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Published Friday, March 6, 2015 5:35PM EST Last Updated Friday, March 6, 2015 6:38PM EST The Dalhousie University dentistry building is seen in Halifax on Monday, Jan. 12, 2015… I'm glad that for once you posted a photo of a woman without talking about doing sexual violence to her? Faith-based gatherings have a change in restrictions allowing them to take place between December 21 and January 10. After graduating from Acadia University with a Bachelor of Science with honours in biology in 2011, Dr. Easson attended Dalhousie Dentistry, graduating in 2015 with a doctor of dental surgery degree. I saw this before on another site? Lawyers for Ryan Millet, the dentistry student who blew the whistle on the “Class of DDS 2015 Gentlemen,” held a press conference Wednesday morning to share the news that Dalhousie is still bungling this whole Facebook situation. Not the posts mocking faculty of dentistry staff, or referring to male classmates who had been in the group but left before the December 12 day of reckoning. IP. The Gents attended classes with the same female classmates who, just a few months before, the Gents wanted to “hate-fuck”, wanted to drug with chloroform and then fuck, and wanted to “bang” until the Gents’ “stress was relieved, or until the girl was unconscious.”. Lawyers for Ryan Millet, the dentistry student who blew the whistle on the “Class of DDS 2015 Gentlemen,” held a press conference Wednesday morning to share the news that Dalhousie is still bungling this whole Facebook situation. And the men dental students had the pleasure of attending many co-ed classes with the same female classmates whom the Gents named and rated according to the women’s body size and appearance on the Gentlemen’s Facebook page. Yet when confronted by about 50 Facebook posts, chock full of examples of unprofessional behaviour, the committee chose to narrow its vision to consider just a few. But Tuesday night’s hearing didn’t leave the lawyers MacIntosh feeling that Dal cared a whit for the kind of legal process that's used in the real world. The Gents are men, not boys. Many of the women participated in the restorative justice process and became the Gentlemen’s tutors and their guides through the process and the new curriculum—and the women did it for free. And to top it all off – the Gents are all graduating this week! Dalhousie University’s Faculty of Dentistry has been providing students with an outstanding education since its founding in 1908. The boys of the Dalhousie Dental School should get an A in their coursework. She is chair of the CCPA-NS. Last Monday, Dalhousie posted "in its full, unedited form," an open letter to the university community from the 29 members of its Dentistry Class of 2015 participating in a … How convenient for the Class of DDS Gentlemen. Its value as evidence against Millet is questionable, however: He testified at the Tuesday hearing that he’d never seen the photo before. Not one of Gents has stepped forward to admit to anything, including his name. He think Dal’s senate (which he sees as the governing body above president Richard Florizone) needs to start the whole process from scratch to have any hope of recovering from the mess the school has made. No sense dragging the Gents’ names through the mud. They’re not sure what exactly comes next. Absolutely. And without a full assessment of the Facebook posts, can the public fully trust any of the suspended students if and when they are allowed back in the clinic to treat people? The university community, women across this country, patients and staff in dental practices, plus the 3 000 who petitioned to expel the men from Dalhousie deserved to hear the Gents’ apologies and their commitment to fight misogyny, racism and sexism. Dalhousie President Florizone insists the restorative justice process was a success. DAT(RC/ST/PAT) my stats: Invite. One issue for the MacIntoshes is the ASCC’s selective focus on only about 10 percent of the Facebook evidence. Nova Scotia hopes to vaccinate 75 percent of population by September 30, It's go time for skating and skate rentals at Halifax's beloved Oval, Halifax bars and restaurants permitted to re-open January 4, Showing The bill outlining the costs associated with Dalhousie's Dentistry School scandal has arrived — and it's a big one. “It’s a very unhealthy situation.”, Here are the posts Dal’s ASCC considered as grounds to suspend Millet and perhaps the rest of the 13 students, six plucked from a pool of dozens of screenshots that Dalhousie was given. We were honoured to be asked to speak today, and take this privilege seriously. Taking sexist images from the internet and making them worse is a bit of a specialty for the Gentlemen. Halifax Dental Studio is pleased and proud to announce that Dr. Jenine Arab O’Malley (DDS’90) has been awarded Accreditation status in the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry. Repeatedly