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Abramsky Hall. Completed in 1957, this neo-Georgian building at the corner of arch and deacon streets houses a variety of health-oriented academic units. It was called the Physiology Building until 1974, when it was renamed in honour of Harry and Ethel Abramsky, the prominent Kingston business owners who donated the funds for its construction.

Academic dishonesty. All forms of academic dishonesty are considered serious offences at Queen's, and a student who commits such an offence risks a wide range of sanctions, including failure in the course and expulsion from the University. Academic dishonesty is any deliberate attempt to gain unfair advantage. According to the Senate Policy on Academic Dishonesty (1989) "Plagiarism means presenting work done (in whole or in part) by someone else as if it were one's own. Jurisdiction in cases of academic dishonesty rests with individual faculties (and the schools with faculty status); but recommendations for expulsion or suspension must be forwarded to the Senate for a decision.

Academic freedom. Faculty members at Queen's University have the right to academic freedom which shall include the freedom, individually or collectively, to develop and transmit knowledge and opinion through research, study, discussion, documentation, production, creating, teaching, lecturing and publication, regardless of prescribed or offered doctrine and without limitation or constriction by institutional censorship. Academic freedom includes the freedom to teach, freedom to research, freedom to publish, freedom of expression and freedom to acquire materials. However, academic freedom carries with it the duty to use freedom in a manner consistent with the scholarly obligation to base research, teaching, publication and other forms of scholarly expression in an honest search for knowledge. Academic freedom does not confer legal immunity, nor deceit diminish the obligation of Members to meet their responsibilities to the University. In the exercise of academic freedom, faculty members shall respect the academic freedom of others. Article 5 in the Collective Agreement (May 1999 April 2002), between Queen's University and Queen's University Faculty Association (QUFA) contains provisions with respect to academic freedom at Queen's University for faculty members who are members of the bargaining unit.

Academic Responsibilities. The academic responsibilities of faculty members arise from their involvement in an appropriate combination of: undergraduate and graduate teaching, counselling and supervision on the professional practice of Librarians and Archivists; research, scholarly and creative activities; academic professional and University community services. Accordingly, faculty members must devote their energies conscientiously to the development and maintenance of scholarly competence and effectiveness as teachers. Examples of teaching obligations include: performing assigned teaching duties and any other obligations related to the pedagogical programs of the University; maintaining a positive learning environment in which the expression of differing points of view is exercised; making good use of teaching time; being fair in relations with students and in grading student assignments or in the assessment of research; being reasonably accessible to students for consultations. Article 6 in the Collective Agreement (May 1999 April 2002), between Queen's University and Queen's University Faculty Association (QUFA) contains provisions with respect to academic responsibilities at Queen's University for faculty members who are members of the bargaining unit.

Accommodation Listing Service. The university first started providing this service in 1945, after booming war industry and a swelling military establishment in Kingston had created an acute shortage of housing for students. In those early years the service provided students with lists of boardinghouses, then the preferred form of student accommodation. (In 1945 Queen's had only one residence, Ban Righ Hall, for a few hundred women only, and few students of either sex shared whole houses or apartments as they do today.) Today, the service provides students with up-to-date information from area landlords about houses and apartments available for rent. Hand-out lists are available at the apartment and housing service office at 169 university avenue, and the information is also on-line on the Queen's Housing web site (see Information Technology Services). The service is run by the Apartment and Housing Service and reports to the associate dean (student affairs).

Adelaide Hall. Opened in 1952, this undergraduate women's residence is located at the corner of University Avenue and Stuart Street. It is named after Adelaide McLaughlin, who donated the funds for its construction. McLaughlin was married to R.R. McLaughlin, president of General Motors of Canada, and himself one of Queen's most generous benefactors. Adelaide Hall is the second oldest of Queen's residences, built some 30 years after Ban Righ Hall.

Admission Services. This office plans, manages and implements the provision and coordination of all first-degree undergraduate admission services including student recruitment, applicant services, and international exchange and study abroad opportunities for Queen's students and visitors to Queen's and the International Study Centre (ISC). This office is the first point of contact with Queen's for the majority of prospective undergraduate students for full or part-time study. Each year the office determines which of the over 20,000 applicants will be admitted to all of the university's first degree undergraduate programs, according to rules and policies provided by the Senate (Senate Committee on Academic Development) and various faculties and schools. It does not handle admissions for the university's graduate or professional programs. An extensive series of school visits are conducted annually by representatives from Admission Services and occur in all regions of Ontario, every province in Canada and selected countries internationally. Over 1000 school visits are now conducted each year. Additional recruitment activities include participation in the Ontario Universities Fair held in Toronto over a three-day period each September, Queen's March Break Open House, a two-day on-campus information program; and participation in the Canadian Ivy Program, a tri-university cooperative consortium visiting U.S. high schools. The office is also the centre for guided campustours and the distribution of an extensive series of communication and publication vehicles for prospective students and admission candidates. Representatives of the office are available throughout the year to meet with prospective students. This unit, part of the Office of the University Registrar, is overseen by the Associate University Registrar (Admission Services) and formally comprises Applicant Services, located in Richardson Hall, and the Office of Student Recruitment and International Initiatives, located in the lower level, Stauffer Library.

