Talk:University of Denver/Archive 1

Recent Mascot Changes
I nominated this because this quotation in particular is biased: "Nonetheless, on October 20, 2008, Chancellor Robert Coombe opposed the will of the overwhelming majority via an email to students, citing that Boone "does not reflect the broad diversity of the DU community"[21]. Princeton Review indicates that minorities compose just 7% of the student body[22]. The issue has been covered by the Denver Post[23], NBC affiliate KUSA [24], and ABC affiliate KMGH[25]. Editorials by Valerie Richardson in the Washington Times[26] and Mike Rosen in the Rocky Mountain News[20] have been highly critical of the administration." (KG)

Religious Affiliation
DU is cited as a Methodist school, and there's no doubt it was founded as one, but I'm pretty sure it's now officially a secular school. From the 2009-2010 Undergraduate Bulletin as published by the university, "While the University endorses no religious practice, official recognition has been granted to individual representatives of religious organizations that have covenanted to abide by specific University standards. Members of the religious community recognized by the University and supervised by Student Life include representatives from Jewish (Hillel), Protestant, Roman Catholic (Newman) and other traditions" (page 23). It's also noteworthy that no religious occasions are observed on campus, though the school chapel offers services on certain holy day, but there are always multiple services from various denominations. Am I wrong? I mean, I see where the Methodists claim DU on their web site, but I can't find anywhere the university acknowledging any link, and I definitely see several places where they claim secular neutrality. Can anyone shed light on this? If there are no new sources brought to light, I'll go ahead and change the affiliation and cite the bulletin. Mfrisk (talk) 00:39, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

As far as I know, there were official Methodist representatives on the U of Denver Board of Trustees into the 1980s, and the legal name is stil Colorado Seminary, but the school has really been secular for many years now.

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Football
There is word that Denver will be fielding a football team soon. This website may help: 

Neighborhood
University of Denver is primarily in the University neighborhood. See this pdf from the City and County of Denver:

Neutrality
A lot of the text here seems to have been written by the school itself and certainly violates NPOV... I imagine a lot of it is from the DU website. If there's a lack of controversey, i guess you could make one up. Would that NPOV it?


 * I just nominated the section on programs for NPOV check. It feels like an advertisement. Maybe it was written by the school, or just by students with a lot of pride in their school, but either way, it's largely uncited and needs cleanup. The section on buildings also seems a bit overly-impressive, but I think it's justified since the campus is extremely ornate and features a lot of state-of-the art facilities as a result of the $38,000 annual tuition. Mfrisk (talk) 22:02, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

"David Maxwell - Lives in 304 and loves the crockpot" article vandalism, I looked up the edit history and saw that this was indeed vandalism, removed it Cananadian402 20:40, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

The "Background and Rankings" section states that the reverse initials -- i.e. DU -- is a common theme amongst Midwestern universities. It cites University of Oklahoma (OU), University of Colorado (CU) and University of Kansas (KU) as examples. This is wrong on two accounts: a) none of these states are in the Midwest and b) none of the universities that are actually in the Midwest (e.g. University of Michigan, University of Illinois, University of Cincinnati) format their initials this way. -- Stereoisomer 04:11, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Denver Boot
The Denver Boot was invented by Frank Marugg, I have read the University of Denver's Alumni site and it does list Charles Winter as the inventor, so if anyone has more information about this, it would be appreciated GWatson  • TALK 07:06, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Here's the reference that the Denver boot article claim is based on. It was recently removed for some reason but I just replaced it. Equazcion • argue/improves • 13:51, 10/3/2007
 * A search on Google shows that "Charles Winter" and "Denver Boot" only occur on the same page in about 4 instances, and other than this Wikipedia article, they all are Denver alumni sites. In contrast, a search for "Frank Marugg" and "Denver Boot" yields over 200 results. Equazcion • argue/improves • 13:54, 10/3/2007

Seems to me 40 odd years ago I heard this unit was first used in Paris, France. (AMCKen (talk) 07:48, 10 October 2008 (UTC))

Campus
Can someone include that DU's campus is 125 acres (http://www.du.edu/experience/life/look-of-campus/) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.100.145.162 (talk) 20:24, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

Metro State / Denver State
Napoleon complex at its finest with what's going on with DU/Metro name situation. —Preceding unsigned comment added by JLAmidei (talk • contribs) 19:44, 18 May 2011 (UTC)

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