For reasons that escape me now, back around 1970 I found myself adjunct-teaching a course at Boston University as I finished my graduate work. The course covered what has now evolved into Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and how it applies to municipal government.
The class met evenings and the dozen or so students were a mix of working people, graduate students, and most notably two attractive undergraduate seniors, who were good buddies and excellent students. Maria was slim, quietly beautiful and reserved, while Sherri was quite the opposite: extroverted, active in class discussions, and prone to wearing short skirts and tight tops, which showed off her sensuous body.
My course was easy to pass: show up, demonstrate interest, join discussions, and do the readings. There was a brief final take-home paper which I graded to return at the last meeting.
Although there was a teaching assistant to help with grading, when we split the take-home papers to assess, I happened to get both Maria's and Sheri's. Despite their demonstrated intelligence and participation, I was surprised to find that their papers were very similar. In fact, when I went through them side-by-side, there were entire sentences and paragraphs that were identical, even carrying over spelling errors from one to the other.
Our final session was hardly a class; basically I handed back the papers and chatted briefly with students when they showed up to pick them up. When Sheri and Maria came in, I asked them to wait until the last couple of other students had left.
I closed the classroom door and handed back the papers, where I had circled in red the many places where copying was evident. I said that I was surprised by this; it wasn't a difficult assignment, they had seemed to master all the material in the course, and -- oh yes -- the was a University Honor Code that both students and instructors agreed to.
The two girls reacted with a flurry of explanations and excuses, ranging from running out of time with all their final exams to thinking that the (rather lame) assistant would grade all the paper and notice nothing.
I replied that this put me in a dilemma: the Honor Code obliged me to fail them, although all their coursework and participation had been excellent. They were obviously dismayed at the prospect of failing a course they needed to graduate in the last semester of Senior year.
I offered them an alternative. "If you agree to accept a mild corporal punishment that I administer, you will get an 'A' for the course, and I will not report an honor infraction. Think about it and come to my office B205 in an hour with your answer."
An hour later they knocked on my office door with their answer. "Did 'mild corporal punishment' mean just a spanking? If so, we accept your offer."
I told them that was what I meant and instructed them to bend over face down on my desk side-by-side and hold the far edge of the desk in their hands. They complied and I told them I would administer a dozen spanks to each, starting with Maria.
Eager to get this over with, I stepped up behind Maria and gave her a first medium stroke on her buttocks.
It didn't feel right; it seemed that there was something under her skirt shielding her buttocks. I asked what was going on and didn't get a reply.
I reached down to the hem of Maria's skirt and lifted it up over her waist. Sure enough, she had a magazine under her panties to protect her behind. I moved over to Sheri and lifted her skirt. Same result: a magazine under her panties too.