Dr. Bernard Carroll, known as the "conscience of psychiatry," contributed to various blogs, including Margaret Soltan's University Diaries, for which he sometimes wrote limericks under the name Adam.
New York Times
George Washington University English professor Margaret Soltan writes a blog called University Diaries, in which she decries the Twilight Zone-ish state our holy land’s institutes of higher ed find themselves in these days.
The Electron Pencil
It’s [UD's] intellectual honesty that makes her blog required reading.
Professor Mondo
There's always something delightful and thought intriguing to be found at Margaret Soltan's no-holds-barred, firebrand tinged blog about university life.
AcademicPub
You can get your RDA of academic liars, cheats, and greedy frauds at University Diaries. All disciplines, plus athletics.
truffula, commenting at Historiann
Margaret Soltan at University Diaries blogs superbly and tirelessly about [university sports] corruption.
Dagblog
University Diaries. Hosted by Margaret Soltan, professor of English at George Washington University. Boy is she pissed — mostly about athletics and funding, the usual scandals — but also about distance learning and diploma mills. She likes poems too. And she sings.
Dissent: The Blog
[UD belittles] Mrs. Palin's degree in communications from the University of Idaho...
The Wall Street Journal
Professor Margaret Soltan, blogging at University Diaries... provide[s] an important voice that challenges the status quo.
Lee Skallerup Bessette, Inside Higher Education
[University Diaries offers] the kind of attention to detail in the use of language that makes reading worthwhile.
Sean Dorrance Kelly, Harvard University
Margaret Soltan's ire is a national treasure.
Roland Greene, Stanford University
The irrepressibly to-the-point Margaret Soltan...
Carlat Psychiatry Blog
Margaret Soltan, whose blog lords it over the rest of ours like a benevolent tyrant...
Perplexed with Narrow Passages
Margaret Soltan is no fan of college sports and her diatribes on the subject can be condescending and annoying. But she makes a good point here...
Outside the Beltway
From Margaret Soltan's excellent coverage of the Bernard Madoff scandal comes this tip...
Money Law
University Diaries offers a long-running, focused, and extremely effective critique of the university as we know it.
Anthony Grafton, American Historical Association
The inimitable Margaret Soltan is, as usual, worth reading. ...
Medical Humanities Blog
I awake this morning to find that the excellent Margaret Soltan has linked here and thereby singlehandedly given [this blog] its heaviest traffic...
Ducks and Drakes
As Margaret Soltan, one of the best academic bloggers, points out, pressure is mounting ...
The Bitch Girls
Many of us bloggers worry that we don’t post enough to keep people’s interest: Margaret Soltan posts every day, and I more or less thought she was the gold standard.
Tenured Radical
University Diaries by Margaret Soltan is one of the best windows onto US university life that I know.
Mary Beard, A Don's Life
[University Diaries offers] a broad sense of what's going on in education today, framed by a passionate and knowledgeable reporter.
More magazine, Canada
If deity were an elected office, I would quit my job to get her on the ballot.
Notes of a Neophyte
August 13th, 2009 at 10:03AM
Several of the stories have mentioned that the encounter in question took place on the floor, though I’m not sure where that little detail came from. Anyway, you’d like to be able to work "Balls on the Floor" into your headline.
And there are a number of basketball terms that sound reasonably dirty in the right context:
Box and one
Backdoor cut
Pick and roll
Give and go
Motion offense
Diving for loose balls
Nailing crazy blondes while drunk
August 13th, 2009 at 11:39AM
Sorry, UD but at most newspapers (even weekly papers) there is a division of labor. Reporters write the stories but not the headlines. That is considered an editorial function at most papers. Part of the reason may also be that its the editors who decide where in the paper the story will be printed and that, in turn, determines how much space there will be for the headline. It is a constant source of frustration for reporters who complain constantly that when readers complain about the story it is often the headline they are complaining about, not the article. When the reporter says they didn’t write the headline, they are not believed.
August 13th, 2009 at 12:05PM
Table for two, Pitino adieu.
August 13th, 2009 at 12:47PM
Your advertising background is showing.
August 13th, 2009 at 12:49PM
True, James, true.
August 13th, 2009 at 12:51PM
Van: Yes, I discovered this sad fact when I attended Medill at NU years and years ago. But it’s also true that at many papers writers can at least see or get an idea of the proposed headline, and maybe have some influence over it.
August 13th, 2009 at 1:17PM
Or we could think like the headline writers at the NY Post:
"B-Ball Boss Banished for Bistro Boink?"
August 13th, 2009 at 1:32PM
Of course, there was what some fans of tabloids consider the best all-time headline in the N Y Post. The case involved a fellow who was murdered with his throat sliced completely. He was in a bar where women dance for the entertainment of the customers. "Headless body found in topless bar."
August 13th, 2009 at 10:03PM
Sypher Nailed, Pitino Blackmailed
August 14th, 2009 at 1:08AM
I love you. What would the blogosphere be without the SOS?
August 14th, 2009 at 4:17AM
I blush, Claire. Thank you.
SOS
August 14th, 2009 at 8:30AM
"Bonehead Play by Drunk Pitino"?
August 14th, 2009 at 8:30AM
Oh, and what Claire said. We would indeed be lost.
August 14th, 2009 at 2:56PM
I liked the last one so much, I kicked around
The last one is superioria?
Wondered whether there was such a thing as "superioria"…
Googled. Best I could come up with is Superior, IA
Close enough!
Bill
August 14th, 2009 at 4:40PM
Michael, you are very kind.
UD/SOS
November 1st, 2009 at 10:12AM
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