JohnH wrote: > I'm making an effort to drop the Amherst from UMass > because that's what the good folks at UMass seem to prefer. Hey, John, stop making the effort. Folks at UMass-Lowell *want* UMass-Amherst to stay exactly that. Calling them "UMass" gives a token of legitimacy to their chants of "We're the *real* UMass" at UML-UMA games. Hockey East has deferred to Lowell in this regard, calling the two schools "Mass-Lowell" and "Mass-Amherst" despite requests out of Amherst to be called "UMass". DaveH HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.