Education: Elementary

Tipped off that a mysterious gang of undergraduates was trying to peddle advance copies of his final examination for $30 apiece, Instructor Gilbert Geis of the University of Oklahoma decided that it would be only proper for him to crack the case himself. Last week he got one of his students to cooperate, told him to let it be known that he needed an advance copy of the exam and to get one of the culprits to deliver it himself. The trap worked: when the culprit arrived, both Instructor Geis and the campus chief of police were on hand to greet him. The culprit and his three cohorts quickly confessed. They had gotten the examination questions from a used Mimeograph stencil that had been tossed into a campus trash can. "But some day," remarked one of them as he was led away, "I'm going to have to take the course." Instructor Geis's course: elementary criminology.