According to the Wikipedia entry on Michael Crichton (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton), he actually

According to the Wikipedia entry on Michael Crichton (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton), he actually told another professor about his suspicions, and more importantly his intention to submit an Orwell essay under his own name. If he were to get caught, informed consent from another member of the faculty may have been a mitigating factor.