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 22nd, 2009 at 2:40PM
… [T]he girls could have just been personal-use buyers, and Cosby could just have carried around way too much pot for his own good when he went out on calls. Either way, it looks like some nice Harvard girls started hanging out with some bad boys…
Um…I am betting the writer either never took a class in journalism, or else got pity Cs at a lackluster school.
That is the most obnoxiously sexist piece of crap I have read in quite some time.
It might have been a poor attempt at sarcasm though.
May 22nd, 2009 at 3:20PM
I think it was a poor attempt at sarcasm.
May 22nd, 2009 at 7:08PM
Is it that girls can’t be criminal? or Harvard students?
May 22nd, 2009 at 8:52PM
I hope those nice Harvard girls weren’t using my nice tax dollars for financial aid, but if they were, I would hope some nice Harvard administrator boots them out on their nice stupid behinds.
May 22nd, 2009 at 9:52PM
Adi Stern? The GanGsTa’s moll? I remember her.
"Either way, it looks like some nice Harvard girls started hanging out with some bad boys…"
Is that the sexist part?
Some kid from Salem State is murdered in the venerable Kirkland Hall and the PC Poh-lice are getting in a twist about sexism?
May 22nd, 2009 at 11:16PM
David,
If I wept at the consequences of every drug deal gone bad…well, I’d be very dehydrated.
But the sad state of what passes for journalism today is something correctable and worthy of comment.
Then again, I have no wistful faux-nostalgia for the sanctity of Harvard’s "venerable Kirkland Hall," as you so melodramatically put it.
Perhaps the blood on the pavement has left you incapable of comprehending the cultural impact of reportage that makes unfounded assumptions about "some nice Harvard girls [who] started hanging out with some bad boys" who, incidentally, may have aided and abetted a homicide.
What makes this little bit of rhetoric irritating is that, despite your oh-so-lovely condescending and dismissive reference to "the PC Poh-lice," too many people still seem stunned that women can be just as violent, aggressive, or prone to felonious behavior as men. (Don’t think so? Go research some popular reports about girl gangs.) That you seem to think a comment pointing this out is simply some Feminazi diatribe that distracts from the MALE who died says a bit more about you than you realize.
Does that connect the dots for you?
Now, if you’ll pardon me, I must away to my bower to cry miles of tears based on information gathered from that paragon of journalism called gawker.com.
May 23rd, 2009 at 5:44AM
Mr UD is right: No "secret societies" at Harvard — that’s the basis on which national fraternities were banned many decades ago.
May 23rd, 2009 at 8:42AM
The Connections of Dots
The drug deal. I’m not concerned about the drugs or the money. It’s the murder and the refusal to release the ID’s of the women that I have a problem with. I don’t want to see this story spiked to protect the reps of some Harvard kids.
"Venerable Kirkland Hall" was a phrase used in one of the first articles from The Crimson. That was not my melodrama. I used the phrase as sarcasm.
Violence and the Ladies. That is not stunning to me. Some of the nastiest fights I have ever seen were girl fights.
Feminazi? That’s the Limbaugh thing? Not for me.
Gawker. I did read at the New York Post that the shooter is the son of a retired cop. Media like the Post and Gawker aren’t afraid to print stuff that a ….venerable…paper like the NYT wouldn’t. I’m interested in the class aspect of this story.
Bower. I never heard of that. Thanks for using it. I’m more of an
anchoress man myself.
David