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Yes. Which is a pity. My old university - UCT, where the library was largely destroyed by fire last month - started out in the 19th century as the South African College, which in turn developed from a boys' school called the South African College School. And one of its nicknames is SACS; still, I think, cheerily bellowed around sports fields. And for a while the students were known as Saxons, though the more usual nickname is Ikeys, very politically incorrect nowadays but at the beginning of the 20th century it pleased some people to claim that UCT students were largely Jewish. And I'm proud to be an Ikey from SACS, though neither meaning is relevant to me.