Julie Simon-Dronet joins Cox

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Longtime University of Louisiana spokeswoman Julie Simon-Dronet will join Cox Louisiana as director of operations for Acadiana next week. Cox announced today that Dronet "will provide leadership and focus for Cox Louisiana’s Acadiana operations by working ...

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[Boomer]

Can we call our school UL or Louisiana now??????? Please don't give us another political correct in the position!!!!

[dperrin]

WOW!!! What great news for the University. I sure hope COX is looking forward to being marketed as Cox Communications at Lafayette on everything they do! lol

[BeauCajun]

_ Can we call our school UL or Louisiana now??????? Please don't give us another political correct in the position!!!! _

You could always call it whatever you wanted Boomer.

I was wondering how long it would take for this to get out.

[rhineaux]

_ WOW!!! What great news for the University. I sure hope COX is looking forward to being marketed as Cox Communications at Lafayette on everything they do! lol _

Does Cox have Football or Basketball teams that have open positions as well?

[CajunProud]

One more idiot gone....several more to go.

[AstroCajun]

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First, there was V-E day.

Then there was V-J day.

AND FINALLY, V-S-D Day!!! The Liberation of Louisiana begins!!!

[HoustonCajun]

_ Can we call our school UL or Louisiana now??????? Please don't give us another political correct in the position!!!! _

The article said Kathleen Thames will take over on an interim basis, but with budget cuts, UL will not interview for this position. Kathleen does an incredible job with the La Louisiane, but is very careful throughout the publication to be politically correct in use of our name. I suspect both she and Dronet do not operate on their own and are given direction in that regard. It is time for Dr. S to take the reigns off of everyone and move our name agenda to the forefront. It's been 10 YEARS since our name change. Let's get more aggressive in use of UL and Louisiana! Now we will truly see what Dr. S is doing in that regard.

[BeauCajun]

_ The article said Kathleen Thames will take over on an interim basis, but with budget cuts, UL will not interview for this position. Kathleen does an incredible job with the La Louisiane, but is very careful throughout the publication to be politically correct in use of our name. I suspect both she and Dronet do not operate on their own and are given direction in that regard. It is time for Dr. S to take the reigns off of everyone and move our name agenda to the forefront. It's been 10 YEARS since our name change. Let's get more aggressive in use of UL and Louisiana! Now we will truly see what Dr. S is doing in that regard. _

It's my understanding that you WILL NOT see any change in that regard. As much as we/she despised the name directive, it is how this state chooses to operate.

[RaisingCajun08]

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One more idiot gone....several more to go. _

Hell Yeah!

[Turbine]

1) Kathleen Thames will not push the envelope! In fact she may seal it.

2) I have tailgated with Mr. Dronet and Julie a few times after games and she is very nice away from her job.

3) I do wish UL's KRVS would at least follow the FCC directive for radio stations. They only have to give their official name and location at the top of the hour not at every break or mention.

[HoustonCajun]

_ 1) Kathleen Thames will not push the envelope! In fact she may seal it.

2) I have tailgated with Mr. Dronet and Julie a few times after games and she is very nice away from her job.

3) I do wish UL's KRVS would at least follow the FCC directive for radio stations. They only have to give their official name and location at the top of the hour not at every break or mention. _

I think both Julie and Kathleen do no more than follow directives given them by the President. Dr. A was a micro-manager. Dr. S is, as I am led to believe, an empowerer. He needs to make a statement about our use of UL and Louisiana, then let Kathleen proceed. In the absence of that, she will continue as usual and EVERYTHING will be The University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

At some point, you would think the President would understand the need to Brand ourselves as UL and Louisiana and the huge amount of revenue that is lost from our inability to sell marketable merchandise with the Lafayette tag. After 10 years of this continuing identity struggle, why not take a firm stance athletically. We may always be The University of Louisiana at Lafayette academically, but athletically we need to be UL and Louisiana, period. And it that reference rolls over to the academic side, so be it. Our official name will not be changed, just like all of the other schools so typically referenced, Texas (Austin), Wisconsin (Madison), Nebraska (Lincoln), North Carolina (Chapel Hill), etc.