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Response to AMA Request edit
Hello CSU Spartan,
I've taken a look at the contested section, and I've gotta say you're arguing semantics here. That the naming conventions, whether CSU:city, city:state, even "CSU East Bay," are not uniform does not mean the various campuses are not part of the same system. No UC commonly sells merchandise representing the entire system, and personally I doubt anyone takes Cal's designation more seriously than as a holdover from the days when Berkeley was the only UC. While I am aware there is an alumni movement to change SJSU to CSUSJ to better reflect San Jose's historical role as the first campus of the CSU system, I don't think you have a strong case here without references, which also leads to the impression you're soapboxing... (note: blogs don't count as references, if you could find some newspaper coverage that may pass, but the issue seems to have more to do with the movement itself than with the actual campus, which would remain the same no matter what you named it.)
On a practical note entirely unrelated to WP, I advise focusing on the long-term lobbying of the CSU and state legislature through the SJSU alumni association rather than WP or outside media sources, as people who go to these sources for information probably are not the target audience for this campaign. I would encourage you to encourage those who agree with you to become active members of the SJSU Alumni Assoc, serving on the fundraising committee, and build up the movement that way. People without any personal connection to SJSU or CSUSJ are not going to care about this, but if you can get some significant contributions flowing the U admin and other alumni certainly will. Just don't run a polarizing campaign against them. Convince some public-minded alumni who are Silicon Valley venture capitalists to build a new football stadium, and CSU can make more than a semantic case to the state legislature for SJ becoming a flagship school. --Amerique 13:44, 20 October 2006 (UTC)