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
December 14th, 2013 at 4:34AM
As I have pointed out already, there is an awful lot of state sponsored segregation in our universities. Who do you think pays for university sports teams?
December 14th, 2013 at 5:13AM
Farah: The distinction that’s been made throughout has to do with the nature of a public meeting at a university. You are perfectly right that there are circumstances (sports teams) where the players will usually be all of one gender (though I assume you’re aware that all American university sports programs have women in administrative positions overseeing all teams of both genders, and several universities – Rutgers, for one example – have coaches and athletic directors who are women). But a football team is not a public gathering. Try sex segregating the football stadium and see what happens.
A church may sex segregate at its own, private, religious gatherings, and indeed a religious sect may segregate much more broadly in its private religious life.
The all ultra-orthodox Jewish New York town of Kiryas Joel is currently being sued by the ACLU because it contains a tax-payer supported public park which the town has sex segregated.
When a particular state is paying for your particular activities; and, more deeply, when those activities are open to the public of that state, a public which proceeds with its civic life under certain fundamental assumptions (freedom of assembly, freedom from bigotry, egalitarianism, equality of the sexes), you cannot (as the unfortunate UUK is now discovering) simply decide one day that it’s okay to abridge those rights. You cannot decide that, no, actually, this is Saudi Arabia, not England, and this country does not guarantee freedom for its citizens. You cannot decide that since it offends some men in England that women take to the public domain and drive, then women can’t drive. That since it offends some men that women sit next to men, women can’t sit next to men.
These men are free to rent rooms where they can play out their sex fantasies. They may not impose those fantasies on the public in the public domain.