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ISSUE #1, 2006
VOLUME 80, NUMBER 1
SERVING THE QUEEN’S COMMUNITY SINCE 1927 UNIVERSITY
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION UPDATE EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK
14 TIME TO TURN THE TIDE
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
The Queen’s University Alumni Association is
celebrating its 80th anniversary in 2006, and CAMPUS GAZETTE
President Dan Rees says the organization is An historic agreement is signed,
“changing and redefining itself.” Homecoming’06 to go ahead,
Principal Hitchcock seeks impartial
BY KEN CUTHBERTSON, REVIEW EDITOR
inquiry, and much more.
COVER STORY
10 CAMPUS SCENE
16 CAN YOU TEACH A
“The future is now
SOCIAL CONSCIENCE?
at Stauffer Library”
Ata time of escalating environmental
by Kay Langmuir
problems, a growing gap between rich and
poor, and unrelenting ethnic and religious 13 EUREKA
conflicts, Queen’s and other universities are Updates on some of the fascinating
beginning to grasp and noteworthy research that’s
the imperative of underway at Queen’s.
preparing their
26 AT THE BRANCHES
a ee) graduates for a
Ry) ale
Dal world in which the 29 TRICOLOUR MEMORIES
stakes are high and “Farewell, Norman”
the stakeholders by David Levy, MA’79, DSc’94
ever more diverse.
KEEPING IN TOUCH
BY ANNE KERSHAW BSWPYITH LEODPT HOE N
Alumni Association President ALUMNI SPOTLIGHTS
RVIBYLEA LRYUDMSAOTGNRUDAET RI ON
Dan Rees, Com’92, Artsci’93 Joanne Hochu, Artsci/PHE’79
ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT - ‘60S Mark Rayner, Artsci’89
24 THE POWER OF OPTIMISM Mike Martelle, Artsci’98
Ginny (Dobson) Shrivastava, Arts’63, the 2005 Alumni Achievement Award Elena Jutco, Artsci’07;
winner, has became a Nobel Prize nominee and a powerful advocate for Tyler Murree, Artsci’02;
hundreds of thousands of India’s poorest women. Kate Greenhouse, Artsci’93; and,
BY ANNE LINSCOTT Paula Boudreau, Arstci’90
57 GRACE’S GRADS
“A passion for publishing,”
Melissa Kluger, Artsci’98
58 BULLETIN BOARD
60 THE LAST WORD
BNY
ILLNWUIICSLKTLYRI AATMISO
“A useful line of thinking,”
by Barbara Ferguson, Artsci’96, Ed’97
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There is something new
ISSUE #1, 2006
VOL. 80, NO. 1
under the sun EDITOR
Ken Cuthbertson, Artsci’74, Law’83
EDITOR EMERITA
Catherine Perkins, Arts’58
q Bice: no more vivid reminder of rather read the magazine on-line. KEEPING-IN-TOUCH NOTES EDITOR
Sarah Withrow
how computers rule the world than Mind you, this does NOT mean that
the seismic shift in popular attitudes, we will stop mailing the Review. No, ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Heather Grace Stewart, Artsci’95
habits, and tastes that has taken place not at all. What it does mean is that you
AT THE BRANCHES EDITORS
in recent years. Hundreds of millions of and your classmates and other friends
Liz Gorman, Sc’97
people now go on-line to get their daily now have a choice. If you’d prefer to Norine Tousignant
fix of news and information, to listen to receive only the on-line edition of the Peggy Shanks
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music, watch movies, tune-in to radio Review, let us know. Just send us an e-
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ART DIRECTOR
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MA’79, DSc’94, ("Farewell Norman,” 2006-2007
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Kp LETTERS
ARE THERE NO CRITICAL VOICES Until Canadian laws are changed to reflect the realities of teenage drinking
AT QUEEN’S?
and brain development the University will suffer through problems thrust
Re: “Dr. Bass Goes to
Washington...” upon it by outside forces MICHAEL A, BIRCH $C’74, OKLAHOMA CITY, OK
ISSUE #3, 2005, P. 16
monster (sic) as the West has had on
ie very disappointed in the kudos its victory over drugs. God Bless the
given to Dr. Bass and his sycophantic Revolution.
