It's Official – The Unofficial Inc. Harvard Tour

The cease and desist letter is an amazing beast. We've only gotten a handful of them since we've been making ourselves known on the internets – but never one from Harvard. That's one thing that sets us apart from the Hahvahd Tour. The student run two-hour tour of the historic campus was hit with the letter earlier this summer just after they had launched their summer entrepreneurial venture. But now, just a short while after the semester began, they've become an official student business and trademark violations have been dropped.

The students running the tour found a loophole for the summer months – Harvard only requires that student businesses register with the University during the school year. They were operating for the summer. The Provost's office who had asked them to stop their tours backed down and let the group operate on a temporary basis. Once the semester began they were forced to petition the Student Business Advisory Committee for approval of their business to keep operating. According to a Crimson report they've been granted that right and the tours will recommence this Friday. The name will change slightly (again) and will now operate as “Unofficial Tours, Inc. Presents Harvard." They're no longer allowed to use Hahvahd in their name, but have been granted permission to use the trademarked Harvard. Seems like everyone wins – save for the Crimson Key Society, until now the only sanctioned student-run tour group.