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They do have technical programs such as Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, etc.

See more here

http://wilkes.edu/pages/143.asp

I think you're confusing Liberal Arts with Art.

Take a look at the undergraduate majors:

http://www.wilkes.edu/pages/143.asp

Accounting, Air & Space Studies being the first two on the list...

Now that we are done with that...

"Yet you seem to prefer a dictionary as your primary reference."

Primary reference? No, more like easily accessible reference. Had I wanted to refute your claims with a primary reference I would have dug out my old stat textbook, driven to your house, and pointed out the definitions they gave. However, I don't feel like doing that, so instead I copied and pasted a link to an online dictionary. This is still a more than adequate source due to the fact that dictionaries are written by experienced linguists who research the use of words in many contexts, including statistics. For instance see the definition of significant. The definition lists not only the common definitions used by non-statisticians, but also the definition with regard to statistics. Yes, I could have also searched the net for sources like yours, but unlike sources like dictionaries which have been verified by experts, these websites could have been created by complete idiots who pretend they are experts like yourself who got a particular definition wrong. This often happens when a particular writer is discussing a subject out of their field of expertise (for instance a biologist discussing statistics).

"For I have substantiated every one of my claims with a verifiable reference that was not merely a dictionary."

You have not substantiated yourself period. Nowhere in that site you linked to did they give a definition of quantitative or qualitative that differed significantly from the dictionary definitions, or even one that would substantiate your claims that statistics on the number of touchdowns thrown by every quarterback in the NFL or statistics on standardized test scores are qualitative.

"You either refute the references or you lose."

No, whether or not I lose is not dependent on whether or not I can convince you that you are wrong. The loser is the one who is wrong, period. In this case you are wrong, thus you lost from the start. The only reason I am still responding to you is that I am still clinging to the dwindling hope that I can convince you of your errors.

The information you seem to be lacking is in his vita
near the bottom. I bet you feel like less of a smarty-pants don't 'cha.

Ok, It didn't do it single handedly but it seems he was a big part. And besides even though the poster was obviously exaggerating, the point remains the same. As least far as that guy is concerned that school seems to have a kick ass faculty.

Every computer that a CS student must use has Linux installed. And in the more general computer labs they have the computers configured to duel-boot so they can have the best of both worlds.

I'm a CS student at Wilkes, and we're fortunate to have such a good department. The subnet is run by student admins (I'm one of them). We've been using various Linux distros for quite awhile now (long before I was here anyway). The dualboot systems run Redhat (mainly because kickstart makes upgrading 30 boxes really easy). The SLC404 lab runs Slack (on an added note, there is a sign on the door to the lab that says "404 - Food not Found" that of course, nobody obeys, but we leave it up because it's funny, well okay, maybe not *that* funny, ah hell with it...). My personal box in the server room runs OpenBSD (nice perk about being an admin is you can co-lo a box into the server room). We've got a couple Mac OS X machines floating around (with dual head displays and DVD-RAMs which we use to burn... uh... n/m ;-) ). Then there is that bastard Solaris machine (quad node sun arch) we keep around for the database class (runs both Oracle and mySQL, but everyone uses Oracle anyway...).

I'd like to quickly plug Open Source Development at Wilkes University, one of the opensource sites here at Wilkes. It started from a Networks class assignment a year ago and is still being maintained.

The Networks class assignment is definitely an interesting one. For all those concerned about newbies setting up honeypots, don't worry, I keep a tight leash on those kiddies.

The Math/CS Club has seen livelier days, but at least we have a nice webpage, a nice PGP ring of trust, and a fairly well-developed FAQ (though, none of the freshman ever read it first, they always ask the admins first, who then refer them to the faq and immediately knock their quota down 5 MB.)

We're also the only autonomous subnet at Wilkes. All the other departments have had their subnets assimilated by the technology department (who, in my opinion, are basically fucking idiots). The Math/CS faculty gives us (the student admins) pretty much free reign over how things are done. We keep everything running smoothly on the subnet and they fight off the evil administration.

Yea, the city does suck too. Though, the nice thing about living near a bunch of stripmines and old abandoned coal mining villiages is there are some great places to place paintball. My personal favorite is Concrete City, which consists of 14 concrete two story duplex-style houses (some have basements even!). It's a real rush to with such close house-to-house and room-to-room paintball.

Just my 2c. -root@mathcs.wilkes.edu

Every computer that a CS student must use has Linux installed. And in the more general computer labs they have the computers configured to duel-boot so they can have the best of both worlds.

