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Just Dropping In

University of Kentucky statistics instructor John Cain was working late. He left his office around midnight to go eat, returning around 1:30 a.m. When he tried to get back in, though, his office door was blocked. “He yelled out that he was calling the police,” university spokesman Jay Blanton said. “And then the door swung open and two young men ran down the hallway.” When police arrived, 21-year-old junior Henry Lynch II returned and allegedly confessed to being one of the people involved. According to Lynch’s account, he’d climbed through the building’s air ducts and dropped into the office from the ceiling. He unlocked the door to let in his friend, sophomore Troy Kiphuth, 21. The purpose of the mission: to steal an upcoming statistics exam. Lynch allegedly claimed this wasn’t the first time he had broken in to Cain’s office. He said he’d entered earlier in the evening, but wasn’t able to find the exam, and that he’d successfully stolen another exam from Cain’s office earlier in the semester. But, he assured police, he hadn’t shared the answers with other students. Lynch and Kiphuth were charged with third degree burglary. (MS/Lexington Herald-Ledger) ...Your mission, should you choose to accept it: find another major.