Pay attention in class
Most people don't realize how much a professor can see when they are lecturing. They know if you are texting, fooling around on facebook, doing a crossword, or studying for another class, and they are not thrilled about it. One of my professors related the following story, which was later confirmed by his TA. I really wish I could have been there to witness the glory of it all.

The professor always turned the lights off to show slides for the second half of the class session, and even though he couldn't see anything, he could tell that a group of hoodlums that sat near the back was getting up to trouble.

The group consisted of a couple of *ahem* darker fellows from the university basketball team and their young female groupies. They were always late to class, they never paid attention, and were in general disrespectful, disruptive, and bad students.

So the aforementioned professor got sick of it and decided once and for all to catch them in the act of whatever they did when the lights went out. He hatched a scheme with his TA.

In class that evening while the lights were out he hit a pause in the lecture, quietly walked up the stairs to the back of the class, and slipped into a seat behind the hoodlums. "NOW!" he said, giving the TA cue to switch the lights on. One of the groupies was treating one of the guys to a handy-j, so the professor just leaned forward and calmly said "you know, you really shouldn't be doing that."

Of course the entire class (of fifty people) had turned around to see what it was all about. The girl pulled her hand out and turned beet red while the class burst into hysterics. And you know what? For the rest of the semester she always made sure her hands were visible, and she was very attentive in class.

Edit: alright, alright. I was just trying to follow the professor's story as closely as possible - including his reference to the black people. I honestly did not intend the racism and tried to just have fun with it in the comments, but apparently the internet has gotten PC and nitpicky. Apologies for offending thee, internet.
(Exempt OH WOW, VICODIN, Fri 6 Aug 2010, 9:16, 2 replies)

I am wondering how the comment about the chaps being "*ahem* darker fellows" is relevant?

( Michael Ellis contributes nothing, Fri 6 Aug 2010, 9:52, closed)

I was thinking this...
because their more snowflake counterparts would of course refuse a quick wank from a dirty mare?
(Bababoon, Fri 6 Aug 2010, 10:34, closed)

Same here.

( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 6 Aug 2010, 14:33, closed)

It helped them blend into the darkness.
Duh.
(Exempt OH WOW, VICODIN, Fri 6 Aug 2010, 17:07, closed)

Seriously, though
I live in a predominantly caucasian/latino community, and for whatever reason every black male that I've encountered on campus has a giant dollop of self-importance and acts like he's allowed to do whatever he wants.
(Exempt OH WOW, VICODIN, Fri 6 Aug 2010, 17:12, closed)

That's not because they're black.
It's because they're American.
( flake has nothing against your right leg, Sat 7 Aug 2010, 20:48, closed)

Hah
Win
( notmyrealname, Sun 8 Aug 2010, 11:19, closed)

Some of my best friends are black too!

( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Sat 7 Aug 2010, 21:53, closed)

Admit it:
you're dying to use the word "jigaboo", aren't you?
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Sun 8 Aug 2010, 11:43, closed)

Because the poster is a prick?

( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Sat 7 Aug 2010, 21:55, closed)

Nice one B3tans
for pulling her up on this. Good story ruined by a nudge-nudge wink-wink assumption that bad behaviour is inevitable if you're black.
(Mocked_Meat, Mon 9 Aug 2010, 18:01, closed)