Economist Gordon Tullock once said that the trajectory of the U. S. government’s growth changed in the 19th century when civil service replaced patronage. Government officials became a powerful interest group promoting bureaucratic expansion. Jay Schalin described that phenomenon on Wednesday on the Pope Center site, as it applies to state universities. Today he carries that farther. Not only do state universities lobby for funds, but they enlist the aid of their subsidized constituencies, including members of student government (who in North Carolina receive stipends of up to $8,000 from the university system).