A Web site promoting campus gambling and containing links to online poker sites uses the University of Massachusetts name and logo to promote itself, and school officials are demanding that it be taken down.

UMasspoker.com contains the trademarked UMass-Amherst lettering and Minuteman athletic logo and depicts the Minuteman peering over stacks of cash, dice, cards and poker chips. School officials will send a cease-and-desist demand to the site’s operators.

“If they don’t comply then we go to court,” school spokesman Ed Blaguszewski told The Associated Press on Tuesday. “The UMass name and logo are university property, and they cannot be used without the university’s permission. This Web site is not an appropriate use.”

The site appears to be operated by students and recent graduates, billing itself as an information exchange about poker strategy and cash games and tournaments on and off campus.

Brett Burdick, who graduated from UMass-Amherst last spring, said he’s been the site moderator for the past year.

“We never got any grief over it,” he told The AP in an interview. “There’s sites just like this all over the country on college campuses.”

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