The Decade of the Seventies was the Age of Promiscuity as sexual harassment continued. In 1974 Robert Harlow was Chair of the Creative Writing Department at the University of British Columbia. He harassed me as a student. Now he is one of Canada’s Great 100.

I capitulated for six weeks. In 1975, he attempted to run me out of town. He ceased after I had been served his divorce papers, named as one of two correspondents in adultery. In 1976, before leaving UBC, I informed the Dean of the Arts College. He reassured me he would ‘look into it.’

I had thought Harlow’s following sabbatical was his banishment. In 2015, I learned he was NEVER punished for his sexual predatory behavior. However, fellow colleagues demoted him from Chair to to classroom teaching. Surrounded by naive, young female students. Another hunting ground?

In 2025, he was named one of Canada’s Top 100 famous people.

The University of British Columbia’s “Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Office” committee declared my 50-year old complaint invalid. I was too old and sick to argue Canada’s in loco parentis law that supposedly protected students.

I consider resuming the fight, but against the UBC Board of Governors. For endangering female students for eight more years. Like child molesters, sexual predators simply do not stop. How many other Harlow victims endured his madness while he is now lauded as one of Canada’s Great 100s?