Talk:University High School, Melbourne

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Assessment: Hello all, and thank you for contributing to this school article. I'm part of the Wikipedia:WikiProject_Schools/Assessment team, and I'm reviewing this page. I'm currently giving it a grade of Start on the Wikipedia 1.0 Assessment Scale and an importance of Low on this importance scale. For information on improving this article, please visit the WikiProject Schools Project Page. My reasoning is as follows: No references, need to be formalized and reorganized. Alimni list needs trimming. Adam McCormick 19:17, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] unnecessary deletions?

I have just reverted the deletions of 'past principals' and most of the 'notable past pupils'. If no one has any objections to keeping the principals article, then I will merge it into the history section, where it belongs. --Carbonrodney

        * please leave notable alumni

[edit] Gang Violence

What on earth is the gang violence section? I was in VCE in 2001, and the 'gang violence' was no different to what goes on at any other school -- certainly not remarkable. The only incidents I can think of were the Ryan Moses incident (which, admittedly, made it to pg2 of the Sun, and pg3 of the Age), and a couple of hyped up 'Asians vs Turks' shovefests on the oval. There were a couple of things before that, but they were largely aberrations, and I don't think it really warrants mentioning. Drug use was certainly not exceptional. 203.49.196.168 01:36, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Leon... 10:41, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

I have changed the gang violence section so that it says the school grounds and its surrounds as opposed to just the school grounds - given their size alone it seems unreasonable to suggest that gang violence and drug use was rife within the grounds only.

As to the validity of the claims, I am from the class of 2005 (started in 2000) and the only act of significant violence I can remember is when someone was stabbed in the leg with a pen in a small (10 or so people) brawl about 2003. Around 2004, a "gang" of about 20 students from various nearby high schools came onto the school's oval during lunchtime. It was said that this was revenge for someone who had been whipped with a belt buckle a few nights before. A technology teacher dispelled the group before any violence occured.

In comparison with other Victorian state schools, Uni High has no noteworthy violent history to my knowledge.

Good update with the surrounding area. But when I was there we had someone beated up pretty much every week. We had at least 10 hospitalisations per year in the later years... In any case gang activity in the university high school area is particularly high. Noteworthily high.

--198.142.89.91 11:40, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Unfortunately, it seems someone has removed the section completely. Could that get restored please? I will try and dig up the newspaper articles mentioned above but I am in no mood for searching through the history.

Theres defitenitly no noteworthy violence nowadays. 218.215.129.75 08:30, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Keep the warcry

Keep the warcry. We needed to learn it on enrolment day, it is the equivalent of a school anthem.

The war-cry is no longer taught on enrolment day, and as of 2007 has been removed from the school diaries. It is no longer an important school tradition, and so should not have a section devoted to it. 58.160.83.19 (talk) 11:19, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Notable Alumni

can you please put back the notable alumni?

I was disappointed to see the list of notable alumni deleted. Uni High has many notable alumni---past and present of diverse backgrounds---deserving of recognition and in whom there should be pride.

People keep adding nonsense entries, and it's not worth having to constantly police it to keep the crap out. Ambi 01:38, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

There are some agents that periodically revert to one accepted entry. I think the longest the page has been vandalised in the last month is about a day or something. --Carbonrodney

[edit] Confirmed Entries

• Sarah Boyd, bioinformaticist
• John So, current mayor of Melbourne
• Joan Kirner, first female Premier of Victoria
• Michael Klim, swimmer
• Dorothy Goble, former member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
• Eric Phillips, composer and musician
• Geoffrey Watson, mathematician
• Olivia Newton-John, actor and singer
• Elizabeth Blackburn, biochemist

--Carbonrodney

[edit] Unconfirmed?

If you find evidence that these people have indeed attended, then add them to this list above

• Graeme Blundell, actor and writer
• Helen Buckingham, current member of the Victorian Legislative Council
• Ruth Curtain, mathematics professor----confirmed
• Ivan Deveson, former Lord Mayor of Melbourne
• Peter Faiman, movie producer and director----confirmed
• James Murray, astronomer
• Frank Oberklaid OAM, pediatrics professor---UHS school captain, 1963
• David Williamson, playwright----confirmed
• Richard Pratt, businessman----confirmed
• John Coleman, AFL legend----confirmed
• Garrie Hutchinson, writer and editor----confirmed
• Jean Baker OAM, former mayor of Heidelberg----confirmed
• Allen Aylett, former chairman of the VFL (predecessor of the AFL)---confirmed
• David White, former minister in the Kirner Government----confirmed

Sources for confirmed entries include Ubique, Record, UHS student diaries, published biographies and personal association

[edit] Vandalism

I've semi-protected this talk page because of repeated vandalism by various IPs, including inserting defamatory allegations about minors, insertion of personal information of minors and cyber-bullying. Wikipedia is not a chat site or a forum for attacking your fellow students. Sarah 13:50, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] unecessary edits made.

To the alumni. I think only half are true. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Quaked (talk • contribs) 03:28, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] School colours

I've just finished a quick clean-up of the article and don't know very much about this school, so i've had to have a guess at the school colours for the infobox. If I have got them incorrect could someone please change them. If anyone needs help with the colour boxes, let me know and I will help you out. Cheers! Loopla (talk) 04:20, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

The school doesnt implement uniforms so there isnt really 'school colours'. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.239.134.6 (talk) 06:42, 25 February 2008 (UTC)