Dague among KU · PDF fileLAWRENCE The University Honors Program at the University of Kansas commended more than 150 graduating students at a ceremony May 19. at the Crafton-Preyer

LAWRENCE The University

Honors Program at the University

of Kansas commended more than

150 graduating students at a ceremony

May 19. at the Crafton-Preyer

Theatre in Murphy Hall.

The ceremony recognized KU

seniors who have completed the

University Honors Program and the

University Scholars Program; ment

rship program students participate

iP during their sophomore cars. l the ceremony, students rec

ived gold cords to wear during

commencement activities. Joseph Steinmetz. dean of the ColIØge

of Liberal Arts and Sciences,

aiid Kathleen McCluskey Fawcett,

senior vice provost for academic

affairs. welcomed the students and

tbeir guests. Tom Heilke. associa

e professor of political science

and associate dean of international

ograms. addressed the graduating

University Scholars. Heilke was instructor

of the Scholars Seminar in

After the ceremony. a reception

was held in the courtyard of Murphy

Hall..

Students, participating in the

honors ceremony include those.

who graduated in summer and fall

2006 and those who will graduate

in spring 2007. The university s

formal commencement took place

Sunday, May 20, in Memorial Stadium:

Nearly 4,000 students were

expected to attend.

University Honors Program students

must complete a freshman tutorial

and a combination of honors

courses and out-of-classroom experiences

such as abroad, internships.

ships. community service or undergraduate

research to graduate from

the program. Students must also

maintain a minimum 3.25 grade-

point average.

Among the students recognized

was Laura Dague. daughter of Murray

and Jennifer Dague, Washington.

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Ai students to take part in Duke TIP ceremony

LAWRENCE The University

of Kansas will host a

state recognition program for

about 400 academically talented

seventh-grade students selected

for the Duke University Talent

Identification Program.

The event takes place at 1:30

p.m. Sunday, June 3, at the Lied

Center. Marlesa .Roney, vice

provost for Student Success,

will preside. RQbert N. Sawyer,

founding executive director of

Duke TIP, will deliver the special

address to the students and

their families and guests.

Selection to Duke TIP is based

on college entrance-exam scores

that students take while still in

middle school. The top 5 per-

percent

cent are chosen for the program.

Students participate by taking

either the SAT or ACT national

achievement tests. Working

with host academic institutions

such as KU, Duke TIP sponsors

33 state ceremonies in its 16-

state talent search region.

Each Duke TIP student

receives a medallion. The state

recognition ceremonies honor

seventh graders who have

earned scores above the average

scores of college-bound

high school seniors. About 900

students qualified in the Kansas

region. About 400 are expected

to attend the ceremony.

The program is in its 27th

year, and this is the ninth year

KU has hosted the Kansas state

recognition program. In addition

to Kansans, additional students

taking part in the ceremony at

KU are Missouri residents from

the Kansas City metropolitan

area or towns near the KansasMissouri

state line. Information

tables to answer students and

parents questions about KU

programs and activities will be

in the Lied Center lobby during

the event.

The area students invited are

listed belowr:

Laura 0. Erbe Altoona;

Bridget K. Brazil, Chanute;

laylor A. McMillan Chanute;

Johnathon L. Bums, Erie; Kyle

L. Spielbusch, Erie; Jeremy L.

Setter, Humboldt. -

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1 KU Grads The names of more than 4,280 candidates

for degrees at the University

of Kansas representing 97 Kansas

counties, 44 other states, the District

of Columbia, Puerto Rico and 52 other

countries have been announced by

the University Registrar.

KU s Class of2007 numbers more

than 6,400, including 2,125 who completed

degree work in summer and fall

2006. - - -

Local Graduates inclukde:

Hiawatha: Jena M Allen daughter

of Pam Smith Speech-Language Pathology

MA Graduate Master ofArts/

Speech-Language Pathology ; Taylor

Collins Lenon son of Dennis and

Sandy Lenon Design BFA Senior

Bachelor of Fine Arts/Design; Ian

Christopher Ostrander son of Linda

Ostrander Political ScienceMA

Graduate Master ofArts/Political Science;

