School Nicknames

[USFSDTAlum]

Piggybacking off the turn the "best all around" post in Greek Life is taking what are the nicknames of your school?
USF- U Stay Forever
Back at home (in MD )
we used to call :
UMBC (U. MD-Baltimore County)
U Made a Bad Choice
College of Notre Dame of Maryland
CONDOM U.

[IowaHawkeye]

While I don't particularly agree with or use this nickname - I have a lot of friends at the University of Illinois who refer to Illinois State University (ISU) and I Screwed Up (ISU) b/c those that go to ISU go there b/c they weren't accepted anywhere else

[HeidiHo]

UniverSITY OF CINcinnati

UC= under construction because of the perpetual construction work
Heidi

[Chief]

I had a friend who flunked out of his first school and he went to Lincoln Land Community College (LLCC) in Springfield, IL. Or as he called it, Loser's Last Chance College. But he got back into his original school a year later and ended up graduating, so at least the story has a happy ending.

[KSig RC]

Originally posted by IowaHawkeye:
While I don't particularly agree with or use this nickname - I have a lot of friends at the University of Illinois who refer to Illinois State University (ISU) and I Screwed Up (ISU) b/c those that go to ISU go there b/c they weren't accepted anywhere else

Well . . . as a hawkeye, I figured you could use some good Iowa State (also ISU) nicks - a lot of my buddies refer to it as "Moo U" due to its ag-tech program, plus some other, less appropriate ones; good fodder for Hawk's Nest chants i'm sure.

[Siobhan]

I haven't heard of any good names for UBC, however people have changed aroung out motto a bit: UBC's motto is tuum est - it's yours; however students tend to prefer the twisted version: up yours!

[ZTAMich]

I've heard Ithaca College called IK instead of IC by the people on the other side of the hill at Cornell...

[RedHotChiO]

They also call the University of New Orleans, the University of No Opportunity. Some people are definitely going to take offense to this topic.

[juniorgrrl]

Originally posted by Hootie:
I go to the University of Nebraska at Omaha. People call it UNO like the card game or University of No Opportunity...which isn't as popular as it used to be. I like to call it University of Neverending Opportunity instead LOL.

People say the same thing about the University of New Orleans, UNO, that its the University of No Opportunity.

People call Southeastern Louisiana University, SLU "Slow Learner's University"

I honestly haven't heard any deroggatory remarks about LSU!

[prospectiverushee]

Originally posted by juniorgrrl:
People say the same thing about the University of New Orleans, UNO, that its the University of No Opportunity.

People call Southeastern Louisiana University, SLU "Slow Learner's University"

I honestly haven't heard any deroggatory remarks about LSU!

I personally call LSU= Leasing State University since the school likes to privitize everything around here.

Here are a few other ones:

University of Louisiana@Layfayette= uhhh la la. When it use to be USL it was called University of Slow Learners.

McNeese University=McCheese University. My rommate just told me that one cause she use to got there.

[DGPhoney]

Haha USF, I hadn't heard that one for UMBC, my friends would kill me if I say it though who go to UMBC< but it's funy as hel.
I went to frostburg State in MD and some used to call it:Forgettable Stupid U and when they tried to take the S out of FSU, I am sure ya'll can figure that one. But I am a TU tiger now~~ Hey USF have u ever heard any for Towson U in MD
DGPhoney~

[newbie]

Cute topic, but I hope those that go/went to these schools are not offended! These are pretty well-known though...so it will be nothing new.

UC Irvine (UCI)--University of Chinese Immigrants (b/c the school is over 50% Chinese)...and this is not to offend any Chinese-Americans out there, b/c I am one!

USC--University of Spoiled Children

Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo-- SLO (from the first letters of San Luis Obispo ...supposedly a really pretty but REALLY slow town, with nothing to do.

HOWEVER, I will actually apply to all of these schools, as I think I would be happy at each one of these! (Not exactly sure about Cal Poly, though.)


[This message has been edited by newbie (edited May 30, 2001).]

[SigTauJake]

I go to Indiana University of Pennsylvania, or IUP.

We used to be a huge party school, you couldn't even walk down the sidewalks of Fraternity Row 10 years ago, because they were so crowded with people. The nickname,
I Usually Party started then.

Well the school didn't like image and cracked down, and our party scene died, and now I hear people calling it
I Used to Party.

Oh well, the scene is picking up again, so IUP is still a great party school just not like it used to be, but what is?

[USFSDTAlum]

Hey DGPhoney:
No Way!!! I went to Towson for my freshman and sophmore years and then I transfered down here. I know a couple for Towson, but they more applied to other things then how the letters went together. The first was everyone told me I was going to STD U because Baltimore has the highest rate of syphillis infected people in the country, and the second was (now this is in 97) Playboy U because Towson at that time was supposedly ranked 2nd on Playboy's list of Campuses with the most attractive girls.(Maybe there is a correlation .......)
I used to live in Tower C and I was moving into Glenmont when I decided not to go back.

[DGPhoney]

Oh wow, USF, small world, I was in tower c with some friends all his semester, too bad they chamged a lot of stuff around now. thats neat you were a TU tiger, or so they call us, lol. Yeah I remeber hearing about the playboy ranking, i think thats why MD guys sweat TU, oh well, STD U thats funny, I thought Frostburg Was that too.
Too Cool USF*
DGPhoney~