PATIENCE AND FORTITUDE. David French under The Torch lets us read his email.

And, last year my district, in hiring nearly 60 new faculty members, spent over $200,000 for Diversity Officers. Every step of the hiring process, from the start-up activities getting the hiring committee together, through the paper screens, and during the interviews and tallies, is monitored by a Diversity Officer earning from $60-$77 an hour. Assuming that a hire takes 50 hours, that’s a minimum of $3000 a hire for “diversity”!

OK, some sense of the magnitude of the Diversity Boondoggle. Then, this request.

Please don’t publish my name; I have administrative aspirations and a conservative label, moreso than the one I have now, could prove deadly.

Give me men who are stout-hearted men, not careerists. (That applies equally to women.) In an administrative position, this individual's learned (with one syllable) pusillanimity will not serve him well, and good judges of character are able to distinguish people who are true to their vision from pusillanimous careerists. The academy might benefit from more people who can kick ass and take names. It helps to know what asses must be kicked, and for a list of names to be transcribed.