Word: sectionalism
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Just as the faculty has used Larry’s attitude, his “that-guy-iness,” to justify retaliation, so think we in section. The faculty has to stop that guy from stealing the show—to prove they are equally smart. We, too, feel we must try to reclaim section from our own that-guy’s unspeakable evils. So someone steps up to lead the charge and becomes, well, that guy. Pretty soon, you have a good chunk of that guys, or that gals, all in constant search of the trump...
...This section dynamic is analogous to the ongoing saga of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and University President Lawrence H. Summers, and what appears to be its approaching denouement...
...their homework. Learning, or at least the illusion of it, awaits—will Summers give them a presentation on Allston or will outgoing FAS Dean William C. Kirby issue a report on the Curricular Review? But despite the collection of brilliant minds in a single place, in this section, just like an undergrad meeting, the discussion devolves, and we are left with an atonal chorus of voices all screaming past each other...
...Larry? Larry is “that guy.” He is the “that-iest” “that guy” that ever that. That guy has the power; he is the undeclared section leader. You may be rolling your eyes as he’s speaking, but he’s got the floor. He always has the floor—because he…say it with me now…is that guy. That guy cannot stop quoting the one introduction of Hegel he read for tutorial last year because...
...guy’s power to gain his own. As that guy continues his latest tirade on just how wrong the professor was in lecture today, friend of that guy (FOTG) pipes up to reiterate a few of that guy’s favorite points. If no one in section likes that guy, well, then FOTG is similarly shunned...