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Volume 72, Issue 78,
Thursday, Janaury 25, 2007
Opinion
Staff Editorial
EDITORIAL BOARD
Robyn Morrow
Chris Elliott
Mark Suarez
UT logo suit unnecessary It looks like the Aggies will be hissing even louder than usual at their rival Longhorns after they find out University of Texas officials want the famed "saw 'em off" logo to stop being sold. The UT System Board of Regents has taken Aggie business owner Fadi Kalaouze to court over his parody of the popular Longhorn logo, the Houston Chronicle reported. In the lawsuit, the board argued that Kalaouze, with his company Kalcorp, illegally altered the trademarked Longhorn logo. Students, parents and Aggie fans have been purchasing items, such as T-shirts, bumper stickers and signs, with the altered Longhorn logo for years. If UT officials are so concerned with the alteration of their university's ubiquitous logo, it should not have taken them years to take action against Kalaouze. The lawsuit claims that prospective buyers may confuse Kalaouze's logo for the real thing, but most people know the difference between UT's logo and the altered one. Also, many items displaying the changed logo have well known Texas A&M slogans beneath them. For example, the front of one popular T-shirt has the altered logo with the word "Whoop!" underneath. Students at universities across the state know seniors at A&M "whoop" to show their senior status and would not confuse the logo for UT's. UT officials need to give more credit to their fans. UT fans seeing these items for the first time would recognize that there is something wrong with a logo longhorn that has its horns sawed off. UT boasts its students are some of the smartest this country has to offer. Kalaouze told the Chronicle his creation is a parody and should be protected under the First Amendment. It looks like UT officials can't seem to take a joke.
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