>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