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flitted about, examining the room, looking everywhere except at Diana. When asked to substantiate the testimony of Lyle that he and Randy had found 'suspicious' SmurFFs, Ian told a slightly different story. He hadn't found any himself. Randy had found them. "He showed them to me and I was flabbergasted. I had no reason to suspect that something like that would happen." Having said that, he reversed course and said, "I always thought there was some kind of manipulative action going on with the students, because we used to get critiques that were totally inconsistent with what we were doing in the course. So we always felt there was something going on." When Henry asked what he did next, he stated that Randy had brought the 'suspect' SmurFFs to Lyle and, "indicated our concern." Given the packet of SmurFFs that had been sent to the document examiners and asked to identify them as the ones found, he said, "I can't remember, I didn't memorize them." When asked how he got along with Diana, he admitted that, "they got along fine until the year Randy...." Stopping abruptly.... "Well, I noticed problems all along." Esther, who had apparently read the complete set of student evaluations for the years in question, entered as evidence by Diana, suggested that his evaluations had become more positive each year before Randy came into the course. He professed to not knowing for sure, but thought, "The first year I taught was not good, the second year, considerably better and the third, a hair better, not much. "The fourth year, well...." Easy now, Ian, thought Henry, that was the year that Randy started teaching. As if he had heard Henry's silent coaching, Ian testified as if his life depended upon it--his professional life did. He told a long heart-wrenching tale of the terrible student evaluations he received in the radiology course. He had very nearly not been reappointed a couple of times but Lyle had fought for him. Over and over again, at every opportunity, he came back to the years of deleterious critiques passed in by the students. Obviously, this had to be because Trenchant manipulated the students. "Some of the things commonly written on the critiques were, 'Why isn't she lecturing?' 'Course is totally disorganized' and this is wrong because I am not a disorganized individual; the course is very well organized." "Did you ever have her lecture to see what the students' reaction would
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