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Inside News 2 Features 3, 7, 8 Thursday Editorials 4 June 22, 2006 Comics 6 Sports 5 VOL. 101 | ISSUE 5 Serving the students of the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa since 1922 WWW.KALEO.ORG Third in trilogy A night spent fast forgotten in Detox Features | Page 3 Features| Page 8 CampusBeat Compiled by Matthew K. Ing Arson suspected in blaze By Matthew K. Ing Tuesday, June 13 Ka Leo News Editor 1:47 a.m. – The lights at Frear Circle were not working. Campus Security The possibility that someone found that it was due to renovations burned down her school does not at Frear Hall. sit well with University Laboratory School junior Sianha Gualano follow- 9:50 a.m. – Housing staff set up ing an arson investigation released by temporary lighting between Gateway authorities on Monday regarding last House and Hale Aloha Lehua. week’s massive blaze. Apparently, walls erected for Frear The fire, which caused an esti- Hall construction blocked existing mated $6 million in structural dam- lighting. ages and $500,000 in property dam- age, turned the Elementary School 3:00 p.m. – A student reported that building of the Lab School into an someone stole her digital camera and unrecognizable pile of debris on July iPod from her dorm room. 13. “I can’t believe that someone 3:40 p.m. – A caller reported a fire would do this,” said Gualano, a Lab alarm at the University Laboratory School student since the eighth grade. Elementary School. The caller later “I mean, we have a few rebels, but confirmed that there was a fire. students here are really more like a family.” MICHELLE WHITE • KA LEO O HAWAI‘I Wednesday, June 14 Average graduating class size 4:40 a.m. – News crews were allowed of only 52 and a friendly atmosphere Members of the Center on Disabilities Studies dig through the charred remains of the University Laboratory School in search of lost research. to film at the scene of Tuesdays UH made it unlikely to Gualano that a Lab School fire. student could be responsible for the blaze; however, she said that a fire The 67-year-old building, which erected, he said. 3:07 p.m. – A blue Nissan pick-up tion. Details, however, have not been in the affected building was not com- housed the school’s theater, orchestra, “Two adjacent buildings of the truck on the corner of University released. pletely unexpected. choir and athletics department, did same vintage style also need to be Avenue. and Dole Sreet had two “Sometimes we need to with- not have a proper sprinkler system replaced,” Hitz added. mopeds in its bed. hold information during the course of A fire waiting to happen and had a faulty electrical system, the investigation to keep the integrity “My friends and I really expected according to College of Education Arsonist-at-large 5:20 p.m. – Graffiti damage to the of the investigation,” said Honolulu it to happen sooner or later,” Gualano Dean Randy Hitz. Capt. Kenison Tejada, spokesper- mural and a water fountain were Police Captain Frank Fujii. He also said. “The walls were old and termite- “The school had been in discus- son for the Honolulu Fire Department, reported at the Hawaiian Studies said that, in cases such as this, arson- infested. If you punched the wall, sions for renovations for a number said that eye-witness accounts, physi- building. ists sometimes come forward volun- your hand would go right through it. of years,” Hitz said. Plans and num- cal evidence and burn patterns led tarily. There were holes all over the walls bers were approved for renovation in HFD officials to conclude arson after 8:18 p.m. – Campus Security noticed because of this.” 1994, but the new building was never an extensive week-long investiga- embers at the UH Lab School build- See Fire, page 2 ing that burned on Tuesday. The Honolulu Fire Department was noti- fied, and the embers were put out by 8:47 p.m. Taro unpatented Thursday, June 15 2:13 a.m. – An ice cream machine was found opened, emptied and By Blaine Tolentino last Friday, making every form of off-line at the College of Business Ka Leo Senior Writer those three taro available for people Administration. to use worldwide. This was after the The University of Hawaiʻi university had offered the patent to 6:40 a.m. – A Holmes Hall custodian announced Tuesday that it has offi- any Hawaiian group that wanted to reported two vending machines had cially dropped patents on three vari- claim it. According to Ostrander, UH been knocked over. eties of taro. A celebratory ceremony revoked the offer after realizing that was held at the University of Hawaii’s the situation would not be resolved 2:45 p.m. – A housing staff