"He was very angry and seemed threatened by us. I backed away many times when he raised his voice and shouted. I thought it was a little strange that two undergraduate women would be a threat to him—maybe he needs psychological help!" Roz turned to the panel with a big smile to share the joke with them.
Diana placed her hand firmly against her mouth and looked down at her notes until the bubble of mirth that threatened to overcome her had dissipated, then continued with her questioning. "On a different subject now—do you have any contact with medical students?"
"Yes. Working right in the medical building as I have for the last three years, I get to know a lot of them."
"Last year, during the first semester—that would be from September through December—do you recall any impressions you might have gotten as to their feelings about the radiology course?"
"Yes. They felt that the professors knew very little about what they were teaching so it was a waste of time to go to lectures."
"Now," interposed Henry, "we are getting into secondhand information and we should be hearing from the medical students themselves."
"Fine," rejoined Diana. "If you can get them over here, do that. I would be happy to have them testify.
"In the meantime, you wrote in your letter to me that I could present whatever I felt was germane and since the medical students are not allowed to come, this is the best I can do."
"It will be noted that it is secondhand information," said Henry haughtily. He pretended to appear unconcerned with the testimony and adopt Anuse's strategy of ignoring anything Diana might say that was bothersome.
"I agree. The testimony should be labeled clearly as secondhand." Diana pounced on Henry's depiction of Roz's testimony. "Now let us go back over the testimony your witnesses gave which alleged that students had been manipulated for years by me. Let us get all of the student evaluations for all of the years, that your witnesses testified to, but never produced. Let us get all of the prior information out into the open and let's honestly label it for what it is—secondhand information."