The Truth

Tradition. Based on the idea of repetition, any college student becomes familiar with this word in a variety of contexts.
A similar idea prevalent in college life is based on the same principal of persistent confirmation: trust.
Both of these ideas are being seriously challenged by the administration as of late, and this challenge comes in the form of our diminishing beach-living program.
“The Beach is not something that’s ever going away,” said Director of Residence Life Charlie Sousa. He went on to say that these speculations were rumors publicized by the Mirror.
Rumors are based on pure speculation, so let’s look at the facts.
Including Sacred Heart students, the beach-living population was around 1,200 during the 1970s. In recent years, the number hovered around 400.
However, beach living was cut to about 300 students for this school year. Next year’s projections? The administration wants to bring the number down to 200.
So is this just pure speculation? If we continue at this rate, the end of beach living might just sync up with the Mayan’s predicted apocalypse.
But we should be able to trust the administration, right? After all, we are a University built on Jesuit values. Is telling the truth one of these values, or is that just another rumor started by the Mirror?
“We have no plans to increase the size of the student body or to bring more students back from the beach,” said President Jeffrey Von Arx S.J.
Regardless of the beach living program, let’s not abandon another tradition: telling the truth to the people who pay your salary.
If our administration can’t keep up with that, they may very well face an empty campus in addition to an empty beach.