to be Venice combined.

In Germany, I had my most Petersburg and Minsk, was spent overwhelmed by tourists, failed memorable transportation, as split between seeing family and to pass off as students to gain my friend, who was acting as an doing research. The need to access entry to one of the colleges and all-in-one chauffeur, tour guide primary sources in Russia and had the largest cups of coffee I’ve and confidant, picked me up to Belarus for my graduate studies ever encountered.

All of this was topped off by the continue the venture east on a had been my primary reason for amusement of watching a typical leaving Canada in the first place. shiny motorcycle.

After staying up till the wee hours Oxford pastime in which people After reading Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle of the morning to see bridges being traverse the nearby waterways in Maintenance, I could finally agree raised in Petersburg, cramming Italian-like gondolas, inevitably with the author. There’s a clear hundreds of years of history into toppling each other due to sheer difference between watching five days and gallivanting across lack of space and experience.

When it finally came time for the world pass by through the the city’s peripheries, I returned me to go, my travels provided television screen of a car window to Minsk.

There, I was fed incredible me with one final adventure as and viewing it from the back of a motorcycle. Nothing compares to amounts of food, spent inordinate I spent the night in a freezing having your hair blow in the wind amounts of time at the National Reykjavik airport, bonding with racing at 130 kilometres an hour Library of Belarus and visited fellow travelers over lack of heating on the Autobahn with nothing multiple cottages in and around and our stories of summer travels.

As nostalgia began to set in, I around you but the road and the Minsk. Following this whirlwind of activity, I was begrudgingly placed was nevertheless happy to strike whirring of the engine.

After spending a few days in on a flight back to London where I out for home, considering I had transit, we reached Berlin. Our was to spend the final week of my long since run out of clean clothes, the ability to distinguish between arrival was delayed by over three European tour.

London was a combination of time zones and the use of electronic hours due to the untimely discovery of an unexploded World War II figuring out the elaborate subway devices, as I’d broken my converter bomb in the outskirts of the city, system, dodging tourists left, right during my first stint in the UK. While I’m sure I could come and the ensuing evacuation of the and centre and trying to get a feel for the city. Following the advice up with an incredibly cliché take surrounding area.

A few beautiful days in Berlin, of a local friend, I visited the artsy away from my ventures, I’m and a last goodbye to both the Brick Lane and eclectic Camden content in the fact that I returned with more stories than I’d city, my travel companion and his Town disco.

Over the weekend, my friend left with — coupled with an motorcycle had me on a flight to stop four of my backpacking and I decided to hop on a bus and inadvertent need to purchase pay a visit to the mythical Oxford. a motorcycle. tour — Minsk, Belarus.

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Transgender minister and former prison chaplain arrive on campus Two new spiritual leaders join Chaplain’s office V ictoria G ibson Assistant News Editor

He said he finds immense reward in his profession.

“As a chaplain I’m given the unique privilege of walking Queen’s has hired two new staff alongside individuals on the for the Chaplain’s office, which frontlines of their lives. In other the chaplain says will help address words, during the days of the week the complex religious and spiritual not called Sunday.” identities in the student body.

According to Chaplain Johnson, Minister Ruth Wood and the unique qualifications of her Chaplain Steve Hoeppner were new team members will serve recently hired to join the Interfaith the needs of both religious and Chaplain Kate Johnson and Imam non-religious students, “in Yasin Dwyer. a religiously diverse, but Minister Ruth Wood began at secular, environment.”

Queen’s on August 31. Wood, who She said she believes that ideas is transgender and self-identifies as of spirituality can include religious lesbian, said her “lived experience beliefs, but also move further into is directly relatable” to students larger concepts around identity. grappling with the concepts of Wood and Hoeppner will serve faith, gender and sexuality. this need, and address the religious “I was serving in congregational and spiritual identities of Queen’s ministry when I began my students, she said. transition. As such, I needed to The two join Imam Dwyer, who be sure of my own theological Johnson said has served Queen’s understanding of sexual and for close to a decade, following gender diversity,” Wood said. his 12 years as a chaplain for the “I believe that we are all loved by Correctional Service of Canada.

God, as part of God’s beautifully According to the National Post, diverse creation.”

Dwyer “played a major role in She added that anyone who is developing programs designed to wrestling with questions of life is ‘turn’ convicted terrorists who are welcome in her office. incarcerated in maximum security “Obviously that stance means at Millhaven penitentiary.” that I am here for all students Johnson is confident in the regardless of faith [or] no-faith, Minister Ruth Wood (left) and Chaplain Steve Hoeppler (right) join the Office of the Chaplain. PHOTOS BY MARIA VLASOVA ability of her team to address the and regardless of whether needs of the Queen’s community. or not they are part of the on campus who identify as a multi-faith and secular context,” role in a multi-faith environment.

“I am convinced that this team has “I find that everyone’s search for LGBTQ+ community.” queer or are struggling with their Hoeppner said.

“Christians today find themselves purpose and meaning is similar in the pastoral skills and theological Carmen Soltys, ArtSci ’18, identity, “whether religious or more and more in a minority some respects whether that’s in training to meet the needs of the is currently the Chair of the LGBTQIA+ specific.”

Education on Queer Issues Project Chaplain Steve Hoeppner, situation — in essence, returning to the prison or university context,” broadest possible cross-section of the student population,” she said.

(EQuIP). She said she’s happy to who started on Sept. 1, says he their historical roots — and I look he said. hear of Wood’s appointment.

“Often in popular media, queer identity and religious identity are presented as irreconcilable, which is not the case,” Soltys told The Journal via Facebook.

She said she expects Wood will become a resource for students

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One brunette’s blonde ambition How an impromptu hair transformation became more than scalp-deep J ane W illsie Editorials Editor About two weeks ago, I went from being a brunette of a mundane hair tone, to a blonde of the Paris Hilton-variety — in appearance only, I assure you.

My reasons for becoming a blonde are difficult to articulate, mainly because beyond a vague feeling of stagnation and boredom, there wasn’t any particular motivation for the drastic change.

But all it took was one innocent mention of a desire to lighten my hair to an enthusiastic friend.

Suddenly, I was perched on the edge of a bathtub, wondering what I’d gotten myself into, but knowing it was too late to back out.

Five boxes of bleach, three bottles of toner and a burning scalp later, I was a blonde.

Suddenly, I no longer recognized my reflection. Nor apparently, did anyone else.

I’ve never before felt more conspicuous than for the first week after my transmutation.

For weeks, I felt like Elle Woods in a Playboy bunny costume at a Harvard law school party full of sweater vests.

