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Dear Dalhousie students: it’s not Facebook’s fault you failed

Prof. Pettigrew on digital scapegoats

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One year after teen’s death, bullying is on the agenda

Suicide prevention stepped up from Nova Scotia to BC

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Frosh perspective

Universities help first-year students with mentors and more

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Campus cigarette bans aren’t the answer

Where smoking is outlawed it does more harm than good

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Q&A with Dalhousie University’s new president

Richard Florizone plans for more partnerships

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Snowstorm shuts down Maritime universities

Flights delayed and cancelled across eastern Canada

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Dalhousie plans to paint over the real problem

Why the graffiti on campus isn't the right target

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Crime and the new punishment for university students

(Photo: Peter Dench/Getty Images) From Macleans.ca University offers most students their first real taste of freedom from home and family, including the freedom to do stupid and illegal things. Even...

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Buckwild TV, Dalhousie hazing & Gen Y’s narcissism

The cast of Buckwild (MTV.ca) 1. The new TV season is promising for university students, according to Alexander Quon of The Sheaf student newspaper. His list of shows to watch includes Buckwild, which...

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Dalhousie women’s hockey team feels ‘betrayed’

A former Dalhousie Tiger (RicLaf/Flickr) Dalhousie University is standing by its decision to suspend the women’s hockey team over an alleged hazing incident, saying the squad’s most recent version of...

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HBO’s Girls, the plagiarism debate & free speech at U of T

Girl's Dunham (HBO/Instagram) 1. Lena Dunham’s HBO series Girls won the Golden Globe for best TV comedy series last night right before the highly-anticipated premiere of the second season. I’d argue...

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Democracy at UWO, hazing at Dal. & a Christian law school

Western U. (Jessica Darmanin) 1. Gloria Dickie, editor in chief of Western University’s The Gazette has written an editorial suggesting democracy on campus is under threat after the paper was told...

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Mandatory Idle No More, Facebook shower curtain & Obama

marygkosta/Flickr 1. Student newspapers across Canada are still focused on Idle No More, having covered Aboriginal protests from coast to coast again this past week. A teach-in at Dalhousie University...

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He begged for a job with a cardboard sign

Smith in July 2009 (Andrew Vaughan/CP) Jordan Smith was desperate. It was July 2009 and he was unemployed and struggling. A recent graduate, his business degree from Memorial University was proving to...

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This professor teaches accounting as a story

Conrod (dal.ca) Joan Conrod, a professor of accounting at Dalhousie University, is a 3M National Teaching Fellowship recipient for 2013. Maclean’s On Campus is profiling all 10 in the coming weeks. Who...

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Big news at teacher’s college, Adderall & #5D4H

Queen's University students (5days.ca) 1. Groups of students from more than two dozen universities in Canada are participating in 5 Days for the Homeless, a fundraiser for which students started five...

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Nova Scotia student startup gets $1.1-million investment

LeadSift’s team including Das and Chatterjee The student founders of LeadSift, a company whose software combs through Twitter and Facebook data to generate sales leads, set out last fall in search of...

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Hungry for a cause? Look closer at that cafeteria tray.

Shutterstock Students often want to help the environment or tackle poverty but don’t know where to begin. The 10th annual National Student Food Summit, held this weekend in Toronto, showed that campus...

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The flap over the fluency gap

Tim Krochak At 23, Dalhousie University student Ishika Sharma speaks with such self-assurance and optimism, it’s hard to imagine how lost she felt in September 2012, when she arrived in Halifax from...

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Sleeping with a smartphone? Not so wise

Madison Potter has a routine before bedtime. After she brushes her teeth and puts on her pyjamas, she’ll plug in her iPhone and put it right next to her pillow. Then she’ll turn off the lights and fall...

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Fresh perspective on the first year of university

Cole Garside Shari-Ann Baker, who was born and raised in Jamaica, moved to Toronto in 2010 to attend York University. Her first assignment was an essay for a Canadian studies course. Baker got a B, a...

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Energy drinks linked to depression, drug abuse

TORONTO – Consumption of high-caffeine energy drinks among high school students may be linked with mental health issues and substance use, says a new report, which calls for limits on teens’ access to...

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Protesters demand students be expelled over Facebook posts

HALIFAX – People marched to the office of Dalhousie University’s president Friday to demand the school expel dentistry students accused of posting misogynistic messages online about their female peers....

