Talk:Wadham College, Oxford

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[edit] College templates

I have created a series of templates for former students of Oxford's various colleges. There are still plenty to do, but if you want to add one of the templates to your user page then feel free. See Wikipedia:Userboxes/Education/United Kingdom/University of Oxford for complete list. Please contact me if you would like another college fast-tracked... Image:Anglo-indian.jpg Deano 18:20, 22 December 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Claims of Radicalism

I'm completely bewildered by the claim that Wadham has been a 'hotbed of radicalism' for 'four decades'. I was a student there in the 1960s (1964-70) and the College wasn't radical at the time. In the fact the main preoccupation at undergraduate level was to get the highest possible class of degree, and there just wasn't time for fooling around with radicalism and the like. Norvo, 18.58 28 December 2005 (UTC)

Wadham definitely isn't a 'hotbed of radicalism' today. That from a present Wadham graduate student.

--Ilnyckyj 03:00, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

I was a student at Wadham about five years ago, and there wasn't any radicalism at that time, either.

--Saabie 20:33, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Wadham was a little radical in the late 70s/early 80s when I was an undergrad.--ukexpat 12:13, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Famous Wardens and Fellows

Robert J.C. Young, post-colonial theorist, for example. Good luck to him, but is he really famous? Probably every fellow or (especially) warden is notable to some extent, but we don't want to just list them all here, and famous is a big word. Flapdragon 00:46, 26 January 2006 (UTC)


[edit] JCR Quad

I should start by saying that I'm a former Wadham student. I will shortly remove references to "Ho Chi Minh Quad" for six reasons.

1. Although the term is part of college folklore, I've never seen a citation to any SU meeting from the 1970s.

2. Decisions such as "quad names" are made by the college fellows, not the SU.

3. The College and most students use the term "JCR Quad."

4. Oxford JCRs produce lots of silly resolutions, very few of which deserve life support after thirty years.

5. "The times they are a-changin'," and Wadham students today are different from those in the 1970s.

6. Wadham's noteriety as a radical college (in contrast to "just" being tolerant and progressive) harms its ability to recruit ordinary people from under-represented communities in Britain.

--Saabie 05:58, 26 December 2006 (UTC)


With reference to the above points - I spoke to a lady who graduated in the 1970's, and she reacted to my comment that I lived overlooking the "bar quad" (which is how the JCR quad is typically referred... we're all so imaginative) by asking "is that Ho Chi Minh Quad?" However, I think on maps of the college, it is labelled as the JCR quad, so I'm not disputing your decision, only muddying the waters a little!

Incidentally, the college are also trying to varify claims that they are the first traditionally all-male college to go mixed that has seen a mother and daughter go to the same college (which will be nice for College and it's feminist element if it can be proven). Wadhamite 10:59, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

We called it the Ho Chi Minh Quad in the early 80s. --ukexpat 12:14, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

We still occasionally call it the Ho Chi Minh Quad today, as we also call the Yasser Arrafat Laundry!

Not heard that one, is it due to the number of Palestinian scarves lying around?! Wadhamite 07:24, 20 June 2007 (UTC)