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