I'm in D.C. I've heard Blanco twice up here. She has mentioned LSU as a research superstar on both occassions. She may not be what some of the folks back home wanted, but she is plays very well outside of the 225 area code. What I read on-line from The Morning Advocate, The Times, and The Times-Picayune is postive about her support in state for LSU.

Who else would she mention? ULL? She isn't exactly going to get far bragging about them.

LSU is the largest university in the state, for graduation we had the President of the United States of America as the key note speaker and Blanco doesn't even show.

She sucks up to LSU only as much as she has to. I believe that if it weren't for most of Louisiana's immense support of LSU she could care less.

Also, Blanco is trying to cut funding for education in general and in specific spread more of the money away from LSU and to the other universities like ULL.

"...Also, Blanco is trying to cut funding for education in general and in specific spread more of the money away from LSU and to the other universities like ULL."

That's been the story with every governor since Big John in the 60's! Right after I graduated, the Treen adminstration was building classrooms, but not funding professors to fill them.

Blanco could have named a political hack as Chancellor, stuffed the Board of Supervisors with wives of elected officals, and really cut funding. As recent governors of Louisiana go, she can be counted as a friend of higher education and LSU.

Ideally, I would love to see her keep funding the LSU system at this level and tell LSU-A, LSU-E, LSU-S, and, of course, UNO, to hit the Board of Regents feedbag. I wonder how the "University of Louisiana-New Orleans" would play on the Lakefornt?

Blanco doesn't name the chancellor. In fact, she was against O'Keefe.
Just because other governors suck doesn't mean that its an excuse for Blanco to suck. For god's sake we almost elected David Duke!

If the governor wanted to name the Chancellor, the Board of Supervisors would have given a rubber stamped approval.

If the people in this state were as passionate about LSU as a whole, not just sports, and held the legislators feet to the fire about funding the Baton Rouge campus, things would radically change. But I can't go with you on her "sucking". Since I had low expectations from her going in, she has proved me wrong so far.

I think people support the school pretty well. It's the flagship school n Louisiana that most good (not great) students aspire to attend and most residents pay taxes.

I'm trying not to be overly facetious here, but how do (or should) people in the state show their passion for LSU as a whole? Cheers of "Go English Department?" Or "Go to hell Harvard, go to hell?"

Oh, little things like voting out the legislators who support items such as keeping the Tulane legislative scholarship program, bizzare tax schemes that allow yacht purchases on the state nickel for NFL owners, and similar items that have come out of sessions.

Also, pointing that LSU does, in fact, attract and graduate GREAT students.