ABSTRACT
So many colleges and universities have had their confrontation, so many unlikely ones, that administrators can now take it that whatever school has not been so favored soon will be. The causes and character of campus disorder consists of a change in the distribution of power among the people who act together to make up the college community. At the same time, colleges differ in the way power has been allocated and exercised in them. Any new accommodation will doubtless include some fundamental revisions of the status differences symbolized by the current violations of civility. Students will probably not get to tell professors what to do. More likely professors will simply stop telling students what to do, leaving much more freedom of choice for everyone. The battle cry is "Student Power", but the result that is expected and hoped for is a freer system of Less Power.
