It may be a Robbins Report uni, but to many nowadays, "New University" generally means a post 92 former polytechnic - a nearly 40 year old institution has less call on this. Anyone got a better term to describe it? Timrollpickering 11:29, 31 May 2004 (UTC)

Glass Plate universities?, see British university. Djegan 18:08, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Contents

1 == 1.1 Chancellors 1.2 dominant political force 1.3 Hall Closure 1.4 Dining Hall closure 1.5 Tyler Court 1.6 Ambiguity: Kent State University

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In addition to these college accomdations there is also Tyler Court, a new block catering mainly for final year and postgrad students...

When did Tyler Court admit undergrads? And how new is it? It was established back in the early 1990s. Timrollpickering 13:42, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Tyler court was only completed and opened in 1997. The first batch of students to reside in it moved in in my final year (1997-1998)

Chancellors

According to the University of Kent web site the Chancellor from 1990-95 was DR Robert Horton, not Robert Horton. Ben W Bell 08:00, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Doctor Rober Horton perhaps? Is it clear that those are his initials? Timrollpickering 17:44, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Sorry shouldn't have capitalised that. On the UKC site he is listed as Dr Robert Horton (as in Doctor). It's just IceAxeJuggler removed the Dr in this article for some reason. Ben W Bell 19:40, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)

dominant political force

The Conservatives the dominant political force on a UK campus? Really? Can we have some proof of that? Average Earthman 14:11, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Not sure where the Union President is now, but in my last years there, when he was a fresher, he most certainly was a Conservative. Timrollpickering 16:09, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Hall Closure

A recent controversial move? They closed down Elliot Dining Hall about 7 years ago, it was closed the finaly year I was there and I left in 1998. Maybe it should be reworded? Ben W Bell 08:07, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Not quite as Elliot was reopened in 2000 when they closed Keynes Dining Hall, although there wasn't as full a service, and with Rutherford as the "main" hall. This was because Keynes's design made it suitable for conversion to something else, whereas Elliot's was dead space. Timrollpickering 08:52, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)

An anonymous login, looking like someone on the Kent network, deleted the section on dining halls. If they want to explain why (and get a login) then please speak up. In the meantime here is the text:

Dining Hall closure

A recent controversial move, affecting a large proportion of the college-resident population, was to close Eliot Colleges' dining hall, and have the entire college serviced by the dining hall in Rutherford. Much resistance has been planned to this closure, mostly due to the fact that now around 3000 campus-residing students now only have a room the size of half a football field to be fed in. This problem is exacerbated in the evenings, when that hall is frequently overcrowded and runs out of food. However, currently no provision to cope with even more over-use has been announced by the University, and several student groups from Darwin, Eliot, Beckett and Parkwood are planning protests of their own on the issue.

Tyler Court

Just to note, in the last year Tyler Court has extended itself with two more blocks namely B and C, behind the original Tyler Court (Block A). I have heard that they were only just finished in time for the 2004/2005 year, and already I know (as I am here) that there has been a burst water pipe, which resulted in an evacuation of part of Tyler Court C. Like A the rooms in B and C blocks are en-suite, and self catered.

Ambiguity: Kent State University

I was looking for information about Kent State University and it took me a while to realize I was on the wrong track with this page.

I think disambiguation info belongs into the first paragraph here. .~.

Sorry but I don't think it's needed. This article is called University of Kent, not Kent State University, the two are quite differently named. It's close to saying you need a disambiguation page on United States of America in case someone was looking for United States of Mexico. A disambiguation page is more for things with the same name like Firefly (insect), Firefly (TV Series), Firefly (locomotive). Ben W Bell 13:11, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

• • I'd agree with that, if people are looking for Kent State University, they might type Kent State, they might even type Kent University, but they are not going to type in University of Kent. We shouldn't cover every article with disambigs for the benefit of the seriously confused. Average Earthman 14:05, 4 May 2005 (UTC)