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A Hoosier Graduates

This was in rec.humor.funny.   I've altered it to make it an IU joke
instead of an Aggie joke -- Purdue people will find it funnier that
way :-)  Georgia Tech folks can make it UGA, and so on.

(I'm not sure what IU and UGA grads can do with it....maybe have
somebody explain it to them?  :-)

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Originally-From: karen@everexn.UUCP

After eight years in college, there is one Indiana University student
who still can't seem to get himself graduated.  He got in five years
ago on a football scholarship, and everyone likes him, but he just
can't seem to make it through his classes.

The professors and the board of regents at the school are beginning to
be anxious about the possible damage to the school's reputation, and
decide that graduate or not, Jethro has got to go.  They are worried
that the general public is going to hear about this student hasn't
graduated after eight years.  After conferring with each other, they
give him the news: "Jethro, we've decided that this is going to be
your last semester at IU.  So we're going to give you a test at
graduation time.  We're going to ask you just one question, and if you
answer it correctly, you graduate.  If you answer it incorrectly, you
don't graduate.  But either way, this is your last semester and it's
time to leave the school."

So graduation rolls around, and Jethro is the very last person to step
up, because he still has to take the test.  Everyone at school knows
about it and each person in the audience holds his breath as the
university president asks Jethro the Test Question.  "Jethro, what's 
four plus three?"  Jethro thinks hard for a moment, and then hesitantly 
answers, "Seven?"  There is a brief moment of silence, and then another 
Hoosier calls out from the audience:

"Aw, gee, give him another chance!"     

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