Henry, forgetting his assumed role as neutral, quickly snapped off, "we really must keep the testimony on the issue."
Diana smiled grimly. "Thank you. I'm finished."
Henry quickly excused Lyle and announced that the next witness would be the document examiner and rose to get her.
After the door closed behind him, the room was quiet. Its occupants sitting in silent contemplation.
Chapter 11
Something had to be done. The group gathered in the conference room were all in agreement on that—but what? The problem was two-fold: what to do about the possibility that Trenchant would bring a plagiarism suit against the department, and how to wipe out years of bad SmurFFs for Ian and Randy.
"You realize that we could just get rid of her by invoking the clause in her contract that designates she's first in the department fired if the department has financial problems?"
"That wouldn't help much, she could still sue for plagiarism. If we fired her, even justifiably, the papers would play the plagiarism stuff up."
"There is another way—by discrediting her first and making the student evaluations invalid."