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University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, March 26, 1991
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Royalties pay for KU programs
By Eric Nelson
Kansan staff writer
When KU students, faculty, alumni and fans buy Final Four memorabilia this week, they are supporting Tulane and its endearings in Indianapolis.
Royaltyals from KU merchandise are put back into the University of Kansas and used for endowments and scholarships, said Mike Reid, director of the KU Bakkiores and director of licensing for the University.
Reid said that the money received for royalties had increased annually and that this year's figures already needed last year's total by 100 percent.
Currently the fund has $157,000, but Reid said he expected the total to be near $200,000 by the end of the fiscal year in June. In 1988, the last year the Jayhawks won the NCAA basketball championship, the total was $119,267.
"So we're looking at more scholarship money than we have ever in the past." he said.
Reid said that because the fiscal year was ending soon, he expected much of the royalties from increased sales, stemming in part from KU's tournament success, to be unavailable until next year.
The case was similar in 1988 and 1989. Total royalties in 1989, $203,000,
exceeded the total in 1988.
When received, the royalties are distributed: 25 percent to the Kansas and Burge Union scholarship fund, 35 percent to the Williams Educational Fund and 40 percent to the general scholarship fund and Kansas University Endowment Association, Reid said.
He said that there were more than 300 licensees with the University but that only 25 could use NCAA logos.
"They can say 'NCAA.' "
"These companies can sell things that say 'Final Four,' " Reid said.
The royalties are collected from the manufacturers by an independent agency called the Collegiate Licensing Company.
Mike Swalm, assistant manager of the Jayhawk bookstore, said that he had nothing against the concept of royalties but that he wished the University would handle the collection of royalties.
"Because then I would know all the money is going to the University," he said.
Swalm said he did not like having a third party, such as the Collegei Licensing Company, take a cut from the royalties.
Reid said the University currently was investigating the costs of collection.
"That may happen in the future," he said.
But if KU did what the outside company currently does, it might not be necessary. The office expenses could of staffing and office expenses could equal the cost of using the company.
Reid said that although some universities collected royalties on their own, most used the Collegiate Licensing Company.
Todd Seymour, president of the Endowment Association, said the endowment money was placed in the general scholarship fund and was reported to the office of student financial aid.
Jerry Rogers, director of the office of student financial aid, said that if Reid's figures were accurate, the cost of his tuition would be for scholarships seemed significant.
Reid said that many companies would want licensing row that KU was headed to the Final Four but that it was too late to obtain a license.
"You should have been in progress before now if you wanted to be a licensee and reap the benefits of the Final Four," he said.
KU fans at Javhawk Spirit, 935 Massachusetts St.. shop for the latest basketball products.
KU officials ask store to stop problem shirt sales
Kansan staff writer
Bv Jonathan Plummer
A local company has agreed to stop producing a T-shirt like the ones worn by the Jayhawks after their victory Saturday.
A similar shirt was being sold by
Jayhawk Spirit, 935 Massachusetts St., until Sunday.
While celebrating their success against the Arkansas Razorbacks, many players wore a shirt that had the word "Arkansas" with the letters
Mike Reid, director of licensing for the University of Kansas said he called Tom Wiesentner, owner of Jayhawk Stadium, and asked him to stop printing the shirt.
"They were very cooperative." Reid said. "Jayhawk Spirit had not received approval to produce that work of right now, it is not being printed."
Wilkerson said Reid thought the shirt did not represent the image of sportsmanship that KU tried to uphold.
"They felt the shirt did not present the school in the best taste, and upon their wishes, we stopped making the shirt." Wilkerson said.
He said he sold about 500 shirts before Sunday.
it," he said. "But we are taking lots of time to explain to people why we are no longer selling the shirt."
"If we could print that shirt we would because a lot of people want
"We're doing exactly what they say," he said.
The store is still on good terms with the licensing department, Wilkerson said.
Chuck Norris, said his brother, Rick, Lawrence freshman, bought him one of the shirts on Sunday. Chuck said he received many admiring comments on it when he wore it to his junior high school yesterday.
"A lot of people asked me where got it," he said. "I told them you can't get them anymore."
KU researchers looking to the yew tree for solutions to cancer
By Sarah Davis
Kansan staff writer
Forest depletion may save some people's lives.
That is, if the trees are yews, and the people have cancer.
