【正文】 e social pressures and any conversation of his offensive behavior began both to believe and hope that our working relationship could be a proper, cordial, and professional judge thomas was made chair of the eeoc, i needed to face the question of whether to go with was asked to do so, and i work itself was interesting, and at that time it appeared that the sexual overtures which had so troubled me had also faced the realistic fact that i had no alternative i might have gone back to private practice, perhaps in my old firm or at another, i was dedicated to civil rights work, and my first choice was to be in that , the department of education itself was a dubious reagan was seeking to abolish the entire my first months at the eeoc, where i continued to be an assistant to judge thomas, there were no sexual conversations or , during the fall and winter of 1982, these began ments were random and ranged from pressing me about why i didn39。ve said before these last few days have been very trying and very hard for me and it hasn39。t go out with began to show displeasure in his tone and voice and his demeanor and his continued pressure for an mented on what i was wearing in terms of whether it made me more or less sexually incidents occurred in his inner office at the of the oddest episodes i remember was an occasion in which thomas was drinking a coke in his got up from the table at which we were working, went over to his desk to get the coke, looked at the can and asked, “who has pubic hair on my coke?” on other occasions, he referred to the size of his own penis as being larger than normal, and he also spoke on some occasions of the pleasures he had given to women with oral this point, late 1982, i began to feel severe stress on the began to be concerned that clarence thomas might take out his anger with me by degrading me or not giving me important also thought that he might find an excuse for dismissing january of 1983, i began looking for another was handicapped because i feared that, if he found out, he might make it difficult for me to find other employment and i might be dismissed from the job i factor that made my search more difficult was that there was a periodthis was during a period of a hiring freeze in the february of 1983, i was hospitalized for five days on an emergency basis for acute stomach pain which i attributed to stress on the out of the hospital, i became more mitted to find other employment and sought further to minimize my contact with became easier when allison duncan(sp)became office director, because most of my work was then funneled through her and i had contact with clarence thomas mostly in staff the spring of 1983, an opportunity to teach at oral roberts university opened participated in a seminartaught an afternoon session and seminar at oral roberts dean of the university saw me teaching and inquired as to whether i would be interested in furtheringpursuing a career in teaching, beginning at oral roberts agreed to take the job in large part because of my desire to escape the pressures i felt at the eeoc due to judge i informed him that i was leaving in july, i recall that his response was that now i would no longer