Megan Ann Persinger daughter

of Bill and Kathy Persinger Theatre

and Fi1mBGS Senior Bachelor of

General Studies/Theatre and Film

Brice Nathaniel Sanner son of Tim an

Vicky Sanner FinanceW SeniO

Bachelor of Science in nance

I

Horton: Kimberly Sue Clement

daughter of Ron and Sue Hartter Occupational

Therapy MOT Gradua4

Master of Occupational Therapy

Robinson: Allan Bennett Jacksoi

son of Nancy Jackson Computer

ScienceBS Senior Bachelor of Science

in Computer Science

Denton: Matthew R PÆuly son of

William and Elizabeth Pauly Professional

Master of Arch Graduate Master

of Architecture

Highland: Crystal Gale Hontz

daughter of Mark and Rhonda Stigall

Applied Behavioral Sci MiNOR Senior

Applied Behavioral SciM1NOR&

Bachelor of Science in Journalism

Kristan Sue Olson daughter of

Wayne and Marla Olson Athletic

TrainingBSE Senior Bachelor of Science

in Education

Troy: Kristin Renee Grable Female

- Social WorkMSW Graduate Master

of Social Work; Kristin Beth Jeschke

daughter of Rick and Laura Jeschke

NursingBSN Senior Bachelor of Science

in Nursing; Elizabeth Rose

Kahnt daughter of Lester and Mary

Winder Educ-PhysEducMSE Graduate

Master of Science in Education;

Katie Renee Turpin daughter of John

and Dennise Turpin Elementary

EducationBSE Senior Bachelor of

Science in Education.

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ogos mean more money than ever

Associated Press

WICHITA Five years ago,

Mike Joyce was a lawyer in

Tulsa. That s when he met a

client who had an idea putting

college logos on toothbrushes. Today, AllSportBrush sells millions

of dental-care products

every year with images like the

Kansas Jayhawk and the Kansas

State Powercat. Those logos aren t just moneymakers

makers for businessmen like

Joyce. Kansas, Kansas State and Wichita State combine to make nearly $2 million a year licensing

their logos for use on everything

from T-shirts to toothbrushes.

It s a market that has

taken off in recent years as more

products are branded with school images.

There is more of a hunger for

collegiate products in general,

said Heath Price of Collegiate

Licensing Co.

At Wichita State, success on

the basketball court means more opportunities for revenue, and

the school sorts through applications

daily from people with creative

ideas for the Shocker logo.

Key rings and birdhouses? Sure. Toilet seats and condoms? Nope.

Coffins? Maybe.

At stake is a potential financial

windfall as loyal fans gravitate

to anything with their

school s logo on it.

Joyce has done so well with his nri diit f that h h

job. There are plans to expand

into Canada and Europe this

year.

It s amazing where a little

idea will take you, he said.

Wichita State s run into the

NCAA Tournament s Sweet 16

last spring gave the WuShock mascot plenty of TV time, and it

paid off this Christmas at local

stores.

They were our No. 1 seller by

far, said Craig Staub, vice president

of All Sports, a west Wichita

apparel and collectibles store.

They ve exceeded our expectations.

The WSU athletic department makes about $15,800 from licensing

revenues in an average year.

Since July, the department has brought in $42,109 smashing

the previous record of

$27,591 in fiscal year 2006. And

there s still six months left to

build on that total.

I think Wichita State is the

hottest school we have right

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now,Ô said Joe Sheeley of

Licensing Resource Group, a

Holland, Mich. company that

oversees the use of collegiate

logos on merchandise for

schools mainly in non-BCS conferences.

When a T-shirt or other item

with a college logo is sold, an 8-

percent royalty fee is paid to the

school. The money goes into the

athletic department budget, which has

received a

healthy boost

from the sales

so far this year.

ÓThatÒs probably

not a significant

number compared to KU and K-State, but

it is a significant

increase compared

to what

weÒve seen over

the past few

years,Ô WSU senior associate athletic director

Brian Pracht

said.

ItÒs also significant

compared

to similar

schools. Sheeley

deals with 20

schools, including

a majority of

the Missouri Valley Conference,

but said

he receives the

most calls from retailers interested

in the

Shockers.

ÓMy phone

rings probably five or six times

a day strictly for

Wichita State,Ô

hesaid.

Licensing Resource Group is

one of two major companies in the field. Kansas and Kansas State use Collegiate Licensing

Co., which deals with a majority

of the BCS conferences.

Both companies sort through applications from prospective

applicants and decide which

products to approve.

ÓIf itÒs something like a T-shirt

or cap, weÒll approve it,Ô Sheeley

said. ÓIf itÒs something out of the

ordinary, like a coffin, we ask the

universities for their opinion on

that.Ô

One company that has found a

niche is Sound Around of

products that play school fight

songs on items such as key

chains, doorbells and car horns. ItÒs a mutually beneficial relationship:

the schools make money, and their logos help

move products. Heath Price,

director of CLCÒs university services

division, says that there is

an effort to enter new markets,

such as health and beauty items.

