ve? I'm not a lawyer and I'm not trying to be one. The
University Ombudsman told me not to have a lawyer present. He said it
would just anger you and turn you against me. He advised me to prepare
my case well and present it in good order and that is just what I am
doing.

"Right now, I am telling you my side of this story. You have been
listening for hours to the NERD's allegations and I have the right to
respond. At the beginning of this hearing, you announced that the
panel would question its witnesses and then I would cross examine them.
You never said anything about debating them. You have already heard
from Lyle. Again I remind you that your letter to me, sent in advance
of this hearing, contained nothing about specific order of presenting
my evidence. Should I read it to you again? You are trying to
introduce new rules in the middle of the game."

"Mr. Chairman, I think that we must ask Lyle back here to clear up
these fabricated charges we have been hearing," said Anuse in a bored
tone. He made a note and then looked toward Henry again. His look
plainly said, ignore her.

"Yes," the chair agreed. Then offhandedly, as if he had not heard a
word of her argument, he said to Diana, "call your next witness."

Jane watched the interchange between Henry and Anuse with disdain.
They are in league together against Diana, she thought and this
testimony has thrown them for a loop. They are going to have to start
considering the information we are hearing in a professional, impartial
manner now. They have got to concede that these charges by NERD may be
false or at the very least, unsupported by real evidence. So many
things about this hearing are strange. I've noticed that although the
charge against Diana, initiated by Lyle, specifically related to the
five 'suspect' medical student evaluations, three other documents were
sent to the document examiners and were marked as evidence, she mused.
No one has questioned how these other documents were deemed 'harmful to
two young faculty members', as Lyle claimed in his charges. According
to the dean's letter, two are 'suspect' SmurFFs from the nursing
nutrition course and the third is a printed note found by one of Lyle's
closest friends. The explanation for the note Henry gave us was that
when Lyle told his friend what was going on, she 'just remembered' a
note found in her mailbox last year that she thought was 'suspicious'
so they sent that to the docum