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
October 27th, 2010 at 3:37PM
Whatever course GW chose to take on this issue, the odds are pretty high that a few tens of thousands of dollars (at least) will be siphoned off into legal fees.
October 27th, 2010 at 3:45PM
I’ve never heard of anything so ridiculous and offensive in my entire life. Slavoj Zizek was so right when he said: “What lurks at the horizon. . . is the nightmarish prospect of a society regulated by a perverse pact between religious fundamentalists and the politically correct preachers of tolerance and respect for the other’s beliefs: a society immobilised by the concern for not hurting the other, no matter how cruel and superstitious this other is.”
October 27th, 2010 at 7:00PM
If Muslims believe Muslim women shouldn’t have to share the pool, surely they should build their own?
October 27th, 2010 at 7:51PM
What about setting aside a couple of hours for men only and women only? Might this solve the problem?
October 27th, 2010 at 10:39PM
What happens when someone says their religion forbids men and women to sit together in *classes*?? Or, even better, when someone comes along with a religion requiring them to swim naked?…
October 27th, 2010 at 11:14PM
A few months ago, our campus pool started such a policy (2 extra hours a week of “for women only” time.) The experiment ended within a couple of weeks and I never heard anything formal about it. I assumed that this was tried at the request of muslim members of campus community but was never able to figure out where the idea came from or why it wasn’t done for more than a few weeks.
October 27th, 2010 at 11:15PM
Actually, I should correct myself, the policy was “women and children only.”
October 28th, 2010 at 9:21AM
@david foster: Actually, some people have even really dangerous ideas – like young Muslim lady doctors should not uncover their arms during scrubbing
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1577426/Female-Muslim-medics-disobey-hygiene-rules.html
October 28th, 2010 at 2:12PM
@david foster: Actually, your idea regarding swimming naked for religious reasons is something which should be explored.
We have, a lot of religions which embrace fun, like the church of the subgenius (Bob’s name be praised), but some of you science fiction fans might know “Stranger in a Strange Land” by Robert A. Heinlein.
Some people actually founded a “Church of all Worlds”, very much along the lines of the book.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_All_Worlds .
Now if I recall correctly the original religion there was very much water centered and very much free spirited.
So I wonder why this religion is not that popular on Campuses. Show me a geek who would not like a church service where people prance around naked, read science fiction, and…
Unfortunately I am a confirmed atheist (and Mrs. econprof would not be amused) but older professors would have a perfect excuse for performing spiritual services with young Coeds.
and maybe, if it is the true religion, and adepts would be able to grok things – would it be bad if one had the ability to vanish unpleasant people with a hard look at them (So if some administrators or snowflakes annoy you – just look at them and they are transported into another realm..
So – who will establish the first nest?