Dalhousie

Students challenge media narratives about assault on Gaza

Brad Vaughan — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 17:30:31 +0000

Group calls for demonstration, vigil

K'JIPUKTUK, HALIFAX - As of this morning over 210 people have been killed by the Israeli Defense Force in Gaza. A significant portion of those murdered have been children according to Amer Hussein, a member of Students Against Israeli Apartheid at Dalhousie University.

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Students wait for mental health services

Kendra Lovegrove — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 16:57:18 +0000

Youth more likely to suffer from mental health issues, Dalhousie University does what it can

(K'JIPUKTUK) HALIFAX-- In any given year, one in five Canadians will experience a mental health problem or illness.

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Tensions flare over fossil fuel divestment at Dal

Erica Butler — Wed, 16 Apr 2014 15:57:40 +0000

Board of Governors give no answers, asks for more time

K'JJIPUKTUK (HALIFAX)-- Conversation broke out and emotions flared during Dalhousie’s Board of Governors meeting Tuesday afternoon.

Divest Dalhousie showed up with just under 100 supporters, breaking the record for the third time in a row for student turnout at a Board of Governors’ meeting.

The group, which is made u

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Rosa Luxemburg (Movie, Dir. Margarethe von Trotta, Germany, 1986)

inkmoustache — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 22:35:46 +0000

Titre secondaire:

Film Screening and Discussion

Ma Oct 16

ville:

Halifax

Lieu:

Student Union Building, Room 307

Adresse:

Dalhousie University

Coût:

Free

le contact de l'organisatrice:

dalhousie@platypus1917.org

Lien de carte:

http://binged.it/SSQxaK

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Lien:

http://www.facebook.com/events/446970535353796/

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Discussing the Dalhousie Strike

bsichel — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 00:11:11 +0000

Strike is a symptom of corporatization of education, say students and faculty

With members of the Dalhousie Faculty Association voting 83% in favour of a strike last month, professors are set to walk off the job on March 12th. Asaf Rashid spoke to Drs. Marjorie Stone and Isaac Saney from the Dalhousie Faculty Association, and Aaron Beale, a student, about their views on the strike.

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ALT 101: Alternative Orientation

Sebastien — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 18:33:41 +0000

Titre secondaire:

An alternative orientation series offering new and returning students an opportunity to discover the campus and Halifax's many communities.

Lu Sep 5

ville:

Halifax

le contact de l'organisatrice:

info@nspirg.org

ALT 101 FB Logo.jpg

Lien:

http://nspirg.org/index.php?action=itemedit&itemid=106

Events throughout September 5 to October 5

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Foreign students feel alienated and unrepresented by university administration

Felix — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 23:16:18 +0000

International community lacks representation at Dalhousie, "administration only thinks of money in their pockets"

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CKDU News interviews Dalhousie international student Jacqueline Murphy on returning to Nova Scotia for university, the Halifax-Boston connection, her personal Canadian university experience, increasing tuition fees, cuts to student services & universities' plans to outsource education

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Sweatshop U

Kaley — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 01:32:48 +0000

Part-time, precarious work becoming the norm at Canadian universities

Laura Penny is an author of two full-length books. She has a PhD in Comparative Literature and has written for several magazines and newspapers, including the Globe and Mail. She is funny as hell, her students rate her high on course evaluations, and she has plenty of teaching experience.

She also can’t land a full-time university teaching position in Halifax.

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Seemore Green Community Garden Events

jean.steinberg — Sat, 02 May 2009 21:16:02 +0000

Titre secondaire:

open to all of the dalhousie and halifax community!

Ma Mai 5

ville:

Halifax

Lieu:

Seemore Green

Adresse:

1411 Seymour Street, between Coburg and University on the Dalhousie Campus

Coût:

FREE!

Lien:

http://seemoregreen.wordpress.com

Next Tuesday, May 5th, our ongoing planting of seedlings and garden prep work will continue. We'll start meeting in the early evening, between 5:30 and 6. We'll be planting seedlings, tending beds, watering tender shoots, and meeting vivacious people, until sunset. As with all of our spring gatherings, seeds will be available for exchange, and we encourage you to share with each other.

