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{{Infobox Russian federal subject
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==The Producers 09==
'''Sverdlovsk Oblast''' ({{lang-ru|Свердло́вская о́бласть}}, ''Sverdlovskaya oblast'') is a [[federal subjects of Russia|federal subject]] of [[Russia]] (an [[oblast]]) located in the [[Urals Federal District]]. Given that the bulk of the oblast lies on the Asian side of the [[Ural Mountains|Urals]] (only its south-western extremity is on the European side of the mountains) it should be recognized as the most populous oblast within Asian Russia.
May I ask ''who'' this was confirmed by?
[[Special:Contributions/58.160.83.40|58.160.83.40]] ([[User talk:58.160.83.40|talk]]) 05:31, 27 September 2008 (UTC)


It is actually 'Of Mice and Men' [[Special:Contributions/122.108.79.220|122.108.79.220]] ([[User talk:122.108.79.220|talk]]) 08:25, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
Its administrative center is the [[types of inhabited localities in Russia|city]] of [[Yekaterinburg]] (pop. 1,293,537), formerly named Sverdlovsk. Other large cities and towns include [[Nizhny Tagil]] (pop. 390,498), [[Kamensk-Uralsky]] (pop. 186,153), [[Pervouralsk]] (pop. 147,116), and [[Serov (town)|Serov]] (pop. 99,804).


Once again, who was that confirmed by? At this time ''last'' year, the 2008 musical was to be 'Of Mice and Men'. And what did we get? Oliver! Anyway, I've spoken with the Director, who said the musical had not been chosen yet, and that it was "the last thing on (the Musical Director's) mind at the moment" (she's recently had an operation). Therefore, I'm going to remove any mention of the 2009 musical. [[Special:Contributions/58.160.82.94|58.160.82.94]] ([[User talk:58.160.82.94|talk]]) 02:51, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
Former Russian president [[Boris Yeltsin]] was born on [[February 1]], [[1931]], in the village of [[Butka]] of Sverdlovsk Oblast.


Im pretty sure a teacher (Mr. Campbell) confirmed it. Who are you anyway? <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/122.108.135.152|122.108.135.152]] ([[User talk:122.108.135.152|talk]]) 00:58, 14 October 2008 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
==Geography==
Most of the oblast lies on the Eastern slopes of the Middle and North Urals and the [[Western Siberian Plain]]. Only in the southwest does the Sverdlovsk oblast stretch onto the Western slopes of the [[Ural Mmountains]].


==10th best girls school==
The highest mountains all rise in the North Urals (Konzhakovsky Kamen' at 1,569&nbsp;m and Denezhkin Kamen at 1,492&nbsp;m). The Middle Urals is mostly hilly country with no discernible peaks; the mean elevation is closer to 300-500&nbsp;m above the sea level. Principal rivers include the [[Tavda River|Tavda]], the [[Tura River|Tura]], the [[Chusovaya River|Chusovaya]], and the [[Ufa River|Ufa]], the latter two being tributaries of the [[Kama River|Kama]].
Who's Who of girls' school rankings: 1.PLC Melbourne, 2.SCEGGS Darlinghurst, 3.MLC Melbourne, 4.PLC Sydney,
5.Melbourne Girls Grammar School, 6.Mac.Robertson Girls' High School, 7.North Sydney Girls High School,
8.Sydney Girls High School, 9.MLC Sydney, 10.University High School, Melbourne
except... uni high ISNT a girls school. Hahaha, where the hell did this come from? I'm going to delete it in 3 days --[[User:Carbonrodney|Carbonrodney]] ([[User talk:Carbonrodney|talk]]) 12:28, 16 July 2008 (UTC)


If you had read it correctly, you would see that it was actually stating that the school is in the top ten in terms of educating their girls, not the top ten girls' schools.
Sverdlovsk Oblast borders on, clockwise from the West, Russia's [[Perm Krai]], [[Komi Republic]], [[Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug]], [[Tyumen Oblast]], [[Kurgan Oblast|Kurgan]], and [[Chelyabinsk Oblast]]s, and the [[Bashkortostan|Republic of Bashkortostan]].
[[Special:Contributions/58.160.83.7|58.160.83.7]] ([[User talk:58.160.83.7|talk]]) 08:01, 19 August 2008 (UTC)


