The same stuff happened at electrical/computer engineering departments in the late 80's. It is not a tragedy. It just means that lots of kids and/or their paren

The same stuff happened at electrical/computer engineering departments in the late 80's. It is not a tragedy. It just means that lots of kids and/or their parents have gotten the meme that computer science is "hot". The universities are justified in not attempting to satisfy these fluctuations on short time scales.