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THE DAILY ILLINI
MONDAY February 29, 2016
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Restriction of alcohol purchases DAILY ILLINI STAFF REPORT
On Feb. 19 Mayor Deborah Feinen issued an emergency order regarding “Unoffi cial St. Patrick’s Day.� Here’s how it will impact campus celebrations Friday. All businesses located within the city limits of Champaign, bounded by Springfield Avenue on the north, Wright Street on the east, Kirby Avenue on the west, and north on Neil Street to Springfield Avenue, possessing a Class A or Class R bar or restaurant liquor license that permits the establishment to sell alcoholic beverages will be restricted in the following ways: t #BST BOE SFTUBVSBOUT will be prohibited from serving alcoholic beverages between 6 a.m. and 10 a.m. Friday and Saturday. t #BST BOE SFTUBVSBOUT will be prohibited from hosting private events that result in special drink pricing from 10 a.m. Friday until 2:30 a.m. Sunday. t #BST BOE SFTUBVSBOUT will be prohibited from serving beer in pitchers
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from 10 a.m. Friday until 2:30 a.m. Sunday. t &TUBCMJTINFOUT XJUI Class A licenses will be required to have at least one employee at all entrances to check patron IDs. All patrons must be at least 21 years-old to enter such establishments from Friday until 2:30 a.m. Sunday. All businesses with a Class P package liquor license which allows for the sale of packaged liquor for consumption off of the business premises bounded by Springfi eld Avenue on the north, Wright Street on the east, Kirby Avenue on the west, and north on Neil Street to Springfi eld Avenue will be prohibited from selling package liquor from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. Friday and Saturday. t /P LFH QFSNJUT XJMM CF issued by Feinen, the liquor commissioner, from 12:01 a.m. Friday until 2:30 a.m. Sunday. It is unlawful to possess more than one keg per residence.
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“Unofficial� is officially on its way to being trademarked — at least when it’s written on the green t-shirts that cover campus during the fi rst weekend in March. According to the United States Patent and Trademark Office, USPTO, website, the clothing company “UpMerch� fi led a trademark application for the term “Unofficial� on Oct. 19. The sale of Unofficial-related merchandise by both students and community members has become a growing market in recent memory, even creating controversy surrounding “Unofficial Chiefs,� which are commonly featured on Unofficial apparel. The University’s Campus License Coordinator Marty Kaufmann told The Daily Illini last year that the University can only control the circular depiction of Chief Illiniwek through its trademark. But the growth of the Unofficial merchandise market may quickly be impacted by the trademark on the term. UpMerch LLC is listed as the owner of the trademark, though according to a representative from the company, they said they have no affi liation with the Unofficial Shirts brand on campus. The representative said UpMerch bought the trademark “for a corporate customer of ours,� but said the company could not reveal who the customer is. However, within the USPTO trademark fi les are PDF images with shirts displaying “www. unofficialshirts.com� on the inside. UpMerch was founded by University alumnus Kevin Alsterda in 2015. Alsterda, who could not be reached for comment, is also known for founding KRA Apparel; Unofficial Shirts was a subsidy of KRA Apparel. A page administrator for the Unofficial Shirts’ Facebook page would not
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Making the trademark Oct.19, 2015: UpMerch LLC applies for “Unofficial� trademark to United States Patent and Trademark Office. Oct. 22, 2015: The application was entered into the Trademark Reporting and Monitoring system, also known as the United States Patent and Trademark Office database. Feb. 9, 2016: The application was assigned to an examiner, then “approved for pub-principal register,� meaning the final review prior to publication was completed, and the trademark application would published for a 30-day window for opposition. Feb. 12, 2016: The last status date update, according to the United States Patent and Trademark Office. March 10, 2016: The 30-day period for opposition ends. March 22, 2016: The set publication date for the trademark, according to the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
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members to ultimately determine a list of candidates to suggest to the administration. Different search firms are also brought in to lend logistical support to external searches. Douglas Beck, former cochair of the search committee for University president, said the search firms were chosen with little or no input from the presidential search committee. “The University maintains a list of prequalified search firms, they provide a proposal for a given search and then
