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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
It's worse than you think. Even people who went there undergrad do not call it "Berkeley." They call it "Cal."*
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*According to this thinking, there is only one University of California. Thus, it is unnecessary to refer to it by its location. The rest are branch offices, which of course require place-names.
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Quite true, though I (a mere outsider) and others I knew always referred to it as "Cal" growing up, since that's how the sports uniforms read -- most notably the football helmets. I do believe such reference by the general public is limited to the sports context, however.
Ironically, I had to look at the website the other day, as a sibling is applying to grad school there... I figured the mostly logical domain name would be "ucberkeley.edu" but go figure, it is merely "berkeley.edu"
