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A flavor-universal extension of the strong interactions was recently proposed in response to the apparent excess of high-ET jets in the inclusive jet spectrum measured at the Tevatron. The color octet of massive gauge bosons (‘colorons’) that is present in the low-energy spectrum of the model’s Higgs phase is studied here. Experimental constraints already imply that the coloron mass must exceed 870-1000 GeV. The import of recent Tevatron data and the prospective input from future experiments are also mentioned. Talk given on July 7, 1996 at the Workshop on New Directions in High-Energy Physics (Snowmass 96). e-mail address: [email protected] E.H.S. acknowledges the hospitality of the Aspen Center for Physics and the Fermilab Summer Visitors Program and the support of the NSF CAREER and DOE OJI programs. This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under grant PHY-95-1249 and by the Department of Energy under grant DE-FG02-91ER40676.