Redmond insists that her speech was not mean as an attack on Seton, but that she was merely "passing on the mantle of leadership" to the next administration.

"It's very sad and telling that Noah construed it as an attack on him," she says.

She says she was most upset by Seton's response at the end of the meeting, and says the two of them weren't speaking to each other afterwards.

"I felt betrayed by his speech," she says. "He belittled a lot of what I stand for."

John Paul Rollert '00, a friend of Seton's and a representative from Mather House, agrees with Seton that it doesn't make sense to go head-to-head against the administration. He says whoever succeeds Seton will benefit from the steady working relationship the president has established with the administration.

"We've become far more legitimate in the eyes of the administration over the past year. They've taken chances on us with certain initiatives, and we've come through and haven't dropped the ball," says Rollert, the chair of the council's Student Activities Committee.

It is alliances like the one between Seton and Rollert that frustrate Redmond most.

Even though she is vice president, Redmond says real power on the council lies elsewhere.