How and when do we make this happen? We need to take all the stories, screen shots, examples, etc from the name confusion thread and print them up in a very professional looking log. Hopefully we can get enough produced to be able to send them out to the media, alum, students, the UNC Charlotte administration, and most importantly, [B][COLOR=cyan]CHP[/COLOR][/B].
I know this has been discussed before, but I just wanted to know where we stand with this. I am one of the few on here that is even more passionate about the name change than football (and that’s saying something, those that know me know I have been enthusiastically pushing for fball for years).
Wasn’t sure which forum to put this in, so mods feel free to move it to wherever it fits.
I know this is important to a lot of people, and to myself as well, but i think we need to wait we’ve at least got football rolling (December?). This is going to be more difficult than football, IMHO. There are a lot of alumni that are against a name change, and there are plenty of students and faculty that are against it as well, not to mention the Chancellor.
I just don’t see the University undertaking another major study right now, so I’d rather ramp this up when the time is right rather than do it quickly.
I agree that this will be a very difficult fight. The push for football will look like a walk in the park compared to a name change. The problem is, your average student or alum can get excited about football pretty easily, but they don’t see the damage that the UNC in our name does. In fact, many are under the impression that it somehow [I]helps[/I].
I agree that it will be better to wait maybe 4 to 6 months (maybe even a year?) before a serious push, but we can start collecting info and brainstorming ideas now.
It would be good if we could print it with a chapter on misquotes, a chapter on media misprints, etc… with an introduction to each chapter briefly explaining why this happens and then following it up with example after example.
Mac, didn’t there used to be an entire forum for the name change/ confusion on this board or the last one? Is there a way to dig those back up?
[QUOTE=austinniner;343921]It would be good if we could print it with a chapter on misquotes, a chapter on media misprints, etc… with an introduction to each chapter briefly explaining why this happens and then following it up with example after example.
Mac, didn’t there used to be an entire forum for the name change/ confusion on this board or the last one? Is there a way to dig those back up?[/QUOTE]
Is this the one you're referring to: [URL]http://www.ninernation.net/forum/showthread.php?t=14909[/URL]
Negative ghostrider! It wasn’t one thread, but a full forum dedicated to this topic that was created on the C-USA Talk board or on this one when it was new. It vanished after a few months.
This is a great idea!! I’ve often encouraged people who post on the thread to make sure they also send something to the chancellor. Like mostly recently for me was UNC-CH calling us UNCG at the women’s soccer match. But I believe if you put a huge collection together and present it correctly, it would have a huge impression.
I agree that this will be a very difficult fight. The push for football will look like a walk in the park compared to a name change. The problem is, your average student or alum can get excited about football pretty easily, but they don't see the damage that the UNC in our name does. In fact, many are under the impression that it somehow [I]helps[/I].
I also believe we’ve got to somehow present that a majority of the people against a name change are in fact not much of a supporter of the university in general. Now before people jump on that statement, I know that does not apply to every anti-name change person. I just believe its a large %. I played golf with a Charlotte grad this weekend, who said during the round “I wonder how my Heels did today” (referring to the UNC-CH football game) .
This is a good piont and should be done. Also I am considering having some very nice UNIVERSITY OF CHARLOTTE t-shirts in green with white letters and white with green letters. Also maybe black and green/white. Depending on the # I get the price should be between 10-15 $. Is anyone interested.-JW
This is a good piont and should be done. Also I am considering having some very nice UNIVERSITY OF CHARLOTTE t-shirts in green with white letters and white with green letters. Also maybe black and green/white. Depending on the # I get the price should be between 10-15 $. Is anyone interested.-JW
I would love one!..One suggestion. How about they say [SIZE=4]THE[/SIZE] University of Charlotte!
Yup, Scotty, it's funny you mentioned this now. We've been talking about making a high quality hard copy version of the NCL and are going to begin work very soon. People are welcome to help, but we may be adequately staffed on it now.
As far as waiting or not waiting, there is going to be a student vote this school year no matter what. Presently it is already planned for November, but we are working to get that moved back to next semester. By that time the board will have ruled and we will have reached our 6 month fund raising deadline and either be breaking ground on a stadium or crying ourselves to sleep. I think the timing is pretty good myself.
I was a little worried before, but this works nicely I think. We will be working on name change stuff a lot more just as football should be closing in on the 6 month funding goals we had set. Also, like I said somewhere else, we can use this addition of football to help argue for a name change. If we are going to change our name which we need to do sometime, better to do it sooner while we are getting lots of free pub for football so that all those articles now say “University of Charlotte getting football.” Knock out two humongous birds with one bolder.
This is a good piont and should be done. Also I am considering having some very nice UNIVERSITY OF CHARLOTTE t-shirts in green with white letters and white with green letters. Also maybe black and green/white. Depending on the # I get the price should be between 10-15 $. Is anyone interested.-JW
I’m not sure why somebody hasn’t done this. It would sell like crazy. Anybody wanna make money? Plus, make sure the shirts are green so you could wear them to Niner sporting events…