*While working at Ball State University, Maetta Vance contended that Saundra Davis, a catering specialist, had made Vance's life at work unpleasant through physical acts and racial harassment. * Vance asserted that Davis was a supervisor; Ball State claimed the opposite. *The District Court and the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals had determined that Davis was not Vance's supervisor, because Davis did not have the power to direct the terms and conditions of her employment