at the last hearing.
'Everything is taken care of.' I went back and was ordered to move out
of my office into a corner of the nutrition teaching lab. I was denied
a telephone and given no help in moving my things. My name has been
removed from the department mail boxes and department meetings are held
when I am teaching classes. For these many months, while you reopened
the investigation behind my back, I have been a non-person in my
department."

Jane shifted in her chair uneasily. She recalled how all of these
promises had been made when the panel had ended the first hearing. In
fact, she had made some of them herself. It had seemed then, she
reflected, that the evidence against Diana was inconclusive and that
the majority of the panel felt this was so. She had expected that just
a simple vote of the panel would send Diana back to her classroom where
she belonged.

"I have served this university for nearly a quarter-century. Students
have consistently reviewed my efforts favorably and that is a source of
much consternation in my department. The entire central administration
is prosecuting me, angered because I insisted on minimal rights. For
example: I refused to have my job eliminated or my copyrighted manual
used without my consent. They are determined to terminate me and have
spared no resources in support of that goal. It would appear that some
of these efforts violate my rights under state law, federal law, and
the Constitution."

That's really what it's all about, decided Annette, as she kept her
head lowered and her eyes fastened on the unseen files before her.
Violation of her rights. Violation of my rights to freely consider the
evidence both for and against her and render an impartial judgment.

"I believe this case represents what is in store for a person who does
not remain in the favor of those who determine policy for this
university.

"I have been accused of writing seven SmurFFs over a two year period.
Only five of these seven were alleged to have been detrimental to two
faculty men, Ian and Randy. This is five out of the six to eight
hundred submitted for medical radiology during that time. At a
minimum, even were these charges true, the misconduct of which I am
accused would be dishonesty, but of a variety with no real import or
effect."

Diana stopped and reached for the glass of water in front of her. I
wish I could tell these people what it has been like working here