ence here," Trenchant was
continuing. "You are just submitting things on a whim. You have given
this examiner copies--very bad copies--of material supposedly from my
personnel file covering a period of over twenty years. Even if
authentic, these documents contain the handwriting or printing of at
least seven other people, possibly more, and I see nothing that
delineates which of all these different writings is supposed to be the
standard," she argued.

"Some of the writing on these was written entirely by my daughter or
son," Diana held up the documents for inspection. "These tuition
exemption forms were filled out and signed with my name by either my
son or my daughter, for example. The rest of the writing is by a
personnel officer.

"I am surprised that you didn't send samples of writing from the entire
university while you were at it," she finished sarcastically, disgust
clearly portrayed in her voice and on her face.

"This hearing is being held solely to hear the report of this document
examiner. You will be given a chance to comment on his report," Henry
continued, blithely ignoring Diana's protest.

"Who made these rulings?" queried Diana, prompted by Al.

"Pardon me?" Henry asked.

"Who made the rulings concerning the admissibility of these standards?"

"I am reading the ground rules for this hearing which are contained in
my letter to you. I am entering it into the proceedings."

"So. Who made the ruling? Not the committee!"

"The committee is aware of these things."

"The committee is just going along with whatever you propose. Why
can't you admit that you are making the rules of evidence? Why do we
need the rest of the panel?"

"The committee made the decision and can speak up if they do not
agree." All of the women on the panel busily shuffled papers and Anuse
beamed like a misplaced beacon. The silence of the panel told it all.
Three cowered, two glowed. Henry was confident.

Well, thought Diana, we knew it would be a struggle. Turning to the
material she and Al had prepared, she read into the record, once again,
that she wanted an open hearing. That SHE had nothing to hide.

Continuing on, she brought out other legal points that Al felt needed
to be in the record. "We have over and over again requested documents
from the university and been denied them. You have provided me with
nothing with which I can dispute your case. I am referring to some six
hundred student SmurF