I walked down the street expecting every person I passed to recoil at the brassy statement my head made.

From my mother’s hesitant praise to my sister’s outright inquiry as to I’d had a nervous breakdown, the reactions varied.

My housemates thought it was cool, several people asked me if I now have more fun, and my boyfriend diplomatically assured me that I would look beautiful no matter what.

But no one summed up my own internal reaction to the change better than my manager. As I

walked into work my first day as a gonna have some fun.” On a more even commented on her Facebook professor’s passing remarks about blonde, hoping that I would go, if serious note, she added that she photo of her new hair. McIlwain people dying their hair green left explained that throughout the her feeling conspicuous. not unnoticed, at least not mocked, “just thought it was time.”

While the comment passed no McIlwain’s original inspiration hours-long process of dyeing her he dryly remarked “Well, doesn’t someone look like a completely came from watching a YouTube hair, the friend had been in the judgment on green hair, Campbell video that featured a model with back of her head, as she’d always said she felt self-conscious when different person?” dyed her hair different colours everyone in her class looked at her.

I do look like a completely beautiful, bright green hair.

Campbell shared my worry After texting several hairdresser throughout her early years. different person. The only Since McIlwain seemed about being very conspicuous. problem is that I don’t feel like a friends, she found one who was “I was kind of expecting, like willing to perform the same magic confident in her decision to dye her different person. hair a drastically different colour, I walking around, people to take a In fact, when contemplating on her.

Her transformation from a asked her if she felt the same sense double-back and be like ‘Whoa she changing my appearance, I’d only considered whether it brunette wasn’t without its bumps of estrangement that I did upon has green hair,’ but nobody really would go with my skin tone, not in the road. To get it green, she not recognizing my own reflection. does, I like it better that way.”

Since dyeing my hair, I’ve Nodding vigorously, McIlwain whether I had the personality to first had to dye it bright yellow, a process that was both expensive responded, “Yeah, I shed a lot, and noticed something interesting: the pull off blonde. seeing blue on the [hair]brush was vocabulary we use often leads us to I’d never thought that my hair and emotional. define ourselves by our hair colour.

“I had a mental breakdown so weird.” colour had any connection to I didn’t just have brown hair Cailin Campbell, ArtSci ’17 halfway through, when it was my personality. before, I was a And while I don’t think anyone blonde,” she said. “Blonde does — who recently brunette. I don’t dyed her hair would reasonably describe me not suit me.” just have blonde — “My mom had to leave halfway aqua as demure, I began to doubt hair now, I to through [the struggled whether I really am a blonde. appointment]. a r t i c u l a t e am a blonde “I didn’t just have And as strange She couldn’t the at heart.

“For weeks, I felt brown hair before, I my hair has handle me being feeling of not I realized like Elle Woods in was a brunette. I don’t settled into an recognizing blonde.” why I felt so a Playboy bunny just have blonde hair indeterminate In the end, yourself. conspicuous. It costume at a Harvard McIlwain is now, I am a blonde.” colour between “You wake up was because I strawberry felt fake, like law school party full happy with her in the morning and sunset, and walk into green hair not I was wearing of sweater vests.”

I’ve settled just because it your bathroom a costume all is fun, but also and look in the mirror and it’s just into the time that I my new because it says whoa, you are so taken aback. Like, yellow-haloed existence. couldn’t take off. oh my gosh, who is that? Oh wait, I’ve never before experienced something about her personality.

In the end, I guess all it really “I feel like I am an outgoing it’s me.” the feeling of being estranged from came down to was recognizing WhenI described my out-of-skin myself when I looked in the mirror. my own body, and it impressed person, and now my appearance experience, she agreed. on me with greater empathy the gives that impression.”

And that really had nothing to “I felt so different, so I thought do with being a blonde or a brunette.

McIlwain has an identical twin, importance of never judging someone on the basis of their but since dyeing her hair, she said people saw me as so different.

It had to do with discovering the “For some reason with this hair person that I am, regardless of the appearance or making them feel she finally feels like her own person.

“And it took all this time. I’m 21, colour [I don’t feel] the same way, I person that everyone else sees. uncomfortable for something they it took all this time to feel like a don’t know why.” can’t change.

I joked to my friend that I could Campbell said her aqua hair be Marilyn Monroe for Halloween Meghan McIlwain, LifeSci ’16, different person.”

She told me that many people suits her personality because it’s her now, if only I could acquire a also made a startling change to her appearance when she dyed her reacted positively and approached favourite colour, dolphins are her body suit. natural dark brown hair a brilliant her to compliment her on her hair. favourite animal and it makes her But regardless of the colour of “People were like, its crazy, it “feel like a mermaid.” shade of green. my hair, I will always think of When I asked about people’s myself as more Katharine Hepburn When I initially inquired what looks so good, such a beautiful reactions, she told me it had mostly than Marilyn Monroe. motivated her to dye her hair, she change for you.”

A friend she had lost contact with been positive. However, one of her simply said, “It’s fourth year. I’m

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“Get Science Right” campaign comes to Queen’s Biology professor John Smol speaks on current issues in scientific policy in Canada J onah B uckstein Contributor “There is a war on science in Canada,” Professor John Smol said, as he addressed a packed room of over 100 local researchers, professors and graduate students at Botterell Hall, Thursday afternoon.

Smol’s keynote lecture was part of the “Get Science Right” conference co-hosted by Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) and the Queen’s University Faculty Association (QUFA).

According to the organizers, the event aimed to expose “short-sighted” federal policy, which they say is diverting resources away from innovative research and directing it toward business-related programs that commercialize research instead.

Smol — a professor in Queen’s department of biology and an Officer of the Order of Canada, which he received for his work on lake ecology — cited the recent shutdown of Experimental Lakes Area (ELA), a unique environmental laboratory consisting of 58 lakes in northwestern Ontario. Due to this shutdown, Smol said, Canadians have lost an invaluable source of climate research data.

The yearly cost to maintain the ELA was two million dollars, or roughly five cents from every Canadian, according to Smol. He said the onus doesn’t fall just on politicians — scientists also share the blame.

“We as scientists need to stop this cycle of self-censorship,” Smol said. “We cannot

continue to live with the fear of repercussions for speaking our minds. We need to be more vocal in the media and communicate with the general public, no matter the policy in place.”

Annette Burfoot , a professor in Queen’s department of sociology, said the issues regarding scientific policy run deeper than funding. She also spoke at the event on Thursday.

