at the time. Reporting it — you felt like it might ruin your career, and you might never have a chance at publication."

'Open secret for 20 years'

Stephen Henighan, a writer and professor at University of Guelph, studied in Concordia's creative writing program in the 1980s and taught there in the 1990s.

He said he also agreed with Spry's characterization of the toxic environment within the program.

"This had almost become a departmental culture — that female students were expected to make themselves sexually available in order to get the recommendation letter they needed," Henighan said.

Henighan said he also read Shepard's response.

"I'm pretty surprised he didn't know about this until yesterday. It's an open secret. It's been an open secret for 20 years."

In a new statement from Concordia on Tuesday evening,I was dating a girl I met in college at the end of my senior year, and I went on to marry her 2 years later. I graduated late at 24, and she was just 18. A gorgeous natural redhead, her father paid for her to get a nice set of fake breasts to accentuate her fit body. We talked about sex and fantasies, and she admitted her desire to fuck a well endowed black guy in high school. It just never happened, as her best friend ended up fucking the guy.

I asked her if she still wanted to go through with her fantasy if I helped her make it a reality, and she said she definitely would consider it. This was 1985, so it was before we