Advanced Technology Education Consortium. This organization was created in 1997 to develop and provide education and skills training programs, specifically designed to meet the needs of knowledge-based industries. ATEC's four education partners are Queen's University, Royal Military College of Canada, St. Lawrence College and the Canadian Forces School of Communications and Electronics. All are recognized as outstanding educational centres with strong reputations for quality programs and highly skilled graduates. ATEC uses experienced faculty and staff drawn from education and industry, to design and deliver its technology-based programs. By coupling intensive academic programs with work experience, ATEC provides a unique education and training environment.

Advancement, Office of. Led by the Vice-Principal (Advancement), the Office of Advancement coordinates the university's efforts to raise funds and expand its number of friends, donors and volunteers. It was created in 1993 following a study done by consultant, Ketchum Canada Inc., on fundraising activities at Queen's. In 2000, the Advancement Committee of the Board of Trustees was established as the governing body for the Office of Advancement. The office consists of five areas: Alumni Affairs, Development, Marketing and Communications, the Advancement Business Office, and Advancement Technology Services. Please see individual entries.

Advancement Technology Services. This office provides information technology support for the Office of Advancement at Queen's University. ATS was created as part of a restructuring of Advancement Services in the late fall of 1999 to support a new client server Advancement system and to provide support to all the departments in the Office of Advancement. ATS is responsible for the implementation, operation and maintenance of the CS-Advance system, desktop and server support for all of Advancement and maintenance of a frontline Advancement Helpdesk. The department's main responsibilities include server administration, CS-Advance system support, Desktop support and the Advancement helpdesk.

Advancement Business Office. This office is responsible for the acceptance, process,deposit and receipting of all charitable gifts directed to Queen's University. In addition, the ABO maintains the integrity of the donor information and the giving record database. Some of the programs administered in the Business Office are Campaign Reporting, Fiscal/FinancialReporting, Pledge Administration, US Foundation for Queen's University, Crown Foundation at Queen's University and Gifts of Stock, Shares and Securities. The Business Office is accountable to central university for all cash deposited within Advancement, the accurate allocation of cash to the general ledger and appropriate filing of both Revenue Canada and Internal Revenue Service tax returns. This office is part of the Office of Advancement.

Advisory Councils. Two faculties and one school- all with a professional orientation - have advisory councils made up of leading professionals drawn from outside the university to advise on faculty programs and standards. The Advisory Council on Engineering, founded in 1951 by the Faculty of Applied Science, was the first advisory council established by an engineering faculty in Canada, and has a long tradition of effective advice given during its annual sessions. Advisory Councils exist for the School of Business, Faculty of Education, Faculty of Law, School of Policy Studies, the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Computing and Information Science.

Advisory Research Committee. This standing committee of the School of graduate studies and research is one of the most important bodies governing research at Queen's. It maintains a general review of the overall state of research at Queen's and recommends research policies to the senate through the Council of the School of Graduate Studies. It advises the Dean of the school about research to be supported on a short-term basis, and advises the school, and through the school, the Senate, on the creation of centres and institutes. It reviews the reports and programs of centres and institutes. It promotes liaison between researchers at Queen's and those in industry, government, research institutions, and other universities, and advises about means of obtaining support for research from governments, industry, foundations, and private donors. It advises the Dean on the budgeting or funding of research at Queen's and approves reports and recommendations of various Research Subcommittees. It reports annually to the Council of the School and, through the council or the Dean, to the Senate. It is made up of graduate school officials, representatives of the school's five divisions, representatives of the Faculties of applied science, arts and science, and health sciences, representatives of the Senate, and graduate students. It is chaired by the Vice-Principal(Research).

Aesculapian Society. See faculty societies.

Agnes Etherington Art Centre. The "Agnes" is one of Canada's most respected art museums. Its permanent collection of 13,000 pieces makes it the third largest provincial gallery in Ontario. The collection ranges from the 14th century to the present, with an emphasis on Canadian art. It includes paintings, sculptures, and graphics by major Canadian artists, European old master paintings, costumes, quilts, silver and other decorative objects, Inuit art, and one of the largest public collections of African art in Canada. Exhibitions from the permanent collection are complemented by travelling exhibitions and a variety of public programs. The centre opened in 1957 in the spacious home of Agnes Richardson Etherington (1880-1954), who bequeathed the building to Queen's "for the furtherance of art and music and for the exhibition of pictures and music." Prominent Canadian artist Andre Bieler was the founding director. The red-brick house, built in Victorian style for the richardson family in 1879, was remodelled as a Georgian-style building in the 1920s and still contains many of the Etheringtons' elegant furnishings. In 1962, a large modern addition was built, giving the centre a total of seven exhibition galleries and a studio. In 1998, the Agnes was temporarily re-located to McGillivray-Brown Hall to make room for the $7.2 million renovations of the permanent Agnes. In 2000,the Agnes moved back into its original home, a refurbished gallery that features up-to-date collections, enlarged storage, studio and volunteer space, better visibility, and improved public amenities such as the andre bieler Studio, the Atrium, a new reception area and a Gallery Shop. It now schedules approximately 18 exhibitions of contemporary and historical art annually and is open year-round. The centre is located on University Avenue opposite Grant Hall. See also agnes rental and sales gallery.

