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Engineering deans remember Dec. 6, 1989 — and celebrate the survivors

Engineering deans remember Dec. 6, 1989 — and celebrate the survivors

“Have you heard?” “Are you safe?” “But how could that happen?”

It is astonishing how many of my female friends and colleagues remember the moments from Dec. 6, 1989 and our first reactions on hearing that 14 females (almost all engineering students) had been shot at l’École Polytechnique in Montreal.