Campus Beat

Hello and welcome to another special episode of Campus Beat. In this edition, we are chatting with Queen’s University Rector Niki Boytchuk-Hale and each of the 2026 Agnes Benedickson Tricolour Award winners. The Tricolour Award and induction into the Tricolour Society is the highest tribute that can be paid to a Queen’s University student for distinguished service, leadership, character, and commu...

Hello and welcome to another special edition of Campus Beat.  It’s Elections and Referenda time at Queen’s University with all manner of student candidates, student clubs, Queen’s University services and a few community organizations currently campaigning for office or for student fees across the AMS and SGPS memberships.  In this episode, the CFRC team got together to read the campaign materials...

Hello and welcome to another special edition of Campus Beat.  Elections and referenda campaign time is now underway for candidates and clubs under the Society of Graduate and Professional Students!  In this episode, we are chatting with SGPS Executive Candidates about their campaigns.  SGPS members are reminded that voting for candidates and student fees takes place on January 29th and 30th.  Watc...

Hello and welcome to another special edition of Campus Beat.  Elections and referenda campaign time is still very much underway for candidates and clubs under the Alma Mater Society through January 27th!  In this episode, we are featuring coverage of the AMS All Candidates’ Debate which occurred on Friday January 23rd on the second floor of the new JDUC and also via live stream facilitated by the...

Hello and welcome to another special edition of Campus Beat. Amidst all the snow this January, it’s a very busy time on Queen’s campus! Elections and referenda campaign time is still very much underway for candidates and clubs under the Alma Mater Society through January 27th!  In this episode, we are featuring coverage of the 16 campus groups and student clubs on the ballot for student fees durin...

Hello and welcome to another special edition of Campus Beat. We hope the day finds you warm and dry amidst all the snow and cold winter weather here at Queen’s University! And of course, its busy busy busy as Elections and referenda campaign time is now underway for candidates and clubs under the Alma Mater Society right up through January 27th! In this short episode, we are chatting with a few AM...

In this episode, we read statements available to us for campus and community groups on the ballot for the AMS Fall 2025 referendum. Students can learn more about the referendum by visiting myams.org, your student government website, and follow the AMS on instagram @queens_ams.

In this special episode of Campus Beat, host Dinah Jansensits down with 5 of the 6 2025 Queen’s University Distinguished Service Award Recipients.   Inaugurated by the University Council in 1974, the Distinguished Service Award recognizes individuals who have made the University a better place through their extraordinary contributions. Queen’s faculty, staff, students, retirees, and members o...

Ring! Ring! Wanna see something super HOT before the summer? Queen’s Musical Theatre brought Heathers to Kingston! In this episode, CFRC’s Nathan Zhe chatted with QMT’s Vocal Director Ryan Killoran about QMT and their upcoming production hitting the Baby Grand April 10th-17th!  Details below! Queen’s Musical Theatre is proud to announce “HEATHERS: THE MUSICAL” as our Winter 2025...

In today’s extended episode, we feature conversations with four of the five MP Candidates for Kingston and the Islands who responded to our invitations for interviews about their campaigns.  We chatted with Mark Gerretsen, incumbent MP for the Liberal Party seeking re-election, alongside Daria Juüdi-Hope, candidate for the NDP; Bryan Paterson, candidate for the Conservative Party of Canada, as wel...

Quilt is Queen’s University’s undergraduate literary publication. It was established by members of the English Department Student Council in 2020, with the goal of providing writers across disciplines at Queen’s University a platform to share their brilliant work and to collaborate with those who might not share their same program of study, but do share a passion for the written word. ...

In this Club Takeover special, we chat with Greg Hicks and Laura Bernier of the Queen’s Swing Dance Club.  This club is a swing dance community active at Queen’s in Kingston ratified by the Alma Mater Society in 1999 and celebrating its jubilee this year.  Each Monday, the group offers beginner lessons followed by social dancing at The Spire open to students and community members. Join...

Step into the ever-evolving world of the Internet—where reality blurs between a show and a podcast! For this special club takeover, we welcomed Iulia Rus, Assistant Director of the DAN School of Drama and Music’s Winter 2025 Major Love and Information, along with Charlie Hensel, who plays “Z” in the production. Recorded in the cozy CFRC studio, our conversation delves into the creative process beh...

