I write this over the Atlantic, returning to Canada after a brief visit to Queen’s Bader International Study Centre at Herstmonceux Castle in East Sussex, England. The purpose of this trip was to extend my conversation about the future of Queen’s to include our community there. While the centre may be geographically remote from Queen’s main campus in Kingston, its mission is of central importance to our university.
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When I launched the Principal’s Conversation last fall, my hope was that our university would emerge from the 2019–2020 academic year with a clarified
Queen’s University was merely five years old when, in Brussels after being expelled from France and of an age not much greater than our activist students today, Karl Marx
While oxygen may give us life, it constantly eats away at modern living.
Picture your commute to work or school, to a store or the gym. You may drive a car or take public transit. Your route may take you over a river by bridge or by train. Maybe your phone rings along the way; it’s your friend asking for a pick-up from the airport later.
![[photo of Principal Patrick Deane]](https://www.queensu.ca/gazette/sites/default/files/assets/alumnireview/QAAR2020-4/Principal%20Deane%20headshot%20credit%20Bernard%20Clark.jpg)
Date
Tuesday January 25, 2022Location
zoomPatrick Deane, Principal and Vice-Chancellor is pleased to invite you to attend the Polishing the Chain Ceremony, a commitment ceremony to reaffirm the promise of the friendship wampum. Each year, we recommit to this relationship through the Polishing the Chain Ceremony, to keep the rust from forming.
Tuesday, January 25, 2022
3:15 pm - Registration begins
3:30 pm - Ceremony begins
Queen’s Senate meeting will begin immediately following the ceremony
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87035261169
Meeting ID: 870 3526 1169
Questions: senate@queensu.ca
Skén:nen Atenro’será:kon tánon Ka’nikonhrí:io
Wa’kón:ion ne Queen’s University tsi iohétstha ne kaianerénhsera ne Kaswéntha Atenro’será:kon atia’táhnha, né ne Konti’tarí:sere Ka’nisténhsera takóntka’we Tyendinaga nitioné:non tánon ne Kahsóhtshera Iotitióhkwaien ne Kingston kí 7 shískare Enniskó:wa 2017.
Kí kakweniénston ate’nienténhtshera tiókonte e’tho káien nó:nen enhontkenní:sa ne ratiianerenhserón:nis, ne wathró:ris tsi enká:take tsi waterihwahserón:ni ne Skén:en tánon Atenro’será:kon.
Peace, Friendship, and Good Minds
The friendship wampum belt was presented to Queen's University Senate by the Clan Mothers at Tyendinaga, and the Grandmothers' Council in Kingston, on March 7, 2017.
This cherished symbol is now present at all Senate meetings, to represent the lasting covenant of peace and friendship.
To learn more about wampum, you may be interested in this video from Richard Hill, Tuscarora scholar and expert in this field.
Dear Queen’s Community,
“Universities acknowledge that they have a responsibility to engage with and respond to the aspirations and challenges of the world and to the communities they serve, to benefit humanity and contribute to sustainability.”
Queen’s has been named the winner of the 2021 Greatest Overall Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Award from Sustainable Kingston for reducing the university’s emissions by 6,023 tonnes. The Sustainable Kingston Awards are presented each year to local organizations to recognize their hard work in mitigating the climate emergency and fostering a culture of sustainability in the Kingston community.
So much about this issue of the Queen’s Alumni Review speaks to the future and to the potential for positive change and development that attends this moment, as our university and communities everywhere are daring to imagine again a life not shaped and constrained by the COVID-19 virus.
