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Boethius, Dpbsmith - Thanks for turning this into a reputable article. While its, by no means, a perfect school, the hack job that was being done to it was a complete travesty.--[[User:Dave3172|Dave3172]] 09:39, 27 March 2007 (EDT)
Boethius, Dpbsmith - Thanks for turning this into a reputable article. While its, by no means, a perfect school, the hack job that was being done to it was a complete travesty.--[[User:Dave3172|Dave3172]] 09:39, 27 March 2007 (EDT)
== Academic boosterism ==
I'm snipping:
:and was rated as the 15th best U.S. college in 2007 by U.S. News and World Report [http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/t1natudoc_brief.php]
If we must have this, it shouldn't go in the lead paragraph.
On Wikipedia, there is a degree of academic boosterism that in my opinion can only be explained on the assumption that many editors of articles about colleges are either high school seniors, immersed in a competitive culture of admissions insanity, or freshman, who believe that having gotten admitted to a college is an achievement in itself and feel that their personal identity is strongly tied to the prestige of the college they attend.
"Real" encyclopedias are not obsessed with rankings.
If the community shouts me down on this, OK, but let's at least keep this stuff out of the lead paragraph... have a section somewhere in the article with a heading like "Ranking and reputation." But for now, let's see if we can just do without it.
"Member of the Ivy League" really tells you everything important about Brown's standing. The fact that it ranks fifteenth is of far less interest than the fact that it has no law or business schools, which is presently not in the article. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 05:55, 28 March 2007 (EDT)