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The dust had barely settled on the Andrew Potter affair when McGill University found itself embroiled in a new controversy last week.

Chemical engineering student Kathryn Leci stepped forward to charge that the university had not done enough to support her after another student punched her outside a party in 2015, causing her to suffer a mild traumatic brain injury.

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Conrad Gaysford, who will graduate from McGill next month, has pleaded guilty to assault causing bodily harm and will be sentenced in Municipal Court on May 26.

The university told Leci it could not take disciplinary action against Gaysford because the assault occurred off campus, according to the McGill Tribune, which broke the story.

The issue was just the latest event in what has been shaping up as McGill’s annus horribilis.

There was the 2015 hazing incident involving the varsity basketball team that came to light last month — despite McGill’s zero-tolerance policy on hazing.