Could Republican voters be the next awakened fleecees?
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In other Trump/university news: A foreign university has already revoked a Trump honorary degree. Now an American university – Lehigh – has begun talking about the whole honoring Trump thing.
The professor initiating discussion about the Trump degree at Lehigh University specializes in draining away gunk in order to stabilize environments.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You can get your RDA of academic liars, cheats, and greedy frauds at University Diaries. All disciplines, plus athletics.
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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...
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Lee Skallerup Bessette, Inside Higher Education
[University Diaries offers] the kind of attention to detail in the use of language that makes reading worthwhile.
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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...
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Tenured Radical
University Diaries by Margaret Soltan is one of the best windows onto US university life that I know.
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If deity were an elected office, I would quit my job to get her on the ballot.
Notes of a Neophyte
February 14th, 2016 at 10:20AM
Please, please let this man be the GOP nominee.
February 14th, 2016 at 10:42AM
Dr_D: I go back and forth on that. Couple of problems, including the one in the Israeli joke on this page (“What if we win?”). And there’s the business of maybe not wanting to watch what our country looks like – to us, and to the world – having a presidential campaign in which a man like Trump is the nominee.
February 14th, 2016 at 4:44PM
could be our own Berlusconi, the truth is that property developers are heavy duty players political in every city that I know of maybe this will bring them into the light a bit.
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_suicide_of_the_liberal_church_20160124
February 14th, 2016 at 5:22PM
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/ad38087bac/donald-trump-art-of-the-deal-movie
February 16th, 2016 at 1:12AM
“victims of con artists often sing the praises of their victimizers until the moment they realize they have been fleeced”
Those of you who are Hillary or Sanders supporters would be well advised to take note.
February 16th, 2016 at 9:48AM
AYY: They’re so not in Trump’s league. He’s yuge.
February 16th, 2016 at 10:09AM
He is yuge. And the Trump U scam is so petty. He swindled people who really could not afford it out of a few thousand each.
Something smells. Not just the scam. I don’t think he’s as rich as he pretends to be.
February 16th, 2016 at 11:52AM
Well, he’s spending a lot on his campaign.
February 16th, 2016 at 12:01PM
I dunno. Hillary is yuger. She has the Benghazi thing, the Clinton Foundation thing, the email thing, the silencing of the bimbos thing, the coin toss thing,and then there’s a lot of stuff from the 90’s. Nobody in North America is in her league. After all there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t support her. Can’t say that about anyone else.
And Bill, if you think something smells about Trump, just keep your eyes on Hillary.
February 16th, 2016 at 1:00PM
They are both an eyeful, that’s fer sure.
February 17th, 2016 at 7:02AM
1) To AYY: Hillary has all of these “things” that have, time after time, been proven to be great big nothing-burgers. It’s the Clinton rules: Keep digging and asserting that things are awry, and when the thing you are digging for proves not to be there, claim to have unearthed something else, and then dig into that something else until you find nothing, then divert again.
2) To Margaret: Is he spending a lot of money, though? Evidence indicates that, in fact, he’s brilliantly marshaling the power of media coverage to cover the fact that he’s actually not spending a whole lot of money in traditional ways. This might be changing now that this seems to be more than Kabuki Theater for him, but maybe not. It seems clear that he’s actually gathering lots of small donations. I could be wrong, but I’m so far seeing someone leveraging free publicity to the max, which is kind of brilliant, but little indication that Trump is actually truly spending on his own campaign in big ways.