Talk:Yeshiva University

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Contents 1 Yeshiva University Medical Ethics Society merge 2 POV and Cleanup 3 Roshei Yeshiva 4 logo 5 Specious Claim 6 Translation into Chinese Wikipedia 7 Adding notable faculty and alumni section 8 Condense this article 9 Faux alumni

[edit] Yeshiva University Medical Ethics Society merge

The article is too small in scope to be on its own. Merging the two seems natural. --UlTiMuS - ( T | C ) 04:25, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Agreed, although the article barely seems notable. -- FeldBum 12:07, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Well I assume there is more to the article than has been posted

Plus the society is a student run organization. It was founded and is run by students. They are currently planning a conference on organ donation in jewish law for the fall. I dont think it belongs on the YU page

Where else would it go? Please sign your posts (No one likes talking to ghosts. Register an account and use the four tildes) -- FeldBum 13:17, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] POV and Cleanup

Regarding cleanup, the History paragraphs read like an article in the Jewish Press, using terms such as "Torah UParnassah" or "Roshei Yeshiva" without defining them. While such terms are 'normalspeak' in the orthodox community, this is an encyclopedia.

The few sentences about the feud and the consequential opening of Lander College are vague, does not mention Lander to be part of Touro College, and is very biased. --Geekish 07:55, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Please note that I have moved information (student government and dorms) regarding Yeshiva College to the Yeshiva College page. Either the complete university data for these paragraphs should be included, or it should not be on this page.

[edit] Roshei Yeshiva

It's a real shame that it took this long for there to be a "Roshei Yeshiva" box at the end of this article. Please do your best to expand articles for those that already exist and begin articles for those Roshei Yeshiva who do not have articles yet. Pizzapie3 02:24, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] logo

someone needs to change the logo....it was a swastika but i took it down

The history section is too long? Perhaps someone can condense it down or break it down to history and make a new section for presidents?

[edit] Specious Claim

"It also placed among the three top universities in the New York area, together with New York and Columbia universities." Columbia and NYU are #1 and #2. Someone has to be #3, but being the next one on the list by itself does not mean it is in the same category as the other two. (Why wouldn't the top 4 be the pertinent group? Or the top 2?) USNWR doesn't even hint that NYU, CU and YU are in some category that other New York-area schools are not. A more accurate description would be "after only New York and Columbia universities".

I'm not trying to knock YU, but when a claim like this -- one that sounds substantive but really isn't -- appears in an article it suggests that the claim is unwarranted. The article's other claims about YU's strength are legitimate, but this one really isn't and it detracts from the others. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.232.225.46 (talk) 20:24, August 30, 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Translation into Chinese Wikipedia

The 18:36, 28 February 2008 Alansohn version of this article is translated into Chinese Wikipedia.--Philopp (talk) 14:17, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Adding notable faculty and alumni section

This must be the only university in America that doesn't have such a section on its page. There are scores of notable graduates, and many faculty (and former faculty) whose scholarship merits individual web pages. I may be wrong, but is YU embarrassed that among its many very distinguished alumni are some who are no longer observant? It happens. Other Orthodox institutions do list their no-longer-observant grads. Maimo67 (talk) 23:10, 14 April 2008 (UTC)Maimo67

[edit] Condense this article

This article is way too detailed into different presidents and time periods and such..Somebody condense this properly w/o taking away the interesting information. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.130.210.114 (talk) 02:03, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Faux alumni

The entry has been defaced with faux alumni. Two have been removed, while others of dubious veracity are under investigation.

Scaligera (talk) 16:52, 13 May 2008 (UTC)