Why do you call Berkeley "CAL"?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - Berkeley
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<p>Why do you call Berkeley "CAL"? - rookie question,
thxxx</p>

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<p>They call Berkeley "CAL" because it is the very first University of California. Before UCLA and the rest of the U.C. schools, Berkeley was simply known as "University of California" - then shortened to just "Cal." We are the only U.C. school that has the right to go simply by "University of California" or "Cal" because we were the very first U.C. school. :)</p>

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<p>its like UT austin is known as texas, university of michigan, Ann Arbor is michigan, we are known as california. cal is short for california.</p>

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<p>University of California > California > Cal</p>

<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UC_Berkeley#Names%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UC_Berkeley#Names&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>I don't know why people put it in caps though. It's Cal, not CAL.</p>

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<p>I want to stress that Cal is not an acronym. It's an abbreviation. Putting Cal in all caps is as silly as writing NASA as "Nasa."</p>

<p>Seriously, I don't get what they're teaching kids these days in English class...:rolleyes:</p>

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<p>CAL = College of Asian Leaders</p>

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<p>Or College of Asian Losers...</p>

<p>Heh, just kidding. :)</p>

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<p>I would have said that, but there is a good chance that I will go to cal.</p>