As a non-hierarchical, inclusive counter-institution, we represent a concrete actualization of democratic communal empowerment which rejects the restrictions that capital, consumer culture and war have placed on the university’s conception of education. In an effort to move beyond this restrictive paradigm, we have entered into conflict with slaves to a system that cannot compromise its ordinances to accommodate the formation of an authentic community which sustains a vision of ideals outside the limitations of bureaucracy. Although we operate outside the priorities of the University, we seemingly share their self-professed values of “civil debate, open dialogue and alternative educational experiences.� For this reason we must reject the university’s ordinances as they contradict our mutual overarching values. How can the university support free speech and simultaneously define its parameters? How can the university promote “educational alternatives� while imposing ordinances that prohibit a community based on actualizing this principle? An educational experience can hardly be considered “alternative� while it is confined and defined by all the ordinances and structures of the current system.