Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Renaming UHD

So I got some news from an inside source that could literally shake the foundations of UHD's One Main Building. For years now UHD has been having an identity crises for a while. The problem lies with Big Brother. For the past years, UH Main has been suffering a dramatic low enrollment problem. And guess who they blame....UHD. UH Main has been trying to do away with us for a while...as in change out name, logo, colors, motto, etc. They just don't want people going to a UH school unless its UH Main.

Well an insider told me that UHD has gotten the green, to change UHD...but only one circumstance. UH Main still wants our money and some credit, so if we were to constitute a new public higher education facility, the new UHD would still have to be under the UH system...even though the colors, logo, name and everything else will change...like i said they just want the money.

The exciting news is that this could happen in about a year... the staff at UHD were told directly from the presidents office not to by any more stuff with the UHD logos and colors.

Here are some of the names that are being tossed around:

Cullen University....them people practily own the UH system, they are the people that started University of Houston

Allen State University...as in the Allen brothers, the 2 men who drifted down the Buffalo Bayou that sits in front of UHD..and bought some land in downtown and created a little town called Houston. These guys are the "Fathers of the City" No really look it up and every article will say that.

Debakey University...the Medical pioneer he did a lot of things that were the first.

L.B.J University...a U.S. President from Texas.

I like the idea of Cullen Univeristy, sounds nice. The Debakey...practically everything in the medical center is named after this guy...plus he is already the Chancellor at Baylor College of Medicine. If they took the state of the Allen State U then it sounds better, the State just down grades the whole point. LBJ...just because he was a Texan, not good enough reason. I have a feeling that it might be Cullen or Debakey, just because those are the riches families in Houston, and UHD could get a lot of grants from them.

So what do you think, post your reply....should the students have a say in this, should there be a university wide poll on these names??

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