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Death still shaking campus Administration requests security review after student’s death By Clare Clancy News Editor In the wake of Cameron Bruce’s tragic death, the Queen’s community is coming to grips with what happened while a police investigation continues. According to Queen’s News Centre, Kingston Police believe Bruce, Sci ’14, died as a result from a fall from his sixth floor residence room window and that alcohol may have been a factor. Constable Mike Menor, spokesperson for the Kingston Police, said detectives are attempting to create a timeline leading up to Bruce’s death. “Everyone has been spoken to who interacted with him a day or so before,” he said, adding that the investigation is still ongoing. “It does take time to conduct a thorough investigation,” he said. “The incident hasn’t been closed yet.” Associate Vice-Principal and Dean of Student Affairs John Pierce said Queen’s will be performing a general security overview in order to prevent future accidents. “We’re initiating a review of all aspects of campus safety and campus protocol,” he said. “The sole goal of the review is to prevent something like this happening again.”
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Accessing awareness at Queen’s Bicycles obstruct ramp access for people with mobility limitations By Labiba Haque Assistant News Editor
The construction near Bracken Health Sciences Library has raised questions of accessibility around campus. Anne O’Riordan, occupational therapist, and Queen’s lecturer said she left Bracken Library last Tuesday after a meeting with a colleague of hers. The colleague, Bill Meyerman, was in a wheelchair and the ramp down to street level wasn’t available for him to use. “It was a meeting for our steering committee [for the Office of Interprofessional Education and Practice (OIPEP)] and on that committee we have two patient representatives, as well as representatives from Please see The Simple on page 4 medicine, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, nursing and X-Ray Technology,” she said. “Bill and I came out of Bracken Library. Volume 138, Issue 7 Near that area there is currently www.queensjournal.ca construction so it’s difficult for News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 A&E . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 people with mobility limitations to get by in that area.” Features . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Food Extra . . . . . . . . . 13 There is a ramp located on Stuart Editorials . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Sports . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Street for people in wheelchairs Op-Ed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Postscript . . . . . . . . . . 23 to access after they’ve exited
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the building. “If you’re a wheelchair user, you must exit by the side entrance through a door with confusing signage … the first time I used it, I thought the fire alarm might go off,” she said. “When we got to the ramp there were bicycles chained to both sides of the ramp, making it potentially inaccessible. The railings are there to help people, not to be used as a bicycle rack.” O’Riordan said she doubts that whoever locked their bike on the railing had any bad intentions. “Oftentimes people act without really understanding the results of their actions, and this could apply to anyone, I doubt that people who had chained their bike to the ramp had meant any harm,” she said. “[Meyerman] didn’t seem fazed by it and seemed to shrug it off. He sees these kinds of things all the time.” O’Riordan said she knew if she ignored the situation it would happen again. She said she immediately contacted Jeannette Parsons who was the last year’s on-campus Accessibility Coordinator. “She suggested I call Fixit and
told me that the campus policy was to ensure accessibility and that the locks of any bicycles blocking ramps or limiting accessibility could be cut off,” she said. O’Riordan said that the locks from the bikes were cut off, and stickers were put on the ramp to remind people not to block the ramp but that further action should be directed towards awareness initiatives. “Cutting the bike locks might have really infuriated the students and not have had a positive effect. I think awareness about the issue would be able to bring about a more positive change,” she said. “If people were aware of the fact that this action could potentially prevent someone else’s accessibility I’m sure they would have found another place,” she said, adding that the day after the stickers were put up bikes were still
on the outside of the ramp but not on the inside. O’Riordan she hopes that students will look at accessibility ramps and entrances in a new way and respect the reason they are there. “Students are agents of change, if a student strongly believes in something, the change will occur much quicker,” she said “Accessibility is everyone’s right … it levels the playing field for everybody and it makes life easier for everyone,” she said. Because Kingston is such an old city, it presents some unique challenges though. “We have a lot of beautiful limestone buildings here, but they’re old,” she said. “These buildings, when they were built, weren’t built with accessibility in mind. It’s not just a problem on campus, I know some people who Please see The Right on page 5
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