Here is the story on LaMo's budget cuts and departmental consolidation.
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.s...l#incart_river
Also noticed the related story reporting that Thompson states he will NOT introduce legislation to force the issue. Laughingly he says we should just "do what is right" and we should be proud of Lafayette and put it on our uniforms.
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.s...in_cajuns.html
As always the butthurt comments are pretty funny especially the not caring LSU fan in New Orleans.
More evasions about UL breaking the law. Again Mr. Thompson wrote a law, he has zero authority to interpret the law beyond what you, or I can do. No law was broken, no law is being broken, and it is amazing how insecure LSU is to this day.
I am pretty glad T Joe is standing above the nonsense. If Thompson thought he could change the law he would.
Now we have it MoanROW, LSU, and of course Lake Chuck Up McNeese. Seems like the same crew from 1984.
Several people mentioned in these articles and in comments to the articles, that we entered into a "partnership" or some agreement with ULM when we both changed our names. They've also mentioned that we did it simultaneously, as if UL was not first. Once the law was passed as to who was in the ULS and which 6 programs could change their name, UL alone voted (staff, students, alumni) to change the name. We set everything up short of full implementation, because a second school, any of the other 5, had to agree to change theirs before ours went official. Dr. A convinced NLU to put it up for a vote and change their name. We clearly plowed the field by ourselves and didn't really care who planted seed second.
Everyone is glossing over these facts and they have clownishly slaughtered the fact our administration adheres to the legal name as is required by the state law. There are all kind of branding and nickname conventions, ULM being one (also not a legal name of that university) that could transpire. Louisiana Ragin Cajuns is our chosen athletic brand and is not implying a flagship status. That's a crock of nonsense. There is no "ULL" and never was. "UL" is our own internal reference (friends of our university) and it stems from a crime that occurred following our official name change to "UL" back in 1984 (another glossed over fact).
The problem I've had with this, starting with Tabby's post, is how an ounce of fact, a pound of misinformation, was mixed in with 50 pounds of emotion and regarded as important. It's intellectually disgusting.
Jay had a good article in his blog. But this work by Katie, thoroughly soaked in sarcasm, probably places the best overall perspective on the initial ridiculous attack by Tabby.
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