Burfoot cited a 2014 study that surveyed Canadian federal scientists. The study found that 86 per cent both felt they couldn’t speak freely and feared they’d face censorship if they tried to publish research that undermined government policy.

She also said funding for research and development is declining, and that Canada, once a world leader in scientific research, is falling behind its contemporaries.

The problem lies in the lack of scientists on the committees tasked with delegating research funding, Burfoot said. These committees are instead run by private companies and federally employed engineers, she added.

“We need to fund research on the basis of scholarly importance, not political preference, and that starts by putting the right people in the right jobs.”

The event, co-hosted by CAUT, is part of the association’s “Get Science Right” campaign aimed at scientists and the general public. The purpose of the campaign is to end what they call the era of “Scientific Stifling”.

The organization is urging political candidates in the upcoming Canadian elections to throw their support behind the cause and make it a prominent election issue.

The “Scientific Pledge”, which is part of their campaign, is an oath to uphold scientific research. It can be found online and at the information desk at the ARC.

AMS ASSEMBLY

AMS Assembly summary First meeting of the semester holds a moment of silence

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Jasmit de Saffel — Judicial Affairs Clerk (2015-2016)* Matthew Vrbanak — Chief Student Constable (2015-2016)

The first AMS Assembly of the 2015 fall semester, which took place in McLaughlin Housing Grievance Centre Room at 7 p.m., started with AMS President, Kanivanan Chinniah, ArtSci ’15, holding a moment of silence for two students who Motion 16 — Housing Grievance Centre — Passed. passed away this year.

The Housing and Grievance Centre will The assembly held a moment of silence for Andrea Mariano, the first-year student now be referred to as the Housing Resource who passed away last week, and Shane Centre. The change comes as an attempt to Klein, a recent graduate from the Queen’s associate the service with the rebranding of School of Medicine who passed away during the University District. the summer.

Pass/Fail Credit Queen’s historian Duncan L. McDowall was the guest speaker at the assembly. He presented the group with memorabilia from The implementation of a Pass/Fail Credit or “experiential credit” was one of the items his time as a student at Queen’s. on the AMS executive’s platform. Planning has begun with the help of ASUS President New members ratified Brandon Jamieson and Vice-President The agenda included a long list of ratifications. Andrew DiCapua and Read Leask, the AMS Most notably, Sarah Letersky, ArtSci ’16, was academic affairs commissioner, with the ratified as Vice President (University Affairs). hope that the program will come into effect Letersky, who began as the AMS Human as soon as next academic year.

Resources Officer in May, was appointed to the ReUnion Street Festival position last month following the resignation of former Vice President (University Affairs) Catherine Wright. Mackenzie Jackson, ArtSci According to the president’s report, a ’17, will replace her as the AMS Human band has been secured for the concert.

Chinniah reported that they’re now in the Resources Officer.

Other individuals who were ratified final stages of drafting an agreement between the AMS, the University and the City included: • Ryan Anderson — Judicial Affairs of Kingston.

Deputy (2015-2016) *Note: Jasmit de Saffel, who was ratified • Aaron Rosenstein — Judicial Affairs as a Judicial Affairs Clerk, also works at The

Deputy (2015-2016) Journal as the Office Administrator.

• Meryl Morant — Judicial Affairs

Deputy (2015-2016) • Felix Goetz — Judicial Affairs

Deputy (2015-2016)

Queen’s professors John Smol (top) and Annette Burfoot (bottom) spoke Thursday at the “Get Science Right” conference. The event was co-hosted by QUFA and CAUT.

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CHILDCARE

New breastfeeding/ quiet room set to open in October SGPS works on new facilities for student parents T arini pahwa Assistant News Editor The Society of Graduate and Professional Students (SGPS) will establish a breastfeeding room on campus in response to demand for student-parent resources.

Lorne Beswick, SGPS VP campaigns and community affairs, says he realized there was a need for more resources for student parents on campus after he was re-elected last spring.

“Childcare is frightfully expensive and the workday can really drive unfortunate divides into the relationship between students and their children,” Beswick told The Journal via email.

In his latest report to SGPS council this past Sept. 15, Beswick reported that his efforts to establish a new breastfeeding room — which will double as a quiet room — had moved faster than expected.

Beswick said the centre should be ready by mid-October. It’ll be furnished with couches and comfortable seats for parents and guardians, as well as toys and other objects of play for children.

Although a similar service is available at the Ban Righ Centre, the new facility will

be accessible to everyone, as Ban Righ only caters to women, according to Beswick.

“I wanted to expand the service around campus more generally,” he said.

The student society plans to establish the facility in an old SGPS office — Office 203 in the John Deutsch University Centre. It will have a sink, cleaning facilities and will be located near a washroom.

However, Beswick said SGPS still has to work out minor details about the project.

“At this point, we haven’t fully worked out the labour involved in the treatment of soiled diapers, but have purchased a Diaper Genie to contain any unpleasantness,” he added.

The centre won’t be the only place on campus devoted to helping student parents.

This September, the Queen’s Day Care Centre opened a new daycare location at the An Clachan complex on Van Order Dr. The new location will begin accepting preschoolers in fall 2016.

A number of other resources on campus also offer child-friendly services, including the Four Directions Aboriginal Student Centre, The Queen’s University International Centre and the Ban Righ Centre.

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Following the submission of an official statement of concern to the Board of Trustees, members of QBACC held a demonstration in the ARC on Feb. 12.

DIVESTMENT

Queen’s environmental group talks fossil fuel divestment Student activist group invited to present at final meeting of University’s committee on divestment options V ictoria G ibson Assistant News Editor Originally published online on Sept. 19 The Advisory Committee on Divestment of Fossil Fuels held its final feedback meeting on Thursday, Sept. 17, moving them closer to finalizing a report on divestment at Queen’s.

The committee has held four consultation dates open for submissions from concerned individuals, with its final meeting taking place this past Thursday, Sept. 17.

All stakeholders, including students, alumni and community members, were invited to present their views and recommendations to the committee on whether Queen’s should divest its non-pension investments from companies

engaged in the fossil fuel industry.

Principal Daniel Woolf assembled the committee — as mandated under the University’s Statement on Responsible Investing (SRI) — following an initial statement of concern lodged by the Queen’s Backing Action on Climate Change (QBACC) student group.

The committee will report back to the Board of Trustees, one of the University’s three governing bodies, focused on University financials, around the end of September.

QBACC co-chair Leah Kelley says she’s impressed by the number of people who’ve shown support for the University to divest from fossil fuel.

According to Kelley, ArtSci ’17, QBACC was invited to two out of four Advisory Committee meetings.