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When restorative justice isn’t enough

Ingrid Bulmer/The Chronicle Herald Dalhousie University, my alma mater, is a sleepy mid-sized school where nobody would fault you for wearing pyjamas to class; it is situated in a sleepy, mid-sized...

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Dalhousie professors go public with complaint over dentistry students

Ingrid Bulmer/The Chronicle Herald HALIFAX — A Dalhousie University faculty member who has filed a complaint with three other professors over male students who allegedly posted sexually hateful...

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Dalhousie University suspends 13 dentistry students over Facebook page

HALIFAX — Dalhousie University has suspended 13 dentistry students from clinical activities over misogynistic comments that were allegedly posted on a social media site, saying it wants to ensure the...

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Dalhousie announces more penalties in Facebook dentistry scandal

HALIFAX – Dalhousie University says the 13 dentistry students who were allegedly members of a Facebook page where sexually violent content was posted will no longer attend classes with the rest of...

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Dalhousie dentistry students return to class amid Facebook probe

Ingrid Bulmer/The Chronicle Herald HALIFAX — Students headed back to class at Dalhousie University’s dentistry school Monday, with some men ordered to study elsewhere because of sexually violent...

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Thank you, Margaret Wente, for exposing rape culture

Andrew Vaughan/CP This past week, Globe and Mail columnist Margaret Wente performed a valiant public service by exposing the mechanics of rape culture—the term for systemic attitudes that diminish,...

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Who is the Dalhousie whistle-blower?

Andrew Vaughan/CP This past weekend, Ryan Millet, a 29-year-old Dalhousie University dentistry student and a member of the notorious DDS Gentlemen Facebook group, came forward in an interview with...

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Dalhousie University disciplinary process ‘irretrievably broken,’ lawyer says

Andrew Vaughan/CP HALIFAX – A dentistry student who was part of a Facebook page that contained sexually violent content about female classmates was suspended largely because he clicked the “Like”...

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In the Dawg house at Dalhousie

A Dalhousie  student from Paris, France eats a kosher hot dog, part of a giveaway put on by a Jewish organization on campus. Photograph By Scott Munn Dalhousie University, the Halifax school notorious...

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Letters: ‘We are destroying our civilization’

What world is that? I enjoyed Scott Gilmore’s “Leaving the Muslim world behind” (International, Jan. 26). However, I’m not convinced that Islam, the Muslim world and Muslim nations/states are...

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Report on Dalhousie’s dentistry scandal applies veneers to major cavities

A pedestrian walks by the Dalhousie Dentistry Building in Halifax on Friday, May 22, 2015. A report into sexist online posts by dentistry students at Dalhousie University has found that a Facebook page...

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Report into dentistry scandal says sexism at Dalhousie faculty isn’t isolated

A pedestrian walks by the Dalhousie Dentistry Building in Halifax on Friday, May 22, 2015. A report into sexist online posts by dentistry students at Dalhousie University has found that a Facebook page...

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Dentistry grad asks Dalhousie to clear his name

A pedestrian walks by the Dalhousie Dentistry Building in Halifax on Friday, May 22, 2015. A report into sexist online posts by dentistry students at Dalhousie University has found that a Facebook page...

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Disciplined Dalhousie students finding dentistry work: lawyer

(Darren Pittman/CP) HALIFAX – A lawyer for Dalhousie University says many of the dentistry students disciplined for participating in a misogynistic Facebook group are now employed as dentists. Sally...

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Chris Helland: Dalhousie sociology professor and tattooed surfer bro

Christopher Helland is a professor at Dalhousie University and an avid surfer. (Photograph by Darren Calabrese) By day, they toil in the ivory tower’s rarefied air. After hours, they break out...

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400 years of African-Canadian history in a Dalhousie minor

Black Lives Matters protesters interrupt Toronto’s 2016 Pride Parade. (Photograph by Jennifer Roberts) The marginalized study of African-Canadian history and culture has taken centre stage at Dalhousie...

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Dalhousie University 411: Where to find the best cheap lunch and more

Unofficial school motto: ‘We bleed black and gold’ Best place for a nap: The second-floor couches in the Marion McCain Arts and Social Sciences Building Best cheap lunch: Loaded Ladle: free healthy...

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