u claim that your witnesses are
stupid and loathsome, then blame Trenchant when the medical students
agree with you."

"You just don't understand. She had a chance to resign and didn't take
it. Now I'm the one in charge of giving her a fair hearing and I'm not
getting any cooperation from the very people who want to get rid of
her."

"Fair hearing, Henry? At Belmont, that's a contradiction in terms and
you know it. Hurry up and get dressed. I'll get the car and meet you
out front."

THE HEARING - DAY 2

Chapter 14

All of her witnesses were waiting in a high state of excitement when
Diana reached Howard Hall the next morning.

"Roz came in early," she was told. "She wanted to be sure we got this
room again today."

Roz brushed aside the praise, "Hey teach, I've got some great news.
The rest of the class is kicking in to make up for what we lose in
wages by attending the hearing."

Diana was delighted. The fact that many of her witnesses were losing
time at work to help her had caused a nagging pain of remorse.
Already, most of them had lost a day's pay just sitting around waiting
to testify yesterday. While her witnesses occupied themselves in
various ways--studying, reading or conversing quietly, Diana sat down
on the couch, closed her eyes and sought to compose herself. Even
though the panel had instructed her to be there at nine with all her
witnesses, one never knew when the hearing would reconvene.

Good news indeed. What great people these were, she thought. When the
whole mess happened, this class of some two hundred nutrition students
had rounded up hundreds of signatures for petitions sent to Lyle, Sam
and the Pope. Many of the students had gone to them in person to plead
for justice.

Although most of the students were in the nursing school, some came
from the colleges of agriculture, arts and science and special
education. Collectively, they had filled out and filed more
nominations for me to be named Teacher Of The Year than had ever been
received before for one teacher. They were devastated when the
committee receiving these nominations threw them in the wastebasket,
following the instructions of Henry Tarbuck.

Then there were some that went as a group to beg help from the
'Minority VP'--Dan Field. Dan talks a good game against discrimination
and even pretends to speak for the black community. He's a brilliant,
fascinating lecturer, a perennial favorite with th