One sunny November morning in fourth year I woke up and I could see. For the first time since elementary school I could make out details on the far walls of my room. Before I could begin to understand or enjoy this newfound gift of sight, my brain was clamped in a hot vice and […]
Education
Posted inNews + Opinion
I love this karaoke town
Like everything else in life, a good bar crowd has several sub-categories. You have the determined drunks, the social smokers, the bored-as-shit designated-driver significant others, the pickup artists and the large dudes who speak exclusively in outdoor voices. There is a special subsection of this party category that is often overlooked, however: the karaoke singers. […]
Posted inNews + Opinion
Best. Halifax. Concerts. Ever.
Sonic Youth Thursday, August 9th, 1984 Nova Scotia College of Art and Design Cafeteria One of the most talked-about shows of the last 25 years. Unfortunately, that talk is about how everyone missed it. Advertised as “killer rock + roll from NYC,” the poster, featuring a photo from Evil Dead, is one of the most […]
Posted inNews + Opinion
NSPIRG’s Re-orientation plan
Traditionally, universities welcome new students with a week’s worth of orientation tedium—think tours of the campus, barbeque on the quad with 3,000 other awkward frosh, boring welcoming speeches by academic pooh-bahs. A sleepy student is a prepared student, is the idea. But the Nova Scotia Public Interest Research Group is breaking that mold with its […]
Posted inNews + Opinion
Bringing peace to Dalhousie
By itself, a military approach to conflict and international security issues won’t solve those problems, says Shelly Whitman. That’s a remarkable attitude coming from someone employed by Dalhousie’s Centre for Foreign Policy Studies, which is funded primarily through the Department of National Defence, publishes the war machine-friendly Canadian Naval Review and hosts regular conferences on […]
Posted inNews + Opinion
Last Fuller Terrace lecture night on Tuesday
Bethany Riordan-Butterworth and Ella Tetrault opened their Fuller Terrace backyard to the public this summer, as hosts of a lecture series aimed at getting to know people. The idea originated with Vince Perez and Emily Jones several years ago and focused on art and academics. After the pair moved, Riordan-Butterworth and Tetrault continued the series, […]
Posted inNews + Opinion
Amistad teaches
Freedom Schooner Amistad is probably the most famous of the Tall Ships, thanks to a 1997 Steven Spielberg film based on the story of the actual Amistad revolt and ensuing legal battle. In June of 1839, about 50 Africans who had recently been captured from Mendeland (present-day Sierra Leone) took control of La Amistad, the […]
Posted inNews + Opinion
Teenage swabbies take to the high seas
Many teenagers’ goals revolve around finding someone to buy them their next eight-pack. But some teens have loftier ambitions, like risking storms, squalls and potentially deranged cabinmates to sail across the Atlantic. With the help of Seastar, a local non-profit organization, 47 youth will spend a month at sea aboard tall ships participating in the […]
Posted inNews + Opinion
Students protest against military recruitment at local schools.
Need a job? Need money for school? Want to do something meaningful with your life? Military recruiters, working the HRM high school circuit, say the Armed Forces can offer young people all that and more, but a group from Citadel High is calling for the removal of all “armed forces propaganda” and recruiting personnel from […]
Posted inNews + Opinion
NSPIRG faces funding cut
A group of students led by a recruiter for the provincial Young Progressive Conservatives is putting NSPIRG’s feet to the fire. The left-leaning Nova Scotia Public Interest Research Group, a fixture on Dalhousie’s campus for nearly 20 years, faces loss of its core funding from the Dalhousie Student Union if a controversial motion passes at […]
Posted inNews + Opinion
Class dismissed
Howard Windsor had just arrived home from his morning skate. There was a phone message. Please call Dennis Cochrane, the province’s deputy minister of education, it said. Windsor had an inkling what it might be about. Still, he didn’t immediately return the call. He went upstairs to change into his jogging clothes first. It was […]
Posted inNews + Opinion
Competing school board visions
Top-down As the current one-man school board Howard Windsor sees it, the board answers to provincial education minister Karen Casey. Future school-board members should work as “team players” and should not overly worry about representing the voters who elected them. The school board should be “exercising balanced judgment in the best interests of the system […]
