A footnote to John's excellent analysis: The President has ultimate authority over faculty hires because he must approve faculty recommendations. Thus, he has both sticks and carrots at his disposal. Carrots in the form, e.g., of awarding new positions provided they are filled by Catholics, and sticks by way of withholding approval of recommendations. He can, for example, withhold approval pending a further search; or he can simply withhold until a qualified Catholic is proposed. Thus, he can go beyond urging and admonishing but stop short of restructuring the entire system in order to see to it that Catholic hires are sufficient to insure, as the Mission Statement requires, a solid majority of truly Catholic scholars on the faculty. That means, as John says and as Project Sycamore projections not disputed by the University show, something in the range of 60% Catholic hires annually, on average. What dampens hope for this sort of leadership is Father Jenkins's setting a goal that is palpably inadequate, presumably because that's all the faculty members of the Provost's ad hoc committee on hiring would agree to, and his unwillingness in the Vagina Monologues controversy to stand up to the intense pressure exerted by the faculty.