Controversy over gossip site
A new gossip site for university students has some university administrators trying to block on-campus access.
Room 110, a website modelled after the television show Gossip Girl, is intended to show what goes on in universities and college campuses across Canada.
The website launched in the middle of November and features photos, opinions and rumors about students from 19 different campuses, including McGill, Brock University and the University of British Columbia.
Tragedy at Queen’s
A memorial is being planned at Queen’s University to honour a first-year student who died after falling through a skylight, according to Safirah Chowdhury, president and CEO of the Alma Mater Society (AMS) of Queen’s University.
Habib Khan, a 19-year-old student from Toronto, was on the roof of the Education Library in Duncan McArthur Hall on the university’s west campus Dec. 2 with another student, confirmed Queen’s communications officer Michael Onesi.
Homecoming cancelled
Queen’s University has suspended its annual fall homecoming for an additional three years, according to a statement by Principal Daniel Woolf.
The Queen’s student-run newspaper the Journal, said homecoming was initially suspended in 2008 for two years after the Aberdeen Street party, an unsanctioned homecoming tradition, drew in a crowd of over 6,000 people.
In 2005 the party turned riotous after a car was flipped and set on fire. Crowds were also turning on police and pelting them with beer bottles.
Global warming’s got them stripping
Over a dozen students at the University of Guelph stripped down Nov. 25 in support of the Climate Change Accountability Act, which was recently struck down by Conservative senators.
Bill C-311 narrowly passed its first Senate reading in May before being struck down 43 to 32 during its second Senate reading Nov. 16.
J. Geoff Loughton, a Guelph student, said he was dismayed to hear the bill had been struck down. “My initial reaction . . . was outrage,” said the
fifth-year political science student.
Saks. grad students can apply for permanent residence
International graduate students in Saskatchewan universities can now apply for Canadian permanent residency after graduation through a new provincial program, according to the Saskatchewan Ministry of Advanced Education, Employment and Immigration.
The Saskatchewan Immigrant Nominee Program (SINP) has updated its master’s and PhD graduate stream under the student category this November.
The program allows the province to nominate applicants to get their landed immigrant status under certain required criteria.
