[henkster]

This comes as no surprise to anyone who has actually had a job.

I remember Professor Hansen from my Poli Sci days at Indiana University in 1979. In his seminar, which should have been called “Soviet Communism Here and Now” he advocated the usual crap about “workers controlling the means of production.” Having worked a real job in commercial construction all summer, I knew his plan had 3 consequences:

1. The building isn’t going to be built
2. Because the Worker’s Committee is going to be convened in the parking lot with a case of beer and a bucket of chicken, and
3. The “means of production” (company tools) are going home with the Workers’ Committee and are not being returned in the morning.

I wish I’d had the balls to suggest to the Professor that students should also control the means of production of grades, that we all vote ourselves A+ grades for the semester, cut the nonsense and reconvene at Nick’s for some cold beer.

[circlecity]

You spent entirely too much time in Woodburn hall. (As did I during the same time period)

[CaptainK]

I wish I’d had the balls to suggest to the Professor that students should also control the means of production of grades, that we all vote ourselves A+ grades for the semester

I had a near retirement aged professor who worked at a different college in his younger days during the hippy dippy '60s. The admisistration put this exact policy into place. He told my class the program was short lived because the results were exactly as you predicted.