Talk:University of Tennessee

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Question: What is the purpose of the reference to Justin Bailey in the Timber pass line? Avery W. Krouse 03:02, Mar 6, 2005 (UTC)

I have deleted the gratuitous shot at parting UT offensive coordinator Randy Sanders TKE

Contents 1 Renaming & Redirection Explanation 2 Poll on University Naming Conventions 3 Vol User Box Template 4 Clones 5 Notable Alumni 6 Campuses of the University 7 Greek controversy

[edit] Renaming & Redirection Explanation

Over the past two days, I've progressively undertaken an effort to rename and redirect pages associated with the UT system to reflect correct nomenclature as defined by the university itself. It's for that reason that:

• University of Tennessee at Knoxville initially hosted the article, briefly redirected to The University of Tennessee, Knoxville and now points to the article's correct location at University of Tennessee.
• University of Tennessee at Memphis's article was moved to University of Tennessee Health Science Center with redirects placed appropriately.
• University of Tennessee Space Institute is coming soon.
• University of Tennessee System is now located at University of Tennessee system.
• Associated abbreviations (UT System, UT system, UT Knoxville, UTK, and UT) now redirect correctly.

Feel free to follow up behind me and make sure I've not goofed. Thanks. - Basileus 13:11, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Poll on University Naming Conventions

A new survey has been created to assess consensus with respect to university naming conventions, specifically regarding the usage of terms like "University of Texas" vs. "University of Texas at Austin". The poll addresses this issue both in the specific case of the "University of Maryland" and proposes an amendment to Wikipedia:Naming conventions which could impact a large number of additional pages, including this one. Dragons flight 17:45, Mar 27, 2005 (UTC)

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Go Vols!whicky1978 16:53, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Vol User Box Template

Folks,

Please freely use the box I just made. Go Vols!--Zereshk 10:34, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Clones

Do you all think we need some info on all the cows they have cloned on the ag campus? That seems big. cows BDSIII 19:51, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Notable Alumni

I have re-added Gene Wojciechowski to the notable alumni section. Woody Paige is included on this list (as he should be) and Wojciechowski is generally considered a more respected sports writer than Paige. Wojciechowski even walked on to the UT football team. --cougs2000 12:24, 18 May 2006

• Paige never graduated... should he be included?CJC47 18:53, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
  • "Alumni" refers to all former students, regardless of whether or not they received a degree. --Cougs2000 20:02, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Campuses of the University

I've changed the opening paragraph of the article. If we take "UT" to mean UTK and not the UT System, then UT Martin and UTC are not a part of UT. Chattanooga and UT Martin are primary campuses of the UT System, just like UTK. To include those campuses in the opening paragraph implies they are branch campuses of UTK. I've left the history section untouched, as I feel it accurately describes the relationship of UTC and UT Martin in the UT System. M-State Moc 01:46, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Your edit wasn't quite accurate but your point is accurate. There is naturally a bit of confusion when discussing the flagship institution of a state system as the terminology is usually not very clear. UT is not the only institution/article with this issue. We could probably do with examining the entire article to see if we can do a better job making this distinction more clear. --ElKevbo 03:56, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

It begs the question whether the article should reflect the campus or the university system, with a separate article for only information on the knoxville campus. -- Huntster ^{T • @ • C} 04:53, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Agreed. I certainly don't blame anyone for the confusion. It seems that it's only been in the last few years that the UT system itself has really been trying to iron out this distinction, at least with their web presence (tennessee.edu). --ElKevbo 06:16, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Well, I took 'it' to mean UT. If 'it' meant 'the UT system', then it was accurate as was. Your edit to clarify the ambiguous pronoun helps. I'm not entirely convinced that line belongs in the opening paragraph of the article (since the article is about the UT flagship, not the system), but I won't touch it further. The confusion is gone, so I'm done. Thanks. M-State Moc 21:53, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, you're definitely right: the pronoun "it" was unclear and confusing. It was a good catch. --ElKevbo 22:32, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Greek controversy

Can those who have a strong opinion on the "Greek controversy" section, particularly those who would like it deleted, please speak up and engage in dialog? I can't speak for other editors but I don't necessarily object to modifying or even removing the section if there are good reasons to do so. However, simply deleting it altogether with no discussion or even a good edit summary is an inadvisable course of action and likely to lead to immediate reversions (it appears suspiciously like vandalism or even censorship to delete sourced material without any discussion). I could definitely understand an argument that the material is old or places undue weight on these incidents but no one has made any arguments. --ElKevbo 17:51, 23 February 2007 (UTC)