d, looked for research potential.
This meant that candidates for a tenure-track position were not looked
at for their teaching experience but for their ability to bring in
research dollars.

Competition was fierce among these institutes of higher learning and
much was done to attract suitable candidates. Headhunting became a
profitable business in academia.

For the last ten years, teaching had taken a back seat at Belmont.
Crowded classrooms attested to the lack of adequate teaching space.
Much of the space formerly assigned as classrooms had been rebuilt into
laboratories. At the medical school, prospective recruits were lured
by promises of plenty of laboratory space, unremitting stroking and
very light teaching duties.

The reality was that once the entrant was hired, adulation ceased. For
Randy, this was a problem. In addition, he hadn't even tried to clean
up his act and Lyle did nothing except encourage him to be pond scum,
thought Henry. Randy expected the medical students to worship him and
instead they found him appalling because of his lack of expertise in
the subject he taught and for his repeated, haughty demonstration of it.

Having his way with women took a beating too. Usually, he ignored any
female who didn't fit his image of perfect enough for him to notice.
However, if he needed something, he would approach these females in a
sexual manner and was usually rebuffed.

Since Lyle had already established Trenchant as the whipping girl of
the department, Randy readily fell in with this designation and laid
all his problems at her door. When she refused to photograph the
pictures in a radiology atlas, he was furious. He ran to Lyle and
claimed that she was obstructing his efforts to modernize the course.
He neglected to tell Lyle that she had said she would be willing to do
it if the publisher gave written permission.

Lyle, of course, encouraged him to proceed with his innovations and
just ignore her. Randy took this to mean that he had carte blanche and
it led to his plagiarizing her laboratory manual as well as the
published texts and atlas of other authors.

Henry brought his attention back to the hearing just as Jane was asking
Randy to explain how he had found the 'suspicious' critiques.

He answered, leaning forward toward her in his eagerness and
excitement, "In looking through the student critiques I found these
that didn't seem to be right. That is, the comments were not express