he ceiling is made of plexiglass.

Although more women are allowed in the classrooms and even into the
board rooms, decisions are still made in the men's rooms.

More women obtain advanced degrees and achieve faculty positions, but
few are allowed into the highest administrative positions. Rather,
they are found in greatest numbers in the lower paying, most labor
intensive positions.

Civil Rights laws connecting compliance with federal grants are
blatantly ignored or creatively circumvented by many institutes of
higher learning. The courts and the EEOC, weakened to the point of
extinction by the regressive administrations of the eighties, are about
as effective as warm spit in enforcing compliance.

Using the double edged sword of coercion and harassment, these
institutions of "higher learning" continue to maintain their status
quo. This book portrays a few of the artifices they employ.
Characters, descriptions and locations are fictional, created from the
right side of the author's brain.

DEDICATION

In fondest memory of

LEAH RUTH DENTON,

this book is dedicated to all

WOMANKIND AND HER SUPPORTERS

who refuse to accept the definitions and limitations

imposed by ancient conquerors.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ruth M. Sprague, Ph.D., a native Vermonter known to hundreds of her
former students as Dr. Ruth, is retired after many years teaching
nursing and medical students.

She has published several scientific papers, teaching tutorials and one
novel, VERMONT TALES FOR FOOLS AND OTHER LOVERS.

"Revenge is a kind of wild justice."--Francis Bacon

WILD JUSTICE

by

Ruth M. Sprague

Foreplay

"You can't be serious," exclaimed Diana Trenchant, leaning toward the
man sitting behind the desk. "Incredible! Why on earth would I want
to fill out and turn in student feedback forms in my own course? All
of my semester student evaluations have been excellent."

Dr. Lyle Stone, Chairman of the Nutrition, Embryology and Radiology
Department, relished the power of his position as fervently as he
detested the acronym, NERD, that had been irreparably attached to it.
He passed a small pile of forms across his desk to Diana. "Obviously
you wanted to cause harm to the two other instructors in the course,"
he replied smugly. His expression and demeanor suggested a small boy
torturing a bug and extracting the utmost enjoyment out of it.

"Harm them?