Current students struggling to pay tuition say the money should go to more scholarships and oppose the stadium. The conflict begins to grow more heated, and tensions between athletic students on scholarships and poorer students without scholarships grow, as do tension between teams, and faculty who oppose so much money going to a stadium vs. more conservative alumni. The most common conception of this change process among dialectical scholars is a helical model, in which responsiveness to one dialectical pole, or opposite, creates pressure to attend to the opposite dialectical pole. Over time, a relationship pair cycles back and forth between responsiveness to the opposing demands" (Dialectical theories, 2009, Marriage and Family Encyclopedia). Thus, in the dialectical change model, the change that occurs is a reexamination of the underlying conflicts between different organizational actors. The football stadium comes to symbolize, for some students and faculty, a lack of concern on the part of the administration for their need to afford the school. The administration fights a public relations campaign for the stadium, as it believes a failure to construct it will come at great expense to the school's image, now that tensions have become so heated. For the football team and alumni and administration, the stadium...

The student body becomes more polarized, and regardless of what decision is made about the construction of the arena, a clear change has occurred. If it is built, the school may rise to prominence in national attention, attract more alumni donation, and draw forth a more spirited new pool of applicants. However, some students will feel they the school does not care and they will become alienated, and if the school becomes more 'rah-rah' in spirit, other students and even some prospective faculty members may turn away. Regardless of whether the stadium is built, the character of the school has changed due to polarized political wrangling, and one side must emerge the winner.
Works Cited

Dialectical theories: Contradictions and Change. (2009). Marriage and Family Encyclopedia. Retrieved 22 Mar, 2009. http://family.jrank.org/pages/391/Dialectical-Theory-Contradictions-Change.html

Kezar, Adrianna. (2001). "Understanding and facilitating change in higher education in the 21st

Century.' ERIC Educational Reports. FindArticles.com. Retrieved 22 Mar, 2009. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_pric/is_200100/ai_133467957

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