The Goddard College Trustee Board issued a letter of cessation and withdrawal last week to a group of students who voted not trust in the Board and the University President last month. The letter accuses the group of former students to violate the law of the registered trademark using the name of Goddard College.
"Accept this letter as an official notice of your infringement of this brand and as the address to cease and desist the use of this protected brand without expressed permission," wrote Joseph P. McConnell, a lawyer with the signature Lawyers Morgan, Brown & Joy.
The notice also requests that the group "ceasse the publication of deceptive or defamatory statements" on the university, its president and the board. Otherwise, the Board can take legal action against the Group.
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in a Letter of 11 pages, the Association of Students of Goddard College, last month issued a vote of any confidence at the Board of Trustees and the President, Dan Hochoy. The Group also raised a large number of accusations against the Board and HOCOY, including that the School abruptly canceled a planned student meeting event without consulting the organizers, which HOCOY stopped their work experience during the interviews for the presidency and that the process Search was selected through which HOCOY was selected was not transparent.
"The repeated and continuous negative of the Board to respond to the concerns and questions of the exumbles, as well as the negative in progress to include more alumni in the conversation, demonstrates a complete contempt for the values of Goddard College, "The students wrote. The small private university is located in Plainfield, VT.
The Association of Former Students, which is composed of some 7,000 students of God, and represented by a smaller student council, does not have a formal connection with the university, according to the university. A HOCOY. googleg.cmd.push (function () googleg.display ("dfp-ad-article_in_article"););
The Council is "a small group of individuals, calling himself at the former student council, who has no official foot, authority or relationship with Goddard College," Hochoy said. "Any statement or feeling of them reflects only that of the handful of people who understand the group."
McConnell wrote in the notice of EESC and withdrawal that many of the topics raised in the letter of non-confidence contained false information.
"Although many of these affirmations express an unfounded opinion with respect to Goddard College, a number is also misleading, wrong and potentially defamatory," he wrote. "In addition, these statements seem to intentionally interfere with commercial relations and activities of Goddard College".
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A representative of the Student Council was not available for comments Tuesday.
Before the Council publishes its vote of any letter of trust, HOCOY and GLORIA WILLINGHAM-TOURÉ, President of the Board, met with the group.
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