Dead man on Campus

Two university students, Cooper (whose father threatened to stop paying his tuition because of his failing grades and is forcing him to go to work in his toilet cleaning industry), and Josh (who is in danger of losing his scholarship) find out about an obscure academic rule that states that if a student's roommate commits suicide then the roommates get perfect grades for that semester. They set out to find roommates who are likely to commit suicide. Their first potential roommate, Cliff O'Malley, is more likely to get himself (and any one with him) killed than commit suicide. After Josh and Cooper get him to move in, they just want him out.

Next they try Buckley Schrank, a computer geek who thinks Bill Gates wants his brain. After they move Buckley, they try to help push him over the edge. First, Cooper poses as a suicide hotline volunteer, and when Buckley calls, he tells him that he's Bill Gates and wants his brain. Then, Josh and Cooper stock their dorm room with rope, daggers, and prescription drugs, but seeing this, Buckley thinks that they're trying to kill him and give his brain to Bill Gates, so he runs away from them in terror.

Finally, Josh and Cooper move in Matt Noonan, a dark rock musician in the band Kiss My Ass who talks about committing suicide and seems depressed. Later Cooper catches him singing show tunes and learns he was voted Mr. Happy in high school, leading them to believe that he is only pretending to be depressed to impress girls and make a name for himself in music.

After all the time wasted on trying to find a suicidal person instead of studying, Josh and Cooper become agitated. Josh stands on the edge of a bridge, about to commit suicide. Cooper gives him a dramatic speech and tells Josh he is not a failure and talks him down; when Josh comes down from the bridge he reveals to Cooper that he was faking his suicide attempt so the school wouldn't fail him, and Cooper would look like a hero to his father. The film ends with Josh narrating that he was given an additional semester to improve his grades, in which he saved his scholarship, and that Cooper became a more serious student, but did work summers cleaning toilets for his father's business to learn how to eventually take over.