Comments on: developments

By: jeremy

jeremy — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:09:58 +0000

I don’t myself have a problem with NWU, even before knowing that it used to be the name of the school’s domain. It’s just NW that I don’t like.

By: eszter

eszter — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 10:56:27 +0000

It’s not unreasonable to still think of it as NWU, no?

As I (thought I) said, I think it’s completely reasonable for people to have no idea about this whether it was NWU or not at one point in time. (Although they started phasing out the nwu.edu domain in 2000, it was operational until 2004.) My point was that after seeing a Northwestern person refer to it as NU several times, people might realize it’s NU not NWU.

I find it a bit annoying

“Annoying” was probably not the right word to use here since I certainly didn’t mean “earth-shatteringly annoying”.

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 06:32:48 +0000

I find it a bit annoying when I write back and refer to it as NU several times only to get NWU again in the response

It only switched from nwu.edu to northwestern.edu about 5 years ago, from early 1990s to then it was nwu. It’s not unreasonable to still think of it as NWU, no? I mean, I still think of Altria as Philip Morris, and Apple as Apple Computers…

By: jamybarab

jamybarab — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 05:43:25 +0000

For this kind of blog, multiple authors are fine but for personal blogs, it’s confusing. I read everything via RSS so infrequent posting is fine by me. Am I now in the minority?

By: jay141

jay141 — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 04:11:17 +0000

Might people write NWU to differentiate it from other possible NUs out there?

By: Kieran

Kieran — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 03:32:22 +0000

I find it a bit annoying when I write back and refer to it as NU several times only to get NWU again in the response.

Just put “NO NU NOT NWU” in your email sig.

By: eszter

eszter — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:05:22 +0000

Oh cool re the blog, David is a former student of mine and former RA.

My understanding is that NU Law is at the forefront of having faculty that’s engaged in empirical research largely due to the relatively high proportion of PhDs. The Dean wrote a piece [pdf] related to all this.

As to NU, people often write NWU. I think that’s fine the first time, after all, why should folks know we go by NU. But I find it a bit annoying when I write back and refer to it as NU several times only to get NWU again in the response.

By: jeremy

jeremy — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 22:28:06 +0000

LBN: I came up to campus today, where a big part of my plan was to start reading a student’s dissertation, although that plan was promptly thwarted when my printer ran out of toner. Am I right that we don’t have access to the room with the grad student printer?

By: laurabethnielsen

laurabethnielsen — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 22:25:38 +0000

I like their tag line, tho — bringing methods to our madness — that’s funny bother.

now everyone go to my new blog and make funny comments. it doesn’t mean you don’t LOOOOVE scatterplot. It just means sometimes you like the law. and, random thoughts and just silliness. and yes, i have been trapped in my house too, too, too long today at -15