Vanderbilt University
Established	1873
Type	Private
Endowment	$2.911 billion
Chancellor	Gordon Gee
Faculty	2,861
Students	11,481
Undergraduates	6,402
Postgraduates	5,079
Location	Nashville, Tenn., USA
Campus	Urban, 330 acres
Athletics	16 varsity teams
Colors	Black and Gold
Nickname	Commodores
Affiliations	AAU (Academic) SEC (Athletic)
Website	www.vanderbilt.edu

Vanderbilt University is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational research university in Nashville, Tennessee. Image File history File links Vanderbilt_University_Seal. ... The date of establishment or date of founding of an institution is the date on which that institution chooses to claim as its starting point. ... A private university is a university that is run without the control of any government entity. ... A financial endowment is a transfer of money or property donated to an institution, with the stipulation that it be invested, and the principal remain intact. ... A Chancellor is the head of a university. ... Gordon Gee Elwood Gordon Gee (born February 2, 1944) is an American academic. ... A faculty is a division within a university. ... Alternate uses: Student (disambiguation) Etymologically derived through Middle English from the Latin second-type conjugation verb stŭdērĕ, which means to study, a student is one who studies. ... In some educational systems, undergraduate education is post-secondary education up to the level of a Bachelors degree. ... Degree ceremony at Cambridge. ... Nickname: Music City Location in Davidson County and the state of Tennessee Coordinates: Country United States State Tennessee Counties Davidson County Founded: 1779 Incorporated: 1806  - Mayor Bill Purcell (D) Area    - City  526. ... Official language(s) English Capital Nashville Largest city Memphis Largest metro area Nashville Area  Ranked 36th  - Total 42,169 sq mi (109,247 km²)  - Width 120 miles (195 km)  - Length 440 miles (710 km)  - % water 2. ... The city of San Francisco, an example of an urban area. ... School colors are the colors chosen by a school to represent it on uniforms and other items of identification. ... Black cat, thought by some to cause bad luck Black is both a color and the shade of objects that do not reflect light in any part of the visible spectrum. ... Old Gold is a dark yellow, which varies from light olive or olive brown to deep or strong yellow. ... The athletic nickname, or equivalently athletic moniker, of a university or college within the United States of America is the name officially adopted by that institution for at least the members of its athletic teams. ... Commodore is a military rank used in some navies for officers whose position exceeds that of a Captain, but is less than that of a Flag Officer. ... Image File history File links Vanderbilt_Commodores. ... The Association of American Universities (AAU) is an organization of leading research universities devoted to maintaining a strong system of academic research and education. ... The Southeastern Conference (SEC) is a college athletic conference headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama which operates in the southeastern part of the United States. ... A website (or Web site) is a collection of web pages, images, videos and other digital assets and hosted on a particular domain or subdomain on the World Wide Web. ... A private university is a university that is run without the control of any government entity. ... Coeducation is the integrated education of men and women. ... A university is an institution of higher education and of research, which grants academic degrees. ... Nickname: Music City Location in Davidson County and the state of Tennessee Coordinates: Country United States State Tennessee Counties Davidson County Founded: 1779 Incorporated: 1806  - Mayor Bill Purcell (D) Area    - City  526. ... Official language(s) English Capital Nashville Largest city Memphis Largest metro area Nashville Area  Ranked 36th  - Total 42,169 sq mi (109,247 km²)  - Width 120 miles (195 km)  - Length 440 miles (710 km)  - % water 2. ...

Vanderbilt was founded in 1873 with a gift of $1 million by shipping and rail magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt who, despite having never been to the South, hoped his gift and the greater work of the university would help to heal the sectional wounds inflicted by the Civil War. 1873 (MDCCCLXXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Ship Transport is the process of moving people, goods, etc. ... Railway tracks running through a railway station in North East England A railway yard in Portland, Oregon. ... Cornelius Vanderbilt Cornelius Vanderbilt I (May 27, 1794 – January 4, 1877), also known by the sobriquets The Commodore [1] [2] or Commodore Vanderbilt [3], was an American entrepreneur who built his wealth in shipping and railroads and was the patriarch of the Vanderbilt family. ... Combatants United States of America (Union) Confederate States of America (Confederacy) Commanders Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee Strength 2,200,000 1,064,000 Casualties 110,000 killed in action, 360,000 total dead, 275,200 wounded 93,000 killed in action, 258,000 total...

Today, Vanderbilt enrolls around 11,000 students in ten schools—four undergraduate and six graduate and professional. Also affiliated with the university are several research facilities and a world-renowned medical center, the Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), which is the only Level I Trauma Center in Middle Tennessee. The Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) is a collection of several hospitals and clinics associated with Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. ... Level I trauma center provides the highest level of Surgical care to trauma patients. ...

Vanderbilt is a member of the Association of American Universities, to whose membership it was elected in 1950. The Association of American Universities (AAU) is an organization of leading research universities devoted to maintaining a strong system of academic research and education. ...

History

Cornelius Vanderbilt

In the years prior to the American Civil War, the Methodist Episcopal Church, South had been considering creating a regional university for the training of ministers located centrally for the congregations of the church. Through the lobbying of Nashville bishop Holland McTyeire, church leaders voted in 1872 to create "Central University" in Nashville. However, lack of funds (and the war-ravaged state of the South) delayed the opening of the college. Image File history File links Vanderbilt. ... Image File history File links Vanderbilt. ... Combatants United States of America (Union) Confederate States of America (Confederacy) Commanders Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee Strength 2,200,000 1,064,000 Casualties 110,000 killed in action, 360,000 total dead, 275,200 wounded 93,000 killed in action, 258,000 total... The Methodist Episcopal Church, South was the so-called Southern Methodist Church resulting from the split in the Methodist Episcopal Church which had been brewing over several years until it came out into the open at a conference held in Louisville, Kentucky in 1845. ... Holland Nimmons McTyeire (July 28, 1884–1889) was a Bishop in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South in the USA, elected in 1866. ...

The following year, on a medical trip to New York, McTyeire stayed at the residence of "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt, whose second wife was the cousin of McTyeire's wife. Vanderbilt, the wealthiest man in America at the time, had been considering philanthropic causes as he was at an advanced age. His original plan was to establish a university on Staten Island, New York in honor of his mother. McTyeire, however, successfully convinced him to donate $500,000 to endow Central University. Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the state of New York and the entire United States. ... Cornelius Vanderbilt Cornelius Vanderbilt I (May 27, 1794 – January 4, 1877), also known by the sobriquets The Commodore [1] [2] or Commodore Vanderbilt [3], was an American entrepreneur who built his wealth in shipping and railroads and was the patriarch of the Vanderbilt family. ... Staten Island, in yellow, lies to the southwest of the rest of New York City. ... State nickname: Empire State Other U.S. States Capital Albany Largest city New York Governor George Pataki Official languages None Area 141,205 km² (27th)  - Land 122,409 km²  - Water 18,795 km² (13. ...

The endowment (later increased to $1 million) would be Vanderbilt's only philanthropy. Though the Commodore never expressed any desire to have the university named after himself, McTyeire and his fellow trustees soon rechristened the school as "the Vanderbilt University." Vanderbilt died in 1877 having never even visited the school named after him.

Old Main (1875), photographed before it burned in 1905

After the fire, Old Main was rebuilt with one tower and renamed Kirkland Hall. It is currently home of Vanderbilt's administration.

