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The Wriitng Centre, established in 1986, offers a range of services to help students improve their writing skills. These include one-on-one tutorials with a professional tutor, workshops on the basic principles of effective writing, and a grammar hot line to answer questions about grammar, punctuation, and correct usage. It also offers talks on writing exams and other topics of interest to students. The Writing Centre reports to the Vice-Principal (Academic). It is now part of the Learning Commons complex, located in Stauffer Lbrary.

The Third Eye (possibly an extension of Sweven) was an art magazine published by the Queens Journal as an outlet for creative work of Queen’s University community. The Third Eye published Queen’s student submitted material from poetry, short stories, photography and visual art. The publication was created to encourage discussion and criticism on different submitted work in order to create a art community on campus. The third and last issue published on April 3 1972 due to lack of community response.

The Principal’s Report was first published in 1894 in the Queen’s Quarterly vol.1, by Principal George Monro Grant. In 1907, it became its own publication. The Principal’s Report included a report from the Principal himself, along with updates from each faculty and administrative units such as the Library, Dean of Women, the Athletic Board of Control, and the Treasurer. In addition, the University Registrar often included statistics on student attendance for the academic year. The last stand-alone issue of the Principal’s Report was for 1977-1978.

The Lictor was originally published in 1973 in order to to act as an alternative to the Queen’s Journal news reporting on the Queen’s campus. From 1973 to 1988, The Lictor went through a series of yearly elected editors who published student articles which shifted from largely concentrating on international and national political issues to mainly about student campus life. This shift was partly because of increased pressure on campus against the controversial nature of early articles which included sexual politics, gender identity and early environmentalism, including aboriginal land rights in wake of Hydro One dam construction in Quebec. Also importantly The Lictor provided a place for art, poetry and writing on campus. There was significant format changes under different editors from 1987 to1988 in order to revive earlier format of the publication which caused clashes within its editorial staff. Under this development strategy, the Lictor changed its name to Surface and begin publication as new magazine with a new look while keeping the alternative persona.

The Graduate Society Newspaper was published by the Graduate Society on April 3 1970 as an attempt to renew interest in a Queen’s graduate newspaper in order to create better dialogue within the Queen’s different graduate programs. Due to lack of public interest, the newspaper attempt lasted only two issues after the bitter resignation of the editor on July 14 1970.

The Graduate Gavel was founded in February 1963 as a monthly publication by the Graduate Student Society in order to serve as a medium of communication between Queen’s University's different graduate programs. The newsletter consisted of news articles covering events pertaining to the Graduate Student Society and opinion pieces on aspects of university life such as education, athletics, politics and the arts. The publication regularly had literary features, profiles of graduate students, activities announcement, hockey and other athletic reports. Despite attempts to reach a wide audience within campus, by June 1964 there was significant budget issues with the publication taking 60% of the Graduate Student Society income. The newsletter was reformatted from plain separate pages to increased amount of articles in columns per pages and increased advertisement. Along with this reformatting, there was attempt to capture a wider audience with more controversial issues particularly focusing on international events like the Vietnam war and failures of health insurance for graduate students. But despite these attempts by September 6 1969, there was increased budget demands with the renovations of the Graduate House on campus which meant cutting back on other projects of the society, including The Gavel.

Established in the spring of 1946, The Commerce Man was originally published by the Commerce Club in order to meet the demands and changes within University by returning World War II veterans. The main purpose of the periodical was to present the students of the School of Business with their own magazine based upon the contributions of undergraduates, recent alumni and faculty. The periodical also offered valuable training for student producers, advertisers and writers. The periodical was published semi-annually in the fall and spring of each academic year, until the Fall 1954 issue where it became an annual publication. The content of the magazine shifted greatly through its two decades of publication, but usually the periodical offered business-related articles, book reviews and articles on recent research within the program. Notably in the 1950s and early 1960s, the periodical published detailed descriptions of recent graduates and positions they held within industry. Throughout the Commerce Man’s publication it faced financial difficulty and by 1965 the periodical was reduced to a once yearly publication though each issue was significantly longer. The periodical was restructured again, when in 1969 the Commerce Society broke away from the Faculty of Arts and Science becoming the newly founded Queen’s Commerce Society in the Business School. Due to a mixture of financial strain and loss of interest within the newly founded Commerce Society the Commerce Man ended publication in 1974. The publication of the Commerce Man offers a inside look into Commerce Society at Queen's, and Canada's changing post war business models.

The Commentator Newsletter was a monthly four-page newsletter published and written by Queen’s Commerce Society in order to detail exclusively with the activities of the Commerce Society and on the changes within the Commerce program. Until its abrupt end in 1999, the newsletter detailed elections within the Commerce Society, debates over changing businesses developments and recent work by graduates.

The Chronicle was a Commerce Society newspaper running for eighty-one issues published between 13 October 1977 and 21 March 1985. It is the successive publication to the earlier publication of The Commerce Man. The Chronicle was a newspaper published monthly detailing changes happening within the Commerce Society consisting mostly of election details and profiles of candidates, but also focused on giving detailed support for undergraduate, graduate and staff published articles. These articles were meant to relay information of theories and development within the businesses community. Also importantly The Chronicle attempted to connect Queen’s students to career paths and to employment as students running the paper gained valuable experience. The Chronicle ended due to shifting funding demands within the Commerce Society and a decreasing amount of interest.

The Briefcase was a newsletter published by the undergraduate program of the Queen’s School of Business as a medium of communication between different business undergraduate societies within Canada. As a inter-university newsletter it was made up of articles and columns based upon contributions by students and university professors from Canadian universities. Throughout its three issue run it gradually received more contributions from and distribution on a greater number of universities from University of Calgary, Carlton, Concordia, Dalhousie, Manitoba, McGill, University of Ottawa, University of Saskatchewan, and University of Windsor. Despite this growing interest the newsletter stopped publication in 1989, even though there was a planned spring issue in March 1990 which does not appear to be published.