Talk:Eastern Mennonite University

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Someone has clearly put a lot of work into this article because he or she loves EMU. I think that's wonderful, and there are clearly references to their sources. However, the article itself does not seem to be written from an objective point of view - rather it highlights only the disctinctives and positive attributes of the college. I am interested in someone changing the article to a more neutral point of view, or at least, adding in some balance the article.

Looking at other institutions' pages like Harvard or University of Virginia, for example, would give a better idea of how to edit this piece. In reading this, EMU seems like the Garden of Eden. Has there been any controversy on campus? What do students fight/ or what historically have they fought about (there has to be arguments)? For example: As a church school, how has EMU's stance on homosexuality played out? As a peace school, how has not playing the national anthem played as to who the university is? How are community relations? Has anyone gotten injured on a cross cultural? Asking more probing questions makes the article more relevant and ties it into historical context with larger issues/ themes within the city of Harrisonburg. My current opinion is that the citations make it read like a persuasive essay rather than an objective document. (Hochstetler51 (talk) 15:36, 7 October 2011 (UTC))

I tagged this as reading like an advertisement ("beautiful Shenedoah Valley" &c). Nothing personal; I'm about improvement. I'll probably end up editing it myself because I love it so much, haha. Aepoutre 23:37, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

did some editing and removed tag; hope it's better now. let me know what we think. Aepoutre 19:41, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

As of September 2012, this article is still pretty comical in its own right. Just read the section on "Values" which opens with rhetorical questions. It's nice writing, but not encyclopedic writing. Most of the sources are by the school itself as well. --Bobak (talk) 15:19, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

Official Logo

The current logo is reversed: white on a blue background; the official logo is white with a blue graphic element and gray text. Somebody should replace it with http://www.emu.edu/marketing/identity/images/EMUlogo-color.jpg —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikimenno (talk • contribs) 20:38, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

Done. ✤ JonHarder ^talk 20:58, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

Recent Edits

This article is still clearly in need of work. I personally question the merit of it's current "B" rating compared to others I have seen. So perhaps I am over reacting because I have invested some time to cleaning it up, but the article was subject to recent edits or cuts, that in the name of removing "a bunch of unsupported info and subjective language", cut out a large, as well as very relevant and important, part of the story of this institution.

The whole story of EMU's reversal in course on its stand over the issue of homosexual relations/marriage and the resulting controversy it created in the Christian world and particularly within the CCCU (of which it was a founding member) is not simply an inconvenient truth to be stricken or whitewashed out of the story of EMU. Rewrite it - perhaps - but to expunge this information entirely from the record does the reader a disservice. Experienced editors, please weigh if I am wrong on this. Jsniessen (talk) 15:04, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

I am going to begin to carefully restore much of the material recently deleted by User:Ronnyspock, all of which is very well documented. Jsniessen (talk) 18:38, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

I have completed re-instating much (but not all) of the recently deleted content concerning the schools change in stance on it's views of marriage and sexuality and the ensuing controversy with the CCCU. Certainly, there are still organizational and editing tasks left to be done here. User:Ronnyspock and others, please kindly dialogue here next time before gutting 1/4 of the article's diligently sourced content. Jsniessen (talk) 17:55, 5 October 2016 (UTC)

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