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Dalhousie University security learned last week that students were being secretly filmed in several areas on the Halifax school’s  Studley Campus.

Mike Burns, Dalhousie’s director of security, said a student complained that they “felt the harassing behaviour was humiliating to the individuals involved.”

Dalhousie security staff sent a warning to all students after learning about the incidents. No specific details could be released about the films, Burns said.

Nude activists assembled in downtown Vancouver Oct. 24, to protest the University of British Columbia’s (UBC) use of animals in their research.

Two former Carleton students will be leading Ontario's two biggest cities when newly elected politicians take office Dec. 1.

Researchers at the University of British Columbia (UBC) are launching an underwater robot off Antarctica in order to learn more about the effect of the rapidly declining ice shelves in the region, a university press release said.

The 2.5-metre robot, named UBC-Gavia, will explore the ice shelves around the shores of the frozen ocean, using thermometers, sensors to test for salinity in the water, sonar mapping, a digital camera and optical sensors, according to a university press release. It will even be able to accurately read currents.

The University of Ottawa and Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 2626 have arrived at a legal settlement in a major grievance regarding alleged covert surveillance by the university of several of its members.

CUPE Local 2626 originally filed the grievance in 2009, claiming that the university hired a former undergraduate student to secretly gather information on university senate member and graduate student Joseph Hickey.