Talk:Wadham College, Oxford
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I'm completely bewildered by the claim that Wadham has been a 'hotbed of radicalism' for 'four decades'. I was a student there in the 1960s (1964-70) and the College wasn't radical at the time. In the fact the main preoccupation at undergraduate level was to get the highest possible class of degree, and there just wasn't time for fooling around with radicalism and the like. Norvo, 18.58 28 December 2005 (UTC)
Wadham definitely isn't a 'hotbed of radicalism' today. That from a present Wadham graduate student.
--Ilnyckyj 03:00, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
Famous Wardens and Fellows
Robert J.C. Young, post-colonial theorist, for example. Good luck to him, but is he really famous? Probably every fellow or (especially) warden is notable to some extent, but we don't want to just list them all here, and famous is a big word. Flapdragon 00:46, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
JCR Quad
I should start by saying that I'm a former Wadham student. I will shortly remove references to "Ho Chi Minh Quad" for six reasons.
1. Although the term is part of college folklore, I've never seen a citation to any SU meeting from the 1970s.
2. Decisions such as "quad names" are made by the college fellows, not the SU.
3. The College and most students use the term "JCR Quad."
4. Oxford JCRs produce lots of silly resolutions, very few of which deserve life support after thirty years.
5. "The times they are a-changin'," and Wadham students today are different from those in the 1970s.
6. Wadham's noteriety as a radical college (in contrast to "just" being tolerant and progressive) harms its ability to recruit ordinary people from under-represented communities in Britain.