A handful of University of British Columbia administrators took the unprecedented step in 2015 to publicly announce Steven Galloway’s removal as creative writing program chair because sexual assault allegations against him were spreading at the school and among the public, the former dean of arts, Gage Averill, testified Friday.
Mr. Averill, now UBC’s provost and vice-president, academic at the institution, is the first and only major decision-maker from the university to testify in the trial more than a decade in the making. But, he told the court, he was travelling as the crisis unfolded and had only a small role in creating the document that he signed and sent out into the world.
It was all a lie.
