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Wild Justice

by Ruth M. Sprague

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Wild Justice

by Ruth M. Sprague




Wild Justice-Ruth M. Sprague Copyright @1993 TX 3 608 425




BACK COVER

The court and the EEOC said sex discrimination!

Belmont U. terminated her anyway!


Belmont University had always looked upon faculty misdeeds such as
child molestation, sexual harassment or record falsification with
a tolerant if not blind eye.  Strange then that the entire
administration mobilized to aim its big guns at Professor
Diana Trenchant--or was it?

The inner workings of administrative jingoism are exposed
as a popular teacher is given a termination hearing where the
presiding officer is the accuser, the prosecutor and the judge,
and the testimony in her defense is ignored.

"WILD JUSTICE chronicles the outrages of one woman's
experience with an engaging mix of humor and indignation.
The use of fictitious names underscores how the problems
are systemic and not merely rooted in the particular persons
involved in this `witch hunt'.  I hope it will be widely read--
both for its own sake and to encourage the kind of struggle
that redirects higher education to serve the people and social justice,
however wild!"

Professor Willard Miller, University of Vermont.


COPYRIGHT PAGE


Published by T'Wanda Books, P.O.B. 1227, Peralta, NM 87042

Copyright @ 1993 by Ruth M. Sprague

Cover artist: David O'Vitt

1. Publisher's Cataloging In Publication Data

2. Sprague, Ruth M.

3. Wild Justice

4. 1. Fiction. 2. Sex discrimination.
3. University policy and procedures. 4. Feminists.

5. LC#: 93-060721

6. ISBN 1-883889-05-7 Softcover



AUTHOR'S NOTE


It is no accident that women continue to earn less than men.
Nowhere is this more evident than in the testosterone temples
of academia.  Here, the ceiling is made of plexiglass.

Although more women are allowed in the classrooms and even into
the board rooms, decisions are still made in the men's rooms.

More women obtain advanced degrees and achieve faculty positions,
but few are allowed into the highest administrative positions.
Rather, they are found in greatest numbers in the lower paying,
most labor intensive positions.

Civil Rights laws connecting compliance with federal grants are
blatantly ignored or creatively circumvented by many institutes
of higher learning.  The courts and the EEOC, weakened to the point
of extinction by the regressive administrations of the eighties,
are about as effective as warm spit in enforcing compliance.


Using the double edged sword of coercion and harassment,
these institutions of "higher learning" continue to maintain their
status quo.  This book portrays a few of the artifices they employ.
Characters, descriptions and locations are fictional, created from
the right side of the author's brain.




DEDICATION




In fondest memory of



LEAH RUTH DENTON,


this book is dedicated to all


WOMANKIND AND HER SUPPORTERS


who refuse to accept the definitions and limitations

imposed by ancient conquerors.





ABOUT THE AUTHOR



Ruth M. Sprague, Ph.D., a native Vermonter known to hundreds
of her former students as Dr. Ruth, is retired after many years
teaching nursing and medical students.


She has published several scientific papers, teaching tutorials
and one novel, VERMONT TALES FOR FOOLS AND OTHER LOVERS.




"Revenge is a kind of wild justice." --Francis Bacon
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