In the fall of 1875, about 200 students enrolled at Vanderbilt; the university was dedicated in October of that year. Bishop McTyeire, who had been named chairman of the Board of Trust for life by Vanderbilt as a stipulation of his endowment, named Landon Garland, his mentor from Randolph-Macon College in Virginia and then-Chancellor of the University of Mississippi, as chancellor. Garland shaped the school's structure and hired the school's faculty, many of whom were renowned scholars in their respective fields. However, most of this crop of star faculty left after disputes with Bishop McTyeire. Image File history File links Vandy_Old_Main. ... Image File history File links Vandy_Old_Main. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Vandy-Kirkland-2. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Vandy-Kirkland-2. ... Landon Garland was a 19th century American academic. ... Randolph-Macon College is a private, co-educational liberal arts college located in Ashland, Virginia, near Richmond. ... Official language(s) English Capital Richmond Largest city Virginia Beach Area  Ranked 35th  - Total 42,793 sq mi (110,862 km²)  - Width 200 miles (320 km)  - Length 430 miles (690 km)  - % water 7. ... A Chancellor is the head of a university. ... The University of Mississippi, also known as Ole Miss, is a public, coeducational research university located in Oxford, Mississippi. ...

Old Science Hall (recently renamed Benson Science Hall), one of the original buildings, has not been used for science classes in many years.

For the first 40 years, the Board of Trust (and therefore the university itself) was under the control of the general conference (the governing body) of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. However, tensions began rising between the university administration and the Conference over the future of the school, particularly over the methods by which members of the Vanderbilt Board of Trust would be chosen. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (581x655, 42 KB) Old Science Hall I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (581x655, 42 KB) Old Science Hall I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... The Methodist Episcopal Church, South was the so-called Southern Methodist Church resulting from the split in the Methodist Episcopal Church which had been brewing over several years until it came out into the open at a conference held in Louisville, Kentucky in 1845. ...

Conflicts escalated with the appointment of James Kirkland as chancellor in 1893. The final straw, at least in the mind of Kirkland, was a failed campaign to raise $300,000 from Southern Methodist congregations (only $50,000 was raised). Further disputes between the bishops and Kirkland, which erupted into litigation in 1912, led the Methodist conference to sever all ties with Vanderbilt University in June 1914.

Vanderbilt enjoyed early intellectual influence during the 1920s and 1930s when it hosted two partly overlapping groups of scholars who had a large impact on American thought and letters: the Fugitives and the Agrarians. During the same period, Ernest William Goodpasture and his colleagues in the Medical School invented methods for cultivating viruses and rickettsiae in fertilized chicken eggs. This work made possible the production of vaccines against chicken pox, smallpox, yellow fever, typhus, Rocky mountain spotted fever and other diseases caused by agents that only propagate in living cells. The Fugitives were a group of poets and literary scholars who came together at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennesee around 1920. ... The Southern Agrarians or Vanderbilt Agrarians were a group of 12 American Traditionalist writers and poets from the Southern United States who joined together to publish the Agrarian manifesto, a collection of essays entitled Ill Take My Stand in 1930. ... Dr. Ernest William Goodpasture (October 17, 1886 – September 20, 1960), was an American pathologist and physician. ... Stop editing pages god ... Species Rickettsia felis Rickettsia prowazekii Rickettsia rickettsii Rickettsia typhi Bacteria of the genus Rickettsia are carried as parasites by many ticks, fleas, and lice, and cause diseases such as typhus, rickettsialpox, Brill-Zinsser disease, Boutonneuse fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, and endemic typhus in human beings. ... Chicken pox, also spelled chickenpox, is a common childhood disease caused by the varicella_zoster virus (VZV), also known as human herpes virus 3 (HHV_3), one of the eight herpesviruses known to affect humans. ... Smallpox (also known by the Latin names Variola or Variola vera) is a highly contagious disease unique to humans. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Epidemic typhus. ... Binomial name Rickettsia rickettsii Wolbach, 1919 Wikispecies has information related to: Ixodidae Wikispecies has information related to: Rickettsia Rocky Mountain spotted fever is the most severe and most frequently reported rickettsial illness in the United States, and has been diagnosed throughout the Americas. ...

Kissam Hall, men's dormitory from 1901 until it was razed in 1958. The baths were all in the basement.

In the late 1950s, the Vanderbilt Divinity School became something of a hotbed of the emerging Civil Rights movement, and the university expelled one of its leaders, James Lawson. Much later, in 2005, he was made a Distinguished Alumnus for his achievements and re-hired as a Distinguished University Professor for the 2006-07 academic year.[1] Image File history File links Vandy-Kissam_Hall. ... Image File history File links Vandy-Kissam_Hall. ... Vanderbilt Divinity School is a university-based interdenominational theological school based at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. It is one of only four such schools in the United States, and is the only such school located in the South. ... James Lawson speaking at a community meeting in Nashville, Tennessee in 2005 James M. Lawson (born September 22, 1928 in Uniontown, Pennsylvania) was a leading theoretician and tactician of nonviolence within the American Civil Rights Movement He continues to be active in training activists in nonviolence. ...

As with Lawson, the university drew national attention in 1966, when it recruited the first African American athlete in the Southeastern Conference, Perry Wallace. Wallace, from Nashville, played varsity basketball for Vanderbilt from 1967-1970, and faced considerable opposition from segregationists when playing at other SEC venues. In 2004, a student-led drive to have Wallace's jersey retired finally succeeded. Harold Vanderbilt was president of the Board of Trust between 1955 and 1968 when racial integration was a very prominent topic at the school. Today a statue of him in front of Buttrick Hall memorializes his efforts. Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, born July 6, 1884 - died July 4, 1970, was a member of the prominent United States Vanderbilt family who was a railroad executive, a champion yachtsman and a champion bridge player. ... Children at a parade in North College Hill, Ohio Racial integration, or simply integration includes desegregation (the process of ending systematic racial segregation). ...

In 1966, Oberlin Graduate School of Theology moved from Ohio to Nashville, in order to merge with the Vanderbilt Divinity School. In 1979, Vanderbilt absorbed its neighbor Peabody College. Vanderbilt Divinity School is a university-based interdenominational theological school based at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. It is one of only four such schools in the United States, and is the only such school located in the South. ... Originally, George Peabody College for Teachers was a teachers college located in Nashville, Tennessee, and after 1911, was geographically locatated directly across the street from the campus of Vanderbilt University. ...

Memorial Hall, located on the Peabody campus, was the subject of a lawsuit to remove the word "Confederate" from its facade.

History, race, and civil rights issues again came to the fore on the campus in 2002, when the university decided to rename a dormitory on the Peabody campus, Confederate Memorial Hall, to Memorial Hall. Nationwide attention resulted, in part due to a lawsuit by the Tennessee chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, who had helped pay for the building's construction in 1933 with a $50,000 contribution. Image File history File linksMetadata Vandyconfederatehall. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Vandyconfederatehall. ... The United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) is a sororal association dedicated to honoring the memory of those who served and died in service to the Confederate States of America (CSA). ...

The Davidson County Chancery Court dismissed the lawsuit in 2003, but the Tennessee Court of Appeals ruled in May 2005 that the university would have to pay damages based on the present value of the United Daughters of the Confederacy's contribution if an inscription bearing the name "Confederate Memorial Hall" were to be removed from the building or altered.

In late July of 2005, the university announced that although it has officially renamed the building and all university publications and offices will refer to it solely as "Memorial Hall," the university would neither appeal the matter further nor remove the inscription and pay damages.

Organization

Board of Trust

Vanderbilt University, as a private corporation, is wholly governed by an independent, self-perpetuating Board of Trust. The Board is comprised of 45 regular members (plus any number of trustees emeriti) and the Chancellor. Each trustee serves a five-year term (except for four recently-graduated undergraduates, whom serve four-year terms). A complete, up-to-date listing of the members of the Board of Trust can be found here. Martha Rivers Ingram is the current Chairman of the Board of Trust. Martha Robinson Rivers Ingram (born 20 August 1936) is the widow of Erskine Bronson Ingram, who inherited his fathers petroleum and barge empire in 1963. ... A Chairman is the presiding officer of a meeting, organization, committee, or other deliberative body. ...

