My alma mater announced yesterday that the CSU trustees approved to replace Hayward with East Bay in it’s official name.
I, for one, am happy about it. East Bay represents more of a regional identity for me personally. One of their rationales was the fact that the campus is spread out across Hayward, Concord and Oakland. That sounds more like the East Bay to me.
So all my Haywardian friends (Tina, Ted, Jen, Linc, Tom, Mike, Q!, Richard, Gene, Rhonda and Omar) are now Cal State East Bayers!
5 responses so far ↓
tomeppy // January 27, 2005 at 2:31 pm
How many ways can you say lame? I know of two… CSU Hayward and CSU East Bay.
Richard Chennault // January 27, 2005 at 3:34 pm
It is about time. I am surprised it took so long for the board of directors to hear the hue and cry that was far and wide for the university to spend millions of dollars to change the name. I mean that is money well spent. Now people from around the states, hell from around the globe will now know that CSU Hayward is more than just a podunk college but a institution worthy of the grand metropolitis known as East Bay.
I can’t wait for my friends from over seas to call and say, “Where the FUCK is East Bay on the god damn map!”
Really.. they are going to spend hundreds of millions to do the name change. And for what possible benefit? None. There is none other than to waste hard earned tax payer money. How many lower income students could be given tuition assistance to attend college with this multi-million dollar waste?
I am most certainly not happy!
Ted // January 27, 2005 at 5:46 pm
Preach on Brother Tom!
linc // January 28, 2005 at 8:56 am
This sucks! I use to tell all my friends I went to Hayward and they would confuse it with Harvard…and I got mad props. I too think it is lame, and a waste of money–like CSU Monterey Bay–what does that even mean? You don’t see the great educational institutions changing there names…you know where they are, Berkeley, Davis, San Diego, LA, San Jose, even Chico. But Hayward has to be everything to all people. Sad really; I knew I should have transfered to SJSU, at least they got a basketball team.
Q! // January 28, 2005 at 10:35 am
A rather meager way of changing the value of an already-established identity. IMHO, it will not raise the esteem of the school, nor it’s enrollment or even its marketablity. The trusteed have failed, yes, I’m a jaded mofo.
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