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When Anna was sucker-punched by a total stranger at a party in 2015, it left her with a severe brain injury, and forced her to put off her studies at McGill University as she took the long, painful road to recovery.

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Her assailant, however, who is also a McGill student, graduates next month – despite pleading guilty to the assault, and despite a growing outcry over the university administration’s attitude that whatever occurs off campus is not of their concern.

The details of what happened to Anna are revealed in a story in the campus newspaper, the McGill Tribune, from the circumstances surrounding the unprovoked assault to the court case that ended in a criminal conviction in November 2016, to Anna’s recovery: only since the fall – one year after sustaining the injury – was she able to attend classes again, albeit with a hearing aid and, worse, the knowledge that she could run into her assailant at every turn.