UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, August 31, 1993
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Valerie Bontrager / KANSAN
That's the ticket
Marcus Baker, Overland Park freshman, picks up his football season tickets from Melanie Moore, temporary worker for the Athletic Department. Students will be able to pick up their tickets on the south side of Memorial Stadium this week. Workers encourage students to pick up tickets on their designated day because Friday will be the busiest day.
Royalties from KU logos proving to be lucrative
Licensing calls for KU paraphernalia demand full-time administrator
By Tracl Carl
Kansan staff write
20 Paul Vander Tug likes the Jayhawk better than the Golden Gopher.
But as he sits in his new office in the administrative area of the Kansas Union, he admits he is sort of biased.
Vander Tug became the University's first full-time trademark licensing administrator Aug. 2. Vander Tug was in charge of the trademark program at the University of Minnesota before he came to Ryder.
Mike Reid, manager of the KU Bookstore and part-time trademark licensing administrator before Van
der Tuig, said an increased demand for the use of KU's name and logo created the need for a full-time position.
"When I started, royalties were only $19,000 a year," Reid said. "Last year they made about $461,000."
Reid started in January of 1987. He said the increased success and popularity of college athletics and professional sports created the demand for logos.
"It's more of a fashion statement than a show of team loyalty." Reid said.
Paul Vander Tuig
Vander Tug said he received about five to ten licensing requests a week from all over the nation. Each manufacturer is required to pay an annual fee and a percentage of the manufacturer's selling cost, he said. That money is then divided between the Kansas University Endowment Association, the
Vander Tuig said he wants to make sure all KU logo uses are approved through his office. There are unapproved uses of the Jayhawk and other trademarks, he said.
"It certainly exists," Vander Tung said. "I wouldn't say it's rampant, although there are a few designs out there where I'm looking for the source."
He said it was important to use the Jayhawk correctly. All uses of the Jayhawk must follow the guidelines of a 1979 federal registration, or the University could lose the registration, Vander Tug said.
When approving licenses, Vander Tug said he looks for the quality of a product and the use of the logo.
Vander Tuig said he liked the Jayhawk better because it was more colorful than the Golden Gopher.
"Maroon and gold is very tough to sell," he said.
State insurance draws fire from head of SenEx
Blue Cross and Blue Shield's policies may not be best for all KU employees
By Christoph Fuhrmans Kansan staff writer
T. P. Tirmasvan, head of the University Senate Executive Committee, is getting sick of the health insurance policy for KU employees.
"I think it's a scandal the way the insurance monopoly has operated in Kansas," he said. "And it is about time that somebody makes them listen to the grievances of the consumers."
Srinivasan, and other University officials, wants to improve the University's employee health insurance plan with Blue Cross and Blue Shield. Even though KU employees do not like the plan, state officials do.
"Corporations across America would give an arm and a leg for a contract like that," said Dave Charay, health benefits administrator for the state.
The majority of University employees live in Douglas County and have Blue Cross and Blue Shield's blue select program.
The goal of KU's Faculty Benefits committee is to improve the insurance policy, said Dick Tracy, head of the committee and associate professor of educational psychology and research. The committee should begin meeting in September.
Srinivasan said he would like for the nation to increase these ways.
Allow competitive bidding for all insurance companies.
"The present bidding process has been monopolistic and severely detrimental to the faculty and staff at Regents institutions," he said.
The state's employee health insurance policy is with Blue Cross and Blue Shield, but other insurance companies can try to contract with the state. But Blue Cross and Blue Shield has such a large network in Kansas, it is nearly impossible for other companies to win the contract, Srinivasan said. State employees can go to hospitals not signed on with Blue Cross and Blue Shield, but they will have to pay for the difference that Blue Cross an
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"I think it's a scandal the way the insurance monopoly has operated in Kansas."
T. P. Srinivasan head of the University Senate Executive Committee
Blue Shield does not cover.
- Allow self insurance among KU employees.
Self insurance would keep all University employee insurance payments within KU and not spread to all state employees
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Stop putting all state employees into one consumer risk group.
Srinivasan said the health-conscious lifestyles of the majority of University employees would put them in a low-risk group and allow employees to pay lower premiums.
Yet, Blue Cross and Blue Shield does not classify insurance holders as low-risk and high-risk.
"The state has nothing to do with that "Charav said.
He said that 50 percent of overall policy costs were determined by policy holders' lifestyles and that he thought KU employees had a good insurance policy.
Charay said that during the last three to four years Kansas state employees had paid, on the average, an increase of about 6 percent a year. On the national level, the yearly increase was 20 percent.
"There is no other organization in the United States that has lower rates than we do." he said.
Convenience spurs campus job board's recent move to Burge Union
Kansan staff writer
By Shan Schwartz
Looking for a job?
The campus job board, which lists on-campus and off-campus jobs, including work-study positions, is reorganized in a new office this year with new services.
The job board was moved earlier this month to the University Placement Center, 110 Burge Union. It previously was maintained by the Office of Student Financial Aid in the basement of Strong Hall.
Mike Hearing, assistant director of the placement center, said that the move was initiated by his staff. It turned to us that the people who
a seemed to us that the people who
work with employers and are concerned with students finding jobs should be coordinating the job board." Heuring said. "We thought it made sense that it was here."
Heuring said that the move also was aimed at getting students exposed to a new set of lessons.
"One of the problems we often wrestle with is seniors coming in during their last year or last semester at KU."
The board is outside the placement center, so students can view job openings anytime Burge is open. A separate reception desk, Hearing said, will be set up inside the office to take questions and answer phone calls on the student employment phone line, 864-4725.
Hearing said. "They say, 'What do I do to get a job?'
Heuring said that changes in the Placement Center would further accommodate students looking for employment.
"By getting more freshmen and sophomores in here to look at the job board, they'll become accustomed to the services of our office so graduation won't be so traumatic for them."
"We will try to encourage students to find jobs that are related to their ultimate career plans," he said. "We're trying to give them something to build their resumes with." Heuring said. "For a computer science major, it a lot better to work in the computer science department or down at the Com
Heuring said that the job board was now computerized in a job database, which was more efficient and easier to maintain than the previous system of typing out job cards and filing it all by hand.
puter Center than in a kitchen flinging hamburgers."
Although some students might be unhappy about the job board's less central location, Heuring said that Burge was probably a better location than Strong.
"There's a big parking lot right outside our door, and it's closer to the dorses," he said, "and a lot of freshmen and sophomores, who use this job board, live right up there on the hill."
Rademacher said that the move eliminated one position from her office a receptionist in a branch office that worked with student employment and the scholarship search program. That position was no longer needed, she said, because the scholarship search program also had moved to the University Scholarship Center.
Rachel Rademacher, assistant director of the financial aid office, said that the job board's move coincided with changes in the office and aid办公室.
Rademacher said the rest of the Financial Aid Office would be consolidated when it moved into new offices in Strong next month.
"We will try to encourage students to find jobs related to their ultimate
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