Wild Justice

t to Ed is Esther Ro

hair in an old fashioned pug at the back. She had been at Belmont longer than anyone

and agree that yes, they were badly treated. This allowed her a podium to broadcast how badly she was used b

ed it. An unsuspecting woman who confided in her thinking she was a fellow sufferer found to her sorrow that Esther was onl

, thoug

Jane Astori, p

little shorter than average. Her blond hair was worn long and fastened with a b

ssor and now had her sights on the department chair.

beside me, is Annette Pring

ommittee assignment since her appointment as assistant professor at Belmont and she didn't want to be here. Everything was wrong about this hearing. It was

as with the rest of the panel who all appeared to thi

come unannounced to her office to ask her to serve on this hearing panel. He explained to her

emark, but Annette, with years of suspicion and threats to remember, didn't think so. He knows, she thought and the thought stuck in her throat and choked

eck people out carefully. You could find out the damndest things. Things

Medical School Dean Broadhurst's letter of charges, a memo from the Chairman of NERD, Dr. Lyle S

and Chair of the hearing panel committee asserted

in by the court stenographer. The committee will then examine

nchant may examine her witnesses and the com

at. However, I want it in the record that I was told both by the ombudsman and by you, Mr. Chairperson, that this would be a typi

hearing would be by tape recorder. I find

nd the chair has refused. The Attorney General's Office has asked to be allowed to send an observ

and continued, "we'll call our first witness." Henry rose and went to get the

as sworn by the stenographer. Under questioning f

eated people on two levels. If he needed something from yo

good care of himself, and at the age of 58, he re

make up the height with bluster. This gave him not only a Banty ro

he issue that this panel is in

ack forms which he had found. "Students are required to fill out and bring to the NERD office a questionn

tudent demand that they have a voice in their education. Although the professors of each course at Belmont routinely handed the forms out and collected them, the

a result of their suggestions. The joke was propagated further when some wag arbitrarily added MUR between the S and FF, c

ast year that didn't look right to him. He and Dr. Heathson, who teach the course, wanted me

y who were trying very hard to make the radiology course more modern and sophisticated. These effor

aculty was consulted and all of them were very upset that they were given no voice in a faculty selection. They soon learne

is research specialty, nutrition (which was also Lyle's

freshmen medical students. This act was similar to throwin

ut of his depth. The students, as kindly as possible, turned thumbs down on him. Not only that, but on their SMurFF's, they were highly critical of the

l had degenerated into such a mess that it was difficult to use and impossible to understand-especially when most of the

Ian at no charge for use in the course and he grabbed it like the drowning man he was. The students had made their disgust well kn

wledge and lecturing. There was excellent cooperation between

im were not kind. Many reprimanded him for things he had said in lectures which were contrary to what the students read in textbooks. Hurt, angry and unable to get at the students, he

ge the only part of the