“Out of 100 people, if three people blow up something we study the three to death,” says Amarnath Amarasingam. “Then we don’t ever ask what’s kept the 97 from doing similar things.” For Amarasingam, a a Postdoctoral fellow with Dalhousie’s Resilience Research Centre, solving that equation is a matter of resilience. Having completed his PhD at Wilfred...
The solution to pedestrian safety is more awareness campaigns, say Dal and city planners
“We are terrible, to be very honest, in terms of our road sharing,” said Asan Habib. Habib is a Dal prof who was hosting the Crosswalk Safety Information Café Wednesday, a chance for the Dalhousie Transportation Collaboratory (DalTRAC) and the HRM Crosswalk Safety Advisory Committee to meet with city employees and the public to talk about crosswalk plans and crosswalk […]
Union: Dalhousie’s part-time faculty in Truro deserve same pay as part-timers in Halifax
part The union representing part-time faculty at Dalhousie has filed a Bargaining in Bad Faith complaint against the university. The complaint revolves around the status of part-time faculty at the ag school in Truro. On July 1, 2012, the former Nova Scotia Agricultural College became Dalhousie’s Faculty of Agriculture. When they were working at the Agriculture College, part-time faculty were unrepresented....
Addicted to destruction: broken societies, dislocation, and finding purpose in life
In the 19th century, a new notion of addiction came to the fore. Although it’s now viewed as a development of modern neuroscience, said Bruce Alexander, the official understanding of addition as “chronic, relapsing brain disease” is essentially the same as that which was developed 200 years ago. “I’m going to leave that official view...
Part time work, full time misery: the life of an adjunct professor
Shaun Bartone has been teaching in colleges and universities since 1998. With two masters degrees and a law degree under his belt, he’s now on his way towards completing a PhD. He also lives in public housing. “I qualify for public housing, thank god,” he says. “I’m appreciative of that because it floats with my...
What’s the point of student government?
What does a student association do? It’s a question that even current students might be hard pressed to answer. Student associations are often understood in name alone – as unions or governments – but Michael Hughes, a Queen’s PhD student who prepared an independent report on student association governance, says that this understanding of what...
Inequality expert: “The US is looking more like what we believed is the third world”
It doesn’t take much to be well off in global terms: “Even the poorest Americans make it above the median” said Branko Milanovic. The disparity with the rest of the world is even more pronounced in more egalitarian countries — the bottom one percent in Denmark, Milanovic pointed out, is still better off than the top...
Surviving racism: African Nova Scotian women talk about the daily racism they’ve experienced
Barbara Hamilton-Hinch’s family has been in Nova Scotia for eight generations. Yet what for many people would provide a feeling of rootedness hasn’t been enough to change the fact that Hamilton-Hinch has often felt alienated from her home province because of the colour of her skin. Before a room packed with supporters, students, and members...
Free university tuition? Not so fast, says StudentsNS
The debate over tuition fees often dominates the discussion over accessible post secondary education. Yet not everyone agrees that the best way to ensure accessibility is through the elimination of those fees. On February 17, StudentsNS, an alliance of post-secondary student associations representing nearly 38,000 students from universities and colleges across the province, released the vision...
Pink Triangle Day: reclaiming sex education
“I’m not going to teach you how to put on a condom and things like this,” said Carmella Farahbakhsh “but I’m going to focus and give space to topics that aren’t covered and that some people may have never heard about.” Sex education has come a long way since the teaching of abstinence. In Ontario,...
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