UL-Shreveport

[CajunFun]

The name change started about 1979 when U(S)L received national recognition, and the letter announcing it was addressed to 'Southwestern Louisiana State University.' That got the SGA working on it.

And from time to time, we have been confused with BESSE,* and of course, LSU has tried very hard to convince the world that they are the center of Cajun culture, and even Acadian/Cajun language & research... with a few spectacular fails along the way.

So it is interesting that— perhaps for the very first time?— the table has been turned. Lavalee was at LSUS, but this article says otherwise.

https://manchester.inklink.news/new-...to-new-season/

*Our Beloved Sister School to the East.

[VObserver]

It began before that. My senior year [in 1973] I did a senior project in statistics tracing historical trends in student demographics and academic offerings from 1953 to 1973. My conclusions at that time were that the academic offerings justified the UL name and that the increasing diversification of student origins and growth in enrollment provided substantial support to that conclusion.

I didn't make up that idea out of nothing; there was considerable interest around campus about pursuing the name change.