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Contents 1 Cowboy Troy 2 Revamp 3 Selectivity Dispute 4 Waterview Park 5 Cecil Green 6 Chess and Forensics 7 CS degrees 8 Dal Tech/TIT removal 9 High tech industry 10 Redirect University of Texas to University of Texas System

[edit] Cowboy Troy

So did he go to UTD or not? His own article and IMDB list him as a Longhorn. The mention of him was added, removed, re-added, and removed again in May, then was added again in June and left in. Can anybody comfirm that he tranferred to UTD or is somebody playing a game here? (Monkeemaven 20:02, 4 August 2006 (UTC))

[edit] Revamp

i went ahead and moved the Forensic's team thing into a recent news section which i figured could house the accomplishments of the students and staff, heck ill even update it, i check the UTD news section a lot btw CONGRATS AND GREAT JOB!!! you've shown that we're coming up in the world. i have also added after a lot of digging around, a campus section displaying the future map of UTD, thought it was a good thing to look forward to. i was also planning on adding an athletics section, putting both our championship chess team and our other D3 NCAA teams, because they deserve credit for all the hard work they put in. feel free to change stuff i just figured the way it was set up was really messy making it look like all we had was chess and forensics to offer. this makes it easier for people to find information kinda doing the same layout as our big bro school UT Austin. This way it is more user friendly to those actually looking to gain info about UTD. i also wish to add a notable alumni section, if i can find that list again barried in the archives, there weren't a whole lot but hey why not brag about what we got.Butterbean04 07:20, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Selectivity Dispute

I'm not quite so sure that UTD is the most selective state university. UT Austin's article states that UT is the most selective state university. I'm currently looking into it and doing research outside of Wikipedia. I'll remove the template once I find out which claim is factual. If someone else finds it, please do me the favor of removing the template and making changes accordingly.

UTD is the second hardest (most selective) public school in Texas to get accepted. This year, UTD did have the highest avg SAT score of any other Texas public university.

I'm interested to know who is the most selective. Although students may find it difficult to gain acceptance to the University of Texas at Austin because of the large number of students that apply, their admission rate (percent of applicants admitted) is much higher than that of UTD's. UTD has an average acceptance rate of around 51 percent. {www.collegeboard.com}Ohthatsyou 14:44, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Waterview Park

There's a page describing the on campus housing at Waterview Park. I'm not sure how to include it in the UTD page, however.

I added a brief sentence about it (having lived there myself), but someone might feel it belongs in a different paragraph. User:Kyle Maxwell 04 July 2005

[edit] Cecil Green

We need to fix this. The link to the great philanthropist is to some race car driver. UTD's Cecil Green was many things but he wasn't a race car driver. Zyzzy 20:14, 25 July 2005 (UTC)Zyzzy

[edit] Chess and Forensics

I do not think the forensic team section is very encyclopedic. Barring any objections, I will cut it down and merge it with the chess section. -Scm83x 03:20, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] CS degrees

I agree with whoever said that "quantity of degree conferral is a poor measure of quality." And, I think adding it to the page makes UTD look cheap, like it's trying to match up to MIT and that's the only thing it can find. UTD is a great school, and that one stat makes it look like the school has to really reach for something to be proud about, which it doesn't.-Scm83x 07:52, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

werd, i like just plain not having it in there, in that it makes us look like we are really looking for something.

[edit] Dal Tech/TIT removal

I've noticed the Dal Tech/TIT line was removed due to it being unsourced. I'll support that removal--in my three years as a student at UTD, I have never heard a single person refer to it as Dal Tech or TIT. My guess is that it's an in-joke among a very small clique of students that hasn't spread to anyone outside that clique. jgp (T|C) 20:56, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

I also should have mentioned that it had nothing to do with "History" which was the section it was in. Otherwise I probably would have {{citation need}}ed it. --Grouse 21:02, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] High tech industry

"...has its roots in the development of the Metroplex's high tech industry." What on earth does that mean? --Grouse 21:06, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

I'm going to guess that it's referring to UTD and TI being founded by the same people. jgp (T|C) 21:19, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Oh. If that's true and notable, then why not just say that? --Grouse 21:37, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Redirect University of Texas to University of Texas System

Hi, there is a ongoing debate about redirecting University of Texas to University of Texas System at talk: University of Texas at Austin. If you are interested, please feel free to join. RockiRock 20:46, 28 September 2006 (UTC)