Previously unreleased audio recordings obtained and verified by the Tripod via an anonymous source provide more clarity on key elements of the ongoing lawsuit against Trinity College and Dean of Faculty Sonia Cardenas. In 2023, Trinity’s Academic Freedom Committee (AFC) found Cardenas and then-Associate Dean Takunari Miyazaki to have committed acts of maladministration against engineering professor John Mertens. The findings of the AFC largely relied on what took place in two meetings occurring in 2022 between Cardenas, Miyazaki and Mertens. The recordings and their transcripts are of the two meetings.