Find your way out of class, tuition, grades

If a student dies, all As are given to his or her roommate. If a student is hit by a Tiger Transit bus, tuition is free. If a professor is more than 10 minutes late, students may leave the class. If it rains, class is canceled. Are any of these rumors true, or are they just myths? Jim Hardin, senior program adviser for the judicial affairs department of the University, said the rumor that is most commonly asked about is if a student dies, his or her roommate gets all A's.

Hardin said it is definitely just a myth, although the University would give the roommate the help they would need to get over the crisis. "It was fairly common seven or eight years ago to get a lot of questions about that," Hardin said. "There was so much going on about that that we actually went around and checked with several peer institutions. We pretty much knew the answer to begin with, but we just wanted to make sure that nobody was doing anything." Hardin said the rumor about free tuition if a student is struck by a Tiger Transit bus is also a myth.

"I guess there could be some liability issues depending on who was at fault, but I'm not encouraging anybody to step in front of a bus hoping to get their tuition paid," Hardin said. The Tiger Cub addresses tardiness of professors. The Tiger Cub states: "If the instructor does not appear within 10 minutes after the designated class hour, it may be assumed that the class is canceled." Brooks Cole, senior in finance and supervisor at the Foy Information Desk, said he gets dozens of calls from students when it rains to see if class is canceled. "A lot of people call when it's raining and just assume that school is canceled just because it's raining," Cole said. "We only cancel it if it's severe, heavy, flood-like rain or tornadoes." Although many students can believe them, most rumors spread on campus tend to just be widely-spread myths.