Piper ensures ability to continue teaching without disability accommodations, by correctly forecasting and scheduling periodic physical collapses into Spring 2005 syllabus, totaling a month of absence from classes (out of a three-month long semester). Nevertheless falls asleep at wheel on highway twice, has minor accident once, narrowly avoids major accident once. Repeatedly gets flat tires on return Wellesley-Cape Cod commute. Refuses Dean of The College's pressure to forfeit Fall 2006 paid sabbatical. The College rejects application for paid sabbatical for Fall 2005-Spring 2006, rejects appeal, rejects Wissenschaftskolleg's offer of junior faculty teaching compensation, attempts to force application for unpaid leave of absence. Piper refuses to apply for unpaid leave of absence. Files internal formal grievance against President and Dean for multiple violations of Wellesley's by-laws and impairments of its interests. President and Dean both refuse to respond. Grievance Committee forbids speaking directly to its members, denies request for hearing, denies request to question President and Dean, denies request that President be recused as final court of appeal, denies request for additional time to submit evidence, dismisses grievance. AAUP again refuses to investigate. Scholars At Risk refuses to investigate. Philosophy colleague warns Piper not even to approach relevant APA committees. Piper again amends MCAD lawsuit to include additional charges. Piper regretfully declines invitation from Wissenschaftskolleg. Spends four-day retreat at Sarada Convent. The College requests conflict resolution. Piper proposes resolution. Sells house on Cape Cod. Sells car. Sells personal effects.
Piper moves to East Berlin apartment with Ginger and Kali. Piper becomes first (and, as of this date, only known) recipient of German residency permit under new 2005 Ausländerrecht (Foreigners Law) Par. 71.3. AufenthG: Ausnahmefälle (Exceptional Cases). Chronic pleurisy disappears. Ankylosing spondylitis symptoms disappear. Liver fibrosis disappears. The College rejects conflict resolution proposal, refuses to propose alternative. Piper rejects Wellesley’s offer of “impartial” mediation in which both her lawyer and the mediator are paid by The College. Dean of The College cancels salary, health insurance, dental insurance, and pension contributions in second week of fall semester. Piper begins final revisions of Rationality and the Structure of the Self. Completes purchase of apartment building in Berlin-Mitte. Begins Visiting Professorship at Danish Royal Academy of Art’s School of Walls and Space.