HALIFAX — Dalhousie University says it is proceeding with a restorative justice process to resolve complaints about sexually violent comments posted on a Facebook group page about female students at its dentistry school.
The university says many of the women who were the subject of the comments and members of the Facebook group have come forward.
University president Richard Florizone says the women have agreed to go ahead with the restorative justice process, which he says is an informal resolution procedure that includes the parties involved.
Florizone says the process is confidential and intended to explore the impacts of the comments and address accountability, though he adds that its outcome may be made public if those who are involved want it to.
He says if the people involved in the process don't participate in good faith, a more formal complaint process will go ahead involving an investigator that could be referred to a discipline committee of the school's senate.
In the university's students' code of conduct, penalties for violating set behavioural expectations range from a warning to a suspension or expulsion.
According to the CBC, members of the Class of DDS 2015 Gentlemen page voted on which woman they'd like to have "hate" sex with and joked about using chloroform on women.
