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The annual Take Back the Night event launches a new campaign targeted bystanders to prevent sexual assaults.
American countries who wanted to introduce the campaign and translate it into Spanish.” The idea was sparked last summer in a big meeting with L’action Ontario and Ontario
The Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) recently released their report on Queen’s investigation into a former professor’s conduct. Michael Mason has sparked criticism in the 82-page report released by the CAUT on Thursday. The report alleges that the University’s investigation into the professor emeritus of history, violated his academic freedom and “acted callously and irresponsibly in how it handled complaints with respect to his teaching.” As part of the report, CAUT recommends that Queen’s history department establish a yearly bursary of $4,000 in Mason’s name and deliver a formal apology to him. The University’s administration was also encouraged
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Where will you draw the line?
Almost 200 people marched through downtown Kingston rallying against sexual assault B y R achel H erscovici Assistant News Editor Thursday’s annual Take Back the Night march featured the launch of the new Draw the Line campaign — a provincial effort to target bystanders in sexual assault prevention. “The Draw the Line Campaign looks at bystanders and asks them through a series of posters — when you see something where do you ‘draw the line?” Kim Graham, community education coordinator at the Sexual Assault Centre Kingston and an organizer of the event told the Journal. The campaign’s goal is to dispel common myths, open a dialogue and educate Ontarians about sexual violence. The campaign is designed to be catchy and broad enough to
include people from every walk of life, no matter their gender or sexual orientation. The campaign’s signs, which were featured in the march, provide onlookers with statements like: “Your wasted friend staggers
out of the bar with some guy … where do you draw the line?” “I hope it creates a discussion amongst people,” Graham said. “Most people have really positive feedback on the campaign ... there have been some calls from South
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AMS releases discipline memo Executive and University come to a non-academic discipline agreement B y Vincent M atak Assistant News Editor A new Non-Academic Discipline (NAD) system at Queen’s will see more emphasis on peer enforced
sanctions against student offenders. NAD is a peer-judicial system that enforces sanctions for students who commit offences such as theft, illegal possession or consumption of alcohol, perjury and
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public disturbances. An agreement between the AMS executive team and Principal Daniel Woolf was signed on Sept. 11 to revamp the system after 18 months of discussion between the AMS and the University’s Senate Committee on Non-Academic Discipline (SONAD). Changes to the system will have to be voted on during Senate on Tuesday. A large part of the discussion process consisted of the AMS regaining judiciary control of NAD from Student Affairs, which had dealt with most non-academic discipline infractions since Skinner’s review was put forward to Queen’s administration. “We were able to come to an agreement with the University and it was a long and very time consuming process so I would
say that we’re relieved that the system maintains the core feature of a peer judicial system,” said Mira Dineen, AMS vice president of university affairs. The decision to review the system started after Coroner Roger Skinner recommended a review of Queen’s alcohol policies in 2011 following several student deaths on campus. Changes include establishing minimum sanctions for malicious blue light activation and rooftop and alcohol-related cases, with progressive sanctions for recurring offenders. NAD also plans to increase expediency of cases by establishing a 60-day deadline from the time a case is received to being closed. Sanctions include fines of up to $1,000, community service of up See New on page 6