behaviour working for the Amerikan CHRIS PRINGLE, ARTSCI’75 » ~S FQ Aeaswagy y:
(sic) government. Taking any credit for KITCHENER, ON
the 9/11 Commission report — a sopho-
moric piece of self-serving sophistry — Geoff Smith's profile of Warren Bass,
Artsci’92, was an Alumni Spotlight profile
gives an impression of either collusion inex Geen ST
not an opinion article. Regardless of what
or simply poor research. Many are
calling it the 21st century’s Warren one thinks of the 9/11 Report or the process
Commission. behind it, there’s no denying that it is an
Even the majority of Americans important historical document, and the fact LIQUOR LAWS THE REAL
do not buy the naive conclusions. Are a Queen’s grad was one of its principal PROBLEM
authors is newsworthy. — Ed.
there no longer any critical voices at
Queen’s? A myrmidon like Bass may rer: that Principal Karen Hitchcock,
not have any other way to put bread “THE REAL THING”? the Board of Trustees, and other Uni-
on the table, but please keep this tripe Re: “The business of doing the versity officials recognize that Queen’s
out of your publication. If I want right thing,” has no obligation to pay anything to
“bloviations” like this I can tune into ISSUE #4-2005, P. 4 the Kingston Police Department. The
FOX or just call the GOP for an update sad event that occurred is not a
on the great war on terror. We can only pees the article concerning the Queen’s problem. The keg party that
pray his contributions will create the University’s decision to return the became a riot or near-riot did not hap-
same success against the newest boogie tainted gifts from the Hollinger execu- pen on Queen’s University property. It
tive ... but I was amazed to turn a was not a University-sanctioned event.
couple of pages and see a full-page ad No group associated with Homecom-
ABOUT THAT CHANGE from Coca Cola explaining how its ing participated in organizing the af-
hNey s beverage exclusivity arrangement on fair. The Mayor, public officials, and
campus will result in great things for police are responsible for maintaining
hy Re: “A great old photo,” Queen’s. Is the University aware of order and discipline on city property.
ee
ISSUE #4-2005, P. 52 Coke’s rep in the corporate social re- The real problem is a societal prob-
; sponsibility world — wells in India, lem, which unfortunately Canadian
wr Hy res enior rugby sugar in Ecuador, and so on? Are not politicians will not address. Queen’s is
team did not the “benefits” from this deal just as not responsible for the laws that permit
~a bandon their tradi- tainted as the Hollinger donations? drinking at an early age. Allowing
tional tricolour
I don’t know if Coke has ever been teenagers unfettered access to alcohol
uniforms in 1947 as convicted of a relevant crime or wrong- is irresponsible, if not criminal. Many
might be inferred doing, but I believe an element of the of the students at Queen’s are away
aps from the editor’s character of Caesar’s wife should come from home and direct adult supervi-
note. The change to into play where Queen’s is staking sion for the first time. This coincides
a~ ll-gold sweaters T19R4I7 COLOR some moral ground. with a time when their brains are not
Although he only
occurred in 1946. fully developed. Their reasoning pow-
weighed about 175 MARYANNE MURPHY, SC’86
4_ That year also lbs. Jim Southey OTTAWA, ON ers and ability to exert self-control are
_ marked the arrival played center for still developing.
at Queen’s of sever- the varsity team The circumstances surrounding the Radler All these factors plus the stress and
al very good foot- for two seasons, gift and of the University’s reaction to his freedom of attending university create
1945 and 1946. guilty plea in the criminal proceedings
ball players, includ- a“ a potentially volatile situation. Until
ing Al Lenard, Arts/PHE’50, and Jim against him by implication raise a myriad Canadian laws are changed to reflect
~C harters, MD’52. Unhappily, it was of perplexing and intriguing ethical issues. the realities of teenage drinking, and
_ also the one and only year of a disas- A key question is this: must all institutions brain development, the University will
_ trous head coach from the University and charities now look each and every suffer through problems thrust upon it
of Illinois, Doug Monsson. proverbial gift horse in the mouth? If so, by outside forces. The real solution is
what standard(s) should be used to judge
JIM SOUTHEY, ARTS’48 to change the laws governing alcohol
the propriety of corporate and private gifts?
