Dear Dalhousie students: it’s not Facebook’s fault you failed
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Suicide prevention stepped up from Nova Scotia to BC
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Where smoking is outlawed it does more harm than good
View ArticleQ&A with Dalhousie University’s new president
Richard Florizone plans for more partnerships
View ArticleSnowstorm shuts down Maritime universities
Flights delayed and cancelled across eastern Canada
View ArticleDalhousie plans to paint over the real problem
Why the graffiti on campus isn't the right target
View ArticleCrime 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...
View ArticleBuckwild 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...
View ArticleDalhousie 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...
View ArticleHBO’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...
View ArticleDemocracy 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...
View ArticleMandatory 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...
View ArticleHe 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...
View ArticleThis 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...
View ArticleBig 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...
View ArticleNova 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...
View ArticleHungry 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleSleeping 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...
View ArticleFresh 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...
View ArticleEnergy 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...
View ArticleProtesters 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....
View ArticleWhen 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...
View ArticleDalhousie 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...
View ArticleDalhousie 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...
View ArticleDalhousie 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...
View ArticleDalhousie 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...
View ArticleThank 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,...
View ArticleWho 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...
View ArticleDalhousie 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”...
View ArticleIn 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...
View ArticleLetters: ‘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...
View ArticleReport 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...
View ArticleReport 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...
View ArticleDentistry 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...
View ArticleDisciplined 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...
View ArticleChris 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...
View Article400 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...
View ArticleDalhousie 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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