Millet went before a disciplinary hearing Tuesday night in hopes of getting his suspension from clinical work lifted. 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. Ridiculous? She is chair of the CCPA-NS. read. To rephrase that, our time in the restorative justice process is officially coming to a close 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. We are committed as always to providing free access to readers, particularly as we confront the impact of COVID-19 in Halifax and beyond. And for all we know from Dal, all 13 of the students were suspended based on a reading of just those six posts. 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. 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. 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. Note the December 2011 date on this post: The DDS Gentlemen talked about attacking their female classmates from early in their first year. Published March 2, 2015 . 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 … 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. 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. Judy Haiven teaches in the Management Dept at the Sobey School of Business at Saint Mary's University. 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. The local media should be congratulated for playing along. The Gentlemen were protected and their careers remain unblemished by their vicious Facebook postings. HALIFAX - Dalhousie University has postponed exams at its dentistry school and launched an investigation after sexually violent comments were … Comments in the fourth post mention Vaseline and supersep (sic), more dental stuff. Accountability, or ownership, must be transparent. The glimpse inside the hearing process that the MacIntoshes have provided is both rare and valuable. How many of them were in the Gentlemen’s Club? Some even have earned a Master’s degree before being accepted into the dental school. (The Coast obtained Dal’s collection, and published many of them in December, as you can see here. 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. 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. They graduate despite at least two giant protests by women and men in the community, many thoughtful op-eds, scores of angry letters to Dalhousie President Florizone, and a petition with 3 000 plus signatures which called for the Gents to be expelled. 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? 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. Calling itself the “Class of DDS 2015 Gentlemen's Club”, some members of the group made disturbing and demeaning comments about … The boys of the Dalhousie Dental School should get an A in their coursework. Thank you for your support! 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. 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. Can you support independent journalists with $5? Read more about the work we do here, or consider making a voluntary donation using the button below. Of the 29 students involved during the restorative process there were 15 men and 14 women. The MacIntoshes certainly felt the hearing wasn't interested in the whole truth. Put a jab in the arm on your New Year’s resolution list. 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. Millet went before a disciplinary hearing Tuesday night in hopes of getting his suspension from clinical work lifted. 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. Twelve of the men were members of the men’s private Facebook group at … We have the right to remove (and you have the right to report) any comments that go against our policy. 1-17 How can that be? They’re not sure what exactly comes next. In fact they got an education, with ‘value added’ as we say in the business world. The Dalhousie University dentistry building is seen in Halifax on Jan. 12, 2015. Four Dalhousie faculty members have come forward to file a formal complaint against the members of the "Class of DDS 2015" Facebook group. 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. 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. This is our #rst time speaking publicly about our experience this year. of 17. 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.”. In the class as a whole, more than ¼ were ‘mature’ students, many of them were married-- some had children. Millet says he never saw it on Facebook. 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. 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. With the year we’ve had, we trust you know that we do not say that lightly. 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If you want to be like the ASCC, you won’t look at them.). Leadbetter simply says "I would reaffirm that we are committed to a just process.". One issue for the MacIntoshes is the ASCC’s selective focus on only about 10 percent of the Facebook evidence. “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. Yeah, shocker. After four and a half hours, they asked for an adjournment. University of Alberta legal scholar Annalise Acorn expresses doubts about restorative justice in her book, Compulsory Compassion, a Critique of Restorative Justice. None of which explains why the committee’s hearing would only consider six out of of nearly 50 questionable posts. 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. Those who finished 2 years of postgraduate, or a Masters degree are likely at least 25 years old. Yeah, shocker. The six posts in question are below, with names and avatars obscured. We need to allow Dalhousie to investigate this matter fully and to allow 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. 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. 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. And President Florizone and the people at the top want to keep it that way. Quick looks at cases and more, in Halifax and Nova Scotia. 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. The very shocking and all too common outrage of misogyny ends with barely a whimper. 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. 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. 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. 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 Is it funny when would-be dentists talk about using the tools of their trade to assault women? No sense dragging the Gents’ names through the mud. 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