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23.3.05 [ The Will to Power ] 0 comments

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The undergraduate is in a position of supreme power; she is at the top of the institutional food chain; he is the only position which has the authority to direct funds and influence policy. The others (the professors, the administrators, the deans, the TAs, the others) suffer at the whims of the paying students.

While some may complain that their positions as undergraduates put them at the mercy of the institution, this perception of powerlessness is, at most, superficial. For, regardless of legitimacy, a student's submission that she has been wronged speaks stronger than the towering accreditations of her institutional superiors.

University and collegiate instructors are at the mercy of their payroll; the undergraduate provides almost 70% of this. Thus, one must exercise caution when allowing idle comments to mingle in departmental office air. Even without the weight of formal streams, they are listening.

And more so when the formal streams are pursued. The levels of bureaucracy are designed, not to ensure that any given claim is legitimate but to provide barriers. These barriers serve an important function. After telephone transfers, paperwork, interviews, delays, dismissals, locked doors and unanswered calls, only the convicted remain to chase their cause. It is self-selection; there is not enough resources available to the institution to research every (or any) claim. So, the accusation of anyone willing to drive his cause is deemed worthy.



Zero-radiation computer monitors for professors. Only a student can get them--the professors themselves have no power.



But, that is only part of it. I have seen the charge of incompetence placed against the institution; the institution takes these things seriously--if you're convicted.

I can only extrapolate at this point, but allow me to assert that this is the recipe for proactive change in a broad range of contexts. Those who hold explicit power enjoy holding explicit power and would like to continue exploiting such enjoyment far into the indefinite future. To guarantee this, they are forced to appease those who have no taste for power, but taste for social accountability.

That is, change is possible without revolution. Good things (and bad things, I suppose) can happen using only devotion.

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