Chancellor

Gordon Gee is the current Chancellor of Vanderbilt University. Appointed by the Board of Trust, he is the chief executive officer of the university, and serves only at the pleasure of the Board. Prior to his appointment in February 2000, Gee served as president of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Gordon Gee Elwood Gordon Gee (born February 2, 1944) is an American academic. ... A Chancellor is the head of a university. ... A Chief Executive Officer (CEO), or Chief Executive, is the highest-ranking corporate officer, administrator, corporate administrator, executive, or executive officer, in charge of total management of a corporation, company, organization or agency. ... Brown University is a private university located in Providence, Rhode Island. ... Nickname: Beehive of Industry, The Renaissance City, The Divine City Location in Rhode Island Coordinates: Country United States State Rhode Island County Providence  - Mayor David N. Cicilline (D) Area    - City 53. ... Official language(s) English Capital Providence Largest city Providence Area  Ranked 50th  - Total 1,214* sq mi (3,144* km²)  - Width 37 miles (60 km)  - Length 48 miles (77 km)  - % water 32. ...

Since the opening of the university in 1875, only seven individuals have served as chancellor[2]:

Gee also serves on the Board of Trustees of several companies, including Massey Energy and Gaylord Entertainment Company. Landon Garland was a 19th century American academic. ... James Ian Kirkland (1954 to the present) is an American paleontologist and geologist. ... Gordon Gee Elwood Gordon Gee (born February 2, 1944) is an American academic. ... Massey Energy Company is a large coal producer with substantial operations in West Virginia, Kentucky, and Virginia. ... Gaylord Entertainment Company operates a number of hotel, resort, and media companies. ...

Academic divisions

Vanderbilt University is currently divided into ten degree-granting units. Each division except the Graduate School is headed by a dean. The divisions of the university and their current heads are:

The College of Arts and Science at Vanderbilt University is a highly selective liberal arts college at the heart of a major research university located in Nashville, Tennessee. ... Originally, George Peabody College for Teachers was a teachers college located in Nashville, Tennessee, and after 1911, was geographically locatated directly across the street from the campus of Vanderbilt University. ... Vanderbilt Divinity School is a university-based interdenominational theological school based at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. It is one of only four such schools in the United States, and is the only such school located in the South. ... The Vanderbilt University Law School (VULS) is the law school at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. ... Vanderbilt University School of Nursing (VUSN) is one of the graduate schools of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennesee. ...

Students and faculty

Gordon Gee, Chancellor of Vanderbilt University

As of fall 2005, the last semester for which comprehensive data have been published, the university had an enrollment of 6,402 undergraduate and 5,079 graduate and professional students. Approximately 52% of the total student body comes from outside the Southeast, including some 2% from outside the United States. Moreover, 20% of the undergraduate class of 2010 were non-Caucasian. Image File history File links Gordon_gee. ... Image File history File links Gordon_gee. ...

With nearly 20,000 employees, Vanderbilt is the largest private employer in Middle Tennessee and the second largest in the state (after FedEx, headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee). The vast majority of those employees are staff at the Medical Center (see below). Of the 2,527 full-time faculty employed by the university, 1,625 are Medical Center faculty (specifically the Schools of Medicine and Nursing) and 902 are University Central (non-Medical Center) faculty. FedEx (NYSE: FDX), properly FedEx Corporation, is a courier company offering overnight courier, ground, heavy freight, document copying and logistics services. ... For other uses, see Memphis (disambiguation). ...

In 2004, the university reported that 24.1% of University Central faculty were women, while 14.4% were of a racial or ethnic minority. In 2003, seventeen were members of one of the National Academies. The United States National Academies consist of four organizations: the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council. ...

Campus

The Vanderbilt campus is located approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 km) west of downtown in the West End neighborhood of midtown Nashville. It has an area of 330 acres (1.3 km²), though this figure includes large tracts of sparsely used land in the southwest part of the main campus, as well as the Medical Center. The original academic quad is approximately 30 acres (12 ha) in area. Vanderbilt is located at 36°08′45″N, 86°48′05″W. (Click here to see a campus map.) Image File history File links Vanderbiltseal. ... A mile is a unit of length, usually used to measure distance, in a number of different systems, including Imperial units, United States customary units and Norwegian/Swedish mil. ... km redirects here. ... Nickname: Music City Location in Davidson County and the state of Tennessee Coordinates: Country United States State Tennessee Counties Davidson County Founded: 1779 Incorporated: 1806  - Mayor Bill Purcell (D) Area    - City  526. ... An acre is the name of a unit of area in a number of different systems, including Imperial units and United States customary units. ...

Layout

Corner of 21st and West End

Bicentennial Oak, facing Buttrick Hall

Stevenson Center, as seen from Buttrick Hall

The Vanderbilt campus is roughly fan-shaped (with the point at the corner of West End and 21st Avenues) and divisible into six sections, all of which are within walking distance from one another: the furthest distance on campus take about twenty-five minutes to walk. Image File history File linksMetadata Vanderbiltsign. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Vanderbiltsign. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (666x889, 438 KB) Summary Photo of Bicentennial Tree taken by Reid Sullivan 1/24/06 about an hour before sunset, facing Buttrick Hall. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (666x889, 438 KB) Summary Photo of Bicentennial Tree taken by Reid Sullivan 1/24/06 about an hour before sunset, facing Buttrick Hall. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Vandystephensoncenter. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Vandystephensoncenter. ...

Original campus

In the northeast corner of the campus (the "base" of the fan) is the original campus. The first college buildings, including Kirkland Hall, were erected here in the 1870s, 1880s, and 1890s. This section stretches from West End Avenue south to the Stevenson Center and west from 21st Avenue to Alumni Lawn.

The majority of the buildings of the arts and humanities departments of the College of Arts and Science, as well as the facilities of the Law School, Owen, and the Divinity School, are located in the original campus. Additionally, the Jean and Alexander Heard Memorial Library (known to alumni as the JUL, or Joint University Library) and Sarratt Student Center/Rand Hall can be found on the original campus. The Vanderbilt University Law School (VULS) is the law school at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. ...

Stevenson Center

Flanking the original campus to the south are the Stevenson Center for Science and Mathematics and the School of Engineering complex (Jacobs Hall-Featheringill Hall). Housing the Science Library, the School of Engineering, and all the science and math departments of the College of Arts and Science, save for psychology, this complex sits between the original campus and the Medical Center.

Medical center campus

The Vanderbilt University Medical Center itself takes up the southeastern part of the campus. Besides the various associated hospitals and clinics and the facilities of the Schools of Medicine and Nursing, the medical center also houses many major research facilities.

Peabody campus

Directly across 21st Avenue from the Medical Center sits the campus of the Peabody College of Education and Human Development. Due to their separate histories until the merger, the Peabody campus was configured in a radically different style than the original Vanderbilt campus. Whereas the latter has an unplanned organic design with buildings scattered throughout, Peabody campus was planned as a geometric design, similar to the Jeffersonian style of the University of Virginia. The campus is home to not only Peabody College but also the future Commons, where all freshmen will live together as part of the College Halls plan (see College Halls, below). This article is becoming very long. ... The University of Virginia (also called U.Va. ... Vanderbilt University is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational research university in Nashville, Tennessee. ...

Central campus and Greek row

West of the original campus and the Medical Center, Greek Row and the bulk of Vanderbilt residence halls are found. From north to south, Carmichael Towers, Greek Row, Branscomb Quadrangle, and Highland Quadrangle house the vast majority of on-campus residents in facilities ranging from the double-occupancy shared-bathroom dorms in Branscomb and Towers to the apartments and lodges in Highland Quad.

This part of campus is newer than the others; Vanderbilt's westward growth did not start until the 1950s. This portion of campus was built by tearing down small single family houses and duplexes dating from the early 20^th century, and so the area has significantly less green space than the arboretum on the original campus and is more indicative of the university's urban locale.

