Then how could all of 0mugabe’s fellow students at Occidental, Columbia and Harvard - and Punahou - all have been silenced? A much harder task, since there were so many more of them.
College is not like HS, especially an only HS located on an island. HS is a community. People know ea other. At the beginning of the yr the focus is always on who’s back and who isn’t. Most are back, unless the community is highly transient. When one of the regulars is missing, the question is why. If nobody knows the answer, then speculation runs wild.
College is a bigger place, and at the beginning of the yr most people don’t know ea other. At the end of a semester or two (or more) there are still far more students you don’t know than those you do know, especially at a university. For example, for the 2010 academic year, Columbia University’s student population was 27,606. If one of those students is a pothead who skips a lot of classes, it’s entirely possible few people will remember him.