ACADEMY of Absolute POWER (AAU)

Its 1130am on a Saturday in San Francisco. Three weeks till finals and Im sitting in the computer lab. You would think that an institute for higher learning would respect the fact that most students are in the "cruch time"

Not at the Academy of Art University... Instead of allowing the students to work undisturbed they choose this day to have an "open House." A hundred stupid people walk through the lab and Gawk at students as they try to work. Looking over their shoulders...trying to look like they dont want to bother the students. When in fact they are obviously a disturbance. Its a crying shame how the academy spends so much money on recruitment rather than facility upkeep. The Fact that they show the 3d Animation and Visual effects department off the most is a travesty. They try to bring so many students here, but once they are here they are screwed. The teachers that can actually teach let alone those that know what they are teaching is minimal at best. The rest either suck or don't care resulting in a blindly ignorant student body. Most of these students are different from the rest of academia in the sense they know what they want to learn and they come here with a solid sense of direction. The Academy destorys that direction with its over-priced tuiton, lack of knowledgable teachers, and an adminstration that hears one word CHa-ching. If a student has a problem the academy doesnt care. If many students have a problem the academy doesnt care. If a whole department of the academy has a problem the academy still doesnt care. Why is that? Well...absolute power of course. This school had an opprotunity to do something that has never been done in recent history. Become a true academy for the arts and entertainment. Intsead its a money machine for one individual. Elisa Stephans...the model of corrupted absolute power...

more to come on this...for now my rant is finished...

Absolute Power

Everyone, I'm sure, has heard the saying "Absolute power corrupts absolutely..." The surface defination is pretty obvious. Or, maybe its a little more complex than that. Bad men will do bad things. Is there such thing as a bad man? Is evil and all things countrary to "good" really something that is easily defined. The real meaning behind "absolute power" isn't that power is possesed and then corrupts. Its the individual that corrupts the power. And once the power is corrupted it will corrupt everyone and everything associated with it. Its an absolute chain that spawns events and other chains of events that become, ultimately, so powerful that it is the only power left.
So the new question is can we save the power once its been corrupted and before it becomes absolute...

4.15.06
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