The Scramble

On this season of The Scramble, a Golden Gaels special! Follow along for 4 episodes as host Sophie Deasy, current Captain of Queen’s Varsity Swim Team, interviews interesting and inspiring fellow athletes from a variety of Queen’s varsity sports.

This week, Sophie sits down with her former Swim Team co-captain Erin Lee to discuss Erin's historic tenure as a Gaels Swimmer, as well as the driving forces behind her journey as a student and athlete at Queen's University.

The Queen's Journal's Podcast Coordinator Lauren Thomas sat down with local artist and fifth-year Queen's student nana. to talk about his latest EP and artistic process. 

To watch nana. perform two songs—"How the West Was Won" from his EP of the same title and the unreleased "I Cannot Run So I Stayed"—check out the latest video from The Journal's Video team. 

In The Scramble's first episode of Volume 149, The Queen's Journal's Sydney Ko, Asbah Ahmad, and Rida Chaudhry round up news stories from our May coverage. The editors discuss student fundraising for India COVID-19 relief (0:34), Queen's move to join the University Pension Plan (2:31), ConEd students' perspectives the Ontario Math Proficiency Test (4:14), and a student-led drive-by protest in downtown Kingston (5:06).

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Two weeks ago, on a small lake 30 minutes outside of Ottawa, something special happened.

Robin Worling, Econ ’19, and a few of his buddies had been doing their usual bit of training on their homemade ice track when they decided to film a stunt they came up with just a few days before: dunking on a basketball net after jumping a 25-foot gap.

“I’d done that line a million times,” Worling told The Journal. “I’d [jumped that gap] multiple times.”

On this week's episode of The Scramble, Worling sits down with Angus Merry, The Journal's assistant sports editor, to chat about the dunk that went viral, the sport of ice cross, and his athletic background.

Every year, The Journal sits down with each team running for AMS Executive for a private questioning period. Taking interviews, debates, platforms,  and the conversation into consideration, The Journal's Editorial Board then elects to endorse the team it feels is most prepared to lead the AMS.

After meeting with teams RTZ and TIA earlier this week, The Journal editorial board chose to endorse Team RTZ by a unanimous 24-0 vote with no abstentions.

In today's episode, News Editor Claudia Rupnik is joined by Chloe Sarrazin, The Journal's Editorials Editor, to debrief on what took place Tuesday evening—and what influenced the Editorial Board's decisive endorsement.

As AMS elections enter the first week of campaigning, The Journal’s News Editors, Julia Harmsworth and Cassidy McMackon, discuss what we know so far about this year’s two teams, RTZ and TIA. (0:00)

Later, Julia and Cassidy get into the key issues that will dominate this year’s election season, including student fee rates and COVID-19 response. (2:20)

This week, News Editor Claudia Rupnik and Assistant News Editor Cassidy McMackon discuss the upcoming student elections. They discuss the AMS' lack of student engagement and voter turnout, including what to expect in the coming weeks.

Update: since recording, a team announced it would be collecting signatures to be nominated for the AMS Executive election.

“The economy has become the issue that we’re bowing down before, and so long as we do that we’re going to continue to get the fossil fuel industry doing what it’s done now for over 40 years: lie, lie, lie, lie and deny, deny, deny, and put pressure on government to keep regulations from going in.”

In The Scramble's final episode of the semester, Canadian icon David Suzuki sits down with The Journal's Arts Editor, Nathan Gallagher, to discuss his new climate resistance documentary, Rebellion.

This podcast is sponsored by the AMS’ 12 Days of Exam De-Stressors event, occurring from Dec. 1 to 12.  The AMS will be collaborating with local businesses to provide discounts, coupons, giveaways, and other helpful information to promote the overall wellbeing and a balanced lifestyle of students through exam time.

In this week's episode of The Scramble, News Editor Claudia Rupnik and Assistant News Editor Julia Harmsworth sit down to talk about remote learning during COVID-19. Later, Claudia speaks with the Art History department's student council co-presidents, Lauren Durrand and Rachel Salem-Wiseman, about working through the challenges of a remote learning environment.

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“For now, what I hear is a man who spent his whole life trying to express himself in song, and in this particular instance, he was faced with a very uncertain future fraught with fear and loneliness and all kinds of things, and I see a guy who’s pretty reconciled and at peace, and that gives me a lot of peace as well.”

In a special interview, Patrick Downie, brother of The Tragically Hip's Gord Downie, sits down with The Journal's Arts Editor, Nathan Gallager, to talk about his late brother's new, final album, "Away is Mine." Patrick discusses watching Gord create the album after his diagnosis, producing it after Gord's passing, and his connection to his brother's final piece of work.

In this week’s episode, The Journal’s Claudia Rupnik and Carolyn Svonkin talk about Queen’s residences and COVID-19 (0:30).

Later, Carolyn sits down with a first-year student to chat about what the residence experience has been like, particularly with recent cases being reported, getting a test, and plans for upcoming holidays (3:16).

This episode discusses sexual assault and may be triggering for some readers. The Journal uses “survivor” to refer to those who have experienced sexual assault. We acknowledge this term is not universal.

In this week's episode, The Queen's Journal's Claudia Rupnik and Aysha Tabassum discuss sexual violence at Queen's University. Our reporters speak with Raechel Huizinga (4:09), The Journal's Editor in Chief and former News Editor, about her experience reporting on the University's controversial sexual violence policy. Later on, Tabassum speaks with Alex da Silva (16:11), sexual violence and bystander awareness student coordinator, about the importance of sexual violence bystander training and how it can be accessed. Then, Rupnik and Tabassum discuss the campus Sexual Health Resource Centre (27:24). Finally, at (30:56), catch the latest headlines coming out of Queen's campus.

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In this week's episode of The Scramble, The Queen's Journal's Matt Scace, Aysha Tabassum, Jodie Grieve, and Daniel Green answer questions submitted by Queen's first-years on social media. They answer seven common questions, including: how do I pick my housemates? How do I make friends during a pandemic? What would you tell your first-year self? Later, stick around for the latest headlines on campus.

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In The Scramble's premier episode, The Queen's Journal's Claudia Rupnik and Aysha Tabassum discuss the summer's two defining storylines: the COVID-19 pandemic (0:36) and the anti-racism movement (3:35), and the unique ways they affected the Queen's community. Later, Claudia sits down with Ashanthi Francis, ASUS Equity Commissioner, and Angela Sahi, AMS Social Issues Commissioner (9:45), to chat about what discussions have looked like with the University in putting together anti-racism initiatives and what students can expect in the coming months and years. Finally, Claudia and Aysha run through the latest headlines coming out of Queen's campus. (21:34)

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