Queen's Homecoming : Aberdeen Street

Short flick capturing some good shots of the aberdeen street party in Kingston, Ontario. Over 7,000 people attended!!!


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Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Queen's
• University
• Aberdeen
• Street
• Homecoming
• 2007
• Kingston
• Ontario
• alcohol
• party
• police

[ReeLifeEntertainment]

please excuse the fragmented nature of my reply..youtube will not let me post more than 500 characters......

[ReeLifeEntertainment]

We may ask ourselves...Why are we not the number one university in Canada or better yet, North America. Well there are many factors...

A) Tuition rates - Avg. tuition rate in the United States of America - $22218US.(Before our dollar rose above that of the States); Avg. tuition rate in Canada - $7,688 CAD.

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With American students paying a significantally large portion of their tuition expenses (Our $7,000CAD does not cover full costs of our education) American schools are able to provide more versatile technology, better classrooms and higher faculty budgets than their Canadian counterparts. Are the Yankees a better baseball team than the Jays? My opinion? No.

[ReeLifeEntertainment]

When you have a one hundred fifty million dollar (per year) expenditure to use for negotiating contracts, it is much easier to provide the aesthetics of being the "best team" (high paying contracts,etc.) With the Jay's operating at 32 million dollars, we present an opposable force to the NY Yanks. We have talent (that which I believe far exceed NY) but the inability to compete with big brother.

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B) Certain faculties receive much more attention than others. Compare the Art's buildings to that of Engineering. Some faculties just get more funding, providing a richer learning experience (better classrooms, technology, etc.) Our learning experiences differ, and that spectrum of funding is decided by the ADMINISTRATION.

[ReeLifeEntertainment]

C) The national average of ALL schools are on the downward spiral. (I assume you got your rankings from...McLeans?) I even read on the McLean's website today how Universities are beginning to allow much lower acceptance averages to attract students to the schools.

[leobcampos]

I liked the girls. =)

[AspiringPotato]

Nothing like everyone else soaking their brains in booze to shift the bell curve in my favour.

[CommentClown]

Queen's has been quick to renounce any responsibility for the propagation of this culture. I was there in the late 90's, and I found that many of the university-sanctioned events enabled binge drinking and even provided access. That's a big accusation, but here you go: I lived in university residence and was provided alcohol (while underage) on numerous occasions by my floor don, who was employed by Queen's. Years of alcoholism followed. I hope things have changed.

[joemichealmurray]

lol, Kingston should harvest this event not reject it. Cities going about it the wrong way, imagine. Setting up beer tents, hosting keggers, have beer sponsors set up and down the street (That way the city is makign the money it needs to have the proper amount of police patrol and control) and then just have cops contorling who goes in and checking id, anything, embrass it as a city event, if you treat it as anarchy it will be carried out as anarchy.

[jjbendavid]

That is the fucking worst video I have ever seen.

[InstantWaterAddWater]

sheep...

[vituperative]

I'm a student at Queen's, so no they did not reject me.

[Cazper86]

vituperative.........did they reject you?

[vituperative]

To end this inevitably fruitless debate on youtube I'll say this; I did not DENOUNCE your time spent at Queen's or your work or your friends.  I simply stated that in my view the aberdeen shitshow is inconsistant with the reputation Queen's supposedly has and tries to proliferate.

[vituperative]

I would say that Queen's has what you call the "aesthetics of being the "best team" but they have so many shitty players that lack talent and skill. And that's the problem. Students who are serious about academics want to go to an institution that is serious about academics. Again Queen's isn't the worst but there is lots of room for improvement.