 A few months later, Walker passed the documents she had received from Stanford to a "Willamette Week" newspaper reporter.On May 6, 2004, Goldschmidt confessed publicly to the relationship after being told that an article in "Willamette Week" was going to be printed about the scandal.The story appeared in the paper less than a week later, and revealed that close friends and colleagues had kept quiet about the relationship for 30 years.