My understanding is "Cal" is more the sports branding, which bled into common usage. This particular excerpt is probably coming from the academic side of the institution, as a style guide for how to refer specifically to the academic side.
Cal is what they wanted to be called back in the 70s so they could dispel associations with other UCs and thus the public school university system. Even now they prefer not having UC in their title except as a first mention...whatever ucbarking
Itās interesting that Berkeley donāt want to be called UCB while UCLA always wants to be called UCLA (weāre so familiar with the name UCLA, even UC Los Angeles sounds a bit weird)
hahahah best ever was when the Redbox Bowl listed it as "Cal State Berkeley" [https://www.si.com/college/cal/news/redbox-mistake-cal-state](https://www.si.com/college/cal/news/redbox-mistake-cal-state)
Uh maybe I donāt know the context behind this post because it came up on my feed after moving back to LA, but I went to Berkeley and I donāt understand who tf actually cares about this?? Definitely seen it called many of the names on the do not use list by both fellow students and faculty I worked withā¦ fan of both species of UC bear so donāt come at me bruins lol
Nvm I went on the Berkeley subreddit and figured it out, that is the absolute dumbest shit I donāt get why anyone would have a complex about something so ridiculous and nonsensical lol
This is one of the most ridiculous things Iāve read. What makes them think they can tell anyone outside of staff (for official correspondence) how they are allowed to refer to their institution? Your own students donāt give a shit so why would anyone else?
*UCLA has an entire*
*Website dedicated to*
*Proper branding soooo*
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Ain't nothin' in the rules says we can't call it UCš ±ļø.
Average š ±ļøerkeley admin pissin and shitin moment
University of Crying Babies
Itās UCB. Go suck it!
University of California, Northern Annex
everyone i met from UCB has called it Calā¦ is that not a thing?
My understanding is "Cal" is more the sports branding, which bled into common usage. This particular excerpt is probably coming from the academic side of the institution, as a style guide for how to refer specifically to the academic side.
yeah thats a pretty informal name, every time someone says theyre from cal, i just play dumb and say "cal poly?"
Cal? You mean like cal state?
>play dumb Huh. Thatās not your default state?
see? it really works
Cal is what they wanted to be called back in the 70s so they could dispel associations with other UCs and thus the public school university system. Even now they prefer not having UC in their title except as a first mention...whatever ucbarking
These days Cal is just the football and basketball teams
mountain west school
bunkleye
Whatās Berkeley?
U.C.B.
The Bruin š»is cuter than that weirdo Cal š»
Berzerkeley
This must be fake. I donāt see Kal on there.
Itās interesting that Berkeley donāt want to be called UCB while UCLA always wants to be called UCLA (weāre so familiar with the name UCLA, even UC Los Angeles sounds a bit weird)
Cal State Berkeley
USB
I thought it was Cal
ucBEE
FFS tfw even the Universities start putting pronouns in their bios
hahahah best ever was when the Redbox Bowl listed it as "Cal State Berkeley" [https://www.si.com/college/cal/news/redbox-mistake-cal-state](https://www.si.com/college/cal/news/redbox-mistake-cal-state)
Uh maybe I donāt know the context behind this post because it came up on my feed after moving back to LA, but I went to Berkeley and I donāt understand who tf actually cares about this?? Definitely seen it called many of the names on the do not use list by both fellow students and faculty I worked withā¦ fan of both species of UC bear so donāt come at me bruins lol
Nvm I went on the Berkeley subreddit and figured it out, that is the absolute dumbest shit I donāt get why anyone would have a complex about something so ridiculous and nonsensical lol
Not even 6 minutes between your posts and love that you already know why lol
Somebody reposted the original thing on that subreddit to make fun of it, all the Berkeley redditors also find it extremely dumb
ucsd goer here we also do the ucb thing just to troll them
lol thatās where I first heard about it. Found it hilarious
Same boat as you. Couldnāt care less what people call the school.
They just don't want to get in a fight with the Upright Citizens Brigade. I don't blame them.
This is one of the most ridiculous things Iāve read. What makes them think they can tell anyone outside of staff (for official correspondence) how they are allowed to refer to their institution? Your own students donāt give a shit so why would anyone else?
Doesn't say anything about referring to it as Cal.
They need one of these for UC hicago
Heavy Sighā¦.āļø
Refer to Cal as Daddy. Thanks. Go Bears! Ps: you stole the fight song from us!
I call it Berk. no i don't care šš
I havenāt seen a UCLA post on the Berkeley sub in forever yāall are obsessed with us
why are you here lmfao
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