Talk:East Tennessee State University/Archive 1

Logo
The official school logo has been reverted back to the old one, someone should change it. http://www.easttennessean.com/media/storage/paper203/news/2006/08/31/News/Latest.Logo.Has.To.Go-2252349.shtml

Pride U
I have honestly never heard anyone refer to the school as "Pride U". Actually, this strikes me as a joke. It does not make sense to say "students commonly refer to the school as "Pride U" and then follow up with "many students, however, have actually stated that they have never heard the school being refered to as "Pride U"."

Well I added the "many students, however, have actually stated.." stuff. I assume smoeone that attended in the late 1990s changed it back, and still thinks that we students continue to refer to it as that...so, I did a little editing today and fixed it up. Someone also removed the concert information I added. -aaronsnet

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The concert stuff is silly. You are essentially adding current events to a school that has been around since the 1910s and, to be completely honest, these events are not that important in the history of East Tennessee State. Every college has student activities and they are NOT mentioned on any of their wikipedia entries. I didn't check all of them, but no SoCon, A-Sun, or SEC school has their concert schedule listed on their wiki entries. It is probably important to you since you are living through it as a student, but to an alumna or porspective student, it isn't important. If ETSU is only known for two concerts in the last two years, then the school has a big history problem. Why don't we have things about the medical school controversy, construction of the new library, the mini-dome, the new gym, or any of the dorms? Why don't we talk about the East Tennessean or the old Yearbook? What about the killing of the football team? We have nothing on any of the professors, very little about the president, and virtually no student groups listed. All of that is WAY more important and wiki-worthy than the concert fiasco. So, I'm killing it again. (Is this Aaronsnet from #399? If so, greetings from UF)

399? what r u talking about? Well why don't we add something about all of these things. Why don't we have any of the other controversies listed? Maybe someone else needs to add write something about those. Just because it has not been added to the wiki doesn't mean it shouldn't be. Why don't you add to it instead of continuing to kill it. Also, just because it isn't listed on other school's wiki entries doesn't mean that it shouldn't be added to this one. Should we create an entire new article called "ETSU criticism" Does ETSU not want anyone to know what a conservative region the school is located in? It appears that the article continues to have to reflect all that is good in the school and nothing negative.

You are a goof! The article isn't a PR piece for the school, it is a statement of fact. There isn't anything in the article that is glowingly positive for ETSU either, unless you count that fact that a two-bit country singer went there. In the grand scheme of ETSU, the Ludacris deal is a minor minor blip on the radar. As I said before, it is nothing at all noteworthy that ETSU has an activity fee that pays for concerts. There is no political agenda to me taking down the overly-forgettable Ludacris concert deal. Oh yeah. I'm killing it again because, guess what, this isn't your wiki article.

lol.. and it is your article? The controversy was a "statement of fact." The paragraph that was added lists the facts and events that occured during the Ludacris controversy. I will just create a new article for ETSU critisim, then link back on the main ETSU article. If you have the urge to deface that one as well, then we can just keep deleting/adding back.

I've been on campus for 18 years as a student and employee, and have never heard of "Pride U" nor read it in the student newspaper. Also, while "ETSU Pride Week" is an annual event at the beginning of the school year, there is no "ETSU Pride" fund-raising campaign, and there has never been. Removing all the "Pride U" stuff would be best in my opinion. A Google search on "Pride U" ETSU only finds copies of this article.

http://www.etsu.edu/oit/computing/publish/etsu_trans.asp would be the place to select a replacement logo image; I would if I knew how and knew which size to select. -- foetusized

Removed "Pride U" references per the No original research official policy. I tried to verify this claim, but the only references available were linked from this article. Stealthound 05:59, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

"Pride U" still in the article, removing as Stealthhound posted above -- --Foetusized 20:19, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Reverted logo from failed new logo back to the standard blue with white, only logo used by the school currently. -- Stealthound 19:02, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Greek links
Why do we have a section of links to Wikipedia pages for Sororities under External Links? Foetusized 20:33, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Well, I've been bold and removed these Greek links as being simple link spam. They are unnecessary and frankly inappropriate.  Anyone can visit the school's website and learn about the Greek programs if they wish. --  Huntster  T • @ • C 21:09, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Great job on that latest revision, which I'm afraid included cleaning up some of my newbie errors. The article is looking much better now - Foetusized 20:12, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks, and those things were not a big deal...I'm just a little (okay, extremely) obsessive about citation formats, lol. So long as things *are* sourced, it's all good! --  Huntster  T • @ • C 21:30, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Creating sections
I moved the paragraph about the history of ETSU to a new History section. This is the start of a plan to create more sections per WP:UNI - Foetusized 18:01, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

I've added a good number of people to Category:East Tennessee State University alumni, working toward a Noted Alumni section - Foetusized 18:35, 9 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Just do everything you can to avoid list creep, so the Alumni list doesn't keep growing and growing. For that matter, I'd suggest simply linking to the category from the article. --  Huntster  T • @ • C 22:37, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

Tobacco ban?
Does a current event like this require so much coverage in the article? -- Foetusized (talk) 12:12, 23 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Not really. If you can find a way to condense it, please do so. Thanks to the editor that wrote the section though...fantastic for providing good citations. — Huntster (t • @ • c) 22:38, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Article needing section, images of the ETSU Sherrod Library
Bee Cliff River Slob (talk) 18:39, 5 August 2011 (UTC)


 * It looks like ETSU has a bunch on Flickr . Maybe ask them to change the license to something we can use. --CutOffTies (talk) 18:59, 5 August 2011 (UTC)