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Thursday, May 3, 2007

Office inundated with designs to help Hokies heal

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BLACKSBURG, Va. -- A tiny office at Virginia Tech is filtering hundreds of requests to produce T-shirts and other items bearing university symbols to make sure they are appropriate to honor the 32 students and faculty members slain on campus.

The only memorial shirts sanctioned by the Office of Licensing and Trademarks Administration are being distributed through student organization Hokies United, said Christopher Clough, director of marketing and strategic communications. The design adds a ribbon symbol in school colors of orange and maroon on the front of a maroon shirt and bears the standard school logo on the back.

"Anyone that wants to express themselves can make a shirt," Mr. Clough said. "But it does get a little tricky. The hard part is trying to track those things and make sure they're handled appropriately."

Officials want new items to be respectful to the families of those killed and injured in a classroom building and dormitory by student Seung-Hui Cho, and they are wary after what they saw soon after the April 16 shootings.

"There was a real explosion of unlicensed and frankly inappropriate material on EBay and some other Web sites," Mr. Clough said, but sites removed them quickly.

A portion of the profits from sales of shirts, hats, flags and other items sanctioned by Virginia Tech's licensing office go into a scholarship fund for students. Proceeds from the memorial shirts will all go to a fund for the families of victims, Mr. Clough said, but unsanctioned items may not benefit the university at all.

Hokies United spokesman Adeel Khan said the organization got an initial order this week of 25,000 shirts, which can be ordered online and will be in university bookstores tomorrow.

"We expect to buy more because of demands," he said yesterday.

Manufacturers of licensed Virginia Tech items had to ramp up production to meet demand from across the country for shirts, hats and other items after the shootings. Nike, for instance, couldn't keep up with stores' demands in Virginia and elsewhere in the Mid-Atlantic region, spokesman Dean Stoyer said.

"There has been a groundswell of people who are wanting to buy Virginia Tech merchandise to show support," said Steve Glosh, assistant director of Virginia Tech Services Inc., which operates several bookstores. "It's been gratifying to see people reach out that way."

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