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UD is...
"Salty." (Scott McLemee)
"Unvarnished." (Phi Beta Cons)
"Splendidly splenetic." (Culture Industry)
"Except for University Diaries, most academic blogs are tedious."
(Rate Your Students)
"I think of Soltan as the Maureen Dowd of the blogosphere,
except that Maureen Dowd is kind of a wrecking ball of a writer,
and Soltan isn't. For the life of me, I can't figure out her
politics, but she's pretty fabulous, so who gives a damn?"
(Tenured Radical)

Saturday, November 03, 2007

Beauty Regiment:

Insanely Attractive
Classicist...
















... agrees with UD that Rate My Professors is a good thing: "It is a real example of students' civil responsibility [civic responsibility?] and holding faculty responsible for what and how they teach," says Derek Collins of the University of Michigan.

RMP recently named Collins hottest professor at Michigan.

... 'Collins said the attention is flattering but that his job is to teach, not to look great every day. He said he doesn't have a particular beauty regiment [That'd be regimen.... Although... UD just Googled beauty regiment, and everyone seems to use that, too.] or celebrity icon and that looking glamorous isn't one of his priorities.'