… she ain’t go no tv.
… she ain’t go no tv.
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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.
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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.
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It’s [UD's] intellectual honesty that makes her blog required reading.
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There's always something delightful and thought intriguing to be found at Margaret Soltan's no-holds-barred, firebrand tinged blog about university life.
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You can get your RDA of academic liars, cheats, and greedy frauds at University Diaries. All disciplines, plus athletics.
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Margaret Soltan at University Diaries blogs superbly and tirelessly about [university sports] corruption.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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[University Diaries offers] a broad sense of what's going on in education today, framed by a passionate and knowledgeable reporter.
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If deity were an elected office, I would quit my job to get her on the ballot.
Notes of a Neophyte
March 22nd, 2013 at 7:04AM
Margaret,
I missed these ads on my recent visit to the US, probably because my sister never turns on her television. And frankly, I’m glad I missed them; I am not amused. The ad that disturbed me the most is the ad for Abilify – which is an anti-psychotic drug. It is unconscionable to attempt to market these types of medications directly to patients. The pharmaceutical companies probably justify these ad compaigns by citing the patients’ right-to-know. (Sorry – I shouldn’t say “patient”, I should say “client”.) But how much can the average person, without a background in medicine, really understand how a medication work?
So far we haven’t fallen this low in Israel, but since we are always imitating the US, we probably will.
Regards,
Janet
March 22nd, 2013 at 7:29AM
Janet: The ads so upset me that I didn’t watch them on the article site. I’ve seen enough of them – in print and on tv – to have learned to look the other way. Laughter seems the best – only? – bet at this point, so I enjoyed the Jezebel piece.
My friend Al Frances is, however, fighting the good fight on the latest DSM. I do what I can to spread the word.
March 22nd, 2013 at 11:18AM
You’re not missing much, UD. On the odd occasions I get to see network TV any more, about 75% of the ads seem to be for pills.
March 22nd, 2013 at 6:03PM
Hmm. Depressed people are watching television. Direction of causation?
March 22nd, 2013 at 7:18PM
JND: Right. I don’t drive a car, and I don’t watch tv. And I’m a pretty jolly sort.