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Date Posted: 14:53:49 04/23/03 Wed
Author: mainejeff
Subject: Re: AE speaks about UMBC
In reply to: Bainsey 's message, "AE speaks about UMBC" on 13:38:55 04/23/03 Wed

>Besides, that name is gonna be a mouthful for us PA
>announcers next year. If the school is in the city of
>Baltimore, does it really need "County" in its name?
>I just don't get it. It sounds very Division III in
>my book.

Amen. can't they just change their name like the SUNYs did? The University of Baltimore sounds much better.

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[> [> Re: AE speaks about UMBC -- Bainsey, 16:37:16 04/23/03 Wed

>The University of Baltimore sounds much better.

That name is already taken by another school. Heck Jeff, I'd take UMB or even Baltimore State at this point.

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[> [> [> Re: AE speaks about UMBC -- Bainsey, 16:38:32 04/23/03 Wed

>The University of Baltimore sounds much better.

That name is already taken by another school. Heck
Jeff, I'd take UMB or even Baltimore State at this
point.

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[> [> [> [> UMBC, UMO??? -- Van Lier, 17:08:20 04/23/03 Wed

>>The University of Baltimore sounds much better.
>
I agree with you Bainsey. But before you work on UMBC, maybe you can get Maine residents and the Portland paper to quit calling us UMO????

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[> [> [> [> [> Re: UMBC, UMO??? -- statefan, 20:11:18 04/23/03 Wed

>>>The University of Baltimore sounds much better.
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>I agree with you Bainsey. But before you work on UMBC,
>maybe you can get Maine residents and the Portland
>paper to quit calling us UMO????
What will the Portland paper's headline read if UDO leads UMO over UMBC?

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[> [> [> [> [> Re: UMBC, UMO??? -- Bainsey, 20:55:53 04/23/03 Wed

>maybe you can get Maine residents and the Portland
>paper to quit calling us UMO????

The only Maine residents I know that do that never went to UM in the first place (or they graduated between 1970-86). Consider the sources.

When have the Portland newspapers called the school "UMO"? I've never seen that since the name change; you'd think they'd know better.

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[> [> [> [> [> [> Re: UMBC, UMO??? -- Van Lier, 09:52:56 04/24/03 Thu

>The only Maine residents I know that do that never
>went to UM in the first place (or they graduated
>between 1970-86). Consider the sources.

Conservatively, whenever I hear someone refer to the University of Maine, I'd say it's about 85-15 chance that they call it either UMO, UMaine-Orono.
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>When have the Portland newspapers called the school

Just a couple days ago, there was a photo and story of some professor/research department in the Portland Paper (on front page or section front) and both the story and caption referred to University of Maine-Orono as if we need to be told where the University of Maine is located.

It's not a big a deal. I'm just pointing out that most folks in our own state seem to feel the need to use the "directional" for our own flagship university. So, to paraphrase the greatest coach who ever lived, Roy Williams, "I really don't give a flip about UMBC."

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