D. All uses of the name "University of Louisiana" must be followed by the word "at" and the institution's geographic location. No typographic variations within the name are permitted. The word "at" must be no less than 50% and the geographic location must not exceed 100% nor be less than 80% of the University of Louisiana name. Any institutional use of "University of Louisiana" without the "at" and geographic location is prohibited.

That is the law, as it is written.

Legally the University of Louisiana at Lafayette can be called Louisiana.

The intent of the legislatures edict was clear, overly clear, they tried to be so specific that they created openings as wide as the Mississippi river. I'm not saying start sending out press releases with Louisiaina as the heading, but once context has been fully established, use Louisiana, it's that simple.

Unfortunately current press releases are using "Louisiana-Lafayette" or "UL-Lafayette" this leaves the impression of one single name. This will create it's own problems. Who are you? "Louisiana-Lafayette."

Not only is this totally misleading it is contrary to the legislative prime directive.

When they got so specific, so nit picky so as to focus on the size and shape of the word "at" an interesting thing happened, the focus shifted from "WHO" to "at where."

All "at" did was make the University of Louisiana in a certain city. Nothing really wrong with that, you are still left with University of Louisiana.

Louisiana at Lafayette is far more desirable than the hyphenated Louisiana-Lafayette. The latter becomes "your identity" the former becomes "Who you are with an addendum of "where" you are located.

Here is why; (Forget for a moment that the hyphenated Louisiana-Lafayette is totally illegal as far as the ULS directive goes). University of Louisiana-Lafayette invariably gets shortened to Louisiana-Lafayette . What the school is doing now by using "UL-Lafayette" is evidence of the mistaken implementation, it will bring about name confusion for years.

When the focus stays on Louisiana AT Lafayette, it becomes blatantly obvious that this has many advantages over solo usage of Louisiana-Lafayette, which is crazily getting shortened to UL-Lafayette leaving viewers thinking this is actually your name.

You never want to get to where Lafayette is the only known word in your name. Stay away from UL-Lafayette and just go with Louisiana.