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Somebody make a decision SLU or SELU?

Posted on 2/18/14 at 3:34 pm
Posted by JEAUXBLEAUX
Bayonne, NJ
Member since May 2006
55358 posts
Posted on 2/18/14 at 3:34 pm
When I was at LSU, Southeastern was SLU. Where did the SELU come from?
Posted by ForeverLSU02
Albany
Member since Jun 2007
52147 posts
Posted on 2/18/14 at 3:36 pm to
Let's just call them Louisiana
Posted by Broski
Member since Jun 2011
70882 posts
Posted on 2/18/14 at 3:36 pm to
UL-H
Posted by LSU1SLU
Member since Mar 2013
7078 posts
Posted on 2/18/14 at 3:37 pm to
Social networks are prolly to blame bc Slu is also Saint Louis
Posted by AstroTiger
New Orleans Saints Fan
Member since Oct 2007
22966 posts
Posted on 2/18/14 at 3:37 pm to
Because SLU is Saint Louis University, and Southeastern wants to create their own image. Trying to be their own identity, opposite of ULL, who is trying to be something they are not.
Posted by mycoskiemedia
Frisco, TX
Member since Jul 2007
509 posts
Posted on 2/18/14 at 3:38 pm to
I think the domain name had something to do with it. SLU dot edu was taken by Saint Louis U. Southeastern dot edu was taken by a university in DC. So, someone made the decision to go with SELU dot edu.

The university in DC shut down, so Southeastern now has that address and is shifting away from selu dot edu.
Posted by Clark W Griswold
THE USA
Member since Sep 2012
10510 posts
Posted on 2/18/14 at 3:54 pm to
SLU.
Posted by zzemme
Member since Nov 2008
10163 posts
Posted on 2/18/14 at 4:02 pm to
SLU
Posted by BayouBengals03
lsu14always
Member since Nov 2007
99999 posts
Posted on 2/18/14 at 4:03 pm to
SLU is Saint Louis University, and they are a much more nationally-known school.

Posted by ProjectP2294
South St. Louis city
Member since May 2007
70250 posts
Posted on 2/18/14 at 4:11 pm to
St Louis U is the oldest university west of the Mississippi. I think they get the SLU title over Southeastern.

I should know, my parents went to SLU and my brother went to SELU.
Posted by skinny domino
sebr
Member since Feb 2007
14339 posts
Posted on 2/18/14 at 4:13 pm to
When the wife and I attended it was SLC.
Posted by BayouBengals03
lsu14always
Member since Nov 2007
99999 posts
Posted on 2/18/14 at 4:14 pm to
When I see SLU, I think of Saint Louis University.

And I'm less than 40 miles from Southeastern.
Posted by wildtigercat93
Member since Jul 2011
112326 posts
Posted on 2/18/14 at 4:21 pm to
Its an either or thing to me. All the school stuff says SELU tho.

Its not like ULL where well burn you at the stake for not calling it something else
Posted by Box Geauxrilla
Member since Jun 2013
19118 posts
Posted on 2/18/14 at 5:54 pm to
Directly from the Southeastern website:
quote:

For many years Southeastern was known throughout the state and region as SLU. However, in 1994 when the university was entering the online realm, the domain name slu.edu was already reserved by St. Louis University. Another private educational institution had already acquired the southeastern.edu domain name, and as a result, selu.edu was registered by our institution instead.

Following a great deal of market research, in 1994, our university established formal identity standards that sought to identify the university in print and other communications as "Southeastern." With the historical "SLU," online domain name "SELU," and official "Southeastern," much confusion has ensued with regard to our university identity.


Source: LINK /
Posted by KG5989
Das Boot
Member since Oct 2010
16324 posts
Posted on 2/18/14 at 5:58 pm to
Southeastern Louisiana University.

SE is the abbreviation for southeast.

Therefore, you have SELU.
Posted by avondale88
Montgomery
Member since May 2009
2634 posts
Posted on 2/18/14 at 7:05 pm to
All of the schools under the University of Louisiana system have the option to change their name to University of Louisiana. After they change over to University of Louisiana, they have to put down the town they are in. For example, McNeese State could become the University of Louisiana at Lake Charles. McNeese, Tech, ULL, Southeastern and the others all are under the University of La. system. ULL will never have their own identity, no matter how hard they try.
Posted by FreddieMac
Baton Rouge
Member since Jun 2010
20997 posts
Posted on 2/18/14 at 7:35 pm to
It's SLU. The selu is only because some other school grabbed the domain Slu.edu before southeastern. Lion up!
This post was edited on 2/18/14 at 7:37 pm
Posted by ProjectP2294
South St. Louis city
Member since May 2007
70250 posts
Posted on 2/18/14 at 7:56 pm to
Some other school being the real slu. The one that's been around since 1803.
Posted by Box Geauxrilla
Member since Jun 2013
19118 posts
Posted on 2/18/14 at 9:14 pm to
quote:

Some other school being the real slu.


Are you somehow suggesting that Southeastern doesn't exist?
Posted by baybeefeetz
Member since Sep 2009
31635 posts
Posted on 2/18/14 at 9:49 pm to
I said it before and it will gain traction : tSLU.
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