A teacher hid an 'Alf' reference in the syllabus to see if students read it, and...

Teachers: ask and you shall receive. Especially if what you're asking for is an inbox full of pictures of a furry alien. Joseph A. Howley, a Classics professor at Columbia University in New York, decided to put a clever Easter egg in his syllabus this semester to make sure his students were paying attention See also: Teacher has perfect response to a student's belligerent, drunk email My "are they reading the syllabus?" easter egg has yielded quantitatively dismal results but is still paying off...