At the first, which took place over the encouraging careers in environmental studies summer, the committee members outlined and the research conducted by Queen’s the procedures of the Advisory Committee professors in the mitigation of climate change. to Kelley.

“To then invest funding into the industry “They emphasized the importance of that encourages and exacerbates the effects student and alumni input,” she said. QBACC of climate change is therefore hypocritical.” was again invited to formally present their The Journal’s request to attend the Sept. views at the final meeting on Sept. 17.

17 meeting was denied by Anne Martineau, At the final Advisory Committee meeting, a member of the Advisory Committee, as QBACC emphasized the social injuries caused “some of the content of people’s presentations by fossil fuel companies. So far, QBACC included personal and political views which has focused on the impact on Indigenous they would rather not have disclosed to populations, effects on developing countries, those outside the committee.” links to global conflict and the health risks The Advisory Committee is set to conclude accompanying climate change as part of its discussions by the end of the month. They their advocacy. will then make their recommendation to For Kelley, choosing not to divest would Principal Woolf, who will then bring their be hypocritical for the university. She cited report to the Board of Trustees. significant resources that have gone towards

GREASE POLE

U of T’s “Brute Force Committee” releases photos with EngSoc’s grease pole U of T engineering group posts second press release after stealing back EngSoc’s grease pole J acob R osen News Editor

less than 48 hours after it was climbed by the Class of 2019.

A day after the theft, the Queen’s Engineering Society (EngSoc) confirmed the Originally published online on Sept. 19 pole had indeed been stolen.

Once a goalpost at the U of T’s Varsity It’s been a week since EngSoc’s grease pole was stolen and the thieves — U of T’s “Brute Stadium, the grease pole was stolen by a Force Committee” (BFC) — say they’ve group of Queen’s students after a football game in 1955. The pole is now an icon been enjoying the attention.

“We are quite enjoying our time with at the annual EngSoc Orientation Week Queen’s slippery pole in our hands,” the pole-climbing event, which took place most committee wrote in their newest press release recently on Saturday, Sept. 12. on Friday, Sept. 18.

The pole was last stolen by the BFC in In their second release since the theft, 2000. At the time, the BFC made a list of the committee released two photos of their ransom demands for EngSoc, including “beer members with the pole and say they’ll be in a tree, two turtle necks, three French toasts, providing ransom demands for the return of four pounds of back bacon, five golden the pole soon. toques, six packs of 24s, seven packs of The grease pole was stolen for the second cigarettes and eight comic books.” time in 15 years on the morning of Sept. 13,

Pictures released by the Brute Force Committee of them with EngSoc’s grease pole.

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Woolf to oversee review Continued from page 1

the Board of Trustees.

“Certainly Senate has an important role to play, but ultimately responsibility for non-academic misconduct lies with the Board of Trustees,” Woolf told The Journal via email. The Board of Trustees is one of the three governing bodies for the University.

Following the review, Woolf will bring the recommended policies and procedures to the Board of Trustees for approval no later than May 31, 2016. “[The AMS’s Non-Academic Discipline system] will remain, but change is not optional, and the system has to evolve and be thought of in a different light given society’s expectations today,” he wrote.

GRAPHIC BY ASHLEY QUAN Until now, cases of alleged non-academic student misconduct — such as hazing, “The review will include extensive Recommendations from the Lewis Report harassment or any other violation of the four risks pertaining to the current system Student Code of Conduct — were addressed and offers recommendations for addressing regarding traditions are for the Board to set consultations with stakeholders and we a “tone from the top” for the standard of will ensure that students remain intimately those risks. by separate disciplinary systems. behaviour expected of Queen’s students involved with the process moving forward,” The four risks identified were: Each of the following have their and express its support for upholding and Li, ConEd ’17, told The Journal via Facebook.

• Not addressing the 2010 own non-academic misconduct system The non-academic discipline system had communicating that standard throughout recommendations from a previous — AMS, Athletics & Recreation, SGPS and the Queen’s community. This includes the been questioned previously, especially the review of Coroner Skinner Queen’s Residences. alumni community, particularly with respect student-run AMS NAD system.

• Traditions practiced at Queen’s that One of the key features of the new interim According to a report produced for AMS to Queen’s traditions. pose a liability to protocol is the establishment of a central “Change is not Rector Mike Young Assembly on Sept. 24, Miriam Bart, AMS the University intake office, which will be responsible for said he couldn’t say to internal affairs commissioner, and Judicial • Unclear jurisdiction of reviewing each case as they come in and optional, and the what extent the system Affairs Director Albert Kwan, worked the AMS/SGPS referring it to the appropriate non-academic system has to evolve will change after the throughout the summer to review the Non-Academic misconduct system. and be thought of in review, but it’s important AMS NAD system with an emphasis on Discipline system and The new protocol comes with the release a different light given to ensure that students are Group Non-Academic Discipline as well lack of legal authority of the Lewis Report — an advisory report over student discipline from independent expert Harriet Lewis, the society’s expectations the driving force behind the as the creation of surveys for respondents and complainants. revitalized system.

• Not having competent university secretary at York University. today.”

However, due to the recent announcement, “The administration has individuals to serve In September 2014, as part of its — Principal Daniel Woolf heard this message loud and all of the proposed changes will be held off in important roles in the Assessment of Internal Control Environment clear and as such, we will until further notice. senior administration of the University, Queen’s Internal Audit “It’s important to realize this is the interim make sure the process moving forward has made several recommendations to the “In response to these recommendations, students leading the charge,” Young, ConEd protocol and there is a process moving Audit and Risk Committee of the Board of forward to deal with how we’re going Trustees — one of which was an independent the Board, at a special meeting held on Sept. ’15, told The Journal via Facebook.

Undergraduate Trustee, Jennifer Li, to manage the system,” AMS President review of the current policies and procedures 11, directed The University to undertake a to identify any potential risks or exposures to review of the current system with the aim of reiterated Young’s message of student Kanivanan Chinniah said. “And we expect to improving the system so that it adequately involvement. She and Young are the only be involved in that system moving forward.” the University.

The Lewis Report, which was presented to addresses issues of student health and safety,” two undergraduate students who sit on the Board of Trustees. the Board of Trustees on May 15, identifies Woolf told The Journal.

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so he would “have to wait and see if they go through with that for everyone.”

While Han said Patry Inc. was being “adequately responsible” in providing compensation, he was disappointed in the situation as a whole.

“The claims made by Patry at the signing of the lease proved too ambitious, and some of us have to bear the consequences,” he said.