Athletics and recreation facilities

Memorial Gymnasium, Vanderbilt Stadium, Hawkins Field, McGugin Center, and all the other varsity athletic fields and facilities are to be found in the extreme west of campus. The Student Recreation Center, and its associated intramural fields, are located south of the varsity facilties Memorial Gymnasium is a multi-purpose facility located in Nashville, Tennessee. ... Dudley Field redirects here, for information on the El Paso stadium. ... Hawkins Field is a baseball stadium in Nashville, Tennessee. ...

Arboretum

National Arboretum Plaque.

The oldest part of the Vanderbilt campus is known for its abundance of trees and green space, which stand in contrast to the surrounding cityscape of urban Nashville. At least one specimen of every tree that is indigenous to the state of Tennessee grows on campus. Image File history File linksMetadata Vandyarboretum. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Vandyarboretum. ...

One tree, the Bicentennial Oak between Rand Hall and Garland Hall, is certified to have lived during the American Revolution and is the oldest thing on the campus. John Trumbulls Declaration of Independence, showing the five-man committee in charge of drafting the Declaration in 1776 as it presents its work to the Second Continental Congress The American Revolution refers to the period during the last half of the 18th century in which the Thirteen Colonies that...

The main (original) campus was designated by the Association of Botanical Gardens and Aboreta as a national arboretum in 1988, a status that the university does not take lightly. One interesting consequence of this designation that any visitor to the campus will quickly notice is the length to which trees on campus are protected. Signs posted on the trees by various student groups are actually bound to the trees with wire instead of being nailed to the tree, as it is unlawful to cause damage to any tree in a national arboretum. An arboretum is a botanical garden primarily devoted to trees and other woody plants, forming a living collection of trees intended at least partly for scientific study. ...

Student life

Sailing Club Regatta

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Organizations

The university recognizes nearly 400 student organizations, ranging from academic major societies and honoraries to recreational sports clubs, the oldest of which is the Vanderbilt Sailing Club. Vanderbilt Sailing Club Homecoming Regatta in 2004. ...

There are religious groups like the Baptist Collegiate Ministries, Hillel, the Reform University Fellowship, the Campus Crusade for Christ, and the Wesleyan/Canterbury Fellowship. Each March, U.S. college students spend Spring Break participating in “Big Break,” a Campus Crusade outreach to Panama City Beach vacationers Campus Crusade for Christ is an interdenominational Christian mission organization, focusing on evangelism and discipleship in over 190 countries around the world. ...

The campus radio station, WRVU, represents the student body by playing a range of music from bluegrass to choral. WRVU is the college radio station of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. ...

There are also more than thirty service organizations on campus, giving students the opportunity to perform community service across the country and around the world, including the Vanderbilt-founded Alternative Spring Break.

Greek life

Vanderbilt's Homecoming Queen and King have consistently been members of Greek organizations; in 2003, Kappa Delta and Beta Upsilon Chi won.

Greeks dominate the social scene on and off campus. As of spring 2004, 45% of the undergraduate student body was affiliated with one of 34 social Greek organizations. Specifically, 34% of men were members of fraternities and 55% of women were members of sororities. More recently, several new chapters have been colonized at Vanderbilt, demonstrating the continued demand for available memberships. Image File history File links Vanderbilt_Homecoming_2003. ... Image File history File links Vanderbilt_Homecoming_2003. ... Kappa Delta (ΚΔ) is sorority founded at the State Female Normal School, now Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia. ... Beta Upsilon Chi (Brothers Under Christ or ΒΥΧ) is a Christian social fraternity whose purpose is to establish brotherhood and unity among college men based on the common bond of Jesus Christ. ... The terms fraternity and sorority (from the Latin words and , meaning brother and sister respectively) may be used to describe many social and charitable organizations, for example the Lions Club, Epsilon Sigma Alpha, Delta Sigma Phi, Rotary International, Optimist International, Ordo Templi Orientis or the Shriners. ...

The local chapters are supported by active alumni bases that continue to involve former active members in both the life of the social organization and the life of the university. Many members of Vanderbilt's Board of Trust were members of Greek organizations.

Fraternities

National fraternities recognized by the Office of the Dean of Students include:

• * NPHC affiliate.
• ** NALFO affiliate.

In addition to the officially recognized fraternities and sororities, the Nu Society (an off-campus organization established by former members of Vanderbilt's chapter of Sigma Nu after that chapter lost its charter) maintains an active off-campus presence. In addition, an independent fraternity, PSK (Pages, Squires, Knights), existed between 1965 and 1975.[3] Delta Kappa Epsilon (ΔΚΕ; also pronounced D K E or Deke) is the oldest secret college mens fraternity of New England origin. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Phi Delta Theta (ΦΔΘ) is an international fraternity founded in 1848 at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. ... nickname: Kappa Sig Founded December 10, 1869 International Headquarters Charlottesville, VA Official Colors Scarlet, White, and Emerald green Official Flower Lily of the valley Official Jewel Pearl Official Badge Official Crest ΚΣ (Kappa Sigma) is an international fraternity with at least 300 chapters and colonies in North America. ... Beta Theta Pi (ΒΘΠ) is a college social fraternity founded at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, USA, where it is part of the Miami Triad. ... ATΩ (Alpha Tau Omega) is an American fraternity. ... The Kappa Alpha Order (KA) is a secret collegiate fraternity. ... Sigma Chi (ΣΧ) is one of the largest and oldest international all-male college social fraternities, with chapters at universities predominantly in the United States and several in Canada. ... Pi Kappa Alpha International Fraternity (ΠΚΑ) is an international, secret, social, Greek-letter, college fraternity. ... Phi Kappa Psi (ΦΚΨ, Phi Psi) is a U.S. national college fraternity. ... ΦΚΣ (Phi Kappa Sigma) is an international college fraternity. ... Zeta Beta Tau (ZBT, brothers of which are nicknamed Zebes) is a historically Jewish, presently nonsectarian national fraternity. ... ΛΧΑ (Lambda Chi Alpha), headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, is one of the largest mens general fraternities in North America with more than 250,000 initiated members and chapters (called Zetas) at more than 300 universities. ... Alpha Epsilon Pi (ΑΕΠ or AEPi) is currently the only international Jewish college fraternity in the United States and Canada. ... Alpha Phi Omega (commonly known as APO, but also ΑΦΩ, A-Phi-O, and A-Phi-Q) is a co-ed service fraternity organized to provide community service, leadership development. ... The Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Incorporated (ΩΨΦ) Fraternity was founded on Friday, November 17, 1911, at Howard University in Washington, D.C. by three students. ... Alpha Phi Alpha (ΑΦΑ) is the first intercollegiate fraternity established by African Americans. ... Kappa Alpha Psi (KAΨ) is the second oldest collegiate Greek-letter fraternity with a predominantly African American membership. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... Beta Upsilon Chi (Brothers Under Christ or ΒΥΧ) is a Christian social fraternity whose purpose is to establish brotherhood and unity among college men based on the common bond of Jesus Christ. ... Beta Chi Theta National Fraternity, Inc. ... ΣΦΕ (Sigma Phi Epsilon), commonly nicknamed SigEp, is a social fraternity for male college students in the United States. ... ΣΝ (Sigma Nu) is an undergraduate college fraternity with chapters in the United States and Canada. ... The National Pan-Hellenic Council, Inc. ... The National Association of Latino Fraternal Organizations (NALFO) is an umbrella council for 23 Latino Greek Letter Organizations established in 1998. ... The Nu Society, Inc. ...

Sororities

The sororities represented on campus are:

• * NPHC affiliate.
• ** NALFO affiliate.

