Mel Livatino had stopped attending Conferences on College Composition and Communication (4Cs), but this year one came to his hometown, so he attended and now reports back. Where once the 4Cs had offered helpful insights into teaching kids how to write, today frivolity and radicalism reign. Professor Livatino's notes paint a very precise, largely ridiculous, and ultimately sad picture of the group that represents those in charge of a rather crucial element in American higher education. (Contains 5 notes.)