“The management, and the lackluster way they approached the construction [and] detailing, raises an eyebrow.”

According to Han, the delays in construction have affected how students view the property developer.

“Everyone has a bad view of Patry thanks to last year, and rightfully so,” Han said. “They are not evil, so to speak — just rather irresponsible.”

Han said Patry Inc. has also been difficult to contact throughout the ordeal.

“Their staff is not very engaging on the phone, so trying to sort out matters is difficult unless you visit them in person,” he said.

In an interview with The Journal, Zola Mehlomakulu of Patry Inc. said the delayed move-ins are an unfortunate reality.

“It’s a complex building, and a large building and unfortunately, construction can be delayed at times,” he said.

According to Mehlomakulu, 489 of 503 residents have moved in, and the four remaining units should be moved in “hopefully,

by Tuesday or Wednesday of next week.”

He said safety is one of their “paramounts concerns” and that the company has added fire separations, drywall and sprinkler systems to the building, which are now “completely in place

and active”.

In reference to the displaced residents, he said they’ve arranged for “alternative accommodation”, but wouldn’t clarify exactly what that meant.

“People are in hotels, that sort of thing,” he said.

Mehlomakulu also declined to discuss compensation for their tenants, stating that it isn’t public information.

“We’re addressing with residents how compensation will be handled, but we’ve made arrangements with everyone.”

Anthony Bambokian, another resident of 663 Princess St., said he experienced the same difficulties as Han when communicating with the company. During the summer, he placed a call to Patry Inc. regarding the status of his unit.

“They just never got back to me,” Bambokian, ArtSci ’16, said.

However, he added that some of his friends have found contacting

as individually against Jason Patry, the company much easier.

Unlike Han, Bambokian has Nathan Patry and Troy Stelmach.

The allegations included failure been able to move into his unit with only minor difficulties, such to ensure that an adequate means as recently dried paint and no of exit was provided from a work area in case of emergency balcony railing.

Bambokian also noted that the evacuation and failure to take possibility of construction delays reasonable precautions to protect were included in the original lease, the health and safety of workers.

The sentencing of these which he signed in January 2015.

The delays at the building, charges took place on May 15, located at Princess St. and Victoria 2015, in Kingston Court. The St., come after an infamous defendants pleaded guilty and were blaze when the mostly wooden, fined $74,000. half-constructed building burnt down on Dec. 17, 2013.

The accident engulfed the construction site with flames, and, later, shrouded it in ice due to the large amounts of water required to control the fire.

On August 26, 2014, the Ontario Ministry of Labour laid 22 legal charges against the complex’s developer, Jay Patry Enterprises, Inc., and Stelmach Property Management Inc., as well

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EDITORIALS

The Journal’s Perspective

FACULTY

Computing hiring system crashes “Sum ergo computo. I am therefore I compute.”

So reads the slogan for the Queen’s School of Computing, but budget cuts and a decade-long hiring drought threaten the school’s future as a cutting-edge program.

The Faculty of Arts and Science — to which the School of Computing belongs — has made cuts to its base budget over the past seven years.

Most new hiring has been done through open competition among the departments for sponsored chairs, compensating for a fraction of faculty retirements and departures.

The School of Computing has suffered from this adherence to the bottom line especially as the student-to-faculty ratio has sharply increased from 11:1 in 2011 to 19.5:1 in 2014.

The school hasn’t been allowed to hire a new group of professors since 1995, but they expect to retire 14 of their 28 faculty members by 2017.

Computing is a fast-evolving area of study. While certain theories have become standard tenants of the discipline, the applications of computer science are constantly changing.

Limiting the pool of knowledge available to computing students

inhibits them from pursuing their careers to the fullest possible extent.

In essence, the programs aren’t doing what they’re supposed to.

More importantly, without new professors, there won’t be anyone trained to take over when the current faculty inevitably retires — forcing the program to start over from scratch.

Because of its relative newness as an area of study, computing relies on the support of more established departments and schools, sharing its only recent hire with the department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences.

The various specializations that the School of Computing prides itself

on — from Biomedical Computing to respond when they express to the Creative Arts — thrive on concern about the quality of the education they’re receiving, and interdisciplinary collboration.

But, its inclusion under the Arts right now, the questions around and Science banner doesn’t mean the future of computing students that the School of Computing can aren’t being answered.

The impending hiring crisis in reasonably be treated as having the same needs as any other discipline. the School of Computing could’ve The demands of a program been seen from a mile away.

But without farsightedness and that requires highly-specialized knowledge and hands-on teaching open communication between are far greater, and its students students and the administration, know it. both parties suffer.

However, when Benjamin At the end of the day, there Ccchetto, president of the shouldn’t have to be a tab across Graduate Computing Society, the top of the School of brought his concerns to the Dean Computing’s website that asks of Arts and Science, his concerns “Give to the School of Computing”. went unaddressed.

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Tarini Pahwa

Welcome international students Recruiting students from around different opinions, as well as the world is vital to Queen’s experience, something that a wider progress — but we aren’t prepared. range of students can change.

The Queen’s University When I travelled home to India International this summer, I was asked a ton Comprehensive of questions about my studies. Plan (QUCIP) proposes a 10 per But, the question what stood out cent increase in international the most was one posed by my enrolment from the current 8.3 relatives: Is Queen’s a good school? per cent — a small number, but It goes without saying, but significant nonetheless.

The issue with this plan is simple: no one knows that because Queen’s doesn’t have an Queen’s needs international students — but it doesn’t know international presence.

Although it’s well-reputed in how to properly take care of them.

Although resources like the Canada, in the rest of the world, Queen’s is often confused with Queen’s International Centre exist, universities in the UK — Queen they’re not effective in addressing students’ needs.

Mary and Queen’s Belfast.

One can take a stroll up I grew up in Dubai, an University Ave., and it’s not hard international and ever-changing to discern that we’ve got a glaringly city, where on your average night out you’re likely to come across obvious diversity problem.

What we’re severely lacking on individuals with Peruvian or campus is thoughtful discussion, Turkish heritage.

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the already-existing students?

Perhaps the administration can look at setting up incoming students with a ‘buddy’ — an upper year who can contact an incoming international student over the summer and guide them through the ins and outs of life at Queen’s.

While campus resources should assist in academics, making an international student feel truly welcome can be as simple as knowing where to buy that first pair of lululemons, or splitting a pitcher of sangria at QP. Sometimes it’s better speaking to another student, an equal, rather than someone in the administration.

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You can imagine what an adjustment coming to Kingston was.

