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 7th, 2009 at 4:31PM
It’s a classic! They just don’t make brick shithouses like that anymore.
Seriously, when I read that article this morning, it blew my mind that anyone could possibly think that excrescence was an architectural gem worth preserving against an obviously less ugly Metra station.
May 7th, 2009 at 5:10PM
Ah, good times. College buddy and I once road-tripped to Chicago, and on the way to more enjoyable parts of the city, stopped off to visit his kid brother. Apparently, kid brother’s fraternity pledge class had staged a walk-out (i.e., when the pledges flee the fraternity house after stealing the toilet paper and TV remote control) and decided for reasons unknown to God or man to spend their brief interval of freedom at IIT.
I’d never seen the IIT before, and was truly appalled, both by the architecture that makes the gulag warm and cozy by comparison, AND that a group of supposedly rational young men would choose a cold and dismal campus in a bleak part of Chicago with a male-female ratio of about 10-1 for their carefree weekend romp.
Took me a pitcher of Old Style and some deep-dish pizza to recover my equanimity.
May 7th, 2009 at 6:05PM
It’s all a trick. This photo was actually taken in Washington state and it’s the entrance to this place.
May 8th, 2009 at 3:11PM
How did Tom Wolfe miss this one?
Mies probably won an award of some kind for it, too.
May 8th, 2009 at 3:28PM
But IIT is coming back, UD.
http://www.arcspace.com/architects/koolhaas/McCormick-Tribune/
We visited the place in February, along with U Chicago and Obama’s house. You’ve picked the worst example possible of a Mies piece at IIT.
Who would want to save it?