"You are right. If it had been me in his place, I might have quit at the spot after such a blunder."
"Don't get me wrong, I am not against what Alder was trying to do. I still don't think that the kid deserves a spot in the university but you can never ever go against the higher ups. That's pretty basic if you think about it. Alder is pretty dumb to have done something like this."
Alder found that even those who had agreed with his point of view during the meeting were now avoiding him like a plague and were busy gossiping about his future in the university as if he wasn't even there among them.
The teachers began to exit the conference room one by one. Mabel was one of the first after Galen to exit. She had been barely holding back her excitement. Once Galen left, she rushed out of the conference room to report to Val about the proceedings.