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                              %POWER AND CORRUPTION 731110

     It   has  often  been  said  that   power   corrupts.
Unfortunately  it  is  not always those who have  a  given
power  who are aware of the way in which it corrupts.  One
must be in dialogue with those who are the victims of  the
corrupted power to discover the way in which the power has
corrupted those who exercise it.   Dialogue  between those
who abuse power and the victims of the corrupted power may
be  impossible,  because of a natural fear of the  victims
that honesty  will have little  survival value. This makes
it all the more  important  that  those who exercise power
sensitize  themselves to the ways  in  which  their  power
tends  to corrupt them,  and lead them to  do violence  to
those who do not share in the power,  but nevertheless are
subject to it.

     Colleges and university trustees, administrators, and
faculty  are  perceived as exercising power.   Rarely  are
students perceived as exercising power,  even when they do
exercise power,  which is not often.  Usually students are
subject to power, but do not in reality participate in it,
even   though   there   be   open  procedures   for   such
participation.  Thus students are often the victims of the
power which tends to corrupt trustees, administrators, and
faculty.

     A number  of  steps  may be  taken  to  minimize  the
tendency   for   academic  power  to  corrupt.   Trustees,
administrators and  faculty may honestly seek  to  gain  a
mutual  understanding  with students of what the nature of
reality appears to be to the students.  Steps may be taken
to  encourage  student  honesty;  not through words,   but
through changes  in  grading and certification procedures,
to  encourage  honest   education---rather  encourage  the
submission to training violence.

     The  abuse  of power in colleges and universities may
set the example for the abuse of power by alumni in  their
political  decisions  and  actions.    If  institutions of
education  (through  which  civic  leaders  usually   have
passed)  are insensitive to human suffering, civic leaders
will find it difficult to be sensitive to human suffering.
Power  corrupts,   and desensitization is a sure  sign  of
corruption.     As  people  cease  to  live  they   become
insensitive to self and others,  and so  inflict  violence
which  perpetuates  the  process via a  powerful feed-back
loop.
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