Nobody yet is replacing the "UAF" chant for an "Alaska" Chant at the hockey or 
other sports games.  The main campus in Alaska is in Fairbanks so it is natural 
for the Nanooks to be known as the Alaska Nanooks.   There is nothing stopping 
Alaska Anchorage from calling themselves Alaska State.

Jim



>Seems it is really a contest about the use of the UND abbreviation.  By the
>way, how did the Hockey-L list let the change from Alaska-Fairbanks to
>Alaska go by without comment.  It moves Alaska-Anchorage to the status of
>those MN schools other than the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities  which
>uses an unqualified Minnesota nomenclature.   Bob Hamilton


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