Taxol, an anti-cancer drug, can be derived from the thin, reddish bark of the yew tree, found in the northwestern United States. The drug has been found to stop the growth and migration of ovarian cancer, who subsequently advanced ovarian cancer. In some cases the tumor may disappear eventually.
Gunda Gueza, associate professor of medicinal chemistry and biochemistry, are collaborators, are part of the team that led the project.
"We are taking the taxol molecule and altering the structure to improve activity so that it will be a strong anti-tumor agent," said Georg, who has been researching this area since 1989. "This is a relatively new drug so there's a lot of work that needs to be done."
Taxol, discovered in 1971, has made important contributions to the treatment of ovarian
'We all know people who have died of cancer so it's a good area to work in. Hopefully, we will make a contribution to the field.'
cancer, which is responsible for the deaths of 12.000 women each year.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore have found that taxol reduces the size of ovarian tumors by half in 40 percent of whom for whom other means of therapy bad failed.
Because of the increase in the need for the drug, the trees are being threatened with extinction. It takes six to eight yew trees to one patient, and the trees are slow-growing.
When the bark from the tree is removed, the tree dies, so scientists are trying to find taxol in the bark.
- Gunda Georg associate professor of medicinal chemistry
"The problem is that there's not much material out there." Georg said. "And you
The drug is also expensive. One kilogram costs about $200,000, and to get that kilogram, 9,000 kilograms of the tree's bark must be taken.
can't treat people without the access of many trees."
But Georg said research needed to be done regardless of the cost.
"If you think of all the diseases we have nowadays, many are treatable, but a disease like AIDS or cancer is a challenge," she said. "Many drugs and drugs or improve on leads we already have."
Taxol is effective only in some patients and can cause side effects, such as allergic reactions, reduction of the white blood cells and damaging effects to the nervous system.
The next step for researchers will be to test taxol on other forms of cancer. Presently, the only human testing of the drug has been on those who have advanced ovarian cancer.
Taxol will be tested for use on several types of cancer, including colon, breast and some ovary.
Georg said the research would be especially interesting to women because the next clinical trial would be on breast cancer.
Eyup Akgun, a research assistant from Erzincan, Turkey, who is working with Georg, said he hoped the research would show positive results against other forms of cancer.
The KU team is sponsored through the
National Bank of Ukraine and supported
with KU's 60,000 last year. do research
Although this is just the beginning of taxxil research, Georget Hearn to see some advances available in next.
"We all know of people who have died of cancer, so it's a good area to work in," she said. "Hopefully, we will make a contribution to the field."
Desire to help local homeless still exists
By Lara Gold
Kenyan staff writer
"To me it emphasizes the problems we have in this country as far as social problems Elliott, Overland Park senior.
The shutdown of the Salvation Army Safe House is not thwarting KU students from helping Lawrence's homeless.
Elliott participated in the Homeless Campaign, a philanthropic project sponsored by Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity in February. People donated their time to the project by staying in cardboard boxes in front of Watton Library, hoping to depict the plight of the homeless and raise money for the Salvation Army Safe House and emergency shelter.
Elliott said the United States had spent too much money on the Persian Gulf War and that it would invest money at home.
Mark Chapman, Leawood junior and Homeless Campaign participant, agreed.
"I think we need to look at the problems in our own backyard," he said. "I feel sorry for the homeless people who used the Safe House. I'm sorry we couldn't raise more money."
The Safe House, 924 New Hampshire St., will close Monday because it is about $70,000 and the agency shelter will remain open.
The Safe House, which provides housing, counseling and job skills training, relied on city and state grants and United Way and private donations.
Barb Smith, executive director for Douglas County United Way, said the organization $850 would help the Salvation army this year.
She said that the United Way was having a board meeting to discuss Lawrence's homeless release a statement today.
About 350 Lawrence people are homeless, according to Salvation Army statistics.
"We are concerned about the number of people who will be out on the streets," Smith said.
John Churchill, corps administrator for the Salvation Army, said that 16 people currently were living in the Safe House and that a maximum of 10 people could live in the emergency shelter after the Safe House closed.
But Churchill was optimistic that there was a future for the Safe House or another type of shelter.
"We are hoping something will happen." Churchill said. "Someone in the community will respond."
Mike Wilden, city manager,
said the city had donated $8,000
to the House since it
opened in Jan. 1990.
"We can't fully fund them," he said. "It's difficult to do."
Randy Manvitz, co-chairperson for the Homeless Campaign, who had not realized that a Safe House's financial troubles
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