Alfie. See pierce, alfie.

Alfie's. This is Queen's main student club. It opened its doors in 1976 as "The Underground," a reference to its location in the basement of the john deutsch university centre. It was renamed Alfie's in 1981 in honour of alfie pierce, a renowned campus character and long-time cheerleader for Queen's football team. The pub offers low prices and live entertainment, and its long Thursday night lineups are a rite of passage for students. The club is supervised by the alma mater society. The club underwent extensive renovation in the summer of 2001, and subsequently dropped the "Pub" mantle from its name to better reflect its new club-based environment. For information on other student pubs, see Clark Hall Pub, Grad Club, and Queen's Pub.

Allen, William (1882-1945). "Dollar Bill," as he was popularly known, became a local celebrity in Kingston and at Queen's as a waiter, bootlegger, and unofficial Queen's cheerleader. He emerged at Queen's after the First World War as a waiter and refreshment vendor. It is unknown where he had lived and worked previously, but there is some evidence that he had been in prison for highway robbery. He became an unofficial cheerleader for Queen's football team and alumni remember him flamboyantly welcoming teams home at Kingston's train station on horseback, wearing a bright green tunic and a top hat as he led the crowd in cheers. He turned to bootlegging in the 1930s and became famous for running a bootleg bar out of an old seaplane hangar in Barriefield, keeping his supplies of booze safely underwater. The bar was a local landmark and was featured in robertson davies' play Fortune, My Foe, in which Dollar Bill was called "Chilly Jim."

Alma Mater Society. The oldest student association in Canada, the Alma Mater Society has been the central student organization at Queen's since its founding in 1858. Its original goals were social and academic as well as political: to promote "the maintenance and defence of students' rights, the interchange of friendly intercourse, the promotion and encouragement of learning, and the furtherance of the general interests of the University." It grew out of the old dialectic society, a debating association founded in 1843, and it officially remained a debating society until late in the century. Gradually, however, it also took on more and more responsibility for student affairs and for actual student self-government that is, for the maintenance of non-academic student discipline. This responsibility began informally to be delegated to students in the 1880s, and in 1898, it was officially delegated by the senate to the Alma Mater Society and its new "AMS Court." In the same year, the AMS overhauled its constitution, and adopted roughly its modern role of representing the views of students and coordinating and financing other student societies.

Today, the AMS acts as a service, advocacy, and governing body on behalf of all students except those enrolled in the School of graduate studies and research, who left in 1982 to form their own graduate student society. Among the many services it operates or oversees are two campus bars, Alfie's and the Queen's Pub, the Queen's Journal newspaper, Common Ground coffeehouse, the Student Constable system, more than 100 student clubs, the Who's Where student directory, and the Tricolour Yearbook. It also sponsors or co-sponsors many campus events, including Orientation Week and Alumni Weekend. The AMS Judicial Committee now plays the role of the original AMS Court (see discipline, student). The AMS has an elected Assembly of representatives from the student faculty societies, a ten-person Council, headed by an elected three-person Executive (one President and two Vice-Presidents). Members of the Executive are ex officio observers on the Board of Trustees and one representative of the AMS is an ex officio member of the Senate. The principal meets regularly with the executive to discuss issues of particular concern to students. A new AMS Executive is elected by students every spring. The society's offices are located in the John Deutsch University Centre.

Alma Mater Society Judicial Committee. See alma mater society, discipline, student.

Alumna/Alumnus. According to the Latin terminology that universities have adapted, an individual female graduate or former student is an "alumna"; an individual male graduate or former student is an "alumnus." The female plural form is "alumnae," while the male plural form, which is also used as the generic plural, is "alumni."

Alumnae Association. This association for Queen's women graduates was founded at the turn of the century to serve the university and especially to help women students. Now disbanded, its main accomplishment during its 90-year history was to found and help fund the university's women's residences, and largely run them until the early 1970s. These were initially housed in rented buildings near campus; finally, after a huge fundraising crusade involving alumnae from across Canada, and dozens of bridge parties, teas and rummage sales, they moved to a permanent home in Ban Righ hall. Completed in 1925, Ban Righ was planned, organized, and mostly funded by the Alumnae Association.

In exchange for its contribution, the association fought for and won from the board of trustees a role in the management of the residence, and association volunteers sat on the Ban Righ board and continued to have a direct role in running (and funding) the growing number of women's residences until the early 1970s, when the central university offices took over the management of the residences and the Ban Righ Board became an advisory body only. The association also insisted that any surplus from the running of Ban Righ be put to other women's residence purposes, and the Board of Trustees agreed, partly because many of its members doubted there would be a surplus. By the end of the era of alumnae management, however, a large surplus had accumulated, and part of this money was used to launch and maintain the Ban Righ Foundation for Continuing Education (now the Ban Righ centre) in 1974. (For more on the role of the association in the development of women's residences, see residences and Ban Righ board.) After 1926 the Alumnae Association did not exclusively represent female Queen's graduates: they also belonged to the general Alumni Association, which started in 1926 and included both men and women. The Alumnae Association ceased to exist in 1990, and was replaced by a Committee on Women's Affairs within the Alumni Association.

