The president of Wilfrid Laurier University says a teaching assistant who was chastised for airing a debate clip featuring a controversial figure was disciplined by her supervisors even though no formal complaint was filed. Deborah MacLatchy said in a statement Monday an independent fact-finder hired by the school found that no formal complaint or informal concern was ever raised about the class taught by Lindsay Shepherd. She screened a clip of a debate featuring the professor as part of a communications tutorial. The university apologized to Shepherd last month after she discreetly recorded the meeting with the staff members and released it publicly. MacLatchy said the staff members should not have met with Shepherd and compounded their error by a misapplication of existing university policies.

Source: CBC News December 18, 2017 23:52 UTC