As the Dalhousie Dentistry scandal limps towards something of a conclusion, the treatment of “whistleblower” Ryan Millet has been a source of outrage and mistrust of the university’s administration. Like the other 12 students in the Facebook group, Millet was ultimately allowed to return to clinic, but was suspended for longer than the others because...
Fogo Island: saving rural communities through art and design
Zita Cobb thinks whoever divided the year into four seasons miscounted. “On Fogo Island we have seven different, distinct seasons.” In addition to the standard four, she said, Islanders divide the year into ice, berry and trap berth seasons, all defined by the rhythms of nature. It’s an example of what Cobb described as an “unmediated entanglement with...
Death by a thousand cuts: proposed Dalhousie budget is slowing changing what the university is all about
Still reeling from the global financial collapse and continuing deep cuts in government funding, Dalhousie University will aim to balance its $363 million dollar budget next year with cuts to programs, increased tuition and an ongoing reliance on meager increases to provincial funding. That’s the recommendation of Dal’s Budget Advisory Committee (BAC), which issued a...
Dal post-doc focuses on how to prevent young people from joining ISIS
“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...
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