Coming up in this special Queen’s Club Takeover of CFRC’s Campus Beat airwaves, we’re chatting with folks from the group Let’s Get Revved Up. The Let’s Get Revved Up club was formed in 2023 with the mission of raising funds and awareness for the Revved Up program. Revved Up is a not-for-profit organization at Queen’s that supports physical activity opportunities...

Hello and welcome to another episode of  Campus Beat ! In this installment, we’re thrilled to sit down with Queen’s University Rector Niki Boytchuk-Hale, along with this year’s Agnes Benidickson Tricolour Award winners: Hannah Burrows, Ore Maxwell, and Zaid Kasim. The Agnes Benidickson Tricolour Award (ABTA)—named in honor of Dr. Agnes Benidickson, Queen’s University Chancellor from 1980 to 1996—i...

In this special edition of Campus Beat, we’re pleased to welcome members of the Queen’s Royal Canadian Moon Patrol Team, a design team of multidisciplinary engineering students at Queen’s University getting ready to compete in NASA’s 2025 Human Exploration Rover Challenge in Huntville, Alabama this spring. We chatted with team members about their group and its formation, th...

Hello again and welcome everyone to another special edition of Campus Beat airing on CFRC 101.9 FM, streaming at cfrc.ca and on your favorite mobile apps like iheartradio.   You can find CFRC on instagram at @cfrcmusic ,  I’m Dinah Jansen and with me is Abyaz Karim, a Masters student in International Business who has recently joined our news team as the Campus News Reporter, alongside our dedicate...

  Welcome to Campus Beat broad and podcasting from CFRC 101.9 FM.  In this episode, host  Dinah Jansen alongisde Abyaz Karim, Jaya Kumar, and Jesse Bell present conversations with  and read statements from clubs and groups seeking to establish, increase, or continue mandatory or optional fees during the SGPS referendum that takes place January 29th and 30th.  All students are reminded that vo...

Hello again and welcome everyone to this special edition of CFRC 101.9 FM’s Campus Beat with host, Dinah Jansen who is joined by Abyaz Karim, a Masters student in International Business who has recently joined the CFRC news team as the Campus News Reporter, alongside one of the station’s dedicated AMS student volunteers, Jaya Kumar.   Coming up, we’re pleased to present conversations we held...

Hello again and welcome everyone to this special edition of Campus Beat. Coming up in this episode, we’re pleased to present conversations we held with each of the Candidates running for AMS Executive Offices including Presidential Candidates Jana Amer and Nico Brasset Duque, candidates for Vice President University Affairs, Dreyden George and Alyssa Perisa, and the candidate for Vice President Op...

Welcome to CFRC’s Campus Beat and our coverage of AMS and SGPS Elections and Referenda coming up on January 29th and 30th.  In this installment of our special broadcast and podcasts, we have the available recording furnished to us by the AMS of the January 23rd AMS 2025 All Candidates’ Debate, a historic event as it is the first un-slated election of Executives where candidates now run as individu...

In this special installment of Campus Beat, we continue with our special AMS and SGPS Elections and Referenda coverage presenting footage from the January 22nd 2025 Society of Graduate and Professional Students All Candidates Debate which occurred virtually with an almost historic number of candidates running for SGPS office. Video of the debate is available on the SGPS website at SGPS.ca . The de...

In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Nicolas Lamp of the Faculty of Law to discuss breaking news from the United States concerning announcements from the incoming Donald Trump administration that the new President intends to impose 25% tariffs on goods from both Canada and Mexico heading into the US.  To learn more about the issues and potential impacts of this proposed policy for Canadians and C...

Hello and welcome to this special podcast featuring the Installation of Shelagh Rogers, 16th Chancellor of Queen’s University held at Grant Hall on November 11th 2024.  Chancellor Rogers was installed at the first ceremony of the Fall 2024 Convocation period.  The event was live streamed on the Queen’s University website  and broadcast on CFRC 101. 9 FM and CFRC.ca from 2:30-4 PM. In a...

Hello and welcome to this special podcast featuring the Installation Reception for Shelagh Rogers, 16th Chancellor of Queen’s University held at the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts on November 11th 2024. The private reception featured several speakers and a special playlist curated by Chancellor Rogers herself. The reception was broadcast via CFRC 101.9 FM in Kingston and streame...