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 4th, 2015 at 1:54PM
I don’t think lack of alcohol is UVA’s problem. They’ve frequently been rated a top party school, and came in at #1 as recently as 2012.
October 4th, 2015 at 2:16PM
Anon: Yes, there are many big drinkers at UVa, but they’re all already in the stadium. UVa’s problem, I think, is the persistence of a strong minority of studious non-drinkers. These must be dealt with.
October 5th, 2015 at 5:58PM
UVA is conflicted with its own historical tug-of-war over drinking identity. There’s a strong sentiment towards romanticizing the cavalier-like drinker, tempered only by a desire to be taken seriously on the academic and world stage after it got left behind in many regards by other research universities. UVA idolizes the image of the drunk as storyteller, as in adopted writer-in-residence William Faulkner, who spun his inebriation into rich narratives, brutal truths, and a sort of smirking, Southern gentility. At the same time it wants to cultivate a serious image as a place of consequential ideas, embodied by sober men of grand strategy like Edward Stettinius.
Consider the two poles of UVA’s favorite alumni sons (incidentally both drop outs before degree): Edgar Allan Poe, the poetic lush, and Woodrow Wilson, the infrequent drinker and stern decry-er of frivolity. Drinking runs through the student identity — there’s a reason the Kennedys went to law school here — but there is definite tension between those students who want the “Teddy” path and those who want the less-liquored-up “Bobby” route.
Sometimes the two mesh, but UVA has never entirely balanced the public persona of dual identities of “hard-drinker” and “originator of big ideas” the way, say, Princeton has.
October 5th, 2015 at 7:26PM
Crimson05er: Your subtle account of drinking at UVa made me think of the recent interview Patrick Kennedy gave on 60 Minutes about alcoholism in his family. The details are horrible and sad.