College Nickname only the students would know

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<p>When I went to college, my school (an engineering school) had a nickname we used, especially when we thought the liberal arts parts of our educations were lacking. Only students would know this one, and for all I know, only students of that time. I doubt if students today would even know it: “The North Avenue Trade School.”</p>

<p>Did your college or university have a name that the general public would never know?</p>

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<p>I didn’t go there, but Cal State Northridge used to be called Cow Tech in the 70s. I wonder if the students still call it that.</p>

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<p>Someone told me once that Drake University, during the initial emergence of the women’s movement for equal rights, was called Duck University.</p>

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<p>Michigan State University…MooU.</p>

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<p>^^ I think all ag. schools must get that one. My s attends a state u. that gets the MooU and Cow College moniker all the time. Since their arch rival’s school color is blue, the state kids motto is “better moo than blue”.</p>

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<p>^^^When I was at college, they used to say, “D<em>ke is puke, W</em>ke is fake, but the team we hate is ** State”.</p>

<p>Did I use enough asterisks to be coy?</p>

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<p>I have to say, looking back now, it’s probably better to be a big red wolf :mad: than a little blue lamb. ;)</p>

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<p>U-Dub is a good one, although fairly widely known outside the school.</p>

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<p>New England Conservatory, known as NEC = Not Exactly College!</p>

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<p>"I doubt if students today would even know it: ‘The North Avenue Trade School.’ "</p>

<p>This would be Iona College in New Rochelle, New York. The college nickname for it is “Idiots on North Avenue, I.O.N.A” or “The North Avenue Trade School”. </p>

<p>I hope this answers the OP’s question.</p>

<p>tokyo</p>

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<p>OSU - The Farm. Not sure how popular this one is outside of OH.</p>

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<p>Students at Santa Barbara City College sometimes refer to their school as UCLA (University at the Corner of Loma Alta). Loma Alta, of course, is the street the college is on.</p>

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<p>At UC Davis we sometime referred to the town of Davis as “beautiful Carmel-by-the-Causeway.”</p>

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<p>Georgetown – the Hilltop, but that isn’t too difficult to figure out.</p>

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That’s great, love it!
My dad was a professor at Iona. When my mom went to New Rochelle Hospital to have my sister, the nurse asked her where her husband worked, Mom said “Iona College”, and the nurse said “You DO??”</p>

<p>I went to Parsons in the 70’s and the adjunct college was the New School for Social Research, which everyone called “The Couch” – for obvious reasons.</p>

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<p>Slippery Rock was known as “Slimy Pebble”</p>

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<p>Stanford is also known as The Farm on campus. Don’t know if that is known out in the wide wide world.</p>

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<p>BC = Beer Camp</p>

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<p>I’m guessing that’s not the OP’s alma mater. </p>

<p>When I was applying to schools many years ago, that was the not-so-secret nickname for Georgia Tech (See map)</p>

<p><a href=“http://gtalumni.org/campusmap/campusmap.php?section=8[/url]”>http://gtalumni.org/campusmap/campusmap.php?section=8&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Within Tufts (my alma mater), it was also referred to as The Hill.
(it is on a hill)</p>