International students face a host of challenges — including culture shock, alienation, and the glorious weather — that they’re not prepared for, and this impacts their education and well-being.

While the QUCIP looks great on paper, it isn’t worth spending university resources just so we can look great on paper.

Students’ real experiences should matter most.

The QUCIP outlines the Queen’s Quality Assurance Process, which seeks to create a higher quality experience for international students by tracking their progress over a three-year period.

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ACTIVISM

Spray can aimed in the wrong direction Accusatory vandalism has no place in promoting body positivity.

Last week, a subway rider in Toronto pulled a dry-erase marker from her purse and added to what someone had already written across an ad for the Toronto Cosmetic Clinic — “you don’t need this.”

Ads like this one reinforce the normalization of ridiculous beauty standards for women, but that doesn’t mean cosmetic surgery itself is the problem, or that vandalism is the answer.

Condemning out-of-hand a service that offers cosmetic surgery mistakes the real reason that the subway rider felt the way she did about that ad.

Damaging imagery concerning beauty abounds in our society.

There’s no escaping it, and it leads to a myriad of problems.

So, regardless of the ways that cosmetic surgery advertising might take advantage of harmful cultural norms, her action vilifies the wrong party.

Objecting to cosmetic surgery clinics advertising their services doesn’t solve the societal stigma we’ve built up around body image, just like treating the symptoms of sickness doesn’t cure the sickness itself.

In shaming the ad promoting cosmetic surgery, the spontaneous graffiti artist also shamed the hundreds of thousands of Canadian women who’ve received plastic surgery.

While the sentiment that all bodies are beautiful is admirable, she wrongfully exempts surgically altered bodies from the mix.

Instead we can find a way to celebrate all bodies, no matter how they came into being.

Any way you square it, vandalism is illegal, and not without good reason.

We don’t have to resort to illicit activity to make women feel good about their bodies. Doing so casts a shadow of illegitimacy across an important message.

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How many coffees do you drink in a day?

ACADEMICS

Reporting system is broken

Professor’s repeated attempts to halt research misconduct met with inaction Some academics have engaged in “salami slicing” — repeating sections from their own previously published work.

Chris Pickles In the last few months, I’ve read with interest articles in The Journal regarding Dr. Mort Shirkhanzadeh and his concerns over research integrity, and the various Letters to the Editor on the subject. All point to a flawed system.

Over the years, I’ve presented similar concerns regarding duplicated materials to various administrators at a number of universities. I’ve had the impression that these universities didn’t want to hear my concerns.

Accused individuals have a right to privacy and confidentiality, but I have a right, and an obligation, to report what I’ve found.

Universities and Federal agencies also have a right and responsibility to properly address these concerns.

The ultimate goal is to correct the scientific literature. I’ve never been told that my concerns aren’t valid — instead I’ve been kept in the dark.

Some universities never responded to me or claimed they lost my emails in their inbox. Just as an example, many years ago,

I was told to formally write up of tea with the accused.

It was as if there was a “secret” my allegations and the university would forward them to the that some knew and some didn’t and I was going to be enlightened accused’s lawyer.

Within the last year, I sent one by this professor!

In reality, these individual cases concern directly to a university and another was sent indirectly through aren’t important, except to indicate the Secretariat on Responsible that there’s something wrong Conduct of Research (SRCR) to the with the academic review and Natural Sciences and Engineering reward systems.

Dr. Shirkhanzadeh is fighting Research Council (NSERC). They requested permission to send my for a change to the system and concerns to the university. I gave should be congratulated for his my permission, but have heard moral courage and stamina that nothing since. As far as I know, have brought this issue to light.

To me this case is but a nothing happened.

In the first case, I provided a symptom of a bigger problem in long list of papers with very similar universities, which is really about titles, which I think is reasonable human behaviour.

Over the last 30 years, to say would make someone suspicious. I was told that the list universities have changed.

We now have managers wasn’t covered by the university’s (administrators), workers policy on academic misconduct.

Therefore, I subsequently (professors) and customers began to find the papers and not (students). In this new corporate surprisingly when I did, I saw that culture everything is to be counted. many were redundant or contained In a meeting I recently attended, a “salami slicing” — which is partial professor announced that he didn’t repetition of one’s own previous have time to review candidates’ work. I subsequently began to materials, but he supported send these papers in a number of the candidate with the highest emails to the university, where the publication rate.

It’s clear that quantity beats accused professor was employed, and don’t know what happened to quality, because quality is difficult to evaluate. If redundant publication, my concerns.

In another case, I sent an example self-plagiarism, “salami slicing” of some duplicated material and and ghost co-authorship aren’t told the administration that there misconduct, but instead are now were additional duplications. As acceptable and a part of the “game” part of the response I was told of science, then maybe universities that there was considerable overlap, and Federal agencies could inform and that I should go and have a cup all academics. Then we would have

“I quit drinking coffee because I was drinking way too much.”

Jake Ruddy, ArtSci ’16

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a level playing field.

If this type of activity were deemed acceptable then we wouldn’t bother reporting these cases.

The big question is this: why do researchers feel it necessary to take these inappropriate actions and what’s the financial cost?

A reward system has been created, based mainly on the amount of work produced. In an academic system, the rewards include promotion, tenure, research funding and awards from professional societies. In reality, the standards for academic integrity belong to the academics not to the administration.

This problem may be national and even international. Is it too big for us? In our research, we can tackle problems bigger than ourselves. Can we not collectively tackle a big ethical problem?

Maybe there’s neither funding nor glory in that endeavour. Research misconduct has many effects, but certainly wastes time and resources and damages the public trust.

To me this isn’t a crisis but an opportunity to bring the ethical standards in our profession(s) to a higher level and resolve this issue.

Then, just maybe, we could lead in academic integrity.

Dr. Chris Pickles is a professor in Queen’s Robert M. Buchan Department of Mining.

“Two.” Kate O’Brien, ArtSci ’17

“I’m actually addicted to tea. I drink four to five cups of green tea a day.”

Andrea Maranger, ArtSci ’16

“This is my fifth.”

Matt Chomyn, Law ’17

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Re: How not to talk to students: an administrator’s guide It should come as no surprise that I completely disagree with The Journal’s assessment of the email I sent to the student body on Sept. 10. The many supportive and appreciative comments I have received from students, community members and city partners in response to the email would suggest there are several others out there who would also disagree.