Alumnae Memory Book. In 1962, the alumnae association published a collection of retrospective articles by leading association members on the early days of the association and its struggle to build residences for women at Queen's (For that story, see Alumnae Association, ban righ board, and residences.) The book was called Queen's University Alumnae Association 1900-1961 and Women's Residences at Queen's; it was edited by Mary Chown, Melva Eagleson and Thelma Boucher. In 1992, to help celebrate the university's sesquicentennial anniversary, the alumni association reissued the book, edited for republication by Margaret Gibson, (Arts '46) under the title A Generous Loyalty: The Queen's Alumnae Memory Book.

Alumni Affairs, Department of. When the Alumni Association was founded in 1926, an Alumni Office was also created to serve as its secretariat. That Office was located on campus and received some funding from the University, but operated independently. In 1985, to regularize its relationship to the University, the Alumni Office was renamed the Department of Alumni Affairs and made into a full department of the University, then reporting to the Vice-Principal (resources). Since 1993, the Department has belonged to the Office of Advancement and has reported to the Vice-Principal (Advancement). The University now oversees the activities and the hiring of its personnel but the Department draws on the advice and assistance of the volunteer-driven Alumni Association to help develop its policies and procedures. The Department provides a significant amount of revenue for the University by running such alumni-oriented service programs as a MasterCard affinity program, home and auto insurance programs, and Queen's clothing and merchandise. Other activities include producing the Alumni Review (which is published five times yearly), managing an international network of alumni Branches, organizing the annual Alumni Weekend each fall and operating a student/alumni mentoring program. The Department is located in the west wing of Summerhill, a historic Italinate villa located at the corner of Stuart and Arch Streets. See also Alumnae Association.

Alumni Association of Queen's University. Anyone who has graduated from the University, or who has attended classes for one full academic year, and whose class has graduated, automatically becomes a member of the Alumni Association of Queen's University. The Association has more than 100,000 members in Canada and around the world. It was founded in 1926 on the suggestion of Samuel Stalford, a professional fundraiser from Montreal who had been hired by the University to direct an endowment campaign. Fundraising is still an important function of the Association; its official mission is "to reach out and foster a lifelong association with Queen's, to engage our members in the life and work of the University, and to serve the alumni community in all its diversity." The Association's activities have mushroomed dramatically since the early 1980s, when slowed growth of government funding forced Queen's to look increasingly to private funding sources (see entry on funding). The Association is governed by a volunteer President and Board of Directors, who are drawn from a constituent assembly made up of representatives of the more than 90 alumni Branches. The President works closely with the staff of the Department of Alumni Affairs. For more detail about the joint activities of the Department and Association, see Alumni Affairs.

Alumni Relations, Department of. When the Alumni Association was founded in 1926, an Alumni Office was also created to serve as its secretariat. That Office was located on campus and received some funding from the University, but operated independently. In 1985, to regularize its relationship with the University, the Alumni Office was renamed the Department of Alumni Affairs (now known as Alumni Relations) and made into a full department of the University, reporting to the Vice-Principal (Resources). Since 1993, the department of Alumni Relations has belonged to the Office of Advancement and reports to the Vice-Principal (Advancement).

The Department of Alumni Relations is dedicated to keeping Queen's alumni connected to their University and to one another through a variety of programs and services. Alumni Relations staff work closely with the volunteers of the Queen's University Alumni Association (QUAA), to provide the highest standard of service and programming to Queen's alumni.

Alumni Relations programs include the worldwide Branch network; Reunions, both spring and fall; alumni education including MiniU and the Alumni Travel program; Student-Alumni programs; the Queen's Student Alumni Association (QSAA); and Queen's Merchandise and Affinity Partner programs. The Department and the QUAA also work with Marketing and Communications to deliver the Queen's Alumni Review to all reachable alumni four times per year. The Department is located in the west wing of Summerhill, a historic Italianate villa located at the corner of Stuart and Arch Streets, also home to the QUAA. See also Alumnae Association and Queen's University Alumni Association.

Alumni Review. Founded in 1927 as the monthly Queen's Review, this magazine is published five times annually and is sent out free to alumni and friends of the University. It contains news and information about the University and its graduates. The magazine's official publisher is the Alumni Association, but it is put together by staff of the Department of Alumni Affairs.

Alumni Weekend. Groups of Queen's alumni began to gather at the University for informal reunions in the late nineteenth century, usually only with members of their own graduating year. In the early years of the twentieth century, these gatherings started to be timed according to the football schedule - large numbers of alumni from all years began to gather in Kingston on the weekend each fall on which Queen's was scheduled to play its traditional rival, the University of Toronto Blues. But it was not until 1926 that the University, with the assistance of the newly-formed Alumni Association, organized an official reunion for alumni, scheduled to coincide with the football game. The first reunion occupied a whole week, but the occasion was subsequently reduced to a weekend of activities. The occasion was known as "Reunion Weekend" until students adopted the term "Homecoming" in the 1950s. The weekend is one of the most anticipated events on the Queen's calendar. Thousands of alumni return to campus in mid-September for class reunions, a football game, and to visit old university haunts. For a time in the 1980s, the weekend was marred by rowdy behaviour among students, younger alumni, and visitors from other universities and around Kingston; rowdy street parties along University Avenue were reported in the national media. In recent years, the focus of the weekend has reverted to reunions and other campus activities. The special events are jointly organized by the Department of Alumni Affairs, the Alma Mater Society, various University departments and schools, and student groups.

