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Debate Topic: Climate change and the viability of the Kyota Accord. Main Speakers: Jane Taber, Elizabeth May, Buzz Hargrove. Video begins with Hitchcock introducing the homecoming debate topic before passing off to Taber who moderates the debate. Debate begins by May debating why Canada should hurry to fulfill the Kyoto Protocol, while Hargorve argues against. Afterwards, Taber asks each of the debaters 3 questions followed by another short debate between the two. Afterwards the debaters take questions from the audience for the remainder of the video.

Main Speaker(s): Tom Harris, Dr William Leggett, Dr James McCowen. Location: Beamish-Munro Hall. Opens with shots panning through Beamish-Munro. Harris introduces Dr Leggett, who talks about the building of Beamish-Munro. Harris then returns to the podium and speaks about how the hall will affect future Applied Science students. He announces there will be an award named after Dr McCowen, who takes the podium and talks about the building. Harris then calls up the Mayor of Kingston and two past students who each give their thanks to the Beamish and Munro families. Robert Beamish and Don Munro are then each called up to give brief speeches.

Main Speaker(s): Roland Michener, Ronald Watts, William Davis, A. Marshall Laverty, Harry Botterell. Location: Botterell Hall. Begins with Michener thanking the people involved with the building of the hall and welcoming the speakers and audience. Watts takes the podium and talks about the planning of the building. Afterwards Davis talks on behalf of the government of Ontario. Laverty then says a prayer. Botterell thanks the building committee for their hard work.

Main Speaker(s): David Smith, Helen Cooper, Frances Lankin, Dave Cooke. Location: Outside, near the future location of the Bioscience Complex. Begins with Smith welcoming the audience, before introducing Cooper. Cooper then goes into further detail of the important contributers to the Bioscience Complex before introducing Lankin, who speaks a little on the Kingston economy and the provincial government's recent decisions involving local jobs. Cooke speaks further on the jobsOntario program. Afterwards Lankin talks about the government's relationship with the university. Smith then thanks the government representatives for their contribution to the university.

Part 1. Main Speaker(s): Dr D. R. Taylor, Malcolm Stott, David Mermin. Location: Classroom within Stirling Hall. Video is of the first B. W. Lecture. Dr Taylor begins by talking about Bern Sergeant and his contributions to physics and Queen's University before introducing Stott, who then introduces Mermin. Mermin then lectures for the rest of the video.

Part 2. Continuation and conclusion of part 1's lecture.

Part 1. Main Speakers: Antoine Campagnon, Ghislain Bourque. Location: Donald Gordon Centre. Video begins with several speakers taking turns welcoming Butor at a podium in front of an audience. After, Campagnon from the University of Columbia talks about Butor and the Classics. Later, Bourque from the Universite de Chicoutimi gives a talk about Butor titled Ecrire, Recrire.

Main Speaker(s): Penny Palmer, Sgt. Jerry Tohill, Dr James McSherry, Diane Nolting, Frank Molineaux, Nelda Pye, Moira Ness, Claudia Heiman, Mary Durrell, Marco Delcarlo, Rana Shakar, Sandy Chalmers, Tim Jones. Location: Victoria Hall. Video is of a program that was part of 1990's Alcohol Awareness Week put on by Queen's residence Dons. Begins with Sgt. Tohill talking about his most memorable experience as an officer regarding alcohol. Dr McSherry speaks on how alcohol affects women differently than men. Afterwards Palmer asks the audience several questions. Many of the panelists also answer questions about alcohol and alcoholism. In between questions students put on skits regarding sexual safety.