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[edit] New Project

Feels right to have a Rutgers Wikiproject on Wikipedia. Anyway, I could mostly help with pictures around campus (I just got a new digital camara). Might add some relevant info to Rutgers-related articles as well.--Jersey Devil 04:23, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Improve Traditions at Rutgers University article

"RU Screw" AKA "Rutgers Screw" is IMHO a Tradition. I feel sure the concept has been around since 1766 (early conditions were awful, and the school went broke many times). The word "Screw" is clearly newer, though probably not documented. The "1982 RU Screw" mention in the main article should be moved to Tradition, and generalized to all the many large and small "screws" students suffer at any school; but Rutgers' screw has a name.

The NJWC/Douglass College traditions (beyond Passion Puddle) should be collected before they vanish. Yule Log, Moving-Up, Sacred Path.

68.239.136.129 07:32, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Alumni

Writing comprehensive articles worthy of inclusion as featured articles about extremely important Rutgers alumni (Milton Friedman, Selman Waksman, Joyce Kilmer, Robert Pinsky, etc.)

Joyce Kilmer is known mainly for one (very famous) poem, and I didn't know who Robert Pinsky was.

Friedman, no doubt.

Waksman, a hero for the second major antibiotic and a hero at Rutgers for giving RU the profits, but not widely known.

Paul Robeson is a must-mention. Rutgers didn't make him big, we was big in his own right. In later years he fell out of sync with American political trends, not a great poster-child for Rutgers. But must-mention.

"Mr Magoo"... fictional but had that Old School Spirit which (apparently) Rutgers is/was known for.

I would include Avery Brooks. I may be biased because I know him, but a generation of neo-Trek fans know Avery. Nevermind that: he did Robeson better than Paul himself, and a powerful Othello.

Calista Flockhart? She zoomed through here too fast to grab a diploma, but we call her "ours", cut her an Honorary sheepskin, she does some promotion. Similarly: James Gandolfini. Kristin Davis. Not lifetime achievement award stuff, but not nobodies.

One "Rutgers tradition" is NOT properly compiling and promoting RU's famous alumni.

68.239.136.129 07:31, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Several of these already exist - Selman Waksman, Joyce Kilmer, Milton Friedman, Paul Robeson, Robert Pinsky, even Mr. Magoo. RossPatterson 00:55, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed deletions (WP:PROD)

  • 22 September 2007 - expires 27 September
    • Order of the Bull's Blood (PROD by User:Dcandeto; PROD nominator states: "Likely a hoax; fails WP:V." Excerpt: "Order of the Bull's Blood (also known as Lodge 443) is a secret society at Rutgers University, allegedly established in 1834….") --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 02:10, 26 September 2007 (UTC)