But that is not what happened. In the bug submission experiment they used Gmail addresses not their UMN addresses. The whole thing came up when one of the stude

But that is not what happened. In the bug submission experiment they used Gmail addresses not their UMN addresses. The whole thing came up when one of the students (I think he was a graduate student working in the research group) submitted patches from his over eager static analysis tool using his uni address. So if anything the work from the uni adress received more scrutiny than the other patches.