This is an archived page. Images and links on this page may not work. Please visit the main page for the latest updates.

 
 
 
Read my book, TEACHING BEAUTY IN DeLILLO, WOOLF, AND MERRILL (Palgrave Macmillan; forthcoming), co-authored with Jennifer Green-Lewis. VISIT MY BRANCH CAMPUS AT INSIDE HIGHER ED





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)

Sunday, July 02, 2006

Ohio University
and Montana State, Bozeman...

...have drawn even the distracted attention of UD in the last couple of days. There's something astounding about an academic department established by the plagiarists, of the plagiarists, and for the plagiarists. The chair of mechanical engineering at OU has just left, taking his copied-from-others textbooks with him, and the rest of his merry crew will leave soon too.

You may recall the scandal that started all of this, involving scads of engineering students at OU plagiarizing everything in sight under the benign tutelage of these boys.

MSU has also managed to startle UD, who after all is pretty jaded. Like most American universities with really serious sports programs, MSU boasts the standard roster of normal all-Americans plus miscreants, misfits, and morons; but it also has multiple numbers of murderers dumping bodies in the university's agronomy school. Wow.
Posted at: 7/02/2006 04:58:00 AM