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A Western University professor has resigned his duties at the school’s graduation ceremonies in protest of Chancellor Linda Hasenfratz’s “reprehensible” December vacation amid a COVID-19 surge.
Calling it “the right thing to do,” biology professor Gregory Kelly said he could no longer serve as a marshal when in-person convocations resume because Hasenfratz, whose job includes overseeing the ceremonies, remains the school’s ceremonial leader.
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“It’s been festering in me,” Kelly, whose lab collected personal protective equipment for others last spring, told The Free Press on Monday. “When things get back to normality there will be a convocation in person. I will have to be right beside her.