Hehe, Carbonrodney got owned.[[Special:Contributions/122.108.79.220|122.108.79.220]] ([[User talk:122.108.79.220|talk]]) 08:25, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
===Time zone===
[[Image:Map of Russia - Yekaterinburg time zone.svg|75px|left]]


==unnecessary deletions?==
Sverdlovsk Oblast is located in the [[Yekaterinburg Time|Yekaterinburg Time Zone]] (YEKT, [[UTC+5]] / YEKST [[UTC+6]]).
I have just reverted the deletions of 'past principals' and most of the 'notable past pupils'.
If no one has any objections to keeping the principals article, then I will merge it into the history section, where it belongs.
--[[User:Carbonrodney|Carbonrodney]]


* please leave notable alumni
===Natural resources===
The oblast is rich in natural resources, particularly in metals ([[iron]], [[copper]], [[gold]], [[platinum]]), minerals ([[asbestos]], [[gemstone]]s, [[talcum]]), [[marble]] and [[coal]]. It is mostly here that the bulk of Russian industry was concentrated in the 18th and 19th centuries.


===Climate===
== Gang Violence ==
What on earth is the gang violence section? I was in VCE in 2001, and the 'gang violence' was no different to what goes on at any other school -- certainly not remarkable. The only incidents I can think of were the Ryan Moses incident (which, admittedly, made it to pg2 of the Sun, and pg3 of the Age), and a couple of hyped up 'Asians vs Turks' shovefests on the oval. There were a couple of things before that, but they were largely aberrations, and I don't think it really warrants mentioning. Drug use was certainly not exceptional. [[User:203.49.196.168|203.49.196.168]] 01:36, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
The area enjoys [[continental climate]] patterns, with long cold winters (average temperatures reaching 15 to 25 degrees below zero on the Western Siberian Plain) and short warm summers. Only in the SE of the ''oblast'' do temperatures reach 17 degrees in July.


[[User:Leon...|Leon...]] 10:41, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
==Administrative divisions==
{{Main|Administrative divisions of Sverdlovsk Oblast}}


I have changed the gang violence section so that it says the school grounds and its surrounds as opposed to just the school grounds - given their size alone it seems unreasonable to suggest that gang violence and drug use was rife within the grounds only.
==Demographics==
''Population'' (2002):<br>4,486,214 (urban: 3,943,529, rural: 542,685)


As to the validity of the claims, I am from the class of 2005 (started in 2000) and the only act of significant violence I can remember is when someone was stabbed in the leg with a pen in a small (10 or so people) brawl about 2003. Around 2004, a "gang" of about 20 students from various nearby high schools came onto the school's oval during lunchtime. It was said that this was revenge for someone who had been whipped with a belt buckle a few nights before. A technology teacher dispelled the group before any violence occured.
''Ethnic groups'': There were twenty-one recognised ethnic groups of more than two thousand persons each. Residents identified themselves as belonging to a total of 148 different ethnic groups, including
• 4,002,815 [[Russians]]:(89.22%);
• 168,121 [[Tatars]]:(3.75%);
• 55,478 [[Ukrainians]]:(1.24%);
• 37,296 [[Bashkirs]]:(0.83%);
• 27,863 [[Mari people|Mari]]:(0.62%);
• 22,540 [[Ethnic Germans|Germans]]:(0.50%);
• 18,541 [[Belarusians]]:(0.41%);
• 17,903 [[Udmurts]]:(0.40%);
• 15,171 [[Azeris in Russia|Azeris]]:(0.34%);
• 11,510 [[Chuvash people|Chuvash]]:(0.26%);
• 11,093 [[Armenians]]:(0.25%);
• 9,702 [[Mordovians]]:(0.22%);
• 6,810 [[Jews]]:(0.15%);
• 6,125 [[Tajiks]]:(0.14%);
• 4,403 [[Kazakhs]]:(0.10%);
• 4,019 [[roma people|Roma]]:(0.09%);
• 3,836 [[Uzbeks]]:(0.08%);
• 2,930 [[Moldovans]]:(0.07%);
• 2,651 [[Georgians]]:(0.06%);
• 2,435 [[Chinese people|Chinese]]:(0.05%);
• 2,147 [[Poles]]:(0.05%),
and many other ethnic groups of less than two thousand persons each. In addition, 28,957 residents (0.65%) chose not to specify their ethnic background.<ref>{{cite paper|url=http://www.perepis2002.ru/ct/doc/English/4-2.xls |title=National Composition of Population for Regions of the Russian Federation |accessdate=2006-07-20 |format=XLS |publisher=2002 Russian All-Population Census |date=2002}}</ref>


