South Quad Drive is a short, less-than-a-mile stretch of a road that starts at an interchange at Highland Road and ends at a stoplight on Nicholson Drive. Prior to 2017, this street used to be named Nicholson Drive Extension.

However, there’s just one thing about South Quad Drive. The name of the street is only partially accurate. It most certainly is south, as it is the southernmost road on LSU’s campus, and it is a drive because it’s a road. However, it is a half-mile walk from the LSU Quad.

You can’t even get a glimpse of the Quad from the street. The name is entirely a misnomer and can confuse out-of-towners trying to locate where places are around campus. This is unusual because most street names around campus make sense, such as North, South and West Stadium Drive and Tower Drive.

However, South Quad is different. It’s such a short stretch of road to where it doesn’t really matter what it is named, as long as it is not misleading. Because the name as it is makes it quite confusing to locate the LSU Quadrangle, why don’t we rename this street again?

South Quad Drive should be renamed to Sherman Way, Sherman Drive or Sherman St., after General William Tecumseh Sherman, former superintendent of LSU and a Civil War hero.

Sherman was the superintendent at LSU before the Civil War and was said to have produced the finest military units of the time. One time, Sherman openly defied the order of the governor of Louisiana to send his troops to fight for the Confederacy because of his loyalty to the United States government.

For his valiant effort in defeating Confederates in his march to the sea in Georgia, Sherman was touted as a hero to the Union Army and to the U.S. I believe that because of the service he did for the country, he deserves some name recognition around the campus he was the superintendent of.

Not only would name recognition finally allow Sherman’s legacy at LSU to be more than a feeble plaque in front of the campanile, but it’s also a nod to LSU’s military academy days. Even though South Quad Drive is just a short distance away, naming it after Sherman allows us to remember the big impact he has had on not only LSU’s history but also the history of the United States.

Andrew Sarhan is an 18-year-old mass communication freshman from Baton Rouge, La.