since the existence of the group went public in December, Dal has invoked the need for “a just process.” Dal would like us to think this means that, despite the unruly mob’s cries for the 13 men to be immediately expelled, the school must honour the same sort of rights and procedures that civil society uses to judge anyone accused of wrongdoing. The local media should be congratulated for playing along. Can you support independent journalists with $5? Like many Canadians, I was shocked to hear that the path Dalhousie University has chosen to deal with members of the Facebook group 'Class of DDS 2015 Gentlemen' will be a closed, internal and confidential process. I feel uneasy about the use of restorative justice in the case of misogyny. Margarets, HRM hopes landlord registry will make a dent in the rental housing crisis, Men are behaving like assholes, and I’m sick of it, Starting today you can apply for the Canada Emergency Response Benefit. Accountability, or ownership, must be transparent. of 17. Ridiculous? If you haven’t already done so, it’s time to figure out how to facetime your family in Moncton. This is our #rst time speaking publicly about our experience this year. Millet says he never saw it on Facebook. Quick looks at cases and more, in Halifax and Nova Scotia. If you want to be like the ASCC, you won’t look at them.). And for all we know from Dal, all 13 of the students were suspended based on a reading of just those six posts. Judy Haiven teaches in the Management Dept at the Sobey School of Business at Saint Mary's University. Students learn and practice in our state-of-the-art clinic and lab facilities from nationally and internationally recognized faculty members. Dr Leanne Easson. 3.9. One Gent faced a Dalhousie University disciplinary committee for acting as a whistleblower. None of which explains why the committee’s hearing would only consider six out of of nearly 50 questionable posts. A global community of alumni. There is no place in dentistry for this type of behaviour. Yeah, shocker. Comments in the fourth post mention Vaseline and supersep (sic), more dental stuff. The Provincial Dental Board has deep concern related to the social media postings on the Facebook group “Class of 2015 DDS Gentleman’s Club” at Dalhousie University. Published March 2, 2015 . Posts included a poll on which female classmates they would have “hate” sex with and mention of chloroforming their female classmates. Why has the Dalhousie Dentistry Student Society been silent through this? After four and a half hours, they asked for an adjournment. Dental school is 4 years – that means the Gentlemen in the Facebook pages who are graduating this week must be at least 27 to 30 years of age. Notice how "dentist" isn't a career option for women according to Dalhousie's Gentlemen. In fact they got an education, with ‘value added’ as we say in the business world. And President Florizone and the people at the top want to keep it that way. (The Coast obtained Dal’s collection, and published many of them in December, as you can see here. The photo of the person in an operating room may be a clear violation of patient confidentiality, as the poster implies he snapped the photo while accompanying a Dal doctor. In the same vein, two posts that describe drugging women with chloroform and nitrous oxide—tools of the dentist’s trade—are arguably dental misogyny rather than misogyny by and towards students in a faculty that happens to be dentistry. Of the 38 four-year program students in the DDS2015 class 29 agreed to participate in the restorative justice process. Faculty of Dentistry alumni are at work in over 60 countries around the world, in practices, hospitals, universities, and volunteer clinics, helping to provide excellent oral health care to patients.. Our first four students graduated in 1912 and our first female dentist graduated in 1919. The six posts in question are below, with names and avatars obscured. Strange:  the media, especially the CBC, has previously gone to court for the right to reveal men’s names in other important cases, but not in this one. One of the chosen posts shows a patient lying face-down in an operating room, and likely the ASCC latched onto it because it seems a clear-cut violation of professional ethics by breaching patient confidentiality. It was not just the women in the dental school who were owed apologies and explanations. University of Alberta legal scholar Annalise Acorn expresses doubts about restorative justice in her book, Compulsory Compassion, a Critique of Restorative Justice. Florizone had help:  he had The Coast and the CBC who tacitly agreed to keep mum about the Gents’ names. An email released just before noon from DalhousieStatement@gmail.com states the complaint has been made under the university's code of student conduct, and not their sexual harassment policy. He and his lawyers were asking the