An Clachan. Built in 1970, this Queen's-owned apartment complex on Van Order Drive north of west campus contains 100 single and 160 two-bedroom apartments. The complex of three low-rise, interconnected buildings is used principally by older students and also includes an on-site nursery school. "An Clachan" is gaelic for village.

Anaesthesiology, Department of. When Queen's Faculty of Medicine was established in 1854, anaesthesiology was a crude practice, not a scientific discipline. The use of general anaesthesia for operations, for example, was only just then becoming common. Morphine, ether, and chloroform were the main anaesthetics and were generally administered to patients by physicians in general practice, rather than by specialists. There were no academic appointees in the subject at Queen's until 1916, when Dr S.J. Keyes was named a lecturer in the subject, subsequently becoming head of anaesthesiology at Kingston General Hospital. Dr W.A. Campbell, recruited from the famous Mayo Clinic in Minnesota in 1934, was his successor as head of anaesthesia for KGH and Queen's, and was the first medical practitioner in the area to use the now common anaesthetic pentothal. The Department of Anaesthesiology was established as a separate unit in the Faculty of Medicine in 1960, with Dr Stuart Vandewater as its first professor and head. The department now has more than 20 full-time faculty. In addition to their clinical work, members of the department are engaged in research in such areas as spinal opiates, the investigation of respiratory functions in the newborn, and the detection of ischemic heart disease (caused by insufficient blood supply to the heart). Anaesthesiology is a specialty that cuts across many other disciplines, and several members of the department are cross-appointed to the Departments of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Physiology, and Paediatrics.

Anatomy and Cell Biology, Department of. Studies in human anatomy began at Queen's when the Faculty of medicine was established in 1854. The first professor was the colourful local surgeon john stewart, who also delivered Queen's first ever medical lecture on 6 November 1854. For more than 100 years, the two basic divisions of the discipline were gross anatomy and surgical anatomy, which were studied through lectures and dissection. (Gross anatomy is basic anatomy used by people in all medical fields, whereas surgical anatomy is anatomy relevant to surgical procedures.) Since the 1950s, the department's work has expanded into the fields of cell Biology, Histology (the study of organic tissues), Anthropology, and the Neurosciences. Originally called the Department of Anatomy, it was renamed the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology in 1993 to more accurately reflect its work. The department was located in the old medical building from 1858 until 1986, when it moved to Botterell Hall. Although the department is administered by the Faculty of Health Sciences, it is also a full teaching unit in the Faculty of Arts and Science, and in 1971 it became one of the founding members of that faculty's life sciences program for undergraduates. It also teaches students in the Schools of Nursing, Physical and Health Education, and Rehabilitation Therapy, and offers graduate programs through the School of Graduate Studies and Research. The department has about 15 full-time faculty.

Anderson, John (1810-1859). Anderson was Queen's janitor from 1851 to 1859 and the subject of the first book ever written about a Queen's employee: Faithful Unto Death. The small and peculiar book, published in 1859, is basically a religious tract, a commemoration of Anderson as a model Christian, "whose life, though humble indeed to the eye of the world, was yet truly great in the highest sense." Its earnest author was Agnes Maule Machar, 22, daughter of the Rev john machar, who served as Queen's Principal from 1846 to 1853. Later Machar became a minor literary celebrity in Canada for her popular patriotic poems and novels. Despite her devout intentions, the book's real interest for modern readers lies in a series of Anderson's personal letters, which she reprints. They provide fascinating glimpses of the routines and hazards of life at Queen's in the mid-19th century, and from a perspective rare in an age that left few records of anything but elite or institutional history. Anderson writes about the daily drudgery of cleaning the college, "the tricks and mischief" of the students, the sometimes fatal epidemics that swept through the university, and the dreariness of living all alone in summerhill, which was then an isolated villa at the edge of town. Copies of the book are held by Stauffer Library, Douglas Library and Queen's University Archives.

Animal Care Services. A unit in the Faculty of Health Sciences, this service supports the needs of all teaching and research departments at Queen's that use animals. It handles purchasing, shipping, and on-site animal management, and offers special housing, environmental control, and test procedures by request. It also provides information concerning suppliers, costs, animal strains, biological models, and other lab animal data. It is located in the basement of Botterell Hall.

Anti-Racism Coordinator. Queen's began enlisting volunteer Race Relations Advisors in 1989 to advise any student, staff member or faculty member about any race-related problem or concern. In 1993, the university put the system on a more professional footing, hiring a anti-racism coordinator to play the same role as the volunteer advisors, but also to help coordinate anti-racism education campaigns. Racism complaints dealt with through the Queen's Harassment and Discrimination Policy and Procedure, which was created in 1995 and updated in 2000. The anti-racism coordinator works out of the Human Rights Office.

Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Association of Kingston. This organization, a member of the Queen's Student and Community Services Group, works to faciliate the provisions of self-help and support for individuals and families affected by eating disorders; advocate for programs and services that help treat such conditions; coordinate information and research sharing and educating the community about eating disorders and the broader social concerns it raises. It is located in the Grey House, at 51 Queen's Crescent.

