Talk:Southern Nazarene University

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Contents 1 NPOV dispute 2 Men's Tennis 3 History 4 Student-Body Size 5 Cleanup tag & note about lists 6 Degree counts 7 affiliation 8 Notable Alumni? 9 SNU History

[edit] NPOV dispute

This criticism section is not balanced in stating that the alumni have a choice to where they donate their funds to. This section sounds like a meaningless rant rather than a constructive criticism. This needs to be fixed or removed.Computernoob 00:50, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Men's Tennis

What happened to the Men's Tennis program? Why did they cancel it around 2002? I found a site, but it's 5 years old almost. It sounds like a mystery to me, or a cover-up. Moonraker0022 12:23, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
The mens tennis program was cancelled for 5 years after the coach took the team to a off-color location when they were away at a meet. It should start up again in the next year or two. Computernoob 00:55, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

hasn't it been 5 years already?Moonraker0022 (talk) 04:26, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

From the office of Sports Information in an interview conducted it was learned that the Men's Tennis program recieved the "death sentence" by SNU Athletic Director. Meaning there will never be a revived Men's Tennis program at the school.Moonraker0022 (talk) 21:20, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] History

This page need a section on the formation of SNU. Like the 14 schools merging into one. And maybe notable people who have graduated from SNU. Moonraker0022 10:26, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Good call. I cleaned up some of it, but I'd love more history. This might take a while... -- User:Aepoutre 19:20 June 14, 2007 (EST)

[edit] Student-Body Size

The article states that Southern Nazarene has the second-largest student body of any private school in the state of Oklahoma, but this is not true, if the numbers cited here are even close to correct. Tulsa, Oklahoma City, Oral Roberts, and Oklahoma Christian are all private and all have larger student bodies than SNU (with the exception of Oklahoma Christian, these schools have significantly larger student bodies, to the point that it is not even questionable). I can't say with any certainty for Oklahoma Baptist, but I would not be surprised to find that it also has a larger student body. I am deleting the offending sentence. When someone has more information, please, feel free to add the appropriate number here, if you so desire.

[edit] Cleanup tag & note about lists

Much of this page is very good, but there is also a great deal that reads like a promotional brochure for the school. Also, I didn't put this tag up there, but the article is list heavy. Some things, like the available majors could probably go (they could still be linked, but some thing like "SNU offers 500 majors, among them X, Y, and Z" would be more wikipedia-friendly than the entire list.). -steventity 20:12, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

I tried to make it a bit more concise and do away with some unnecessary listing. I'll work on it some more... -- User: Aepoutre 19:21 June 14, 2007 (EST)

[edit] Degree counts

Need to check the # of grad degrees, etc offered. Off the top of my head, I can think of masters degrees offered by the School of Theology and Ministry, School of Nursing (2?, Nursing and Nursing Ed), School of Education (maybe 2 there, EdLeadership, MEd (does it still exist?)), Psychology (MSCP and I think there is a non-thesis masters there, too), Business (2? MBA and MSB).... 03:19, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] affiliation

I like the extra regional explanation being put into the note. It is confusing to people unfamiliar with our regions. thanks.Moonraker0022 (talk) 04:25, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Notable Alumni?

I noticed that this page lacks a "notable alumni" section. I think it would be interesting to see if any "notable" people have graduated from SNU (assuming that we use the same general criterion for notability as other Wikipedia articles). I've heard that Boyd Matson (ex-National Geographic anchorman) is an SNU alum. Another would be Gary Hart (a U.S. senator involved in a 1980s sex scandal). Any others?

Radical Robert (talk) 18:28, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] SNU History

I propose that a new page entitled "History of SNU" be created to cover, and go more in depth on the schools, locations, mascots, ext. of all things SNU prior to SNU circa de 1988 (When the school changed from BNC to SNU). That date could get moved back, a good place would be the all things before they all merged onto the present location here at 39th and College. (Make sense?) I beleive that date was in the 40s or 50s. So that the SNU page would be 95% of SNU now, and 5% history in summary form with a main article link to "History of Southern Nazarene". What are ya'lls thoughts? Moonraker0022 (talk) 21:19, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

More appropriate than a separate "History of SNU" article might be separate historical articles for each of the defunct educational institutions. One already exists: Central Nazarene College. See Barrington College and St. Viator College for more examples. That way, the SNU page can then keep the short history it already has, which is appropriate to both an encyclopedic article and its level of notability (I know it might seem mean, but no Nazarene school merits a separate article for its history if we base any of what we do on standards of notability). I would love more history and better coverage, only disagree in the sense that there are now separate articles with information that could easily be part of the main SNU article (example: Southern Nazarene Crimson Storm, for which I might formally suggest a merger with the main article). Articles full of headings and a lot of redlinks are normally the kind to which I'd add a cleanup or non-notable/unencyclopedic tag to (though I'd like you and I to maintain this healthy and collaborative Wiki relationship, MoonRaker, so I've avoided doing that!). Let's talk more about this. Aepoutre (talk) 21:52, 28 April 2008 (UTC)