Rick,

I am afraid the "wise anon one" was not-so-wise me, still having cookie problems with my Netscape--

As to who the graduate student, and their would-be sponsor were, I will not say, as the concerned parties are still living, and still sucking up to "Folk music informants" at being obsequious and condescending while introducing them in places like the Smithsonian Festival or in academically proper Folklife Centers--(What Fred Blassie has been known to call "Pencil-Necked Geeks")--

At the risk of sounding my own horn, I will mention that representatives of the African-American community that surrounded the university community came to my class one day to informally express appreciation for class--no one seemed to care that I was a white guy, and no one commented about the fact that there was no Folklore degree on the wall--