In comparison with other Victorian state schools, Uni High has no noteworthy violent history to my knowledge.
==History==
{{Unreferencedsection|date=November 2007}}
Russian conquest of the [[Khanate of Kazan]] in the 1550s paved the way further east which was now free from [[Tatar]] depredations (''see [[Yermak Timofeyevich]]''). The first surviving Russian settlements in the area date back to the late 16th&nbsp;— early 17th centuries (Verkhoturye, 1598; Turinsk, 1600; [[Irbit]], 1633; Alapayevsk, 1639). In the 18th and 19th centuries the area became the industrial heartland of Russia due to its rich deposits of iron and coal (see above). Local industry received another impetus during the [[World War II]] when important producing facilities were relocated here from the European part of Russia to safeguard them from the advancing Germans (for example, [[IMZ-Ural]]). In the postwar period much of the region was off-limits to foreigners and it was over [[Sverdlovsk]] that the American pilot [[Gary Powers]] was shot down on [[May 1]], [[1960]], while on a reconnaissance mission. Another historic event that took place in [[Yekaterinburg]] was the execution of [[Nicholas II of Russia]] and the Imperial family in July 1918.


:Good update with the surrounding area. But when I was there we had someone beated up pretty much every week. We had at least 10 hospitalisations per year in the later years... In any case gang activity in the university high school area is particularly high. Noteworthily high.
In 1993, governor [[Eduard Rossel]] responded to perceived economic inequality by attempting to create a "Urals Republic." Sverdlovsk led the "Urals Five" ([[Kurgan Oblast]], [[Orenburg Oblast]], [[Perm Krai]], [[Chelyabinsk Oblast]] and Sverdlovsk) in a call for greater regional power. They argued that the [[Oblasts of Russia|oblasts]] deserved as much power as the ethnic homeland [[Republics of Russia|republics]]. The Urals Republic Constitution went into effect on [[October 27]], [[1993]]. Russian President [[Boris Yeltsin]] dissolved the Urals Republic and Sverdlovsk Parliament 10 days later (on [[November 9]]).
--[[User:198.142.89.91|198.142.89.91]] 11:40, 28 March 2006 (UTC)


:Unfortunately, it seems someone has removed the section completely. Could that get restored please? I will try and dig up the newspaper articles mentioned above but I am in no mood for searching through the history.
==Politics==
{{Unreferencedsection|date=November 2007}}
The oblast's current Governor is [[Eduard Rossel]], one of the most prominent regional politicians in Russia.


Theres defitenitly no noteworthy violence nowadays. [[User:218.215.129.75|218.215.129.75]] 08:30, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
The oblast's Charter, or Constitution (Russian: Устав; ''Ustav''), adopted on [[December 17]], [[1994]], with subsequent amendments, establishes the oblast government. The [[Governor of Sverdlovsk Oblast|Governor]] (губернатор; gubernator)is the chief executive, who appoints the Government, consisting of ministries and departments. The Chairman/President of the Government (председатель правительства; ''predsedatel pravitelstva''), commonly referred to as the Prime Minister, is appointed with the consent of the lower house of the [[legislature]], a process similar to the appointment of the [[Prime Minister of Russia|federal Prime Minister]]; but the Governor cannot nominate the same candidate more than twice, yet he/she can dismiss the house after three failed attempts to appoint the Premier. The Legislative Assembly (законодательное собрание; ''zakonodatelnoye sobraniye'') consists of the Oblast Duma (областная дума; ''oblastnaya duma''), the lower house, and the House of Representatives (палата представителей; ''palata predstaviteley''), the upper house. Members of the legislature serve four-year terms; however, half of the Duma is re-elected every two years. The Duma (28&nbsp;members) is elected by party lists; the 21&nbsp;members of the House of Representatives are elected in single-seat districts in a first-past-the-post system. The Sverdlovsk Legislative Assembly was the first bicameral legislature outside an autonomous republic, and the first regional legislature in Russia to elect members by both party lists and single-seat districts.


==Keep the warcry==
Compliance with the Charter is enforced by the Charter/Constitutional Court (уставный суд; ''ustavny sud''). The existence of such regional courts in Russia, formed and functioning outside the federal judiciary, although challenged, has been upheld and persisted successfully in most constituent members of the Federation where they were established.
Keep the warcry. We needed to learn it on enrolment day, it is the equivalent of a school anthem.


