The world to me

MIT students by the hundreds pour into their student center--not to the fifth floor library, but to the second floor sanctuary. Instead of checking meter readings with their lab partners, they speak of how their work is being used, how they are being used. In recognition of their manipulation by a society which forces them to produce weapons of oppression, in sympathy now with soldiers like Mike O'Conner, for the first time feeling themselves oppressed, …

…on and is glad he has come. He continually states that the people of MIT and Boston are doing him a favor; those around him see what he has done for them. Mike looks and sees that his act of defiance has been validated; those around him see that act as a lesson in action. The tension between these views is called rapport; its result is a mutual respect and an inspired organization. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**