I'm a little puzzled by the explanation that you were given. Maybe we can follow up with your office and get some of the details, because that's not the way the program is to operate, and my understanding is that's not the way it operates.
Students apply individually, so there's an application to this program. We get large numbers of students applying--9,000 students who apply for these jobs. What we then do is get a request from a department for a particular type of job, whether they're looking for somebody with a background in science or whether they want a statistician, or usually what kind of background they want.
We, the Public Service Commission, will then look at the databases. We will give them a match of five people, and they can choose one of those five people. That's how it's done.
There may be another process in departments in terms of saying how many students we're going to hire, but we're not involved in that part of it. We're involved in the part of having students apply. They apply directly. We're there to be non-partisan and not have any part in a manipulation of that, to give students an equal chance.
Where we had the problem in the past was when you looked at some of the requests and you would have a request--I'm making this up, but it's the kind of thing you'd have--for a BA in something like anthropology, somebody who had done lifesaving as well, and knew some obscure language. By the time you pulled out those out, you'd have a unique individual. That's what we were so against and we identified in the last audit.
We've gone back to make sure that wasn't continuing, because it is supposed to be an equal chance. But we'll follow up with your office for--