ÓOver the past few years, a

number of licensees have looked

back and said, ÑWe also need to

pay attention to the female consumer,

who might actually be

doing a majority of the shopping,

but nobody is appealing to

them,Ô he said.

While those products help bring in more revenue, clothing

is still king in the licensing

world. Apparel products account for 63 percent of all

sales.

the biggest share of

licensing inside the state.

Licensing of the Jayhawk name and mascot brought the school $972,343 during 2006.

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Waukegan, Ill., which makes Unlike WSU and K-State, KU

for many years shared profits

from its trademarks between the athletic department, chancellorÒs

office and KU Memorial Unions. That changed in 2006,

when the athletic department took over sole responsibility for the logos.

Previously, the chancellorÒs

office received 40 percent ofrevenues. Now it receives a yearly

payment of $400,000, an amount that increases by 5 percent each

year.

ÓIt was the administratorsÒ feeling that revenue production

was not what they did best,Ô associate

athletic director Jim Marchiony

said. ÓItÒs something we

have to do on a daily basis.Ô

The department has taken the gamble that it can increase licensing revenues. If it does, it

will win big by not having to

share a percentage of the money it takes in.

The quickest way to achieve

that success is on the court. An

appearance at the Final Four

brings in more than $200,000 in additional licensing revenue,

and winning the national championship

would be even bigger.

ÓOn-field success has a great

deal to do with successful licensing,Ô

Marchiony said.

Kansas is pursuing other ways

of increasing revenue as well. At

the start of 2007, the royalty fee to

license Jayhawk products increased from 8 to 9 percent.

The department is also

becoming more vigilant about

enforcing its trademarks. Because the name of the school

is also the name of the state,

there is a gray area on what items with the word ÓKansasÔ endorse

the university.

ÓIt depends on what else is on

it,Ô Marchiony said. ÓIt depends on where itÒs sold, and itdepends

ifwhoever is selling it is trying to

give the impression that this is

something that is sponsored by

Kansas Athletics.Ô

Marchiony said his biggest

concerns were protecting the

licensees who pay for access to

the logo and protecting the school from merchandise that

would reflect poorly on it.

ÓItÒs not a black and white

issue,Ô he said. ÓItÒs crimson and

blue, and all the other colors.Ô

The effort to make the Powercat nationally recognized began

when Bill Snyder was leading

the Wildcats to major bowl games. K-State outsold Kansas on the strength of those postseason

appearances.

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Are to take pan

in Duke TIP ceremony at (U LAWRENCE - The University

of Kansas will host a state

recognition program for about

400 academically talented

seventh-grade students selected

for the Duke University

Talent Identification Program,

including Kyle P. Thompson

of .Neodesha and Laura G.

Erbe of Altoona.

fhe event takes place at 1:30

p.m. Sunday, June 3, at the

Lied Center. Marlesa Roney,

vice provost for Student Success,

will preside. Robert N.

Sawyer, founding executive

director of Duke TIP will deliver

the special address to the

students and their families and

guests.

Selection to Duke TIP is

based on college entrance-

entranceexam

exam scores that students

take while still in middle

school. The top 5 percent

are chosen for the program.

Students participate by taking

either the SAT or ACT national achievement tests.

Working with host academic

institutions such as KU,

Duke TIP sponsors 33 state

ceremonies in its 16-state

talent search region.

Each Duke TIP student

receives a medallion. The

state recognition ceremoflies

honor seventh graders

who have earned scores

above the average scores of

college-bound high school

seniors. About 900 students

qualified in the Kansas region.

About 400 are expected

to attend the ceremony.

The program is in its 27th

year, and this is the ninth

year KU has hosted the Kan

Kansas state reco nition program.

In addition t Kansans, additional

stude s taking part in

the ceremon at KU are Missouri

residen s from the Kansas

City met opolitan area or

towns near he Kansas-Missoun

state 1 ne. Information

tables to ans er students and

parents que tions about KU

programs an activities will

be in the Li d Center lobby

during the e ent.

Duke TI is a nonprofit

educational rganization that

identifies an helps cultivate

the talents f academically

gifted yout . Since 1980,

more than 1 million students

have taken art in the program

that is upported by student

fees an donations from

individuals, orporations and

foundations.

