Professor Wanted to Learn About Students, So She Became One

'FRESHMAN' PROFESSOR IDENTIFIED Rebekah Nathan is really Cathy Small, an anthropology professor at Northern Arizona University. Professor Small confirmed her identity in a story in USA Today on August twenty-third. She did so after another newspaper, the New York Sun, suggested that she wrote "My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student."  A reporter said he identified her from details in the book. A Special English report from August eighteenth follows:

A new book is sure to be discussed, and debated, at colleges this fall.  The book is called "My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student."  The writer is Rebekah Nathan.  That is not her real name.  She is in her fifties.  She is a professor of anthropology at a university in the United States.  Her name for it is "AnyU."