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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
January 6th, 2011 at 10:55PM
This sounds like it is from the Onion: ““I’m always walking around with ideas,” she said. “It would be fun to do some of those.””
January 6th, 2011 at 11:13PM
Jeff: Yes. A lot of it sounds like the Onion (Area Woman Offended for the Fourth Time in One Day).
January 7th, 2011 at 8:33AM
God.
This reminds me of the city council of a certain college town that spent over one year debating the appearance of newspaper vending boxes and whether the companies should be forced to conceal the metal sides with tasteful wood veneer. This was followed by a particularly nasty six month debate over the size of US flags flown by local businesses.
January 7th, 2011 at 1:30PM
With names like Marina DeLune and Karin Spitfire, poetry seems to be in the air in Camden.
January 7th, 2011 at 5:52PM
Hey, I’m a rustic and I like living out in the sticks, whether this makes me an idiot I’ll leave to the discretion of the reader.
The comments on that article were priceless and some one submitted a link that seemed to explain the situation more in depth. Methinks the dear poet was perhaps a might thin-skinned. Where’s Ezra Pound when you really need him?
January 7th, 2011 at 9:31PM
A J: I’m glad you mentioned the hilarious comment thread on the article. I loved it too.
January 8th, 2011 at 8:08AM
I don’t think that sort of idiocy is confined to rural life. I’ve seen idiocy in all shapes and sizes in metropolitan areas, too.