Bewild’ring Beckettian Bo
Wants a third of the nation to go
And anyone Asian to boot.
Like Endgame his heaven is brute
Inhabited only by Bo
And a few Bo-like people he knows.
Bewild’ring Beckettian Bo
Wants a third of the nation to go
And anyone Asian to boot.
Like Endgame his heaven is brute
Inhabited only by Bo
And a few Bo-like people he knows.
Columbia College has buried the morgue classroom.
For zillions of years I’ve moaned, on this blog, about the morgue classroom – lights turned down low, some stiff voicing PowerPoint, and rows of dead students wrapped in screen shrouds. Put morgue classroom in my search engine to commune with these departed.
Columbia now joins other schools who have finally noticed that listening carefully to your classmates interferes with the sexathon you’ve been watching since you woke up.
Zoo Advertises Tickets for ‘Child Predator Tour’
Louisville is way bloody, and the other night the blood was featured in a video someone took of the shooting death, on the street, of a seventeen year old.
He died outside a restaurant whose liquor license the city has suddenly suspended — says it was “noncompliant” … meaning, I guess, they let in the tyke, and his sixteen year old … friend? killer? and served them alcohol or something.
The place stays open til one AM, and I know you’re wondering not just why the tykes had guns, but also why they were out and about at 1:30 AM, which is when they were shot.
The 16 year old is in critical condition.
An Afghan woman living here legally was accused of being a terrorist by a secretive federal court. Rather than make a fuss about it, she decided to concede her ISIS membership and leave.
I was minding my own business, following a big ol’ fraud story, when I stumbled on Acting Deputy Executive Associate Director on Homeland Security Investigations Matthew Millhollin, and my eyes just POPPED at all those adjectives…
‘Susan Kwosek, an assistant professor of history, said she’s teaching eight classes this semester, twice as many as a normal four-course load.’
Is their former chair of the board of trustees still in prison?… No, he’s out; he’s also done with his three years of post-prison supervision… Put South Carolina State University in my search engine if you want the remarkable story of this remarkable institution.
A whole new set of rules.
Round and round they go about what an absolutely irresistible thing the property is.
But it hasn’t sold; and they’re auctioning it off for (relative) peanuts, and maybe even the auction will fail.
Strange.
When I wrote this post a few days ago, only a few outlets took notice of the great generosity of the Wallace Global Fund toward the eradication of female genital mutilation. The story has now jumped, as it should, to the Guardian. Next stop, one hopes, the NYT.
The federal appeals court in Nawlins boasts a lot of holy rollers, and they’re not about to let the odd Supreme Court precedent get in the way of forcing the Ten Commandments into every public classroom in their state.
Looziana “has assumed the authority to determine and declare religious truth in violation of the Establishment Clause.” Says here.
It’s heartland America – Oklahoma – where folks leave their kids alone with loaded guns.
Resulting in the rather odd outcome of an eleven year old girl arrested for second degree murder. Of her brother.
… it’s going to be harder to shoot all your political enemies to death.
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