The court and the EEOC said sex discrimination!
Belmont U. terminated her anyway!
Belmont University had always looked upon faculty misdeeds such aschild molestation, sexual harassment or record falsification with atolerant if not blind eye. Strange then that the entire administrationmobilized to aim its big guns at Professor Diana Trenchant—or was it?
The inner workings of administrative jingoism are exposed as a popularteacher is given a termination hearing where the presiding officer isthe accuser, the prosecutor and the judge, and the testimony in herdefense is ignored.
"WILD JUSTICE chronicles the outrages of one woman's experience with anengaging mix of humor and indignation. The use of fictitious namesunderscores how the problems are systemic and not merely rooted in theparticular persons involved in this 'witch hunt'. I hope it will bewidely read—both for its own sake and to encourage the kind ofstruggle that redirects higher education to serve the people and socialjustice, however wild!"
Professor Willard Miller, University of Vermont.
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 andprocedures. 4. Feminists.
5. LC#: 93-060721
6. ISBN 1-883889-05-7 Softcover
It is no accident that women continue to earn less than men. Nowhereis 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 theboard rooms, decisions are still made in the men's rooms.
More women obtain advanced degrees and achieve faculty positions, butfew are allowed into the highest administrative positions. Rather,they are found in greatest numbers in the lower paying, most laborintensive positions.
Civil Rights laws connecting compliance with federal grants areblatantly ignored or creatively circumvented by many institutes ofhigher learning. The courts and the EEOC, weakened to the point ofextinction by the regressive administrations of the eighties, are aboutas effective as warm spit in enforcing compliance.
Using the double edged sword of coercion and harassment, theseinstitutions of "higher learning" continue to maintain their statusquo. This book portrays a few of the artifices they employ.Characters, descriptions and locations are fictional, created from theright side of the author's brain.