The war-cry is no longer taught on enrolment day, and as of 2007 has been removed from the school diaries. It is no longer an important school tradition, and so should not have a section devoted to it. [[Special:Contributions/58.160.83.19|58.160.83.19]] ([[User talk:58.160.83.19|talk]]) 11:19, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
Until President [[Vladimir Putin|Putin]]'s reforms of 2004, the Governor was elected by direct vote for four-year terms. [[Eduard Rossel]] has been the only elected governor (first elected governor for an oblast in Russia) since 1995 (appointed in 1991 and dismissed in 1993 by President [[Boris Yeltsin|Yeltsin]]), re-elected in 1999 and 2003.


==Notable Alumni==
==Economy and transportation==
:can you please put back the notable alumni?
The oblast's industry is diverse although could be more modern. 12% of Russia's iron and steel industry is still concentrated in Sverdlovsk oblast. Iron and copper are mined and processed here and the logging industry and wood-processing are important, too.


I was disappointed to see the list of notable alumni deleted. Uni High has many notable alumni---past and present of diverse backgrounds---deserving of recognition and in whom there should be pride.
[[Yekaterinburg]] is a prominent road, rail and air hub in the Urals region. As the economic slump subsides, several European airlines started or resumed flights to the city. These include [[Lufthansa]], [[British Airways]], [[Czech Airlines|CSA]], [[Turkish Airlines]], [[Austrian Airlines]] and [[Finnair]]. [[Malév Hungarian Airlines]] used to be among those carriers but they had to drop their flights to SVX ([[IATA airport code]] for Sverdlovsk) after a few months.


:People keep adding nonsense entries, and it's not worth having to constantly police it to keep the crap out. [[User:Ambi|Ambi]] 01:38, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
==See also:==
*[[Yakov Sverdlov]], a communist revolutionary after whom [[Yekaterinburg|Sverdlovsk]] and subsequently Sverdlovsk Oblast were named.


There are some agents that periodically revert to one accepted entry. I think the longest the page has been vandalised in the last month is about a day or something. --[[User:Carbonrodney|Carbonrodney]]
==References==
{{Reflist}}


==External links==
===Confirmed Entries===
* Sarah Boyd, bioinformaticist
{{Commonscat-inline}}
* John So, current mayor of Melbourne
*{{ru icon}} [http://www.rossel.ru The Governor of Sverdlovsk Oblast official web site]
* Joan Kirner, first female Premier of Victoria
*{{ru icon}} [http://www.midural.ru/midural-new The Government of Sverdlovsk Oblast official web site]
* Michael Klim, swimmer
* Dorothy Goble, former member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
* Eric Phillips, composer and musician
* Geoffrey Watson, mathematician
* Olivia Newton-John, actor and singer
* Elizabeth Blackburn, biochemist
--[[User:Carbonrodney|Carbonrodney]]


===Unconfirmed?===
{{Subdivisions of Russia}}
If you find evidence that these people have indeed attended, then add them to this list above
* Graeme Blundell, actor and writer
* Helen Buckingham, current member of the Victorian Legislative Council
* Ruth Curtain, mathematics professor----confirmed
* Ivan Deveson, former Lord Mayor of Melbourne
* Peter Faiman, movie producer and director----confirmed
* James Murray, astronomer
* Frank Oberklaid OAM, pediatrics professor---UHS school captain, 1963
* David Williamson, playwright----confirmed
* Richard Pratt, businessman----confirmed
* John Coleman, AFL legend----confirmed
* Garrie Hutchinson, writer and editor----confirmed
* Jean Baker OAM, former mayor of Heidelberg----confirmed
* Allen Aylett, former chairman of the VFL (predecessor of the AFL)---confirmed
* David White, former minister in the Kirner Government----confirmed
Sources for confirmed entries include Ubique, Record, UHS student diaries, published biographies and personal association


==Vandalism==
[[Category:Sverdlovsk Oblast| ]]
I've semi-protected this talk page because of repeated vandalism by various IPs, including inserting defamatory allegations about minors, insertion of personal information of minors and cyber-bullying. Wikipedia is not a chat site or a forum for attacking your fellow students. '''[[User talk:Sarah|Sarah]]''' 13:50, 14 June 2007 (UTC)


