>true force than a true intention to abandon the ECAC.  Pipes' main point of
>contention was that the Ivy League schools get all the recognition within the
>ECAC, and I guess the league powers assuaged his fears about this.  He also
>complained about the fact that the school is always referred to as RPI in the
>league scheduling and publicity, while the other schools are Harvard, Brown,
>Clarkson, Vermont, etc.  His point was that it should either be HU, BU, CU, VU,
>RPI, etc. or the full names and Rensselaer.
 
     Isn't this a bit of a silly complaint?  Or is there a movement afoot
in Troy that I'm unaware of regarding the school's name.  Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute has been known as "RPI" by most folks, including RPI
students, for ages.  It's the only RPI I know of, and just about everyone
knows what it stands for (like MIT).  On the other hand, Brown and Clarkson
(for example) would face ambiguity if they went around calling themselves BU
and CU (not to mention the ridicule that would face Princeton students if
they referred to their fine institution as "PU" :-) ).  Also, as far as I
know RPI has usually had the letters "RPI" on their uniforms and not
"Rensselaer", whereas Brown, Clarkson, Harvard, Cornell, Dartmouth, Vermont,
Colgate, Princeton, Yale (you get the idea) have had their full names on
their jerseys when names appear at all.  Has RPI changed their jerseys
to say "Rensselaer" to reflect the President's desire to have the school
known as such?  It seems to me that RPI has become one of the most
respected institutions in the country, and has built an outstanding
academic reputation (as well as hockey reputation) while being
known mainly as RPI.  Why change?  What do our RPI friends think about this?
 
Thanks,
-Glenn