Chapter 1585 Crazy Pleasures In The Dark:>Ep123

• Rick nodded. "I have heard that before. They can make a strong economic argument, then kill it by demanding excessive pay for faculty. That model might work on another planet, but here the big schools call the tune, they control the new PhDs and the pubs. Of course, sometimes they can't agree on the tune."
• As soon as he said that I knew he was holding something back. I was pretty sure I knew what. It seemed that I was not the only guy in the room who wanted to do something revolutionary, to change the system.
• "I agree. Anyway, now comes Nancy's part. An hour later I ran into her in the bar, she was looking for me and wanted to talk about something personal. I think she was looking for liquid courage to come to my room, since I was her first 'special assignment' for the school. She said she wanted to talk so we did. Right off she says that this is not about sex. I ask 'so is that good news or bad news?' and she gives a little laugh, we both know the attraction is there, but that is not the point. We talked for 2 hours, it was pretty clear that the Provost sent her to sell me on the 'smaller community' idea which I had mentioned once during our meeting. When we were done she went off-script and asked to use one of my beds for the night. She had a room next to the Chair's, and the slimy asshole happened to mention that he could open the door between them. That made her nervous, she was year-to-year, loaned from another department, so she had no power in the situation. She claimed not to know why she was even along, but I had an idea."