== unecessary edits made. ==
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To the alumni. I think only half are true. <small>—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:Quaked|Quaked]] ([[User talk:Quaked|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Quaked|contribs]]) 03:28, 13 November 2007 (UTC)</small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
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== School colours ==
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[[cs:Sverdlovská oblast]]
I've just finished a quick clean-up of the article and don't know very much about this school, so i've had to have a guess at the school colours for the infobox. If I have got them incorrect could someone please change them. If anyone needs help with the colour boxes, let me know and I will help you out. Cheers! [[User:Loopla|Loopla]] ([[User talk:Loopla|talk]]) 04:20, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
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:The school doesnt implement uniforms so there isnt really 'school colours'. <small>—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/220.239.134.6|220.239.134.6]] ([[User talk:220.239.134.6|talk]]) 06:42, 25 February 2008 (UTC)</small><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
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:: The colours are green and white, at least according to the school uniform we all wore for sports. --[[User:Carbonrodney|Carbonrodney]] ([[User talk:Carbonrodney|talk]]) 14:05, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
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::: School colours have been green and tan since at least the 1930s (the colours which are on the UHS insignia). [[Special:Contributions/122.108.114.243|122.108.114.243]] ([[User talk:122.108.114.243|talk]]) 01:50, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
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[[ko:스베르들롭스크 주]]
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There has been a lot of edits made regarding musicals, some of which were reverted only to have them added again later by someone else. A recent addition was the names of the directors. I propose we introduce a table format, with the year, the musical and the director. Also, does anyone know what they were further back than 2002? [[Special:Contributions/58.160.83.7|58.160.83.7]] ([[User talk:58.160.83.7|talk]]) 08:01, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
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The Producers 09

May I ask who this was confirmed by? 58.160.83.40 (talk) 05:31, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

It is actually 'Of Mice and Men' 122.108.79.220 (talk) 08:25, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Once again, who was that confirmed by? At this time last year, the 2008 musical was to be 'Of Mice and Men'. And what did we get? Oliver! Anyway, I've spoken with the Director, who said the musical had not been chosen yet, and that it was "the last thing on (the Musical Director's) mind at the moment" (she's recently had an operation). Therefore, I'm going to remove any mention of the 2009 musical. 58.160.82.94 (talk) 02:51, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

Im pretty sure a teacher (Mr. Campbell) confirmed it. Who are you anyway? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.108.135.152 (talk) 00:58, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

10th best girls school

Who's Who of girls' school rankings: 1.PLC Melbourne, 2.SCEGGS Darlinghurst, 3.MLC Melbourne, 4.PLC Sydney, 
5.Melbourne Girls Grammar School, 6.Mac.Robertson Girls' High School, 7.North Sydney Girls High School, 
8.Sydney Girls High School, 9.MLC Sydney, 10.University High School, Melbourne

except... uni high ISNT a girls school. Hahaha, where the hell did this come from? I'm going to delete it in 3 days --Carbonrodney (talk) 12:28, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

If you had read it correctly, you would see that it was actually stating that the school is in the top ten in terms of educating their girls, not the top ten girls' schools. 58.160.83.7 (talk) 08:01, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Hehe, Carbonrodney got owned.122.108.79.220 (talk) 08:25, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

unnecessary deletions?

I have just reverted the deletions of 'past principals' and most of the 'notable past pupils'. If no one has any objections to keeping the principals article, then I will merge it into the history section, where it belongs. --Carbonrodney 

        * please leave notable alumni

Gang Violence

What on earth is the gang violence section? I was in VCE in 2001, and the 'gang violence' was no different to what goes on at any other school -- certainly not remarkable. The only incidents I can think of were the Ryan Moses incident (which, admittedly, made it to pg2 of the Sun, and pg3 of the Age), and a couple of hyped up 'Asians vs Turks' shovefests on the oval. There were a couple of things before that, but they were largely aberrations, and I don't think it really warrants mentioning. Drug use was certainly not exceptional. 203.49.196.168 01:36, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Leon... 10:41, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

I have changed the gang violence section so that it says the school grounds and its surrounds as opposed to just the school grounds - given their size alone it seems unreasonable to suggest that gang violence and drug use was rife within the grounds only.

