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I hardly find Stephen Harper to be worth a mention as a notable alumni...such a disgrace to an already laughingstock of an institution. JLC Leung

We may not like him, but it'd be POV not to include him. --Image:Ottawa flag.png Spinboy 16:33, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

I have put him back on the list. Being the Leader of the Opposition is clearly a notable accomplishment. -- JamesTeterenko 18:35, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

I don't see the need to add the biased MacLean's ratings into this article, so I removed it. -- phobal 0148, 03 February 2006 (UTC)

I'll second that decision. If it is ever replaced, then it NEEDS an in-text reference. --Arch26 10:33, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 Motto 2 MacClean's Rankings 3 Photos 4 Merge with Faculty of Law 5 remove gallery

[edit] Motto

A Gaelic motto for an institution is very unusual -- even in Scotland. Does anyone know why the U of C has one ? -- Derek Ross | Talk 07:30, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Calgary has strong Scottish roots. That's about all I can think of. --Tyson2k 08:15, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

The Crest and motto was issued by Lord Lyon King of Arms which seem to prefer Gaelic mottos. -Dr Haggis - Talk 18:02, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Hmmm. Okay, thanks guys. -- Derek Ross | Talk 23:41, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

The coat of arms is based on Clan MacLeod and represents the contributions of Col. James MacLeod (Fort MacLeod, MacLeod Trail, etc.)--Zeolite 18:19, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Isn't it because Calgary is named after a town in Scotland? Kevlar67 06:12, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] MacClean's Rankings

Why is there no mention of how the U of C performs in National and International rankings of Universities? In my opinion it's just biased UofC students fearing to put their university in rankings, they did place like last (I can't blame them). But that's retarded not to put up rankings and go on with not supporting the Macleans ranking. They are pretty decent and its sad that the US average beats more than half of all Canadian universities. And State [XXXX] colleges down there BLOW.

Ok, you know what? There's no need to insult anyone here. In my opinion, MacClean's rankings should not be included here becuase it is not an official ranking of the Universities, but rather just a magazine taking opinion polls of students and making the ranking that way. It is not an accurate representation of the quality of education and study that the University provides. But despite this, your derogitory marks are not required. And one last note, you're mentioning the ranks under the motto section of this talk page, you really should have started a new section...(Grizzwald 23:26, 9 April 2007 (UTC))

If you knew anything about Maclean's methodology and it's flaws, you wouldn't be saying that they are "pretty decent". --68.145.246.117 01:27, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Photos

I'm thinking about taking a picture of one of the traditional residence buildings and placing it in the gallery to accompany the portion on residence. If anyone thinks this is a bad idea, or if we should reconfigure the gallary into some other fashion of placing the pictures on the page, I would like to hear it. (Grizzwald 22:27, 17 September 2006 (UTC))

Good idea, this page needs pictures outside the Gallery area at the bottom. Too cluttered and makes the page boring. --Buffer v2 06:57, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge with Faculty of Law

Ok, I don't know if this is annoying anyone else, but I truely feel that the University of Calgary Faculty of Law page should really be merged with this page. Believe me, if I knew how, I would do it myself, but obviously I don't (I've never moved a page before and don't want to start now lest I screw it up some how). On the talk page for the faculty of law it has come to a semi consensus that the two pages should be merged, so if anyone would like to add there thoughts here, please do. (Grizzwald 18:43, 30 September 2006 (UTC))

I disagree. Throwing it in the Academics section randomly wouldn't fit the format correctly. If you compare it to other University wiki pages, no where do they do that. If they do have an article about a specific faculty, it's a separate one, and isn't merged with the main university article. --Buffer v2 21:53, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

I agree with Buffer v2 Yury Petrachenko 10:44, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

It should definitely be merged with the University of Calgary. The faculty of law at U of C is a part of the university and so should this section be a part of the main page.

Well if that is what you're saying, then the Schulich article should also be merged with the U of C article? I don't think so. Other universities have separate articles for different faculties, and they do not merge them into the main page. The main page is for general information about the school, not for faculty-specific information. --Buffer v2 19:49, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Ok, I agree that the Schulic page shouldn't be merged with this page. But that page is well done with lots of information, whereas the Faculty of Law page is just a piece of crap, not to mention the Schulic School of Engineering is becoming very well known, whereas the U of C faculty of Law is only known to ppl in Calgary, more or less. Therefor, I think that the Faculty of Law page should be deleted all together, or else someone needs to do major expansion to warrent it staying up as its own page. BTW, I am not expanding it, since I feel it should be deleted. (Grizzwald 18:07, 20 November 2006 (UTC))

If you'd look at the other law schools in Canada, many of them have pages as big as Calgary's. Should they be deleted as well? It's really no big deal. They should be expanded on though, I agree.--Buffer v2 07:26, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Very well, I concede, the page should stand as it is, I'll remove the merge tag (not that I was the one who put it up). (Grizzwald 00:02, 30 November 2006 (UTC))

[edit] remove gallery

I suggest we remove the gallery. I beleive its a standard, that images be "mixed in" with the article body, and any gallery be located on Commons, not on Wikipedia. --Rob 09:54, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

I agree with this, I went through the gallary a few months back and tried to intersperce the pictures in the article, but ran out of room. The one picture of Mac Hall is nice, but the arial photo of the U of C is not very good because of the shadows and the snow anyways. (Grizzwald 01:30, 11 April 2007 (UTC))