Apartment and Housing Service. This office runs the accommodation listing service and also manages properties in the student housing area that are owned by the university and rented to students. It is located at 169 university avenue and reports to the Associate Dean (Student Affairs).

Applied Science, Faculty of. Queen's engineering faculty owes its creation in 1893 largely to the vision of Principal George Grant. He became convinced of the importance of training engineers to help build Canada while traveling from coast to coast in 1872 as part of CPR engineer Sandford Fleming's survey party. But Grant faced obstacles in opening the new faculty because Queen's could not afford a new faculty without help, and the provincial government could not support Queen's financially as long as it was a denominational university.

The solution was to create a skeletal Faculty of Applied Science at Queen's, and also to create the officially independent Ontario school of mining and agriculture, provincially funded, which was allowed to occupy the same building as the new Queen's "faculty" and provide all of its professors. (For more on this, see entry on the school.)

The school opened in 1893 and the "faculty" was created in 1894, with Nathan Dupuis as its first dean. There was some dispute about what to name the new faculty, and, although it was officially called the Faculty of Applied Science, it was usually referred to as the Faculty of Practical Science (then the most common term elsewhere) in its early years. In 1916, after Queen's had separated from the church, the school and the faculty were finally united as the modern Faculty of Applied Science. In 1993, the Faculty celebrated its centennial anniversary.

The Faculty has grown in its enrolment over the years due to programs such as the Access to Opportunities Program (ATOP) in the late '90s which provided funding to help achieve growth targets, with a primary focus on Electrical and Computer Engineering. Enrolment peaked in 2006 at about 700 students as part of the Ontario "double cohort" high school graduation and is now in the 550-600 range. Students come from across Canada and from some 26 other countries.

Today, the faculty offers degree programs in 10 fields of engineering. Five of these are offered by the departments administered by the faculty: Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Mining Engineering.

Five others - Computer Engineering, Engineering Chemistry, Engineering Physics, Geological Engineering, and Mathematics and Engineering - are offered through the Departments of Chemistry, Physics, Computing and Information science, Geological Sciences, and Mathematics, which are administered by the Faculty of Arts and Science but are also full teaching units within the Faculty of Applied Science (for more on this type of relationship, see departments). Students specialize in one of these ten fields after taking a common first-year curriculum of mathematics, science, computing, and basic engineering. There are also optional programs available to students in many of the fields, a materials option in mechanical engineering, for example. Graduate degree programs in engineering are offered through the School of Graduate Studies and Research.

The faculty is the second largest on campus, after Arts and Science, with about 160 faculty members and 2,000 students at the undergraduate level. Its students have long been known for their boisterous faculty spirit and are easily identified on campus by their gold leather jackets. One of the most exciting new projects of the Faculty of Applied Science is the construction of Beamish-Munro Hall, the Integrated Learning Centre; a facility designed to co-ordinate all aspects of the Faculty's research, resources and teaching under one central location. The faculty office is located in this facility.

Degrees: Bachelor of Science (BSc), Bachelor of Science (BSc) (Hons), Bachelor of Science (BSc) with Professional Internship, Master of Science (MSc), Doctor of Philosophy (PhD).

Arboretum. This arboretum was established in 1999 to recognize the many rare and unique trees which exist on the Queen's campus. A wide array of trees are in the Arboretum, which include varieties of Black Walnut, Gingko and English Oak trees. The boundaries of the Arboretum are from the lawn area in front of Theological Hall and Summerhill.

Arch Street. This road runs parallel to Barrie Street, between stuart street and union street. It is one of a cluster of five streets in the campus area named after Archdeacon George Okill Stuart, an Anglican cleric who was the original owner of Queen's oldest building, Summerhill. The other streets are Deacon, George, Okill, and Stuart.

Archives, Queen's University. Queen's Archives preserves the historical records of the University, and provides records management services to university departments, as well as preserving a wide variety of non-university historical records and manuscripts for use by researchers. The archival holdings are a rich resource of national, provincial, and regional significance, supporting teaching, research and outreach at Queen's University and beyond.

A long archival tradition exists at the University, the first archival document being presented to Queen's in 1869. At first, archival collections were held in the University Library. In 1960, the first Archivist was appointed. By 1981, through the generosity of Mrs. Kathleen Ryan and the Queen's Quest, the New Medical Building, built in 1907, was renovated and made available for Queen's Archives. The facilities include a spacious reading room for consultation and research, a modern conservation lab, an archival records processing area and large climate-controlled storage vaults. The Archives collections and fonds are described in a searchable database on the Queen's web site. There are also more detailed lists and finding guides available at Kathleen Ryan Hall.

