A Voss and Pike Casefile: The First Case
Section 22: The Funding Figures
Ashby slid a budget summary across the desk without being asked twice: Thorncastle's contract underwrote not just Candour but two junior lectureships, a PhD scholarship fund, and a significant portion of the department's building refurbishment.
"Cut this funding," she said, "and real people lose real jobs and real opportunities, starting with people considerably less secure in their careers than Desmond ever was. I'm not proud of how tangled that makes the ethics. I am entirely realistic about it."
Thorncastle's contract underwrites far more than Candour alone - two lectureships, a scholarship fund, a building refurbishment - making the university's institutional interest in a quiet resolution considerably wider than one professor's conscience.