The enforcer in the machine: checklists, lob pain-fests, "henchwomen"

texture · STANDING, fall YDAU

• When: STANDING roles and reputations across fall YDAU; surfacings 3 Nov (036) and via endnotes anchored 4-5 Nov (n073) and 10 Nov (n214); 026 undated.
• What: The corpus's steady background picture of Thode as staff heavy. Schtitt, not close to his prorectors, "treats Aubrey deLint and Mary Esther Thode with a formality that's almost parodic" — but can, if aggrieved, "have Thode and deLint make them extremely uncomfortable more or less at will, out there in A.M. practice." She is one of only three prorectors (with deLint and Nwangi) possessing the "combination anality and drive" to actually walk their assigned Subdorm rooms with a checklist, piling punitive drills on bed-making slackers. On court she is half of the dreaded run-back-then-tap-the-netcord conditioning drill in which "Nwangi-or-Thode" hits offensive lob after offensive lob over your head — a "pure pain-fest." And the Little Buddies' litany of manufactured common enemies files her accordingly.