that it
was stapled to a 'suspect' evaluation, so it would not get lost.

Patiently, she repeated her question, finally wearing him down. "Were
the document examiners given this evaluation with the note stapled on
it as one of the 'fictitious' critiques?"

"Yes, they identified that critique as having been written by you."

"No distinction between the note and the critique was given
them--according to their report, is that correct?"

"I guess so, yes."

Using a sketch of the NERD office, Trenchant ran Lyle back through his
previous testimony of how the blank critiques, the SmurFFs, were given
out, how they were collected and what happened to them afterwards.

From her intimate knowledge of the operation, she was able to reveal
most of the lies he had told of this process when the committee was
questioning him.

Jane was listening carefully. Slowly, there evolved the information
that this whole evaluation process was sloppy and unreliable. That it
had indeed, been this way for years. Given that, she thought, how
could he claim that such a high reliance was put on SmurFFs when
assessing faculty for reappointment?

Lyle admitted that students had scant desire to complete SmurFFs. They
considered it a useless effort since little or no attention had been
paid in the past to their comments.

"To force compliance," he explained, "students were told that unless
their name had been checked off on a list in the secretaries' office,
they could not receive their grade for the course from the dean's
office. Most students bring in completed evaluation forms, place them
in the box provided and check off their names. Some merely come in and
check off their names, eschewing the forms," he finally admitted with
obvious reluctance.

This certainly puts a different light on things, Jane noted as she
jotted down the information being squeezed out of Lyle by Diana. She
carefully registered in neat script:

1. That the blank SmurFFs were left out in the open for days,
sometimes weeks so any body could have had access to them

2. That the completed SmurFFs left in the box, supposedly by
radiology students, were separated and given to each instructor;
the course critiques went to Ian and Randy

3. No tabulation of the number of critiques was carried out

4. Anyone could come in (etc.)

5. Since the critique form (etc.)

6. Most of the submitted critiques were not dated

The