Students statewide choose University of Louisiana

[RonMexico]

im all for this and it should happen.
but LSU has the complete monopoly of higher education as far as name recognition. my girlfriend is transferring here from northern kentucky U. and when she said she was trasfering to University of Louisiana people there thought she was talking about LSU.

Dont kid yourself...It aint the higher education that makes people know lsu.

[Snuffy]

I'll definitely vote for UL!

My heart wants us to be the University of Louisiana, but common knowlege tells me that the LSU laden legislature and the powerful LSU Alumni will never allow this.

The battle has been fought so many times with the same results. I am all for trying again and will do all that I can to promote the University of Louisiana and I will be disappointed in the end just as I have in years past.

I live in California and every school I can think of here goes by initials. There is UCLA, USC, and there is SDSU, and USD. They all do quite well in athletics and are univesally recognized.

UCLA is the University of California at Los Angeles
USC is the Univesity of Southern California
USD is the University of San Diego
SDSU is San Diego State Univesity.
Even the Univesity of California is known at times as The Univesity of California-Berkley

While I would love for us to be the Univesity of Louisina I can live with The Univesity of Louisiana-Lafayette if it comes to that

[CajunRed]

My heart wants us to be the University of Louisiana, but common knowlege tells me that the LSU laden legislature and the powerful LSU Alumni will never allow this.

The battle has been fought so many times with the same results. I am all for trying again and will do all that I can to promote the University of Louisiana and I will be disappointed in the end just as I have in years past.

I live in California and every school I can think of here goes by initials. There is UCLA, USC, and there is SDSU, and USD. They all do quite well in athletics and are univesally recognized.

UCLA is the University of California at Los Angeles
USC is the Univesity of Southern California
USD is the University of San Diego
SDSU is San Diego State Univesity.
Even the Univesity of California is known at times as The Univesity of California-Berkley

While I would love for us to be the Univesity of Louisina I can live with The Univesity of Louisiana-Lafayette if it comes to that

Although I would love for us to be able to officially drop the "Lafayette", I agree that it will NEVER happen. But that is not necessarily a problem. The University of Texas is really "The University of Texas at Austin", but because of its status in the state and reputation across the country, it is now known simply as "The University of Texas".

What we need to work towards is... 1) growing the university both academically and athletically to the point where it eventually is referred to as "Louisiana"... or "UL"... or "The University of Louisiana"... and 2) students, alumni and general supporters and fans take it upon themselves to DROP the "Lafayette". I for one never use "at Lafayette"... do not and will not buy any clothing or items that contain "Lafayette" on them.

In my opinion, THAT is how it will happen!

[shof]

Although I would love for us to be able to officially drop the "Lafayette", I agree that it will NEVER happen. But that is not necessarily a problem. The University of Texas is really "The University of Texas at Austin", but because of its status in the state and reputation across the country, it is now known simply as "The University of Texas".

Probably won't see it (officially UL) my lifetime; but never is a long time. Only problem I see is with your comparison to UT. I'm almost a half-century old and I've only known UT as UT, or simply Texas. No Ut-Austin. And heaven forbid, never heard them called "Austin"; and I suspect we have all heard our university referred to as "Lafayette" to ad nauseum.

What we need to work towards is... 1) growing the university both academically and athletically to the point where it eventually is referred to as "Louisiana"... or "UL"... or "The University of Louisiana"... and 2) students, alumni and general supporters and fans take it upon themselves to DROP the "Lafayette". I for one never use "at Lafayette"... do not and will not buy any clothing or items that contain "Lafayette" on them.

In my opinion, THAT is how it will happen!

Bingo! It will have to be built from within. I won't buy anything that has "Lafayette" on it. Am I ashamed of my home town - heck no; but continuing to merchandize the university with the city tag will only help delay the common reference we all desire; and that is simply UL or Louisiana.

[CajunRed]

Probably won't see it (officially UL) my lifetime; but never is a long time. Only problem I see is with your comparison to UT. I'm almost a half-century old and I've only known UT as UT, or simply Texas. No Ut-Austin. And heaven forbid, never heard them called "Austin"; and I suspect we have all heard our university referred to as "Lafayette" to ad nauseum.

Bingo! It will have to be built from within. I won't buy anything that has "Lafayette" on it. Am I ashamed of my home town - heck no; but continuing to merchandize the university with the city tag will only help delay the common reference we all desire; and that is simply UL or Louisiana.

