You are saying that Judge Brown took upon himself to make up some crazy explanation of why this university could not change their name because it would create a new universitymy question is "How can you make a law years or even days later to change and existing ULS procedure that was voted on and passed legally? I am not a lawyer, just want an answerWould this university be called "University of Louisiana" if not for this Judge Brown (an alumni) who should have recused himself, been replaced?
That website is run by a guy from New Orleans
IN A DIFFERENT SYSTEMThe "at ___" was very important, law makers wrote at the time, because Louisiana already has one flagship school in Baton Rouge."
Paranoia run amuck.
Yes.
If his logic became the rule of the day, it would be worse than the recent government shutdown.
His logic at the time dictated that if your daily activity was not specifically spelled out in the Constitution you could not perform the function.
Headlines at the time should have read: State of Louisiana: Constitutionally established executive body with no related restrictions has executive powers totally handcuffed, by LSU leaning Judge.
T-Joe has no more right to free speech within the ULS than you do at your jobBoth are subject to restrictions by their employers with regards to work place speech, and comments about your employers. Neither are absolutes.
Now you and I are not subject to this problem as we do in fact have free speech.
I'm just as serious as you were when posing the original question. I'll go ahead and give you the answer to your question. Our admin had been hearing from outside reviewing agencies that the double directional name was misleading and hindering the a University when it came to things such as securing grant funding. They advised that to an outsider deciding on distributing grants looking at requests on paper the name gave a false impression of the school rather than reflect its true size and resources as the second largest public institution in the state. The president (never to be confused with a supporter of athletics) wanted this for academic reasons. We fans admittedly liked the potential for athletics.
Now I await your serious answer to my question?
I did. Basinbear and I discussed this earlier today. What is in the body now is slightly different than what we both read early this morning. We both recall that Ray was attributed to say we used Louisiana's Ragin Cajuns for athletics and then that he said we drifted to Louisiana. This gave the implication that he did it right with the apostrophe but the current admin was maybe crossing a line. Now it seems the words attributed to him no longer have the apostrophe and makes it look like Ray used "Louisiana Ragin a Cajuns". I don't know what he actually said but we all know that under Ray the closest we got was the use of "Louisiana's Ragin Cajuns" because we all made a big deal about it here when the comma-to-the-top s disappeared from the logo.
I will agree that the body of the story is not nearly as inflammatory as the headline. However he would have been better served just saying "There is nothing wrong in their use of Louisiana" without going into opinions of we better be careful, etc.
I think Louisiana is legacy protected.
Going on 14 years
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