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 5th, 2012 at 12:57PM
I’m glad I clicked through–otherwise I’d never have learned that God prohibits butt-chugging but not blackout binges. I feel the muse taking over . . .
God says you can’t drink with your butt
And it’s not ours to ask “why?” or “what?”
It’s like non-cloven hooves,
Or getting tattoos,
Or leaving your penis uncut.
October 5th, 2012 at 1:07PM
Once again, UD fans MUST click through to the original story:
The dean, police, and DA are mad
That we partook in this butt-drinking fad,
But we cherish each rectum
And try hard to protect ’em.
The contusion’s a wedgie gone bad.
October 5th, 2012 at 1:11PM
To butt-chug, first stock up on towels
For the drinker quite often befouls
All standing around
And a large patch of ground
When the vodka comes in through the bowels.
October 5th, 2012 at 1:17PM
This one’s a little forced, but YOU try coming up with a decent rhyme for “sodomy.”
I find rye whiskey bottles in front of me
Slightly better than frontal lobotomy
But drinking’s passé–
I’m not wizened and gray–
For nothing beats ethanol sodomy.
October 5th, 2012 at 1:20PM
You’re on a tear (ouch) Dave – I’ll bring the first one forward in the post, since I too wondered about that part of the student’s explanation: He can’t have buttchugged because he’s a Christian and God doesn’t want him to desecrate his body. That way.
October 5th, 2012 at 1:37PM
We must never fear whiskey on beer.
And beer on whiskey is risky, I fear.
But if bourbon and stout
Come in the door “out”
Proper order is then much less clear.
October 6th, 2012 at 2:09PM
Our mutual friend would have enjoyed the limericks – he was quite a fan of the genre.
October 6th, 2012 at 4:17PM
janet: His would have been MUCH dirtier.
October 7th, 2012 at 3:39AM
His limericks would have indeed been more lubricious, but I miss them, just as I miss him.