Weapon of Mass Distraction

August 7: Changing MU’s Name

August 7, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Do we really need to change the official name of MU’s flagship campus? I mean, does anyone outside Columbia actually call Mizzou the “University of Missouri-Columbia”? What will dropping “dash Columbia” really do?

It seems to me that this is nothing more than an ego-driven response to Southwest Missouri State dropping its directional prefix — as if people outside Missouri will assume from the names that MSU is bigger than UM-C.

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