Talk:Regent's Park College, Oxford/Archive 1

Archive 1

Please fix this

This whole article :

a) sounds like an advert for Regents b) betrays an utter lack of knowledge of what goes on in the rest of the colleges, e.g. saying that most colleges won't let any student try rowing when they pretty much all do and that it's "perhaps the only college" to have table service at non-formal meals, which some other colleges do, and many toher things

Please do some research and make the article a bit more neutral rather than going on about how unusual and great it is without knowing anything comparative.

{calm breaths}

About the rowing business, I don't think that it's even very important as far as information about the college goes. I think the point that was supposed to be made was actually the complete opposite of stating that RPC is unusual - i.e. informing the reader that students at RPC do very ordinary things like rowing. I know one person who attended an interview at RPC and told the interviewing panel that she had no interest in becoming a nun, having gathered that the college was some sort of monastic institution (of the Campion Hall variety rather than the Benet's/Greyfriars sort).

The point about rowing was not so much that other colleges don't allow all their students to row, but that Regent's Park is one of very few colleges (maybe the only one, except St Benet's, I guess) where students are virtually compelled to row. One year there was an intake of 13 women and 10 men. Two men had health conditions that prevented them from rowing - hence all the remaining eight were required to take part in Christ Church novices regatta.

Having had informal meals at several Oxford colleges I can attest that Regent's Park was the only one, in my experience (which doesn't, admittedly, extend to the whole of Oxford), where food is brought to tables rather than students having to queue up for self-service. I now understand that Lincoln is another example of a college that employs this system. I recall distinctly that Merton and Magdalen have the self-service type. I think St Benet's may have a combination of the two. I've had lunch there several times, once with a kind of buffet arrangement, but other times I think students and monks brought dishes from the kitchen to the table, but this isn't a good guide because it's more like a big family meal rather than an institutional meal.

I do agree about the advertisement comment. Some of the text is quite obviously based on text on the RPC website. I don't know how to change that except deleting entire sections:

Regent's Park College is known for its friendly atmosphere and strong sense of community. Its Christian roots continue to inform its character, and while it still trains men and women for ordained ministry in Baptist churches, the college is thoroughly open and ecumenical in outlook. The college imposes no religious test or obligations on those who are not preparing for ordination, but offers students the opportunity, if they so wish, to explore and develop a 'Christian mind' about the world and academic learning, especially through the activities of its Centre for the Study of Christianity and Culture.

I think most of that could go. It doesn't really say anything. I think that all colleges are known for their friendly atmosphere and strong sense of community, unless there are ones that are specifically unfriendly.--Oxonian2006 18:42, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

The Tutor's House is described as the oldest building in St Giles (c1600): but the oldest part of St John's College is also in St Giles, and predates the Reformation. For that matter, the medieval church of St Giles is also in St Giles... It might be the oldest domestic buiding in St Giles? Myopic Bookworm 16:38, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Information requested

I removed all the surplus "."s - they look rather old-fashioned and messy!

Just to tidy up, if you know the university from which some of these degrees come, please add them:

• Larry J Kreitzer MDiv - I know it is from an American university, but not which one. Also, doesn't he have a BA in history as well?

• Nicholas J Wood BA - presumably not BA (Oxon)

• Pamela Sue Anderson - I thought she had an undergraduate degree from Yale

• Wiard Popkye BD (?) DrTheol (?)

• Davorin Peterlin - does he have a masters degree from Regent College Vancouver?

Thanks, --Oxonian2006 20:02, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

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Part of this article sounds like an advert for RPC to me...CPCHEM 17:35, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

I have loads of college photos from when I created the last edition of 'Regent's Made Simple' - the JCR's introductory magazine sent out to all freshers. But who are Oxonian2006 and AlexanderLondon who have obviouly worked hard on the page? Email me: mecooper@mac.com please and we can talk photographs! --Mecooper 19:25, 07 August 2006

Suggested improvement to Category:Members of Regent's Park College, Oxford

(I've posted this on the Category page's talk page, but thought more people would see it here.) Other Oxford and Cambridge Colleges have Category pages as follows - Alumni of X College, Oxbridge, and Fellows of X College, Oxbridge. However, the category of "Members" of Regents mixes the two in together. I suggest that this category be deleted and replaced with Alumni / Fellows Categories. Any thoughts? (I should add that I'm happy to undertake this task if it's thought helpful, though I may need some help where it's not clear from the text) Bencherlite 12:00, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Indeed. I think the reason for merging Fellows and Alumni/ae into Members was that there aren't many of either. Paul S. Fiddes and Jane Shaw are (or were) both Fellow and Alumnus/a. Alan Kreider was a Fellow. I think the rest are Alumni/ae.--Oxonian2006 00:36, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for that. I'll leave it until the weekend to see whether anyone else has views for / against (and I may not have time to do it until then anyway!) Bencherlite 17:14, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

In fact, I've now found that the proper way to do this is to list the issue at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 February 16, so I have. Bencherlite 20:32, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

The decision at "Categories for Discussion" was to have two categories, so I have now changed the categorisation of "members" accordingly. Bencherlite 00:19, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Cleanup

The whole article has been cleaned up, with a proper history section, citations and the removal of non-encyclopaedic information and sections. Soon a series of photographs will be uploaded as well to complete the improvement to the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jmf3333 (talk • contribs) 09:59, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

The photographs have now been added. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jmf3333 (talk • contribs) 10:57, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

Additions

I have created a separate history page for those who are truly interested in the full history of the college from 1810; the main RPC page now just gives a brief outline. I have also created a page for the Angus Library, as the section on it on the RPC page was long enough to be a separate Wiki entry in its own right. bluewave (talk) 14:39, 2 January 2013 (UTC)