[NU Sports] Next year, when we play UNL

[Cyril S. Ku]

Talking about "KU".

I had an interview for an Assistant Professor position with the University of Kansas in the late 80's. In the beginning of my seminar, I said that a lot of students welcomed me to campus because many students wore my name on their T-shirts.

No one laughed at my remark. That was the first and the last time I was at Lawrence, Kansas.

Cyril Ku

--- On Thu, 12/16/10, Joe Thiegs <thiegs at umn.edu> wrote:

> From: Joe Thiegs <thiegs at umn.edu>
> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Next year, when we play UNL
> To: "SjT (Stephen J. Truog)" <sjtruog at yahoo.com>
> Cc: nwu-sports at tssi.com
> Date: Thursday, December 16, 2010, 12:45 PM
> Yes, but WHY do they have "CU" and
> "KU" in their logos?  I agree with Mike
> V.--it's weird.  The best guess I have is that the
> schools didn't want "UN"
> or "UC"/"UK"...yet there are other "UC"s and "UK"s out
> there.  The most
> important thing is that Northwestern should not have to
> give up being
> referred to in its rightful abbreviated form of NU simply
> because the new
> kid on the block with a lesser claim has been calling
> itself that too.  I
> would hate to see expansion of the use of the bastardized
> form "NWU" . . .
> we see it too often already.
> 
> Like the sign at the Wrigley Field game said:  "The
> real NU welcomes UN-L to
> the Big Ten."
> 
> -Joe
> 
> 
> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 7:36 AM, SjT (Stephen J. Truog)
> <sjtruog at yahoo.com>wrote:
> 
> > Well, to be fair, both Colorado and Kansas have "CU"
> and "KU" on their
> > logos (and in the Jayhawks' case, the rock-chalk
> chant).
> >
> > AFAIK, the Cornhusker mascot and that annoying bobble
> blow-up pseudo-mascot
> > only have big block Ns on their overalls (and stadium
> ... which, as the
> > story goes, stands for nowledge :) ).
> >
> > My guess is that we'll be "N'WESTERN" or "NWU" on ESPN
> while the Huskers
> > are "NEB" - as long as we beat them, they can call us
> anything they want. :)
> >
> > GO CATS!!!
> > -SjT
> >
> > * * * * * * * * *
> > STEPHEN J. TRUOG
> > sjtruog at yahoo.com
> > GO CATS!!! GEAUX SAINTS!!!
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