Peter Finocchiaro '10 and Tony Manfred '11 talk about the ins and outs of column writing, the Sweet 16 and the poor quality of the discourse on Greek life.

In his goodbye column Peter Finocchiaro '10 reflects on how Cornell has changed him, and chooses which six words he'd use to define his college experience.

Just before his ascension to the head of the Catholic world in 2005, Pope Benedict XVI — then Joseph Ratzinger, the dean of the College of Cardinals — railed against moral relativism in modern society. He has returned to this rebuke often, blaming “the dictatorship of relativism” for the prevalence of all kinds of sins that the Catholic Church’s hard-line conservative base perceives.

Any familiarity with Cornell’s aspiring student leaders quickly yields the impression that some of them are, in fact, crazy a-holes. Not all of them, mind you; just enough to lend the Student Assembly the air of an irrationally batty farce. It’s hard to think of another campus group with as much responsibility, yet as little clout in the court of public opinion.