Administration faces budget season without Gerry Smith
By Rachel Ward | April 20, 2012
Budget prep at King’s may be more difficult now that bursar Gerry Smith has taken administrative leave.
Smith has been charged with sexual assault, indecent assault and gross indecency for alleged incidents spanning five years in the early 1980s. Smith was not King’s staff at the time of the alleged incidents.
He must abstain from communication with children under 16, unless accompanied by parent or guardian, avoid playgrounds, schoolyards and anywhere children may frequent and abstain from contact with five individuals related to the trial. Smith is scheduled for a preliminary hearing in December.
Campus radio station may be off the air for good
By Ben Harrison | April 20, 2012
Axel Soos in The Bay's homebase. (Ben Harrison)
The future of 97.3
The Bay is uncertain. The campus radio station, founded by first-year Axel Soos, had its final broadcast of the semester on March 31. Since then, the airwaves around campus have been silent, as Soos contemplates the future of the station.
“It’s been in question all year. I mean, it’s a huge time commitment. At some points, we put out 25 hours a week of content. That we’ve been able to sustain this thing for the entire year is quite the accomplishment.”
The results are in at the annual KTS awards
By Charlotte Harrison | April 20, 2012
Whether you’re super sexy in drag, or a drag to be stuck with the next morning (read: post-cast party hangovers), the King’s Theatrical Society made sure to honour you.
It was the Blue Canoes award night for the KTS on April 10, held, appropriately, in the Pit. Infamous for their unusual awards, the KTS executive did not disappoint this year, offering the following gems to King’s thespians:
The “Family Issues Award for Pertinence in Recognizing that Families Have Issues” went to Classics in the Quad production of Hippolytos.
A year in mental health advocacy
By Ben Harrison | April 20, 2012
This year was a real bruiser. With heated yearlong funding debates, we all danced a little closer around the very real question of whether or not our school is going to exist in twenty years. All of this Heideggerian groundlessness was enough to make us feel bummed out.
Changing the way we do our business
By Siobhan Fleury | April 20, 2012
You’re sitting in class and you have to go. You cross your legs, side-step out of the room as quietly as possible, and sneak down the hall to the washroom.
What happens if there isn’t a washroom for you?
For transgendered people, male and female washrooms don’t work. Most washrooms are for cisgendered people, or people who identify with the same gender as their biological sex. This, says two Dalhousie University students, excludes transgendered people.
