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Date: Nov 15, 2004

USM to rename Campus Streets

Date: Nov 15, 2004

If things continue as they are going, Hardy Street could be renamed "The Road to Nowhere."

Date: Nov 15, 2004

“We want our street names to bring back memories and have significance to the university community,”

No thanks. I'm trying to forget, not bring back painful memories. Nightmares are not my thing.

Date: Nov 15, 2004

How about the Road Less Traveled?

Then there is the Yellow Brick Road

Abbey Road

Hit the Road, Jack.

and

Polymeravenue

Midasdrive

Date: Nov 15, 2004

Heck, that is a good idea. While we're really at it, we should definitely change the name of the school, and most obviously drop the whole university thing. The kinfolk are right, welcome to Hardy Street High.

One street should be Thames avenue and it should symbolically be a dead end.

Date: Nov 15, 2004

Satanhadme Street.

Date: Nov 15, 2004

quote:
Originally posted by: Emma
"Satanhadme Street."

Get serious, Emma. No more frivolity. This is a serious matter. The streets should be named after real people (Dopey, Grouchy, Sleezy . . . . others).

Date: Nov 15, 2004

The late, great Nostradamus predicts that the streets will be renamed after those whose financial contribution to the university is the greatest.

Date: Nov 15, 2004

The term "streets" does not fully express the magnitude of what USM is all about. Each roadway and alley should be called a "boulevard," not a "street." That would look very good in our publicity material, position annoncements, and departmental letterhead.

Date: Nov 16, 2004

How about "Glasmer Lane" and "Stringer Blvd" ? and YES I am serious!

Date: Nov 16, 2004

You mean "Glamser" not "Glasmer." You're sounding like Randy Swan now!

Date: Nov 16, 2004

quote:
Originally posted by: Green Hornet
"How about "Glasmer Lane" and "Stringer Blvd" ? and YES I am serious!"

What a great idea, Hornet. And YES I am serious also! The nomination hotlink is alumni@usm.edu

Date: Nov 16, 2004

Donors and/or politicians. There's money to be made in them thar streets.

Date: Nov 16, 2004

Yet another fascist move--rename everything to correspond with your "vision." There are lots of towns in Latin America with streets that have been renamed for whoever came into power, and the people there just keep calling then by the old names (confuses the heck out of tourists).

I think maybe D.C. Berry, Noel Polk, and Myron Henry could also be good choices.

Date: Nov 16, 2004

The street running North-South by the administration building should be named "My Way Drive." The street running East West by the administration building should be named "Or Else Lane."

Given those names, it would be easy to direct visitors to the Dome: "At the intersection of My Way Or Else."

Date: Nov 16, 2004

quote:
Originally posted by: Campus Map
"The street running North-South by the administration building should be named "My Way Drive." The street running East West by the administration building should be named "Or Else Lane." Given those names, it would be easy to direct visitors to the Dome: "At the intersection of My Way Or Else." "

And there could be a sign pointing towards 49. So then it could be My Way or the Highway.

Date: Nov 16, 2004

My guess is that we will learn much from the names selected for those streets.

Date: Nov 17, 2004

How about naming one "Street of Broken Dreams"?

Date: Nov 17, 2004

Let us hope that one day it will be appropriate to name one of the usm streets the "ROAD TO RECOVERY."

Date: Nov 17, 2004

The news release says that seven USM streets will be soon renamed. That's a high number. Giving university buildings and streets permanent names is a major endeavor. Seven streets seems like too many for one administration to name. It seems to me that some of those streets should be saved for future administrations.

Date: Nov 17, 2004

I do wonder about East and West Memorial Drives. Memorial of what? Is there not something we're supposed to be remembering? I'd want to know the history on those two especially.

Date: Nov 17, 2004

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Originally posted by: Jameela Lares
"I do wonder about East and West Memorial Drives. Memorial of what? Is there not something we're supposed to be remembering? I'd want to know the history on those two especially. "

Maybe it's something we're not supposed to remember! But yours is a good question. I'd like to know the answer also. My uneducated guess is that it pertains to something military.

Date: Nov 17, 2004

Why is this administration so hell bent on erasing the history of this institution?

Date: Nov 18, 2004

quote:
Originally posted by: Where the Streets Have No Name
"Why is this administration so hell bent on erasing the history of this institution? "

Didn't you read 1984 in high school?

The systematic assault on "institutional memory" at the University of Southern Mississippi is one of the most disturbing aspects of the current administration. For a while, I thought it was simply a matter of an administration eliminating individuals who knew where the bodies were buried.

Now I'm not so sure. I think the whole issue here is commercialization. Since USM has no real "tradition" & it's history is so easily pitched into a "memory hole" & rewritten, there are big opportunities to sell a "place in history." Forget any "history" & "tradition." Times are tough. Any avenue that can be taken to generate a fast buck needs to be explored.

If a donor offered $500K cash to rename a street "Fire Shelby Road" or "Frank & Gary Circle," how fast would the Mr. Lassen have the contract ready?

Date: Nov 18, 2004

quote:
Originally posted by: Where the Streets Have No Name
"Why is this administration so hell bent on erasing the history of this institution? "

Highway to Hell