TORONTO, ON consumption and availability and to
Comments? — Ed. then vigorously enforce those laws.
QUEEN’S ALUMNI REVIEW * ISSUE 1, 2006 3
Until that happens, any keg party has ALCOHOL USE ON CAMPUS the Homecoming riot were neither
the potential for careening out of con- Queen’s students nor alumni, a local
trol. Homecoming had nothing to do M: reading of Alec Ross’s article tradition of over-indulgence in alcohol
with the rowdy behavior. reinforced my impression that has developed in the Queen’s environ-
MICHAEL A. BIRCH, SC’74 adverse influences of alcohol are con- ment with implicit, if not deliberate en-
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK sistently minimized in the Review. couragement by the Review.
Imbibing as a major cause of the riot Misbehaviour by drunken youths is
MONEY COULD BE BETTER SPENT was dismissed as unpreventable, but not restricted to the Queen’s University
the Review then further encouraged it area, as noted in the Review article.
T first question is: “How could it by following the Homecoming article That it’s being carried to extreme
happen?” There were unrests in with a four-page feature advertising a lengths in Kingston may reflect what is
previous years and more was expected winery with a short article on another seen by many as “only an expression
this time. Queen’s and the Kingston article on a sommelier later in the issue of Queen’s spirit” (pun intended), but
police ended up with a very “black (“Wine, a woman, and a song of success,” one that is deplored by many Queen’s
eye” for not handling this. Students p. 47). Surely, other successful entrepre- graduates.
were breaking the law by drinking in neurs might have been more appropri- A.J. ERSKINE, MA’55, PHD’57
the street and nothing could be done? ate there? SACKVILLE, NB
This is hard to believe. Alumni magazines from four univer-
Alcohol consumption — and problems with
My next thought concerns the cost of sities regularly come to our house. and
alcohol abuse — are hardly unique to
the damage. All donors to the Alumni the Review consistently features more
Fund drives must wonder whether pub nights among their advertise alum- Queen’s University or to the Queen's
student or alumni communities. According
their contributions indirectly pay for ni gatherings than any other magazine.
to a recent survey by the Centre for Addic-
this debacle. Giving $84,000 to the If Queen’s alumni cannot be induced to
tion and Mental Health, 32 per cent of un-
police would hurt a cash-strapped uni- gather without having alcohol available,
dergrad students at Canada’s universities
versity. That money could have funded something is seriously wrong with
show signs of “dependent drinking.” — Ed.
one of the desperately needed projects. them. Even if most persons present at
I hope Queen’s finds an appropriate
solution without canceling the Home-
coming’06 celebrations.
VOLKER OETTERSHAGEN, SC’70
* The Davies Charitable Foundation
CAMLACHIE, ON
EGO AND ALCOHOL The Davies Charitable Foundation
A BAD COMBINATION 245 Alwington Place
Kingston, Ontario
ee is not a place where stu-
Canada
dents are likely to “tie together
K7L 4P9
their behaviour when they’re out party-
ing ... with what they think about a
dictatorship in Southeast Asia” (Patrick
Deane in “Coming Home to What?”). In
order for students to act in the interest
of others, their own egos must shrink.
At a school where Frosh Week teach-
Established by the Davies Charitable Foundation and
es students to chant: “Kill McGill” and
awarded on the basis of academic excellence for a year of
“You're gonna work for us someday,”
where the Review focuses not on good study/research at the post-doctoral or medical fellowship
that is done, but on the fact that good is level. Award value of $10,000.00. Applicants must have
done by Queen’s alumni, and where
been born in the Kingston, Ontario area or have resided in
judges of the first alumni photo contest
are awarded liquor (LCBO honorari- the area for at least 5 years prior to the student's 20th
ums?!?) and meetings of alumni invari- birthday. The fellowship is tenable in all disciplines and at
ably occur in pubs, our on-going
the University of the student's choice. Submissions are due
Queen’s education teaches us not to
focus on others, but on ourselves while April 15th. For application information contact The Davies
consuming alcohol. Please remove my Charitable Foundation, or www.daviesfoundation.ca
name from your mailing list.
