FROM THE KINGSTON WHIG-STANDARD
By Ian Elliot
Local News - Monday, September 26, 2005 @ 07:00
In the aftermath of this weekend’s Homecoming havoc, Queen’s University officials say they will examine the future of the annual event.
Police and university officials vowed tough sanctions against those involved in an out-of-control street party that attracted between 5,000 and 7,000 people. […]
ABERDEEN — ADAPTED BY GEOFF SMITH 9/26/05
(with apologies to Abilene, and John Loudermilk, who did the words and music….)
ABERDEEN, ABERDEEN.
PRETTIEST STREET I’VE NEVER SEEN
STUDENTS THERE WILL TREAT YOU MEAN
ON ABERDEEN, MY ABERDEEN.
I SIT ALONE MOST EVERY NIGHT
WATCH THE REVELERS GET IN A BIG FIGHT
GLAD THAT THEY’RE NOT CARRYING ME
BACK TO ABERDEEN, MY ABERDEEN.
ABERDEEN, ABERDEEN.
DIRTIEST STREET […]
Took a bicycle ride this morning around 8:30 a.m. through the Aberdeen ghetto. Looked bad, real bad. Question is not if, but when Fit will hit the shan. Monday morning–watch the Whig for community outrage. Understandable. Time for some orginal thinking and student input. What to do? Answers forthcoming?? From the admin? No, we must […]
So, another antiwar statement by Peace Kingston and Queen’s Against War–focusing once again on the miscreance that describes Sir George W. Bush’s policies since 9/11. The problems with the U.S. role in the Middle East are legion, and well known. Yesterday in Kingston, gathering power in front of Stauffer Library as the alumni from this […]
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 18:26:22 -0400
To: letters@globeandmail.ca
From: Geoffrey Smith
Subject: hurricanes and destiny
Hurricanes are nothing new, of course. They’ve been around for a long, long time. But recently, one notes the increase in their numbers and severity. A while ago, a lurid film, “The Day After Tomorrow,” suggested that human beings had something to do […]