>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. ;-) HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.