Talk:Merrimack College/Archive 1

neutrality or not

While I'm in agreement about the disturbing similarities between the Merrimack College summary and what would be on the Merrimack website, I think there is far too much opinionated information on this summary. A very poorly done editing job was done. However, not all of this summary is overwhelmingly positive - it's just overly opinionated and not at all objective and informative. What should be written, concisely for anyone interested, isn't and it rambles on with propaganda copied and pasted from the Merrimack website or overly opinionated information, such as there is nothing to do around the Merrimack College campus, which is false. However, that is only one example.

Basically, this is the first example of extremely disappointing editing from Wikipedia that I have come across.

All of that material was copied directly from the school's website, and cannot thus be used. I have removed it. Quatloo 09:43, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

This article needs some information on the academics at this college. A college is more than a campus and an athletic program.

There was no debate about the Warrior mascot. The mascot was quietly changed without any input from the community. Nothing was said publicly about the mascot until the school put out a press release announcing the unveiling of the new one.

about merrimack

It's true, there really isn't much to do here. A lot of freshmen go to the Loft (a club) but not everyone is into clubbing of course. The on-campus parties often get broken up around midnight and are pretty tame in the first place, and the word often doesn't get around about off-campus parties. However the overall environment is pretty friendly and its easy to make friends, and when yuo have friends you can always find something to do. As for academics, it varies. The engineering and science programs can be demanding, especially because the work they assign is so time consuming. Liberal Arts majors have it pretty easy here. Students at the business school complain a lot, but they actually have a pretty easy courseload as well. Considering that in 2008 we are changing from a 3x5 to 4x4 curriculum (i.e. we will take 4 classes per semester instead of 5), I'm sure a lot will change. The dorms here are pretty decent; of course the newer ones are nicer. The cafeteria can be a little sketchy...the food is often pretty bad...but they do have ice cream every day. Tuition is of course exorbitant, but so is every school nowadays. They are very generous with scholarships, though, so if only the price is turning you off, try applying and see what you get. If you're thinking about coming here, you should definitely visit the campus and drive around town a little to get the feel of it. Its not too bad a place...but its nowhere near perfect.

About the newspaper

As a graduate of the class of 1994 and an editor of the paper, I'd like to point out that the student newspaper was actually called "The Warrior" from its founding in the 1950s until 1991, when the staff voted to change the name to "The Argus" to represent a break with the immediately previous directions the paper had taken, both editorially and in terms of internal policies.

Also, I believe that there was a change back to "The Warrior" in the interim between that 1991 name change and the 2002 change to "The Beacon" but I will leave that to others.

Promotion/Advertising

I've tried to remove some of the blatant advertising by the Merrimack PR team, the page still needs some work though. It particularly could use some 3rd party sources. Qrsdogg (talk) 04:04, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

I agree. Does the page really need irrelevant info like housing and dining? This is an encyclopedia article, not a web page. So please Merrimack staff, stop abusing wikipedia to promote your school. 173.48.64.247 (talk) 17:50, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

Copyvio

I removed the Student Housing section (diff) because it violates the copyright of this. See WP:CP for further information. Johnuniq (talk) 09:26, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

new things to be mentioned

Merrimack also has a strong emerging club hockey team. The team was founded by intramural players around 2007 when they beat Tufts University 17-0 after having less thanan hour to assemble a team. The next year they began the long process of making that team official with the help of Robert Stella, Michael Fricchione and Derek Jacobsen. The team continues to operate with full support from the school and students.

Also merrimack is most famous for its lack entertainment on campus. This has been solved by a secret tradtion of a week long excursion in Cape Cod reffered to as Cape Week. This provides a great bonding experience for students and a way for them to blow off steam during their final days of school. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.43.0.1 (talk) 01:09, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

Is it public or private?

The article states that it is private, but then says it is public in the info box. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.98.83.235 (talk) 15:33, 22 June 2016 (UTC)

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