I lived in Houston T**** for a year and wrote T**** many times. They never bothered me. I bet if the students were willing to pay a licensing fee, I bet the situation would go away.

Oh puleez! Isn't enough that the Texans are controlling the school book industry and trying to teach our children that humans and dinosaurs roamed the earth together 5,000 years ago? (see the NYT article in Sunday's paper)

Not new. Big cat fight in the late 90's in Ohio, started by the pompous football school in Columbus (Ohio State, founded 1870) against the 1993 trademark registration of Ohio University (founded 1804 in Athens, OH). Settled out-of-court after initial bullying and PR blitz by Big 10er OSU.

And ever since, the Buckeyes have insisted on their institution being referred to as "THE Ohio State University." Really. Ha ha ha ha.

http://www.ohio.edu/ohiotoday/spring98/news/ohio.htm

http://www.thepost.ohiou.edu/archives2/043099/101.html

Loved portland native's post.

Is it poor taste to make Bell Tower jokes about UT?

Did anyone else catch the NPR story last night about the Florida high school that somehow ended up with a logo on their gym floor, uniforms, cheerleaders' outfits, stationery, athletic bags, school supplies, etc. that was a copy of the Dodge Ram logo? Oddly, in the interview with the principal who was bemoaning all the trouble and expense the district would have to go through to change the logo when Dodge came after them, the question of how they happened to have come up with an image that was identical to the one used on a fairly well-known line of American trucks never came up.

Don't look back, I suppose.

Sounds about right. UT has been going straight to hell ever since Tom Hicks (he of Dallas Stars and Texas Rangers fame, as well as helping George W. Bush into and out of office) joined the board of directors. (The joke has it that Hicks's direct involvement was the only way in hell that Jenna Bush could have graduated from college.) I'm waiting for UT to trademark its famed "Hook 'Em Horns" gesture and start docking headbangers at metal clubs for royalties, too.

I swear. There was a time when UT wasn't a bad place to go. Now, not only does it make its rivals Oklahoma University and Texas A&M look like Cambridge, but if the school got into a mudfight with SMU, the loser would be the mud.