“Some wonder if Mizzou will survive.” That’s very sensationalist; yeah, it’s obvious this isn’t good and it’ll definitely hurt some, but we’re a large state school that’s part of a four-campus university system. We’re not going to close down.
Also — Yes, people’s perceptions about what happened in the fall absolutely had to do with the drop, but they were also expecting somewhat of a drop. We’ve had an enrollment bubble for a while, and this was the year it was going to burst. It was just bigger than expected because of the combination of that and the fall events.