Now that Kendo UI 2016.1.* includes jQuery via the UMD wrapper, it would be great if that were the version of jQuery that was used.

I admit that I find the many IIFEs difficult to read, but it appears that you've only included jQuery in the wrapper to ensure that it is loaded, and you don't assign it to anything.

We'd like to be able to use jQuery.noConflict with all of our dependencies, and Kendo is the last one preventing that.