At what critical point does the student body of an academic institution such as Columbia decide that its voice is not only unheard, but also unspoken? The editors of Precis V, and its staff, have taken the license to define not the form, but the obligations which ultimately formulate the context of this journal. In simple terms, the fact that Precis is produced by the students, not for them or about them, is the unlimiting factor which enables this issue of Precis to take a critical, as opposed to promotional, stance toward the school within which it is published.