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Green raduates

From K.U. Nicolette M. Fisher Green

graduated Sunday, May 20, 2007

from the University of Kansas

School of Social Welfare with her

Masters of Social Work Degree.

Nicolette works for Johnson

County Mental Health.

Nicolette and her husband Toby

live in Overland Park.

Nicolette is a 1998 graduate of

Onaga High School and is the

daughter of Bob and Connie

Fisher of Centralia and Sherri and

Chad Bosse of Lincoln, Nebraska.

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Pottawatomie

oUe. 55 Jennifer Kruse

to take part in

KU Ceremony The University of Kansas

will host a state recognition

program for about 400 academically

talented seventhgrade

grade students selected for the

Duke University Talent Identification

Program.

The event takes place at

1:30 p.m., Saturday, June 3, at

the Lied Center.

Selection to Duke TIP is

based on college entranceexam

exam scores that students take

while still in middle school. The

top 5 percent are chosen for

the program. Students participate

by taking either the SAT

or ACT national achievement

tests.

The state recognition ceremonies

honor seventh graders

who have earned scores

above the average scores of

college-bound high school seniors.

About 900 students qualified

in the Kansas region.

Those selected for this program

include: Jennifer Kruse,

daughter of David and Donna

Kruse, Hanover. She is a seventh-grader

at St. John s

Catholic School, Hanover.

Also selected were Jesse

Nelson and Hannah Oliver,

Marysville; and Austin Schmitz,

Axtell.

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)5 Wheat State Whirlwind Tour Arrives J

Nearly 50 University of Kansas faculty and staff members will visit sites in

Topeka, Wamego, Barnes, Marysville and Concordia on May 21, the first day

of the 2007 Wheat State Whirlwind Tour.

This year marks the 1 0th year for the tour, which introduces participants to

the history, landscape, .conomy and culture of Kansas.

Sponsored by Chancellor Robert Hemenway, the tour will kick off with a visit

to the Brown vs. Board of Education National Historic Site in Topeka. The

site, located at Monroe School, commemorates the landmark Supreme Court

case that led to the desegregation of American public schools.

From Topeka, the tour bus will travel to Wamego in Pottawatomie County,

where participants will s e the historic Columbian Theatre and Oz Museum.

By noon, the bus will rol.l into Washington County, where the group will have lunch at Our Daily Bread Shop in Barnes.

The next stop will be in Marysville in Marshall County, where the group will

tour Landoll Corporation, 1196 Pony Express Highway. Don Landoll,

president, chairman and f of the company, will talk about the awardwinning

winning firm s design, production and global marketing of machinery used in transportation and agriculture. The group will then move on to Pony Express Home Station

Number 1.

In Belleville, Marlesa Roney, Vice Provost for Student Success and

Concordia native, and Su Sutton, Dean of Humanities at Cloud County

Community College and Concordia resident, will board the bus to talk about

sites in Concordia and sh ire the area s history. The tour will visit Camp Concordia, a World War II prisoner of war camp for German soldiers and the National Orphan Train Mu Later that evening, tour Participants will have dinner with KU alumni at

Concordia s historic Brown Grand Theatre at 310 West Sixth Street with Karen Kelly, Deputy Director of the KU Cancer Center and a tour participant, will speak about the KU Cancer Center and health care in rural Kansas.

On Tuesday, May 22, the tour will continue westward with stops in Lucas, I o and Colby. J

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l Area Students TakeJ

Part In Duke TIP

Ceremony At KU

The University of Kansas will host

a state recognition program for about

400 academically talented seventhgrade

grade students selected for the Duke

University Talent Identification

Program.

Th Eveni plac at 1 3 p m

on Sunday, June 3, at the Lied

Center.

Selection to Duke TIP is based on

college entrance-exam scores that

students take while still in middle

school. The top 5 percent are chosen

for the program. Students participate

by taking either the SAT or ACT

national achievement tests.

Two area students will be honored

in the ceremony: Ty Bivens of

Courtland and Alex Bergstrom of \

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j5 Students receive

degrees from KU

Area students were among the

more than 4,280 candidates for degrees

during commencement ceremonies

Sunday, May 20, at the University

of Kansas, Lawrence.

Area degree candidates included:

Jennifer Keller, Wamego, Master of

Social Work; Tern Little, Wamego,

Master of Occupational Therapy;

Amanda Spiker, Onaga, Juris Doctor;

and Michael Hund, Paxico,

Bachelor of General StudiesIPhiloso

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