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 15th, 2010 at 2:12PM
Although the spirit of UD’s remarks is OK, one phrase caught my eye: “solve their problems non-chemcially”
A lot of college/university health services help students solve their problems chemically. Anti-inflammatories, antibiotics, birth control pills: all are chemicals.
Sleeping pills? Sorry, I can think of some circumstances under which a 20 yr old might be a suitable candidate. This is not in the same class with anti-psychotics for two year olds.
And I am not endorsing the lax attitude of Reed College administration toward drug abuse here either.
May 15th, 2010 at 2:13PM
non-chemically (ouch)
May 15th, 2010 at 3:11PM
I take your point, Bonzo. I should have distinguished among types of chemicals and conditions.
May 15th, 2010 at 7:21PM
I’m sorry, but it’s a long way from medically-recommended sedatives to heroin, and conflating the two without actual connective evidence is sloppy thinking, at best.
May 15th, 2010 at 9:28PM
I don’t think so. It’s – as advertised – speculative thinking. Most observers note that, for example, the overuse of Ritalin among young boys seems to have acculturated many of them to pill popping generally. And I wasn’t taking it all the way to heroin; nor was the student’s mother. We’re not conflating. We’re suggesting a possible narrative in the direction of more and more use of drugs – and in particular here, a kind of mainstreaming of drugs, in which psychiatrists rather immediately go toward the prescription of sleeping pills without exploring other options. Daniel Carlat’s new book, which I reviewed recently for Inside Higher Education, elaborates on this point.
May 16th, 2010 at 4:39PM
I’m sorry for Mrs. Tepper’s loss. As a parent of college students I share her concerns. Reed College and others may make a big show of having zero tolerance for illegal drugs.
Yet student health services seem to freely hand out prescriptions for Adderall, Ritalin and other widely abused amphetamines with no more thought than stamping books at the library checkout.
May 16th, 2010 at 10:38PM
You connected this case to ‘Reed’s drug problem’ which, according to your link, is heroin.
May 16th, 2010 at 11:45PM
Didn’t mean to give that impression. Reed’s drug problem is not merely about heroin.