> self-preserving bureaucracy When academia is run as a business and subsidies are drastically cut, you need to devote resources into acquiring new customers,

> self-preserving bureaucracy When academia is run as a business and subsidies are drastically cut, you need to devote resources into acquiring new customers, which means competing with other universities who are doing the same thing. Hence the rapid increases in campus amenities and business administration positions that never existed 30 years ago. > campus beautification projects like replacing the flowers every month Out of all things to complain about, flowers on campus are on the low end of the totem pole. Let them plant flowers, I say! I enjoy them.