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
March 25th, 2014 at 6:42PM
I was once at a company where we had a customer (a mid-level exec of another company) whose nickname was “Muffin,” which she put on her business card.
A woman at our company thought this was very strange, and said, rather stridently “I’d rather put *shitface* on my business card than “Muffin.”
(No, the customer wasn’t there at the time)
March 25th, 2014 at 7:15PM
david: funny!
March 25th, 2014 at 10:08PM
Ah, but he’s no Big Bopper. Recall watching Sha Na Na as a kid. And how bizarre they were at Woodstock. And then one of them became a linguistics prof.
Meanwhile, one of our faculty goes by Torch.
http://scholar.gse.upenn.edu/tlytle
March 25th, 2014 at 11:00PM
“Torch” is very good. Manly. Plus, in these legalization times, very mary jane.
And yes – in searching for Bopper‘s possible causes, I found myself revisiting the Big Bopper. My sisters and I used to sing – in very deep voices – Chantilly Lace during long family car drives. Much laughter.
March 26th, 2014 at 12:33AM
As long as he calls himself Bopper
It tells us he’s somehow improper –
Not really serious,
Almost imperious,
And setting him up for a cropper.
March 26th, 2014 at 5:32AM
Mortified to realize I conflated the Big Bopper with Bowzer. The perils of commenting when in one’s cups. Or something.
March 26th, 2014 at 6:13AM
All is forgiven.
March 26th, 2014 at 10:38AM
Funny, I have seen newspapers give their standards on when they use nicknames in quotes when printing someone’s name. Some newspapers restrict the use of nicknames in quotes to mob figures. Might want to check his background again.
March 26th, 2014 at 6:09PM
Speaking of the Big Bopper, I certainly hope that if you ever encounter this Dean around GW you greet him with “Hellooo, Baby!” and ask him if he’s recently been down I-66 to Chantilly. So many possibilities of song titles to drop into conversation with him. He’ll wonder why everyone he talks to punctuates conversations with “That’s What I’m Talking About!” or “It’s The Truth, Ruth!”
Alternately you can just indiscriminately refer to any staffers with him as “Buddy” and “Ritchie.”
March 27th, 2014 at 6:10AM
Hello Margaret!
I live in a country where the prime minister is called “Bibi” and the minister of defense “Boogey”.
Janet
March 27th, 2014 at 8:31AM
janet: And of course Golda – exactly like Margaret Thatcher – got the adorable “Iron Lady” nickname.
March 27th, 2014 at 8:44AM
I understand from a former Navy pilot that nicknames /call signs in naval aviation are not chosen by the individual but rather by his peer group, and are generally based on something he did that was dumb and/or embarrassing.