academic standards class committee to conclude—based on a reading of the 40-something screenshots of Facebook posts Dalhousie’s been given—that the 13 "Gentlemen" didn’t participate equally in the group's hateful conversations and therefore don't equally deserve suspension. To rephrase that, our time in the restorative justice process is officially coming to a close In this Facebook group, fourth year members of the Dalhousie University Dentistry School, using Dalhousie as their 'brand', promoted sexual violence including rape and rape aided by drugging females. We are committed as always to providing free access to readers, particularly as we confront the impact of COVID-19 in Halifax and beyond. These days, virtually all students need at least one university degree to enter dental school. This looks like a clear case of breaking a patient's confidentiality—at least for the guy who took the photo when he "went in to shadow" a doctor. Yeah, that sure is an unfortunate place to sit, whether the person is male or female, lol? Faculty of Dentistry, Dalhousie University Carleton Campus 5981 University Avenue PO Box 15000 Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 4R2 Patient inquiries: 1.902.494.2101 Academic inquiries: 1.902.494.2824 - Please note: The staff at this phone number cannot provide information related to patient/clinic services. At a time when the city needs local coverage more than ever, we’re asking for your help to support independent journalism. Dining out is the latest trend to make a comeback in 2021. Aren’t we a bit too fast with the compassion, she asks? It goes so far as to state “The Faculty of Dentistry considers that interruptions during class, such as talking and use of cellular telephones, are examples of unprofessional behaviour.” So it's not much of a stretch to think that if talking too much in class can lead to permanent dismissal, talking about attacking your classmates is probably a dismissal-worthy offence. The manual’s Student Code of Professional Conduct has a long list of things students should do to demonstrate their professionalism, such as “Respect all races, ethnicities, religions, genders, beliefs and values of fellow students. Maybe the ASCC read the Academic Policy Manual, and in the section about academic dishonesty discovered it had some mandate to act beyond the purview of strictly dental professionalism: “Academic offences will not be tolerated under any circumstances. These are not the posts asking which of their female classmates the men would like to sexually assault. How can that be? A close look at the publically-available information on the case of the Class of DDS 2015 Gentlemen page shows a mass of contradictions, confusion and miscommunication. HALIFAX - Dalhousie University has postponed exams at its dentistry school and launched an investigation after sexually violent comments were … Congrats! The Gents never had to face the public’s wrath on a personal level – as their identities continue to be protected by the top administration and the board at Dalhousie. Four Dalhousie faculty members have come forward to file a formal complaint against the members of the "Class of DDS 2015" Facebook group. Read more about the work we do here, or consider making a voluntary donation using the button below. Let’s calculate how old these young Gents are: age 18 or 19 when they finished high school, plus four years for undergrad, that’s closing in on age 23. This repurposed meme is the only post Millet interacted with, but what does a "like" mean in this context? It is ironic that restorative justice, which began as an alternative to punishment --such as imprisonment-- especially for underprivileged people who broke the law, is now being used by the privileged to protect them from penalty or punishment. Twelve of the men were members of the men’s private Facebook group at … They agreed to help rehabilitate the Gents. Note the December 2011 date on this post: The DDS Gentlemen talked about attacking their female classmates from early in their first year. However, as father-daughter lawyer team Bruce and Sarah MacIntosh explained at their packed presser, what they discovered at the hearing is that the ASCC suspended Millet due to concerns about just six of the posts. The very shocking and all too common outrage of misogyny ends with barely a whimper. Mon., Jan. 12, 2015 timer 3 min. Thank you for your support! It’s practically impossible that the ASCC has read the policy manual, as even a cursory skim would reveal the committee has enormous latitude for judging professionalism. Dalhousie interview invites are sent out today lets share our stats Invite/reject IP/OOP. read. HALIFAX—Students headed back to class at Dalhousie University’s dentistry school Monday, with some men … With the year we’ve had, we trust you know that we do not say that lightly. Taken in its totality, the code has an incredibly wide net for things