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Volume XCII, Number 46	University of Southern California	Wednesday, November 10, 1982
University, T-shirt manufacturer agree
By Annette Haddad
Staff Writer
Negotiations between the university and a T-shirt manufacturer over the company’s alleged unauthorized use of various university logos will end next week with the signing of a contract, said Guy Hubbard, executive director of auxiliary services.
However, Hubbard would not elaborate on the negotiations with the New York-based Champion Products Inc. saying it is “premature to discuss at this time.”
“It is inappropriate to discuss until the contract is signed," Hubbard said.
An article in the October issue of Transcript, said the contract would involve a form of licensing that would authorize Champion to continue selling products carrying the university’s name, seal and mascot.
The contract would also provide compensation for royalties lost by the university as a result of Champion’s unauthorized sales.
Attorneys representing Champion were unavailable for comment.
Negotiations have been in process since last March, when the university filed suit against Champion, prohibiting the T-shirt company from marketing goods bearing the university logos. The company had been selling products with the university’s name and symbols without a written licensing agreement.
However, soon after the suit was filed, the university and Champion began negotiations for an out-of-court settlement.
The dispute began when Champion, a major manufacturer of T-shirts and other goods, refused to pay royalty fees for items sold to a major department store that carried the university logos.
Champion had refused to pay the back royalty fees, claiming that it had been marketing university goods before the logos were trademarked five years ago.
Despite federal cutbacks, research funding steadies
By George Aguilar
Assistant City Editor
Fears of a $3 million deficit in the university’s research budget have subsided, mainly due to increased successes by faculty members in securing research monies from the federal government in times of budgetary cutbacks.
University administrators and faculty members say that although a deficit remains, the amount is substantially below the $3 million figure previously quoted by President James Zumberge.
But the number of research proposals submitted and funded is decreasing this year from last year, largely due to the cutbacks in federal grants being awarded for university research.
William Mann, deputy director of the university’s contracts and grants office, says the number of research grants awarded to the university has dropped off by 5 to 10 percent in the first three months of fiscal year 1982-83.
University figures also show that the number of proposals submitted by faculty members
for research grants has dropped off this year.
But those who oversee the university’s performance in research are pleased that faculty members have been able to keep the decrease to a minimum.
"Research has been a substantial source of concern for the university but I personally feel good at the extent of how the faculty is going,” said Robert Biller, vice-provost of the university.
“The university is 19th in federal research funding and that is a very rapid shift from where we were 10 to 20 years ago. That’s a real testament to our faculty.”
Biller says the achievement is more significant in the face of federal grant cutbacks.
“The problem is that one of the big players has taken the chips off the table,” he said.
It has been reported that the Department of Health and Human Services, one of the larger providers of research grants in Washington, has been hit hard by budgetary cutbacks.
For example, an agency of HHS, the Administration of
Aging, has had its research resources cut back from $50 million to $22 million in the last three years.
These cuts have had a pronounced effect on some departments within the university. Mann, of contracts and grants, reports that the schools of education and public administration are finding it difficult to secure research grants.
Yet, while some schools struggle, there are departments enjoying respectable success in securing grants.
The Andrus Gerontolgy Center has recently completed a double success in scoring federal dollars. In October, the center’s doctorate research institute was given $870,000 for the next five years to train researchers in the processes of aging.
More recently, the center's Institute for Policy and Program Development received funding for its National Policy Center, which has been established to help the federal government research employment and retirement areas for the elderly.
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Max Kade German Center: a truly cultured dormitory
Activities offered go beyond housing
By Dan Janeck
Staff Writer
A notice appeared on the bulletin board inside the spe-cial-interest dormitory:
“The person-to-person questioning as to what we should spend the house monies on has been completed. The top two suggestions are a pizza party and going out to a Korean dinner.”
A pizza party? A Korean dinner? Could this possibly be Marks International Hall? Take another guess: Welcome to the Max Kade German Center, collectively composed of a dormitory and conference center.
While these activities may seem to contradict the idea of a German center, residents say such culturally diversified activities are alternatives to going out all the time to German restaurants and movies, which one resident, Pete Gaughen said, can get tiresome after a while.
On the other hand, the conference house next door to the dormitory provides students and visitors with opportunities to better understand German culture through guest lectures and discussion groups, said Cornelius Schnauber, chairman of the German department and administrator of the center.
The two-story structure, which is located at 2714 S. Hoover St., contains a large lecture room upstairs with enough seating for 50 people; a living room with a table for informal gatherings and a din-
ing room used for refreshments. which are served after the lectures.
The German department sponsors a series of 25 lectures, which include artists, writers, film directors and political analysts, to name a few. The speakers discuss pertinent issues relating to German culture.
The conference center is supervised by Helga Schwarz, who is an administrative assistant to Schnauber, and her husband. They live in an upstairs bedroom in the center, and besides watching over the premises, they also set up refreshments for the guests after the lectures.
Schwarz said that while she and her husband clean up after the lecturers, university janitorial services give the house a thorough cleaning on Fridays.
The houses were purchased in 1975 with the financial support of the Max Kade Foundation, a philanthropic organization that has supported medicinal and pharmaceutical research, and German cultural endeavors.
Schnauber said he wanted a place where both students and German residents of the community could listen to the speakers in an informal atmosphere.
He said he looked for a large central building in which the dormitory and conference center could be consolidated, but was unsuccessful in his attempt. He finally located two
buildings that were owned by a woman who previously had rented the rooms to university students.
Although the foundation has been the center’s main financial contributor, the West German government donated
money to buy such facilities as chairs and video recording equipment. They also exported a Steinway piano which sits in the center’s living room.
It also has a 20,000-volume library catalogued by research assistant Eve Lee. Most of the
books were donated by private individuals and cultural agencies. Others were bought by Schnauber in 1976 at a German book fair at Exposition Park which was sponsored in conjunction with a similar book fair in Frankfurt, Germany.
Staff photo by Nancy Weisberg
BEHIND THESE WALLS...—The Max Kade German Center, located at 2714 S. Hoover St., offers residents and visitors much more than just housing. Through the various activities, those who go to the center can gain much insight into German cuclture.