2013 Staking a Claim for 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.

[nuke dawg]

Here is the one thing I have always honestly wondered. How would you guys feel if it was mutually (it won't happen legislatively, I realize this is an hypothesis) agreed that your university can legally be called the University of Louisiana but the system name is change to the Louisiana Tech University System. What would your opposition be, if any?

[Hammer58]

Yeah, pretty much this.

But it was the emotion that got me.

The Advertiser has historically been pretty non-existent and even useless when it comes to the Cajusn.

To hear Foote, who has been pretty detached from the program, go off like he did was really refreshing.

His argument was pretty matter-of-fact and the only rebuttal to it can be "I don't care what the facts are, SLI should know its place."

You have to give somebody his props when its due.

Agreed. I have been critical of Foote in the past but he deserves kudos on this score.