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Close call for Canada
Weekend events under debate Second Fauxcoming will decide fate of Queen’s defunct tradition By Jake Edmiston Features Editor
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Canada had a close game with the US over the weekend in an international rugby match at Richardson Stadium, losing 22-16.
Honouring inspiring women Ban Righ Centre launches ‘Who is She’ campaign to promote its visibility on campus By Labiba Haque Assistant News Editor The Ban Righ Centre for Mature Women has launched the “Who Is She” campaign to raise awareness and increase visibility for the Centre. Elspeth Christie, co-chair of the Ban Righ Board of Directors, said the project is an opportunity for individuals to thank important women in their lives and for the Ban Righ Centre to raise money. “The ‘Who is She’ project is a community project which is a winwin for everyone,” Christie said. You get to thank a woman who has meant a great deal to you through your life [and] you get the opportunity to contribute
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money in her name to the Ban Righ Centre.” She said that individuals have the opportunity to write a tribute about the special woman in their lives and that the tributes are then posted online at banrighcentre.queensu.ca “The Ban Righ Centre supports women and what we want to do is have you access your memory banks and maybe think of someone who had supported you. Someone who you may not even have publically or even privately thanked, and in her name contribute ‘x’ number of dollars to the Centre,” she said, adding that a board member thought of the idea for the project at a meeting last year. She said that Ban Righ will be hosting a number of “Who Is She” events before the project wraps up in early May. “Throughout the year we are going to have number of events that continue to remind people about the project,” she said. “We want more visibility in the Kingston community and beyond.” Lisa Webb, student advisor at the Ban Righ Centre, said the
Centre gives mature female students who come from many different backgrounds the opportunity to find a support system within the Queen’s community. The Ban Righ Centre, which was originally started in 1974, now serves approximately 200 students. “They are students who come from all different backgrounds and range in ages 19-78. They
come from various countries around the world, as well as local students,” she said, adding that the Centre also provides its mature female students with resources to help them through their university experience. “A lot of students who don’t find out about us, they come back to school and do four-year degrees Please see Anyone on page 7
A party on Aberdeen St. tomorrow will hold significant implications for coming years. AMS Vice-President (University Affairs) Chris Rudnicki said student behaviour this weekend must improve drastically compared to last year if the current AMS government is going to keep its election platform promise of reinstating Homecoming next year. “[Principal Woolf] is looking at making a decision by the end of this calendar year,” Rudnicki said, adding that the AMS has had several meetings with Woolf to discuss the potential of reinstating the cancelled tradition. “If we act in the same way we have in previous years, we don’t get Homecoming back.” A Facebook group titled “Homecoming 2010” boasted 5,150 confirmed guests at time of print last night. “If students are thinking that any street party will go undetected by police, they’re mistaken,” Rudnicki said. Last year 118 arrests were made over the Sept. 26 Fauxcoming Please see University on page 3
Prison farms in peril Liberal Party of Canada supports reinstatement of prison farms By Katherine-Fernandez Blance and Labiba Haque Journal Staff The Liberal Party of Canada announced their commitment to re-establishing prison farms at an open press conference yesterday at City Hall. Liberal Opposition Critic for Public Safety and National Security Mark Holland said he was very disappointed with the lack of support from the Canadian
government in regards to the prison farms. “The prison farms have to be re-opened, if not expanded,” Holland said at the press conference. “We, the Liberal Party of Canada, are formally saying that we would restore prison farms,” he said, adding that the Party recognizes the importance of the rehabilitation provided by the prison farms. Holland said the Liberal Party is currently trying to get Parliament to take a position on the
prison farm situation. “We will fight to not accept the closure, and to bring the truth to the public,” he said. Holland said he worries that with the closure of the prison farms, super-prisons will emerge in their place leading to massive overcrowding like in California. He calls these prisons crimefactories because the overcrowding of prisoners into cells inevitably leads to more crime within Please see Rehabilitation on page 6