To be fair, I am just guessing at the roster padding motive...but it sure seems to fit with the generally recognized pattern of public school official behavior and it's interesting that right after that there was suddenly this big fuss about kids physically being present on counting day.
Colleges are just a cesspool. They are places meant to inculcate, not to educate.
Personally, I find it amazing how we're constantly being fed the idea that we are meaningless specks of matter in the universe, but we're powerful enough to destroy our entire ecosystem just by living. Talk about a contradictory message!
This is why many have come to consider liberalism a mental disorder. Their stances on issues are often complete contradictions to their avowed stances on other issues. No logical, thinking, and sane person could justify the amount of mental twisting and turning that has to be done for a liberals to rationalize many of their views.