I'm a CS student at Wilkes, and we're fortunate to have such a good department. The subnet is run by student admins (I'm one of them). We've been using various Linux distros for quite awhile now (long before I was here anyway). The dualboot systems run Redhat (mainly because kickstart makes upgrading 30 boxes really easy). The SLC404 lab runs Slack (on an added note, there is a sign on the door to the lab that says "404 - Food not Found" that of course, nobody obeys, but we leave it up because it's funny, well okay, maybe not *that* funny, ah hell with it...). My personal box in the server room runs OpenBSD (nice perk about being an admin is you can co-lo a box into the server room). We've got a couple Mac OS X machines floating around (with dual head displays and DVD-RAMs which we use to burn... uh... n/m ;-) ). Then there is that bastard Solaris machine (quad node sun arch) we keep around for the database class (runs both Oracle and mySQL, but everyone uses Oracle anyway...).

I'd like to quickly plug Open Source Development at Wilkes University, one of the opensource sites here at Wilkes. It started from a Networks class assignment a year ago and is still being maintained.

The Networks class assignment is definitely an interesting one. For all those concerned about newbies setting up honeypots, don't worry, I keep a tight leash on those kiddies.

The Math/CS Club has seen livelier days, but at least we have a nice webpage, a nice PGP ring of trust, and a fairly well-developed FAQ (though, none of the freshman ever read it first, they always ask the admins first, who then refer them to the faq and immediately knock their quota down 5 MB.)

We're also the only autonomous subnet at Wilkes. All the other departments have had their subnets assimilated by the technology department (who, in my opinion, are basically fucking idiots). The Math/CS faculty gives us (the student admins) pretty much free reign over how things are done. We keep everything running smoothly on the subnet and they fight off the evil administration.

Yea, the city does suck too. Though, the nice thing about living near a bunch of stripmines and old abandoned coal mining villiages is there are some great places to place paintball. My personal favorite is Concrete City, which consists of 14 concrete two story duplex-style houses (some have basements even!). It's a real rush to with such close house-to-house and room-to-room paintball.

Just my 2c. -root@mathcs.wilkes.edu

Every computer that a CS student must use has Linux installed. And in the more general computer labs they have the computers configured to duel-boot so they can have the best of both worlds.

I'm a CS student at Wilkes, and we're fortunate to have such a good department. The subnet is run by student admins (I'm one of them). We've been using various Linux distros for quite awhile now (long before I was here anyway). The dualboot systems run Redhat (mainly because kickstart makes upgrading 30 boxes really easy). The SLC404 lab runs Slack (on an added note, there is a sign on the door to the lab that says "404 - Food not Found" that of course, nobody obeys, but we leave it up because it's funny, well okay, maybe not *that* funny, ah hell with it...). My personal box in the server room runs OpenBSD (nice perk about being an admin is you can co-lo a box into the server room). We've got a couple Mac OS X machines floating around (with dual head displays and DVD-RAMs which we use to burn... uh... n/m ;-) ). Then there is that bastard Solaris machine (quad node sun arch) we keep around for the database class (runs both Oracle and mySQL, but everyone uses Oracle anyway...).

I'd like to quickly plug Open Source Development at Wilkes University, one of the opensource sites here at Wilkes. It started from a Networks class assignment a year ago and is still being maintained.

The Networks class assignment is definitely an interesting one. For all those concerned about newbies setting up honeypots, don't worry, I keep a tight leash on those kiddies.

The Math/CS Club has seen livelier days, but at least we have a nice webpage, a nice PGP ring of trust, and a fairly well-developed FAQ (though, none of the freshman ever read it first, they always ask the admins first, who then refer them to the faq and immediately knock their quota down 5 MB.)

We're also the only autonomous subnet at Wilkes. All the other departments have had their subnets assimilated by the technology department (who, in my opinion, are basically fucking idiots). The Math/CS faculty gives us (the student admins) pretty much free reign over how things are done. We keep everything running smoothly on the subnet and they fight off the evil administration.

Yea, the city does suck too. Though, the nice thing about living near a bunch of stripmines and old abandoned coal mining villiages is there are some great places to place paintball. My personal favorite is Concrete City, which consists of 14 concrete two story duplex-style houses (some have basements even!). It's a real rush to with such close house-to-house and room-to-room paintball.

Just my 2c. -root@mathcs.wilkes.edu

I agree that by and large Wilkes-Barre is a dying town inhabited for the most part by people who can't (or won't) read a stop sign.

But it does have some redeeming qualities, Wilkes University being the foremost among them. Wilkes has one of the top rated schools of pharmacy in the country. The school of pharmacy is so good that it was the primary reason that a huge employer recently opened up shop in the area.