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confi rm any affi liation with UpMerch or the trademark, saying they are “constantly bombarded with questions from the media, we prefer to not continuously provide on the record information.� The goods and services that Unofficial is trademarked under, according to the USPTO, include, “clothing, namely: tops, shirts, coats, jackets, sweatshirts, sweaters, t-shirts, tank tops, polo shirts and golf shirts; footwear; headgear, namely: caps, beanies, and visors.� On Oct. 22, 2015, the trademark application was “entered in TRAM,� meaning the USPTO has accepted the application and entered it into its database. As of Feb. 9, the trademark was “approved for pub-principal register,� meaning the fi nal review prior to publication has been completed and the trademark application will be published for opposition. The application was published for opposition on Feb. 10. The trademark will remain in opposition for 30 days until March 11; during this period any person who believes they will suffer due to the registration of the mark can object to the registration. The trademark is a standard character claim “without claim to any particular font style, size, or color� according to the USPTO. But some University students are upset with the advertising of the Unofficial Shirts brand and how they target so many groups. /FJM 1BUFM GSFTINBO JO &OHJOFFS ing, fi nds the company’s posts in the A&$& $MBTT PG 'BDFCPPL HSPVQ to be unnecessary. i5IF HSPVQ JT GPS &$& GSFTINBO questions, not advertising stupid shirts,� Patel said. “I’ve just been blocking the posters one by one.� It is unclear how the trademark will affect other Unofficial clothing
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The University has hired multiple executive consultant firms to aid in the selection of high-ranking personnel over the past year given the absence of a permanent chancellor, athletic director and University president. For the chancellor search, they have selected Greenwood/Asher & Associates to help locate Interim Chancellor Barbara Wilson’s successor. Search committees are typically formed by faculty
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those proposals are typically adjudicated by the next higher level in the administration,� Beck said. Proposals from the search committee are suggested to
the president’s office in the case of the chancellor search and Board of Trustees in the case of the president search.
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Students fight second University mumps outbreak CONTRIBUTING WRITER
With spring weather quickly approaching, the mumps virus has reappeared within the University. Mumps, a highly contagious virus that affects the parotid glands, is confirmed to have spread to the dance department within the past three weeks, sending home both a male and female dancer in the process. Linda Lehovec, associate professor and Bachelor of Fine Arts program codirector, shed light on the steps the dance department took to counter the mumps virus. “We had deep cleaning done in all of our studios, including providing Clorox wipes to wipe off all the ballet barres and asking all faculty to not have students doing anything that required body to body contact,� she said in an email. She said that she hasn’t
seen anything like this in the dance department in her 21 years working in the department, emphasizing the unpredictability of the mumps. “Both students were quarantined – the male for a twoweek period and the female
“Having a student come down with the mumps really drove the importance of (eliminating contamination) home for us.� LINDA LEHOVEC
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student for one week,� Lehovec said. “Having a student come down with the mumps really drove the importance of (eliminating contamination) home for us.� Jenna Soldati, freshman in dance, described how she heard about the outbreak and the steps that she took to prevent herself from con-
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tracting the mumps. She said that she was a little worried about getting the mumps, but she had gotten the vaccine. In addition to the vaccine, she said that she took extra steps in staying healthy from the mumps and other viruses by “wash-
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ing hands a lot, carrying hand sanitizer and being OCD.â€? Both Lehovec and Soldati said that the nature of dance helped to permit the spread of illnesses. “In our department we are in body to body contact a lot ‌ We are also a small department that at times
can feel almost familial, so we often don’t hesitate to share food or drink with a classmate,� Lehovec said. A college campus is prime for the spread of the mumps virus, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as students are regularly in close proximity to one another and the vaccine is only 90 percent effective. In addition, the weather shifting to warmer temperatures may only increase the spread of the virus, according to the CDC. Besides getting the booster vaccine, washing hands and preventing the spread of saliva are ways to prevent contracting mumps. The outbreak is not the first time mumps has spread on campus; last semester several cases of mumps developed, prompting the University to offer free vaccinations.
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Despite outbreaks at the University, cases of the mumps are on the decline nationally.
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