If you really want to effect change in the world, sign a petition! Sign a petition to stop the war in Iraq, fight global warming, end genocide, and make the tax code fair. Change is as simple as that! Do I really believe that? Not for a second.
At JCCC, several interior design students have started a petition complaining about their primary professor. You have to think that'll make classes awkward for the complaining people. (I tried to find the article online, but it's nowhere to be found.)
Let's realize that professors have a dozen ways to screw up a students life if they choose to do so. Any professor who wants to drop a student a letter grade can find a reason to do so. And what can the student do? Not very much. Appeals are rarely successful. Mostly you can simply grit your teeth and suffer.
Knowing the professor in question, professionalism will permit her to work with these students and avoid reprisals, but somebody needs to share a basic life lesson with these petitioners. If you're going to stick your neck out, you'd better be sure about what you're doing. What seems like a great idea on Friday afternoon can leave an unrepairable mess come Monday.
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