A curious conference at Bard
Has left its professors quite scarred.
When asked about Summa
They say Man what a bumma.
Disregard! Disregard! Disregard!
************************
UD thanks Josh.
A curious conference at Bard
Has left its professors quite scarred.
When asked about Summa
They say Man what a bumma.
Disregard! Disregard! Disregard!
************************
UD thanks Josh.
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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
May 16th, 2013 at 9:39AM
I suppose any possible comment will be off-topic, so there’s this:
http://blogs.seattletimes.com/microsoftpri0/2013/05/10/those-weird-and-wacky-windows-8-ads-what-language-are-they-in/
All three ads are excellent but the first, “Beautiful and Fast” is very special.
May 16th, 2013 at 9:46AM
MattF – The third is… words fail me.
May 16th, 2013 at 10:18AM
Lovely! Loathsome! Limericks!
A friend reached this tag line: “One Flew Over the Ivory Tower.”
I was thinking that while Birnbaum failed to integrate science and religion, he at least managed the unification of scholarly integrity and collegiate investment.
Or maybe he has managed to invent a new concept? “I call it: Disintegrity!”
May 16th, 2013 at 11:04AM
Well hell, for a free trip to Bard
I’d abandon all my self-regard.
There’d be none left in our ranks
If we discarded all cranks
Even those who print books by the yard.
May 16th, 2013 at 11:14AM
This is a little outside my usual, but I noticed in reading the Chronicle piece that chunks of it could be dropped in a limerick without much trouble. Thus I offer (and claim precedence until proven otherwise) the first found poetry dada limerick, containing not a word of my original poesy.
Approach to capitalization — idiosyncratic.
Line breaks random or, if you like, poetic.
INFINITE DIVINE EXTRAORDINARIATION
has no academic affiliation.
A pile of T-shirts with Summa Metaphysic.
May 16th, 2013 at 11:16AM
Rats. Scooped again:
http://verbatimpoetry.blogspot.com/search/label/limerick
May 16th, 2013 at 11:23AM
Dave: LOL. Of course, this story makes the writing of limericks a bit too easy for the elite ranks of limerick writers like ourselves. But as you say… Well hell…
May 16th, 2013 at 1:14PM
Hello Margaret!
Birnbaum is actually a Hassid of Herschel Goldwasser.
The plot gets thicker.
Janet
May 16th, 2013 at 1:39PM
janet: Laugh Out Loud! It all becomes clearer now…
Margaret