Michel Foucault in "Discipline and Punish," described panopticism as a process of creating control and power through observation. There are four key aspects of Panopticism. First, those who are to be controlled must be visible. Second, the separation or division of individuals is critical to allow observations to focus on each subject in isolation so that data can be gathered that is unique to each individual. Third, those who are doing the observing must not be really detectable by those being observed. Finally, there must be an established hierarchy of authority that establishes a discipline structure that is consistently applied. These four components when combined coerce individuals into a common set of behaviors and establish a desire of conformity. I have experienced a form of Panopticism in my senior year in High School when I was a co-captain for the school’s soccer team. A soccer team, like society, is completely dysfunctional if confusion and disorder are allowed to become the norm. The first two critical components of Panopticism are visibility and separation. The players on a soccer team are readily visible by all. They are spread out across the practice field and wear practice jerseys with numbers that allow each one to be easily identified. Often times they are separated into small groups based on their position that makes it easy to both identify who they are and how each one is performing and the skills they possess. The gathering of this information is critical to establish any required discipline for players not following the practice routines, to understand where the skill gaps are and what needs to be worked on in the future and to define who the better players are to create the best starting line-up possible. Visibility and separation were clearly a important part of every practice we had. The third and fourth elements of Panopticism are undetectable observers and a hierarchy of authority. As a co-capt