SMU Lecturer Takes Heat For Blog

Posted by Hemos on Sunday May 29, 2005 @11:26PM from the who's-rights? dept.

nasta writes "Houston Chronicle article For most of the past two semesters, nobody knew the identity of "The Phantom Professor." The educator's anonymous Web log, set at an unnamed university "in the South," spun tales of spoiled-rich "Ashleys" with their $500 sandals and $1,500 handbags, eating disorders, plagiarism and drug use, legal and illegal. "At this school it seems like every kid is on multiple medications," the professor wrote, describing her charges as "barely literate," prone to emotional problems and "terrified of displeasing Mommy and Daddy.""

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How's this for irony by Bandito · 2005-05-30 02:50 · Score: 0, Redundant

Earlier this month, Elaine Liner, an adjunct professor who taught writing and ethics classes in SMU's public relations department since 2001, revealed in an online publication that the blog was hers.
Re:Whose rights? by TFGeditor · 2005-05-30 06:00 · Score: 1, Redundant

I think it should have been "whose."

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