Dear CUNY Law Community,
Congratulations! The CUNY Law Blog is officially on the map. On Wednesday, we received our first letter from the CUNY Law Administration's Legal Designee Franklin Siegel.
In his letter (embedded below), Siegel requests that the CUNY Law Blog change its name because he claims the use of CUNY Law's name and logo "foster the misimpression that [the CUNY Law Blog] is sponsored, maintained, or authorized by the Law School and/or the City University of New York." The letter goes on to say "[w]e have no objection to the blog being renamed the 'CUNY Law Students' Blog,' or another name that clearly denominates the blog as a publication by students but does not suggest it is officially maintained by the School."
After discussing this issue with several blog contributors and student leaders, the decision was made to not change the CUNY Law Blog's name at this time. However, we have removed the logo from the cunylawblog@gmail.com profile and added the following disclaimer: "This blog is not sponsored, maintained, or authorized by CUNY Law School and/or the City University of New York." We think this clarifies any possible ambiguity.
Furthermore, in the spirit of community and transparency, we leave it up to the CUNY Law community at-large to decide the issue of any name change. To weigh in on the subject, please either (1) post a comment to this blog, (2) email cunylawblog@gmail.com, (3) stop in the hallway or email or leave a note in the mailboxes of student group leaders, student government members or CUNY Law Blog contributors, or (4) chime in on the new poll located at the bottom of the right column on this blog.
Thank you for supporting the CUNY Law Blog. If you are a student or member of the faculty, staff or administration and would like to contribute a post to the blog, email it to cunylawblog@gmail.com. Student group leaders have full access to post on the blog. If you are a student group leader and do not yet have access to post on the blog, please email cunylawblog@gmail.com. Comments may be posted by anyone and can be anonymous.
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8 comments:
It should be no surprise that the administration would want to discourage the use of this cuny law school bulletin board after their scuttling of the school wide forum email system earlier this year. I believe it was the destructive nature of that act to our sense of community and to the transparency that it enabled, that was the impetus to start this blog in the first place.
"Misrepresentation" ??? - It would be misrepresentation to call the blog anything other than CUNY LAW. Everything posted on the blog is about CUNY LAW. It only makes sense that the name reflects the substance.
seems like the disclaimer should clarify an misunderstanding.
If it wasn't clear before, the disclaimer makes it perfectly clear now. I vote to keep the name and keep free speech alive and well at CUNY Law!
I'm appalled that CUNY would endorse making fun of Lesley Berson on the Internet.
well, i'm appalled by lesley. too bad forum doesn't allow for anonymous posting. perhaps then we would hear from the 98% of students that fear the repercussions of this "open" community.
And I am appalled by Franklin Siegel's role as the hatchet man. Not the one I would expect to bring the hammer down.
The disclaimer is clear, however.
stand up to them now - otherwise it will just be harder to do so later.
why does a school that wants us to fight for the common good make us fight them first?
the good news is that law school ends and then the real battles begin. only wish i would have gotten more training from CUNY about how to be a creative, daring lawyer. Thanks to Dinesh and Sid for insisting on teaching that.
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