Both good comments. My only comparison to UT had to do with the fact that they are known at the University of Texas (without the "at Austin") because of their status in the state. As we grow... and put out more and more students who do not use the "at Lafayette" tag, we also have the chance to one day be known without the "at anything"!

[HoustonCajun]

My heart wants us to be the University of Louisiana, but common knowlege tells me that the LSU laden legislature and the powerful LSU Alumni will never allow this.

The battle has been fought so many times with the same results. I am all for trying again and will do all that I can to promote the University of Louisiana and I will be disappointed in the end just as I have in years past.

I live in California and every school I can think of here goes by initials. There is UCLA, USC, and there is SDSU, and USD. They all do quite well in athletics and are univesally recognized.

UCLA is the University of California at Los Angeles
USC is the Univesity of Southern California
USD is the University of San Diego
SDSU is San Diego State Univesity.
Even the Univesity of California is known at times as The Univesity of California-Berkley

While I would love for us to be the Univesity of Louisina I can live with The Univesity of Louisiana-Lafayette if it comes to that

From what I have read and based on my understanding of this, once the court ruling said that only the legislature could name a school, the legislature then gave that authority to the Boards. If that is correct, then the UL System Board has authority to change the name to UL. LSU, theoretically, has no control over the UL System Board. What we need to do is get ULM to change their name back to NLU, but as North Louisiana University, because they don't want to be ULM and do want their own NLU identity, while at the same time get the "at Lafayette" to be dropped making us the only University of Louisiana in the UL System. Between the Governor's office, the Head of Higher Education (Joe Savoie - UL Alum), Dr. A and newly appointed Board members by the Governor, could this not be accomplished? It would be a win-win situation all around.

[skankinCajun]

Dont kid yourself...It aint the higher education that makes people know lsu.

we all know its athletics.. im not THAT dumb.

[Tripple Threat]

im all for this and it should happen.
but LSU has the complete monopoly of higher education as far as name recognition. my girlfriend is transferring here from northern kentucky U. and when she said she was trasfering to University of Louisiana people there thought she was talking about LSU.

That also happened quite a bit to me when I moved here from Tampa to go to school at was then USL. Until I explained it to them, most of the people I knew in Florida thought I was going to LSUAM.

[NewsCopy]

I am writing in regard to an article (in Advertiser) published in your paper on March 17 titled "UL students set to enter bird trail." The article then refers to "University of Louisiana students." I am sure that your paper is aware that when the University of Louisiana System allowed USL to change its name to ULL and NLU to change its name to ULM that it was agreed upon by all concerned that both schools would not refer to themselves as the University of Louisiana. They would always add Lafayette or Monroe to the University of Louisiana name. I feel that all reporters at your paper have an ethical obligation as professional journalists to use the correct term - University of Louisiana at Lafayette - in all articles appearing in your newspaper. Mead Whorton Bastrop The source of the story

[Hammer58]

Boo-freakin'-hoo!

[studentfan]

The one thing in this country is the right to free speech, I would write a letter to this person and tell him to go "screw" himself, because their not writing for the university.

[Cajun Express]

My heart wants us to be the University of Louisiana, but common knowlege tells me that the LSU laden legislature and the powerful LSU Alumni will never allow this.

The battle has been fought so many times with the same results. I am all for trying again and will do all that I can to promote the University of Louisiana and I will be disappointed in the end just as I have in years past.

I live in California and every school I can think of here goes by initials. There is UCLA, USC, and there is SDSU, and USD. They all do quite well in athletics and are univesally recognized.

UCLA is the University of California at Los Angeles
USC is the Univesity of Southern California
USD is the University of San Diego
SDSU is San Diego State Univesity.
Even the Univesity of California is known at times as The Univesity of California-Berkley

While I would love for us to be the Univesity of Louisina I can live with The Univesity of Louisiana-Lafayette if it comes to that

Not that I pay attention to such things, but UCB goes by Cal in sports, and Berkley when hating the USA. When I was a young whipper snapper I thought there was a University of Berkley or Berkley University that saw evil in all things USA, except of course protesting.

To become despondent and lose faith because we have tried a hundred times and failed a hundred times is in my opinion missing the point. Regardless of how often the tyrant wins, each time he loses some of his zest for the fight because the fight is not really in his best interest. Slowly ever so slowly we are winning the name war. Even today in St John Parish I get the asked which UL on my gear. I simply say Ragin'Cajuns not the Cardinals of Louisville. They get it. To those that are not anti UL I send a copy of the battle for a name.