Queen's Journal - Volume 146 - Issue 16

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Men’s rugby suffer first loss in two years at national championships

Getting my dream job and trading Kingston for the concrete jungle

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the journal Vol. 146, Issue 16

Queen’s University

Thursday, November 29, 2018

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Queen’s confirms ‘unfortunate’ Chance Macdonald talk Smith School of Business to review guest speaker process

R aechel H uizinga Assistant News Editor Last spring, Chance Macdonald—a former Queen’s student who was convicted in August of 2017 for common assault of a 16-year-old—guest lecturered a Queen’s business class, the University confirmed Tuesday. The University said Macdonald appeared via Skype to guest lecture a class of Accelerated MBA students. Macdonald was originally charged with

sexual assault and forcible confinement in 2015 before pleading guilty to the lesser charge of common assault nearly two years later. Justice Letourneau later postponed Macdonald’s sentencing, which allowed him to complete a summer internship. After Justice Letourneau adopted a joint recommendation from both the defence and prosecution, Macdonald was sentenced to 88 days in jail, to be served on weekends.

Queen’s pulls Aung San Suu Kyi’s honourary degree

The sentence began after his four-month summer internship. He also received two years probation. Macdonald didn’t return to Queen’s in the fall of 2017, despite being in the top 10 per cent of his class at the Smith School of Business. At the time of the guest lecture in May, Macdonald had switched to using his middle name, Andrew, and was writing articles covering crypto-currency.

“Nobody could have picked up on that because of the name change,” Mark Erdman, Queen’s Director of Media Relations, said to The Journal over the phone. “He stopped using Chance as his name and was going by Andrew, and nobody made the connection at the time.” In a statement issued on Tuesday, the University said Macdonald appeared “at the invitation of an individual faculty member.” See Macdonald on page 3

Following her silence on the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya in Myanmar, Senate revokes LL.D. N ick P earce Editor in Chief Senate rescinded Myanmar State Chancellor and former human rights icon Aung San Suu Kyi’s Doctorate of Law on Tuesday. The move marks the first pulled honourary degree in Queen’s history. Suu Kyi has drawn international criticism for refusing to oppose the military crackdown in Myanmar’s Rakhine province. The offensive sparked the mass

exodus of the Rohingya minority to Bangladesh, following reports of widespread killings, sexual violence, and ethnic cleansing. In response, Senate revoked Suu Kyi’s 1995 Honorary Doctor of Law for her “failure to live up to her commitment or avail herself of opportunities to speak in defense of the Rohingya people,” a Tuesday University press release read. Queen’s has never pulled an honourary degree since the practice began

146 years ago. The action is the latest Canadian development in Suu Kyi’s fall from grace. A 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Suu Kyi first received international praise for peaceful resistance to the country’s military leadership, who detained her for nearly two decades between 1989 and 2010. The Nobel Peace

See Suu Kyi on page 3

A sketch of Aung San Suu Kyi.

ILLUSTRATION BY JULIA BALAKRISHNAN

THE WOMEN OF QUEEN’S, SEEN THROUGH THEIR C A M P U S PA P E R Examining the presence and portrayal of women in The Journal through the decades PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY AMELIA RANKINE

The Journal Staff of 1917-18.

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IN THIS ISSUE: Queen’s United Way reaches over 90 per cent of its goal, p. 3. Don’t give up on print media just yet, p. 6. English literature deserves respect, p. 7. The Wilderness’ new EP reflects on past hardships, p. 8. Tri-colour Sex Diary, p. 15. queensjournal.ca

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