Final Jeopardy!

The students have arrived in Greenville and checked in to campus. Those living in the dorms have met their roommates and settled into their rooms. The freshmen have processed into the Founder's Memorial Amphitorium during the opening service, and the visiting "evangelist" has delivered the standard (L)awful sermons intended to guilt the student body into submission at the beginning of the semester. And classes start at 7:00 AM sharp tomorrow.

It's the beginning of a new academic year at Bob Jones University, and yet...still no one seems to know how many freshmen are in the Class of 2015.

And if BJU can't tell its own freshmen how big their class is, it seems a wee bit optimistic to expect the University to tell anyone else. Including the University's own alumni visiting the University's own Facebook page.

What's that? You think perhaps those questions happened to slip past the page admin? Maybe he didn't notice these comments yet?

I don't think so.

And since then the page admin has also posted and "liked" other comments on the page.

The silence is deafening.

I'll note for the record that other colleges seem to have no problem forecasting and tracking enrollment. North Greenville University, for example, somehow knew to expect approximately 700 new students before their fall term began. And the College of Charleston managed to come up with a number for their freshman class, too. Bob Jones University? BJU miraculously knows everything about its freshman class but its size.

But...maybe the ability to count incoming freshman is a regional accreditation thing. Perhaps I shouldn't be too hard on ol' BJU. After all, they've only got national accreditation, like the Academy of Hair Technology and the Kenneth Shuler School of Cosmetology. Not regional accreditation, like North Greenville University and the College of Charleston.

Bob Jones University. The only university in America that truly believes a question doesn't exist if it is never answered.