horns of the Valkyrie sounding as a
Brunnhilde spirit sparkled in the body of this nursing student.

"I am concerned and distressed," she continued. "First, for how you
treated that young woman who testified before me. I have known Sarah
for several months and she is as honest and sincere as anyone I have
ever known.

"You know what she told us when she came out? She said you didn't
believe her because you had already decided on the basis of the
graphologist's report. She said it wasn't fair. That person swore
only to an opinion. She, Sarah, had sworn to a fact.

"Also, from what the other witnesses have told me and what I have just
experienced myself, I don't believe you want to find out the truth.
You just want to terminate our teacher.

"No, I am not finished yet." Helen held up a warning hand to Henry who
was about to protest, palm flat out like a traffic cop. "I have a BA
in German and I am working toward a BA in nursing, and I am disgusted,
I am really disgusted at what happened with my nutrition course
evaluation. Despite what we were told in the classroom concerning the
use of the evaluations for the course and professors, they were sent
off-site to a graphologist...."

"Only a few, there were only a small number," insisted Henry. Good
Lord, he thought, abashed, I never should have admitted that any were
sent.

"So what! Maybe mine was one of them. You shouldn't be breaching
student confidentiality to expedite some personnel matter. And let me
tell you, I'm not the only one in the class that feels that way. You
have deceived us and we will not fill out any more of those forms
unless we are forced to."

"But you must understand," urged Esther, "no other writing by students
went out at the same time. There would not be any chance that anybody
would know who was the person who wrote them."

Esther really was out of it, thought Annette.

"That is totally irrelevant." Helen replied firmly. "The point is our
confidential evaluations were sent off-site. I think a lot of damage
has been done. It is unconscionable. If we ever do fill out another
evaluation form, it will be completely sterile so it can't be used to
hurt anyone by an irresponsible administration. That is what many of
the med students did in their last evaluation. They just marked
everything average and typed all comments. That is why you haven't
seen any of their SmurFFs from that year."

"Thank you, Helen." Diana stood