The holdings fall into six main areas: the records of the university, public affairs, business records, fine arts, Canadian literary papers, and regional collections. The University collection includes the historical records of the University administration, Faculty papers, and University publications including all Queens' Theses, and the Queen's Journal from the first issue of 1873. These records document campus history and student life in all types of media, such as photographs, letters, diaries, sound and moving image recordings, and architectural drawings. The public affairs collections include the papers of Governor General John Buchan, Sir Joseph Flavelle, the Liberal and New Democratic Parties of Ontario, and microfilm copies from other institutions of the papers of Sir John A. Macdonald, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, William Lyon Mackenzie King, Arthur Meighen, and John Diefenbaker. Business collections include the Canadian Steamship Lines and the McLaughlin Carriage Company, the forerunner to General Motors. The literary collection includes the papers of Lorne Pierce (editor of the Ryerson Press from 1920 to 1960), George Woodcock, Al Purdy, Dorothy Livesay, and many other writers, plus the records of Oberon and Quarry Press. The regional collection includes numerous records and papers of local families going back to Loyalist times. Kathleen Ryan Hall also houses many of the historical records of the old City of Kingston, as well as the archives of Kingston General Hospital and the former Frontenac County. More than 2500 volumes of land registry copybooks for Eastern Ontario are also available for research.

Art, Department of. Formal studies in art began at Queen's in 1933 when Goodridge Roberts was named the university's first resident artist. He was succeeded in 1936 by andre bieler, a prominent Canadian painter who became the founding director of the agnes etherington art centre in 1957. In 1963 a Department of Art History was established at the university, with Gerald Finley as its first head. Six years later, the department branched out into studio instruction, launching a four-year studio program leading to a Bachelor of Art Education, subsequently changed to a Bachelor of Fine Art (BFA). Students studying for this degree can specialize in painting, sculpture, or print making. A special feature of the department the Summer School on the Art and Architecture of Venice was added in 1970 and continues to run in Italy every summer. A Master of Art Conservation program was established in 1974.. At the same time, the department changed its name, becoming simply the Department of Art. Since 1979, the department has also offered an MA program in Art History. The studio and art history components of the department are located in ontario hall, along with the Art Library and a Visual Resources Unit containing an important collection of slides and photographs. In 2001, a donation from benefactress Dr. Winifred Ross enabled the Department to set up the Digital Imaging Centre, in which students can compose and scan their artistic works into digital format for computer and Internet-based research. The Art Conservation program is located in the Agnes Etherington Extension. There are about 20 full-time faculty in the department, which belongs to the Faculty of Arts and Science.

Artificial Intelligence Unit. This is an informal grouping of researchers who cooperate on research into artificial intelligence. They study and solve science and engineering-related problems using techniques derived from artificial intelligence in particular those problems for which there are no feasible solutions involving conventional computer techniques, and which involve knowledge and experience rather than systematic algorithms. Individual research is under way in the Departments of Chemical, Electrical, and Mechanical Engineering, Chemistry, Computing and Information Science, and Psychology.

Arts and Science, Faculty of. This Faculty traces its origins to Queen's Royal Charter of 1841, which declared that the university would both train students as Presbyterian ministers and instruct youth "in the various branches in Science and Literature." In the university's first 30 or 40 years, however, there was no hard and fast distinction between arts and theology, and professors taught in both faculties. Queen's first two professors, the Rev Thomas Liddell and the Rev Peter Colin Campbell, started the arts and science curriculum with courses in three subjects: classics, mathematics and Natural Philosophy (the Victorian term for natural science). By the end of the 19th century, the faculty also offered courses in chemistry, English, French, German, history, philosophy, physics, political and economic science (since divided into economics and political studies), and psychology.

Today, the faculty is the largest at Queen's, with more than 7,000 full and 1,400 part-time undergraduate students, more than 750 graduate students, and more than 400 full-time faculty. It offers a broad range of undergraduate degree programs in the sciences, social sciences, humanities, fine arts, and languages, in the 23 departments and 4 schools that it administers itself, and 9 departments that are administered by other faculties or schools (for lists of these, see below). Students studying for a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) or a Bachelor of Science (Honours) degree have a particularly broad range of choices: they can take either a "major" in one discipline, a "medial" in two disciplines, an interdisciplinary "special field concentration" (in arts) or a focussed "subject of specialization" (in science). Graduate degree programs are taken through the School of Graduate Studies and Research. The Faculty also offers correspondence, spring and summer courses through its Division of Continuing and Distance Studies; runs the Writing Centre; and administers Queen's School of English, which offers non-credit courses in English as a second language.

Degrees: Bachelor of Arts (BA), Bachelor of Arts Honours (BA Hons.), Bachelor of Science (BSc), Bachelor of Science Honours (BSc Hons.), Bachelor of Fine Art (BFA), Bachelor of Fine Art Honours (BFA Hons.), Bachelor of Music (BMus), Bachelor of Physical and Health Education (BPHE), Master of Arts (MA), Master of Art Conservation (MAC), Master of Science (MSc), Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Diplomas: Licentiate Diploma in Music
Departments administered by the Faculty of Arts and Science:

Art, Biology, Chemistry, Classics, Computing and Information Science, Drama, Economics, English Language and Literature, Film Studies, French Studies, Geography, Geological Sciences, German, History, Japanese, Mathematics and Statistics, Philosophy, Political Studies, Physics, Psychology, Spanish and Italian languages and literatures, Sociology, Institute of Women's Studies.

Departments that are teaching units within the Faculty of Arts and Science but administered by other faculties or units: Anatomy and Cell Biology, Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, Pathology, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Physiology (administered by the Faculty of Health Sciences); Religious Studies, Jewish Studies (administered by the Theological College); Commerce (administered by the School of Business).

