Skipping class isn't easy for Kansas Jayhawks. Student athletes, just like other college kids, are prone to blowing off class to catch up on sleep or just because they don't want to go. To make sure Jayhawks are actually going to class, the University of Kansas has hired "a brigade of senior citizens hellbent on making sure they go to class -- and stay there," according to The Wall Street Journal.
The blue hairs have replaced student "class checkers," whom KU found weren't so interested in going to class either (duh) and could be "all-too-easily charmed by the most popular students on campus" (double duh). Are you really going to snitch on Josh Selby? Hell, former Jayhawk Greg Ostertag married his student spy.
The athletes in the story are surprisingly honest. "They're sneaky sometimes -- they'll get you," freshman guard Royce Woolridge told the Journal, apparently having been busted himself. Some athletes get passes -- like the Morris twins. Because no one can tell them apart, they're allowed to sign in for each other.
Still, some athletes try to game the system. From the Journal:
While the retirees say some athletes try to avoid absent or tardy marksOooh! A new ticket scandal. Bet gray-haired stalkers aren't part of Bill Self's pitch to potential recruits.by bribing them with game tickets or trying to melt their resolve with
tales of woe, most players prefer to arrive more or less on time and
then escape when the checkers' backs are turned, sometimes just minutes
after signing in.
To catch these would-be jailbreaks, the checkers prowl the halls after
waiting 15 minutes by the classroom door and perform multiple "spot
checks," in which they peer through windows to make sure that the
athletes are still in their seats and aren't sleeping, shopping,
Googling or Facebooking on their laptops -- offenses that can get reported
to academic counselors as well.
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