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Message: [QUOTE="upperdeck, post: 4950910, member: 474"] found this In 1970, the state legislature allowed VPI university status and gave it the present legal name, [B]Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University[/B]. In the early 1990s, university administration authorized the official use of [B]Virginia Tech[/B] as equivalent to the full legal name; it has been used as the first-reference name for the school's athletic teams since the 1970s. However, diplomas and transcripts still spell out the formal name. Similarly, the abbreviation "VT" is far more common today than either VPI or VPI&SU. [/QUOTE]