Kappa Alpha Theta (ΚΑΘ) is an international womens fraternity founded on January 27, 1870 at DePauw University. ... Delta Delta Delta (ΔΔΔ), also known as Tri Delta, is a national collegiate sorority founded on November 27, 1888. ... Alpha Omicron Pi (ΑΟΠ, AOII) is an international fraternity that was founded on January 2, 1897 at Barnard College on the campus of Columbia University in New York. ... Pi Beta Phi (ΠΒΦ) is an international fraternity for women that was founded on April 28, 1867 in Monmouth, Illinois at Monmouth College as I.C. Sorosis. ... Kappa Delta (ΚΔ) is sorority founded at the State Female Normal School, now Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia. ... Chi Omega (ΧΩ) is the largest womens fraternal organization in the National Panhellenic Conference [1] as well as over 171 active collegiate chapters. ... Alpha Kappa Alpha (ΑΚΑ) Sorority, Incorporated, formed in January 15, 1908 at Howard University, became Americas first Greek-letter organization established by Black college women, and remains a predominately African-American sorority. ... Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, (ΔΣΘ) Incorporated is a non-profit Greek letter organization of college educated women committed to constructive development of its members and to public service with a primary focus on the Black community. ... Alpha Delta Pi (ΑΔΠ) was founded May 15, 1851 at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia making it the first female fraternal organization. ... Kappa Kappa Gamma (ΚΚΓ) is a college womens fraternity, founded on October 13, 1870 at Monmouth College, Illinois. ... Alpha Chi Omega (ΑΧΩ) is a womens fraternity founded on October 15, 1885. ... Delta Gamma (ΔΓ) Fraternity is one of the oldest and largest womens fraternities in the United States, based in Columbus, Ohio. ... Zeta Phi Beta (ΖΦΒ) Sorority Inc. ... // Lambda Theta Alpha Latin Sorority, Incorporated is the first Latina-based sorority in existence. ... The National Pan-Hellenic Council, Inc. ... The National Association of Latino Fraternal Organizations (NALFO) is an umbrella council for 23 Latino Greek Letter Organizations established in 1998. ...

Honor Code

Since the first classes began at Vanderbilt, the Honor System has served to strengthen the academic integrity of the university. Its principles were outlined in a famous quote by long-time Dean of Students Madison Sarratt:

Today I am going to give you two examinations, one in trigonometry and one in honesty. I hope you will pass them both, but if you must fail one, let it be trigonometry, for there are many good [people] in this world today who cannot pass an examination in trigonometry, but there are no good [people] in the world who cannot pass an examination in honesty.

As a part of their first act together as a class, each Vanderbilt class meets together at the Honor Code Signing Ceremony, where every member of the class pledges their honor and signs the code. The signature pages are then hung in the Student Center. The ceremony is one of only two occasions where a class will be congregated in a single place at the same time (the other being Commencement).

The Undergraduate Honor Council was formed to help enforce and protect the tradition of the Honor Code. Today, the Honor Council serves two simultaneous aims: to enforce and protect the Honor Code and to inform members of the Vanderbilt community about the Honor System.

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Student housing

All undergraduate students not living with relatives in Davidson County are required to live on campus all four years to the extent that on-campus student housing facilities can accommodate them. Davidson County is a county located in the state of Tennessee. ...

Therefore, in reality, approximately 83% of undergraduates—freshmen, sophomores, nearly all juniors and most seniors—live on campus. The remaining undergraduates join graduate and professional students in living off-campus. Student life at Vanderbilt is consequently heavily intertwined with campus life. However, with an additional 900 beds being created with the opening of the Commons in 2008 (see below), very few undergraduates will be granted permission to live off-campus.

The on-campus residential system is currently undergoing a radical change. The new system, announced by the administration in 2002, would change the current structure of quadrangle-based residence halls to a new system of residential colleges, to be called College Halls. Similar to the residential structures at Yale, Rice, Caltech, and Harvard, the new College Halls system would create residence halls where students and faculty would live together in a self-sustaining environment for growth with study rooms, cafeterias, laundry facilities, and stores. A residential college is an organisational pattern for a division of a university that places academic activity in a community setting of students and faculty, usually at a residence and with shared meals, the college having a degree of autonomy and a federated relationship with the overall university. ... Yale redirects here. ... Lovett Hall William Marsh Rice University, commonly called Rice University and opened in 1912 as The William Marsh Rice Institute for the Advancement of Letters, Science and Art, is a private, comprehensive research university located in Houston, Texas near the Museum District and adjacent to the Texas Medical Center. ... The California Institute of Technology (commonly referred to as Caltech)[1] is a private, coeducational university located in Pasadena, California, in the United States. ... Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) , is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Founded in 1636,[1] Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning still operating in the United States. ...

The change is being made in the hope of fostering a better learning atmosphere for students living on campus, as well as making students less reliant on Greek life for social status. While there will still be Greek organizations, the College Halls system will establish additional social structures for those students who chose not to join a fraternity or sorority. Many students who are members of Greek organizations worry about the effect that the College Hall system will have on their organizations, but the administration has assured them that Vanderbilt remains committed to Greek life.

Other controversy surrounding The Commons involves the effects to campus housing felt by current students and disagreement over whether the College Halls initiative will bring positive changes to the university. Many students who came with the understanding that seniors are generally allowed to live off-campus are very disappointed at now being forced to stay on-campus all four years. Also, while The Commons will likely foster a new sense of unity within the freshmen classes that live there, some current students feel that the isolation of the freshmen on Peabody campus will create a rift between freshmen and upperclassmen that will affect many common campus activities such as attendance of atheletic events and participation in campus organizations in addition to Greek life.

This project is well underway and is scheduled to be completed within the next twenty years. The first step in the College Halls system will be The Commons, a collection of ten residential halls on the Peabody campus that will house all first-year students beginning in the fall of 2008.

While the university currently houses freshmen in three separate and very distinct residential areas, it is hoped that The Commons will give first-year students a unified (and unifying) living-learning experience. In order to accommodate these ten residential halls, the university is in the process of renovating five existing Peabody dormitories and building five new ones.

Media

Chancellor Gee holding The Slant's hoax issue (posing as the "Huslter") reporting his death

The Vanderbilt community produces media of all genres and in all formats at a prolific rate by students, alumni, and faculty alike. Image File history File links Geedead. ... Image File history File links Geedead. ...

The Vanderbilt Register is the official newspaper of the university administration and faculty. Published once every two weeks, it does not publish opinion.

Exploration is the university's online research magazine. It publishes multimedia stories that explain campus research projects ranging from archeology to zoology, probe the motives that drive the modern-day explorers that perform these studies and describe the experiences of Vanderbilt students who become involved in actual scientific research.

In spite of the lack of an organized journalism curriculum, no less than nine editorially-independent media outlets are produced and controlled by students. Seven print publications, a broadcast radio station and a closed-circuit television station provide a forum for student opinion and issues. One publication, The Vanderbilt Hustler, was established in 1888 and is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Nashville (the newspaper's name supposedly references another nickname for the Commodore based on his cutthroat business practices, i.e., that he "hustled" people out of their money). These student media divisions are organized and controlled by Vanderbilt Student Communications, Inc. In addition, students at the Vanderbilt University Law School publish three law reviews; the flagship journal is the Vanderbilt Law Review. For other cities named Nashville, see Nashville (disambiguation). ... The Vanderbilt University Law School (VULS) is the law school at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. ... A law review is a scholarly journal focusing on legal issues, normally published by an organization of students at a law school or through a bar association. ... The Vanderbilt Law Review is Vanderbilt University Law Schools flagship academic journal. ...

Alumni produce fourteen publications, one for each school and one overall alumni publication: Vanderbilt Magazine. In addition, an electronic newsletter, .commodore, is produced.

