University Style Guide

Now called Family Weekend.

Park and Ride lot; Park and Ride Express.

Formerly Parking Services.

The structure southeast of Memorial Stadium is the Mississippi Street Parking Garage. The structure at Naismith Drive and Irving Hill Road is the Allen Fieldhouse Parking Garage.

Men's scholarship hall. (Grace Pearson Hall also is a men's scholarship hall. Joseph R. Pearson Hall is home of the School of Education, and Gertrude Sellards Pearson Hall, GSP, is a women's residence hall.)

Use doctoral degree or doctorate.

On second reference, Pittsburg State.

Use instead new/associate member when referring to the fraternity and sorority community.

Do not hyphenate.

Not Potter's Lake.

Use hyphen in constructions such as pre-medicine and pre-law.

Uppercase when used with the full name of a professorship only: The Smith estate gave $600,000 to establish the Delos V. Smith Jr. Professorship in Community Medicine.

But: The Smith professorship will be awarded in the spring.