Locals Protest Drilling for Oil in Artic Refuge Bill Cuts Federal Loans For

Inside Features 5 Tuesday Editorial 4 Comics 6 January 10, 2006 Sports 3, 7 VOL. 100 | ISSUE 79 Serving the students of the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa since 1922 WWW.KALEO.ORG Women’s Basketball Used car on longest win options for poor streak since 2002 students Sports | Page 3 Features | Page 5 Locals protest drilling for oil in Artic refuge Bill cuts food; it’s very similar to Hawaiians Senators Inouye or other indigenous people who consider all life forms as sacred. federal Like Hawaiians consider the taro and Akaka as their elder brother, to care of, to care for. So do the Gwitch’in peo- loans for support drilling ple with the caribou. This differs from the mindset of westerners, who think that plants, land, animals students (U-WIRE) LOS ANGELES — In one By Robert Shikina are just things to be consumed and of the last votes of 2005, Congress Ka Leo Associate News Editor used for their own benefits. That is showed approval for a bill that would the message we would like to get About 20 protestors lined Ala cut funding for federal government- across to our people.” sponsored student loan programs by Moana Boulevard between the The Gwitch’in are comprised Prince Kuhio Federal building and $12.7 billion. of 19 communities spread across Dubbed the “Reconciliation Bill,” Richards St. waving signs with mes- Alaska. Over 7,500 people make sages supporting the preservation of the measure would include a $12.7 bil- up the Gwitch’in Nation. In an iso- lion cut from student loans to combat the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge lated area with no road access to the as traffic sped by and drivers honked the federal deficit and fund tax cuts. rest of the world, live the Vuntut The House of Representatives their horns in support. Gwitch’in of Old Crow in a commu- approved the bill before the holiday Daniel Inouye and Daniel nity of 300 people. The Gwitch’in break in December, and the Senate Akaka voted on the issue on of Vuntut depend on the caribou, approved the bill by a narrow margin March 16, 2005. and use every part of the caribou for of 51 to 50, with Vice President Dick Protestors waved signs pro- their livelihood. Cheney breaking the tie. claiming, “Too wild to waste,” “Oil “Akaka is committing cultural Because the Senate made small is not the ANsWeR” and “Stop drill- genocide, it’s like taking away the changes before passing the bill, the ing by the baby caribou.” culture of the Hawaiian people,” measure will return to the House for Two of the protest organizers, Burrows said. a final vote after the winter recess. If Steven Montogemery and Chuck Also at the protest were repre- the House passes the bill, President Burrows, traveled to the ANWR sentatives of the U.S. Public Interest Bush is expected to sign it. in July 2004 to visit tribes living Research Group. The non-profit “This will dramatically affect the in the area. The indigenous people group in three months collected access students have to this univer- they visited were the Gwitch’in, 1,500 signed postcards from the sity,” said Associated Students of the who have lived in the area for O’ahu population urging senators to University of Hawai’i president Grant 10,000 years and are perhaps the keep Arctic Refuge drilling out of Teichman. The Reconciliation Bill most affected and most outspoken the budget reconciliation bill. would raise interest rates on student of the indigenous groups in Alaska The postcard says, “There and parent loans and cut government that survive off the Porcupine is simply not much oil there. In subsidies for private lenders. Caribou herd. fact, the U.S. Geological Survey The student loan cuts are part Every spring, on a sliver of land estimates that the Arctic Refuge of a $40 billion package to reduce bound by the Arctic Sea, 150,000 contains less oil than the U.S. the federal deficit and are the largest caribou migrate from the south to uses in a year.” cuts in the history of federal student calve. It is on this 2,000 acres of According to the energy infor- loan programs. land, also called the Seringeti of the mation administration Web site, the JOEY TRISOLINI • KA LEO O HAWAI‘I In light of the loan funding cuts American continent, that the pro- United States consumes more than Shannon Wood of Kailua holds up a sign in protest Senator Akaka and and interest rate increases, ASUH posed drilling would take place. 