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Now that an independent investigator has vindicated graduate student Lindsay Shepherd in her case against Wilfrid Laurier University, here, in a nutshell, is what we know for sure.

For the thought crime of showing a video clip to her class of undergraduate communications students, Shepherd’s thesis supervisor and the head of her program, along with a senior gender-awareness specialist from the university’s administration, hauled Shepherd into a shaming session – and without any “formal or informal complaint” ever having been brought against her – attempted to intimidate her into adopting politically correct ideas and behaviours.

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It is also apparent, too, that the university would like to avoid punishing the three Star Chamber staffers who sought to bully Shepherd into accepting orthodox PC-think.

In her mealy-minded statement Monday, university president Deborah MacLatchy gave no indication whatsoever that Nathan Rambukkana, Shepherd’s supervising professor, Herbert Pimlott, the head of her program, or bureaucrat Adria Joel, from the university’s gender violence prevention and support program, would be fired for their attempts at intellectual intimidation, or suspended, or even merely reprimanded.