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No sure about those myths. In all my years attending the university, never heard of the first two. --Anagnorisis 20:00, 23 February 2006 (UTC) Really? I was told of them ever since first year. JunCTionS 11:29, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

About the myths. You can go to Gade and talk to those guys. They know all of them by heart and always tell them at the beginning of the year to the new cohorts. Also, I put back the explanation of the Ampere since it is a very interesting myth. By the way, almost everyone at USB knows all of the myths described here. Ask anyone. Regards, Daguerio.

[edit] About the myths

An unregistered user keeps erasing the myth about the Ampere. I consider it is part of the folklore of the USB and should stay. Notice that none of the myths are supported by sources. Since they are myths, it is hard to find factual information about them. Nevertheless, they represent an important part of the culture in the university. Also, someone added a fact about the Ampere which has nothing that supports it. I think this article needs a lot of work. There is a huge lack of sources and citations that are essential to back up the facts. Please, someone help. Finally, please discuss important changes before erasing big parts of the article. Regards, Daguerio. Daguerio 22:40, 14 November 2006 (UTC).

Another unregistered user (201.208.150.115) deleted a big part of "Traditions". Please, I urge you to discuss important changes here before eliminating information. If this continued to happen, I would find it necessary to block the article from being edited by unregistered users. Regards, Daguerio. Daguerio 16:46, 19 November 2006 (UTC).

User 159.90.200.19 deleted a big part of "Traditions". I urge you to discuss important changes before erasing information. I think people do not even bother to read the discussion or do not even know it exists. Anyway, try to discuss such changes. Regards, Daguerio. Daguerio 00:58, 25 November 2006 (UTC).

User Evadry edited a lot of things in Traditions. I reverted them and would like to point out my reasons: Firstly, there were a lot of mistakes ("gooses" instead of geese, "metafore" instead of metaphor, etc.). I could have corrected them, but please, do not be so sloppy when editing Wikipedia.

Also, I noticed that it lacked some formality, especially with the use of the word "gay" and "gays". Let us try to be more politically correct and more formal when talking about such subjects.

Finally, although most or all of the information in Traditions lacks a valid source (since it contains mostly myths and stories that are unproven), we should not get too personal on the things we write in that part of the article.

I have one final comment. I urge you not to take this personal and to try to improve Traditions by using a more proper tone. I am thinking of re-writing the parts that talk about homosexuality and related puns, like in the case of the ducks or the Aquarium Café, in order to make them more PC.

If you have any thoughts on this, feel free to write here or go to my discussion page and leave your comments. Regards, Daguerio. Daguerio 00:13, 31 May 2007 (UTC)