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
February 25th, 2010 at 7:47AM
Wow….The Ole Miss Faulkners? Sounds great.
I wonder if they can somehow work ‘Yoknapatawpha’ into their chants and/or advertising.
February 25th, 2010 at 8:10AM
Joe: I’m figuring you and maybe two other people will get my way clever headline on this one.
February 25th, 2010 at 8:45AM
Absalom, Absalom!
February 25th, 2010 at 8:57AM
You were one of the two other people, Bill.
February 25th, 2010 at 9:05AM
Was I the third? Because I’ve been trying to come up with Faulknerian cheers.
As YOU lay dying, rival team!
Ole’ Miss: a lean, mean, barn burning machine!
You’ll hear the sound and the fury of us kicking your ass!
February 25th, 2010 at 9:13AM
Kerry: LOL! Yes – you were the third!
February 25th, 2010 at 9:37AM
Snopes! Snopes!
We’ve got you in our scopes!
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Lame.
February 25th, 2010 at 10:24AM
Add to the popcorn, hotdog, drink sellers, book sellers! During the second half the books need to be large-print editions
February 25th, 2010 at 11:59AM
They’ll have to beef up the training table fare if the linemen are light in August.
February 25th, 2010 at 12:01PM
Ooh. Good one, Mr Punch.
February 25th, 2010 at 12:04PM
‘Course The Unvanquished is an obvious one.
February 25th, 2010 at 12:42PM
Maybe the fight song could be “I’m dreaming of a white Christmas,” but either that would be way too indirect or would get us back to the problem that dumping the rebel was supposed to solve.
February 26th, 2010 at 9:28AM
Will the entire student section link arms and sway, teary-eyed, as they sing “My Mother is a Fish”?
Perhaps they could devise a complicated trick play based on stream-of-consciousness prose with lots of commas and diverging clauses?
Half-time shows could be revelations of terrible family secrets stirringly performed to Stephen Foster songs, with flag-twirlers forming images of Corinthian columns from long-abandoned ancestral manses? Capped by a duel and a house-burning?
Homecoming dance based on “As I Lay Dying”? Get your photo with your date on the wagon with Addie Bundren’s coffin to the strains of “Will the Circle be Unbroken”? All the ushers can be idiot man-children or sartorial ex-colonels.
How about Faulkner’s Nobel Address as a half-time speech by the coach to inspire a team when they’re a touchdown behind?
“I decline to accept the end of man. It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking. I refuse to accept this. I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.”
Now that’s some rousing pep-rally talk.