The Queen's Journal, Issue 31

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Environment

Climate action plan finds consultant Delphi Group chosen over five other firms to aid with Queen’s carbon emission reduction B y S avoula S tylianou Assistant News Editor Queen’s has hired a consulting firm to create the University’s climate action plan. The contract with the Delphi

Miller Hall museum brings geological discoveries to campus.

Group, a consultancy firm that focuses on climate change, was announced on Jan. 30. The action plan is part of the University and College Presidents’ Climate Change Statement of Action for Canada, which

Principal Daniel Woolf signed in February 2010. Under the action statement, Queen’s pledged to create a summary of the current and projected campus greenhouse gas emissions and to expand research

Alternative monologues

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dialogue

Are Super Bowl ads worth the money? Page 7

arts

Will Currie & the Country French discuss the struggles of forming a band at university. Photo by Corey Lablans

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sports

Irina Rakhimova rehearses for Down There. The production runs this week and features original material including transgender and gender non-conforming perspectives. For full story see page 8.

on climate change with a goal of reducing campus emissions. Queen’s was the second post-secondary school in Ontario to sign the pledge, which was originally signed by six university presidents in British Columbia who decided to create an agreement to signify their commitment to reducing carbon emissions. Queen’s Sustainability Manager Aaron Ball said the Delphi Group will work with the University to finish the climate action plan, which is set to be released this fall. The Delphi Group has done several greenhouse gas emission inventories for companies, including Toronto Hydro. “There was discussion about trying to do it internally or bringing in a third party,” Ball said. “When it came down to timing and broad expertise that would be needed, we felt going the consulting route would be best.” “We gathered all the information on our expected growth and they were able to take that and put it into models to give us some preliminary work,” he said. Ball said the funds used to hire the Delphi Group came from the University’s budget. “It was a lengthy and exhaustive process where we go out for a public bid and we had six firms respond,” he said. “Lots of consulting firms do other work as well, but Delphi focuses on [climate change],” he said. The Delphi Group previously consulted with Queen’s in 2008 and 2009, when the University completed two greenhouse gas See We on page 5

Frosh Week

Concert surplus goes to hospital

$5,000 of extra funds donated to youth mental health support at KGH B y M eaghan Wray Assistant News Editor Men’s volleyball swept its opposition at the ARC this weekend. Page 13

postscript

Examining different note-taking methods.

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Frosh Week 2011 earned a surplus, allowing the Orientation Roundtable (ORT) to make a charitable donation. The extra $5,000 was given to Kingston General Hospital (KGH) on Jan. 31, with an intended focus on youth mental health. ORT is a body that co-ordinates Frosh Week for all undergraduate faculties. Its sub-committees deal with finances, event-booking and overall logistics. ORT Co-ordinator Rachel Shindman said the surplus is a result of over-budgeting. The Frosh concert incurred less costs than expected, with less money spent on artists and venue. The goal of ORT is to break even every year, Shindman,

ConEd ’12, said. “The idea is to budget to $0 and spend the money collected in any year on that year’s Orientation,” she told the Journal via email. “The concert this year was a bit of a special case because of the venue change.”

Since 2008, the concert for first-year Arts and Science students has been held off-campus due to noise bylaws. Last May, city council granted a noise bylaw exemption, allowing the concert back on campus. “Because it hadn’t been on

campus for three years, we weren’t really sure how much it was going to cost,” Shindman said. KGH wrote a statement of support for the ORT, which was given to city council and was a significant factor in getting the See Donations on page 5

union gallery

BFA crucial for fundraiser B y C aitlin C hoi Assistant Arts Editor Cezanne’s Closet has been a steady source of income for Union Gallery over the past 18 years, but that could change with the recent suspension of the BFA program. The gallery’s major annual fundraiser relies on donations from

student-artists to make up half of the artwork auctioned off at the event. Community-artists and faculty produce the rest. Revenue from ticket sales and a silent auction raises an average of $10,000 for the gallery. Union Gallery’s director Jocelyn Purdie said she hopes the suspension of admissions to the

BFA program will be short-lived. “The one year that the program is suspended obviously is going to affect everybody because there won’t be fourth-years [to donate their art] I guess. So yeah, that is something that we’ll have to think about, what to do in terms of the fundraising that year,” she said. See Cezanne’s on page 10


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