Chicago State University S President Goes Away After A Lawsuit Doesn T

• Tom Cruze/Sun-Times Media
• Now former Chicago State University president Wayne Watson

Yesterday, upon the stair,I met a man who wasn’t there.He wasn’t there again today,I wish, I wish he’d go away . . .

Fifteen months ago, professor Phillip Beverly received a “cease and desist” letter from CSU. Beverly is chairman of the faculty senate; but he was written by general counsel Patrick Cage in his capacity of publisher of a blog, CSU Faculty Voice, that was highly unfriendly to Watson. Cage told Beverly the blog’s “unauthorized use of CSU’s trade names and marks” was sowing confusion. So the university told Beverly to cut it out.

In other words, the plaintiffs had been scared silly by a man who wasn’t there. The suit was baseless and the court should dismiss it.