Talk:Warren Wilson College/Archive 1

Archive 1

needs some work

• 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)

• I go to Wilson currently. I am not rich and I am not from the city. I am actually from the poorest county in South Carolina. So, no, the current enrollment is not, in fact, full of rich well-to-do folks from the city.

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)

July 2010

Alright y'all, I appreciate the work people have put into making this page what it was, but considering it's the 3rd hit on google if you search Warren Wilson College, it should look respectable, and as current student there I feel it's my duty to not make the college look like a total backwater pitiful education center when it is an absolutely beautiful and unusual source of education, work, and happiness for 100's. Happy interdependence day! Honinbou (talk) 22:21, 4 July 2010 (UTC)

Things I would like to add [checklist?]

-Some work crews that are popular

-popular majors

-ELC department snippet

-Local Foods initiative/Gladfelter/Cowpie/composting

-hiking trails! with a link to a map even?

-some info about dorms...

-farm, garden, and Landscaping pictures!

-get rid of the flood picture as it interesting, but irrelevant to the school

-landscaping native grass project

-landscaping tractor crew and the propane mowers

-more Honinbou (talk) 04:37, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

You may want to check WP:UNIGUIDE for appropriate content to add. Thanks, Alanraywiki (talk) 05:01, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

thank you! that page will be invaluable to me Honinbou (talk) 16:07, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

School Colors

Over the past 4+ years, I have seen the school colors as listed on this page change from blue and gold to green and white to green and brown and every combination of the four colors. The official school colors are blue and gold. The green colors that are on much of the media produced by the school are meant to communicate a visual style that college wishes to portray that highlights the environmental mission of the college.

Page 4 of the Visual Identity and Style Guidelines produced by the school administration (which is currently listed as a reference to incorrect information on the page as of 14 May) states the school's colors are blue and gold while the College’s visual standard is our blue and green logo:

Official School Colors

The College’s official and traditional colors are blue (PMS 287) and gold (PMS 116). This combination of colors is

used primarily for some alumni publications and memorabilia.

Use of color

The use of the College’s colors project the visual identity just as the official logo, seal or mascot does – it creates

consistency and contributes significantly to our message. The College’s visual standard is our blue and green

logo. Both “cool” colors denote nature and environment – a nod to the College’s sense of place and

environmental mission. When you use these colors, you accentuate the connection to the College. Other colors

should be chosen to suit to the message and the desired impact upon the audience.

http://www.warren-wilson.edu/~jbowers/wwcstyleguide(revised).pdf

Blue and gold are also listed as the school colors in the alma mater: "Gold of sun across a sky cast of mountain blue,"

Since my involvement with the college, the best listing I have seen on this page listed for the school's official colors are blue and gold with green listed as an unofficial color.

~kforkobold— Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.95.233.72 (talk) 05:38, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for catching this. When I put the colors in colorboxes in the infobox, I used blue and gold using the citation provided. An anonymous IP user changed it. Sorry I didn't catch it. It appears that it should be blue and gold. Corrected that now. Thank you. -- JoannaSerah (talk) 16:09, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

Just for clarity in case others change it again, please see page four of the cited PDF of the style guide. Some are confused because the guide does show the logo to be using blue and green on page two. However, it shows that the actual "official and traditional" school colors are blue and gold. It does say that their "visual standard" is blue and green, so I have tried to split the difference and clarified the two sets of colors. Thank you. -- JoannaSerah (talk) 19:06, 15 August 2012 (UTC)

References

Cleaning up and adding info: December 2017

I currently attend WWC and am going into my final semester. I took it upon myself this winter break to clean up some of this page. So far I've added a small section on athletics. I know a lot of people connected to WWC aren't crazy into athletics, but they're an important part of the school. I also finished the section on residence halls, adding descriptions of all the dorms, including the late Preston House (RIP). I'm doing my best to add various aspects of the school that aren't currently on the page as well as update or fix info that is already there. I'm interested in doing a more in depth revision of the history section, but I can't do that until I get back to school since I want to use the "history of Warren Wilson" books that the library has, as well as maybe dig into the archives a bit. Currently, the history section is almost cut-and-paste from the "history" page on the website. I'd also be interested in adding a list of presidents to that section.

Samthecyclist (talk) 04:58, 28 December 2017 (UTC)

Teacher

Looking for Matthew Haugh 66.226.105.122 (talk) 08:02, 28 November 2021 (UTC)