Not to mention that Wilkes has one of the best computer science programs in Pennsylvania. They are so forward thinking it's scary. Every computer that a CS student must use has Linux installed. And in the more general computer labs they have the computers configured to duel-boot so they can have the best of both worlds. If you ever want a poster boy for schools leveraging the power of open-source, Wilkes is it. Heck, even one the assignments for the networking class involves installing Linux. The CS department is staffed with some of the most amazing faculty around. Including John Koch whom solved the century-old Four Color Problem.

It's not just the computer science department either, technology permeates through every aspect of the Wilkes campus. Just take a look at the web page for the radio station and there automation system and tell me it's not cool. Anything that tells you what the name of the song is ,while it's still playing, is a good thing in my book.

It's just too bad that Wilkes-Barre is run by an incompetent mayor that uses the local collage students as a scape-goat for everything and is inhabited by an elderly populace that is too busy trying to kill the collages to realize that they are the only thing keeping Wilkes-Barre alive.

All in all, Wilkes-Barre is a great place to go to school, but I sure as hell wouldn't want to live here forever.

I agree that by and large Wilkes-Barre is a dying town inhabited for the most part by people who can't (or won't) read a stop sign.

But it does have some redeeming qualities, Wilkes University being the foremost among them. Wilkes has one of the top rated schools of pharmacy in the country. The school of pharmacy is so good that it was the primary reason that a huge employer recently opened up shop in the area.

Not to mention that Wilkes has one of the best computer science programs in Pennsylvania. They are so forward thinking it's scary. Every computer that a CS student must use has Linux installed. And in the more general computer labs they have the computers configured to duel-boot so they can have the best of both worlds. If you ever want a poster boy for schools leveraging the power of open-source, Wilkes is it. Heck, even one the assignments for the networking class involves installing Linux. The CS department is staffed with some of the most amazing faculty around. Including John Koch whom solved the century-old Four Color Problem.

It's not just the computer science department either, technology permeates through every aspect of the Wilkes campus. Just take a look at the web page for the radio station and there automation system and tell me it's not cool. Anything that tells you what the name of the song is ,while it's still playing, is a good thing in my book.

It's just too bad that Wilkes-Barre is run by an incompetent mayor that uses the local collage students as a scape-goat for everything and is inhabited by an elderly populace that is too busy trying to kill the collages to realize that they are the only thing keeping Wilkes-Barre alive.

All in all, Wilkes-Barre is a great place to go to school, but I sure as hell wouldn't want to live here forever.

I agree that by and large Wilkes-Barre is a dying town inhabited for the most part by people who can't (or won't) read a stop sign.

But it does have some redeeming qualities, Wilkes University being the foremost among them. Wilkes has one of the top rated schools of pharmacy in the country. The school of pharmacy is so good that it was the primary reason that a huge employer recently opened up shop in the area.

Not to mention that Wilkes has one of the best computer science programs in Pennsylvania. They are so forward thinking it's scary. Every computer that a CS student must use has Linux installed. And in the more general computer labs they have the computers configured to duel-boot so they can have the best of both worlds. If you ever want a poster boy for schools leveraging the power of open-source, Wilkes is it. Heck, even one the assignments for the networking class involves installing Linux. The CS department is staffed with some of the most amazing faculty around. Including John Koch whom solved the century-old Four Color Problem.

It's not just the computer science department either, technology permeates through every aspect of the Wilkes campus. Just take a look at the web page for the radio station and there automation system and tell me it's not cool. Anything that tells you what the name of the song is ,while it's still playing, is a good thing in my book.

It's just too bad that Wilkes-Barre is run by an incompetent mayor that uses the local collage students as a scape-goat for everything and is inhabited by an elderly populace that is too busy trying to kill the collages to realize that they are the only thing keeping Wilkes-Barre alive.

All in all, Wilkes-Barre is a great place to go to school, but I sure as hell wouldn't want to live here forever.

I agree that by and large Wilkes-Barre is a dying town inhabited for the most part by people who can't (or won't) read a stop sign.

But it does have some redeeming qualities, Wilkes University being the foremost among them. Wilkes has one of the top rated schools of pharmacy in the country. The school of pharmacy is so good that it was the primary reason that a huge employer recently opened up shop in the area.

Not to mention that Wilkes has one of the best computer science programs in Pennsylvania. They are so forward thinking it's scary. Every computer that a CS student must use has Linux installed. And in the more general computer labs they have the computers configured to duel-boot so they can have the best of both worlds. If you ever want a poster boy for schools leveraging the power of open-source, Wilkes is it. Heck, even one the assignments for the networking class involves installing Linux. The CS department is staffed with some of the most amazing faculty around. Including John Koch whom solved the century-old Four Color Problem.

It's not just the computer science department either, technology permeates through every aspect of the Wilkes campus. Just take a look at the web page for the radio station and there automation system and tell me it's not cool. Anything that tells you what the name of the song is ,while it's still playing, is a good thing in my book.

