SMU Dirt; Adjunct Professor Fired for Spilling the Beans on an Anonymous Blog

"I had pegged her as a probable Ashley. She was a blond beauty with a killer bod and a Vuitton totebag. She had enrolled late for the advanced writing class. I don’t like late adds but she pleaded her case with such desperation I signed her in as last-minute enrollee. What’s one more Ashley on a roster that includes no fewer than eight in one section and six in the other?

By the second week of class I was starting to worry about this one. She gazed blankly at a spot on the wall just above my head when I was talking. If I called on her, it was like she had been awakened suddenly from a deep sleep. “I’m sorry,†she said in a groggy whisper. “What was the question?

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Apparenty SMU found out the identity of the anoymous bogging adjunct and canned her.
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‘The Phantom Professor’

No one at Southern Methodist University knew — for sure — who The Phantom Professor was. The professor’s blog, like those of many untenured academics, was anonymous and the university was never named.

Sure, readers learned that the Phantom Professor’s college had a lot of wealthy students, many of whom dressed alike, and many of whom weren’t particularly good writers. But that doesn’t really narrow it down. And the Phantom’s university was one where many adjuncts, like the author of the blog, felt invisible and ignored — not exactly an unusual quality
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