Rumors: on Camus, on Focus!

            The monthly allowance paid to the undergraduates ups to 150%! This is last rumor spread on campus, Resalah runs a feature.

            “It was a nice rumor. I wish it was true. I was overjoyed. Of course, students were the rumor-mongers for their own interest. I was sure it was a rumor after asking those in charge at the King Saud University,” said student Fahd Ad-Dekhail, Mass Communication Department.         

             “Rumormongers wish that rumors might be true as the case is with allowance increase,” said student Abdur-Rahman Al-Jalal, Business Administration College.

            Defining rumors, Dr. Osama Meshaal, mass communication department, said, “Rumor is false news spreading amongst a community for various reasons at certain times. It might be positive producing a same positive opinion towards a certain issue like a negative phenomenon in community to help iron it out. It might be negative to cause unrest in a community as happens in war times and catastrophes emergence. No one can stop rumors.”

            Reviewing last rumors heard on campus, student Mohammed Al-Ghamdy said, “The last rumor I heard about was that the academic plan would change. It is repeated every now and then on campus, and is asserted by 30-40 students. I verified it from the KSU forum on portal.”

            Student Yazid al-Hemdan said, Library Science Department, said, “The new rumor I heard was that library science department would shift to college of computer science. Strange but true! We believed it; waited for it, till found out it was not true.”   

            Shifting to girl campus, Resalah probes girls’ opinions on rumors, student Zinah Al-Aboud said,” The strongest rumor I have ever heard was that the semesters would down to seven instead of eight. It spread 70 per cent on campus. I remember that a girl swore that she had heard a vice-dean stressing that rumor.”

            Speaking on hot time of rumormongers, student Ahlam Mohammed, Medical Sciences College, said, “Beginning of an academic year is the prime time of rumor spreading; each academic year you hear rumors everywhere on campus.’

            The best solution to stop rumors was given by student Mohammed As-Suhaimy, College of Education, in brief, who said, “Don’t believe what all you hear!”  Others recommend verifying rumors from on-campus officials.