Fifth Circuit Ruling in School Colors Case Favors Universities
Universities represented by Pirkey Barber LLP won broader trademark protection for their school colors in a major decision released late Tuesday by the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The dispute pitted LSU, Oklahoma, Ohio State, USC, and the Collegiate Licensing Company against Tampa, Florida T-shirt company Smack Apparel. The universities sued Smack over its sales of unlicensed shirts that used their school colors along with other references to the schools' football teams. Austin, Texas law firm Pirkey Barber, one of the nation's few firms specializing exclusively in trademark law, represented 28 other universities who supported the plaintiffs' position as amici curiae ("friends of the court") on appeal.

University of Phoenix to Be Featured On Internet Radio Show; President Bill Pepicello to Discuss Current Career and Education Strategies on Total Care
University of Phoenix President Bill Pepicello will be featured on Total Career Success, an internet show on VoiceAmerica Talk Radio Network, at 10 a.m. Mountain on Monday, February 22. Dr. Pepicello will discuss: Next Generation Learners, New programs being developed to help meet the needs of these students and the University Orientation—a new, three-week, free orientation program intended to address the skills necessary to be successful at the University of Phoenix and for career advancement ().

Door To Door Storage Partners with "Trash to Treasure 2008 Program" at the University of Texas
Storage Industry Pioneer to Collect Discarded Student Items Keeping Tons Out of Landfill and Raising Funds for the University of Texas Student Government Campus Environmental Center

Duke University-culturally Diverse And Eclectic
Duke University in Durham, North Carolina was founded in 1924 as a memorial to Washington Duke by his son, James Buchanan Duke. Trinity University had long been the focus of Washington Duke's dreams. The University began in 1838 and in 1924, after founding the philanthropic Duke Endowment, became Duke University.