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GOOD MINDS AND yet it has taken the Review to draw
FOR MORE LETTERS, PLEASE SEE THE
GOOD JUDGMENT attention to them.
_Reviewptus FEATURE OF THE REVIEW WEB SITE,
_ [email protected]. What is Basketball Canada doing
7 articles about Homecoming’05 without help from these two Queen’s
have me racking my tired brain. grads?! No other Canadians have ever
There are no simple answers. certainly enjoyed the libations. I also had two first-round NBA picks. And
The suggestion of moving Home- enjoyed the education and every other that is just one part of their sporting
coming to the depths of winter in Feb- activity that Queen’s offered. lives.
ruary would solve the street party Has the Review editorial staff ever Years ago,
problem, but would almost certainly be attended an AA meeting? Have the they guided
no more than a pause on the way to school staff, from the chancellor up- the great
canceling Homecoming. At best, such a wards (or downwards, whatever way Nigerian
major change would have to be made you want to be politically correct), ever sprinter, Fran-
several years in advance of implemen- considered that this problem goes cis Obikwelu
tation. The party problem won’t wait. beyond our intelligent, academic (now a Por-
Besides, we’d miss our football mindset? Could it be more about the tuguese citi-
game! problems that more and more people zen) who won
I like the idea of involving today’s are facing everyday? the Silver in
students in keeping order in the street. Education is wonderful, yet, I the 2004 PBRMBYFOOH ABOO’IN9TN1,O
Let’s give our volunteers bright vests would argue that without emotional Olympics 100 Joe Santos
and badges, as well as precise instruc- intelligence, you may as well offer metres. The All-American sprinter
tions, and issue cheapie cameras and classes for our pets. You bet alcohol Wilson Ogbeide was one of their
encourage owners of digital cameras to and drugs play a huge factor in the charges. They have a basketball team
photograph untoward behaviour — and “party crasher” mentality. As an edu- in Sao Carlos, Brazil.
publicize widely that this will be hap- cated community, I would hope that I think their great contribution has
pening. Prevention, after all, is the ob- my school is a 21st-century school and been with RENCTAS, a Brazilian organ-
jective. If there is nothing much to thinking beyond the 20th-century aca- ization that fights the illegal wild ani-
record, wouldn’t that be splendid? demia, which is becoming less and less mal trade and child abuse. In 2003,
I want our students to be able to feel relevant. If Queen’s, as a community their friend, Dener José Giovanini, the
proud of themselves and of our Univer- does not take a strong stand against the founder of RENCTAS, shared the
sity. Proper pride must be earned. Good alcohol “fun” that we sometimes think UNEP’s top environment prize with
minds should enable their possessors to is “just a part of growing up”, then you China’s Minister for the Environment.
exercise good judgment. Our students are truly not educated, and I would Last November, RENCTAS won the
have at least one more chance to earn never recommend my or any other’s OAS Green Prize of the Americas. Their
the respect of the citizens of Kingston: children to Queen’s. site will interest you: www.renctas.org.br
Homecoming 2006. This alumna will be It’s time to grow up and be account- And, of course, as the article makes
cheering for their success. able. Well, it starts when it begins, and clear, they are the people behind the
so I challenge the Queen’s community great, and sadly injured Nené of the
PRISCILLA GALLOWAY, ARTS’51
TORONTO, ON to start promoting a dry Queen’s life. Denver Nuggets.
Make life fun without being pissed. Queen’s should be very proud of
QUEEN’S: THE PARTY SCHOOL There’s an academic challenge. these two grads, and it would be to the
SHERRILL MAIR, ARTSC’84 benefit of all were their wonderful
ve story by Alec Ross was good VANCOUVER, BC work drawn to the attention of the
news coverage. No, it was great University community at large.
news coverage. It documented, as TWO OF CANADA’S DONALD G. MITCHELL, LAW’67
many newspapers do not do, the facts! OUTSTANDING SPORTS PEOPLE OTTAWA, ON
However, although alcohol was Re: “Brazilian hoop dreams,”
mentioned as a major contributing fac- ISSUE #3-2005, P. 39 BRICKBATS OR BOUQUETS?
tor to the problems, it was a passing THE REVIEW WELCOMES LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
comment, and that makes me laugh. GG: piece on Greg Dole and Joe PLEASE BE BRIEF (250-300 WORDS MAX.),
Queen’s is, and has, always been “a Santos. They are amazing men, AND INCLUDE YOUR
party school”. I admit I am a party girl, and what they have achieved should PHONE NUMBER OR E-MAIL ADDRESS.
