Chittagong University campus

[Shinya Maki]

Hello everyone.

The following passage is from an article of “THE GRAMEEN BANK.”


My question is why there is no article “the” before “Chittagong University campus,”while you see“the university campus,”and “the campus”in other lines. If it were “Chittagong University Campus” (“C” in the capital), I could understand it.

And by 1974, we had a terrible famine: a lot of people were dying on the streets. So I got
very frustrated with what I teach, the development economics and all those theories where everything sounds so good and it all works out. And when you walk out of the university campus, you see the real world is so different what you say in the classroom and what appears on the outside. So to me it appeared like it is a movie house: you go to
a movie, you see how everything is working, and you consider that the hero in the end will win and at the end he wins. You come out of the classroom as if you come out of the movie house: the real world is very suddenly different -- everybody gets beaten, nobody wins. I thought, what's the use teaching this economics if I don't have faith in it? How can I teach my students who are so credulous? When I'm disenchanted, how can I inspire my students? So I wanted to learn economics the way I feel it should be, the real world is and I wanted to know from the people around. Chittagong University campus is located among villages, it's out of town. So I had the advantage I could just walk out of the campus and these are real Bangladesh villages. And I chose to talk to the very poor people in the village because that's where the problem is: Why can't they change their life? Why can't they improve their living conditions? And I kept on talking not as an
economist, not as a teacher, not as a researcher -- just as a human being, as a neighbour.
(http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:...&ct=clnk&cd=3)

Any comment would be appreciated.

Best regards,
Shinya Maki

[ponpoco256]

I googled the usage frequencies of the phrases given below:

on the Harvard University campus 522
on Harvard University's campus 75
on Harvard University campus 35

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[Pete]

I agree with you, Shinya. The writer probably was thinking of the name of the university as a determiner; I don't think that is common. If it were made possessive, it would be OK. I actually prefer "The campus of xxx ..."

[Temico]

Originally Posted by Shinya Maki

Hello everyone.

The following passage is from an article of “THE GRAMEEN BANK.”




My question is why there is no article “the” before “Chittagong University campus,”while you see“the university campus,”and “the campus”in other lines. If it were “Chittagong University Campus” (“C” in the capital), I could understand it.

And by 1974, we had a terrible famine: a lot of people were dying on the streets. So I got
very frustrated with what I teach, the development economics and all those theories where everything sounds so good and it all works out. And when you walk out of the university campus, you see the real world is so different what you say in the classroom and what appears on the outside. So to me it appeared like it is a movie house: you go to
a movie, you see how everything is working, and you consider that the hero in the end will win and at the end he wins. You come out of the classroom as if you come out of the movie house: the real world is very suddenly different -- everybody gets beaten, nobody wins. I thought, what's the use teaching this economics if I don't have faith in it? How can I teach my students who are so credulous? When I'm disenchanted, how can I inspire my students? So I wanted to learn economics the way I feel it should be, the real world is and I wanted to know from the people around. Chittagong University campus is located among villages, it's out of town. So I had the advantage I could just walk out of the campus and these are real Bangladesh villages. And I chose to talk to the very poor people in the village because that's where the problem is: Why can't they change their life? Why can't they improve their living conditions? And I kept on talking not as an
economist, not as a teacher, not as a researcher -- just as a human being, as a neighbour.
(http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:...&ct=clnk&cd=3)

Any comment would be appreciated.

Best regards,
Shinya Maki

Is that the only "mistake" you can detect in this passage? BTW, many native speakers also make this "mistake" and it can pass off as "correct". There are however, other mistakes by which a trained eye can tell that this passage was written by a non-native speaker.