Ms. Marjorie Hacker

In the Shadow of the Tower: Sex, Fear and Politics on a Southern Campus Ms. Marjorie Hacker

This fictional novel is based on a true story. This story of abuse of power centers on a faculty wife and her family who became the object of that abuse. After the coupe d'etat also known as the Kennedy assassination, robbed Tom McDowell of the Presidency of the United States, he took refuge as President of Renier University. He would wait for another chance while keeping his name out front. Renier was in the process of recruiting, training, and resume enhancement of homosexual faculty and administrators to be laater exported to other American universities. What followed were embellzement, blackmail, child abuse, and sexual and financial misconduct. Liz the faculty wife, became heavily involved when the managaer of the newly formed faculty recreational park mistreated the children. For this she paid a heavy price. She was betrayed by her husband, rejected by the community who labeled her as "crazy" and forced into isolation. The power of the University community became evident when she had exhausted all of her legal and psychological options to no avail. She then turned to writing to clear her mind and to determine what was read and what was imaginary.