BILLIONS FOR REMFS, BUT NOT ONE CENT FOR RESEARCH. Joanne Jacobs notes that despite a budget problem in the state government, and increases in student fees, the California public universities are adding more diversity facilitators and assessors of the obvious. "Many of the non-teaching jobs involve counseling students, which seems to be a major growth industry on campus." Naturally. In order to keep enough money flowing to pay for the revenue bonds, the universities used to have a reason to admit marginal students, and make efforts to keep them eligible. Although the population of potential students is much larger today, (with provision of new classroom facilities coming in somewhere behind arenas, administrative offices, and indoor practice fields) the keep-em-eligible mindset still exercises its hold. Furthermore, as the continuing St. Cloud State debacles illustrate, (follow all the links provided) it helps keep the diversity facilitators employed if the students have exaggerated sensibilities about their own identities and identify grievances for the diversity boondoggle to assuage. Worst thing that could ever happen to the diversity boondoggle is for people to just get along: they'd have to do some real work.