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BOAKD OF TRUSTEES

[January 21

On motion of Mr. Qement, authority was given as recommended by the following vote; Aye, Mr. Clement, Mr. Grimes, Mr. Hahn, Mr, Hughes, Mr. Jones, Mr. Steger; no, none; absent, Governor Ogilvie, Mr. Page, Mr. Stone, Mr. Swain.

EASEMENTS T O URBAN A * CHAMPAIGN SANITARY DISTRICT OVER UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION LAND, URBAN A (18) The President of the University, with the concurrence of appropriate administrative officers, recommends that the University of Illinois Foundation be requested to grant to the Urbana & Champaign Sanitary District a permanent fifteen-foot wide easement and a temporary thirty-foot wide easement on the Foundation-owned land immediately north of the A. T. & T. road between the Illinois Central Railroad right-of-way and South First Street Road in Champaign County, a distance of approximately 2,750 feet, for construction of a sanitary sewer.

On motion of Mr. Hahn, this recommendation was approved by the following vote; Aye, Mr. Clement, Mr. Grimes, Mr. Hahn, Mr. Hughes, Mr. Jones, Mr. Steger; no, none; absent, Governor Ogilvie, Mr. Page, Mr. Stone, Mr. Swain.

PUBLICATION CONTRACT AND ASSIGNMENT OF COPYRIGHT (19) During the summer of 1969, as part of his assigned duties, Professor Arnold M. Tibbetts prepared a rhetoric "package" which included a syllabus, teacher's manual, and rhetoric reader. This material will be utilized in the development of a unified rhetoric program. Scott, Foresman and Company, Educational Publishers, are interested in publishing this work under the tentative title "Readings and Pre-Writing." Since Professor Tibbetts was commissioned by the University to prepare these materials, the University is a necessary party to any contract relinquishing rights to a publisher. The Scott, Foresman and Company proposal has been reviewed by various administrators and it is recommended that the University and the author, Professor Tibbetts, be authorized to enter into a contract with that Company for the publication of the work. It is proposed that royalties resulting from the contract be distributed in accordance with the policy adopted in the Board of Trustees meeting of May 21, 1969, for division of royalties. Consistent with that policy, the contract will provide that royalties up to a total of $5,000 may be paid to Professor Tibbetts, with any amount in excess of $5,000 to be divided 50 per cent to the University and 50 per cent to Professor Tibbetts. The Chancellor at the Urbana-Champaign campus, the Executive Vice President and Provost, the Vice President and Comptroller, and the University Counsel recommend approval of this proposal. I concur. O n m o t i o n of M r . J o n e s , t h i s r e c o m m e n d a t i o n w a s a p p r o v e d . CONTRACT FOR A FEASIBILITY STUDY IN FACSIMILE PRINTING, URBANA (20) On December 17, 1969, a proposal was presented to the Board of Trustees for a contract with the Stewart Warner Corporation for a feasibility study in facsimile printing. Among the terms of the proposed contract, the following was presented: Sponsor shall have an option for the following license under any and all patentable inventions and developments arising out of contract. 1. T h e option shall be for an exclusive license and shall be exercisable by the sponsor with respect to each invention within 90 (ninety) days after the issuance of the patent; . . . In approving the proposal, the last sentence was amended to read: " . . . within 90 (ninety) days after the filing of the patent application." (Changes underscored.) The Stewart Warner Corporation has indicated that it will not accept this change.