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
August 22nd, 2015 at 11:03AM
Orphan text?
August 22nd, 2015 at 6:45PM
Yeah, at first I also thought there might be a block of text missing — a common enough error since the onset of cut-and-paste editing — but now I think it’s just a clumsy attempt at a transition (from the fact that there was a shooting to the idea that violent crimes are unusual in that part of town, which has a “quaintness….” etc).
Offered as it is without attribution, the “quaintness” bit is editorializing. It could be cut entirely, since the quote from Millican — “This is a nice, little town” (I’d have cut the comma) — makes the point sufficiently.
After watching the video, I have a better idea of what’s happened: the written version of the story is incorrectly using conventions from TV journalism. The transition and editorializing that seem so jarring in print are acceptable on TV, which has less formal standards generally and where the visuals help viewers make sense of transitions.
Also in need of correction is the tense shift, from “says” (which on TV conveys a sense of immediacy) to “said” (standard in print).
Sorry for the disquisition. I guess I miss my old jobs as newspaper editor and college newspaper adviser. I’ve worked with plenty of aspiring journalists writing at the level of Tess Maune. She’s almost where she ought to be, but still needs some mentoring.
August 22nd, 2015 at 6:50PM
Dr_ — All true. I’d add that the images provided of the town make clear that it’s anything but quaint and attractive. It looks very grim, very stark. Which makes the editorializing that much more bizarre.