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Author Steven Galloway was fired from the University of British Columbia’s creative writing program for reasons that included sexual harassment, a Vancouver court has heard.
The B.C. Supreme Court has been hearing submissions for the past two weeks in the years-long, fractious case. They included assertions by lawyers for a woman who accused him of sexual assault that UBC claimed Mr. Galloway’s dismissal was also because of financial misconduct, dishonesty in the investigation of the complaint, alcohol consumption with students, and a previous instance of sexual relations with a student. Further, they said, he failed to disclose a sexual relationship with another student (now his