Anything bother you about a school NAME?
 

OK, I am bored and cannot go to sleep and so I was thinking... I got to Florida Atlantic UNiversity. It is in Boca Raton, FL. South Florida area. Now It bothers me that University of South Florida is located in Tampa. North of Lake Okeechobee. So how can they be called USF? Maybe I am just bored a crazy, but I dont get it?!? If you live in the state of Florida and someone refers to "South FLorida" people think West Palm, Ft Lauderdale, & Miami area. Not Tampa, which is on the west coast of FL and 4 hours north.
Please no one take offense to USF, its a great school. The name just bothers me!

I dont know about the traditions of USF or how proud they are of their moniker, but theres a trend away from using directional type names. Southwest Texas State University just changed its name and effective Sept 1, 2003 will be Texas State University at San Marcos. YEp, they are now named after the fictious school from the movie "Necessary Roughness" (in a wierd twist of irony, in the movie, the TSU football team played Southwest Texas State University - so now its liek they played themselves...) ANYWAY, 'round these parts its always been SWT, or just "Southwest." Its gonna take some getting used to. They said the directional name made it "too regional" and effected the school's ability to be seen as a flagship contender school and its ability to attract top notch faculty. And I guess technically speaking, its not really South or West. It much more Central. Anyway, youd think they'd be alittle more hesitant to chage a schools name if a US president (LBJ) graduated from there. (But it was even called something different back then).

Also, the school I started at was TExas A&I. Its now Texas A&M - Kingsville and my mom went to West Texas State University (WTSU) and now its West Texas A&M, so schools change names here kinda often.

every other school in the Indiana University system is IU-name of city. . .but the one that is here is IU-Southeast.

could it be because it's so close to Kentucky that they think the people will want it changed to IU-Louisville, KY. . .in that case, they'd have to change it to University of Louisville-New Albany, IN. . .

No kidding...IU Bloomington, IUPUI, IPFW, IUSB, IU Southeast, when will the madness end???? :p

you totally forgot IU-Kokomo where there is now a brand new Phi Sig colony. . .the first on the campus

Oh I wasn't naming them all, there are more than those 5 or 6 or whatever...I was just blabbering. :)

This isn't really about the school's name but I hate it when I read the paper and the writer gives the school's initials without first giving the school's complete name. How the hell is the reader supposed to know which IU, BU, or CU the writer is writing about? There are probably a dozen of each.

good point

Hey Max,

We agree on something!

I actually talked about this in a different thread.

Here's an example:

My wife and I went to O.U.

Our Son currently attends O.U.

Our daughter graduated from O.U. after two years at U.N.C.

Here's what it means:

My wife and I graduated from Ohio University.

Our Son currently attends The University of Oklahoma at Norman.

Our daughter graduated from Ohio University after spending two years at the University of Northern Colorado.

It's also strange that the University of Colorado at Boulder is called C.U. And the University of Denver is D.U.

And why is Ohio State officially "THE Ohio State Univesity? Are they afraid someone will name another one Ohio State.

Maybe just a bit pompus?

I have a great tee shirt that says, "Ohio, THE State University."

BU = Baylor
CU = Colorado
IU = Indiana
KU = Kansas
NU = Nebraska
OU = Oklahoma
OSU = Okie State
A&M = Texas A&M University
t.u. = Texas university
ITT Tech = texas technical university classless clowns/dirt monkeys/matadors/hamburglers

See, that's not too hard :D

Kitso
KS 361 times i feel sorry for people who's diploma is going to say Texas State University at San Marcos...TSUSM

BUT:

OSU also could be Ohio State or Oregon State.

OU can be University of Oregon or Ohio University

TU, where I came from is the University of Toledo.

BU could be Butler

IU can be Illinois

Thank goodness UCONN isn't another C.U.

It depends on your perspective and where you live or lived.

I know Delt, i was trying to be a smartass.

Perhaps i should have used the winky face in my post.

Kitso
KS 361 times when i think of OU all that comes to mind is BOOMER SOONER and 30-26 ;)

Well, OSU is last year's national champion in football, and OU has a good chance at being this year's.

How can I lose?

By the way, Boomer Sooner ain't never gonna win the Grammy for lyrics.

When I hear BU I think Boston University.

Yeah, just like "the eyes of Texas" isn't the most original composition ever.

the whorns just LOVE it when we start singing,
"i've been working on the Railroad,
all the live-long day.
I've been working on the railroad,
just to pass the time away"

does tech have a school song? what is it? that song they play at the circus when the clowns come piling out of the small car?

Kitso
KS 361 times AlphaSig's gonna bust on ya for the Boomer Sooner crack

BU could be Butler
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It's funny how we automatically think of different schools for BU, depending on our location. The only one that popped in my head when I read BU was Boston University. I didn't even consider Baylor or Butler. It must be the east coaster in me.

UofM is University of Michigan first, in my head.
UofA is University of Arizona to me, also.

