**tztown, we've got a problem [Kutztown and Kansas Universities in legal row over "KU"]

Reading (PA) Eagle ^ | 10/14/05 | Mike Urban

[foreverfree]

Nowhere in this article is mentioned Kutztown's nickname, which happens to be borrowed, consciously or otherwise, from Berkeley - "Golden Bears". But that's another thread.

FWIW I'm a Kutztown grad, but I never thought of Kutztown as "KU".

If this article has already been posted, or at least the topic, let us know.

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[siunevada]

"Golden Bears"

So 'The Fighting Hexmeisters' was never really in the running then?

[Izzy Dunne]

Sometimes you just want to kill all the lawyers.

[willyd]

i went to UT...was it Tennessee or Texas though? i can't remember...also, I am going to throw caution to the wind and use the word "threepeat" in a sentence. Can you Pat Riley calling his attornies now?

[Fresh Wind]

The University of Denver considers itself "DU". Perhaps they should consider a lawsuit against a certain political pornography website.

[speedy]

I hope Slippery Rock never has a problem like this. I had my first funnel cake at the Kutztown Fair -- and who was that old Dallas running back from Kutztown State -- was it Robert Newhouse?

[airborne]

Kutztown has used its initials on football helmets, letterheads and bookstore merchandise since it became a university in 1983.

But somehow that information hadn't made its way to the University of Kansas, which federally trademarked the letters in 1938.

Someone saw that the new Kansas symbol the letters KU side by side in a Trajan font was nearly the same as the Kutztown logo developed two years ago.

“What an amazing coincidence that out of several hundred fonts they picked Trajan like we had,” said Dr. Philip R. Breeze, Kutztown spokesman.

Amazing coincidence! Right! But hey, Kansas only beat them to it by 45 years!

[1rudeboy]

Yeah, no one would ever get into disputes, and gumdrops would rain from the sky.

[Fresh Wind]

i went to UT...was it Tennessee or Texas though? i can't remember

You must have had a REALLY good time there!

[randita]

There was another great football player who hailed from Kutztown -- know who?

Hint: The Monday Night Football announcers always called the school "Cuts-town" instead of pronouncing it the German way - Kütztown (the "u" has to be umlauted).

[Izzy Dunne]

Andre Reed

[speedy]

Aha, I'd forgotten Andre Reed. A regular football factory.

[Between the Lines]

Shouldn't the University of Kansas be UK instead of KU

[Verginius Rufus]

Maybe it was the University of Tasmania. Were there any wallabies on campus?

I believe Kutztown U. is officially "Kutztown University of Pennsylvania" so the initials should be KUP.

[Verginius Rufus]

UK is already taken for the University of Kentucky.

[CatoRenasci]

Someone should teach Kutztown's arch rival (whomever that may be) Stanford's anti-Cal song that begins "The Dirty Golden Bear, has lost all of his hair...."

[CatoRenasci]

PS: You can be the "Golden Bears", but don't steal our drinking song:

We had to carry Harry to the Ferry,
The Ferry carried Harry to the Shore,
And the reason that we had
to carry Harry to the Ferry
Was that Harry couldn't carry any more!

California, California
We'll Drink! Do! or Die! For California.....

[dfwgator]

I wish it was Florida University instead of the University of Florida. That way if anyone asked me where I went to college, I would simply say, "FU"

[Blue Jays]

Hi BtL-

"...Shouldn't the University of Kansas be UK instead of KU..."

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Those are precisely my thoughts as well. Those two universities aren't in the same conferences, they never play each other, they have different areas of educational concentration, and they're over a thousand miles apart. What is the big deal?

~ Blue Jays ~

[Between the Lines]

UK is already taken for the University of Kentucky.

And there is a SCU in South Carolina, two in California and one in Georgia.