It was not a safe undertaking at Belmont University. Not if
you wanted to keep your position. As Edmund Burke observed,
"When bad men combine, the good must associate;
else they will fall one by one, an unpitied
sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."
The final straw that tipped the balance and sent Diana to an
attorney to fight the inevitable termination was an editorial
that appeared in THE PROD, the Belmont student newspaper.
In a strongly worded article it condemned the undemocratic
judicial process of the Belmont administration, which flouted
the laws of the state and made up its own to fit each occasion.
The editorial compared Belmont's disciplinary process to feudal times.
It was titled:
PUNISHING THE VICTIM
. . .Dr. Diana Trenchant was accused of wrong doing.
Therefore, she was tried by a jury of her accusers
in accordance with university policy.
Although two witness, who in any court would be
called `expert' witnesses, testified against her,
she was not allowed an adequate defense--that is,
the service of an attorney who would be competent
to cross examine so-called expert testimony.
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