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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
October 18th, 2013 at 1:05AM
Dear SOS,
Would you be willing to don your schoolmarm persona long enough to comment on a few statements made in this article?
1) Boston.com: “Thomas C. Frongillo, a principal in the firm, has been represting the trustees in their negotiations with Dobelle.”
Question; Represting?
2) Boston.com: “But Dobelle’s publicist, George Regan issued a scathing statement saying that Dobelle’s suspension plans to file a federal lawsuit against the trustees for the “egregious” violation of his rights.”
Question: WHO is going to file a federal lawsuit?
3) Boston.com: “It also came as Attorney General Martha Coakley’s office launched an investigation into whether Dobelle made illegal false claims to obtain reimbursement for his expenses.”
Question: Would that be as opposed to LEGAL false claims?
I’m a lifelong southerner and I found them jarring. I rather thought Boston, with its boatload of top-shelf academics (or so I hear), held itself to a literary higher standard. No?
October 18th, 2013 at 1:45AM
Dear Juliet: Well, this is what prose looks like when a newspaper is excitedly publishing, as it happens, every new morsel of a rather fast-moving story. The reporter is rushing, the editor (if they’re even bothering with one) is rushing, and the result is the mess you’ve noticed. Letters gets dropped (represting); whole phrases get dropped (“is illegal and he”). As for #3, this is not as egregious (Dobelle’s pomposity led him to hire a pompous publicist – bad idea) as #1 and #2, but I suppose it’s redundant.
On academics and literary standards… If I had to guess, I’d guess that the person who wrote the latest Dobelle dispatch is a twentyish recent grad of a journalism schoool.