d him they were still interviewing, but he had
learned from a contact he had made in the library that they had
reposted the advertisement for the job because no qualified applicants
had been sent from personnel. That was how Igor's pool of
informational sources began.
Then suddenly, he was called in for an interview. By now his contacts
had grown and he discovered that his name had won him the job. Someone
in the personnel department had inadvertently listed him to the library
as a viable candidate based on his last name.... obviously Irish. His
race had been overlooked.
The library director was delighted with his credentials and called him
in for an interview. This firmly established to all and sundry that he
was black. Back then, tokenism was rampant so when the director hired
him, the administration went along with it, albeit reluctantly. After
all, the archives were in the basement, who would notice?
Now having enjoyed many years at Belmont and made many friends, he was
turning the last few pages of his scrapbook. It was by now a huge
tome, meticulously kept and recently augmented by Diana's contribution
of letters, court papers and related documents. He had reached the
final section dealing with the people involved and the aftermath.
Grimly, he noted that despite the several instances of plagiarism
committed by the two faculty men, Ian Heathson and Randy Fecesi, they
were promoted and given tenure. The years of adverse student
evaluations of their teaching abilities were all thrown out on the
basis of five 'suspect' ones and Henry's report.
Randy, at the insistence of the medical students, was moved out of the
medical radiology course and into an undergraduate nutrition course. A
year later there were problems involving some of the young women in the
course. The women were hushed up and Randy was given an immediate
sabbatical of indefinite length.
Ian continued in the radiology course but was never able to capture any
grants to continue his research.
The best all around teacher in NERD, fed up to the gills with having to
continually save the department's teaching bacon, quit and moved away.
This excellent teacher, Ray Stinnis, could no longer turn his back on
the rampant dishonesty inherent in the department--the treatment
afforded Diana had been the last straw.
After Ray's departure, Lyle Stone was forced to give lucrative courses
up to other departments. The resulting decrease in re
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