As the leader of this university, body is, in essence, an open letter. I Two further points: the it is my responsibility to speak wanted to ensure as many students editorial referenced the Commerce out when the actions of some of as possible read or heard about Society’s orientation being placed our students are inappropriate, its contents. I wish again to thank on probation; that was at the disrespectful and — as was the the many students who have hands not of “administration” but case in this instance — downright chosen to contribute in positive of the Senate Orientation Activities dangerous. Apart from my official and constructive ways in order Review Board, of which students responsibility for this, as a father to improve this situation; you make up the majority and a student of three recent university graduates, are to be commended for your serves as co-chair.

I also happen to share the maturity and your leadership.

Secondly, I agree that many of concern of every parent with You know who you are and my our first years (and our community the health and safety of their letter, far from condescension, members) were exposed to some of child’s environment. recognizes that you are in the worst of university behaviour.

An email to the entire student the responsible majority.

Am I blaming the student body

as a whole? Of course not. Am I blaming those who had illegal keggers that spilled into street parties, forcing the closure of a city road? Indeed I am.

As long as activities such as these continue, I will continue to speak out against them.

Sincerely, Daniel Woolf Principal and Vice-Chancellor

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The Queen’s Centre’s A decade ago, Queen’s had grandiose visions of building a new athletic facility, hockey rink and student life centre on campus. But events led to a half-finished project and a mountain of debt.

Sebastian Leck Editor in Chief There used to be a hockey arena on campus.

It was called Jock Harty, and it resided where there’s now an empty parking lot behind the five-story Queen’s Centre building.

Jock Harty was demolished in 2007 to make way for a new hockey arena — one that never arrived.

Like the completed Athletics and Recreation Centre (ARC), the new arena was intended to be part of the multi-phase, multi-million dollar Queen’s Centre project.

Today, most Queen’s students have never heard of the Queen’s Centre project — or the promise it held for the University.

But Colin McLeod, ArtSci ’09, remembers the constant hum of machinery on campus, when noise kept students up at night and blocked access on roads between University Ave. and Division St. McLeod lived through the height of construction of the Queen’s Centre — a project that aimed to expand student space and athletic facilities starting in the mid-2000s.

“Living at the corner of Barrie and Earl [Streets], I would often hear the dynamiting and feel our apartment building shake at times,” McLeod said.

But construction went silent sooner than expected. The project lasted from 2005-09, when it was abruptly brought to a halt.

The Queen’s Centre project had three planned phases:

The first phase was originally slated to cost $124 million.

Queen’s spent $169 million. The University never made it to Phase 2 or Phase 3 ­— which were projected to cost $83 and $24 million.

Phase 1 was scheduled to be built between 2006-09, Phase 2 between 2009-12 and Phase 3 between 2012-14, according to a 2006 Board of Trustees report.

Undergraduate students paid a mandatory fee each year for the project between 2005-12. The fee, initially $70.50, was increased to $141 in 2010. It had been scheduled to last until 2020.

Despite a statement from Vice-Principal (Facilities) Ann Browne in 2009 that development had been postponed indefinitely, the University never formally cancelled the Queen’s Centre project.

The majority of administrators involved — from the principal to vice-principals to fundraisers — have since moved on or resigned.

McLeod, who now works as a policy analyst for Environment Canada, said he’s “cautiously optimistic” that Phases 2 and 3 will be completed at some point.

The reality is less bright, according to Provost and Vice-Principal (Academic) Alan Harrison.

Harrison was hired in 2011 — two years after the project had been put on hold. Despite not knowing specific details about the project, he said Phases 2 and 3 weren’t and still aren’t financially viable for the University.

The construction of Phase 1 had finished in 2009, and by 2011 the decision whether to proceed was in the hands of the Board of Trustees.

As one of the three governing bodies of the University, the Board of Trustees oversees all financial matters and approves major capital expenses for Queen’s.

When Harrison arrived at Queen’s, he stated that the project would continue to be postponed.

His role in the project was minimal, he said, aside from discussing the use of the Queen’s Centre student fee funds with the AMS when the project was postponed.

Queen’s biggest mistake, Harrison said, was starting the project without having secured the necessary funds beforehand.

Private donations were meant to comprise $126 million of the project’s cost, but only $13.7 million was ever collected, according to Harrison.

“Philanthropists were less forthcoming with their money than those who ran our advancement [campaign] were expecting,” he said.

Construction costs also increased after the project started in 2006, and continued to rise through 2008-09, which drove up the costs of Phase 1.

Andrew Simpson, vice-principal (operations and finance), was in charge of the Queen’s Centre project during construction. He told The Journal in 2008 that the cost of construction materials increased by two per cent each month since the project began in August 2006.

Since the project was postponed, Queen’s has changed its capital project approval process to mandate that the University has all funds secured before a project begins, according Harrison.

Step 16 of the 20-step approval process mandates that a project can only be approved if 100 per cent of the funds have been secured.

If not, the policy mandates that the Board of Trustees can approve the project “in principle” but can’t commit to it until it has been fully funded through donations.

The consequence of “building on a whim”, Harrison said, is long-term debt. The University extracts $6 million annually from its operating budget to pay interest on debt from Phase 1, according to Harrison.

The Ontario Infrastructure Projects Corporation loaned the University a total of $75 million for the Queen’s Centre in 2010, according to the University’s 2009-2010 budget report.

Even if they had the money for it, Harrison said, the University wouldn’t restart the project — at least not in its original form.

“We have done some of the things or found ways to deal with some of the issues that would have been dealt with by Phases 2 and

3,” he said.

Today, the University has few physical reminders of the last two thirds of the Queen’s Centre project — save for architectural plans for Phases 2 and 3 left hanging in a side entrance of the JDUC. The posters depict an expanded media centre and a refurbished campus hockey rink. Beyond those preliminary drawings, neither service exists today.

Queen’s Centre project to provide improved athletics facilities, according to Hood. He said then-Principal Bill Leggett asked him to take over fundraising and look into the feasibility of the project.

At that point, Hood said, he had already raised $262 million for the Campaign for Queen’s fundraising campaign.

He began fundraising and conducting feasibility assessments for the Queen’s Centre project, and signed an agreement with the AMS in 2006 to enact the annual student fee of $70.50.

In 2003, Hood visited 23 North American universities — from Harvard and MIT to McGill and the University of Toronto — in search of athletic centres that could be used as models for the Queen’s Centre.

Queen’s spent $46,075 on travel and meetings for the project team by August 2006, according to documents obtained

by The Journal through a Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA) request.

Expenses for Hood’s travel alone accounted for $11,084. The analysis of various athletic centers and student spaces, he said, led to a five-phase model A simplified blueprint of the proposed plans. of the Queen’s Centre — originally intended to cost $200 PART I: THE BEGINNING million total.

