The blue “Washburn W” is disappearing from the university’s campus, a victim of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s “Walking W.”
The Washburn University Book Store conducted a sale last week that cleansed it of most of the T-shirts, coffee mugs and other paraphernalia bearing the blue W that UW-Madison contended in a lawsuit was too similar to its trademarked red W. Because of the lawsuit, all of the old W-branded items have to be removed from the bookstore by Monday.