The editor of Physics Today loses his job because he published a spot-on book about his experiences as a graduate student at the University of California Irvine. An instant underground classic with UCI graduate students from several academic units, the book gives a thoughtful sociological account of the process of professionalization in higher education: get rid of those with original thoughts and moral scruples and mentor through the cynics who won’t actually take the university’s mission of free inquiry seriously. UCI didn’t have a problem with book, and carries it in their bookstore (and good for them!) BUT the publisher of the academic journal Physics Today summarily fired the author from his 19-year position as editor on riduculous grounds. Hundreds of physicists and other academics have protested this egregious policing of the hegemony of higher education and supression of free speech, but to no avail. The author is still unemployed, and the message has been sent: if you show the masses what actually goes on in PhD programs, you will hang.