Sure wasn't looking for a lesson in institutional arrangements in MN having
lived there for 6+ years.   No where was it suggested that State would be
used in the name.  Why is not the University of Minnesota name used by
Duluth?  On the surface, they are both a University of Minnesota team just
like those two teams in Alaska are both University of Alaska teams. In the
Minnesota case, it seems the first campus gets the name without qualifiers
for its sports teams.  Seems the same in Alaska.  Bob Hamilton
ps.  I do believe that other UofM teams such as Crookston have hockey teams,
just not in Div 1.  And that they use a designation similar in form to that
used by Duluth.

>Bob and others,
>
>In Minnesota there are two separate school systems. One is the University
of
>Minnesota and the other is the State University system. UM-Twin Cities,
>UM-Duluth (UMD Bulldogs) have hockey teams from that system and the other
>two, UM-Crookston and UM-Morris, do not. Of the seven schools from the
State
>University system three of them offer hockey, Bemidji State, St. Cloud
>State, and Mankato State (which call themselves Minnesota State - Mankato,
>but the others use their city name and State together).
>
>As for Alaska, both Fairbanks and Anchorage are both in the University of
>Alaska system, so no one has the ability to call itself "State". You have
>UAF, no matter what they decide to call themselves, and UAA, Looks like
>Fairbanks has the better hockey team this year, but who is better
>academically may be different.
>
>A rose is a rose is a rose and by any other name would smell just as sweet.
>Same goes for a turd. No matter what politically correct phrase you try and
>use, the truth remains.
>
>Nathan Hampton
>On 11/27/06 4:30 PM, "Dr. Bob Hamilton" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>