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
June 3rd, 2009 at 10:45AM
I can hear a helicopter nearby, and I’m sure the campus is buzzing, but it does indeed appear to be all over – if indeed there ever was a genuine threat. I’m off for lunch outside now – I’ll let you know if there’s anything interesting going on outside.
June 3rd, 2009 at 11:05AM
The word down at the Wawa is that it was a kid – possibly a student – with a toy or replica gun. Not clear whether he had any kind of harmful intent or whether someone simply saw him and freaked out. There are a lot of students moving out of dorms today, so perhaps it was seen in someone’s cart? Anyway, I’m sure the journos in the broadcast news choppers buzzing above campus are quietly disappointed that the story turned out to be a non-story …
June 3rd, 2009 at 11:05AM
Thanks, Alan.
June 4th, 2009 at 6:36AM
Many of the local high school kids cut class on the day after Princeton commencement to go through the piles of rubbish that the departing students leave in the hopes of finding half-empty bottles of vodka and other desirable commodities that seniors don’t want to load into the family minivan. One found a toy gun and stuck it in his waistband before the person who called in the alarm could see the orange tip on the barrel. He then tossed it away down by the Wawa and continued to forage, unaware that he’d just paralyzed the campus. The news helicopters showed up just as the all clear sounded and departed just as quickly once they realized there there would be no juicy story.
June 4th, 2009 at 9:20AM
Thanks for those details, Peter.