The following Thursday, May 7, and on Tuesdays and Thursdays until the end of May, we'll be meeting at about the same time, in the early evening, and continuing to care for the collective health of the Green's effervescent new life. As with all of our spring gatherings, seeds will be available for exchange, and we encourage you to share with each other.

All of our gatherings take place on an open schedule, so feel free to come and go as you will.

Seemore Green is located in the courtyard behind the DeMille House, 1411 Seymour Street, between Coburg and University on the Dalhousie Campus.

As always, updates, a schedule of upcoming growings-on, directions, and a cornucopia of information are available at http://seemoregreen.wordpress.com

Live Blogging from the Dal Student Union AGM (Part Deux)

david parker — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 21:35:23 +0000

April 1st, 2009. Dalhousie Student Union Building, Halifax

MacInnes Auditorium

6:32 pm - People are filing into the room. Approximately 40 pizzas have arrived, and they are being eaten as quickly as they are brought in. Attendance is at least 100 students, media, Sodexho staff, security, and others. The auditorium is three quarters full.

6:45 pm - Some students have faces painted from the carnival and concert, held earlier in the day in front of the Killam library, featuring bands, stilt walkers, clowns, and more. The line-up, according to Shannon Zimmerman (incoming DSU president), extends out to first floor lobby and out the front door.

6:57 pm - Mat Brechtel, chair of the meeting, has begun his preamble. "There was a tool called the challenge to the chair that was abused at the last meeting (March 11th).... It is not intended to procedurally do what you democratically cannot do. I encourage you all to achieve your democratic ends, through the use of a vote."

7:03: From the back of the room in the press booth, it looks like all the chairs are full.

7:28 pm - DSU Vice President Education Mark Coffin is presenting his portfolio, consisting mostly of lobbying nationally and provincially through CASA and ANSSA. Tony Seed, editor of Shunpiking Magazine and former candidate of the Marxist-Leninist Party, sitting beside me, says the lobbying model is selling out students' interests.

7:51 pm: DSU Vice President Student life Kris Osmond is interrupted during his presentation on white rock bands coming to Dal, by a black man from the floor, who says, "How do we reduce racism and discrimination on campus? Why is it that we didn't have anything to address inclusiveness on campus during the whole year?" Osmond responds with, "We have over 250 societies on campus.... Our doors were always open." The question, more or less unanswered, hangs in the air.

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Students Battle Over NSPIRG

david parker — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:51:17 +0000

Political factions square off at Dal Student Union AGM

HALIFAX – “We need to trust that people will be honest”, said Mat Brechtel, chair of the Dalhousie Student Union (DSU), referring to a ballot vote after two votes by hand count had failed to determine whether or not a motion concerning the Nova Scotia Public Interest Research Group (NSPIRG) would be added to the meeting's agenda. Brechtel was chairing the DSU's Annual General Meeting to a packed auditorium of 200 students.

The motion called on the DSU to make NSPIRG vacate their offices within 30 days, that NSPIRG make a public apology for "wasting students' money," and also stated that all funds should be with held from NSPIRG and held in trust by the DSU.

The issue of whether the student-funded social justice organization NSPIRG should continue to receive funding was the hot debate item of the evening. Though the item was added to the agenda, it now needs to be voted on by the Dalhousie student body at a subsequent general meeting, to be held April 1st in the Dalhousie Student Union Building at 6:30 pm. It will require a simple majority of 50 percent plus one to either pass or fail.

The meeting began with a tightly controlled security check at the doors of the McInnes Room, the auditorium where the AGM was held. As per orders of DSU President, Courtney Larkin, no non-Dalhousie students were allowed into the AGM, including NSPIRG members and a staff, despite precedence during past AGMs.

According to supporters of NSPIRG inside the meeting, several non-students were still in attendance, including former members of the DSU council and executive.

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