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Professor William Gaines of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign started the project with students in his Investigative Reporting class of the Department of Journalism.

From my quick review of their site (http://www.comm.uiuc.edu/spike/deepthroat/) and findings, Felt was barely a mention. He wasn't in the list of people ruled out, and didn't make the 7 Most Likely Deep Throat candidates. The prominent website they list on the right didn't work for me, but the report and conclusions can be found using the links down the left of the main site. The 7 finalists are listed here: http://www.comm.uiuc.edu/spike/deepthroat/
Patrick Buchanan, speechwriter and special assistant to the president.
David Gergen, speechwriter, then served as press spokesman for President Reagan.
Jonathan Rose, Attorney for White House relations.
Raymond Price, head speechwriter.
Stephen Bull, a special administrative assistant to Nixon.
Fred Fielding, top assistant to John Dean.
Gerald L. Warren, deputy press secretary under Nixon.

Their favorite as Deep Throat was/is: Patrick Buchanan

Nice to see how the Investigative Journalism classes at UofI can really get to the bottom of things...

From another of their web sites: http://deepthroatuncovered.com/
How students solved one of America's top mysteries

After a four-year investigation, students at the University of Illinois have determined the identity of Deep Throat, the most elusive, anonymous news source in history: Fred Fielding, deputy counsel to former President Richard Nixon

Updated 11/21/2003: Fielding's denial story segment; "The chain of command" clue; class contributions

Wrong yet again...
Amazing.

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More amazing is the supreme confidence these academics have in their results.

These are the type of people who are writing "history books" now - "investigating" such things as Jefferson's sex life, etc. ,as well as seeking out stories for Newsweak, CBS 60min, and the NYSlimes.

It is important for us to to recognize their enormous fallibility.

I've decided to archive that page before it the evidence of their incompetence gets "lost"

Apparently the fatal error of one of the class attempts:

http://www.comm.uiuc.edu/spike/deepthroat/10.html

"After reaching a conclusion that Throat was in the White House, the students pursued a direct approach. They got the official Congressional Directories for 1972 and 1973, which together listed 72 names of officials in the executive office of the president in order of rank."

Since Felt wasn't WH staff, they wasted their time on 72 others instead of where the pay dirt was.