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Inside News 2 Features 3,5,7 Wednesday Commentary 4 June 6, 2007 Comics 6 Sports 8 VOL. 102 | ISSUE 3 Serving the students of the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa since 1922 WWW.KALEO.ORG 'Pirates' trilogy Local actor offers can't dig up the acting workshop to treasure students Features | Page 5 Features | Page 3 More than Blast off! UH aims to be first 7,000 sex university in space offenders (SOEST). The University plans to Hawai‘i to launch launch its first space mission by Fall on Myspace satellite space mission 2009. “This provides a wonderful Attorney generals from Kaua‘i opportunity for our UH Mānoa stu- dents to gain hands-on training in seek to delete everything from spacecraft design Ka Leo News Desk to launching and operating an orbit- predatory profiles ing satellite, said Mānoa interim The University of Hawai‘i “is Chancellor Denise Konan. now becoming the first university "It’s a terrific incentive for young By Geoff Johnson in the world with the capability to people in Hawai‘i to explore high- The University of The California Aggie (UC-Davis) design, build, launch and control its tech careers in engineering, physics Hawaii's Hawai‘i own satellites,” according to a state- and geoscience.” Space Flight DAVIS, Calif. - State attorney ment released by the University of Peter Mouginis-Mark, inter- Laboratory will give generals nationwide are demand- Hawai‘i last week. im director of Hawai‘i Institute the university the ing that MySpace.com, the pop- The Hawai‘i Space Flight of Geophysics and Planetology capabilities to send ular networking Web site, pro- vide information on some 7,000 Laboratory (HSFL) will be centered (SOEST), also pointed out that satellites to space. profiles that have been linked to on the Mānoa campus and combine “Hawai‘i is located in a unique posi- tion to become a low-cost gateway to registered sex offenders. researchers from the College of Previously, MySpace had Engineering and the School of Ocean COURTESY PHOTO Metro Creative planned to delete the profiles, and Earth Sciences and Technology See Space, page 2 news that prompted an executive committee to draft a letter to the company asking that MySpace share the information, along with a notice that the company preserve the information. Mānoa campus puts itself on the map “Eight attorney generals signed the letter on May the By Justin Hedani include the examination of about 14th, but the letter was sent Ka Leo Photo Editor 50 buildings and inventory of more on behalf of attorney gener- than 800 plant species. Headed als from all 50 states and the The University of Hawai‘i at by William Chapman, director District of Columbia,” said Nils Mānoa has been granted $100,000 of the UH Graduate Certificate Frederiksen, spokesperson for by the Getty Foundation to map, to Program in Historic Preservation Pennsylvania Attorney General photograph and to archive impor- and Spencer Leineweber, director Tom Corbett. tant architecture and botanical den- of the Heritage Center in the UH This was followed by a izens within its campus. School of Architecture, the project subsequent notice on May 18, “As we celebrate the Centennial will also serve as a reference for wherein the committee asked of our Mānoa campus, it’s vitally future decisions that involve cam- MySpace to disclose the infor- important that we document and pus redesign or renovation. mation contained on the profiles, preserve the many cultural and Also included in the docu- Frederiksen said. landscape gems included here,” mentation will be the palm gar- Bob Cooper, spokesper- said interim Chancellor Denise den along the edges of Andrews son for Idaho Attorney General Konan in a press release. Amphitheatre, The Japanese Lawrence Wasden, said this was The project, scheduled for Garden, the Hawaiian Studies only the latest development in a one year, will be the first of its Native Gardens and Kanewai protracted campaign on behalf kind for the university and will Gardens. of attorney generals calling for MySpace to adopt stricter paren- tal controls. “The attorney generals including Attorney General Wasden have had concern for two or three years about the potential for other sexual predators to try and use MySpace to identify and target victims,” Cooper said. “On one occasion he was speak- ing to a seventh-grade class and he asked, ‘How many of you have MySpace accounts?’ and about half of them raised their hands.” Wasden noted that although most seventh-graders are aged 12 to 13, MySpace conditions require that its members are at least 14 years of age. Frederiksen was equally critical, and said the choice of JUSTIN HEDANI • Ka Leo o Hawai‘i 14 was arbitrary and “had no legal bearing.” TOP: Many important structures and plants around UH Mānoa, including those at the Japanese “Kids as young as 10 Garden, will be indexed and examined for future use by campus planners and architects. are using MySpace and have RIGHT: Andrews Amphitheatre houses ornamental palms designed by Richard Tongg, one of the first landscape architects. See Myspace, page 2 Ka Leo o Hawai‘i News Page 2 | Wednesday, June 6, 2007 Editor: Tiffany Hill Associate Editor: Grant Teichman | (808) 956-3222 | [email protected] Space NewsBriefs From page 1 Ka Leo News Desk A nearly 50-year absence will the Hawaiian Islands,” said NSB to other regions of the country. be broken from June 3 to 9 when Chairman Steven C. Beering in a According to the New York UH law school awards certifi- a delegation from the National press release. “We expect to learn Times, the army said one soldier Hawai‘i is located in Science Board will visit Hawai‘i much from our discussions with and two militants were wounded cates and announces Fellows to learn about recent science and representatives, researchers and at the Ain al Hilwe camp, near the a unique position to engineering research and the educa- educators from state government, southern Lebanese town of Sidon, The William S. Richardson tion initiatives taking places at the university, business and Native in a firefight that was started by becomea low-cost gate - School of Law’s Center for University of Hawai‘i and through- Hawaiian groups engaged in broad- militiamen seeking revenge for the Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law out the state. The NSB last came ening participation in STEM fields. reported killing of one of their lead- way to space. at the University of Hawai‘i at to Hawai‘i in 1961 to participate Beering added that the knowl- ers at the Nahr al Barad camp in in the groundbreaking ceremonies edge of the experiences and model the north. Peter Mouginis-Mark | SOEST director Mānoa announced its first recipi- ents of the new Pacific Asian Legal for the new Hawai‘i Institute for initiatives, the Board hopes “to be Ain al Hilwe, a camp with Studies Certificates June 1. Geophysics at UH Mānoa. better positioned to address national more than 47,000 refugees where space.” Malina Koani-Guzman, Jocelyn The NSB is the presiding body policy issues related to [science and armed militias walk the streets, Mouginis-Mark pointed out Macadangdang-Doane and of the National Science Foundation engineering] research and educa- has been seen as the origin of that UH will now have both satel- Kalikolihau Hannahs were award- and is on an independent advi- tion, as well as improving our guid- conflict according to security offi- lite fabrication capabilities and ed the certificates last week, each sory body to President Bush and ance and policies for the NSF as cials. Palestinian leaders have been unique, direct access to orbital also receiving a specialty in Native Congress on national policy mat- it continues to enhance its critical struggling to prevent violence in space. Hawaiian Law. ter related to science and engi- support of such effort in Hawai’i Lebanon’s 12 refugee camps, par- The new program will give The certificate is the first of its neering research and education. In and throughout our nation.” ticularly in Ain al Hilwe, with the the UH a tremendous edge in the kind, requiring that students com- 2006, NSF provided science and The Board was established by Fatah al Islam militia, a group pro- study of Earth’s oceans and con- plete courses in international law, engineering research and education Congress in 1950 and comprises 24 voked by al Qaeda. tinents in addition to numerous human rights and natural resources competitive awards of more than members, appointed by the presi- Clashes among Islamist militias engineering experiments in the law, and intensive legal writing on $40 million to Hawai‘i, mainly to dent and confirmed by the U.S. like Fatah al Islam have recently weightless environment of space. Native Hawaiian Law, in addition the University of Hawai‘i. Senate. Members are selected based increased as the ranks of militias Six NSB member, in addi- on their national distinction and expand with fighters, many of the The project will begin with to the regular course curriculum to tion to Chairman Steven Beering eminence in basic, medial or social militants coming from Iraq. a $4 million appropriation autho- earn a juris doctorate. and Executive Director Michael sciences, engineering, agriculture, According to the New York rized by U.S. Sen. Daniel K. The William S. Richardson Crosby, will meet with UH admin- education, research management or Times, witnesses at the southern Inouye for the LEONIDAS (Low School of Law also announced that the Center for Excellence in Native istrators and faculty to receive an public affairs. camp said members of the militant Earth Orbit Nanosat Integrated overview of science and engineer- group Jund al Sham, which shares Defense Autonomous System) Hawaiian Law has selected the five new Summer Fellows in Native ing research and education activi- Gates, General use South Korea members with Fatah al Islam, came program.