Space Administration

I'm currently fascinated by a small facet of my nanotexts class.

Earlier this quarter we discussed the idea of moving our classroom from its current space (Old Main 482) to a room more conducive to the technological integration our specific class is geared toward.

A part of requesting this classroom change is talking with the Space Administration here at Western.



As far as I know, we have yet to receive any kind of response.

Despite that though, I think we're still half expecting to get approval to move rooms at some point.

The point I'm trying to make though is that in a way we are at odds with the Space Administration (insert non-existant hyperlink to Space Administration here).

The black box that you see Prof Pritchard (is it weird that I think of him as Tony or Nanotext?) moving is one of those lectern-speaker boxes made available (apparently by the Space Administration) for Professors to lecture from.

That I know of, no professors use this box at all. And yet somehow it still finds its way on top of the table at the start of every class.

I've taken this almost ritual moving of the black box from the table to the floor at the beginning of every class to represent a kind of symbolic sticking it to the SA.

We shall not use your box. We do not believe in your ideals. Give us our space! By moving this simple box, we represent our solidarity in defying the SA. And yet, it's an empty gesture, because here we are, still finding ourselves in OM-482.