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Articles from 2017
Professor David Haskell observes that "Shepherd had the courage to suggest that it was not the duty of the university to make students comfortable but to make them think." He goes on to argue that "claiming certain ideas can make a classroom “unsafe” is, for the most part, an unscientific ruse used by many to simply rationalize censorship."

WLU Brantford Criminology students invited Jian Ghomeshi’s defence attorney, Danielle Robitaille, to speak. A student group cliamed the invitation was tacit approval of sexual assault and threatend to disrupt the event. The event was cancelled. Afterwards, the WLU Diversity Office offered support to the group who tried to censor the event!