Talk:Rollins College/Archives/2015

Edited College of Arts and Sciences
There was no room in the normal slot for noting changes on the section's edit page -- the footnote in the heading took up all the room! So I'm using this to note more fully that I struck out a final paragraph in the section on the College of Arts and Sciences, as it was clearly a case of vandalism. Interested parties should check the page history to see what was originally there before my edit. (It also appears that I was not signed in when I did the edit; I claim the "honor.")

Harper 14:56, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Is this a legitimate article?
I think the article belongs, but it reads as if someone plagiarized it from a Rollins brochure. The last I knew, this wasn't acceptable Wikipedia methodology. Perhaps this needs to be examined and rewritten by a knowledgeable person?

Harper 14:56, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject class rating
This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as stub, and the rating on other projects was brought up to Stub class. BetacommandBot 16:47, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

should we mention...
In listing the "amenities" shouldn't this article mention WPRK and the Sandspur? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.30.225.17 (talk) 03:39, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

For all Rollins people
As the class of 2000 here I created some useboxes to put on your Wikipedia userpage (I'm looking at you Chris Russo, Drew Garrabo, CEO of Bellsouth etc.)

Feel free to use: Marketdiamond (talk) 05:39, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
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Kurt Vonnegut mention worth including?
Kurt Vonnegut spoke at Rollins in 1988, and has said he based some of the school from "Hocus Pocus" on it. Rollins is directly mentioned in the book: http://books.google.com/books?id=iK7tOOKaAeQC&pg=PA130&lpg=PA130&dq=kurt+vonnegut+rollins+college&source=bl&ots=FJ3z9l5-6p&sig=zXZ5h7lVlfeTwjQRsqaHgary8k0&hl=en&ei=AvmDTpjjBMf10gHjze2xAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDgQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=kurt%20vonnegut%20rollins%20college&f=false

I'd say that's significant enough to warrant a mention. Yes? No? SLEPhoto (talk) 04:57, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

As there's been no conversation on this one way or the other & since there're similar listings elsewhere (Wabash College for instance) I went ahead & added this. I have a more specific cite for the date of Vonnegut's visit, but it's an ezinearticles link (by one of the student journalists who attended a press conference before the event) & is blocked by the Wikipedia spam filters. SLEPhoto (talk) 05:04, 20 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Good job adding it, would be interested in learning much more about this connection. Marketdiamond (talk) 00:43, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

I note that someone recently added an unsourced mention of a local film project (?), "Snow White and the Seven Dorks," to this section of the article and someone else responded by removing the entire section. As the Vonnegut piece has historical & literary significance in terms of the school's history & Vonnegut's work (as an influence) I restored the section but removed the film line.JamesG5 (talk) 08:48, 5 July 2014 (UTC)

A listing of famous persons who visited campus
I wonder if someone in the records office or perhaps on campus could put together a listing of the famous individuals who were guests of the campus? Thanks.  Market St.⧏  ⧐ Diamond Way  01:09, 5 November 2013 (UTC)
 * How would a list of people who merely visited the college add to a readers' understanding of the college? ElKevbo (talk) 01:36, 5 November 2013 (UTC)
 * I misspoke in my title, "guests of the college" may be more appropriate which I described in the text. For instance Oliver Stone recently had a sort of "roundtable" event at the college, the longtime mayor of Orlando (Bill Fredrick) that oversaw its transition from rural small-town south (1970s) to sun belt metropolis (1980s-1990s) did a roundtable circa 1998 and Fred Fielding of the Reagan administration also did one around that time.
 * The subject matter is higher liberal arts education, so in that vein it would help readers better understand what kind of education Rollins provides.   Market St.⧏  ⧐ Diamond Way   03:52, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

WRCC hoax reverted

 * This edit was fabricated information added by well-known wikipedia muckracker Gregory Kohs on 27 February 2014, to illustrate the ability to surreptitiously and successfully vandalize wikipedia.  Kohs disclosed enough hints to readily find the edit in the comments to a 20 July article on this sort of behavior at Wikipediocracy. (see his 21 July comment).  Gamaliel then found the hoax and reverted it.--Milowent • hasspoken  14:59, 24 July 2014 (UTC)

Hamilton Holt school
This piece of biased material from an unreliable source (blog solely about the HH school) has been added in twice in the last 2 days: ''Most of the “professors” assigned to teach Hamilton Holt students are not. They are contract instructors hired off the street, community college teachers without PhDs and local “professionals” who think they can teach college. http://hamiltonholtfool.wordpress.com/2014/09/18/mediocre-profs/'' (Linked as reference) Looks like this is the work of new editors, please take a look at WP:NPOV and WP:RELIABLE_SOURCES. They're a big help when you're learning the system here. The rest of the HH info is good, tho some needs sources.JamesG5 (talk) 22:18, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

Rollins is not the oldest college in Florida
I just read the Chronicle of Higher Education ad for Rollins' new president and was surprised to see the school noted as the oldest college in Florida. Can someone help correct the record here on Wikipedia and elsewhere? The citation used to legitimize the claim may be authentic (a House of Representatives proclamation) but the information contained therein is incorrect. Both Florida State and the University of Florida were chartered in 1851...opened doors in 1857 and 1853 respectively. FSU never closed it doors through the Civil War and has a state historical marker on the steps of the administration building commemorating the oldest continuous site of higher education in Florida. It's a shame Rollins has allowed such a false claim to persist. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.186.161.47 (talk) 14:17, 3 October 2014 (UTC)

External links modified
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