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Sports
Queenâs hosts volleyball nationals B y B enjamin D eans Assistant Sports Editor Menâs volleyball coach Brenda Willis measures her career in benchmarks. In 1987, she took over a team that hadnât won a provincial title in 15 years and played its home games in the smallest gym at the now-defunct PEC. âThere were no seats,â Willis said. âTheyâd bring out a stack of 50 chairs for people to sit in and people actually had to lift the chair off the rack themselves and put it out.â That was several benchmarks ago. This weekend, her team â coming off its second Ontario title in three seasons â will host the national menâs volleyball championship at the ARC, a
Inside News
Missing RMC student found dead. page 9
features
Volunteers aim to collect 600 pints of blood on campus this year. page 3
dialogue
Examining the merits of the Conservativeâs Bill C-30. Page 11
ARTS
A new exhibit at Union Gallery explores social and personal memory. page 12
Sports
After its OUA gold medal, the womenâs volleyball team is in Hamilton for the national championship. page 20
Postscript
Queenâs swing dancers explain what lindy bombing is. Page 27
two-year-old, $230-million facility. The fifth-seeded Gaels play their first game at 6 p.m. tonight against the fourth-seeded University of Alberta Golden Bears. The Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) championship is an eight-team, single-elimination tournament â if the Gaels lose to the Golden Bears tonight, their best possible finish would be fifth place. A loss would be anticlimactic, considering plans for this tournament have been in the works for five years. Willis brought in six recruits in the summer of 2007 to build a team that would contend at this yearâs CIS championships. âWe felt that was a lineup that could win the national championship and I still believe that,â she said. Five of the recruits are still with the team. Setter Dan Rosenbaum and outside hitter Bryan Fautley missed most of this season with chronic injuries. But outside hitters Joren Zeeman and Niko Rukavina and middle hitter Mike Amoroso were all OUA all-stars this season and have led the team to a fifth-seed, tying their highest-ever ranking going into national championship. The Gaelsâ seed means they wonât play the best teams until later in the tournament. Willis said sheâs confident ahead of tonightâs game against Alberta, even though the Golden Bears beat the Gaels at the Dino Cup in October. See Coach on page 24
Don Drummond, the man charged with solving Ontarioâs financial woes, speaks to a crowd of 150 people at Robert Sutherland Hall yesterday afternoon.
Tuition
Drummond on campus In a 668-page report, Queenâs adjunct professor recommends that Ontario government increase tuition and axe 30 per cent grant B y J oanna P lucinska Contributor The man commissioned to balance Ontarioâs budget recommends increasing tuition costs and cutting the 30 per cent off tuition grant. Former TD bank economist Don Drummond released a 668-page document with 362 recommendations on Feb. 15. He was commissioned by Premier Dalton McGuinty last year. Drummond, an adjunct
professor at Queenâs, spoke to a 150-strong crowd at Robert Sutherland Hall yesterday about his report. A small group of protesters stood outside the talk holding signs, voicing their concerns with the report. Suggested cuts include reductions in corporate tax rebates, the streamlining of health care and the removal of electricity subsidies. Drummond, MA â 77, argues these sacrifices are necessary to
Fine art
Lawyer to revisit BFA decision University will hire lawyer to examine Fine Art suspension B y S avoula S tylianou Assistant News Editor
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Jones, an English professor, brought forward a motion to hire a lawyer at Tuesdayâs Senate meeting. The Universityâs decision to Senate discussed the motion for an suspend admissions to the Fine Art hour before voting of 28 in favour program will now be examined by and 20 against. an independent lawyer. The initial decision to suspend âOur feeling is that if we get admissions into the Fine Art another legal opinion, then program was made on Nov. 9. Queenâs will have to start listening,â For now, the suspension will Senator Mark Jones said. continue until 2012-13. The
decision resulted in protests from BFA students who claimed they werenât consulted. AMS President Morgan Campbell attempted to table the discussion about hiring a lawyer but was promptly voted down. âIâm very sympathetic about tabling a motion because I think people should know what theyâre See Administration on page 7
combat Ontarioâs current deficit of $16 billion, which the Liberal government has planned to eliminate by 2018. In the report, Drummond, instructs the province on how to implement these changes to scale down the deficit. âThe [Public Service] Commission has said that, if we donât do anything differently than what weâre doing now, the deficitâs going to go to $30.2 billion. How are we going to live with that?â Drummond told the Journal. He argues the governmentâs current approach promotes a culture of wastefulness. âThe moment they get back to a balanced budget and the revenueâs coming through the front door, they blow it out the back door,â he said. The recommendation to cut the 30 per cent tuition rebate for full-time, undergraduate students comes only a month after it was implemented. âItâs $462 million -â thatâs not a good way to spend money. For a much smaller amount, you couldâve targeted some assistance at [students] who are more financially See Tuition on page 7