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Originally posted by STL Kappa
Yes, Mizzou is the flag ship of Missouri... and that's not going to change.
The great name debate stirred things up around Columbia and Springfield and in the end they've got one less word in their name and not much else.  Don't get me wrong... Southwest (I haven't heard one SMSU student refer to it as MSU, maybe when they start I'll think about it) is a great school... I just don't get what they were trying to accomplish fighting so hard to change their name. (Then again, I don't know what we were getting at by trying to stop them.) They didn't want a "regional" moniker... but they are in southwest Missouri, are they not?
The whole name thing has them in the spotlight... but the university is no different then it was before. They won't be able to replicate our grad programs and Mizzou will still be the only university with land grant and research designations... the UMC system is huge- Kansas City, Columbia, Rolla, St. Louis. All this just for a name... goodness. I think I'm done now, haha...
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I graduated from SMSU 5 years ago. Fraternities close and recolonize, while the same six sorority houses have been there since I started college. Phi Mu tried to recolonize there while I was in school and failed b/c the colony had some kind of civil war. It was a shame, b/c I knew some of them and liked them.