[CrackMonkey] Melissa Greco: "We went to Beaver College."

[Nick Moffitt]

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http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/07/15/bye.beaver.ap/index.html

Goodbye Beaver, hello Arcadia

   PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (AP) -- Beaver College graduates who
   have been the brunt of jokes and snickering over the name on their
   diplomas will soon be able to start anew.

   After months of focus groups, town meetings and questionnaires, the
   suburban Philadelphia college becomes Arcadia University on Monday.
   Soon after, alumni who want them will begin receiving new diplomas.

   "When they put their degrees up on their wall, particularly if they
   were not local, they found people saying, 'That's a joke, isn't
   it?'  or 'That's not for real,"' university President Bette
   E. Landman said.

   More than 800 alumni of the college, which opened in 1853 as a
   women's college in Beaver County and later moved across the state,
   have already requested replacement diplomas.

   The name change was meant to counteract years of abuse that went as
   far as jokes on David Letterman's TV show and "Saturday Night
   Live."  The name often elicited derogatory remarks pertaining to
   the rodent, TV's "Leave It to Beaver" and a vulgar reference to the
   female anatomy.

   But many of the students living on the Glenside campus took pride
   in the name.

   Graduate Melissa Greco, 22, said many of her friends think the
   change "stinks."

   "We went to Beaver College. It kind of feels in a sense that it's
   no longer our college," she said.


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