Talk:Santa Clara University
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[edit] Page Creation
I got this page started a few days ago and my how it has grown! Just wanted to note that my contributions are based on firsthand knowledge as both an alum and staff member of the university. Each fact I contributed was confirmed with an official univerisity source. -- Tobycat
Very concise summary of Santa Clara U. Excellent job!
[edit] Noted Santa Clarans
Someone has added names of noted athletes and a noted law professor under on the main page of the site. The purpose of creating the secondary site was to streamline the mainpage while still offering a great deal of information about individuals in association with the university. I have included all new information in the second site and will delete the individuals from the main site. I would appreciate it if no further additions were made to the main site. If anyone disagrees with this change please feel free to discuss your reasoning here.
I also intend to recreate the arts section, as it is an important part of the school. I will not do so until I have the time to include enough information to make it worthwhile. Also, to those who delete major components of a page, please note your reasoning when you do so.
[edit] Tech Awards
I'll add the award to the Center for Science, Technology, and Society description and write a bit about it in that page. Thanks for the addition. SCUMATT 06:43, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Charter
There seems to be some question as to the year and date of the charter. I have found different sources that suggest different times. One suggests the 1851 date, and another suggests a date in 1955 or 1956. I wonder if the first is a charter from Rome and a second from the State of California. I'll be looking out for further information. SCUMATT 05:42, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
The civil charter was granted in 1855. Santa Clara does not have an ecclesiastical charter -- nor do the 27 other Jesuit colleges and universities in the U.S. / SCGaucho 25 May 2006
In the quick facts, I changed the founding date from "March 19, 1851" to a simple "1851." Sometime in the first part of 1851, classes began. Later on, the Italian Jesuits arbitrarily set the feast of St. Joseph, March 19, as the date on which they celebrated the foundation. To this day, "Founders' Day" is marked on March 19, even though it is not evident that anything was founded on that day in 1851. / SCGaucho 25 May 2006
[edit] Degrees offered
User:Nhgaudreau suggests that the list of degrees offered is incorrect. The Santa Clara University website at [1] has the degree chart as it was before, with a Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, and Bachelor of Science in Commerce. I am going to revert them back; however, please feel free to comment. SCUMATT 01:16, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Origins
I swapped out most of the ecclesiastical titles entered for Serra, Alemany, Nobili, and Accolti in favor of simpler designations. There may be an argument in favor of respect for religious figures in the past, but accuracy and the simplicity of historical presentation seem more important. To wit:
There's a problem with injecting modern terms such as "Most Rev." into the mid-19th. century. In the usage of the day, it was "Rt. Rev." Similarly, to call Nobili and Accolti "Rev." applies a modern and very American turn of phrase to them. Saying that someone is a Franciscan or Jesuit and then adding the initials OFM or SJ seems redundant. The point has been made. Terms like "Blessed Father," when applied to Junipero Serra, may distort the tenor of an historical statement about Santa Clara.
Overall, my point is that simplicty makes the point more effectively. Scgaucho 23:23, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] NOT "The Shaw"
please do not refer to Buck Shaw Stadium as "The Shaw".
This term was "invented" by a recently former SID who had no previous association with Santa Clara University. For over four decades, since it construction, the stadium has always been refered to in a shorten form as "Buck Shaw"; as in "They're playing tonight at Buck Shaw." Young (last 5 years) students may not realize that.
While Candlestick Park (on Candlestick Point in San Francisco Bay) the former (and original) name of the place where the San Francisco (we don't call it "Frisco" -- that's in Texas) 49'ers call home (and the Giants called home) was (and is by some) refered to as "the Stick" ... BUCK SHAW Stadium is, has, and hopefully will be always refered to by people who care about Santa Clara .. as BUCK SHAW ... an honor to perhaps the greatest coach to ever walk the Mission Campus ... Lawrence T. "Buck" Shaw
Thanks ... AMDG
Bronco66 05:52, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
