Male Classmate Spread Sex Rumor, I Ruined Him

The day the guaranteed graduate school placement list went public, Matthew from the student council marched straight into my open lecture and shouted me down in front of everyone. "Professor, you really had to push me this far, didn't you? I didn't come to the hotel to see you last night, so you handed my placement spot to someone else?" In my last life, I assumed he'd just lost it over not getting a spot, and I let the accusation go. I never imagined that by the end of that same day, the whole campus was buzzing with rumors that I threw myself at men, that I'd traded a graduate placement to a student for sexual favors.