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In 1896, Finnish immigrants founded an institute of higher learning named Suomi College. This small college was a private institution looked on as a "junior" college in many ways. This was where people could get nursing certificates and get some of their course work done before heading off for a four-year university. Not only was Suomi the only college to be started by Finns in the US, it also was (and still is) an affiliate of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA). Quite a proud heritage for a very small, private school.

One day, several years back, the college began to make it's way towards becoming a four-year university. They wanted to offer degrees and a more diversified curriculum in order to attract a greater variety and number of students. This brought the powers-that-be around to thinking about the name. They figured a lot of people wouldn't quite understand what Suomi stood for (Finnish for Finland), so a name change was decided on. The decision was to change Suomi College to Finlandia University.

I want to know WHO didn't think about all of the ramifications in this name change. Did NO ONE think about the crowds of people at sporting events screaming at their opponents "eff-u, eff-u"? Quite funny when you think about it. I wonder if heads rolled? :)