Chapter 938
The sight of the group strutting into the control room made the security guy inside jump up from his
seat.
“W–What‘s going on, Mr. Brown?”
Why would so many lecturers be here if it wasn‘t something major?
The thought of that had him all tensed up.
“Rx. It‘s not that big of a deal. We just want to review the security footage to ascertain some facts,
that‘s all.”
“The security footage…” answered the security guard between stutters. “But the school‘s surveince
system underwent an upgrading these past few days. I’m afraid a review won‘t be possible as we don‘t
have the footage fromst week anymore.”
“What? A systems upgrade?” Donovan‘s inflection raised a notch.
This matter also slipped Marcus‘ mind until he had been reminded of it just then.
“It would seem that we‘ve hit a dead–end,” Marcus said. “In that case, you can all have her resit the
papers after the charity event has concluded.”
“How could that do?” Donovan protested. “Having already done them once, with a good memory, it
would not be difficult for her to ace the papers again. I‘d say that Arielle must have known about the
upgrading
works for the surveince system during this period and had thus taken the opportunity to cheat, so
why don’t you just expel her outright…”
“No way!” replied Marcus, cutting him off. “There‘s no way that I’d expel any student on a whim,
especially given theck of proof. What would people think of Jadeborough University if we handle
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things so irresponsibly?”
Arthur nodded profusely as he concurred. “In my esteem, Arielle was not guilty of cheating, to begin
with. Didn’t you also help with the invigtion yourself during the exams back then, Mr. Brown? With
two lecturers supervising the examination proceedings, even cheating just a little couldn‘t possibly lead
to full marks.”
Marcus‘ eyes suddenly lit up. “Speaking of the invigtion, it actually reminded me of something. Didn‘t
you say that the paper for advanced mathematics was exceedingly difficult? I didn’t get the sense that
Arielle felt that way when I watched her work on it. That goes to show that she was indeed quite gifted.”
“No,” Donovan dismissed it tly. “That actually proved that she did cheat. For something that
challenging, even I could not have scored maximum points in my first attempt. Unless you mean to
suggest that a student could be more learned than a teacher like me? Something‘s definitely off about
this!”
That drew a taut frown from Marcus. “Then, what do you suggest should be done? We can‘t review the
footage now, and I cannot approve of an immediate expulsion either.”
Donovan‘s chin perked up slightly. “At the charity event tonight, I shall issue an apology to Arielle for
the two prior incidents. However, we must have a resolution pertaining to the matter of cheating at
hand.”
“Perhaps you should go ahead and share your thoughts about it.”
Donovan took in a deep drawl. “I‘ve decided that I‘d publicly question Arielle in full witness of everyone
present at the charity event.”
“Question her?” Arthur asked in skepticism. “Whatever do you mean to say by that?”
“It‘s quite elementary. In order to increase the level of difficulty of the papers, I had purposefully added
some content rted to quantum mechanics when I was formting the examination questions. The
fact that Arielle was able to score full marks meant that she understood quantum mechanics. Hence, I
shall pose to her two questions rted to the subject matter. If she‘s able to furnish the correct answers
to them, that would be proof that she, indeed, had notmitted fraud.”
Arthur frowned in disapproval. “But that‘d be obvious to both the students and their parents that
we‘re suspecting her of cheating.”
“Hehe,” Donovanughed. “Aren‘t you positive that she did not, Professor Sleight, so why are you so
worried
now? If you didn‘t have your own suspicions, you needn‘t be at all concerned for her. Besides, she
would be vindicated if she‘s able to answer.”