[Image-1] The recently-launched “Sexual Assault and Harassment” phone line at Dalhousie will operate until the end of the academic year thanks to additional funding from the university. Dalhousie will provide an additional $30,000 to the phone line, which originally launched September 6 as a six-week pilot project. “The Dalhousie Student Union is excited that we […]
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Lawyer alleges Dalhousie advised dental grad to lie on licensing exams
[Image-1] The lawyers for Dalhousie dental grad Ryan Millet claim university administrators advised Millet to say he had never been suspended when applying for his dentistry license. It’s an accusation included as part of a lengthy statement sent out to media this afternoon by Bruce T. MacIntosh (of firm MacIntosh, Macdonnell and MacDonald). The lawyers, […]
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Some weirdo is angry that feminists might cancel Daniel Tosh’s upcoming shows
Freedom of speech means the right to criticize what other people are saying. But it might not always be the best use of your time. Over the weekend, three threads were started on the Halifax subreddit (two now with the author’s account deleted), all regarding the same paranoid ravings that anarchist feminists are destroying free […]
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13 things you need to know Friday
1 Dalhousie’s report into the sexually violent Facebook page created by fourth-year dentistry students was released today. If somehow you missed the scandal, refresh yourself with our coverage on the Facebook posts, subsequent suspensions and Dal’s general public relations nightmare. All of the men involved in the group can now graduate, according to the report. […]
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Ryan Millet remains suspended
[Image-1] The disciplinary prosecution he’s facing is “unprecedented and unfair” according to Ryan Millet. The former member of the Class of DDS 2015 Gentlemen Facebook group which dominated the news earlier this year is asking for his suspension to be expunged and his reputation cleared. Meanwhile, his 12 former group members returned this week to […]
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Long live CKDU!
CKDU-FM, Atlantic Canada’s most celebrated campus/community radio station, has just turned 30 years old. Opening up the birthday party to the public is a shindig on February 19 at Plan B on Gottingen Street and an exhibit, What’s Left on the Dial: A CKDU Retrospective, on March 2-8 at the Khyber. Last fall, CKDU hired […]
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Encounters at the opera
Encounters is a collection of six short contemporary operas about what happens when two people meet by chance. This is the first opera staged by the newly formed Fountain School of Performing Arts at Dalhousie University and it promises lighthearted and funny entertainment. The collection was first presented at the University of Toronto’s New Music […]
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Dalhousie refuses to comment on dentistry faculty accusations
[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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The six Facebook posts that Dal suspended 13 students for
Lawyers for Ryan Millet, the dentistry student who blew the whistle on the “Class of DDS 2015 Gentlemen,” held a press conference Wednesday morning to share the news that Dalhousie is still bungling this whole Facebook situation. Yeah, shocker. Millet went before a disciplinary hearing Tuesday night in hopes of getting his suspension from clinical […]
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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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Drawing the line between freedom of expression and hate speech
[Image-1] The Dawgfather, a popular hot dog vendor who usually sets up shop outside of Dalhousie’s student union building, has recently come under fire for posting jokes on Twitter about the Holocaust and 9/11 attacks. He claims this was done not out of hatred, but as a response to the Charlie Hebdo Muhammad cartoon. He […]