Talk:West Lafayette, Indiana

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[edit] Education

I'm nost sure why Nowimnthing is uninterested in including all of the schools in W. Lafayette. Clearly they are alocated within the city limits. http://www.city.west-lafayette.in.us/community/education.html

Also, I I've editted the text about the W.Lafayette schools for clarity. It seem unimportant the distinction between those schools. --Ricardisimo 13:07, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Because the county schools are outside the city limits. They have WL addresses, but so does everything on the North West Side of the County. The taxpayers in that area pay taxes to Tippecanoe County, not WL. The schools are owned and operated by the county not the city of WL. All the county schools are already listed at Tippecanoe County, Indiana, no need to duplicate that list here. What makes the most sense is organizing the schools the same way they are organized by taxes. We would be greatly misleading someone is they saw our article and thought they could move to West Lafayette and have their choice of schools from our list. City and tax boundaries are much more rigid than postal addresses.
From your own link Below are other public schools and colleges in the West Lafayette area
In that section they even list Ivy Tech which is 10 miles away on the other side of Lafayette. The first section is the important one, the second and third section are for surrounding areas as it says.
Here is a map of the WL city limits (in green.) The county schools are not shown, but if you mapquest them you will see that they are all to the West of Purdue University (gold on the map.)
Nowimnthing 13:34, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

I see your point about the city versus the county. Good job. Have you found any other ways to add references for the WL page? Ricardisimo 01:40, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Notable Residents and Natives

I don't agree with the recent inclusion of Purdue Alumni on here. A better list already exists at List of Purdue University people. Their inclusion here might confuse people into thinking they are natives when in fact they spent 4 years or less here. For example Drew Brees is from Texas and Neil Armstrong is from Ohio. If no one objects I will remove them and maybe we can just post a link to the notable Purdue people list from here. Nowimnthing 14:51, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lafayette voting against incorporating Chauncey

Can anyone supply the reference to that? I don't have one and somehow it seems strange to me.

I imagine Lafayette in 1871 to have maybe, what, 5 or 10 thousand people including little kids? And Chauncey to have a few thousand. So I would have thought that the people of Chauncey would have gotten assurances of annexation from the people of Lafayette first, before voting to annex and then be embarassed by Lafayette not agreeing to it. And if I were Chauncey and got such a slap in the face by Lafayette, by the time I do incorporate, darn if I'd use the "Lafayette" name. :-) Haonhien 09:02, 12 September 2006 (UTC)


It seems both cities voted at the same time so neither knew what the other would decide beforehand. I added a book source, it also mentions the outcome of the vote, in Chauncy the vote was 48-39 in favor of the annex, in Lafayette it was 441-220 against. Another concern for Lafayette voters was that Purdue would fail as a univeristy and become a white elephant. It also mention only about 25% of eligible voters participated. Nowimnthing 13:59, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dubious assertions

I've removed the following from the article:

The West Lafayette adult population has some of the highest levels of educational attainment in Indiana:

  • 96.2 percent have high school degrees or higher (17th highest in the state)
  • 69.7 percent have bachelor's degrees or higher (7th highest in the state)
These figures are also among the highest of any municipality in the United States with over 25,000 population.

If someone can find references, these can be restored. I'm not sure about state-level, but it seems very unlikely that West Lafayette is the most educated city in the country. For one, 79% of residents in Bethesda, Maryland, which has a population over 50,000, have bachelor's degrees. - 71.179.102.236 16:21, 7 August 2007 (UTC)