Talk:Clarkson University
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- We should definitely have some pictures of the campus on the wiki page. Only problem is they have to be personal pictures, we cant take them off of the Clarkson Website unless we have permission.
- I'd like to see the whole article expanded more... if you look at other similar schools to Clarkson, they all have more in-depth articles. Anyone's welcome to contribute, I'd going to try to tackle this when I get some free time this semester
[edit] Princeton review
So, are Princeton Review rankings relevant, or not? If you're going to include the positive ones, it seems reasonable to include the negative ones- they're equally notable, right? Or we could cut all the Princeton rankings, if they aren't that notable after all... Maybe instead of edit warring, we could seek consensus on the talk page. That would be fun, right? -FisherQueen (Talk) 20:17, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
I definitely think they are relevant and as a former student (who did enjoy going there, in spite of the rankings, which are definitely true, especially the library one, most high school libraries are nicer) it's good to be informed about both the good and the bad of a school. When I put the rankings up I didn't realize they had been put up before and edited before, each time by an anonymous IP. Seems a little fishy to me. As I said in the edit, rather than worrying about who finds out about the rankings they should try and do something about them. -Joeblow15 14:49, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
I, too, am a former student at Clarkson and think that some of these ranking are ridiculous. My understanding is that the Princeton Review did not objectively come up with them, but that they were from student polls. How can Clarkson students (or students of any other university) rank their library as "worst". Have they gone to all of the other universities and compared them? OK, so they don't like their library, to give any credence to a student poll saying it is the worst is without merit. By the way, the library was state of the art and brand new when I went there; we even had Jane Pauley from the Today Show on campus and got an article published in the London Times about how revolutionary it was. Believe it or not, it was very controversial. The other one that bothers me is saying that Clarkson has the unhappiest students? How is that measured and who is making that decision. Again, this is a student poll! It's totally different to say "70% of the students say they are unhappy" than it is to say they are the "least happy students". I just don't think this info belongs. There is not enough information on how the poll was conducted, how the questions were asked, and who answered them.
[edit] Merge Clarkson School Discussions
I made my comments on merging the Clarkson School article into this one on the discussion of the Clarskon School, but in short, I'm against it. -Walden 19:01, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
- Against Bridging year is outside the classic 4 year curiculum. Expand as a separate article.Racepacket 03:07, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
- Against The_Clarkson_School's_Bridging_Year does not belong in this article. I would however propose renaming the article to The Clarkson School and broadening the article's scope. I agree that the bridging year does not need its own article, but it belongs in a more clearly named article about TCS as a whole. --EightBall1989 00:40, 27 March 2007 (UTC) (note: I am a TCS student, so I may not have a neutral POV)
