So long as you don’t drop the I. LA P U is very much the opposite lol.
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Their mascot should be a skunk called Pepe.
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I think we should lean into the acronym and call a kid who go to these schools a SLAC Kid, or SLACK, which is what I did when I was at a SLAC decades ago
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D23 is a SLACK, and if everything goes well with D24, I will have a pair of SLACKs next year
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Probably the priciest SLACKs you’ll ever buy!
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My wife recently retired early, so maybe I should start calling her a SLAC Kid’s Elderly Relative . . . .
Let me know how that works for you! 
I’m necroing this thread, but I want to get my two cents in. 
I’ve used SLAC for like a decade at this point (with the “s” for “small”, and pronouncing it like “slack”). While the “small” may be mostly redundant, I don’t think its a bad thing, it is just emphasizing the quality. If you talk to someone that doesn’t know anything about colleges, at least saying “small liberal arts college” can convey the smallness idea. Really though “liberal arts college” itself is kind of an unfortunate name that isn’t really meaningful on its own. Maybe a better acronym would be SPUI (Small Primarily Undergraduate Institution) but alas I don’t get to name things.
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You won’t convince me. A PUI (primarily undergraduate institution) has already been mentioned in this thread and is, primarily, small. So again, the S is redundant.
But thanks for teaching me a new word I’ve never heard before, which is totally rad! That’s me doing my own necroing. 
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Would attending a Spui be ‘spewing’ or would that refer to applying to several SPUI?
Mentally, I pronounce it more like “spwee”. I think maybe because my language was (nominally) French.
SPUIng would then be pronounced like “spweeing”, aka the portmanteau for what my S24 liked to do back when I was trying to change his diapers (spray-weeing).
SPUI exists as an acronym - single-point urban interchange - and is pronounced SPEW-ee.
Spui, pronounced spow, is also a word in Dutch which means sluice.
Spewing is something most unpleasant.
to use my kids’ vernacular: TIL…
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All right… how about:
Cute Little Academic Powerhouses
CLAPs?
CLAP fever!
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Friendly and rigorous teaching schools. (FARTS).
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Hahaha, that amused me!
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Funny Linda I hadn’t figured you for a middle school boys sense of humor😀
Or maybe Creative and Rigorous Academically Proven Schools (CRAPS)
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