Re: OT: CUNY (was: Re: British Latin)
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 7, 2001, 4:05 |
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Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
>On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Steg Belsky wrote:
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>> (the) City University of New York. [kjuni]. It's the public college
>> system of New York City, which includes Brooklyn College, Queens College,
>> the College of Staten Island, Borough of Manhattan Community College,
>> Baruch, Kingsborough, Queensborough, Hunter, CCNY...
>> Not to be confused with SUNY [suni], the State University of New York,
>> which has 'university centers' at Binghamton, Albany, Stony Brook, and
>> Buffalo, and a huge number of local Community Colleges all over the
>> state. Some parts of Cornell are part of SUNY, if i remember correctly.>
And not to be confused with NYU, which was kind enough to give me a BA-- in
the early sixties, our main "campus" was Washington Square. Ah,
memories....
In those days, I don't think all the schools mentioned by Steg were yet a
part of CUNY. IIRC Hunter was still private (and women only).
My sister attended Finch in NYC, a "finishing school" that fell on hard
times in the 60s or 70s (young women apparently no longer wanting to be
"finished")-- their valuable real estate became condos.
In grad school at Michigan, there was a wonderfully wacked out fellow
student (female) from CUNY; she had a sweatshirt that said (of course) "I'm
a CUNY Linguist".
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