The ISU men’s ice hockey club has been found responsible for three charges of misusing the university’s trademarks and will be placed on indefinite suspension.

According to a decision written by Todd Holcomb, associate vice president for student affairs, the student organization has been found responsible for contempt, falsification and violation of conditions of recognition of ISU trademarks.

The university did not specify a duration for the indefinite suspension, which means the club can apply to be reinstated once it comes into compliance with ISU regulations, according to the decision. The decision also calls for the club’s financial account to be frozen and all equipment impounded.

In order to be recognized again, the club must have all use of ISU trademarks approved. A liaison will be designated from the ISU Men’s Ice Hockey club and the Iowa State University Research Foundation — which handles all of the university’s trademarks — to make sure both sides cooperate. Both groups will also designate a contact person to work with the liaison.

John Robyt, professor of biochemistry, biophysics and molecular biology and adviser to the hockey club, said the ISU men’s ice hockey club is considering appealing the decision.

Jorgen Rasmussen, assistant to Robyt, said the club will appeal for a variety of reasons.

“Well, basically, the idea would be there is insufficient evidence to support the conclusions reach[ed] and the sanctions imposed are too harsh,” he said.

“What I mean is that the evidence they considered is sufficiently ambiguous. If you are to take for example the business [of the jerseys]; the jerseys were being cleaned, part of the problem was that the order to deliver those came down shortly before spring break, and the very same day [they] dropped these charges on us.”

Part of the contempt charge stemmed from this incident, when the hockey club failed to deliver all its game jerseys to the research foundation before a deadline set by ISU President Gregory Geoffroy, according to the decision.

Scott Hagen and Andrew Hancock, co-presidents of the club, could not be reached for comment Wednesday.

Bethany Schuttinga, assistant dean of students, said the Office of Judicial Affairs will defer all comments to Holcomb.

He could not be reached for comment, as he was in Vinton for Wednesday’s Board of Regents meeting.

Brent Popadych, junior forward of the hockey team, said the decision made by the university is a “wait-and-see process.” He said the team is meeting with key members of the Office of Judicial Affairs.

“This decision is hard for us students, including myself as we go through two or three hours of [legal] work,” Popadych said. “We have people in the judicial office that work 12-to-13 hours a day on stuff like this. There’s so much a student can do. They get so picky about little things.”

Popadych said the current situation has been “blown out of proportion.”

“People are speculating,” Popadych said. “I got three calls today and eight [Wednesday].”

Because of the decision, the group’s standing as a member of the American Collegiate Hockey Association has been called into question.

John Bosch, ACHA Division I vice president, said the association will wait on the university’s decision of the ruling.

“It’s sounds like a university problem [more] than a ACHA problem,” Bosch said.

“We don’t get involved … the university rules themselves. We’ll just wait and see what happens.”

Rasmussen said the team will take the appeal as far as the Board of Regents, if necessary.