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 Fermilab Tevatron. This paper studies the color octet of massive gauge bosons (``colorons'') that is present in the low-energy spectrum of the model's Higgs phase. Constraints from searches for new particles decaying to dijets and from measurements of the weak-interaction ρ parameter imply that the colorons must have masses greater than 870--1000 GeV. The implications of recent Tevatron data and the prospective input from future experiments are also discussed.
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