UNIVERSIT Y O F H A W A I ‘ I A T M A N O A kaleo.org The Voice of Hawai‘i Vol. XCVI Issue No. 122 Thursday, March 21, 2002 Local boys bring ‘Bows ready for unique island music Pepperdine Go Jimmy Go is not just another local The UH men’s volleyball team looks to group creating rock-steady music for islanders. defeat Pepperdine University in a pair of They are a group of local guys who will prove matches. Read Ka Leo sports for details. that they have all the necessary ingredients to make you sing and dance. See page 7 See page 8 Ex-pilot aims high for top office believes he is the most qualified his background in education, he Carroll says he’s candidate in the upcoming guberna- understands Hawaii’s current prob- torial race. lems with education. in touch, not a During a public forum at “The situation that we have here Candidates for Governor Kuykendall Auditorium on Tuesday, in terms of education is deplorable, Candidate Forum ‘02 career politician Carroll said he has a diverse per- and one of the major reasons, I feel, sonal background and life experi- is the impoverished condition that Kuykendall Auditorium ences that the other candidates do we leave our teachers in,” Carroll Noon to 1:30 p.m. not have. said, “I was making more money Free and open to By Justin Fujioka “Given the condition of the flying part-time as a jet fighter for the public KA LEO STAFF WRITER economy, given the condition of the Guard than I made working our educational system, and given full-time as an elementary school Linda Lingle (R) Editor’s note: This article is the the fact that we are actually at war, teacher.” Thursday, April 4 third in a series covering guberna- we need to have a leader who has Carroll said he supports auton- torial candidates speaking at the something more than just a political omy not only for the university but Jeremy Harris (D) Tuesday, April 9 Maria J. Wong • KA LEO O HAWAI‘I University of Hawai`i. background,” Carroll said. also for the elementary and second- He referred to the other candi- ary school system. He said this (pending final confirmation) Republican gubernatorial candidate Republican gubernatorial can- dates as “professional politicians” would eliminate the need for a bulk John Carroll at a press conference didate John Carroll said that he is with little or no experience other See Carroll, page 2 yesterday. running for governor because he than politics. Carroll said that with Women face UH students will expulsion for launch satellite By Erica Cordova posing nude KA LEO STAFF WRITER University of Hawai`i electrical By Brandi Dean student services who would be engineering students will launch a THE LARIAT (BAYLOR U.) in charge of punishment, said satellite into space next year. although the handbook lists expul- Fifty-four students at UH’s (U-WIRE) WACO, Texas - sion as a possible consequence of College of Engineering are working Photographers for Playboy mag- such behavior, that consequence together to launch a “CubeSat” mic- azine’s “Women of the Big 12 is not a foregone conclusion — rosatellite. The satellite is 10 cubic Conference” and representatives things such as the students’ atti- centimeters and designed to fit on a of the “2003: Budweiser Women tude and their honesty also would Russian missile, along with about a of the Big 12 Conference Swimsuit be considered. dozen other CubeSats of the same Calendar” will be in Waco, Texas, “Suspension and expulsion size. this week. Both companies are are always an option, depending The Russian missile will be searching for Baylor University on how grievous the action is,” launched into orbit at least two hun- women to pose for the publica- McCraw said. “All of the sanc- dred miles above Earth. tions. Students who pose could tions listed in the handbook would UH’s College of Engineering face consequences from the Baylor be an option. I can’t really make is one of about a dozen universities COURTESY PHOTO administration. a blanket statement. There are so across the nation working on a mic- UH engineering majors are designing their own satellite. Measuring a Playboy has featured college many variables to each individual rosatellite. Other universities include meager 10 cubic centimeters, it will photograph the Earth and sun. pictorials for the past 25 years. case — it depends on the situation Stanford University, University of When the Big 12 last was included and the circumstances.” Arizona and Dartmouth University. launching the satellite in April 2003. colleagues have been staying up until in 1996, President Robert B. Sloan The other possible