Compiled by Spencer L. Shroyer
Northern Light
Oklahoma University
Cow tipping
With the Cotton Bowl battle between Oklahoma University
and Texas two days away, retailers and licensing officials
are already waging a war of their own — against unlicensed
products.
While University of Texas officials allow certain rivalry
logos to be printed, any inversion, perversion or defamation
of the longhorn silhouette gets their blood boiling.
Any Sooner fan sporting an inverted longhorn hat bought
from a store or outlet is wearing an unlicensed product.
“Those [products] had not been approved by the university
and are infringing on trademark rights,” said Craig
R. Westemeier, director of UT’s office of trademark
and licensing.
Yet slandering the steer seems to be a favorite pastime
in Norman, where reverse longhorns grace hats, T-shirts
and car bumpers. Students such as Ryan Pickering still get
their bashing fix with unlicensed products.
“I understand [UT’s] position, but they should
get over it,” Pickering said.
Pickering said he bought his maroon hat with a white longhorn
upside down from a member of his fraternity who was selling
them.
Courtesy of the Oklahoma Daily Online
University of Montana
Bike service turns coffee to compost
University of Montana student Sarah Keller traded her
mountain bike Wednesday evening for a different model —
one pulling a metal cart with two Rubbermaid garbage cans
attached to the back of it.
The Coffee-to-Compost program pairs bicyclists with environmentally
inclined business owners to get grounds out of the landfill
and into the garden, said Rebecca Richter, director of the
Missoula Urban Demonstration project.
MUD is looking for volunteers to ride bicycles and pick
up grounds from participating businesses to use as compost
in the Northside Community Gardens.
The four businesses currently involved, Bernice’s
Bakery, Butterfly Herbs, Wordens and Le Petit Outre and
Breads, pay $30 a month for volunteers to pick up two to
four loads of grounds each week. All this adds up to about
120 gallons of coffee grounds being hauled to the Northside
Community Garden, which MUD manages, on a weekly basis.
Esther Chessinball, Bernice’s Bakery owner, said
she supports the idea behind the program and her employees
don’t mind a little extra sorting for a “good
cause.”
“We go through tons of coffee, so it’s really
nice to see it not go in the garbage,” she said. “There
was a time when (the program) was down temporarily, and
everybody was sad when they didn’t pick up.”
Courtesy of the Montana Kaimin
Stanford University
Organizers focus on safety at this
year’s Full Moon
There was a time when Full Moon on the Quad was a free-for-all
kissfest, in which seniors and freshmen (and really, everyone
in between) united at midnight under the first full moon
of the year to share a kiss — or several.
But in recent years, as students and administrators have
become more conscious of the risks associated with what
used to be considered harmless fun, safety and health issues
have figured much more prominently in the event’s
planning.
According to Nanci Howe, assistant dean of students and
director of student activities, the university is trying
to prevent the alcohol-related hospitalizations and reports
of unwanted sexual advances that took place last year.
“We want people to have a good time, but do it safely,”
Howe said.
Laura Wilson, director of public safety, said counselors
at the Vaden Health Center told her last year that they
had seen a number of cases involving sexual assault, battery
and students who “participated in sexual intercourse
while under the influence of alcohol and wished that they
had not.”
“The overall goal is to have an event which all
students can enjoy and feel comfortable participating in,”
said ASSU President Nadiya Figueroa. “It is important
that Full Moon on the Quad goes well so that the tradition
can continue for years to come.”
Courtesy of the Stanford Daily
Indiana State University
Student Web site shut down
The Web site drunkencampus.com run by Matt Easterling,
ISU economics major, was taken down by the Office of Information
Technology.
Bob Jefferson, executive director of OIT, said Residential
Life notified him of the Web site.
Jefferson said the Web site contained two violations:
the ISU logo was included on several pages of the Web site
and the Web site delivered commercial content using an ISU
server.
Jefferson said Easterling must obtain permission from
the Publications and Purchasing Department to use the logo.
He also said linking ISU sites to Web sites selling things
commercially is a violation of ISU and Indiana law.
Easterling said his Web site gets the second-most hits
of any Web site on campus.
He said he has been maintaining his Web site for about
six months.
“One night, some of my floor mates duct-taped someone
in their room, and I took pictures, and everyone wanted
to see [the photos],” Easterling said. He put the
pictures up on a simple Web page so his friends could see
them, and he said that’s how drunkencampus.com got
started.
“I don’t really know how I went from one prank
page to what I have now,” Easterling said.
As of Tuesday evening, Easterling was working with Information
Technology and Jefferson to fix his Web site so it could
be made available again.
Courtesy of the Indiana Statesman
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