ubmit them. What I am really accused of is manipulating student
opinion to deny Ian and Randy tenure, when, in fact, neither have been
denied tenure and I have not manipulated student opinion. If student
evaluations improved the year that I did not teach in the course, it
was in part because previous criticisms have been taken to heart and
teaching improved in the course. And also because Ian specifically
instructed the students to make only positive comments. You could
verify this by talking to the medical students, but you are not allowed
to."

Esther tried to follow Diana's words and rebut each point as she heard
it but was overcome by the simple truth of what she was hearing. She,
too, had been convinced that the handwriting evidence was not to be
trusted. One of the people in her department had once worked at NERD.
She had confirmed the status of Diana in the department and
corroborated what she had told the panel. Esther shrugged. Too bad,
can't be helped, she thought.

"Evidence was introduced at this hearing without being authenticated.
Hundreds of SmurFFs were described but shown to no one. Professional
witnesses were used against me yet I was not allowed to have an
attorney cross-examine them. And the ultimate injustice is that the
prosecution official is the chair of the hearing panel!

"I do not believe that I ever had a chance in these proceedings. If
the administration's evidence is insufficient, you reopen the hearing
and get more, using unauthenticated material. If I am effectively
questioning a witness, interrupt me, as you did countless times. If
there is evidence on my behalf, you deny it to me."

Frank Anuse was delightedly and avidly listening to Diana's closing
statement. God, he thought. You can sure tell that it was written by
a lawyer and he's pulled out all the stops. What a tear jerker, he
judged, cynically. As if any of what she was saying mattered. The
facts were that we decide what will be correct, not the stupid courts.
Besides, she's getting what she deserves after what she put me through
with that complaint to the Affirmative Action Office because I didn't
interview male applicants for positions in my department. He raged
inwardly as he remembered the time he had to spend to comply with the
order to produce all of his records and defend all of his placements.
Damned uppity bitch.

"This panel has simply followed the lead of the prosecutor, Henry
Tarbuck, an