punish- For a few of the students, this is The idea for Cubesat originated the crack of dawn to meet their dead- Jr. told “The Lariat” that students ments listed in the handbook are as close to professional as it gets. from Stanford University professor line. who posed for the magazine would censure, reprimand, probation, “We are getting our feet wet and Bob Twiggs. While buying a gift for “I think the hardest part is not be “subject to expulsion under the restitution and eviction. The two our hands dirty,” said Scott Kawakami, his grandchild in 1998, he came across really having a clear idea of the path student sexual misconduct poli- Baylor students who posed in a CubeSat team member. “It’s hands- a tiny Beanie Baby box. to follow,” he said. “But that’s when cy.” This time, however, that may 1996 were seniors and therefore on and you don’t get too much of that Later, he thought the box would we get help. Launching a satellite not be the case. were not expelled. in college.” be a perfect size to carry electromag- is not common for college students, Bethany McCraw, the asso- See Playboy, page 3 They started the project at the netic equipment into space. ciate dean of judicial and legal beginning of the semester and, if Kawakami said that he and his See Satellite, page 2 everything falls in place, they’ll be Page 2 Ka Leo O Hawai’i Thursday, March 21, 2002 NEWS way they want and create the proj- Carroll said he knows the avia- Carroll: UH ects that they want.” tion business well, having spent 32 Carroll also said he thinks there years as an airline pilot and 11 years are certain elements within the uni- managing a company that supplies What are has potential versity system that are unnecessary, pilots. especially in the current state of the On the state’s Hurricane Fund, to reverse economy. Carroll said that he would be willing the lim- “As governor, I intend to ask to borrow some money to improve state’s failing for the resignation of everybody on teachers’ pay and school facilities. the Board of Regents that we can get Carroll said the guideline of its of our rid of. I really think we need more his campaign, given the nation’s economy academics on the board and get rid current state of war, will be to make of the politicians,” he said. Hawai`i the safest destination in the lifespan? From page 1 The university will play a large world. role in reversing the state’s econ- On the issue of abortion, Carroll KA LEO STAFF of the Department of Education, omy, Carroll said. “We’ve got this said that he is pro-life and that abor- diverting funding directly to the tremendous ability here, with our tion should be a crime when the A guest speaker of the schools. climate, with our talent, to keep fetus is viable. 27th Annual Albert L. Tester Carroll said, “Given the caliber our young people here in Hawai`i He said legalizing gambling in Memorial Symposium will of people that are here and in the to help the economy and jobs here, Hawai`i would be damaging to address the limits of the human administration ... autonomy really is where they are not cleaning toilets Hawai`i and said he would veto any life span. the better way to go.” and making beds all day.” bills associated with gambling. Marc Mangel, profes- He also said he would like Carroll has not had the oppor- sor of environmental stud- to see school complexes governed tunity to speak to University of Carroll was previously the ies at the University of by an unpaid local board, whose Hawaii President Evan Dobelle, but chairman of the Hawai`i State California at Santa Cruz, will members would be more concerned had mixed opinions about some of Republican Party, elected to the deliver the keynote address with important issues and able to his proposals. Hawai`i State Legislature in the on Friday, March 22, in the deal with their own problems and Although he said he likes some House of Representatives, a pilot for Keoni Auditorium at the East- budget. of Dobelle’s proposals, he does not Hawaiian Airlines, an active mem- West Center’s Jefferson Hall. When asked about the fiscal think a West Oahu campus is a good ber of the U.S. Army and Air Force, His speech, entitled, “What realities of autonomy, Carroll said, idea. One idea that has never came and an elementary school teacher. Does the Evolutionary Theory “Basically they (schools) will be up, which he would like to see, is He also established Hawai`i of Aging Tell Us About the funded and spend the money the an aviation school to keep aspiring Aviation and is currently a licensed Limits of Human Life Span,” pilots in Hawai`i.