But, I definitely know what the confusion is like! On the east coast, everyone assumes I go to the Unviersity of South Carolina. So, whenever I say that I go to "USC" they ask me, "Oooh, how do you like South Carolina? I hear its beautiful down there!" So, I've given up. When I'm on the east coast, I tell everyone I go to "the Unviersity of Southern California." It's a mouthful. But I love when I'm anywhere on the west coast and I can just say that I go to 'SC and there's never any confusion. :)

I always thought that UVA should be Thomas Jefferson University, but there is a TJU in Philadelphia.

When I hear AU i think American University. Some people think Auburn or im sure another school.

When I hear NU I think Northwestern University, but here on the east coast it usually refers to Northeastern University.

My ex was from Nebraska and referred to University of Nebraska simply as "Nebraska"

Oh yeah another one. The abbreviation for the University of Vermont is UVM. I always thought it would be UVT.

Didn't think so... considering the tune and lyrics were borrowed from Yale's old 'Boola Boola' fight song and Carolina's 'I'm a Tarheel Born'.

Boomer Sooner, Boomer Sooner,
Boomer Sooner, Boomer Sooner
Boomer Sooner, Boomer Sooner,
Boomer Sooner, OK-U!
Oklahoma, Oklahoma,
Oklahoma, Oklahoma,
Oklahoma, Oklahoma,
Oklahoma, OK-U!
I'm Sooner born and Sooner bred,
and when I die I'll be Sooner dead!
Rah, Oklahoma! Rah, Oklahoma!
Rah, Oklahoma...OK-U!

I've always liked it when they played the state song, Oklahoma! on the Student Union bells on gameday:

O....klahoma, where the wind comes sweeping down the plain
And the waving wheat, it sure smells sweet
When the wind comes right behind the rain!
O... klahoma, ev'ry night my honey lamb and I
Sit alone and talk, and watch the hawks
Makin' lazy circles in the sky!
We know we belong to the land,
And the land we belong to is grand!
So when we say... Yeow! A-yip-i-yo-i-yay!
We're only saying, 'You're doing fine, Oklahoma',
Oklahoma, O-K-L-A-H-O-M-A, Oklahoma!

(P.S. Glorious results of a misspent pledge education... ;) )

Re: Anything bother you about a school NAME?
 

The University of South Florida will no longer be called "South Florida" for this exact reason. We will be known as USF (not to be confused with the University of San Francisco, whose colors also happen to be green and gold, like ours), or the University of South Florida. Nothing else. This overhaul goes along with our complete new athletic logos and colors. We used to be dark green and bright yellow gold, but now are more spruce green and dark gold. We even have a new bull logo :( :mad: I miss Rocky!

Old Rocky the Bull

http://www.usf.edu/History/rocky.html

You can see the new Athletics logo here

Hijack!

On the other hand, Boomer Sooner is one of the neatest and most memorable fight songs without the words. Gene Thrailkill, the recently retired director of the "Pride" is a pal of mine from when he directed the O.U. (make that the Ohio University) Band back in the 60's. Wonder how many times he conducted it over his thirty-plus years in Norman.

Our son, an aspiring actor, and five other sophomores do a short musical show for the development department/alumni gatherings, which ends up with "Oklahoma" (the one you quote from the musical), and it brings the house down every time.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled thread...

Ugh..I hate my school's name...it's University of RIO GRANDE. It's located in southeastern Ohio, no where near the dag on Rio Grande river.

Another thing, it's officially mispronounced!!
Correctly: spanish style
How it is pronounced here: Rye-Oh Grand :rolleyes:


...and it they change it, it's going to be either Atwood (oye, just like Morehead) or Bob Evans (geez...stupid restraunt)

[QUOTE]Originally posted by AggieSigmaNu361
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does tech have a school song? what is it? that song they play at the circus when the clowns come piling out of the small car?
All I know is that cheer they do all the time:

Two bits, four bits, six bits, a dollar
All for the Raiders stand up and holler!!

Just like high school.....:rolleyes:

I also got the USC confusion when I was living outside of California.

-- Graduate of THE University of Southern California, May 1986.
:cool:

I like how the whole nation seems to have forgotten that there are UW schools other than Wisconsin - Madison. Whenever I tell people I did my first two years at UW-Platteville they say "Did you like Washington?" :p

My other favorite is now that I go to Marquette, everybody thinks I mean Marquette, Michigan, home of Northern Michigan, not Marquette University.

Even though I graduated from a school that could be called "BU," I've always held that for Boston University.

Even though I will be going to graduate school at a "CU," the first CU that comes to mind is University of Colorado.

USC has ALWAYS been SoCal in my mind. Same with Auburn and AU.

The reason UVM isn't UVT (or UV-B) is from its original (Latin) name, Universitatis Verdis Montis (ie, University of the Green Mountains). Hence, the UVM.

whoa Munchkin,

I've got to give you props, that is hands down the most random fact of the day on GC.

Now, did you know that off the top of your head? if so, girl you need to go on jeopardy!

Kitso
KS 361 times i heard guns up at the Tech game, and if i hear it again i'm gonna shove those guns right up their A@#@

me too.