SHE'S GROWN IN OFFICE. King Banaian isn't impressed with Donna "Queen of Clubs" Shalala's latest response to Saturday Night Fights in Miami.

"This university will be firm and punish people who do bad things," Shalala said. "But we will not throw any student under the bus for instant restoration of our image or our reputation. I will not hang them in a public square. I will not eliminate their participation at the university. I will not take away their scholarships."

This is the same Donna Shalala who responded to a "slave auction" at a Wisconsin fraternity with a "Design for Diversity" that included a (later rescinded) speech code and a Madison Plan (ROTC Off Campus!) that persists as the Madison Plan 2008. In The Hollow Men, where most of the late-1980s efforts to instantly restore Wisconsin's reputation (among diversity hustlers) are mentioned, there is no mention of double-secret probation for the offending fraternity.

The football players can keep their scholarships. The Queen of Clubs must have grown in office. Nothing to do with money. Nah.

RUNNING EXTRA. She's growing slowly, notes Chicago Sun-Times columnist (and onetime Northwestern safety) Rick Telander.

But it has been building, and see-no-evil apologists such as Miami president Donna Shalala -- formerly of the Clinton administration, formerly coach Barry Alvarez's landlord at the University of Wisconsin -- are part of the problem.

She's apparently appended a threat to the statement quoted in the original post.

She added that Miami now has a ''new standard,'' that says, ''Do this again, and you're off the team.''

Not quite like attempting to eliminate fraternities, or ROTC, eh? (Via University Diaries.)