Queen’s University’s recent budget cuts to the Faculty of Arts and Science (FAS) has left the department in a precarious position. While the Smith-funded School of Business and Engineering faculty thrive, the University continues to handle the situation with a lack of honesty and transparency, leaving students frustrated.
I’m sick of living in “unprecedented times.” I’m truly at my limit. In the last four years, my generation has lived through the COVID-19 pandemic, online school, rising temperatures, and six seasons of Too Hot to Handle.
More than a year has ed now since Oct. 7, 2023, and it’s been difficult to put into words and even fathom what that really means—what it means for a whole year to have ed since the massacre of our loved ones, our people.
For much of human history, academia was always treated as a holistic pursuit. Science was a type of natural philosophy, and it shared the same inquiry methods as history. It wasn’t uncommon to find an astronomer who was also a philosopher, or perhaps a historian who studied biology. It’s in this melting pot of subjects that teaching and learning flourished, and much of what we study in more well-defined fields today originates from this time.
You may have noticed a gap in your schedule on SOLUS for Sept. 30. At first glance, it might seem like an opportunity to get some extra sleep and catch up on—or procrastinate—your readings. In reality, that emptiness is a call to action.
As the new academic year begins, staff at Queen’s are increasingly burdened by austerity measures—including widespread layoffs and persistent budget cuts—embedded within the University’s revised fiscal strategy.
Abortions are simply not talked about enough today outside of political contexts. When it comes to young adults who actually go through these experiences, the narratives are scarce and often negative.
This year, Kingston smashed its new housing targets by a whopping 250 per cent with 1465 new housing projects starting in the city. But as the demand for housing becomes fiercer and more competitive, Queen’s isn’t doing enough to their students in finding a place to call home.
Weeks after the rest of the world set up encampments in solidarity with Palestine, the Queen’s University Apartheid Divest (QUAD) and Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR) Queen’s groups gathered in front of Richardson Hall. Among other demands, protestors have called for Queen’s divestment from corporations profiting from human rights violations in Palestine.
The adaption of the “survival of the fittest” strategy in ing for a family doctor, as seen in Kingston, represents the ways in which the Ontario government continues to break the public’s trust.
Mondays are usually the hardest day of the week when you’re a graduate student worker—it’s when emails, assignments, and phone calls start coming in. March 4, however, was different.
Coupled with the ongoing threat against the humanities, these changes could potentially go unnoticed at a school like Queen’s, which is dominated by more “practical” programs like commerce and engineering. The path to a high-paying career may be more obvious with these degrees (not to mention the potential to produce more generous donors), but the humanities are about far more than money.
