I enrolled for an M.A. in Clinical Psychology at a time when communication was a commodity and an instrument of power-tripping. Everything cost something and nothing was for free. I recall that all departments had access to a telephone outside line only via a secret switch near the telephone that only the secretaries knew. The secretaries turned on the switch only for themselves and those whom they favored.

I wonder what they are power-tripping on now that everyone has wi-fi and can read this posting in cyberspace.