Yes, Angie did come sit in my office and question her D+ in a course at my law school. About a week later I handed the case over to my risk manager, who was the brother-in-law of the professor who gave Angie the D+, and told him to investigate and report back to me ASAP. I waited a week because I was sick (had diahrea for a few days, I think from some bad Mexican food; no good Mex places in East Lansing).
My risk manager reviewed his findings with some outside attorneys, we never imagined what would have been uncovered. It seems the professor involved voluntarity gave us information that he had curved the grades even more than usual, and that Angie deserved a D-. Therefore, for the stability and integrity of Thomas Cooley Law School, I could not have ammended Ms. Angeline's grade to even a C-.
When I called her back into my office, I gave her the option of taking the D+ or get kicked out of my Law School. She thought about it for a moment --- she clinched her fists tighter than I had ever seen before, and her eyes turned real red (liked to scared me to death). She chose the D+, which I told her was good because my transportation staff was on standby via walky talky to place a boot on the front end of her car should she refuse.
Well, to make a long story short, Angeline and I made up at her graduation. We gave her cum laude status, despite her grades, as an olive branch. She admitted that she wasn't really that mad about the D+ before, since getting the diploma and "pumping up" her resume were the only reasons for her being there. She said she never intended to practice law or teach English (which she had degrees in) anywhere anyway. She was looking for a professional "sugar daddy" as she put who might give her dominion over some institution. I always wondered about Angie and how her aspirations have turned out.
Some of you have e-mailed me asking what a risk manager is and what one does. I don't really know if I can explain that myself, or even know for that matter. All I can tell you is that since my law professor recommended that I hire his brother-n-law as risk mananger, my law school has been running like a well-oiled machine. Professors here now speak when spoken too.
I forgot to mention that I have had one contact with Angeline since her law school days. It was a couple of years ago, when we were both called to D.C. for some high-level Homeland Security Department meetings. She wanted to take me to lunch and run something by me. It seems she was considering listing her law degree (on her resume) as from the University of Michigan instead of from Thomas Cooley. I was taken aback at first, but she had some arguments prepared. First, she said both schools were in the state of Michigan and weren't far apart geographically. Second, she said had visited there on many occasions whilst she was a TCLS student, and and she reminded me that some of her TCLS profs had even matriculated there, so it might not be that much of a stretch. I was damned near convinced. But, I told her I would talk to a risk manager for her before she did this or something even closer to reality than this. She said that I didn't need to bother with it because she knew a risk manager at this point and would ask him about it and some other ideas on the subject she had.