[Image-1] “Price under more heat for sexual harassment than anyone since Merino and gives a final with 69 questions,” reads the Facebook post. “What a boss.” That’s what one Class of DDS 2015 Gentlemen wrote this past spring. He’s referring to current dentistry professor Richard Price, and former Dalhousie professor Arturo Merino. They’re two of […]
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“Gentlemen” may have a legal case against Dalhousie
[Image-1] Dalhousie may be headed to court and they would probably lose. The press conference on January 21 from Bruce and Sarah MacIntosh—lawyers of Ryan Millet, one of 13 students from the DDS Class of 2015 Gentlemen Facebook group—was shocking, sensational and disturbing. The lawyers revealed the multiple violations of procedural fairness that may lead […]
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Struggle for equal rights at Dalhousie goes back decades
[Image-1] The Dalhousie dentistry scandal has dominated local headlines for more than a month. The public has reacted with fury to sexist and homophobic remarks by fourth-year dentistry students, and references to faculty showing students a video of women in bikinis to wake up male students. All this has been compounded by the university’s messy—and […]
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At least two Dalhousie “gentlemen” remain unsuspended
[Image-1] Updated with Dalhousie’s response below. There were at least 15 members of the misogynistic Facebook group that’s rocked Dalhousie’s dentistry school. Right now, 13 male students in the fourth-year dentistry program are suspended from clinical practice and isolated from their classmates because of the sexually violent posts some put onto the DDS Class of […]
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Dal hires outside PR firm for dentistry scandal help
[Image-1] Dalhousie has hired National Public Relations to help deal with the PR disaster on their hands. A leaked email to the CBC says Dal’s been advised they’ll “be into this for at least a year” in dealing with the fallout from 13 dentistry students’ sexually violent Facebook group. The email also purportedly tells Dalhousie […]