Snapshot from Home.
Snapshot from Home.
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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.
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 6th, 2017 at 5:08PM
Oh, that service makes a certain amount of sense. Imagine someone had old printouts with your SSN and banking information on them. You wouldn’t want them just getting thrown in the trash.
December 6th, 2017 at 6:30PM
This is a great service. You bring out your material to be shredded and dump it in a hopper. It goes into a chute and passes through a series of chopping wheels. You can watch this happening on a screen, which is in that panel the person is looking at on the side of the truck. It’s quite a show as the paper flies around and gets cut to tiny pieces. After a while, the blizzard of paper stops and you just see the choppers spinning clear. They then print out a receipt that shows that you had so many pounds of shredding done. Watching records and documents getting comminuted is very satisfying.
December 6th, 2017 at 8:02PM
Ok, Polish Peter, “comminute” is definitely a new word for me. Just looked it up. Thanks.
December 6th, 2017 at 8:03PM
wayward: Absolutely. Mainly, though, I just love the phrase secure destruction you can trust. I think it’s the first line of a … love poem?
December 6th, 2017 at 9:12PM
Although some definitions of “comminution” limit it to pulverizing and grinding, I’ve also heard it applied to destructive processes involving shearing and chopping, such as what a garbage disposal in a kitchen sink does. That’s very analogous to what happens to paper in the Iron Mountain secure destruction process. So I think it fits. Fun word to drop into a casual conversation.
December 7th, 2017 at 9:17AM
Did they steal that slogan from the Marine Corps?
December 7th, 2017 at 9:44AM
Bill R: I think it’s original – I mean, it REALLY caught my eye when I was walking to class in Foggy Bottom.
December 7th, 2017 at 10:45AM
Meanwhile, in orthopedics comminuted fracture is a standard term. It describes fractures where the bone shatters into fragments rather than a clean break. Those are much trickier to manage.