As to the validity of the claims, I am from the class of 2005 (started in 2000) and the only act of significant violence I can remember is when someone was stabbed in the leg with a pen in a small (10 or so people) brawl about 2003. Around 2004, a "gang" of about 20 students from various nearby high schools came onto the school's oval during lunchtime. It was said that this was revenge for someone who had been whipped with a belt buckle a few nights before. A technology teacher dispelled the group before any violence occured.

In comparison with other Victorian state schools, Uni High has no noteworthy violent history to my knowledge.

Good update with the surrounding area. But when I was there we had someone beated up pretty much every week. We had at least 10 hospitalisations per year in the later years... In any case gang activity in the university high school area is particularly high. Noteworthily high.

--198.142.89.91 11:40, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Unfortunately, it seems someone has removed the section completely. Could that get restored please? I will try and dig up the newspaper articles mentioned above but I am in no mood for searching through the history.

Theres defitenitly no noteworthy violence nowadays. 218.215.129.75 08:30, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Keep the warcry

Keep the warcry. We needed to learn it on enrolment day, it is the equivalent of a school anthem.

The war-cry is no longer taught on enrolment day, and as of 2007 has been removed from the school diaries. It is no longer an important school tradition, and so should not have a section devoted to it. 58.160.83.19 (talk) 11:19, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Notable Alumni

can you please put back the notable alumni?

I was disappointed to see the list of notable alumni deleted. Uni High has many notable alumni---past and present of diverse backgrounds---deserving of recognition and in whom there should be pride.

People keep adding nonsense entries, and it's not worth having to constantly police it to keep the crap out. Ambi 01:38, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

There are some agents that periodically revert to one accepted entry. I think the longest the page has been vandalised in the last month is about a day or something. --Carbonrodney

Confirmed Entries

  • Sarah Boyd, bioinformaticist
  • John So, current mayor of Melbourne
  • Joan Kirner, first female Premier of Victoria
  • Michael Klim, swimmer
  • Dorothy Goble, former member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
  • Eric Phillips, composer and musician
  • Geoffrey Watson, mathematician
  • Olivia Newton-John, actor and singer
  • Elizabeth Blackburn, biochemist

--Carbonrodney

Unconfirmed?

If you find evidence that these people have indeed attended, then add them to this list above
  • Graeme Blundell, actor and writer
  • Helen Buckingham, current member of the Victorian Legislative Council
  • Ruth Curtain, mathematics professor----confirmed
  • Ivan Deveson, former Lord Mayor of Melbourne
  • Peter Faiman, movie producer and director----confirmed
  • James Murray, astronomer
  • Frank Oberklaid OAM, pediatrics professor---UHS school captain, 1963
  • David Williamson, playwright----confirmed
  • Richard Pratt, businessman----confirmed
  • John Coleman, AFL legend----confirmed
  • Garrie Hutchinson, writer and editor----confirmed
  • Jean Baker OAM, former mayor of Heidelberg----confirmed
  • Allen Aylett, former chairman of the VFL (predecessor of the AFL)---confirmed
  • David White, former minister in the Kirner Government----confirmed
Sources for confirmed entries include Ubique, Record, UHS student diaries, published biographies and personal association

Vandalism

I've semi-protected this talk page because of repeated vandalism by various IPs, including inserting defamatory allegations about minors, insertion of personal information of minors and cyber-bullying. Wikipedia is not a chat site or a forum for attacking your fellow students. Sarah 13:50, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

unecessary edits made.

To the alumni. I think only half are true. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Quaked (talk • contribs) 03:28, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

School colours

I've just finished a quick clean-up of the article and don't know very much about this school, so i've had to have a guess at the school colours for the infobox. If I have got them incorrect could someone please change them. If anyone needs help with the colour boxes, let me know and I will help you out. Cheers! Loopla (talk) 04:20, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

The school doesnt implement uniforms so there isnt really 'school colours'. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.239.134.6 (talk) 06:42, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
The colours are green and white, at least according to the school uniform we all wore for sports. --Carbonrodney (talk) 14:05, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
School colours have been green and tan since at least the 1930s (the colours which are on the UHS insignia). 122.108.114.243 (talk) 01:50, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

Musicals

There has been a lot of edits made regarding musicals, some of which were reverted only to have them added again later by someone else. A recent addition was the names of the directors. I propose we introduce a table format, with the year, the musical and the director. Also, does anyone know what they were further back than 2002? 58.160.83.7 (talk) 08:01, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Add *Support or *Oppose followed by an optional one-sentence explanation, then sign your opinion with four tildes (~)

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