In this article the author discusses the role that committees play within a university's bureaucracy. This article takes a close look at key committees on the university campus and how they shape policy and practice. It explores how committees can prove to be a vital and needed avenue to change. The author sees committees as "the life blood of a university" and discusses how they have become ingrained and institutionalize within the university system regardless of the size of the institution. The article concludes that although committees are flawed and often used to trumpet personal agendas they can in the end be beneficial to the smooth and efficient running of a university.