• Vanderbilt Register - Vanderbilt's official newspaper
• The Vanderbilt Hustler - student newspaper
• The Commodore - student yearbook
• Exploration - online research magazine
• Orbis - political publication (liberal leaning)
• The Slant - humor & satire publication
• The Spire - alumni magazine of the Divinity School
• Talented Tenth - African American student newspaper
• The Torch - political publication (libertarian/conservative leaning)
• Vanderbilt Business
• Vanderbilt Law Review
• The Vanderbilt Lawyer
• Vanderbilt Undergraduate Research Journal
• The Vanderbilt Review - student literary and arts journal
• Versus - student general interest magazine

Medical Center

Entrance to the Vanderbilt School of Medicine

The Vanderbilt University Medical Center is a vital component of the university and comprises: Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (800x1066, 462 KB) Summary Taken by Reid Sullivan 1/23/06. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (800x1066, 462 KB) Summary Taken by Reid Sullivan 1/23/06. ... The Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) is a collection of several hospitals and clinics associated with Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. ...

• Vanderbilt University Hosptial (VUH)
• The Monroe Carell, Jr., Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt
• Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital
• Vanderbilt Stallworth Rehabilitation Hospital
• The Vanderbilt Clinic
• Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
• Vanderbilt University School of Nursing

In 2003, the medical center was placed on the Honor Roll of U.S. News and World Report's annual rating of the nation's best hospitals, placing it alongside other well-known medical centers, such as the Cleveland Clinic and the Duke University Medical Center. U.S. News & World Report is a weekly newsmagazine. ... Cleveland Clinic is a multispecialty academic medical center located in Cleveland, Ohio. ... Duke University is a private coeducational research university located in Durham, North Carolina, USA. Duke was founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day town of Trinity in 1838, moved to Durham in 1892. ...

Rankings and unusual research

Vanderbilt currently ranks 18th in the nation among national research universities in the publication's college rankings.

In the U.S. News 2006 graduate program rankings, the Vanderbilt University Law School ranks 17th, Vanderbilt's Peabody College ranks fifth among schools of education, and Vanderbilt's Owen Graduate School of Management ranks 45th among business schools, though it has been argued that Vanderbilt's ranking is hindered by its relatively small size. Indeed, the Wall Street Journal recently ranked Owen second among "smaller" business schools. U.S News also ranked the university's School of Medicine 17th in the nation among research-oriented medical schools. The Vanderbilt University Law School (VULS) is the law school at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. ... The Wall Street Journal is an influential international daily newspaper published in New York City, New York with an average daily circulation of 1,800,607 (2002). ... A medical school or faculty of medicine is a tertiary educational institution or part of such an institution that teaches medicine. ...

Additionally, Vanderbilt is ranked first in the nation in the fields of special education and audiology. It is also ranked in the top ten (currently at number seven overall) for its graduate department of religion, and in particular it garners even higher ratings for its work in religion and personality and homiletics. Homiletics (Gr. ...

In The Times Higher Education Supplement 2006, Vanderbilt is ranked 26th in North America and 53rd worldwide.[4] The 2007 Faculty Scholarly Productive Index, a measure of the scholarly output of the faculty of nearly 7,300 doctoral programs around the United States, ranked Vanderbilt eighth among large research universities, and first in the areas of comparative literature, educational leadership, pharmacology, Portuguese, Spanish, and special education.[5] The Times Higher Education Supplement, also known as The Times Higher or The THES for short, is a newspaper based in London that reports specifically on issues related to higher education. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... Comparative literature, colloquially abbreviated comp. ... This article is in need of attention. ... Pharmacology (in Greek: pharmacon (φάρμακον) meaning drug, and logos (λόγος) meaning science) is the study of how substances interact with living organisms to produce a change in function. ... Special education consists of educational programs designed to support students whose singular needs or disabilities require special teaching approaches, equipment, or care within a regular classroom or in other appropriate settings. ...

As with any large research institution, Vanderbilt investigators work in a broad range of disciplines. However, among its more unusual activities, the university has institutes devoted to the study of coffee and of bridge. Indeed, the modern form of the latter was developed by Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, a former president of the university's Board of Trust and a great-grandson of the Commodore. In addition, in mid-2004 it was announced that Vanderbilt's chemical biology research may have serendipitously opened the door to the breeding of a blue rose, something that had long been coveted by horticulturalists and rose lovers. Contract bridge, usually known simply as bridge, is a trick-taking card game of skill and chance (the relative proportions depend on the variant played). ... Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, born July 6, 1884 - died July 4, 1970, was a member of the prominent United States Vanderbilt family who was a railroad executive, a champion yachtsman and a champion bridge player. ... Since roses lack a gene to produce delphinidin, the primary plant pigment that produces true blue flowers, blue roses were traditionally created by dyeing white roses. ... The Latin words hortus (garden plant) and cultura (culture) together form horticulture, classically defined as the culture or growing of garden plants. ...

Vanderbilt's research record is blemished, however, by a study the university conducted on the effects of iron metabolism during pregnancy in the 1940s. Between 1945 and 1949, approximately 800 pregnant women were given without their knowledge an injection of radioactive iron. The injections were later suspected to be the cause of death for some of the children who were being carried in utero at the time.[6] In 1998, the university settled a class action lawsuit with the mothers and surviving children for $10.3 million.[7] General Name, Symbol, Number iron, Fe, 26 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 8, 4, d Appearance lustrous metallic with a grayish tinge Atomic mass 55. ... Overview of the citric acid cycle The citric acid cycle, one of the central metabolic pathways in aerobic organisms. ... A pregnant woman near the end of her term Pregnancy is the carrying of one or more embryos or fetuses by female mammals, including humans, inside their bodies. ... 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday. ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar). ... Radioactive decay is the set of various processes by which unstable atomic nuclei (nuclides) emit subatomic particles. ... In Utero is the third and final studio album from the American grunge band Nirvana, released in September 1993. ... In law, a class action is an equitable procedural device used in litigation for determining the rights of and remedies, if any, for large numbers of people whose cases involve common questions of law and fact. ...

Myths

Vanderbilt's long history has given birth to several myths and urban legends. Among some of the more well known:

• The school does not take Labor Day as a holiday because, as part of the terms of his original endowment, Cornelius Vanderbilt forbade the school to recognize any holiday that celebrated organized labor or the working man.
• Classes have been canceled only once, when a bull invaded the campus sometime late in the nineteenth century.
• Cornelius Vanderbilt originally wanted to use his fortune to build an enormous statue of himself. His wife convinced him to donate the money to the school instead.
• Robin Williams' character in Dead Poets Society is based on Professor of Philosophy John Lachs. In fact, while the film's screenwriter, Tom Schulman, is an alumnus of Vanderbilt, the character is based on Sam Pickering, an English professor at the University of Connecticut who once taught at Montgomery Bell Academy.

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Athletics

See also: Vanderbilt Commodores football

See also: Vanderbilt Commodores basketball

Vanderbilt fields teams in sixteen varsity sports, six men's and ten women's. Men's and women's tennis and men's and women's basketball are traditionally the school's strongest sports, with the more recently founded women's lacrosse and bowling programs as well as the long-standing men's baseball program experiencing moderate national success. After enjoying success in the first half of the 20th century, the football program has struggled in more recent times. City Nashville, Tennessee Stadium Dudley Field at Vanderbilt Stadium (grass, capacity 40,000) Head Coach Bobby Johnson League/Conference affiliations Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (1895-1921) Southern Conference (1922-1931) Southeastern Conference (1932-present) Eastern Division (1992-present) National Championships (2 disputed) 1906 Billingsley, 1911 Billingsley [1] SIAC Championships (11... The Vanderbilt Commodores basketball team represents Vanderbilt University in the Southeastern Conference. ... A tennis net Tennis is a game played between either two players (singles) or two teams of two players (doubles). Players use a stringed racquet to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponents court. ... Sara Giauro shoots a three-point shot, FIBA Europe Cup for Women Finals 2005. ... The Dive Shot. Lacrosse is a team sport that is played with either ten players (men field) six players (men box,indoor) or twelve players (women), each of whom uses a netted stick (the crosse) in order to pass and catch a very hard rubber ball with the aim of... Bowling ball and two pins Ten-pin bowling lane Automatic Scorer This article is about the group of games. ... A view of the playing field at Busch Stadium II St. ... City Nashville, Tennessee Stadium Dudley Field at Vanderbilt Stadium (grass, capacity 40,000) Head Coach Bobby Johnson League/Conference affiliations Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (1895-1921) Southern Conference (1922-1931) Southeastern Conference (1932-present) Eastern Division (1992-present) National Championships (2 disputed) 1906 Billingsley, 1911 Billingsley [1] SIAC Championships (11...

