In 2015, when the University of British Columbia began to reckon with sexual assault allegations by a mature student against Steven Galloway, the school’s most high-profile creative writing professor, it had the help of an inquisitor.
Chelsea Rooney circulated the unproven allegations that Galloway had raped a student (which were later found to be unsubstantiated by a retired judge tasked with investigating the affair for UBC) and did her best to gather more, contributing to the obliteration of his reputation and career. Now, a decade later, she’s walking it all back with a profuse apology, printed in the Saturday Post.
In her apology, which has also been posted online-09jnn, Rooney admitted that her understanding of and approach to the “believe women” movement was “misguided.”
