>This seems to be exactly the same situation as exists in the California
>state system, in which everyone in the world refers to one campus
>as "Cal" even though it is technically "University of California at
>Berkeley".  I'm not even certain whether Cal is recognized in any
>way as a "main campus".  Certainly it enjoys a status separate from
>the UC's at Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, Davis, etc... but I wouldn't try
>telling UCLA that they're a "satellite campus".   :-)  :-)  :-)
 
        Actually, That Place Up North is really only referred to as
Cal in sporting contexts and by people there.  As a rule, everyone
else calls it "Berkeley" in academic settings.  And it's UCB in
computer circles, I suppose.
 
        Obligatory hockey content: I'm happy, for hockey purposes, to
use the official names "UMass-Lowell" and "UMass-Amherst", and shorten
them informally to "Lowell" and "UMass" (the latter only after context
had been set).  ("Amherst" is of course a private institution, the one
whose biggest sporting acheivement this year seems to have been a
scoreless tie in football with Williams.)  As was pointed out the last
time this thread came up, the special circumstances involved in the
order of events (Lowell gets DivI hockey; Lowell joins the UMass
system; Mass-Amherst gets DI hockey) make the situation different
from the norm...
 
                John Whelan
                Cornell University (College of Arts & Sciences) '91
                University of California, Santa Barbara grad '96
                future employee, University of Utah (Salt Lake City Campus)
 
PS--Now, if only they'd bring back varsity hockey to the University of
Pennsylvania at Philadelphia. ;-)
 
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