Campus Beat

Hello and welcome to another edition of Campus Beat!  In this episode, we share a recording of CFRC’s live broadcast of the 2024 Queen’s University Tricolour Awards Ceremony where Niki Boytchuk Hale, Kyla Gibson, Tara Rezvan, and Meena Waseem were inducted into the Tricolour Society.  The event took place at the University Club on April 5th and was broadcasted locally on CFRC 101.9 FM and streamed globally via cfrc.ca.

Named in honour of Dr. Agnes Benidickson, former Chancellor of Queen’s University from 1980 to 1996, the Agnes Benidickson Tricolour Award (ABTA) and induction into the Tricolour Society is the highest tribute that can be paid to a Queen’s University student for distinguished service, leadership, character, and community impact during their time at Queen’s.

We also interviewed each of this year’s Tricolour winners.  You can check out the conversations here.

Congratulations Niki, Meena, Kyla and Tara!

Hello and welcome to another edition of Campus Beat!  In this episode, we have the privilege of chatting with Niki Boytchuk Hale, Kyla Gibson, Tara Rezvan, and Meena Waseem, this year’s Agnes Benedickson Tricolour Award Winners!

Named in honour of Dr. Agnes Benidickson, former Chancellor of Queen’s University from 1980 to 1996, the Agnes Benidickson Tricolour Award (ABTA) and induction into the Tricolour Society is the highest tribute that can be paid to a Queen’s University student for distinguished service, leadership, character, and community impact during their time at Queen’s.

Outgoing Queen’s Rector Owen Crawford-Lem has issued an invitation to the Tricolour Awards and induction gala to be held at the University Club on April 5th.  CFRC will also be live broadcasting this historic occasion for listeners near and far on its airwaves locally at 101.9 FM in Kingston and via webstream at CFRC.ca.  Learn more by visiting queensu.ca/alumni about how to register for the award ceremony and learn more about the tricolour awards through the Office of the Rector website at queensu.ca/rector.  

Let’s dive in now to our chat with Niki, Meena, Kyla and Tara and learn more about their significant impacts on queen’s university life and culture.  We hope you enjoy the episode.  

In this episode, we present an exclusive interview with Calder Bryson, Chief Electoral Officer for the Alma Mater Society undertaken on February 2nd 2024.  Bryson discusses electoral processes for the AMS Executive Team following the January 31st withdrawal of a team member from JNN, the potential impacts for student engagement with the voting process for the Rector positions and fee-seeking clubs on the referendum ballot, and the importance of slates and neutrality for the AMS in the election cycles.

Clubs & Community Groups

In this extended episode of Campus Beat we feature interviews with community and student clubs seeking new fees or renewing existing ones during this year’s AMS and SGPS Elections and Referenda occuring February 6th and 7th.  Several clubs did not respond to our requests for interview.  The AMS Elections Team furnished us with available nomination package pitches which were read by CFRC team members in lieu of an interview.

At the 32 minute mark, listeners will also enjoy the SGPS All Candidates Debate which occurred virtually on January 31st 2024, content of which was furnished to us by the SGPS Elections Team.  Full video of proceedings is available on the SGPS website and their social media.

Then at the 96 minute mark, we are joined by Allison Mei of the Queen’s AMS No Vote 2024 campaign against Team JNN who we interviewed earlier this week and content from which was broadcasted on CFRC 101.9 FM on January 30th and podcasted here. 

Since the time of recording our interviews with the No Vote 2024 campaign and Team JNN, CFRC has learned that Nico Brasset of Team JNN has withdrawn from the AMS executive slate.  While we await word from the AMS elections team on next steps related to the executive election as there is now no qualified slate of candidates to run for executive office, we were able to catch up with Nico Brasset formerly of Team JNN for an exclusive interview responding to questions about the No Campaign and his withdrawal from the AMS executive slate.  Our discussion with Nico starts at the 100 minute mark.

Finally, at the 113 minute mark, we caught up with Queen’s Rector Candidates Leo Yang and Niki Boytchuk Hale who joined us to shed light on their leadership experience, their goals for office, and the importance of voting in AMS and SGPS Elections.

