I just heard that the name change WILL be happening.

The new name will be announced next monday.

edit:

these real-time stu-co updates from the meetings are nice

goddammit.


It will always be UMR to me......


Lets just hope it isn't something retarded like MIST, or even worse, MIT. Although no name would actually make me support the change

I just realized that releasing it next Monday is kind of sneaky - we'll all be on Spring break, so they're probably hoping that it passes over by the time we get back.

it'll probably be MUST (Missouri University of Science and Technology)

Yes it is.

When will the change actually take place? I graduate in May 08, and want my degree to say UMR, not whatever retarded new name they choose.

QFT

or it could be Missouri University of Science and Engineering

and with out much thought could turn into MOUSE

if we were a lit university that would be good: MUSE

"UMR: the name the degree the difference" my ass!

More like UMR: different name, same degree, no difference.

And I'm not buying another sweatshirt.

M-S-M, U-M-R, M-O-U-S-E


It works PERRRRRRRFECTLY. Yeah, and to anyone who wasn't expecting this, I only wish I could be that naive....

I have heard two RUMORS. One, is that the name change will NOT take place until EVERYTHING is in place, and it can be like "You go to bed at UMR, and then WHAM, you wake up at MOUSE." And then I heard that it will start virtually immediately in chunks...

Anyone hear what the "Independent Evaluation" cost? Goff told me it would be available, but that he didn't know yet (I have difficulty believing that...)

Son of a bitch and that is all I have to say about that.

It's not the same degree when employers, who are very familiar with UMR and hire grads all the time, ask "What the hell is [insert name of new school]?" and toss the resume in the trash.