An unexpected side effect appeared.
Attendance rates improved dramatically.
Students who normally skipped lectures somehow arrived early.
Students who sat in the back moved closer to the front.
Nobody admitted the reason.
Everyone knew the reason.
Baby Pumpkin.
Someone eventually placed a small unofficial sign near the lecture hall entrance:
Today's Lecture Attendance Goal:
100%
For Academic Excellence and Baby Pumpkin.
It worked.
Almost perfectly.
Sam claimed Raghuveer had achieved what professors had failed to accomplish for centuries.
Perfect attendance.