The school is a charter member of the Southeastern Conference, in which it is the only private school, in Division I of the NCAA. Additionally, the school is a member of the American Lacrosse Conference (women's lacrosse), as the SEC does not sponsor that sport. Conversely, Vanderbilt is the only league school not to field teams in softball and volleyball, two women's sports that are sponsored by the SEC. The Southeastern Conference (SEC) is a college athletic conference headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama which operates in the southeastern part of the United States. ... Division I (or DI) is the highest level of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association in the United States. ... The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA, often pronounced N-C-Double-A ) is a voluntary association of about 1200 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and universities in the United States. ... The American Lacrosse Conference, also known as the ALC, is a NCAA Division I Womens Lacrosse-only college athletic conference whose members are located in the Midwest and East Coast states from Illinois to Florida. ... A womens lacrosse player carries the ball past a defender. ... Softball is a team sport in which a ball, eleven to twelve inches (or rarely, 16 inches) (28 to 30. ... Volleyball is an Olympic sport in which two teams separated by a high net use their hands, arms or (rarely) other parts of their bodies to hit a ball back and forth over the net. ...

The baseball team qualified for the NCAA Super Regionals in 2004 and had the nation's top recruiting class in 2005 according to Baseball America. In addition, All-American Curtis Casali will be attending in Fall 2007. Baseball America is an alternative Major League Baseball resource, with in-depth coverage of every level of the game and a particular focus on up-and-coming players. ...

Mascot

Vanderbilt's intercollegiate athletics teams are nicknamed the Commodores, in honor of the nickname given to Cornelius Vanderbilt, who made his fortune in shipping. Thus, students and alumni refer to Vanderbilt athletic teams as "Dores" or use the cheer, "Go Dores!" It has also been reported, particularly by alumni from the era, that Vanderbilt students during the McCarthy era referred to Vanderbilt teams by the moniker "Commies," in a droll allusion to the Red Scare of the 1950s.^{[citation needed]} Cornelius Vanderbilt Cornelius Vanderbilt I (May 27, 1794 – January 4, 1877), also known by the sobriquets The Commodore [1] [2] or Commodore Vanderbilt [3], was an American entrepreneur who built his wealth in shipping and railroads and was the patriarch of the Vanderbilt family. ... A 1947 comic book published by the Catechetical Guild Educational Society warning of the dangers of a Communist takeover. ... Political cartoon of the era depicting an anarchist attempting to destroy the Statue of Liberty. ...

The term commodore was used by the Navy during the mid- to late-nineteenth century. A commodore was the commanding officer of a task force of ships, and therefore higher in rank than a captain but lower in rank than an admiral. The closest parallel to this now-defunct rank is rear admiral lower-half. (In the Royal Navy, the designation of commodore was applied to the commanding officer of a convoy in the Second World War.) Commodore is a military rank used in some navies for officers whose position exceeds that of a Captain, but is less than that of a Flag Officer. ... The United States Navy, also known as the USN or the U.S. Navy, is a branch of the United States armed forces responsible for conducting naval operations. ... The term Rear Admiral originated from the days of Naval Sailing Squadrons, and can trace its origins to the British Royal Navy. ... The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the oldest of the British armed services (and is therefore the Senior Service). ... A convoy is a group of vehicles traveling together for mutual support. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ...

Since the term was used most during the late nineteenth century—and because it was then that Cornelius received his nickname—Vanderbilt's mascot is always portrayed as a naval officer from the 1880s, complete with chops, cutlass, and nineteenth-century naval regalia. CHOPS, whose real name is Scott Jung, is a Philadelphia-based Asian American hip-hop producer and rapper. ... French naval cutlass of the 19th Century A cutlass is a short, thick saber or slashing sword, with a straight or slightly curved blade sharpened on the cutting edge, and a hilt often featuring a solid cupped or basket-shaped guard. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

School colors

The school colors are black and gold. Opinions vary as to the reason for selecting black and gold as the colors for Vanderbilt's teams. Some say the original colors were orange and black, given to the university by Judge W.L. Granbery of Princeton. Many say that Commodore Vanderbilt's legacy was called upon to develop school colors for the university that bears his name: black for the magnate's control of coal and gold for his money. Black cat, thought by some to cause bad luck Black is both a color and the shade of objects that do not reflect light in any part of the visible spectrum. ... Old Gold is a dark yellow, which varies from light olive or olive brown to deep or strong yellow. ... Princeton University is a coeducational private university located in Princeton, New Jersey, in the United States of America. ...

When questioned about the subject in the 1930s, the few remaining members of the school's first football squad from 1890 did not recall why they suddenly began appearing in black and gold. Whatever the source of the colors, by 1892, the Commodores were known by the colors that the Vanderbilt faithful still wear today.[8]

Traditions and rivalries

• Rivalries. Vanderbilt's primary rival in almost every sport is their in-state nemesis, the University of Tennessee. In addition, a heated rivalry has been prevalent between Vandy and Ole Miss in football during the past few years. The schools play each other every year since the SEC has designated the two schools as each others cross-division "permanent rival". Recently, Wake Forest University has been seen as a potential rival, and the two schools have agreed to a seven-game football series beginning in 2007.[9]
• Southern football flavor. One aspect of Vanderbilt football (as well as football at most of the SEC schools) is the propensity of undergraduates, especially those who are members of social fraternities and sororities, to dress in jacket and tie (for men) and sundresses (for women) for the games. Pre-game tailgates at the fraternity houses and fields surrounding the stadium remain popular, as well. Football games are often as much a social opportunity as they are a sporting event.
• V-U Hand Sign. Formed by extending the thumb, index, and middle fingers of the right hand, the resulting shape forms a "V" and "U". This is a relatively recent development compared to other Vanderbilt traditions.
• Gameday traditions. In a conference that embodies college spirit and tradition, Vanderbilt holds its own: the "Commodore Creed" in the football locker room; the "Corridor of Captains" that honors Vanderbilt's athletics history; the Star Walk: with fans, cheerleaders, and the Spirit of Gold Marching Band; the Star V on the field by the band; the Touchdown Foghorn from a U.S. Navy battleship, guarded by members of the Vanderbilt Naval ROTC Battalion; Mr. Commodore, the mascot; and the Victory Flag that is hoisted high over Dudley Field after home wins. In addition, arrival at football games is often a "fluid" event: many students (and others) enjoy tailgating or parties prior to kickoff, resulting in the 2nd quarter being the start time for many fans. Win or lose, many Vanderbilt students remain in the stadium after the final buzzer to sing the alma mater.
• Fight song. The Vanderbilt fight song, Dynamite, was written by student Francis Craig in 1924. The song references the vigor with which Vanderbilt plays and the enthusiasm of the university's fans, who cheer regardless of the outcome of the game.

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Facilities

Campus athletic facilities include:

• Vanderbilt Stadium, seating capacity: 40,200
• Memorial Gymnasium, 14,168
• Hawkins Field, 2,000
• Vanderbilt Soccer/Lacrosse Complex, 2,400
• Brownlee O. Currey Jr. Tennis Center.

