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Vol. 152, Issue 7
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Friday, September 20, 2024
Graduate funding slashed, a blow on equity and financial necessity
Senior administration blamed by student groups for favouring the privileged
The future of graduate students remains in the dark. In a letter addressed to the University on Sept. 19, the Society of Graduate and Professional Students (SGPS) expressed concern over the Senior Leadership Team’s (SLT) recent decision to cut the Queen’s Graduate Award (QGA) for incoming Master’s students The letter was sent out on Sept. 19. starting next fall. While the cuts don’t set to eliminate $4,100 per affect all Masters funding student toward research as supervisors and Master’s beginning next programs can still provide fall. The elimination of financial support, this move, Ontario Graduate Scholarships part of a broader response (OGS) funding is expected to the University’s to disproportionately impact operating budget deficit, is equity-deserving groups,
Students honour Mahsa Amini with commemoration of her
including first-generation graduate students and those facing financial hardship, the letter stated. The letter urges Master’s students to share their stories about how the lack of funding—specifically, how a $4,100 reduction in stipends—would affect their ability to pursue or continue their studies. “These cuts to Masters funding are an attack on the working class. What it does is it ensures that only people who either secure private or public funding or who already have the means to pay for an entire graduate
The Iranian Association of Queen’s University held a commemoration on Monday, Sept. 16 marking two years since the death of Mahsa Amini on Sept. 16, 2022. While visiting her family, 22-year-old Amini died in the custody of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps after being arrested by the Islamic Republic’s morality police for wearing her hijab too loosely. “[The Islamic Republic’s morality police] have been
controlling women and enforcing religious dress codes using intimidation tactics and abuse for the past 45 years,” an event speaker said. Amini’s death was the ignition to the Woman, Life, Freedom movement, which gained momentum in Iran and globally. The commemoration, held in Mackintosh-Corry Hall, included a documentary screening, speeches, and Iranian poems read by students. The commemoration concluded with a candle-lighting ceremony to honour the women affected by the ongoing struggle. The documentary, How Mahsa Aminis death sparked the hijab protests that changed Iran by public affairs program Foreign Correspondent highlights the first-hand experiences of women and families living in Iran under a government that imposes many restrictions on women’s daily lives. “I think this [her death] was
another part of the wake-up call for so many Iranians, especially Irani women, who realized that if Mahsa could lose her life, simply for existing, that none of them were safe,” the same student said in their speech. “To give up is not an option when the fight inside Iran continues every day when a girl leaves her house without her mandatory hijab, not knowing who she would encounter that day.” Women in Iran face legal discrimination in personal status matters, including marriage, divorce, inheritance, and decisions involving children. Under the civil code, husbands can dictate where their wives live and prevent them from holding certain
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Two years after her death, students reflect on the ongoing fight for women’s rights in Iran
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Marking the halfway point of the regular season, the Gaels defeated their historic rival 48-20, the Ottawa Gee-Gees, on Sept. 14 in Ottawa, recording their 500th all-time win. The Gaels first took to the gridiron in 1882, since then they’ve been a pioneer leading the way for other football programs nation-wide to look up to, and chase in terms of legacy and prestige. For Head Coach of the Men’s Football team, Steve Snyder, the win was more than just an achievement for those who played on the team. PHOTO BY HERBERT WANG “Anytime you can win a education themselves can attend football game, it’s a good feeling. Master’s program,” PSAC 901 But when you put a bunch of President Jake Morrow said in an history on top of it, and interview with The Journal. you’re able to share it Morrow emphasized with all the people that these cuts benefit only the have played a part in the past privileged and harm those from that have helped us accumulate underprivileged and marginalized to this point, that’s really backgrounds, calling the what 500 was all about. policy discriminatory Celebrating the alumni and and despicable. all the fans,” Snyder said in an Morrow believes Matthew interview with The Journal. Evans is the “hatchet Queen’s has beenc competing man,” and blames senior against the Gee-Gees since leadership—namely, Principal 1889. After winning their last PatrickDeane—forcausinggraduate eight games against the students’ instability in their studies. grey and garnet, there was pressure to secure SGPS on page 2 the 500th win on the road. The Gaels came out flying in the first quarter, recording three touchdowns, with the first occupations if deemed coming from young phenom Iain contrary to “family values.” St. Arnault, ArtSci ’27, who The Passports Law returned yet another missed restricts married women field goal attempt—making from obtaining passports this his third returned or traveling without field goal attempt in just their husband’s written two games. consent—this consent can Football on page 10 be revoked at any time. The civil code allows girls to marry statistics, at least 165 at age 13 and boys at women in Iran were age 15 and at younger killed by male family ages if authorized by members between March 2021 a judge, according to and the end of June 2023, an Human Rights Watch. average of one killing every Cases of femicide are four days. From mid-March to increasingly reported in media and mid-May of last year, so called social media, but Iran has no law on “honour killings” saw domestic violence to 27 women reported as prevent abuse and protect murdered—killings of survivors. As reported women and girls perpetrated by Shargh and based on official by family members. @queensjournal
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