ABSTRACT
At Central, the Good Old Boys and the Idea Team competed over whose definition of the school would win out-the status quo or a school dramatically recultured and restructured. Despite the strong reform efforts of the Idea Team, the Good Old Boys captured the dominant representation of the school by attacking their opponents through crass gender politics, thereby preserving the traditional structure of the school and the patriarchal culture that accompanied it. This is the story of how it happened.
