User talk:Redandwhiterpi/Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Tradition

Page overhaul
I am beginning a page overhaul. There is too much spurious information here, and much of the tone is unencyclopaedic. I don't have a lot of time to work on it, so hopefully others will pick up were I leave off.

I am also starting a new page: History of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, (temporarily, a draft is being prepared here: User:Danski14/prep3 )which will need work, more work then I personally have time for. Some of the historical information from this page will be merged there. In the future, it is possible the entire traditions page may be merged there, but right now I think we should leave this as a standalone page and see how things go. Danski14(talk) 00:47, 19 June 2011 (UTC)

Possible future topics
Here are topics which were empty on the orginal page. Please only include these once you have written an orginal summary which is referenced. Important hockey stuff:
 * Big Red Freakout!
 * Black Friday

Other traditions/stuff
 * Hill Rush
 * "Ah Me My Poor Freshie"==
 * Alby
 * Inanimate Objects Party - could add a link to this page
 * Amos Eaton Chair -- this one is interesting.
 * Hockey Chants==
 * "Knowledge and Thoroughness"
 * Rensselaer Hall of Fame

Events of questionable notability:
 * Study Days @ the Heffner Alumni House
 * Victorian Stroll
 * Winter Carnival
 * White Out
 * Mace
 * Meanest Man on Campus
 * Mr. and Mrs. RPI
 * Homecoming stuff

The following I don't think warrant their own section, but maybe a section on "RPI Class gifts" or something ( assuming it can be referenced, which is doubtable)
 * Class Banners
 * Class Gifts
 * Class Ring

Student Activities -- again, I question if these topics belong here, some of them have articles already. Perhaps a separate section about clubs will be warranted.
 * Executive Board
 * Glee Clubs
 * Red & White Student Organization
 * Student Publications
 * The Rensselaer Polytechnic - has an article. Perhaps history of other newspapers should go there. S&W used to have an article, but was deemed not quite notable enough.
 * The Transit
 * The Pub
 * The Bachelor
 * Rensselaer Engineer
 * The Players -- they used to have an article, can be seen here: User:Titan12022/RPI Players. Article was deleted as non-notable
 * UPAC
 * WRPI

--Danski14(talk) 00:47, 19 June 2011 (UTC)