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never guaranteed.” Liss said due to Queen’s smaller size, the University could suffer more than universities with a larger pool of resources. “I think it has broad implications for all research-intensive universities and how we support our researchers,” he said.
Classes and workshops on campus were cancelled yesterday after widespread power outages affected buildings throughout the day. Buildings on west campus, including Duncan McArthur Hall, Jean Royce Hall and the education library, lost power shortly after 8 a.m. Power was restored before noon but classes remained cancelled. Cory Laverty, head of the education library, said the inclement weather disrupted Federation Day workshops for fifth-year Concurrent Education students. Many visitors leading the workshops cancelled in the morning, Laverty said, adding that a few workshops continued without power. “Even though we have limited lighting, we do have skylights that gave people enough light to work by,” Laverty said. “We didn’t have internet connection or power, but a lot of people have laptops and they were using them anyway.” She said the library remained open throughout most of the outage. Henry Wang, ArtSci ’15, said some Engineering classes were cancelled today due to the weather. “It wasn’t good. As soon as you walked outside this morning, you could see the freezing rain,” he said. “The blades of grass were all icicles.” Power outages occurred across campus for the rest of the day. The City of Kingston attributed this to a number of trees falling on power lines in the campus area.
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so,” Liss said. The Ontario Research Fund (ORF) provides a total of $730 million over four years to a variety $42 million in provincial research of projects. Last year, Queen’s School of grants will be abandoned over the Computing and the Fuel Cell next three years. “Queen’s was notified along with Research Centre received nearly other universities without really any $4.8 million from the fund. “In the absence of ORF understanding of the rationale or any timeline with respect to when funding, we’re aware of the other it was actually going to be cut,” opportunities and so with industry vice-principal of research Stephen matching funding we’re exploring other opportunities,” he said. Liss said. One way Queen’s can ensure In the weeks prior to winter break, Liss said the Council of that financial cutbacks have a Ontario Universities, a policy minimal impact is through increased and lobbying group, delivered inter-university collaboration, the message. Liss said. “In previous times when there “One of the ways to be have been changes to programs we competitive but to be sufficiently will have been given a call directly strategic in terms of our long-term by the ministry ahead of a public strategy would be to make sure that we’re collaborative,” he said. announcement,” Liss said. Four projects receiving On Jan. 7, the Toronto Star reported that the decision to ORF funding last year involved remove the funds had been made collaborations between Queen’s and other universities. without public knowledge. “In a competitive funding “When the news hit the Toronto Star, that was old news for us, we program, it’s always hit and had known for about a month or miss,” he said. “So you’re
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Coffeeco to move Johnson Street location closing this month B y S avoula S tylianou Assistant News Editor After failing to renegotiate the terms of its lease, Coffeeco is moving out of its 344 Johnson St. location effective Jan. 31. Richard Ottenhof owns Coffeeco and its supplier Multatuli Coffee, a coffee roasting company that also supplies Common
Ground Coffeehouse and the Tea Room. Coffeeco were operating under a sublet agreement with the previous renters of the space, Ottenhof said. “The original five-year lease was signed by Coffee and Company, another coffee shop, in 2001 with two five-year renewal periods, which would bring the full lease See We’ll on page 6