She hasn’t written about it because she hasn’t been able to control her emotions.
It is now coming to an end.
How did it ever start?
She hasn’t written about it because she hasn’t been able to control her emotions.
It is now coming to an end.
How did it ever start?
‘With respect, Mr President, Judge Leon is a Republican, Federalist Society jurist – the complete opposite of Raskin. Very Catholic education and background. Impeccable conservative credentials. You and Hegseth seem to have made Leon angry by trying to destroy the life of one of America’s most decorated military heroes. Maybe let it go?’
Can’t make this shit up.
The article wins the Most Use Of the Word ‘Pro-Abortion’ award. It’s a great word, conjuring images of the professor at issue loudly cheering on any woman thinking of getting one. GO FOR IT HON!! YEAH!!
I’m sure Capo Rhoades will get his way and succeed in forcing out a voice of dissent. But that’s just one voice, my man. Sixty percent of Catholics favor abortion rights. Got your work cut out for you, huh?
UD’s favorite part, always, is when we start to hear from the lawyers.
… David Gelernter, who not only got bombed by the Unabomber, but has been banned from teaching at Yale because of his yucky correspondence with best pal Jeffrey Epstein.
Enjoy the pic of his office.
ANY review of the forthcoming film “Wuthering Heights.”
The many erections of Leslie —
At Columbus and Harvard especially —
Whether early or late,
These will have to deflate,
Before he is held for arrestly.
… fuck up. They tried to invite only their friends to their party, but everybody decided to stay home. LOL.
… that schools shot up by teen – and pre-teen – shits are all around her, even in her affluent ‘thesdan world. Wootten High – which Les UDs routinely drive by on their way to UD’s sister’s place – just had one of its students almost killed by another student with a gun. Right there in the school and all.
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UPDATE: Same asshole pointed his gun at another student in the hallway earlier the same day! But she didn’t report it! Routine hallway interaction?
And listen. No one’s gonna be surprised when we find out that the school was well aware the shooter was a way risky person… Parents have GOT to get mad about the fact that the school hadn’t expelled him.
Why do public schools feel impelled to expose their students to lethal risk by letting shooters attend?
… I am totally shocked by my decade of theft of your dues … I am at a loss for words…. But the important thing is I’m an old lady now and you wouldn’t send an old lady to jail, would you?
You take your eye off of it for awhile and think Hm maybe all the prison and lawsuits and bad publicity shamed it into better behavior…
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But nah.
[Save Our States] accuses the health system of prioritizing luxury spending and executive compensation while patient safety problems persist…. [T]he health system paid its CEO and a department chair over $4 million each in annual compensation.
Wants to let the butcher’s bill rise a bit, so she can cover several deaths at a time.
It’s always the same. Nothing ever changes, and nothing will, since fraternities are the life blood (death blood) of so many of this country’s awful universities. Unless you can promise parents their sons stand some chance of being bullied into drinking themselves to death, they apparently won’t even look at your school.
The state of Arizona is a perennially popular academic abattoir, with (most recently) both Northern Arizona and Arizona State slaughtering eager young newbies desperate for acceptance. Ho hum.
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Oh wait. ASU didn’t manage to kill this batch. It merely tortured them to within an inch of their lives.
Not that ASU hasn’t had its share of kills!
Predatory journals take your two thousand bucks and publish anything you send. We all know this.
But Pascual Diago, a math professor solicited by a predatory ob/gyn rag, decided to go there. His abstract:
In an unprecedented quantum leap in interdisciplinary research, we introduce the concept of ‘Gyneco-Obstetric Algebraic Didactics’ (GOAD). This paper explores the impact of teaching mathematical models using obstetric metaphors on the cognitive flexibility of third-trimester patients and first-year mathematics students alike. Through the introduction of the Ovary-Function Theorem (OFT) and the application of the Cervix-Dilation Equation (D = √πr2), the study reveals that explaining non-Euclidean spaces through pelvic retroversion significantly improves calculus test scores and reduces birth anxiety by 13.7%. A case study with pregnant mathematicians and aspiring gynecologists demonstrates that integrating the Fibonacci sequence into labor progression charts induces spontaneous appreciation for abstract algebra and mild cravings for prime numbers. These findings challenge the traditional boundaries between prenatal care and set theory, suggesting that mathematical didactics and obstetric gynecology, when merged, can birth new paradigms in both fields. Further research is encouraged, especially in the context of cesarean matrices and post-partum group theory.
Of course they published it.
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