It's just too bad that Wilkes-Barre is run by an incompetent mayor that uses the local collage students as a scape-goat for everything and is inhabited by an elderly populace that is too busy trying to kill the collages to realize that they are the only thing keeping Wilkes-Barre alive.

All in all, Wilkes-Barre is a great place to go to school, but I sure as hell wouldn't want to live here forever.

I agree that by and large Wilkes-Barre is a dying town inhabited for the most part by people who can't (or won't) read a stop sign.

But it does have some redeeming qualities, Wilkes University being the foremost among them. Wilkes has one of the top rated schools of pharmacy in the country. The school of pharmacy is so good that it was the primary reason that a huge employer recently opened up shop in the area.

Not to mention that Wilkes has one of the best computer science programs in Pennsylvania. They are so forward thinking it's scary. Every computer that a CS student must use has Linux installed. And in the more general computer labs they have the computers configured to duel-boot so they can have the best of both worlds. If you ever want a poster boy for schools leveraging the power of open-source, Wilkes is it. Heck, even one the assignments for the networking class involves installing Linux. The CS department is staffed with some of the most amazing faculty around. Including John Koch whom solved the century-old Four Color Problem.

It's not just the computer science department either, technology permeates through every aspect of the Wilkes campus. Just take a look at the web page for the radio station and there automation system and tell me it's not cool. Anything that tells you what the name of the song is ,while it's still playing, is a good thing in my book.

It's just too bad that Wilkes-Barre is run by an incompetent mayor that uses the local collage students as a scape-goat for everything and is inhabited by an elderly populace that is too busy trying to kill the collages to realize that they are the only thing keeping Wilkes-Barre alive.

All in all, Wilkes-Barre is a great place to go to school, but I sure as hell wouldn't want to live here forever.

I agree that by and large Wilkes-Barre is a dying town inhabited for the most part by people who can't (or won't) read a stop sign.

But it does have some redeeming qualities, Wilkes University being the foremost among them. Wilkes has one of the top rated schools of pharmacy in the country. The school of pharmacy is so good that it was the primary reason that a huge employer recently opened up shop in the area.

Not to mention that Wilkes has one of the best computer science programs in Pennsylvania. They are so forward thinking it's scary. Every computer that a CS student must use has Linux installed. And in the more general computer labs they have the computers configured to duel-boot so they can have the best of both worlds. If you ever want a poster boy for schools leveraging the power of open-source, Wilkes is it. Heck, even one the assignments for the networking class involves installing Linux. The CS department is staffed with some of the most amazing faculty around. Including John Koch whom solved the century-old Four Color Problem.

It's not just the computer science department either, technology permeates through every aspect of the Wilkes campus. Just take a look at the web page for the radio station and there automation system and tell me it's not cool. Anything that tells you what the name of the song is ,while it's still playing, is a good thing in my book.

It's just too bad that Wilkes-Barre is run by an incompetent mayor that uses the local collage students as a scape-goat for everything and is inhabited by an elderly populace that is too busy trying to kill the collages to realize that they are the only thing keeping Wilkes-Barre alive.

All in all, Wilkes-Barre is a great place to go to school, but I sure as hell wouldn't want to live here forever.

I agree that by and large Wilkes-Barre is a dying town inhabited for the most part by people who can't (or won't) read a stop sign.

But it does have some redeeming qualities, Wilkes University being the foremost among them. Wilkes has one of the top rated schools of pharmacy in the country. The school of pharmacy is so good that it was the primary reason that a huge employer recently opened up shop in the area.

Not to mention that Wilkes has one of the best computer science programs in Pennsylvania. They are so forward thinking it's scary. Every computer that a CS student must use has Linux installed. And in the more general computer labs they have the computers configured to duel-boot so they can have the best of both worlds. If you ever want a poster boy for schools leveraging the power of open-source, Wilkes is it. Heck, even one the assignments for the networking class involves installing Linux. The CS department is staffed with some of the most amazing faculty around. Including John Koch whom solved the century-old Four Color Problem.

It's not just the computer science department either, technology permeates through every aspect of the Wilkes campus. Just take a look at the web page for the radio station and there automation system and tell me it's not cool. Anything that tells you what the name of the song is ,while it's still playing, is a good thing in my book.

It's just too bad that Wilkes-Barre is run by an incompetent mayor that uses the local collage students as a scape-goat for everything and is inhabited by an elderly populace that is too busy trying to kill the collages to realize that they are the only thing keeping Wilkes-Barre alive.

All in all, Wilkes-Barre is a great place to go to school, but I sure as hell wouldn't want to live here forever.

Yes, one exists. Here's the link...

http://wilkes1.wilkes.edu/~millartj/debu nk

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