E-MAIL [email protected]
and I was attracted to Queen’s more make Queen’s proud. Space, of course,
for that reputation than anything else. is always the problem, but there was FAX [phone], OR
When Ia rrived, the party culture was so much left unsaid about these mod- MAIL TO ALUMNI REVIEW,
OFFICE OF ADVANCEMENT
strong. Kudos to those students who est champions of Queen’s. It seems to
QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY,
did not succumb to the “alcool drinks” me that these two young alumni,
99 UNIVERSITY AVE.,
and the free-flowing beer that seemed whom I know, are among Canada’s
KINGSTON, ON, K7L 3N6
to be an inherent part of Frosh Week. I most outstanding sports people. And
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NOTICE OF ACCLAMATION - Election of Councillors by Graduates 6-year Term (2006-2012)
Deborah Alexander, B.A.’72 Al Hyland, B.sc.’61
Susan Austin, B.A.’85, M.B.A.90 Sarah Iley, B.A.(Hons.)’78
Phillipe Sylvain Bernier, B.Sc.’02 Joe Lougheed, B.A.’87, LL.B.’91
Ted Cadsby, B.A.’88, M.B.A.’91, C.F.A.94 Susan Lounsbury, B.Sc.’82
Philip Walter Coppard, B.Com.’87 Bruce Mitchell, B.Sc.’68, M.B.A.’70
Kristin Dall, B.A.’00, M.A.’02 Brian Pirie, B.Sc.(Eng.)’02
Brydone Dewar, B.Sc.’02 George Thomson, B.A.’62, LL.B.’65, LL.M.’68
J. Blair Erskine, B.Sc.’54 Andrew Weeks, B.Sc.’71, M.D.’76
Murray Hong, B.Sc.(Hons.)’86, M.Se.’89, Ph.D.’93 Krystyna Teresa Williamson, B.Sc.(Hons.)’86
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
NOTICE OF ACCLAMATION - Election of Trustees by Graduates 3-Year Term (2006-2009)
Mary Balanchuk, B.A.’49, B.Paed.’57, M.Ed.’62
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Toby Abramsky (nee Mahler) Merv Daub James D. McCowan
B.A. ‘79 (Toronto) B.Com.’66, Ph.D.'71 (Univ. of Chicago) B.A., Ph.D.(Toronto), Ph.D.(Cambridge)
Kingston, ON Kingston, ON Kingston, ON
VP of Keystone Property Management Emeritus Professor, Queen’s School of Scientist/Engineer. First Chair of the
Inc., recipient of Frontenac Historic Business. Academic Economist; Cataraqui Region Conservation
Foundation and Downtown Business Author: various books (two on aspects Authority (1965-70). Joined Queen’s
Association Awards for Preservation of of Queen’s history) and articles. Chemistry Department from DuPont
Architectural Heritage serving Student Treasurer, Arts and Science Canada in 1967, became Professor
Queen’s student needs. Twenty years Society; Gael Football 1962-65; Emeritus, 2004. Member/Chair of the
of national and local board service to Member, Queen’s Football Hall of PEO Academic Requirements
educational, cultural and civic Fame. Board of Governors, Kingston Committee (1987-99). Associate Dean
organizations. Longtime resident of General Hospital (former Chair, Audit of Applied Science (1990-2004).
Queen’s neighbourhood and mother and Resources Committees), Board of Played leading role in educational
of three university/high school Directors: Community Foundation of innovation and in the development
students. “I am keenly aware of the Greater Kingston (Chair, Marketing and realization of the Integrated
importance of a strong, synergistic and Communications Committee), Learning Centre in Beamish-Munro
partnership between the city and CAA (South Central Ontario). Hall (1994-2004). Mentor, before and
campus; I’m committed to fostering a Currently serving on the Board of after graduation, to three decades of
vital, progressive town-gown Trustees Audit Committee. students. McCowan
relationship.”