the ASCC can discipline students over, and allows that such discipline can include suspension, dismissal and, in some cases, expulsion. You don’t have to be a Dal law student to understand that a kangaroo court isn’t due process; theatre students may come across this concept in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Trial By Jury. Millet went before a disciplinary hearing Tuesday night in hopes of getting his suspension from clinical work lifted. Of the 29 students involved during the restorative process there were 15 men and 14 women. Churches re-open but arts groups and restaurants remain shuttered, The winners of the Best of Halifax Readers' Choice Awards 2016, Halifax sees increase in homelessness, renting is still getting harder, Charging shooter’s ex-partner causing 'rise in misogyny and victim-blaming', Burning thoughts about renting in Halifax from the Haligonians in the trenches, Halifax to rally for rent control this weekend, Strang and McNeil give final COVID-19 update of 2020. Do you want free independent news delivered weekly? “We are concerned about the fairness,” Sarah MacIntosh said at the press conference. The Doctor in Dental Surgery program is a fully-accredited four year program, designed to graduate competent general dentists, who will be ethical, compassionate, caring, knowledgeable and skilled practitioners. “The men have taken ownership of their actions,” he says. The news breaks and Florizone gives his first response, but how much do we know? The university has spent nearly $650,000 to defend its reputation after a Facebook group known as the Class of DDS 2015 Gentlemen exposed sexism and homophobia within the dentistry department last December. Afrom the PArticiPAntS from the clASS of DDS2015 s pArticipAnts in the restorative justice process from the Dalhousie Dentistry Class of 2015, we write to you again as our time in the process comes to a close. Some even have earned a Master’s degree before being accepted into the dental school. Millet went before a disciplinary hearing Tuesday night in hopes of getting his suspension from clinical work lifted. All 29 members of Dalhousie’s dentistry school release statements in advance of update from the Academic Standards Class Committee by The Canadian Press Mar 2, 2015 And definitely not the posts where Millet tells the other men their misogyny has gone too far and should be apologized for. 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Leadbetter simply says "I would reaffirm that we are committed to a just process.". How many of them were in the Gentlemen’s Club? Calling itself the “Class of DDS 2015 Gentlemen's Club”, some members of the group made disturbing and demeaning comments about … The program provides instruction in medical sciences, dental diagnostic sciences, preventive dentistry, communications and clinical dentistry. “It’s irrevocably broken, it’s just not working,” was Bruce’s assessment. Remember, it's entirely possible to disagree without spiralling into a thread of negativity and personal attacks. Half of the male students in the graduating dentistry class at Dalhousie University will be missing from the classroom on Monday when the faculty resumes courses for the winter term. 1-17 She wonders whether restorative justice can bring together values such as love and compassion with the need for justice and accountability. All that uproar, and extra classes --still the Gents will graduate on time this Friday afternoon! There are 46 students in the fourth-year dentistry class… According to Dal’s Facebook fiasco FAQ, the “Academic Standards Class Committee has broad authority over academic performance, including professionalism.” It’s made up of dentistry course directors, it’s guided by the dentistry faculty’s Academic Policy Manual and it “will assess the situation of each student involved” in the Facebook group. The Media Co-op's flagship publication features in-depth reporting, original art, and the best grassroots news from across Canada and beyond. In fact they got an education, with ‘value added’ as we say in the business world. Leanne enjoys all aspects of dentistry, and is committed to overall patient health and well-being, as well as patient education. Surprisingly, some of the female dental classmates were good sports about it. Penalties for conviction are severe and may include expulsion from the University.” The “Hide the Salami” and penis tool posts are examples of plagiarism, the most common academic offence, as salami’s graphic comes from Some Ecards and the penis line is lifted from Urban Dictionary. Those who finished 2 years of postgraduate, or a Masters degree are likely at least 25 years old. Dal refuses to talk about what's going on behind the hearing's closed doors, citing a commitment "to maintaining the confidentiality of that process," as Dal director of communications Brian Leadbetter puts it. HALIFAX – A timeline of some of the key