In April, at the Excellence at the Center Conference, I participated in a national discussion in my role as Managing Editor of "Communication Center Journal" (CCJ). During my contributions to that larger discussion I noted that I believe it is time for writers and future writers of our subset of communication studies to begin to view our work more critically. While I made no mention of it, I was thinking about opportunities to engage from a critical perspective put forth by the publication of a communication center manuscript outside of CCJ in the last year. As Editor-in Chief of CCJ, Carpenter (2017) provides an outline of the many ways he sees CCJ fitting the growing roles of the communication center community. But first, Carpenter more broadly states that journals "provide a forum for exchanging new ideas and approaches, while also challenging or adding to previous knowledge" (p.1). It is from a place of wanting us to begin to challenge previous knowledge that I encouraged others to do so. I suspect this might be a difficult shift for some and so I have written this case study as a first step. I put myself at the center of this manuscript and offer my own experiences for critical evaluation. As a storyteller, I have used narrative and reflection in the telling of this true story. Some of this particular case was first introduced by one of our students at that same April national conference. The student's presentation of the situation garnered much follow up discussion then. I believe that alone or coupled with Kramer and Bisel's 2017 student centered organizational communication textbook, this case study both challenges what we know and adds to communication centers knowledge development.