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University students who are well aware of the counterfeits.
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While he did mention that professional sports jerseys are bigger and more popular in these counterfeit markets — "those sites are trying to knock off big-name athletes," Thomas said — the University is just like the others.
The sale of counterfeit goods with Kansas' name and image on them costs the University directly, as it does not benefit in any way.
Nick Crawford, a junior nursing major from Olathe,
Screensho Aaron Thomas, a University student who sells jerseys through social media, says he and most of his customers can tell the difference between real and counterfeit jerseys.
But that doesn't always bother the consumer.
"By avoiding [the University] and buying an unlicensed product, that support isn't being bolstered," Vander Tuig said. "Those royalties are not generated that are going to benefit a student or an athlete here."
The University has a licensing deal with Adidas, who manufactures and sells Kansas gear. As part of the deal, the University receives a 12 percent royalty on apparel sales from Adidas, which is how the University profits on apparel sales.
Rather than royalties that are split between the University and the athletic department for scholarships or programs on campus, they go to the pockets of the counterfeit jersey organizations, like AliExpress.
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"When you're a poor college kid, you take the cheapest," he said. "I don't see how buying a KU licensed product will see the money come back to me as quickly as I see saving $40 on a jersey."
who said he's bought several jerseys from AliExpress, said the money savings are worth it to him.
friends have them. He said he's seen so many jerseys that it's easy for him to tell the real from the fake — the stitching is different and the material is lower quality. To his buyers, though, that's not what it's all about.
"They're not authentic, they're not made through Kansas, but people don't necessarily care about that. They care more about the looks of the jersey, rather than the quality," Thomas said. "It's little stuff that most people don't see and most people buying don't care because they're so much cheaper."
Thomas said he does his best to stay away from the knock-offs, but plenty of his
For the University and Kansas Athletics, it's tough to find any way to get rid of this problem.
"It's difficult to imagine that it would make sense for a university to use its resources to litigate against something like what we're seeing on [AliExpress]," Vander Trug said.
"We do our best to fight the things that make sense for us to fight," Vander Tuig said. "This is an extremely difficult situation."
Lawsuits pressed against Alibaba for counterfeits have thus far fell flat.
One student mentioned that he's seen the U.S. crackdown in action, Erik Panther, a junior business major from Overland Park, said he ordered jerseys for Christmas from an Alibaba seller and started to get concerned when he hadn't received them by mid-January.
However, the U.S. government has helped out with the issue recently. Last year, the U.S. seized $1.38 billion in counterfeit goods. Alibaba was placed on a U.S. Trade Representative's blacklist for being "notorious" for counterfeit goods back in December.
"We reached out to the seller and they refunded us and said the jerseys got stopped by U.S. customs
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Although the University Career Center has over twice the amount of staff than Legal Services for Students and has an expenditure budget that is about $300,000 more, the center reported that only 1,711 students contacted them about appointments.
The Office of Study Abroad reported that 27.1 percent of students will study abroad before they graduate, but they want to raise the percentage to 30 percent by the year 2020.
How administrators are trying to help
One of the administrators trying to address this issue is Provost Neeli Bendapudi, who last month announced the creation of a program to introduce freshmen to student services, based on their under-utilization.
Sarah Crawford-Parker, assistant vice provost and director of First Year Experience, said her office tries to connect students with different services as early as orientation, but it can be difficult for students to use the resources later in college.
"We're trying to get them connected to a variety of different things," Crawford-Parker said. "Certainly academic support resources, opportunities for campus involvement, opportunities for experiential learning — things like undergraduate research and service learning, study abroad."
cus of her office is trying to match students with more resources that could be useful to them, but don't have as large of an outreach.
"Part of a lot of the work that we are doing is taking a look at resources [students might not realize they have access to] and just figure out how do we get more students to take advantage of the resources," Burns-Wallace said.
Crawford-Parker also said that the Office of First Year Experience tries to partner with different course instructors in first-year seminars to use resources like the Center for Undergraduate Research and the AAAC in their assignments.
How the services are looking for more users
Administration and faculty want to connect students to different resources through social media, their classes and each other.
Crawford-Parker also recommended peer-topeer interaction to talk about different services on campus.
This is something that Angela Perryman, the director of the Office of Study Abroad, said is one of the most effective ways to reach students.
"Students who have been abroad are the best resources for students who are interested in going abroad," Perryman said.
Wallace said that a fo-
Perryman said that the office tries to reach out to as many students as possible by adding new programs every year, including a new faculty-led microbiology
"The work of our office, it's been trying to identify populations of students who aren't selecting to study abroad," Perryman said. "Whether that's because academically it's been challenging or financially it's been challenging, or maybe we haven't created a program or identified programs that fit particular needs or interests of student populations."
CORRECTION In a story that ran on Feb. 23, "Heartland Project' seeks to research college sexual assault through survey." Marcy Quiason's name was misspelled. The story has been updated online. The Kansan regrets this error.
program this summer.
The Academic Achievement and Access Center also tries to adapt to the needs of students. Andrew Shoemaker, the director of student access services, said that ideally all students would take advantage of these services.
He said that tutoring services and supplemental instruction are dependent
"We're always trying to be cognizant of where student demand is," Shoemaker said.
on what students ask for, but they are trying to reach out to more students through social media and events with the Office of First Year Experience.
Burns-Wallace said that her office wants to work with more services across the University to reach out to more students and match them with possible resources that they might need proactively so that students will have a better idea of what resources would be the most appropriate for their college career.
"Part of the work that we're trying to do is to think about how we ensure students are finding resources, being proactive and not just saying 'these offices exist or these resources exist,' but trying to find students where they are," Burns-Wallace said.
for being counterfeits," said Panther. "Several of my friends and family members had the same issue as well."
Alibaba is working on cracking down on counterfeits being sold on their websites.
They cited closing down 180,000 third-party stores selling counterfeits and 675 manufacturers of counterfeit goods in the twelve months prior to last August. In total, there have been estimates on the amount of fake goods being sold on Alibaba pegged as high as $1.7 trillion.
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