Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: mark@central.cis.upenn.edu (Mark Foster) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: UPenn vs. Penn State Message-ID:Date: 10 Aug 89 19:51:55 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: University of Pennsylvania Lines: 19 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 291, message 5 of 9 >I called Pennsylvania's Directory Assistance and after waiting a minute or so, >asked for University of Penn's General Info number. >[Moderator's Note: Whether you are calling Penn State or the state pen, Aagh. The word play may be cute, but the name confusion isn't. University of Pennsylvania (Penn) is in Philadelphia, in the southeast corner of the state, Penn State is in the State College area: the geographic center of the state. Penn State is a state-run institution, University of Pennsylvania is private. ---- Mark Foster CIS Research Computing Univ. of Pennsylvania [Moderator's Note: Sorry about that; but I couldn't resist finding someplace to stick in the joke. PT]