It said that it would issue a decision within a few weeks;
instead, it launched a new investigation of its own without
my knowledge or participation which consumed over half a year.
Second, this committee assured me that I would not be affected by
these charges as I continued my teaching assignments in the department.
`Go back to work,' you all assured me at the last hearing.
`Everything is taken care of.' I went back and was ordered to
move out of my office into a corner of the nutrition teaching lab.
I was denied a telephone and given no help in moving my things.
My name has been removed from the department mail boxes
and department meetings are held when I am teaching classes.
For these many months, while you reopened the investigation
behind my back, I have been a non-person in my department."
Jane shifted in her chair uneasily. She recalled how all
of these promises had been made when the panel had ended the
first hearing. In fact, she had made some of them herself. It
had seemed then, she reflected, that the evidence against Diana
was inconclusive and that the majority of the panel felt this was
so.
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