Talk:University of Connecticut/Archive 1

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The University of Connecticut offers a wide range of student activities. Among those activities,a cappella has flourashed to become a popular part of the UConn culture. With 6 a cappella groups on campus, one can easily find up to 450 students at each groups events. The groups on campus include the UConn Conn-Men, UConn's hottest all-male a cappella group, the Chordials, CDN, Rubyfruit, A-Minor and Extreme Measures.


 * If you'd like to make a separate heading in the article for student organizations on campus, that would be more than welcome. However, using POV terms like "hottest all-male a cappella group" is against Wiki policy, so you'll need to be careful with that.  You should also include organizations aside from musical ones. Beginning 19:01, Dec 17, 2004 (UTC)

Naming
Is it "Uconn" or "UCONN" ? I only ask because the article is inconsistent in the uconn's capitalization. --RexRex84 05:40, 18 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Neither. It's UConn, and it's on my mental list of things to tackle.  If you want to go for it, please do so.  (And, as a local, the wrong forms are one of my absolute biggest peeves, for the record.)  Beginning 22:57, 18 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Yes indeed, it is "UConn," a concatenation of its title ( U niv. of Conn ecticut). Case is preserved. PsiCop 21:36, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Yes, it is UConn...spent the best years of my life there..haha — Preceding unsigned comment added by 155.33.240.193 (talk) 15:47, 7 February 2007

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UCONN 2000 merger
The UCONN 2000 article doesn't have much weight to earn a dedicater article but it is sufficiently relevant to deserve a mention in wikipedia. Therefore it is necessary to merge the articles. --Mecanismo | Talk 13:31, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

"Through these two programs, UConn's facilities, especially on the Storrs campus, have been dramatically improved. Some facilities, specifically those housing the chemistry department and the Student Union, have frequently been cited as among the most advanced in the nation." Yea, that's not biased at all. If you're going to say something as bold as "most advanced in the nation," you might want a source to back you up. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.21.90.90 (talk) 01:28, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Inconsistent statistics
The intro says there are over 9,000 graduate students. The infobox says there are 7,000something. Which is correct? --Cryptic C62 · Talk 02:35, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

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New England Regional Plan
There needs to be a section on participation in the New England Regional Plan. It enabled me to go to UConn from Massachusetts with a discounted tuition because UMass didn't have Materials Science Engineering. --Saxophonemn (talk) 20:47, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Ideas - Buildings - Departments
Probably more easily creating information on each building at UConn might be an interesting endeavor.

Additionally seeing the breakup of funding to departments would be cool, I was surprised to find out that the the Materials Engineering department because of the Institute of Material Science is the most funded department in Storrs. --Saxophonemn (talk) 20:55, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Dairy Bar?
Why isn't there any mention of the UConn Dairy Bar and the program it's attached to? --MicahBrwn (talk) 15:52, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I've never been to that Dairy Bar. It's just like a fairy tale to me...Gesalbte (talk) 01:52, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

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Symbols
If the fight song is going to be included, I think it would be wise to include the alma mater as well (as quite honestly...that is the school's song!) In addition, there could be mention of the history of the fight song. UConn Husky is not the original fight song for the university. I know that the original song is in the UConn Songbook. Unfortunately, I don't go to UConn anymore so I don't have quick access to this book (I wish they just put it online!) — Devin.chaloux (chat) 20:36, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

Proposed merge with Torrey Life Science
no-notable part of university Widefox ; talk 11:22, 3 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Agreed. Rytyho usa (talk) 07:06, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Agreed. Topshelvr (talk) 13:12, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

University of Connecticut, motto
please note that in reviewing your UConn page in Wikipedia, I failed to note the existence of the University of Connecticut's latin motto, which is and has always been: "qui transulit sustinet".

I see mottos listed for other universities and colleges but not couldn't locate it in UConn's Wikipedia page.

pls confirm motto with other UConn grads or contact UConn, Storrs, Ct for corroboration, then please list it under the circular UConn icon on the right hand portion of the UConn, Wikipedia page. this is apparently your preferred location for mottos of other universities/colleges., e.g., see Wiki page for NYU,etc.

thank you for your involvement in keeping info free, complete, and truthful to your best effort. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.35.15.150 (talk) 19:30, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

Just copied this here from talk:Citing sources Cinderella157 (talk) 23:31, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

UConn Technology Park
Governor Malloy and University President Herbst allocated a ton of money to create the UConn Tech Park on the newly opened Discovery Drive. It's under construction as I write this and is intended to bring students in for engineering, new media, computer science and other STEM-related academic purposes. There is an entire section of UConn's website dedicated to the Tech Park. I feel that given all of this, it deserves a paragraph under the Storrs campus subsection. LaPorting4Duty 01:18, 5 January 2016 (UTC)

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