What on earth is going on here,
she pondered. . .
Finally, Henry noticed Janet who had been trying to get his
attention for some time. "We'll take a ten minute recess
and when we come back, Trenchant may cross examine Dr. Stone.
You may leave the room. I'll summon you when we are ready,"
he ordered, taking in Janet and Diana with the same disdainful glance.
The committee huddled and Lyle Stone joined them. So much for impartiality.
Janet and Diana left, both breathing an audible sigh of relief
as the door shut behind them. Stopping at the soft drink dispenser,
the court reporter glanced around carefully then said sotto voce,
"What a farce. Unbelievable."
Chapter 9
The ten-minute break had stretched to twenty before Henry
and the panel finished going over their notes to make sure they
had brought out everything that Mark, the university attorney,
had advised.
Diana and Janet were called back and Diana began the
cross examination of her department chair, Lyle Stone.
She asked him first to confirm a sentence written in his
memo to the dean and which he had testified to before the break.
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