When I got into my room, I sat down at my computer and typed in the search terms. Getting my degree was the long term goal, and I was going to do what I had to do to achieve that. I bounded up the stairs to my room, and I resolved that no matter how ridiculous the offer sounded, I had to take it, even if the work required killed any semblance of a social life. I may not want to take it? How bad could it be? I had visions of having to write some kind of full thesis as I scarfed down the rest of my lunch and rushed back to the dorm. But whatever you decide, I wish you the best of luck.” “Thank you so much for this opportunity.” It’s in the sociology department office in Carlisle Hall.” “Six and a half,” I replied, wondering why he would possibly need to know that. And one other thing what’s your shoe size?” I scrambled to find a pen in my purse and jotted the terms down on a paper napkin as I repeated them back to him, the napkin ripping twice as I tried to write. Oh, she did want me to have you Google something. Can you be in her office at 8:00 tomorrow morning?” Slater wants to go over it with you herself. “Well, it’s not something I can really talk about. “What would I have to do?” I asked, trying to keep the skepticism out of my voice.ĭr. Daddy had told me throughout my life, over and over again, that if something sounded too good to be true then it probably was. So your scholarships would continue, provided you maintain the GPA requirement.” It’ll be like the incident never happened. Slater, your whole record would be expunged. I didn’t know, but I said “Uh huh” anyway. She’s the chair of the Sociology Department, you know.”
Lorraine Slater is hoping to launch a landmark study, and she needs a… Well, she needs some assistance. “This is highly unusual, which is why I’m calling you personally, but there may be a way for you to have your suspension rescinded.” Hallum once, at my disciplinary hearing two days before the beginning of this spring break. I had flown back here via the Palm Springs airport the day before after spending an anxious week with my parents at home in Texas. I was in a mostly deserted dining hall, eating lunch on a Sunday, the last day before spring break ended. “That’s OK,” I said after swallowing my mouthful of meatloaf. I was still trying to fathom why a university president would be calling a lowly undergraduate student’s personal cell phone and not just any undergraduate student but one facing a suspension for academic dishonesty.
Hallum, the president of Coachella Valley University, said to me after introducing himself.
“Forgive me for disturbing your weekend,” Dr. The entire novel is available in paperback and Kindle editions on Amazon: I don’t know what took me so long to do this here on my own blog, but here is the first chapter of The “Volunteer” in its entirety.
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