Posted on 05/03/2017 5:44:11 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The odds were long, but a couple of University of Kentucky students decided it was worth the risk to climb through the ceiling ducts to a teacher’s office to steal a statistics exam.
Unfortunately for them, the teacher is a night owl.
According to UK Police, UK statistics instructor John Cain had been working late in his third floor office in the Multidisciplinary Science Building on Rose Street on Tuesday night. About midnight, he left to get something to eat. When he returned about 1:30 a.m., he tried to unlock the door, but it was blocked by something.
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“He yelled out that he was calling the police and then the door swung open and two young men ran down the hallway,” recounted UK spokesman Jay Blanton.
Shortly after police arrived, one of the students returned and confessed. Henry Lynch II, a 21-year-old junior majoring in biosystems engineering, gave police an earful, including that he’d climbed through the building’s air ducts to the ceiling above Cain’s office and dropped down into the room, then unlocked the door and let in his friend, sophomore Troy Kiphuth, 21, who was not in Cain’s class.
Lynch also told them he had already tried to steal the exam earlier that evening around 6 p.m., but couldn’t find it. And, he said, it wasn’t the first time: Earlier in the semester, he’d successfully stolen another exam from Cain’s office, but he assured officers that he had not shared the answers with other students.
Lynch apparently gained access to Cain’s office all three times by climbing through the building’s ducts, and dropping down through the ceiling. How he got into the core of the building remains under investigation.
UK Police cited both students with third degree burglary, which will get referred to Fayette Circuit Court.
Blanton said the matter has also been referred to UK’s Office of Student Conduct, which will now conduct a formal investigation and review.
“The Office of Student Conduct takes this matter very seriously and it will be reviewed extensively to make a determination and we will act accordingly,” Blanton said.
This makes me feel like such a dunce. All I ever did was study hard. College could have been so much easier!
Ed
Schrodinger’s cat: If you want to know more about the darned cat than a normal person could ever know, read this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat
I remember going into an EE class (Univ of Fla, 1974 probably) and the topic the prof. immediately started talking about was the headlines of the student newspaper that morning. Seems some law students got caught doing a similar thing to what the UK students were trying.
The conclusion presented in class was that since they were law students, the thieves should all have been awarded law degrees with honors. The take was they all excelled in learning what it took to be a successful lawyer and that they should be out doing what lawyers do.
Bet they get “Double Secret Probation.”
This makes me feel like such a dunce. All I ever did was study hard. College could have been so much easier!
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For all kinds of reasons I never had the urge to cheat...firstly didn’t have a clue how to do it and lastly never wanted my kids to ever think I ever did even have such a thought.
this is a funny post however because since becoming a “professor” (yes, really) I had many students who thought it might be fun to see if they could. ....I suppose some got away with it. Gads.
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