FW: UC whatever

[Beverly Flanigan]

Ohio University sued a few years ago for the exclusive right to the label
"Ohio," and won--much to OSU's chagrin.  Now "Ohio" is used by all the
bigwigs here (though not by any faculty I know), to the point where it's
confused at times with the state itself.  The powers that be also changed
the e-dress tag (or whatever it's called) to ohio.edu, though many of us
still use ohiou.edu.  Ridiculous.

On the U of Minnesota:  When I went to school in Mpls a hundred years ago,
we referred to it as simply "the U."  Was there any other?

At 07:28 AM 8/10/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>More on this thread, from my experience:
>
>In Ohio, Ohio State Univ is "Ohio State" or "OSU", though there are
>sweatshirts and such for OSU that do or once did just say "Ohio" (one
>famously worn by Jesse Owens).
>
>Ohio Univ is called "OU".  I have never heard it called simply "Ohio", but
>maybe alums and locals do?
>
>In Michigan, the Univ of M is called "Michigan".  Michigan State Univ is
>called "Michigan State" or "MSU".  Please, Michigan alums, chime in on
>whether it's "U of M" or "UM" to the locals.