Talk:Warren Wilson College
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- I know nothing about this school other than that I've seen a sign for it on I-40, it's in my home state, and I know of one person who's gone there. But the article needs work -- hopefully someone out there can expand or make this article more interesting. --PacknCanes 07:58, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- I went to Wilson, and I cleaned up a bit, and added some silliness about hippies that seemed to goad someone into doing some more clean up. The article makes the school sound full of a bunch of buck-toothed Appalachian hicks, when in fact the current enrollment is full of rich well-to-do folks from the city.
--Defenestrate 20:55, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
While much work is done by students, truly important tasks are contracted out or done by paid, full time employees. "We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us" is apt because it is hard to calculate what, if any, economic gain the College gets from its student workforce. When the College needs something done quickly, effectively, and/or inexpensively, it always hires someone. Students mostly provide gruntwork and makework. "Most of the work" is misleading, and "much of the work" is more accurate. Students contribute 1200 hours of work a week, but only a certain amount of that time is engaged in useful labour-- there is a high training cost. My accounting says that students give the equivalent of 200 yearly full-time equivalents to the College, but that figure has to be discounted for training and other costs by at least a half, so we'll say 100. Are there fewer than 100 FTEs in the staff and faculty?
FTEs are given by students.
- 'Twas me who cleaned up the silliness. The page was on my watchlist since I lived in Black Mountain for a while and had friends at Wilson, but I hadn't noticed what bad shape it was in until your edit. Though the place has an interesting history, I feel like the Wikipedia entry needs to emphasize the current state of the school. (This would probably help with the Appalachian hicks v. rich city slicks issue.) I'd be happy to collaborate with someone on this, but I'm not comfortable updating it myself since I was never a WWC student.
--amysayrawr 13:27, Apr 22, 2005 (UTC)
Amsyayrar: I went to Wilson from 1994-1998. I'm happy to collaborate. --Defenestrate 07:06, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I agree with Amysayrawr that the current state of the school needs to be emphasized, because right now it reads like a brochure and a history lesson. I am wondering if perhaps including some current controversies: 1) expansion of the school, 2) BUBBA parties (and in particular the DEATH BUBBA where 28 or so students were arrested, 3) make-up of student body, lack of minorities etc. would be appropriate. I think at the very least the Bubbas should be mentioned because they are a tradition (although i couldn't tell you how far back they go) and they go right to how the school's neighbors feel about it. i'm not sure anything about hippies or well-to-do folks is appropriate because a lot of people with diverse interests and backgrounds really do attend the school. if that stuff was included, i think there would need to be a pretty good source. if no one objects, i'm going to try my hand at it. Monkeyfacebag 01:34, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
I changed the motto so it reflected the school's actual motto -- I realize the humor in the parody motto, but this IS an encyclopedia and people come here for facts. Plus, I went to Wilson and am not a hippie and I don't have any credit cards. Monkeyfacebag 19:24, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
