at they could not use the
manual and make the changes they want in it?" He yelled at her,
continuing with threats of what would or might happen if she didn't do
as she was directed.

When Trenchant was finally given a chance to answer, she told him
simply that the manual was copyrighted and that she had told Ian and
Randy that they were free to use it or not as they chose. They were
not to edit it or change the authorship, however.

When his browbeating failed to move her, he left. Within the hour,
Jimbo accosted her in much the same manner.

Becoming a Vee had not changed Jimbo. He was still unable or unwilling
to govern his temper.

"You cannot claim copyright to the radiology manual because it is
illegal and the university will sue you and put you in jail."

After he had stopped yelling, Trenchant told him the same thing she had
told the others.

He left and went into Lyle's office where they were joined by Ian and
Randy.

It was decided that they would retype the radiology manual using as
much of it as they wanted. "To hell with that trouble-making broad,"
was the decision of the assistant vice president for academic affairs
of Belmont University. This was done. Without permission, they used
large portions of the manual in the fall radiology course, giving no
credit to its author.

Diana was not the only author so honored. In the manual, and in other
material that these men put together to teach the radiology course,
complete excerpts were taken verbatim from four standard radiology
texts. No source was cited. No author was credited. Also, an entire
atlas on radiology was photographed. Several copies of these
photographs were made and put out in the lab with absolutely no credit
given to its authors or publisher.

At least one medical student was incensed by this. He or she wrote to
the publisher anonymously.

The accused learned through the student grapevine that the department
got into serious trouble because of this and that Dean Broadhurst was
furious.

Lyle blamed Trenchant for blowing the whistle, conveniently forgetting
that it was a student who had written the letters.

Chapter 8

Lyle droned on and on with a litany of sins attributed to Diana
Trenchant, carefully circling the truth. "Whatever problem the
department had, she was usually responsible," he asserted. The folds
of paper falling from the court stenographer's machine stacked higher
and higher. Janet was beg