Talk:Delaware State University/Archive 1

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"The game was the first any Delaware college team had played in the NCAA Tournament." - That's incorrect. The University of Delaware has played multiple games in the Men's side of the NCAA tournament, such as their first-round loss to Tennessee in 1999. (The women's team has participated in the NCAA Women's Tournament frequently as well.)

News item regarding Library
There is a tidbit or two of information in this article that might be useful to incorporate at some point:
 * --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 01:03, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Public or Private?
Is this university public or private?

Thanks,

Rjan

Shooting
I had just written about this event, and you beat me to it by a mere minute. So I added a current event notice to the top of the page since it's still being investigated. JanderVK —Preceding signed but undated comment was added at 11:33, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

School Colors
I noticed that the school colors for the University are listed as Cherry Red and Columbia Blue, (which is correct), however the color in the second box is the wrong shade of blue (too dark), can someone please fix this? DSUrocks07 (talk) 22:42, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I grabbed the primary blue color from their website and updated the color box. It should be more accurate now.  Bashen (talk) 22:54, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

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List of Historically Black Colleges and Universities -- Correction needed for Delaware State University founding name
This pertains to Wikipedia's List of historically black colleges and universities.

Concerning the HBCU entry for Delaware State University:

Under the column for "Comment" (which list the original name or affiliation of the school), it lists Delaware State University's founding name as the State College for Colored Student. Some recent research in the enabling state legislation that established the college reveals that, although long thought to be the 1891 original name, that is not correct. According to the enacted state legislation (see Laws of Delaware, Chapter 119, page 249), the title of the law gives the correct name -- An Act to establish the Delaware College for Colored Students (adopted May 15, 1891). That is the only full institutional name given in the legislation; subsequent second references in the proceeding sections of legislation are "the College." Because there was already a white Delaware College, it was decided after the legislation was enacted that having two Delaware Colleges -- one for whites and one for blacks -- could be confusing. (The white school was located in Newark, Del., and is now known as the University of Delaware; the black school was located just outside of the state capital of Dover). To address that concern, new legislation was passed and enacted early 1893 (The Laws of Delaware, Chapter 635, page 743) that changed the name of the black school to the "State College for Colored Students." Some recent research on the original legislation revealed the correct founding name. Prior to that, no University officials or alumni appears to have been aware of the original name given in the founding legislation.

To further substantiate, the names of DSU by years:

1891-1893: the Delaware College for Colored Students 1893-1947: the State College for Colored Students 1947-1993: Delaware State College 1993-Present: Delaware State University

In summary, the correct founding name of Delaware State University should be the "Delaware College for Colored Students."

Thanks in advance for your attention to this error.

Carlos Holmes, director of News Services and University historian. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.228.140.165 (talk) 15:34, 22 May 2017‎ (UTC)
 * Mr. Holmes. Thank you for communicating this way. The page List of historically black colleges and universities page reflects what is on the Delaware State University page, (down in the history section which references https://www.desu.edu/history page which does not exist and should almost certainly change to referencing https://www.desu.edu/about/history ). *That* page at DSU doesn't show the change in 1893. However the references to the Laws of Delaware should be enough. However the discussion on this should be on Talk:Delaware State University and I'll copy it there, OK?Naraht (talk) 16:02, 22 May 2017 (UTC)