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
November 20th, 2007 at 4:36PM
Tea: the foundation of a successful residential college.
November 20th, 2007 at 4:45PM
A student ruined Earl Grey for me by pointing out that it smells like the cereal Fruit Loops…
Now you can’t say that about Assam.
Gobble-gobble.
Bonzo
November 20th, 2007 at 5:12PM
All the poem lacks is a couplet that attempts to rhyme "Hatto."
November 20th, 2007 at 7:33PM
Since it’s all supposed to be tetrameter sonnets (I was inspired by Vikram Seth’s wonderful poem/novel, The Golden Gate), and since I now see that I’ve left a final couplet off of the middle stanza, maybe I’ll try to write the saga of Joyce Hatto in two tightly rhymed lines…
November 25th, 2007 at 10:43AM
http://www.lexic.us/definition-of/Theic
.a fine word to add to your tea-steeped vocabulary.
November 25th, 2007 at 11:39AM
vjesci: Love it! There’s a tearoom in DC called Teaism, and that seems to me to fit nicely with Theic… Now let me go back to that page and see how Theic is pronounced…
November 25th, 2007 at 11:48AM
THEE-ik.
http://books.google.com/books?id=pILuGwYv5JYC&pg=PA155&lpg=PA155&dq=theic+one+who+drinks+too+much+tea&source=web&ots=xmQD6j37IR&sig=aHZtuxAmOud7-G9A9hu1NtiWPrQ
February 28th, 2008 at 4:07PM
[…] not? UD drinks it all the time, follows news of the Teapot Museum, writes poems in praise of it, and enjoys artsy pieces like this one, in the New York Times, about it. […]
August 30th, 2009 at 2:03AM
[…] written a poem for this blog about […]
January 3rd, 2011 at 5:36PM
[…] say about the subject, and it is of course a category on this blog, since UD is a mad tea drinker. She pens poems to it… New Years stir deep thoughts, and some of the deepest thoughts have to do with tea. I’ll also […]