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
September 28th, 2010 at 11:17AM
Well, given that we’re dealing with Alabama, the chant comes perilously close to solicitation to commit a criminal act. The university administration is just doing its best to stop students from embarking on a life of crime.
I’m trying to include links to the relevant sections of the Alabama code on
conspiracy, sexual misconduct, and deviate sexual contact.
September 28th, 2010 at 11:49AM
Oh dear, we’ve shown up on UD two months in a row! I knew when the administration and board of directors shoved a football team down our throat a couple of years ago that this would happen eventually, but I didn’t expect it so soon.
This reminds me that the University of Alabama (the main one, in Tuscaloosa) tried unsuccessfully to ban their favorite cheer, “Rammer, jammer, yellowhammer, give’em hell, Alabama!” Presumably the problem was the reference to hell, but I always thought it nice that most Alabamians knew their state flower.
September 28th, 2010 at 2:40PM
Thank God they have an administration that focuses relentlessly on big issues, such as vaguely dirty chants. Now they can turn to other pressing ones, such as co-ed cleavage exposure and lining up the chalk in the blackboard trays neatly.
September 28th, 2010 at 4:48PM
Be kind, Prof. Stone. We Alabamians still take umbrage at phrases like “Given that we’re dealing with Alabama . . . .” — even when we deserve it.
Alas, my fair home state likely still has on its books as illegal or lewd many behaviors and gestures that are now commonplace and welcome in modern, liberal society. At least the code is slightly less medieval than the Alabama state constitution, which at 357,000 words is the longest foundational legal document in the world. (Three times as long as the nation of India’s!) And much of it completely backwards. Very few other foundational documents explicitly address prostitution, bingo, mosquito control, exhumation, probate judge salaries, boll weevils, and proper methods for annexing foreign territory; we like to make sure it’s all covered in Alabama.
The best part — it’s been amended so many times and in such Kafkaesque fashion that they actually skipped an amendment. No Amendment 621, just an empty space between 620 and 622.