145 + 5 = 541 ???

[CajunFun]

There is an important concept that needs to be added to the Lourdes acquisition.

UL is one of the smallest campuses in Louisiana:

State.....................1,000 acres*
Northwestern St......916 acres
Southern.................512 acres
Grambling...............384 acres
SLU.........................363 acres
Nicholls...................287 acres
LTU.........................280 acres†
ULM........................238 acres
UNO.......................195 acres
Louisiana...............145 acres
McNeese................121 acres

That is, it was until Wednesday, when the addition of a little over 5 acres tied together all of our central campuses, to boost UL to one of the larger campuses in the state:

Main Campus..................................145 acres
Athletic Complex.............................132 acres
Blackham-Ira Nelson-Intramural.....111 acres
University Research Park...............148 acres
Lourdes Acquisition.............................5 acres
Total:..............................................541 acres

Other UL Campuses
Cade Farm Laboratory....................600 acres
New Iberia Research Center...........100 acres
Lou-Ana Research/Carencro.............51 acres
Residential properties........................12 acres
Alternative Energy, Crowley.................5 acres
GRAND TOTAL............................1,309 acres

*300 acres of this is a golf course. State also holds the Bun Hur Research Agricultural Center at 3,000 acres; but that still leaves another thousand acres or so to account for their Wikipedia page, which states 4,925 acres.

†The LTU Wikipedia page claims 1,774 acres but the webpage only lists the main campus, the 900 acre Forestry campus, & the 50 acre Enterprise campus, which totals 1,230 acres.

[CajunFun]

PS The campus, however, is a 2-mile long gerrymander. That's OK, we'll keep acquiring property and expanding.

[Turbine]

Good stuff Joe.

I like how you think.

[60swerethebest]

I think we just announced a major land research area. Sac a lait fishing??

[R1Letterman]

We need to make campus an unincorporated part of the parish, a census designated place, such as Notre Dame IND. I have come across quite a few others as well…. I think all you need is your own post office, which we had when i was in school, not sure of we still do? Thus all the ‘at Lafayette’ fools would go bye bye, we name it Louisiana, Louisiana and if they insist in second L it they would end up saying our name twice

[R1Letterman]

Why does it have to connect to be counted? Who made that rule?

Dont some schools have parts of their school in completely different cities? i.e. law schools, med schools, etc…

[LaCajunsFan]

We need to make campus an unincorporated part of the parish, a census designated place, such as Notre Dame IND. I have come across quite a few others as well…. I think all you need is your own post office, which we had when i was in school, not sure of we still do? Thus all the ‘at Lafayette’ fools would go bye bye, we name it Louisiana, Louisiana and if they insist in second L it they would end up saying our name twice

The master plan suggested something like this….make the whole area separate from the city, and among other things incorporate building zoning and standards/etc. so that if you are in the domain you build sympathetic to the campus. Would also help getting rid of all the ‘slum lords’ that have terrible housing not only gouging the students, but also are aesthetically antagonistic to the campus. This is especially true around Hamilton and the Taft St dorm complex.

[CajunFun]

Ole Miss has its own zip code, and the 'city' designation is 'University.' So the addresses look like this:

John Dough
PO Box xxx
University, Mississippi

[R1Letterman]

GREAT! Lets do it, what do we need to do?
Run Candidates for Lafayette government, that want to facilitate, maybe some engineering profs?

[R1Letterman]

Ole Miss has its own zip code, and the 'city' designation is 'University.' So the addresses look like this:

John Dough
PO Box xxx
University, Mississippi

Yes! I saw that, I momentarily forget, but knew i had seen some others

[LaCajunsFan]

Ole Miss has its own zip code, and the 'city' designation is 'University.' So the addresses look like this:

John Dough
PO Box xxx
University, Mississippi

So does UL…..70504

[CajunFun]

There's also College Station, which is next to Bryan, TX; University Park is Penn State; College Park is U Maryland.