20 million barrels of petroleum per Inoyes support of Artic Refuge drilling. will be asking for more tuition waiv- Proponents of the bill to drill day. In one year, 7.3 billion barrels ers at the state legislative session on say the caribou will remain unaf- are consumed. The ANWR Web Hawaiian.” she says will do nothing for the January 16, said Teichman. fected. Burrows said that this is not site, www.anwr.org, a site that sup- Moanikeala Akaka, a trustee Hawaiian people. “I had hoped to get a govern- the case. The 72-year-old president ports drilling in the Arctic, states of the Office for Hawaiian Affairs “For Inouye it’s a trade off for ment loan next semester but it doesn’t of Hawaiians for the Conservation that a 1987 survey done by the from 1984-1996, flew in from Hilo defense spending,” Burrows said, seem like that would be a good idea of Native Ecosystems, ‘Ahahui Department of Interior estimates to help with the protest. “It’s nine “monetary wealth is illusionary. now,” said undergraduate Christie Malama I Ka Lokahi, said all the recoverable oil ranges from 600 mil- months of oil and it will take ten Your true wealth is your resources. Gomes. “It’s become obvious to me infrasturcture associated with it lion barrels to 9.2 billion barrels. months to get there,” she said. She One of these days you’ll reach a that there are better options concern- will be a disturbance. Pat Blair, another protestor, called the senators’ vote in favor of point where all you’ll have is paper ing a loan.” “What we’re concerned about said, “We’re just here protesting oil drilling in the Arctic a sell out money, no water, no food, no air. is the caribou. It’s more than just our senators’ decisions, very un- to promote the Akaka bill, which People have to realize that.” News Editor Blaine Tolentino con- tributed to this article. NewsBrief U-PASS now available UH e-mail down tomorrow morn- Maori tribes Nga Puhi of Northland Wendt and Reina Whaitiri co-edited Weisbrod will discuss the tra- TheBus University Bus Pass ing in New Zealand, Ngati Raukawa and “Whetu Moana,” an anthology of ditions of Jewish communal sup- Program, or U-PASS, is a reduced The UH e-mail server will be Kai Tahu. Polynesian poetry in English, which port and philanthropy in light of the rate bus pass tailored to the needs unavailable tomorrow from 2 to 4 Since 1990, Sullivan has written won the Montana National New modern thinking of I. M. Rubinow of Hawaii’s college students. a.m. due to maintenance. POP, IMAP five books of poetry published by Zealand Book Award. (1875-1936), a nationally promi- Students with validated and UH Web Mail will not be avail- Auckland University Press, a graphic For more information, e-mail nent expert on Social Security and University of Hawai‘i identifica- able during the scheduled outage. novel illustrated by Chris Slane called [email protected]. social welfare. tion cards are eligible to purchase The UH Web Mail site is located at “Maui: Legends of the Outcast,” and The talk will consider some of the U-PASS. Cost is $100. The https://mail.hawaii.edu. a children’s book titled “Weaving Jewish lecture at Sakamaki Hall the questions about state and group U-PASS will be valid until May Earth and Sky: Myths and Legends “Philanthropy, Community, and roles in today’s world originally 31 and is available for purchase Poetry reading at Saunders Hall of Aotearoa,” which won both Book Poverty: Who Cares for the Jewish at the Campus Center ticket office Robert Sullivan, an assistant of the Year and the Non-Fiction Poor?” a lecture, will take place raised by Rubinow at the time of the until Jan. 31. professor of English at UH, will Category in the 2003 New Zealand tomorrow at 12:30 p.m. at Sakamaki New Deal. There will be no refunds for lost conduct a poetry reading from his Post Children’s Book Awards. His Hall, room A201. This event is free and open to the U-PASSes. new collection, “Voice Carried My first book, “Jazz Waiata,” won the Carol Weisbrod will present this general public. For more information, call Family,” tonight from 6 to 7 p.m. at PEN Best First Book of Poetry lecture. Weisbrod is a professor at For more information, contact TheBus at 848-5555 or visit their Saunders Hall room 624. award. University of Connecticut’s School Professor Peter Hoffenberg at 956- Web site at www.thebus.org. Sullivan is a member of the Sullivan with professor Albert of Law. 8497 or [email protected]. Page 2 | Ka Leo O Hawai‘i | Tuesday, January 10, 2006 | ADVERTISEMENT SPORTS | Tuesday, January 10, 2006 | Ka Leo O Hawai‘i | Page 3 Women's basketball winter break recap 12/16/05 Hawai‘i vs. Campbell first 11 3-point attempts in the first lead into a blowout.

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