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Campus briefs... Queen’s officials are still inves- Mathematical biologist
tigating the unlawful street party wins prestigious
@ HOMECOMING WEEKEND’06 TO GO AHEAD that occurred during
Steacie Prize
Principal Karen Hitchcock has told Homecoming’05. An estimated
the Board of Trustees that a deci- 6,000 rioting students, young A Queen’s expert in modeling the
sion has been made to allow alumni, and hangers on — students transmission and evolution of infec-
Homecoming Weekend’06 to go from other universities across tious diseases such as SARS and
ahead, September 15-17. To not do Canada, local high school students, avian flu is the 2005 winner of the
so, she said, “would send the and others who were drawn to the prestigious Steacie Prize, presented
wrong signal.” It would also pose scene — overturned a car, taunted annually to a young scientist or engi-
countless problems for those classes police, fire, and ambulance work-
neer for outstanding research in
that have made plans to return for ers who were on the scene, Canada. Troy Day, PhD’98, Canada
official reunions and have reserved smashed bottles, and destroyed Research Chair in Mathematical
hotel accommodations and made property on Aberdeen Street, a
Biology, studies the evolution and
travel plans. two-block city street just north of causes of infectious diseases through
The University administration has campus. Police handed out more
the use of mathematical models. His
been working with AMS represen- than 300 provincial offences cita- research examines how and why dis-
tatives, city officials, and other tions and laid 20 criminal charges, eases appear when they do, as well as
stakeholders to implement the rec- none of which involved Queen’s the reasons some diseases become
ommendations of a Principal's task students. deadly while others re main relatively
force on community relations, Meanwhile, Campus Security benign.
which last May issued a report con- has given the AMS Judicial
taining a series of 13 proposals to Committee a list of 39 names of
reduce town-gown tensions, Queen’s students who allegedly
improve student housing and committed various provincial e Colpa, Johannes ‘it
safety conditions, and solve some offences. The University is not Professor of Chemistry, died
of the problems that have marred directly involved in the non-aca- November 10 in King
reunion weekends in recent years. demic disciplinary process.
University and its students sign historic agreement
Q': undergraduate students have officially agreed to Queen’s spirit and this is that spirit in action.”
ive $25.5 million to their university, an amount believed “Our students are investing in the future of their institu-
to be the largest-ever single contribution by Canadian post-sec- tion and in their colleagues-to-be,” says Janice Deakin, Acting
ondary students to an educational institution. AMS President Associate Vice-Principal and Dean of Student Affairs and
Ethan Rabidoux and Vice-President (University Affairs) Shiva Director of the School of Physical Health and Education.
Mayer signed an agreement with the University to pledge the “They should be applauded for their forward-thinking com-
money, to be collected from student fees over the next 15 years. mitment to a quality learning environment.”
The contribution is being made to the Queen’s Centre, a Last fall, 71 per cent of the students who attended the AMS
unique $230-million facility for student
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life, athletics, academics, and recreation,
as well as a new home for the School of
Physical and Health Education. The ( >a
Centre, to be constructed in phases over
the next 10 years, is the most ambitious
building project ever undertaken by the
University. Phase I will begin this
spring.
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“We're very grateful to have this
level of enthusiastic support from our
students,” Vice-Principal (Advance- ay J A | ACRPBRYUEH TSLOSSITCEAIOL ’ L8,0
ment) George Hood says. “It speaks to Student leaders and University officials recently sat down together in the Memorial Room of the John
their long-term commitment to their Deutsch University Centre to formally sign an agreement by which students have pledged $25.5 million
toward the cost of building the planned Queen’s Centre building. The money will be collected over a
university, that they are thinking about
15-year period. Pictured at the signing are (I-r): V-P (Advancement) George Hood, Artsci’78, MPA’81;
the students who come after them. AMS President Ethan Rabidoux, Artsci’06; Acting Associate Vice-Principal and Dean of Student Affairs
Everyone has heard of the famous Janice Deakin, Arts/PHE’80, Ed’81; and, AMS V-P (University Affairs) Shiva Mayer, Sc’06.
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