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Professor who hid clues to location of cash prize in syllabus is disappointed to discover no one claimed it: 'Today I retrieved the unclaimed treasure'
Daily Mail UK ^ | 18 December 2021 | ADRIANA DIAZ FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

Posted on 12/18/2021 8:14:12 PM PST by blueplum

A professor at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga hid a $50 cash prize on campus to prove that students don't throughly read the class syllabus

Kenyon Wilson, the associate head of performing arts at the college, decided to hide $50 in a locker and bury the combination in the middle of his syllabus

The crisp $50 bill and the note that went along with it were untouched by Wilson's 70 students after finals were over

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Education; Humor
KEYWORDS: college; kenyonwilson; ut

1 posted on 12/18/2021 8:14:12 PM PST by blueplum
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To: blueplum

Being an adjunct is like that.


2 posted on 12/18/2021 8:16:49 PM PST by struggle
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To: blueplum

$50 meh...... $5000.00 it would have been claimed, maybe even $500.00.


3 posted on 12/18/2021 8:23:19 PM PST by slouper (LWRC SPR 5.5 6)
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To: slouper

He didn’t say what was to be claimed in the syllabus, though.
So apparently a million bucks would have still been sitting there, too.


4 posted on 12/18/2021 8:30:13 PM PST by GnuThere
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To: slouper

Even if it were $10,000 it wouldn’t have been claimed because no one looked. I suspect there is some similar clause in the software licensing agreements that everybody clicks through.

I put some joke clauses in the software license I was selling to other developers at one time. I made up the license myself because any of that verbage is just a license to sue.


5 posted on 12/18/2021 8:32:43 PM PST by glorgau
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To: blueplum

Almost nobody ever reads the syllabus.
Either you want the class or you don’t.
Some might say if you don’t know what a course is about, that may mean you’re not ready for it.


6 posted on 12/18/2021 8:33:16 PM PST by lee martell
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To: blueplum
Daily Mail editors are playing along with their own clues or something..


7 posted on 12/18/2021 8:50:35 PM PST by Theoria
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To: lee martell

I always read the syllabus first thing, that was in the eighties when we took the college opportunity seriously otherwise our parents would yank us for wasting money and we’d be flipping burgers working our way through community college. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.


8 posted on 12/18/2021 9:41:02 PM PST by slouper (LWRC SPR 5.5 6)
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To: GnuThere

guess i read it too fast


9 posted on 12/18/2021 9:43:47 PM PST by slouper (LWRC SPR 5.5 6)
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To: blueplum

Would it be legal to take the money?

Or could you get done for theft…

Seems a bit iffy opening up someone else’s locker and taking their money. Even if they did give you the combination.


10 posted on 12/19/2021 5:44:25 AM PST by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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To: Pikachu_Dad

No risk or joy in your life?


11 posted on 12/19/2021 5:47:56 AM PST by Chickensoup ( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives)
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To: Chickensoup

Not these days.


12 posted on 12/19/2021 5:50:31 AM PST by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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To: blueplum

If a kid is in college, that means they do not need a cash prise because either their own parents or daddy government are already providing for them.

Socialism creates laziness.


13 posted on 12/19/2021 5:54:08 AM PST by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: slouper

I always read the syllabus first thing, that was in the eighties when we took the college opportunity seriously
= = =

They told me what they would ask, and what the answers were.

No surprises.

That made it easy, if I didn’t get ‘distracted’.


14 posted on 12/19/2021 9:22:57 AM PST by Scrambler Bob (My /s is more true than your /science (or you might mean /seance))
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