Interdisciplinary and Special Field Concentrations: Canadian Studies, Classical Studies, Commonwealth Studies, Development Studies, German Studies, Jewish Studies, Language and Linguistics, Mediaeval Studies, Spanish and Latin American Studies, Stage and Screen Studies, Women's Studies.

Subjects of Specialization: Astrophysics, Biomedical Computing, Chemical Physics, Cognitive Science, Earth System Science, Environmental Biology, Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Geology, Environmental Life Sciences, Geophysics, Life Sciences, Mathematical Physics, Software Design.

Arts and Science Undergraduate Society (ASUS). See faculty societies.

The Arts and Science Undergraduate Society is the student governing body of the Faculty of Arts and Science. The Society was founded in 1891 and is one of the oldest Faculty Societies in Canada. Its mandate is to provide opportunities for students outside of the classroom to enrich their experience at Queen’s University as an Arts and Science Undergraduate. The Society is governed by an elected President and Vice-President who are then accountable to a legislative body (ASUS Assembly) that is comprised of almost 30 elected members, 5 appointed members, and 2 ex-officio members. The President reports to the Dean of Arts and Science, and represents the Faculty on the President’s Caucus which is comprised of the President of every Faculty Society. ASUS, because of its size, is therefore entitled to 8 Representatives on AMS assembly that all have voting rights, making it the largest representation on the Assembly. Discussion of assembly is facilitated by an elected Speaker, and all students may attend. ASUS also chairs the Departmental Student Council, through the Academics Commission, which sees that each Department within Arts and Science has accurate student representation and a governing body called a ‘DSC’ which represents that department on the Departmental Student Council Assembly.

The Arts and Science Faculty is the biggest Faculty on campus and the Undergraduate Society offers over 1,000 volunteer positions for its students including, but not limited to; orientation week positions (Chairs, OC’s, Gaels), charity volunteer committee members, Formal planners, Judicial Committee members etc. It is comprised of 5 Commissions; Academics, Community Outreach, Internal Affairs, Marketing and Services. The Society also aims to provide services to its students such as the ASUS Movie Theatre, ArtSci Jackets and an Exchange Buddies Program for students visiting Queen’s on exchange. Any questions regarding the Arts and Science Undergraduate Society should be sent to the current President at president@asus.queensu.ca.

Assistance Phones. See emergency telephones.

Athletics. Queen's has one of the oldest and most comprehensive university athletics programs in Canada. The program dates from 1860, when a local military man, Col angus cameron, persuaded the board of trustees to set up a small gym in summerhill with "vaulting cross-bars, ladder ropes, and a few other items." Cameron was careful to request that the gym be "retired from jeering spectators," an indication of the low esteem in which athletics were held in the mid-19th century. The first organized sports were annual track and field competitions held on October 16, university day, at which students competed for prizes offered by the people of Kingston. These competitions, which began in the early 1870s, included the traditional Scottish caber toss, and were a major university event until early this century. The first team sport appears to have been soccer (then called football), which also made its debut in the early 1870s. Later in the decade a form of "Association Football [i.e. soccer] with catching" appeared on campus a distant predecessor of modern football. A closer relative, rugby football, was introduced in 1882 by two brothers who brought the English rules of the game down from their home in Ottawa. Snowshoeing and curling were the most popular winter sports before the emergence of hockey in 1886. Sports were initially restricted to male students, but there was a women's hockey team in action as early as 1894 and, before the construction of Queen's first gymnasium building in 1907, women had their own small gym on the top floor of theological hall. By the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Queen's had become a national powerhouse in sports. The men's hockey team appeared in three Stanley Cup finals around the turn of the century (losing all three) and the football team won three consecutive Grey Cups in the early 1920s.

Queen's sports program has grown steadily this century, guided by a desire to allow the maximum possible participation by students. The program is now one of the broadest in the country. It has two main components: interuniversity sports and intramural sports. The interuniversity program has more than 40 men's and women's teams in 25 sports, most of which compete in the Ontario University Athletics (OUA) organization or the Ontario Women's Intercollegiate Athletics Association (OWIAA). The intramural program is divided into three sections: Bews, the men's league, named after James Bews, the university's "physical training" director from 1908 to 1937; the Women's Intramural Committee (commonly known as WIC), the women's league; and the co-ed BEWIC league. Students compete on teams drawn from their course of study and/or academic year in about 30 different sports, ranging from hockey and basketball to innertube water polo and horseshoes. The whole university athletics program is supervised by the Queen's University Council on Athletics, which reports to the senate. See also Angus Cameron, Colours, Guy Curtis, Golden Gaels, Jackson Hall, Jock Harty Arena, Physical and Health Education Centre, Alfie Pierce, Richardson Memorial Stadium, Frank Tindall.

Audio-Visual Services. Please see Information Technology Services.

Automotive Materials and Manufacturing, Centre For. (CAMM)CAMM is Ontario's multi-university and industy partnership dedicated to providing new knowledge and skills to enhance the competitiveness of the automotive sector through advanced research and development. The Queen's branch is located at 945 Princess Street.

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