>She was lazy, but being that she was a practicing
>psychoanalyst with what I sensed were her own emotional
>issues,

Ha. Oh dear.

>I think the 'C' was the only way for the Dean to let
>her save face and let the student take the L (I guess I was
>supposed to be grateful that they didn't pursue the plagiarism
>accusations further)

Yuck. Though it makes internal sense when you describe it this way. I'm faculty and students aren't part of our tribe. To take a selfish point away from your story (sorry) I strongly suspect that my situation will resolve itself because of this and not because I was actually right. Result is the same, but the former makes me feel gross.