ment examiners.
"I mean the actual student critiques. They basically have the same
kind of comments as those," replied Ian pointing to the folders.
"Then you don't agree that the reason these 'suspicious' critiques
stood out was because they were so different? Isn't that the reason
you took them to Lyle?"
"Randy did that. I didn't go through all of them as he did, but he
showed me the ones he picked out and they were pretty much the same as
all the others--basically not good."
"Now which one of these critiques, these in the packet B, are you
saying were very detrimental and personally injurious and caused you
undue harm?"
"I haven't read them. I'm talking about all the critiques in general."
"Then you are alleging that I wrote all the critiques?"
"No. A psychologist would find that a person would have to have mental
problems to sit down and write all the critiques like that. What I'm
saying is there is other evidence, probably intangible, that a seed was
planted in a student's mind, and that seed was portrayed in some of the
comments that they wrote on their own."
Still trying to get the question answered, Diana asked again, this time
reading from the memo from the dean. "The dean wrote that I am, quote,
'accused of creating fictitious student critiques which were very
detrimental and personally injurious to two junior faculty members'
unquote.
"So I am asking again, which one of these have you selected to...."
Oh, oh, Ian's in trouble thought Henry interrupting quickly with, "Have
you seen this memo, Ian?"
"No."
The chair handed a copy of the memo and the packet of 'suspicious'
critiques to Ian saying, "He has not seen the memorandum you are
referring to." To himself, he said, come on Ian, get it together.
This is dangerous ground.
Ian read the memo and then looked at the critiques. "Well, there are
things in here....Randy's and my teaching effectiveness down to 2 and
yours up at 5. A comment that you are an excellent lecturer. This one
has to do with sexism.... I don't know about that.
"Now I haven't gone through these. These are things that Randy found,
things he pulled out and brought to my attention."
"When was this?" queried Diana
"Oh, I can't recall the exact date."
"According to this memo that you say you haven't seen, Lyle has written
that during the early part of last fall, you came to him with two
critiques--now, I assume he means three--does that...."
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