"It's in the syllabus"
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New York Times, Professor Put Clues to a Cash Prize in His Syllabus. No One Noticed.:
Kenyon Wilson, a professor at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, wanted to test whether any of his students fully read the syllabus for his music seminar.
Of the more than 70 students enrolled in the class, none apparently did.
Professor Wilson said he knows this because on the second page of the three-page syllabus he included the location and combination to a locker, inside of which was a $50 cash prize.
“Free to the first who claims; locker one hundred forty-seven; combination fifteen, twenty-five, thirty-five,” read the passage in the syllabus. But when the semester ended on Dec. 8, students went home and the cash was unclaimed.
“My semester-long experiment has come to an end,” Mr. Wilson wrote on Facebook, adding: “Today I retrieved the unclaimed treasure.” ...
Tanner Swoyer, a senior studying instrumental music education, said that he felt “pretty dumb, pretty stupid” when he saw the professor’s post about the money in the locker, which was in the fine arts center.
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Reminds me of a story about a rock band. Not sure, but I think they were from the UK.
In their contract for performing, they had a clause on Page XX that they wanted M&M's in the pre-concert room but all the brown M&M's had to be removed.
They figured that if that rule was followed, they could be pretty sure that the performance area had read the contract closely and all other rules were probably in place.
If they went into the pre-concert room, and there were no M&M's or M&M's were there, but with all colors, then they would be concerned that other rules were maybe missed.
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Reminds me of a story about a rock band. Not sure, but I think they were from the UK.
In their contract for performing, they had a clause on Page XX that they wanted M&M's in the pre-concert room but all the brown M&M's had to be removed.
They figured that if that rule was followed, they could be pretty sure that the performance area had read the contract closely and all other rules were probably in place.
If they went into the pre-concert room, and there were no M&M's or M&M's were there, but with all colors, then they would be concerned that other rules were maybe missed.
@taiwan_girl said in "It's in the syllabus":
Reminds me of a story about a rock band. Not sure, but I think they were from the UK.
In their contract for performing, they had a clause on Page XX that they wanted M&M's in the pre-concert room but all the brown M&M's had to be removed.
They figured that if that rule was followed, they could be pretty sure that the performance area had read the contract closely and all other rules were probably in place.
If they went into the pre-concert room, and there were no M&M's or M&M's were there, but with all colors, then they would be concerned that other rules were maybe missed.
I've heard this story many times and c'mon, this sounds like such a Don Henley kind of move.
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@taiwan_girl said in "It's in the syllabus":
Reminds me of a story about a rock band. Not sure, but I think they were from the UK.
In their contract for performing, they had a clause on Page XX that they wanted M&M's in the pre-concert room but all the brown M&M's had to be removed.
They figured that if that rule was followed, they could be pretty sure that the performance area had read the contract closely and all other rules were probably in place.
If they went into the pre-concert room, and there were no M&M's or M&M's were there, but with all colors, then they would be concerned that other rules were maybe missed.
I've heard this story many times and c'mon, this sounds like such a Don Henley kind of move.
@aqua-letifer I did some searching and it appears it was a US rock band called "Van Halen"
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@aqua-letifer I did some searching and it appears it was a US rock band called "Van Halen"
@taiwan_girl said in "It's in the syllabus":
@aqua-letifer I did some searching and it appears it was a US rock band called "Van Halen"
Yeah, I've heard that, in addition to Ted Nugent, the Beatles, and the Eagles. Who knows?
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I have seen online survey forms with a special multiple choice "question" that specifically asks you to pick a particular choice for answer. Those questions typically say it's for quality control purposes. Supposedly they do that to see if people actually read and respond to the questions rather than just select all the same choices or answer randomly.
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Oh, in elementary school, I had one exam question that asks "what color are so-and-so's pants." It's the teacher's way of gauging if the students have even cracked open the text book. That "so-and-so" refers to a recurring character in the text book. Pretty much every lesson, every chapter in that text book features that character, and he is always depicted with the same colored pants throughout the text book.
