Can I go directly to "root" in the Unix shell?

I've been doing a lot of stuff lately in the Unix shell and a lot of it requires
running as root. I find that I can't "su" directly to root, but rather have
to su to an admin account and then su to root, which gets a little
annoying.
Is there any way I can change this (besides making my account
into an admin account, which the local security people frown
on)?
Thanks,
Eric

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id -a
# vs
sudo id -a
sudo chown $USER:staff /some/path/to/a/file
sudo nano /etc/hosts
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