Hood’s research team planned The origins of the Queen’s to only start a second phase once Centre go back into the 1970s, Phase 1 had been fully funded, he according to former Vice-Principal said.

(Advancement) George Hood.

Karen Hitchcock — who That’s when students began replaced Leggett as principal in paying for enhanced athletic 2004 — had other ideas, according facilities, after the University to Hood. As she took office, the introduced a $5 Capital Campaign University took on a new mindset annual fee. for managing its affairs, according Multiple principals have to Hood — one where discussion worked on expanding student and between students and the athletic space over the last four administration was reduced. decades, according to Hood, and “It certainly wasn’t anything that a task force was investigating the I was familiar with in terms of the possibility of constructing a new historical Queen’s way of making athletic facility before he arrived at decisions, which was to do it jointly.

Queen’s in 1998.

Do it with the students, not to the Around 2003, Dean of Students students,” he said.

Bob Crawford proposed the “There was a real sense that they

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Following the signing of Hood said he was originally the MOU — memorandum going to run the Queen’s Centre of understanding — the project, but following an objection administration didn’t run the from Physical Plant Services, project based on regular discussions the University tapped the new with students, Hood said.

Vice-Principal (Operations and He said Principal Bill Leggett Finance) — Andrew Simpson would “wander over” to — to co-chair the project the student union to discuss with Hood. important topics with members According to Hood’s account, of the AMS, and students were he declined to co-chair the constantly involved in decision-making during his term.

Queen’s had previously made decisions through such informal discussions with students and had insisted on a “sense of unanimity” from students and faculty, he said.

Simpson and Hitchcock, although qualified for their roles, didn’t have the same understanding of the culture of Queen’s, according to Hood.

While Hood chaired the committee on the Queen’s Centre, he added, faculty members asked students what they thought and tasked the students with coming up with GRAPHICS BY ASHLEY QUAN their own proposals if they offered project and decided to focus on good ideas. fundraising instead.

“You make the students a Hood said he left the serious player,” he said. Simpson University in 2006 after finding and Hitchcock, he added, that he had “philosophically didn’t encourage the same level fallen out of favour” with of discussion or engagement Principal Hitchcock. on campus.

Hitchcock and Andrew “I spoke six times a day with Simpson both disagreed with Leggett. I spoke six times a month Hood’s claims. with [Hitchcock]. Leggett was a Hitchcock — who resigned hands-on guy,” he said. from her position in 2008 — told Once construction of the The Journal that student feedback Queen’s Centre began in 2006, was important for the Queen’s Hood said he had disagreements Centre project. with the administration, including “The need to interact with the debt financing used for students has always been very the project. high on my list. Hence town halls, Hood and his team created a hence individual meetings, hence feasibility report in 2002, which open office hours,” she said. states that there should be no Hitchcock retired to Rexford, long-term debt for the Queen’s New York, after leaving Queen’s.

Centre.

Instead, the report She declined to speak on the cites corporate financing and specifics of the Queen’s Centre

project, and said she didn’t want to enter a “back and forth” with Hood.

She and Andrew Simpson came from university environments that emphasized the role of students as well, she said, and both made students the main partner in the Queen’s Centre project.

“I don’t really think that there was a lack of understanding of the culture.”

She added that comparing her to Bill Leggett in terms of

implemented using debt.

“After evaluating all possible sources of funding (most particularly fundraising), the only option for completing the project was to consider carrying debt,” he said. Simpson added that Hood’s claims made “little sense when set against the historical record of the project.”

He said the planning phase for the project in late 2003, run by the Queen’s Centre Committee of the board, included consultation with

hours spent with students “doesn’t make any sense” and the Board of Trustees was involved in deciding the leadership for the project before she arrived.

“The Board of Trustees had worked out plans and approaches that I had no part in. And that if the vice-principal has some concerns, he should address them to the Trustees,” she said.

Andrew Simpson told The Journal via email that the Board of Trustees concluded that some debt had to be taken on to fund the Queen’s Centre project. Simpson currently works at the University of British Colombia as the vice president of finance. He left Queen’s in November 2008.

The final plan was created more than two years after Hood conducted feasibility work, Simpson said, and could only be

students, Queen’s departments, faculty and members of the Kingston community.

“Submissions were received, and meetings were held with enormous numbers of groups and individuals.

Public meetings were also held to gather feedback on draft plans and program plans,” he said. He added that his work background at New Zealand schools was “in no way” an impediment to working with students.

Simpson also said he “would have been pleased” to co-chair the project with Hood, and didn’t understand his comments. He added that if Hood had any of those concerns during the project, he didn’t raise them.

While Hood raised money, the AMS discussed its contribution to the project, which was eventually set at $25.5 million.

On March 16, 2005, students debated the proposed $70.50 student fee for three hours at the AMS Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Grant Hall. The fee — scheduled to increase to $141 in 2010 — passed with 545 votes for and 212 against.

Tyler Turnbull, the AMS president in 2004-05, said the fee question followed a yearlong process of consultation about the Queen’s Centre.

“The AMS probably hosted 100 public meetings with student groups from across campus,” he said, noting that the fee was meant to show potential donors

that students were committed to the project.

The motion moved to the AGM stated that the terms and conditions of the financial contribution would be governed by a “separate Memo of Understanding” (MOU) to be negotiated between the University and the AMS. The MOU was signed the next year between Hood, AMS President Ethan Rabidoux, AMS Vice-President (University Affairs) Shiva Mayer and Dean of Student Affairs Janice Deakin.

Under the terms of the MOU, AMS Assembly would make the decision whether to release or withhold the funds from the student fee they collected each year, depending on whether the University met the terms of the agreement.

The agreement states that if the cost of the project increased, there would be no impact on the commitment of the AMS, and that the project must replace current facilities with equivalent or higher quality spaces.

The agreement provides a 10-year timeline for the project, ending in 2015. According to its terms, the project would consist of the School of Physical and Health Education, the ARC and the Student Life Centre (SLC).

The MOU also mandated that the AMS and the University enter “good faith negotiations” on the governance of the student centre to determine who would be responsible for managing the centre’s day-to-day operations.

Finally, the MOU states that: “Provided that the specific terms and conditions and general intent set out in this document have been adhered to, the Society shall authorize the release of the scheduled payment of the commitment for that year”.

Rabidoux, who’s currently the Perth-Wellington NDP candidate for the upcoming federal election, said the agreement was “black and white” in the power it provided students. It gave the AMS sole discretion to decide whether Queen’s upheld its side of the bargain.

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