UD is... "Salty." (Scott McLemee) "Unvarnished." (Phi Beta Cons) "Splendidly splenetic." (Culture Industry) "Except for University Diaries, most academic blogs are tedious." (Rate Your Students) "I think of Soltan as the Maureen Dowd of the blogosphere, except that Maureen Dowd is kind of a wrecking ball of a writer, and Soltan isn't. For the life of me, I can't figure out her politics, but she's pretty fabulous, so who gives a damn?" (Tenured Radical) |
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TALES OF HOFFMAN, finis Via Ralph Luker at Cliopatria: Betsy Hoffman, president of the University of Colorado, has resigned. The chair of CU's board of trustees praised her, but said "our university – one of the most distinguished in the nation – has suffered greatly from a series of controversies that seem to be growing, not abating." |