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Jacksonville University (JU) is a private University located in Jacksonville , Florida , on the shore of the St. Johns River . JU was founded in 1934 as William J. Porter University (actually a two-year college). The school changed its name to Jacksonville Junior College in 1935 . The college became Jacksonville University in 1956 after having moved to its current location six years earlier. JU's colors are Forest Green and White , with Black and Gray as tertiary colors. JU's school nickname is the Dolphin s. The school is believed to be the first sports team to chose Dolphins as a nickname. JU sports teams participate in NCAA Division I (I-AA for Football ) in the Atlantic Sun Conference , except for football, in which they compete in the Pioneer Football League (the Atlantic Sun Conference does not sponsor football). JU has been noted for its Basketball program, which has produced professional stars such as Artis Gilmore and Dee Brown . In 1970, JU became the smallest school (by enrollment) to ever make it to the Final Four. After defeating St. Boneventure in the national semi-finals, the team that starred Gilmore, Pembroke Burroughs and Rex Morgan, lost to Sidney Wicks, Curtis Rowe, and UCLA in the National Championship Game. The following year, JU became the first school to average 100 points per game but could not repeat their miracle run in the tournament. Jacksonville University has a renowned nursing program and aviation school, as well as the second-largest NROTC program in the nation. The school's Greek system, consisting by some estimates of 30% of the school, includes the Sigma Chi , Sigma Phi Epsilon , Lambda Chi Alpha , Phi Delta Theta , FIJI , Sigma Nu , Alpha Phi Alpha and Kappa Alpha Psi fraternities and the Delta Delta Delta , Alpha Epsilon Phi , Alpha Delta Pi , Gamma Phi Beta and Alpha Kappa Alpha sororities. The school has faced criticisms in recent years, as students have complained of dilapidated housing, inexplicably high tuition, overzealous campus security, poor parking and a general neglect of resident students, resulting in a retention rate of less than 70%. In 2006 , facing an incoming freshman class for which the school was unprepared, the concept of putting second and third residents in rooms designed for one and two students was introduced on a trial basis, sparking controversy within the student body. The school has also heard cries that it is improperly protected. Located in Arlington, a lower-class Jacksonville suburb, the school is subject to non-students walking onto the campus with virtual impunity. Although the university's crime reports have decreased significantly since the early 1990s , theft is still common, and students are discouraged from walking alone at night. The school became infamous for censorship issues when the student newspaper's editor and faculty advisor were fired in 1997 after publishing photos deemed risque by school officials, a responsibility supposedly delegated to the school's student media board. In 2005 , the school expelled two students responsible for a makeshift Stripper Pole prominently displayed in their on-campus apartment after photos of the pole made national headlines. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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