Man, I'm laughing out loud here at home reading all of this. Its like this website this week has turned into a visit to the zoo and the baboons are all slinging crap everywhere.....hell, I'm even involved.....😂😂😂
Perhaps that's because Louisiana is the only state which has vainglorious social climbing institutions of alleged higher learning which try to be something other than what they are?
The thing to remember about the law is that it addresses the fact that you share the name with another institution and that there is NO FLAGSHIP in the ULS system.
If you guys didn't try to worm your way around that, the state law wouldn't need to be worded as it is...
It's a pretty simple concept.
So here is the crazy part.
In order for the Judge to come up with the "no law say you can" logic, he also had to declare it illegal for the heretofore -name change as they please- Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College as having NO name change privileges.
Of course this was nuts an everyone knew it. It was the Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College that filed the appeal.
While waiting for the Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College appeal to get started, the Legislature went against the Judges ruling and passed an actual law for what had always existed. The right to name colleges and universities under their control.
As soon as the name permission law passed, the Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College asked to drop their appeal. They could not but now it didn't matter.
You can't make this stuff up.
Instead of using the LA Constitution, the Trustee lawyers used a city ordinance case to try and make theirs.
Yikes. A can't lose case was lost.
I'm sure if you ask nicely, they'll consider it...Just don't start proclaiming to be THE Louisiana of Southeastern Louisiana and you'll probably get approved pretty quickly...
More counterfactual imaginary thinking.
The law specifically says the schools name is "University of Louisiana" and when stated as such the geographical location must be attached plus (the big specific) separated by "at"
"At Lafayette" is not part of the schools name, it is a clarifier.
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