CONFIRMING HER STATUS AS THE BOSS TRUMP. The first person named to the Cold Spring Shops academic administrator deck of cards was Miami (Florida)'s Donna Shalala.

The most powerful card in the sheepshead deck is the queen of clubs. Cold Spring Shops nominates Donna Shalala as queen of clubs, for finding no diversity fad too foolish, for conspicuous loyalty to corrupt athletic departments, and for distinguished service as a Democratic Party court intellectual.

The football team at Miami is making it difficult for her to build a university the team can be proud of. Her response provides University Diaries with ample material for a fisking, as well as a pithy summary.

1. Boohoo.
2. I'll do what the boys at the ACC tell me to.

Why should her response surprise? One of her bosses engaged in acts of sexual harassment that surely would have given her opportunity to rid herself of a bothersome subordinate, had said subordinate engaged in such acts, and her response was ...

hear those crickets?