Real life does not imitate the joke

There's a well-known joke about a beautiful young student's attempt to trade... um... favors for grades.

I suppose it's inevitable that the real-life variant would neither cast a positive light on the professor nor, in all likelihood, end at all happily.

Scratch that; really unhappily.

... Good hearsay and war stories about the general phenomenon over at LGM.

... He's now considered a "missing person."

... Back to the original suspected outcome: hiker finds body, presumed to be University of Iowa professor, in park.

... And it was Arthur Miller.