Re: OT: CUNY (was: Re: British Latin)

--- Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>
> wrote:
>On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Steg Belsky wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 6 Jun 2001 19:05:28 -0400 Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...> writes:
>> > CUNY is an abbreviation for...?  <puzzled look>
>>
>> (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.
>
>Yup--darn Aggies.  =^)  J/k.  Cornell's just weird that way.  Not, I
>suppose, that it would've made a difference to me *personally* if Arts &
>Sciences were SUNY, since I'd've been out-of-state no matter *what* state
>I showed up in.
>
>Colleges smack dab in a city?  <remembering her one tour of NYC>  I
>guess.  It's a weird thought, but mainly because I've been in
>Nowhere--er, Ithaca--for the past 4 years.  ^_^
Try Oxford and Cambridge - the cities were basically built around the colleges...
(Oxford got much larger as well - there's not much of interest in Cambridge
apart from the University and stuff connected with it. If you ever fancy going
sightseeing in one or other of them, go to Oxford, as the colleges are a lot
prettier and there's more to do when you're fed up with looking at them. It's
not nearly such a good university though :P)

==

   Tom Pullman

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