September 5, 2006 Source: :
http://qnc.queensu.ca/story_loader.php?id=44fd8d68b713a Queen's in the News Emeritus professor Ned Franks (Political Science) continues to comment on the role of the Canadian Senate, most recently in a CanWest News Service article that appears in the National Post, Vancouver Sun, Montreal Gazette, Ottawa Citizen and Windsor Star. Patrick Deane (VP Academic) discusses a voluntary email survey on numbers of visible minority students at Queen’s in the Toronto Star. Jason Laker (VP Student Affairs) comments on the activities for students to participate in over homecoming week on cbc.ca. Sean Conway (Principal’s Office) comments about Ontario’s drop-out rate from the 1980s to present in the London Free Press. His appointment as special advisor to Queen’s University’s principal is also featured in the Kingston Whig-Standard. Sunny Lam (Environmental Studies) continues to discuss his research about cutting greenhouse gas emissions, most recently on Kingston’s CHUM-radio and in the Kingston Whig-Standard and Timmins Daily Press. Rod Carter’s (Theology) response to a previously written column that compares Queen’s students to prisoners in the Kingston Penitentiary appears in the Kingston-Whig Standard. Louise Mallory’s (Engineering) discussion of the annual ‘Feast of Fields’ appears in the Kingston Whig-Standard. Nicholas Bala (Law) discusses young people who threaten other people and how many threats actually become realities. Arthur Cockfield (Law) also comments about the public’s sensitivity to Internet threats in the Kingston Whig-Standard. Ken Wong (Business) continues to discuss why Toronto was not ranked in the top 10 U.S. and Canadian destinations by Travel and Leisure magazine, most recently in the Windsor Star and Kingston Whig-Standard. John Casselman (Biology) continues to discuss his research that investigates how cormorants are depleting the fish population in Ontario, most recently in the Orilla Packet and Times.
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