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This is a joke. I can stand the no schools thing (I wrote a big ass article for the Miner about that this week, read up), but renaming is just absurd.

I think if we change the name, we should change back to Missouri School of Mines. Otherwise, who gives a shit?

Name change? You mean this?

http://www.news-leader.com/springfield/ ... hasey.html

I think you worded your question sufficiently biased enough to get the results you want, BUT I agree with the concept.

WTF is the chancellor thinking? Leave our F'ing name alone!

What is the new proposed name?

Wait I know!!!

Carney Technical Institute (CTI)

-jsn

Is this a hoax or something? Who would honestly let this happen?

For those of you that are wondering what brought this about....

http://news.umr.edu/news/2006/NameChange06.html




I agree!!


Also if I remember correctly, when SMSU changed their name, there was a time limit on that issue.
That is why CMSU recently agreed on changing their name. I believe the time limit is August of next year and needs to be brought up now, in order to be voted on by students, faculty and board members.

Link to CMSU thing. Interestingly Can't find it in the archives of any online newspapers .
http://www.cmsu.edu/x92810.xml

if anything - BTMSU - Better Than MSU

i think we all know that the UM schools are all at least a tier above the MU schools.

edit: by UM being better i dont mean the name is better i mean the schools are better. the name doesn't matter so much, but i don't want to see UMR change. MSM, (as said below) is about the only thing i could tolerate.

MSM would be about the only name change I could stomach, and I doubt that'll ever happen, as we can't scare away potential students......anyone who chooses a school on the name sounding cool and not on the program shouldn't even be in college......

I'm against it. I'm betting he wants to change it to "Missouri Tech", or some other derrivative of that...which would give us the same initials as Michigan Tech and Montana Tech.

Also, I noticed in that article that he wanted to bring UMR up to one of the top 10 technological research universities by 2010. US News & World Report currently ranks UMR #68 for our graduate engineering program, in general. We'll have quite a hard time trying to raise our rankings by 50 places in 4 years. Also, with the chancellor's other plan to increase UMR's student population by 2,000 students in 2 years, I'm beginning to think the man is insane.

it does explain how some people made it in.

Why should I poll differently than most of the polling companies?

No polling companies include answers that insult the person making that choice.

because conservatives try to eliminate bias and liberals bitch no matter what.

seriously. when have you ever heard a poll quoted with the question
"Are you for or against terrorsit insurgency in Iraq?" (a conservatively biased question)
but i would say it is common to hear a similairly worded quesiton as
"Do the anarchists [What CAIR calls the terrorists they so love]/does the opposition deserve a voice in the Iraqi government?" (a question smiled upon by those who like Ted Kennedy and his bastard cronies)

This is my first post ever but I had to post about this topic. I really don't understand the need. UMR has a strong reputation and is nationally known as a very strong "technological" school. Apparently Carney thinks the name change will help people understand more fully what we aspire to be which is a leading technological university. It seems like we already have this distinction though so why waste an ass load of money getting this new name out. Plus the proposed names make us sound like a vo-tech school. The only names I've heard mentioned seriously by Carney are Missouri Technological Institiute and Missouri Institute of Technology or some other derivative that includes the word University.
I guess the real question is does anyone actually think this change won't go through? Every time Carney throws out one of his ideas for everyone to ponder it seems like he's already made up his mind. Based on that fact I think we'll have a new name in under six months.