accused was left out of course planning meetings when Ian and Randy
met with Lyle, contrary to what he had just told the committee.

None of the documents he had sent to the analysts contained anything
detrimental to Ian Heathson, as claimed in his memo to the dean. She
re-read what he'd written in the memo, "These fictitious student
critiques were very detrimental and personally injurious to two junior
faculty members."

Under Trenchant's quietly relentless cross examination, Lyle became
flustered. First he claimed that perhaps his language had not been
perfect in that phrase but what he meant was that, "manipulation of
critiques in general would be detrimental to any faculty member."

Trying to bring him to the point, Trenchant read from a signed, dated
student critique that had not been deemed 'suspicious' by Lyle. It had
been submitted during the same period as the 'questioned' critiques.

"Quote: 'I think Randy needs to be more than one page ahead of the
class in understanding the material. How can you teach what you do not
know? I was also offended by the so-called anthropological function'
(he gave) 'of the female breasts. I am familiar with some of the
literature which support the statement in the handouts,' (in a lecture,
Randy had emphasized that the primary function of the female breast was
to attract a mate) 'but was not aware that THE NAKED APE, PENTHOUSE
MAGAZINE, PLAYBOY MAGAZINE and so forth were regarded as competent
medical school publications. The underlying tragedy of this incident
is that it demonstrates the ease with which non-scientific hypothesis
are disseminated without any thought. This, I think, is a poor
reflection on the department and the faculty.' Unquote."

Diana continued, "This is what I would call personally injurious but I
do not see this student critique among the 'suspicious' ones--the ones
sent out for analysis."

Henry started to sweat along with Lyle who was becoming increasingly
uncomfortable, his tone hostile. He dodged and refused to answer
directly a question asking if he always sent suspicious critiques for
handwriting analysis, claiming that in this case, one of his junior
faculty had asked him to.

Jane picked up on an item of special importance, and extremely
relevant, underlining it several times on her note pad. Because of the
negligent handling of the critique process, there was no authentic
chain of custody maintained! In addition, neither the Smur