Talk:Stanford University student housing

Possible improvements to this article
Thoughts? --Erp (talk) 05:20, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
 * 1) First rename the article to Stanford University student housing.
 * 2) Second perhaps move some of the info from Stanford University's dorm section to here and change the "see also" I added there to a "main article" link.  This should make the main article shorter.
 * 3) Third expand the article to include both graduate student housing and also some of the history of the various residences and of housing in general.  We might not get to case of the disappearing chickens in the early years of the university but certainly things like the change in single sex to coed housing in the late 60s, early 70s.  I'm not sure how many younger people are aware that the east campus housing was almost exclusively male (Encina Hall, Toyon, Branner, Stern, Wilbur) while the west side housing was female (Roble, Lagunita, FloMo).


 * In addition I would merge in the Stanford Row House Program article. --Erp (talk) 03:11, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

Comments re Sterling Quad / Governor's Corner
NOTE: I am moving these comments here; they were on the talk page of a Sterling Quad draft in my userspace. I have merged the draft material into this article and deleted the draft, but I wanted to preserve the comments for future work. --MelanieN (talk) 18:50, 6 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Frankly the whole complex of Governor's Corner is considered relatively quiet for campus housing (people don't join FroSoCo for partying) and also relatively young.  Expanding from Sterling to Governor's Corner does allow the Suites (Anderson, Marx, Griffin, and Jenkins with their associated Dining Societies: Avanti, Beefeater, Bollard and Middle Earth), the independent houses (EAST [Education and Society Academic Theme House] aka Treat, Murray, and Yost), and the Elliot Program Center (use to house the Kennedy Kosher dining co-op, the first official place for kosher eating on campus (circa 1990-2000)).  It may be the first dorm on campus that was built (1982) to be co-ed rather than converted.  I'll do a bit of hunting --Erp (talk) 02:11, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

Update: I have expanded the Governor's Corner section some; more could be added. I am deliberately leaving the names of the namesake professors as redlinks - hoping they will inspire us to consider writing articles about these people. --MelanieN (talk) 21:44, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

Proposed rename
Above it was suggested by U|Erp that this article be renamed to Stanford University student housing. I agree with that. This has been expanded to the point that it is no longer a "list". If no one objects I will go ahead and move it. (I believe that is the correct capitalization, any comments about that?) --MelanieN (talk) 19:26, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Seems right. No objection on my part. --Erp (talk) 01:08, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

Sources for history
Oddly enough the plan suggested for housing was to have the students living in a "cottage system" (houses of 15 or so, segregated by sex of course, perhaps with a group of houses sharing a common kitchen/dining area and surrounded by nice gardens). See http://historicalsociety.stanford.edu/pdfST/ST24no1.pdf But the Stanfords wanted something grander and for the men used the Maloja Palace hotel in Switzerland as a model. I may work some of the history now in the intro into a separate section. --Erp (talk) 01:37, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

Merge Stanford Row House Program with this article
I plan to merge Stanford Row House Program with this article unless there is some good reason not to. I think the overall article would give a much better feel for the history and scope of student housing at Stanford. --Erp (talk) 23:20, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
 * I think it will blend well into the Student Housing article. It doesn't have enough sourcing for a separate article. --MelanieN (talk) 02:16, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Well I finally got around to merging it in.  I've also done a table in my sandbox User:Erp/Sandbox_Table_fiddling though I'm not sure whether it would be a useful addition to this page.  --Erp (talk) 00:58, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

For reference, Stanford student residences with separate articles
Besides the article on the Row which I suggest merging, the following exist Thoughts? --Erp (talk) 22:36, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Florence Moore Hall with Structured Liberal Education. The former could also be merged into this article especially since there are no references.
 * Roble Hall (the second Roble Hall), possibly keep separate
 * Toyon Hall, possibly keep separate

"Robles Blancho"?
The original name of Roble is listed as "Robles Blancho", supposedly Spanish for "white oak". But the Spanish for "white oak" is "Roble blanco". "Robles Blancho" doesn't even look like Spanish. What's the story? --MelanieN (talk) 01:32, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
 * I suspect an error in Leland Stanford's knowledge (or a telegram operator error). The name is in a telegram he sent "For the boys dormitory Encina Hall and for the girls dormitory Robles Blancho Hall, being the names for live oak and white oak". I know it looked wrong but couldn't find further info.  Roble Blanco or Robles Blancos would be correct. --Erp (talk) 02:14, 2 October 2016 (UTC)