On Sun, 05 Jun 2005 12:06:34 -0500, Michel Boucher wrote:

> sf > wrote in
> news >
> > On Sat, 04 Jun 2005 22:38:13 -0500, Michel Boucher wrote:
> >
> >> Also, at Trent I was a member of
> >> Peter Robinson College. There were men's colleges and women's
> >> colleges. But I wa a student of Trent University nonetheless.
> >
> > AHA! So it's not a different system. Our nomenclature is to call
> > it College, yours is University (and it sounds like a local term
> > from the response of another Canadian).
>
> Although it may seem the same to you, it isn't at all the same thing,
> sorry to say. Peter Robinson College is a College WITHIN Trent
> University. When one becomes a student at Trent, one is assigned to
> a college depending on whether one lives on campus or off-campus. As
> it happened, being as I was in a state of concubinage with my then
> future wife at the time, we were living off-campus, so I was assigned
> to the off-campus men's college which was Peter Robinson. It's
> modelled on the British system (Arrogance alert! Arrogance alert!) of
> colleges such as Magdalen College at Oxford and Trinity College at
> University of Toronto. These are not educational institutions, they
> are residential and social bodies within the overall framework of a
> University. I guess the closest you have to these university
> colleges would be fraternities (and sororities), except we don't have
> the wierd three greek letter thingies (Arrogance alert! Arrogance
> alert!) or pledges or hazings or any of those things.

So, we're assigned to dorms and you're assigned to colleges?