be?" asked Jane.

"We'd talked about it," he replied.

Ian continued, "Along with the many comments to have her lecture, the
students wrote how she was the only one who knew anything about
radiology and that Randy and I should get out of the course and let her
teach it. As I looked through the SmurFFs these comments just jumped
out at me. When I was a student, I never wrote such things about my
professors."

There was, however, a change in the critiques the year the accused was
not teaching the course. "A complete flip-flop," Ian asserted. "The
students liked the course and the people who taught it."

Henry ducked his head and smiled grimly thinking that these 'flip-flop'
SmurFFs would damn well not be seen by the panel, I'll see to that.
Ian is really stretching the truth here since those SmurFFs he's
talking about are more flop than flip. True, the students didn't
lambaste Ian and Randy that year as they had in the past, however, in a
way, they were just as bad. Nearly every critique carried the name of
the student and the date. The few comments they contained were bland
almost to the point of being insulting. Most of them contained no
comments, as the student just checked off the 'average' number for each
category under evaluation. Those that contained comments were all
typed. Well, if the panel or Diana asked to see them he would simply
say that they had no bearing on the issue.

Henry returned from his reverie just as Ian was saying "....there were
even some SmurFFs submitted by the students for Diana, which I couldn't
figure out why since she wasn't even teaching the course this year."

Ian carefully did not mentioned how this year, as Lyle had directed, he
had begged and implored the students to write favorable reviews on
their evaluation forms since his job depended on it....

It was time to do course evaluations again. A great many of the
radiology students were unhappy that they had been told to avoid
contact with Diana who had helped them a great deal during the past few
months. They were told she was accused of doing some terrible thing
but that it would be forgotten and forgiven if they as a class returned
positive critiques for the course.

They also heard Ian's sad tale of imminent loss of job and how he had
just bought a new home ad nauseam.

The class officers discussed the situation and offered the following
advice to their classmates at a hastily called meeting just prior to