re: The ULL fans were on one tonight

I was involved w/ the Student Government Association at NLU some years ago when the University of Louisiana name change first came up; IIRC it was strongly supported by USL. It was offered to NLU and the others in the UL school system at that time; everyone at NLU laughed at the proposal. It was my understanding then that many at USL thought of themselves as a co-flagship university w/ LSU. I thought ULL would one day try to rebrand themselves as "The University of Louisiana." It took>20 years, but they eventually succeeded. Lawson Swearingen replaced Dr. Vines as president of NLU and championed the name change to ULM. I have a friend whose son graduated from ULL. If you go to the campus you'll see all the banners and signs say, "University of Louisiana" in huge letters.......w/ "Lafayette" in tiny letters at the very bottom or not at all. The school's website, www.louisiana.edu, doesn't even have the word Lafayette in it.