All students at Queen’s University are reminded to watch their emails (including their junk folders) for ballot information from their respective student governments so they may cast their votes.  More information about AMS and SGPS elections can be found at myams.org and sgps.ca.

In this episode of Campus Beat, we welcome this year’s Alma Mater Society Executive Team candidates now running for election.  Team JNN is the only slated team running in the 2024 AMS elections.  Jason Kim, Noah Mawji and Nicolas Brasset also known as Nico join us to discuss their experience and their vision for AMS governance for 2024-2025.  Following our discussion with Team JNN, we throw it over to CFRC’s Campus News Liaison Erika Singh for an interview with folks from Union Gallery, the student led art gallery at Stauffer Library about Union Gallery’s upcoming annual fundraiser now renamed Side by Side.  

For more information about this year’s AMS elections and referenda, visit myams.org.  Voting happens February 6th-7th.

Stay tuned to CFRC 101.9 FM/cfrc.ca for further interviews with SGPS Executive Candidates, Rector Candidates, and fee-seeking club representatives on the referendum ballot.  More podcasts to come!

In this episode airing on CFRC 101.9 FM/cfrc.ca at 5:30 ET on January 31st, we feature discussions with the 2024-25 Society of Graduate and Professional Students Executive Candidates currently campaigning ahead of the February 6th and 7th 2024 election period. 

We were able to catch up with Emils Matiss, Simran Sharma, Katie Zutautas, Zaid Kassim, and Maya Kawale who joined us to chat about their leadership experience, their campaign platforms for their respective SGPS positions, and the importance of student engagement with the voting process. Unfortunately, we were not able to meet with Julia Tropak running for VP Graduate, but you can find information about their platform, and all candidate platforms at SGPS.ca and hear more from everyone at tonight’s SGPS debate live at the zoom credentials below which CFRC will also rebroadcast and podcast in the coming days. 

SGPS Executive Debate, 6 PM, January 31st

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89450077580?pwd=NWlra1BxOUY0eVdtcTlFVnd2UzJzUT09

Meeting ID: 894 5007 7580

Passcode: 866930

The December 19th edition of Campus Beat features Erika Singh’s Campus Corner segment with highlights on holiday events and services offered by the Queen’s University International Centre (QUIC) and some of the resources available to students who may be impacted by the proposed cuts to courses at Queen’s University. Dinah Jansen also sits down for an with an interview from October with Queen’s University Provost, Matthew Evans.  They discuss his past experience, his goals for his tenure, and his areas of research expertise while also chatting a little about activities Dr. Evans enjoys outside of academia.

On October 1st 2023, The Conversation published an article entitled “Family Doctor Shortage: Medical education reform can help address critical gaps, starting with a specialized program”, a critical article of interest to every Canadian, including the 6 million Canadians who find themselves without a family doctor.  The article is available via the Conversation.com to read in full.  With us in this epsiode to chat about insights into the problem of Family doctor shortages and the need for education reform in Canada are the articles co-authors by Dr. Jane Philpott, Dean of Queen’s Health Sciences and Anthony Sanfillipo, Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) at Queen’s University.

Also in this episode, CFRC Campus News Liaison Erika Singh features campus news headlines and a conversation with Amy Simcoe, a student at Queen’s University who discusses the Queen’s Social Impact Association’s initiatives.

In this episode, we cover campus news headlines and sit down with Dr. Kathleen Rühland , lead author and senior research scientist with the Queen’s Paleoecological Environmental Assessment and Research Lab (PEARL), whose team recently published a groundbreaking article entitled “Arctic Warming Drives Striking Twenty-First Century Ecosystem Shifts in Great Slave Lake” in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.  In our discussion we learn more about the the algal communities and their place in the ecosystem, Great Slave Lake as a primary field research site, and implications of the PEARL team’s research in the context of climate change.

In this episode, we cover Queen’s University news headlines, highlights from Homecoming 2023, Gaels sports updates, and conversations with three of this year’s Queen’s University Distinguished Service Award winners-Chris Berga, Dr. Elizabeth Jane Errington, and Colette Steer.  These full length interviews cover their many years of service, their drive and inspirations, and responses upon learning that so many of their peers at Queen’s had nominated them for this exceptional award.