Every graduate who has toiled for their degree knows that a certain amount of pain and suffering is inevitable. To the apparent surprise of two young women from Cameroon, however, allowing themselves to be spanked by a University of Bath registrar as part of a “pain management study” did not constitute legitimate coursework.
The Times Online reports that Karl Woodgett, the now-former registrar, came up with the innovative way of simultaneously satisfying his sexual fetish and broadening his existing sideline of selling fake degrees to African women. Mr. Woodgett videotaped himself spanking the women, and then sent them away with college degrees.
His ex-wife, who is also Cameroonian, and members of her family had received bogus degrees from the University of Surrey, where Mr. Woodgett had also worked as a registrar. He and his ex-wife were convicted of conspiracy to make fake degrees and given suspended sentences. —Aisha Labi
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3 Responses to Registrar’s Spanking Days Are Behind Him
globalme - February 4, 2010 at 8:05 am
Good heavens, this is just not cricket. We need to get to the bottom of this!
cbobbitt - February 4, 2010 at 12:36 pm
This fool is a real whacko.
issalerhra - February 4, 2010 at 2:04 pm
My, I come from Cameroon, where many women work hard for what they have. However, some women, not just in Cameroon, cannot resist the temptation from pimps, like this so called registrar. I guess that makes these women prostitutes too. What a shame, the birth canal has become a degree-earning organ, where does that leave the brain?