member Hawaiian Studies campus in answer that way. found a drug-laced pipe on the third to the reprieve. “We rejected that because we floor of Hale Aloha ʻIlima. “Effectively, it is as if the patent object to anyone owning kalo, even was never filed,” said Gary Ostrander, ourselves.” Ritte said. “This concept 3:23 p.m. – A student was rushed to the Vice Chancellor for Research and of turning life into ‘intellectual prop- the Queen’s Medical Center after she Graduate Education. “I hope that this erty’ is foreign to Hawaiian culture, ingested too much medication. is tangible proof that the University and that’s why we need to have a of Hawai‘i is seeing things from a voice in future decisions on Hawaiian Friday, June 16 different perspective.” biodiversity.” 2:27 a.m. – An intoxicated male, Walter Ritte first demanded that The three patents, which UH unable to hold himself up, was the patents be dropped in a letter sent applied for and received in 2002, dropped off at Faculty Housing by to UH officials during January of this came about after a researcher used friends. Emergency Medical Services year. There have since been three traditional technology to cross breed were notified, and he was taken to St. demonstrations at the University of Hawaiian taro with Palauan taro. Francis Hospital. Hawai‘i concerning the patents. The successful production of taro The agreement to relinquish less susceptible to blighting, or any Saturday, June 17 rights over the three taro varieties was plant disease that may cause sudden 7:47 p.m. – A tennis coach reported reached between Ritte, the Moloka‘i wilting or dying, was patented after that a traffic light had been knocked activist who began the entire conflict the researcher disclosed his claimed over at the corner of Dole Street with the university, and Ostrander at a invention to the university. His disclo- and Lower Campus Road. A white meeting on June 12. sure enabled the university to acquire Ford F-150 truck was found in the “For them to do what they did the patent under the researcher’s con- law school parking lot with matching was not an easy thing,” said Ritte. tract with UH and the agreement BLAINE TOLENTINO • KA LEO O HAWAI‘I damage on its front bumper. The light “They listened to us, we said no, and Nā pua no‘eau performs at the Hāloa ahu near the Hawaiian Studies building. will be repaired next week. they responded in a positive way.” UH filed a terminal disclaimer See TARO, page 2 KA LEO O HAWAI‘I NEWS Page 2 | Thursday, June 22, 2006 Editor: Matthew K. Ing | (808) 956-3221 | [email protected] Tackling air pollution FIRE: Buildings downed, investigation follows By Kailene Dela Cruz From page 1 a chance to get involved,” Gualano are currently working on a five-year Ka Leo Contributing Writer said. “Friends pressure you to get plan for the reconstruction of the This investigation comes right The East-West Center (EWC) active in school.” building; however, the construction after a change in arson laws which and Sonoma Technology, Inc (STI) According to Lab School interim could take much longer, he said. make the crime a federal offense. have taken the first steps in their Principal Peter Estomago, a lot of The Associated Students of the partnership to assess and confront air Since damages greatly exceeded the memories were burned in the depart- University of Hawaiʻi will donate pollution in the Asia-Pacific region. $20,000 mark, the arsonist, if con- ment, including vintage uniforms $10,000 to help relieve expenses for The partnership, which joins the victed, could face up to 20 years in from the 1940’s, sports nostalgia and sports and music equipment. At press Asia-Pacific expertise and connec- prison. sports records and files. time, ASUH submitted a proposal tions of EWC with the scientific Researchers for the university’s to the Board of Regents to allow a research and knowledge of STI, first More than money lost Center on Disabilities Studies also $35,000 donation. came into discussion nearly four lost more than two years worth of The donation would come from years ago. The project is now in its The destroyed building was an valuable research. They had just the ASUH budget, which is com- initial stages of implementation. integral part in the lives of most moved their offices to the building. prised of the $5 fee that students pay “To address air pollution, you Lab School students, according to with tuition. need an in-depth understanding of Gualano. The building housed the History of the school “This is something that I think the community,” said Nancy Lewis, music, athletics, and drama programs, the UH students would support,” said director of research for EWC.