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
May 3rd, 2009 at 2:17AM
A random thought just popped into my head…
How would people react if the athlete involved were a women’s basketball player?
I think the potential difference in allowance for bad behavior speaks would speak volumes about a lot of issues.
May 3rd, 2009 at 10:12AM
Cassandra is probably correct in sggesting that there would be less tolerance for comparable bad behavior by women athletes, particularly given the different compositions of the fan/booster communities between men’s and women’s sports. But there are very few opportunities to test this hypothesis. I’ve advised and taught many women athletes over the last 30 years. Like most students who have been involved in professionalized youth athletics for most of their lives, they have their share of academic difficulties, but off the field they have a much better sense of belonging to a larger community beyond the athletic culture. When I was once involved with the administration of discipline (thankfully, not for about 15 years), I don’t recall reading the riot act to very many women athletes. My experience, although long, is narrow, being confined to Ivy schools (just a fact, hardly a boast), so it would be interesting to know whether this observation has wider validity.
May 4th, 2009 at 7:36AM
Let’s face the facts: most women simply don’t know how to raise hell. Pour a forty or two down the average coed and what happens? She gets all giggly, talkative, sick, and then passes out quietly, usually in that order. Yeah, they may hoot and holler, but usually only when guys are around to egg them on. The average 18-year-old male after a six-pack has more potential for dumb, obnoxious, destructive, and life-threatening ruckus than an entire sorority. Tales of my own quite mild ventures into youthful recklessness so alarmed Mrs. TP that I am strictly forbidden even to allude to these in the presence of offspring, especially Son #1, who has already demonstrated substantial talents in this area.
What we need is a Title IX-A: The Equality of Stupidity Amendment. This will ensure that American young women get the training and resources they need to be competitive not only on the playing field, but in the barroom and back of the squad car too.
May 4th, 2009 at 7:43AM
tp: LOL. It’s hard-wired, methinks. For some reason I also think of the very wise essay by Christopher Hitchens in Vanity Fair about why women aren’t funny and men are hilarious.
http://www.margaretsoltan.com/?s=hitchens+women+funny
May 4th, 2009 at 5:46PM
Hmmm…have y’all never watched Cops?
There’s a class issue at work here too.
I suspect many of the people who have never seen violent and/or boisterous women have never witnessed it (either via TV or in person).
May 4th, 2009 at 7:38PM
Good point, Cassandra. In fact I watch almost no tv. I’ve seen Cops once or twice, and it was always guys acting up. But I take your point. There’s a thriving – and growing – criminal class of women.
Even so, a lot of those women aren’t boisterous. They’re prostitutes, junkies…