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Recent changes in athletics at Vanderbilt

Restructuring. Unique in NCAA Division I, Vanderbilt does not administer intercollegiate athletics separately from other student organizations, but as a part of the university's Division of Student Life, which oversees all student organizations and activities. When the change was instituted in September 2003, Chancellor Gordon Gee cited a need to reform college athletics, returning the emphasis to the student half of student-athletes.

Men's soccer dropped. In January 2006, Vanderbilt's administration announced that the varsity men's soccer program would be eliminated at the end of the academic year, introducing varsity women's swimming in its place. The announcement was met with hostility from students, fans, and the team itself, whose coach, Tim McClements, had been named Coach of the Year by the Missouri Valley Conference in 2005. Vice Chancellor for Student Life and University Affairs David Williams said that the decision was made because of budgetary reasons, the desires of Southeastern Conference officials, Title IX equality requirements, and the overall fit with the student body. Former Missouri Valley Conference logo The Missouri Valley Conference (also called MVC or simply The Valley) is a college athletic conference whose members are located in the midwestern United States. ... Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (United States), commonly known as Title IX, is a 37-word law enacted on June 23, 1972 that states: No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or...

Notable faculty and alumni

Main article: List of Vanderbilt University People

Among the notable people who have attended or graduated from Vanderbilt are Robert Penn Warren, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and writer and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (1944–1945); Muhammad Yunus, notable economist, founder of the Grameen Bank and the concept of microcredit, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2006; United States Supreme Court Justice James Clark McReynolds; Al Gore, 45th Vice President of the United States; Tipper Gore, activist and former Second Lady of the United States; David Brinkley, notable broadcast journalist on NBC and ABC; Richard Kyanka, creator of humor website Something Awful; Molly Sims, model and actress; Lamar Alexander, Governor of Tennessee and U.S. Senator; James Patterson, mystery author; Dinah Shore, popular singer; country music artist Dierks Bentley attended but did not graduate; and Amy Grant, Contemporary Christian musical artist; Jay Cutler, quarterback of the NFL's Denver Broncos; John H. Leith, author and Presbyterian theologian; David Boaz, executive vice-president at the CATO Institute in Washington, DC. This is a list of notable current and former faculty members, alumni, and non-graduating attendees of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. ... Robert Penn Warren Robert Penn Warren (April 24, 1905 – September 15, 1989) was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic, and was one of the founders of The New Criticism. ... The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical composition. ... The Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress is appointed by the United States Librarian of Congress and earns a stipend of $35,000 a year. ... Dr. Muhammad Yunus (Bengali: , pronounced ) (born June 28, 1940), is a Bangladeshi banker and economist. ... The Grameen Bank (Bangla: গ্রামীণ ব্যাংক) is a microfinance organization and community development bank started in Bangladesh that makes small loans (known as microcredit) to the impoverished without requiring collateral. ... // Microcredit is the extension of very small loans (microloans) to the unemployed, to poor entrepreneurs and to others living in poverty who are not bankable. ... The Nobel Prizes (Swedish: ) are awards in physics, chemistry, literature, peace, and physiology or medicine. ... The Supreme Court Building, Washington, D.C. The Supreme Court Building, Washington, D.C., (large image) The Supreme Court of the United States, located in Washington, D.C., is the highest court (see supreme court) in the United States; that is, it has ultimate judicial authority within the United States... Justice McReynolds, c. ... Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. ... 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From 1956 through 1970 he co-anchored NBCs nightly news program The Huntley–Brinkley Report with Chet Huntley. ... The National Broadcasting Company or NBC is an American television broadcasting company based in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) operates television and radio networks in the United States and is also shown on basic cable in Canada. ... Richard Charles Lowtax Kyanka (pronounced ) (born May 11, 1976[1]) is an Internet personality, and owner and operator of the humor website Something Awful. ... Something Awful, often abbreviated to SA, is a comedy website housing a wide variety of content, including instant messaging pranks, digitally edited pictures, and humorous media reviews. ... Molly Sims (born May 25, 1973 in Murray, Kentucky) is an American model and actress. ... Andrew Lamar Alexander (born July 3, 1940) is the senior United States Senator from Tennessee and a member of the Republican Party. ... For other people named James Patterson, see James Patterson (disambiguation) James B. Patterson (born March 22, 1947) is an award-winning American author. ... Dinah Shore (born Frances Rose Shore February 29, 1916 - February 24, 1994) was an American singer and actress. ... Dierks Bentley (born November 20, 1975 in Phoenix, Arizona) is a country music singer. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Contemporary Christian Music (or CCM) is a genre of popular music which is lyrically focused on matters concerned with the Christian faith. ... Jay Cutler (born August 3, 1973 in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA) is an American bodybuilder. ... Navy quarterback Aaron Polanco sets up to throw. ... For other uses of National Football League, see National Football League (disambiguation). ... 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Four former members of the faculty, biochemist Stanley Cohen, neuroscientist Paul Greengard, physiologist Earl Sutherland and pioneer molecular biologist Max Delbruck, and two alumni, economist Muhammad Yunus and biochemist Stanford Moore, have been honored with the Nobel Prize. Stanley Cohen (born November 17, 1922) is an American researcher and Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology and Medicine (1986). ... Paul Greengard (b. ... Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr. ... Max Delbrück (September 4, 1906 - March 9, 1981) was a German biologist. ... Dr. Muhammad Yunus (Bengali: , pronounced ) (born June 28, 1940), is a Bangladeshi banker and economist. ... Stanford Moore (September 4, 1913 – August 23, 1982) was a U.S. biochemist. ... The Nobel Prizes (Swedish: ) are awards in physics, chemistry, literature, peace, and physiology or medicine. ...

Robert Penn Warren	Muhammad Yunus	James Clark McReynolds	Al Gore
David Brinkley	Dinah Shore	Amy Grant	Max Delbruck

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References

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Notes

1. ^ Associate Provost for Research and Graduate Education
2. ^ APO is not administered through the Office of Greek Life, but, because of its dual service-based and social nature, through the Office of Student Organizations. It remains, however, a national fraternity (see Alpha Phi Omega) with a robust presence at Vanderbilt.
3. ^ BYX is not administered through the Office of Greek Life, but, because of its dual social-religious nature, through the Office of Student Organizations. It remains, however, a national fraternity (see Beta Upsilon Chi) with a robust presence at Vanderbilt (see "Fraternity recruitment decreases slightly." The Vanderbilt Hustler, May 7, 2006, p. 1, col. 1).

Alpha Phi Omega (commonly known as APO, but also ΑΦΩ, A-Phi-O, and A-Phi-Q) is a co-ed service fraternity organized to provide community service, leadership development. ... Beta Upsilon Chi (Brothers Under Christ or ΒΥΧ) is a Christian social fraternity whose purpose is to establish brotherhood and unity among college men based on the common bond of Jesus Christ. ...

See also

• Memorial Gymnasium (Vanderbilt University)
• Southern Ivy League
• The Harvard of the South
• Vanderbilt University Law School
• Vanderbilt Commodores Football
• Vanderbilt Commodores Men's Basketball
• Nobel Prize Ranking

Memorial Gymnasium is a multi-purpose facility located in Nashville, Tennessee. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt University (colloquially known as Vandy) is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational research university in Nashville, Tennessee. ... The Vanderbilt University Law School (VULS) is the law school at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. ... City Nashville, Tennessee Stadium Dudley Field at Vanderbilt Stadium (grass, capacity 40,000) Head Coach Bobby Johnson League/Conference affiliations Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (1895-1921) Southern Conference (1922-1931) Southeastern Conference (1932-present) Eastern Division (1992-present) National Championships (2 disputed) 1906 Billingsley, 1911 Billingsley [1] SIAC Championships (11... The Vanderbilt Commodores basketball team represents Vanderbilt University in the Southeastern Conference. ...

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