events in Dalhousie University’s handling of misogynistic comments posted on Facebook by some male dentistry students: Dec. 8: An unnamed student shows an offensive screenshot from Facebook to two Dalhousie officials. Jan 5, 2015 — While Mr. Florizone rather keep victims and perpetrators sitting in the same classroom, seemingly ignoring any negative impact on the victims; 47, 300 of us believe all students have the right to a safe, healthy and positive learning environment. In the class as a whole, more than ¼ were ‘mature’ students, many of them were married-- some had children. The glimpse inside the hearing process that the MacIntoshes have provided is both rare and valuable. Frank Magazine ran photos and bios of most of the Dal dental class of 2015. 22/19/23 For those who are interested in the past stats: For the information of potential applicants, the following is provided showing the characteristics of the applicants and entering class of 2014/2015. In fact Dal President Florizone admitted that the convocation list would likely not reveal hints about which Facebook group members are in fact graduating. Bruce MacIntosh is representing Ryan Millet, a fourth-year dentistry student and one of the 13 members of the now defunct Class of DDS 2015 Gentlemen on Facebook group. Tags: Dalhousie University, Justice, Image. What is more, a few days after the Dalhousie Class of DDS 2015 Gentlemen’s group was outed, news surfaced that the Manitoba Faculty of Dentistry had quietly dealt with similar inappropriate misogynistic conduct after a female graduate dental student filed a formal Thirteen of Dalhousie’s male fourth-year dentistry students first drew ire from the public when a series of misogynistic posts from a private “Class of DDS 2015 Gentlemen” Facebook group went public. The other day, I read that one of the Gents insists he and the others are not monsters. What'll it take to see someone other than an old white man running this province? The MacIntoshes certainly felt the hearing wasn't interested in the whole truth. In December last year, Dalhousie University in Halifax launched an investigation into a complaint under the University’s Sexual Harassment Policy by a number of women about a Facebook group followed by 13 male students in the Faculty of Dentistry. Dec. 12: The student tells the school her complaint includes allegations of harassment and bullying […] The manual warns that "Repeated or blatant unprofessional behaviour may result in a temporary suspension or permanent dismissal from the Faculty.". The WHO found out about the disease on New Year's Eve in 2019. We have the right to remove (and you have the right to report) any comments that go against our policy. Of course the rest of us in the wider community do not know the names of the Gents. But there’s nothing similarly dentist-y in posts five and six, which talk of “Hide the Salami” and how the penis is a “tool used to wean and convert lesbians and virgins.”. 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Dalhousie University Dentistry Student Faces Disciplinary Hearing ... Facebook group linked to Dalhousie University's fourth-year dentistry class. The boys of the Dalhousie Dental School should get an A in their coursework. Class of DDS 2015 Gentlemen videos and latest news articles; GlobalNews.ca your source for the latest news on Class of DDS 2015 Gentlemen . We are two of the women from the Dalhousie Dentistry Class of 2015, and we are proud to be so. Is it funny when would-be dentists talk about using the tools of their trade to assault women? The Dalhousie University dentistry building is seen in Halifax on Jan. 12, 2015. Never harm or intend to harm other students by verbal, physical, emotional or physiological means.” They are also supposed to “Refrain from behaviour that would reflect poorly on the University.” Needless to say, this Facebook situation hasn’t exactly cast the school in a good light. Yeah, shocker. Absent this, we are left with Gents who have not had to perform one day of community service for free (except for the prescribed work in the university’s dental clinic), have not had to contribute one penny to a feminist cause, a women’s shelter or a social justice organization. The Gentlemen were protected and their careers remain unblemished by their vicious Facebook postings. Sign up now! Put a jab in the arm on your New Year’s resolution list. We need to allow Dalhousie to investigate this matter fully and to allow it … No, but their privilege, their whiteness, their maleness and their total contempt for half the world’s people (women), including half of their classmates was stunning. After paying the sky-high tuition fees to attend the Dal dental school, double for the international students, the members of the Class of DDS Gentlemen 2015 also received mini-courses in law, sociology, women’s studies and human rights.

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