Harvard newspaper doesn't want a 4th sorority

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

If there is any cachet in the name. University of Louisiana has no cachet, so naming every school in the system that name doesn't dilute anything.

Right. Hence my "maybe." It all highlights that a one-size-fits-all approach doesn't work.

As a contrast to the University of Lousiana, there are people in North Carolina who still haven't gotten over the University of North Carolina becoming the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with six other Universities of NC at ____, and all but two of those changes happened over 40 years ago -- almost 50 years ago in the case of UNC-Chapel Hill and UNC-Greensboro, which before the 1963 change was the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina. But almost 50 years later, "UNC" by itself still means "UNC-CH" -- a designation one never hears in everyday conversation.

I'm not suggesting that other institutions have "cheapened" the UNC name (though others do say that), but I do think that potential, as well as the potential loss of distinctive identies, can be risks of losing directional or other names in favor of the University of State at Whatevercity.