2016: LA the new "official" abbreviation for stats, crawls, etc

Has anyone seen anything official out of any administrative office on this change? I'm certainly not questioning Jays posted tweet that began this thread. It's just that this is so important to branding for our University that I would have thought it would have been very public.

This new effort is in the silent phase.

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Originally Posted by basinbear

Has anyone seen anything official out of any administrative office on this change? I'm certainly not questioning Jays posted tweet that began this thread. It's just that this is so important to branding for our University that I would have thought it would have been very public.

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I believe there was an actual email from our SID that went to news media outlets. Which ones specifically, I do not know for sure.

However, I'm now hearing the the solid, aggressive stance our Presidentwas supposedly going to take is now reversing.

But again, that's just what has been rumored.

how did the UL credit union change the name so easily and successfully, Lafayette was never part of it, and no one tried to add it, or complained to banking regulators?

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Originally Posted by basinbear

Has anyone seen anything official out of any administrative office on this change? I'm certainly not questioning Jays posted tweet that began this thread. It's just that this is so important to branding for our University that I would have thought it would have been very public.

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That last sentence was comical!

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Originally Posted by 31Ragin97

how did the UL credit union change the name so easily and successfully, Lafayette was never part of it, and no one tried to add it, or complained to banking regulators?

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Separate entity from the university.

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Originally Posted by cypremort

Separate entity from the university.

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true, and ok. but they had no trouble is the point. the principles and methods they used could still be attempted? or at least ask them what they did to see if it can apply or not. otherwise that implies there is a concerted effort specifically aimed against our university, which we have been told wasn't the case?

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Originally Posted by CajunJack55

Has it ever even left the dock?

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We probably forgot to put the plug in.

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Originally Posted by Cajunrunner

I believe there was an actual email from our SID that went to news media outlets. Which ones specifically, I do not know for sure.

However, I'm now hearing the the solid, aggressive stance our Presidentwas supposedly going to take is now reversing.

But again, that's just what has been rumored.

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Yep....rumors

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Originally Posted by Big Buds

That last sentence was comical!

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Yep....facetious

Now secspn-bristol has us listed as Ul Lafayette(l is lower case) , and monroe is Louisiana Monroe

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Originally Posted by 31Ragin97

Now secspn-bristol has us listed as Ul Lafayette(l is lower case) , and monroe is Louisiana Monroe

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Ul Lafayette, UL LAF, Louisiana Lafayette, LA Lafayette, take your pick. They're all used every year by someone, somewhere. The more we try to "correct" some people, the more determined those people become to use whatever name it is that they want to use for us.

No matter how many times I refer to us as UL in conversations with my LSU grad next door neighbor, he still calls us ULL. He'll never change. I refer to his beloved Tigers as LA State when the two of us visit, and though he doesn't like that any more than I like him using ULL, he still refuses to use UL. I quit trying to correct him long ago.