my proposed senior project

[docjekyll]

Of all the things that hold true of hierarchies, the feeling - where one stands - remains through the ages. The proposal passed but I am reticent to pursue it. What great irony would it be if "Institutional Change: Breaking from Subcommitteeism" were to be subcommitteed? Yes, laugh now

Comments

[donutgirl]

maybe legitimacy is what you are looking for?

[docjekyll]

d. To demonstrate or declare to be justified. --le·git“i·mate·ly adv. --le·git“i·mate·ness n. --le·git”i·ma“tion n. --le·git“i·mat”or (-m³t”…r) n.

[donutgirl]

I'm not saying legitimateness is wrong, I'm just saying legitimacy might "sound more right".

[docjekyll]

yeah...

when I wrote legitimacy, it sounded more wrong at the time...

[docjekyll]

That's the problem, darling. Everyone says they are "pretty good" and so they merely assume they know what is right. Too many fail to realize that issue X walks up to you and says "I need Y". It does not matter if you are good at what you do, any peon can try and assign Y according to their own expertise but miss the entire point of what Y demands.

Subcommittees are merely assign(ments).

Before someone can even think of themselves as a change agent, they need to realize if they are part of the system or not. Furthermore, once must shed the concept of "change agent" in order to fulfill Y without assigning it a value.

back up a few steps?

[benjifus]

tell me more about this senior project thing...it sounds like the kindof stuff i think about too much.

and yes, ruth has that way about her. (i was discussing all this with a really good yalie activist friend who was bemoaning the inarticulate suckiness of his president.)

Re: back up a few steps?

[docjekyll]

I got a hold of a few interesting reports such as:

Report Generated by Visiting Committee on Diversity - a 164 page assessment of Brown by a consulting group
College Student Journal - assessment of students in Brown
The Face of Diversity - 40 page proposal for improving Brown University submitted by Committee on Diversity
The (un)changing face of the Ivy League - structural social and administrative inertia in Brown
The American University and the Pluralist Past - academic paper on pluralism

I want to make some things happen and have been meeting with Ruth and professors to setup a Senior project in place of a thesis.

My only problem is that I would need quantitative data to fight off the subcommitteeism.

If you want, you and I could sit down and talk about this; I am looking for potential partners in my project.

Re: back up a few steps?

[docjekyll]

It's actually a pain to nail down seeing as the subject matter hits all the right spots on campus. Maybe you could give me your point of view and help in narrowing the mofo down.