Catherine Meade still cringes whenever she walks by a schoolyard and hears the insults kids hurl at each other on the playing field. “Even though it’s 2006,” Meade says, “and we’ve had the right to marry for two years now, you still walk by many school grounds, and what do you hear, ‘fag,’ or ‘dyke.’ […]
Mihira Lakshman
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Cold comfort
Like many students who rent in south end Halifax, Robert Jewer feels he’s being gouged. He’s paying $620 per month for his room in a modest three-bedroom apartment, located at Park Victoria on South Park. “It seems high,” he says, “but it’s something you learn to live with in this city.” Jewer moved here from […]
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Copy rights
For the entire school year, Krissy Arbuckle and Chantal Brushett have been on a mission to pull the plug on turnitin.com. Arbuckle and Brushett, two student union leaders at Mount Saint Vincent University, got on the website’s case in September after a student told them it was on a professor’s syllabus. On March 6, they […]
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Unoriginal sin
Lynn Taylor knows she’s fighting an uphill battle when offers of free pizza and pop still can’t fill the room. About 20 engineering students fidget anxiously in a large classroom at Dalhousie University’s Sexton campus. This is the biggest group to turn out for any session during Dalhousie’s Academic Integrity Week, which was held February […]