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FAMU settles suit over use of school colors, team name in sex tape
Orlando Sentinel ^ | april 8, 2010 | Susan Jacobson

Posted on 04/08/2010 8:06:04 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement

It's been said that any publicity is good publicity.

But Florida A&M University was not amused when the name of its teams — the Rattlers — the FAMU log and the school colors appeared in a video featuring what appeared to be eight students having an orgy.

On Wednesday, the Tallahassee university settled a lawsuit it filed last month in U.S. District Court against the operator of a sexually explicit Web site that posted the video. In the settlement, the company acknowledges that people in the video were not students and they were not filmed on campus.

(Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: colleges; famu
Not-Rattlers Gone Wild.
1 posted on 04/08/2010 8:06:05 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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To: ConservativeStatement

“what appeared to be eight students having an orgy”

After reviewing the tape several thousand times school officials determined it not to be an orgy but a menage a huit!


2 posted on 04/08/2010 8:09:58 AM PDT by jimmyo57
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To: ConservativeStatement
In the settlement, the company acknowledges that people in the video were not students and they were not filmed on campus.

So if they were FAMU students and it was filmed on campus it would be OK?

3 posted on 04/08/2010 8:32:04 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("The real death threat is their legislation" Rush Limbaugh, 3/25/10)
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