I need help on the best way to handle a field that could have many
different ways of naming something.

For instance, school name
Let's take Saint Joseph's University 

This could be Saint Joseph's Univeristy, U. of St. Joe, SJU, Univ. St.
Joe, etc...

In this case, I don't think I can always get what I want by doing a 
select from table where name like "something".  Is there a
practical/better way to handle this kind of thing.  This will come up a
lot.  I'm thinking right now I will have to maintain my own mapping file
for each school...

Something like
Kansas, KU, Kansas University, University of Kansas, etc...

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Taylor

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