Talk:University of Missouri–Kansas City

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

	Missouri Portal This article is part of WikiProject Missouri, a WikiProject related to the U.S. state of Missouri. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.
B	This article has been rated as B-Class on the quality scale.
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the importance scale.

	This article is related to WikiProject Kansas City, an attempt to write quality articles about the Missouri city of Kansas City and the surrounding Metropolitan Area. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.
B	This article has been rated as B-Class on the assessment scale.
Mid	This article is on a subject of Mid-importance within Kansas City.

	Portal This article is part of WikiProject Universities, an attempt to standardise coverage of universities and colleges. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this notice, or visit the project page, where you can join the project or contribute to the discussion.
B	This article has been rated as B-Class on the quality scale.

Contents 1 Oak Street Dorm 2 UM System seal 3 Please move back 4 Template:User UMKC 5 Quality

[edit] Oak Street Dorm

Crazy dorm rules. Anyone know why in the oak street dorm the doors are locked 24 hours a day, and you must swipe your keycard to get in and show it to the person behind the front desk? Why you then also have to swipe the card again to go up the elevator? Why if you have a guest, that guest must turn in their drivers license to the front desk to enter? Why if a guest stays for more than 2 nights(even on long weekends) they must pay a fee per night after? (Of course despite the fact you already paid for your room and your guest either shares your bed or sleeps on the floor) Oh and all the doors have strong closers on it so you walk the hallways and you see or interact with no one. Very Very VERY! Anti social dorm.

This isn't really the place to discuss that sort of thing. Besides, I didn't have that experience in the Oak St Dormitory. When I visited friends there (I lived off campus) the lower level doors were always unlocked before a certain time each night, and no one at the front desk ever asked to see my id. By the way, when you edit a talk page don't forget to sign it with four tildes. Mrmb6b02 17:04, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

The doors are locked 24 hours a day in order to ensure that the staff knows who is in the building and to attempt to keep out undesirable people in the residence hall. The swipe card system is "front door key" similar to what you would have at your own home. The reason a resident must present it to the front desk is again so we know who is in the building and that if it is a guest, they are checked in. The reason guests must leave a photo id at the desk is so we know who is in the building. In the event of an emergency, we have an accurate log of non residential guests that we can use in the event of missing persons if the say the hall burned down. The reason for the 2 night rule is that though the resident has paid for the room, the guest has not. 3 people in a room is considered cohabitation by the UMKC board of trustees. The strong closer system is due to fire codes. All buildings built after a certain time must have automatic closers. This is so the fire resistant doors can close to protect the resident in the event that a fire is in the area.

134.193.76.21 16:32, 31 August 2007 (UTC)J.R. Benmuvhar, Community Assistant

[edit] UM System seal

I need someone who graduated from UMKC (i.e., knows what the diploma looks like) to answer this: is the UM System seal on the outside cover or on the diploma itself? Any other logos? Is the UM System seal used anywhere on campus at all? Could UMKC students even identify it? Just wondering and trying to decide what to do with the infobox. Thanks.—Lazytiger 19:12, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

The UM system seal is located at least one place on the campus: way above the door of Flarsheim Hall that faces Rockhill Rd. I've also seen it displayed on flags around campus. It probably hangs somewhere in the U-Center too, though I can't say that for sure. I can definitely identify it, though I can't speak for others. Unfortunately, I can't answer your questions about the diploma because, although I graduated recently and the diploma was mailed to my home address, I am not at home right now. I have it, but I haven't actually seen it. Sorry. Mrmb6b02 15:42, 29 July 2007 (UTC) The UKC seal is on western wall of Haag hall. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mcjelavich (talk • contribs) 00:50, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Please move back

The page move was wrong. The dash is used in writing to illustrate a pause in speaking. The UMKC official site clearly uses regular hyphen throughout. http://www.umkc.edu/umkc/catalog/html/intro/0200.html Badagnani 06:43, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

The en dash is the proper English punctuation for the title of the university. You are right to say that one of the uses of the em dash is to illustrate a pause in speaking, but we are talking about the en dash here. Many people are simply ignorant of the en dash's existence or proper use. Hyphens are primarily for one purpose—to create compound words. There is no place called Missouri-Kansas City that has a university. There is, however, a University of Missouri at Kansas City. The en dash is used in places where words such as "at" or "to" or a comma (such as University of California, Berkeley) could be used instead. I am well aware of the fact that UMKC—as well as UMSL, MU, UMR, and countless other universities and organizations—often use hyphens on their websites and (even more embarrassingly) on their printed materials. This is purely out of laziness and/or ignorance of the proper punctuation. I see no reason to repeat their mistakes here. This argument was already hashed out on the MU talk page. See also the Wikipedia Manual of Style. And in any case, a redirect for the hyphenated variation exists, so there should be no problem with people accessing the article.—Lazytiger 14:47, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Template:User UMKC

I created a user template at Template:User UMKC Americasroof (talk) 21:21, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Quality

I don't believe the writing in the history sections of this entry are encyclopedia quality. I have tried a few times to rewrite them, but someone has felt the need to revert or modify most of my changes. I'm giving up. Hopefully, prospective students will not be turned off to the university because of the poor representation of it on this website. To the original author: this is not a personal criticism. It is an alumnus looking out for the best interests of his alma mater. Mrmb6b02 (talk) 03:24, 26 April 2008 (UTC)