2013 Staking a Claim for Louisiana

[RedTails]

New article today in the Shreveport Times written by the Queen B herself....

ULL practice of dropping 'Lafayette' violates state law
http://www.shreveporttimes.com/artic...S02/310240004/

Quote from Tom Morris (LaTech fan) is kind of embarrassing:

"ULL or any other school in the ULS system is not even equal to LSU in this state and a name change would imply that.”

What does claiming to be the flagship of the north imply?

[Frenchie35]

A very simple and straight forward question: On April 17, 1984 it was voted by a margin of 17-1 to change the name from "University of Southwest Louisiana" to "university of Louisiana". That same year the diploma's read "University of Louisiana". On May 22, 1984 some P-OFF usla&m alumni and district judge Brown (alumni) decided to take up the issue and have the name changed back to USL. The La. Supreme court refuse to take up the matter....Then the state legislators decided to have a law implemented that they would be the body to say what the names of our university could be....the law was after the facts....so how can they say to this university what you can be called.....mainly after the name had already been voted on and passed....am I making an sense here? How can you make a law years or even days later after something was voted on and passed legally?

[MelRock]

Happy Friday Eve guys....Congrats on a great season thus far. Cajuns lookin salty! This name change ____ is getting out of hand. This wouldn't be an issue if the powers at be in the 90's had just left the USL name alone. What was the reason for the change along w/ Northeast? Y'all should just change back to USL & call yourselves the U of South Louisiana. Sounds great, no confusing double names.

Seriously we should just know our place?????????? How about you change your name to Just Go ______ Yourself!

Enough of this crap of we should've known better.

#WeAreLouisiana

[CajunJack55]

Quote from Tom Morris (LaTech fan) is kind of embarrassing:

"ULL or any other school in the ULS system is not even equal to LSU in this state and a name change would imply that."

What does claiming to be the flagship of the north imply?

Wellllll....Louisiana Tech is not even equal to Texas Tech, Virginia Tech or Georgia Tech and their name implies that so they should change it back to whatever it was before.

This is the dumbest, most insecure reason for _____ing about us using Louisiana.

[Cajunrunner]

Did Jay chime in yesterday?

[BlueDawg]

Seriously we should just know our place?????????? How about you change your name to Just Go ______ Yourself!

Enough of this crap of we should've known better.

#WeAreLouisiana

LoL bro. You sir are WAAaaay too uptight & need to chill the ____ out. I never said y'all should know your place. I also didn't blame y'all for the name change, just curious the reason why it happened in the first place.

[BlueDawg]

A very simple and straight forward question: On April 17, 1984 it was voted by a margin of 17-1 to change the name from "University of Southwest Louisiana" to "university of Louisiana". That same year the diploma's read "University of Louisiana". On May 22, 1984 some P-OFF usla&m alumni and district judge Brown (alumni) decided to take up the issue and have the name changed back to USL. The La. Supreme court refuse to take up the matter....Then the state legislators decided to have a law implemented that they would be the body to say what the names of our university could be....the law was after the facts....so how can they say to this university what you can be called.....mainly after the name had already been voted on and passed....am I making an sense here? How can you make a law years or even days later after something was voted on and passed legally?

I agree, thx for explanation. Had no idea.

[CajunJack55]

There is no penalty written into the law

So a law without a penalty is basically etiquette or suggestions right?

Is it common to have "laws" without penalties?? Find that odd...

[Hammer58]

LoL bro. You sir are WAAaaay too uptight & need to chill the ____ out. I never said y'all should know your place. I also didn't blame y'all for the name change, just curious the reason why it happened in the first place.

Why did y'all change from Louisiana Polytechnical?

[SlappyCajun]

LoL bro. You sir are WAAaaay too uptight & need to chill the ____ out. I never said y'all should know your place. I also didn't blame y'all for the name change, just curious the reason why it happened in the first place.

To answer the orignial question. Our president at the time thought the double directional schools sounded like community colleges. And, he proved to be correct. Off the top of my head, I know Southwest Texas State became Texas State and Southwest Missouri State became Missouri State. We tried to drop the Southwest and become Louisiana and were denied.

[Hammer58]

A very simple and straight forward question: On April 17, 1984 it was voted by a margin of 17-1 to change the name from "University of Southwest Louisiana" to "university of Louisiana". That same year the diploma's read "University of Louisiana". On May 22, 1984 some P-OFF usla&m alumni and district judge Brown (alumni) decided to take up the issue and have the name changed back to USL. The La. Supreme court refuse to take up the matter....Then the state legislators decided to have a law implemented that they would be the body to say what the names of our university could be....the law was after the facts....so how can they say to this university what you can be called.....mainly after the name had already been voted on and passed....am I making an sense here? How can you make a law years or even days later after something was voted on and passed legally?

In addition, the procedure the University used to change the name was the same that every other school, including Louisiana Tech, used to change theirs. To void our name change the judge used twisted logic that would have made a pretzel and Justice John Roberts proud. He reasoned that the constitution gave the power to create a new university only yo the legislature (ulm was not created by the legislature) and changing a name in effect created a new university so therefore by his logic the Board of a Trustees (prior name of ULS Board) could not grant the name change and "create" a new university.

[Bankruptcyman]

So to support the authors premise in the article, the author quotes fans. What kind of support is that. I am sure there will soon be a poll in Monroe about what we should be called and the author will use that to further support her claim.