McGill University has a major problem

McGill University has a problem.
A serious problem which it refuses to address in any sort of impactful way.

It's called Sexual Harassment - and like fecal bacteria in a petri dish, it seems to thrive in the McGill environment. Whether it is sexual harassment or even abuse from one student to another or one faculty member to another or when it involves a faculty member inflicting it on students, the least powerful members of the McGill community of all.

It exists. It is real. Students have endured their suffering in silence for decades, with the effects still bothering them long after they have left the campus. The professors still keep their jobs, benefits and inflict their harassment on a new crop of students which come in every year. It is the perfect environment for serial harassers because they know their old victims will leave McGill eventually and never be heard from again. It continues and no one is doing anything about it.

Some professors have gone on the record to out some of the harassers but they could do that because they are no longer at McGill and never had to sign confidentiality agreements. Other professors only wish they could but their own peers have silenced them because they want to keep their jobs even though they know it is the right thing to do. Everyone is afraid of speaking the truth.

McGill University, as an institution seems to care more about its own reputation and its professors than for the welfare and well-being of the students, who are the bread and butter of the university itself. It is not a student-friendly environment and even worse for victims and survivors.

This blog is an attempt to post from the victims and survivors side of the story.