Queen’s largest dining hall under renovations

hall, and other foods items will be transported from the Ban Righ Dining Hall.

“For the fall 2023-2024 term, Leonard Dining Hall—including most of the seating area—will remain open for students in residence on meal plans, and will offer a variety of menu stations, featuring a rotation of students favourites,” said Jennifer Pete, director of business development and communications (Housing and Ancillary Services), in a statement to The Journal.

For one dinner meal swipe, students will receive one tray of food, consisting of a choice for a main dish, a side dish, a drink, and a dessert.

To compensate for the renovations, residence meal plans will be increased from 19 to 21 meals per week, and students will receive 50 additional trade-a-meals (TAMs).

Ban Righ dining hall, Lazy Scholar, and Location 21 are extending their hours of operation. Ban Righ and Jean Royce will continue to offer all-you-can-eat meals and provide options for students with dietary needs.

“Ban Righ will now be the main dining hall for residents,” President of the Residence Society (ResSoc)

Nathan Beckner-Stetson, MSc ’24, said in an e-mail to The Journal.

“More food stations are being added [to Ban Righ] and more seating is being added in some of the spare rooms surrounding the dining hall.” staff talk about their work, and the faculty talk about their work, then we don’t live in these two separate oceans that sometimes exchange.”

Beckner-Stetson—in his capacity as the president for the student government representing those living in residence—is in close contact with Housing and Ancillary Services and gave suggestions on how to improve students’ dining experience during the renovations.

Flood encouraged people of different backgrounds to get involved with Queen’s Law. An exemption from the hiring freeze was made to hire a Queen’s National Scholar for Indigenous law this upcoming year.

“We want to encourage all the potential scholars out there in Indigenous law to apply and start to build this community of scholars engaged on Indigenous issues and the Truth and Reconciliation goals that we have. It’s a very exciting time in that space,” Flood said.

Flood was raised in rural New Zealand and was the first in her family to attend university. She has been practising law since the age of 21.

After receiving her doctorate at University of Toronto, Flood was a professor and Canada Research Chair at the University of Toronto for 14 years, specializing in health law and policy. She is the founder of the Centre for Health Law, Policy, and Ethics at University of Ottawa.

“It has always been a dream of mine to be the Dean of Law at Queen’s,” Flood said.

—With files from Sophia Coppolino

Corrections

Gael Tanner Big Canoe wins RBC Indigenous Youth Scholarship Big Canoe is not the Captain of the Queen’s Golf Team as stated previously.

Kingston and Queen’s celebrate National Indigenous People’s Day

The article incorrectly stated the opening date for Tipi Moza Transitional Housing and incorrectly spelled the name of Aaron St. Pierre.

Incorrect information appeared in the June 26 issue of The Queen’s Journal The Journal regrets the error.