Lindsay Shepherd’s story of finding herself hauled in front of a Wilfred Laurier University informal tribunal and accused of violating the university’s Gendered and Sexual Violence policy made national headlines in 2017. The then-graduate student and teaching assistant secretly recorded the disciplinary meeting and released it to the media, and Laurier’s president apologized. But Shepherd, who was then 22, says there’s a lot more to the story and what she went through than media reports showed, including how she coped with “going from a nobody to going viral.” “There’s actually so much more to it than that,” she told The Epoch Times upon the recent release of her book about her experience, titled “Diversity and Exclusion: Confronting the Campus Free Speech Crisis.” “For example, how I was gradually alienated from peers and professors, the stuff that didn’t make it into the news stories. Now, the whole thing is really documented …
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