What Is The Cost?

It was the last day before the football team of a large University was to play it’s biggest game of the season …

Unfortunately, the head football coach had just received the horrible news that his star quarterback had been disqualified by the Dean for academic reasons. The coach went running to the Dean’s office to protest. The Dean said, “We caught him cheating on a major examination this week.” The coach demanded to know how they knew the quarterback had cheated. The Dean said, “Well, he sat right next to an ‘A’ student, the best student in the class, and on the first nine questions, his answers were identical — word-for-word — to the answers of the ‘A’ student.” Not satisfied, the coach replied, “That doesn’t prove he was cheating. Maybe he really studied this time. Or maybe the ‘A’ student copied from him.” The Dean answered, “Actually it was the tenth question that really did it. The ‘A’ student had written, ‘I don’t…