I recently had the pleasure of hearing Vice President Ryan Lombardi speak concerning campus culture at Cornell, and was able to participate in a discussion concerning students’ role in both shaping and improving that culture. One thing I was very surprised to hear was that the administration and the OJD are actually completely separate, and that this separation was once insisted upon (yet now decried) by students. Seeing how students now expect the administration to do what past students explicitly forbade them from doing, I realized just how unenviable the task of structuring a university is, no matter who it falls upon. Not only must the structures and processes governing a university solve the problems of the day, they must also (at least attempt to) be palatable to future generations, to prevent rapid and constant changes which can only degenerate into chaos. Yet, in an environment where 14,000 students cycle through every four years, each cohort bringing with it different experiences and values, and where those students are among the most astute, passionate, and diverse of their generation, achieving such a balance seems nigh impossible. Yet, as the recent tragedy has shown, we must strive to do so. The structures we (both administrators and students) create will never be perfect. All we can do is address to the best of our abilities the problems of the current era, hopefully causing as few problems as possible for the future along the way, and expect future generations of Cornellians to take what we leave them and do the same.