It All Starts With a Yawn

About an hour into class a student in the back row was called out for sleeping. The professor asked him to stand and he did. Ten minutes later he was asked a couple questions, assigned a memo, and then allowed to keep standing. He wasn’t done. A few minutes later the professor came back with a few more questions, the student got a few wrong, and the professor invited him to use the break between classes to research the issue and prepare to report back on the subject at 1.

At 1, as promised, the professor stood him up and he reported on his research. He got things correct. Then he was asked a few more questions. He got a couple things wrong. He was then promptly removed from class and allowed to start on his memo.

As he packed his stuff to leave, the professor invited the next person to speak as follows:

Prof: How about you, Ms. Lee? . . . Ms. Yee? . . . What’s your name?
Asian Student: Ms. Yen. Like the currency.
Prof: Alright, Ms. Yen like the currency. Time to find out how much you’re worth.