ent examiners as well.
The examiners concluded that one of the nursing nutrition evaluations
was written by Diana. The other and the printed note they were unsure
of. I'm beginning to feel like Alice in Wonderland. Jane rubbed her
eyes and studied her notes again. How do they expect to prove that
this hodgepodge of unrelated evidence threatens two men who only teach
in the radiation course?
Chapter 19
When the nursing students heard that some of their evaluations had been
sent off campus, in defiance of an explicit ruling pertaining to
student confidentiality, Diana was blitzed with students clamoring to
testify at her hearing so they could protest this indecency. As a
group, they obtained hundreds of signatures on a petition requesting
the A.C.L.U. to take up their cause. The A.C.L.U was most sympathetic,
but on finding that the evaluations sent were not signed, felt there
was nothing they could do.
The students argued that since the administration put such emphasis on
handwriting identification, it might use this method to identify the
writers of SmurFFs, which were supposed to be anonymous.
The group sent a strong letter of protest to The Pope and continued
their campaign across campus. One of the leaders of these concerned
students, Jennifer Glass, was the next witness for Diana.
Jennifer Glass worked in a downtown social service agency full time.
She was taking the nursing nutrition course under the Continuing
Education Department.
A rather large woman of thirty, she dressed well and showed no
embarrassment or nervousness. She was educated extensively in New York
State schools and had graduated an education major. Erudite and
accomplished, she faced the panel with a most positive sense of
anticipation.
"Yes," she answered the direct examination question posed by Diana, "I
am in your nutrition lab and I have talked with you extensively about
the way evaluations are handled in the medical school.
"I came to you first to complain, thinking that the department was lax
leaving them around in the lecture hall. I or anyone else could have
filled out any number of them, since we were told to leave our finished
evaluations in the NERD office. I was disturbed that the students were
not taking them seriously. It seemed to indicate to me that the
nutrition course was not considered important enough to be properly
evaluated. That bothered me.
"You assured me that the evaluation proc
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