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In our last installment...
The beleaguered doctoral student discovers that the womanizing professor with whom she was supposed to be working shuttled off their book project so he could spend time with a young, somewhat flighty Master's student. Angry and humiliated, the beleaguered doctoral student decides to take action!
And now we return to As the University Turns...
The beleaguered doctoral student discovers that she has friends in the department who are willing to take her under their wings. Undeterred, she seeks out the guidance of a former professor who was highly complimentary of her thesis work, and was looking forward to seeing the book project that never came to be because of the womanizing professor.
SCENE 1: Office of Former Professor
Beleaguered doctoral student: Are there any projects with which you'll need help with in the spring?
Former professor: Yes, but I thought that you were working with the womanizing professor on the book project.
Beleaguered doctoral student: No, that never happened.
Former professor: What? That's very distressing.
((cue dramatic segue music))
Lo and behold, it seems that the former professor has taken a very serious issue with the fact that the womanizing professor never came through on his book idea. Continuing her quest, the beleaguered doctoral student talks to the Associate Dean of Graduate Studies about changing assistantships in the spring.
SCENE 2: ADoGS' office
Beleaguered doctoral student: The former professor and I would like to work together in the spring.
ADoGS: That's great, but you need to give the womanizing professor a break. He just went through a trying time in his life.
Beleaguered doctoral student: Yes, ADoGS, I understand, but he doesn't have me doing much at the moment. I don't think I'm being fully utilized.
ADoGS: Then you should use the available time to work on the book project.
((CLOSE UP on the wide eyes of the beleaguered doctoral student - "What a great idea!"... then cue dramatic segue music))
So the beleaguered doctoral student has taken control. She will be able to work with someone new in the spring and work on her book this fall and during the summer. However, the beleaguered doctoral student, still humiliated after the womanizing professor flirted with her but never actually completed any work, decided that she would take further control of the situation. Donning a long, somewhat tight sweater dress, knee-high black boots, hair and make-up done well, and her wedding ring set in full sparkle, she pays a visit to the womanizing professor.
SCENE 3: Office of the Womanizing Professor
Beleaguered doctoral student: So I can't meet today, I'm afraid. I have another meeting at the same time.
Womanizing professor: Oh, well... what's your meeting?
Beleaguered doctoral student: Do you want me to let you know what I've done this week?
Womanizing professor: Sure.
((WIDE SHOT of womanizing professor staring up and down at beleaguered doctoral student as the beleaguered doctoral student talks.))
The meeting ends, and the beleaguered doctoral student exits his office, satisfied. She knows the womanizing professor can look but never touch. Or have. And he will be out of her hair in the spring. He also will never learn that she knows about him and the flighty Master's student. He does, however, know that she met with someone about something. And if the womanizing professor has much of an imagination, he'll tear himself up inside trying to figure out if she outed his unprofessional, sexually discriminatory behavior to one of the deans. She hasn't because she knows better, but he doesn't know that.
THIS HAS BEEN ANOTHER INSTALLMENT OF AS THE UNIVERSITY TURNS...
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