Students Stalled by Bus Costs Thebus Is Working with Hawai‘I Colleges to Initiate Discount Fare
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MONDAY The Voice of Hawai‘i ‘Half a Dozen’ November 22, 2004 Features | page 5 Inside Bulletin 3 Opinions 4 Features 4,7 Comics | Classified 6 Ka Leo O Hawai‘i Sports 2,8 VOL. XCIX ISSUE 63 THE UnivERSITY of HAWAI‘I AT MANO¯ A www.kaleo.org Students stalled by bus costs TheBus is working with Hawai‘i colleges to initiate discount fare By Berkeley Fowler Earl says TheBus is work- Kapio Staff Writer ing with the colleges to initiate a discount fare for college students. It costs $40 to purchase a He did not specify which colleges bus pass for one month, $2 for a TheBus is working with. one-way ride. No discounts exist In Hawai‘i, TheBus won the for college students. After speak- Public Transportation System ing with six operators at TheBus Outstanding achievement award by administration, college students do the American Public Transportation not receive discounts because they Association for their service in are considered adults. 2000-2001. The award goes out to Clyde Earl at the Honolulu public transportation services that City and County public transporta- excel in areas of safety, operations, tion division of TheBus said the customer service, marketing and fare box recovery ratio (the por- policy and administration. TheBus tion of the total operating cost for did not receive an outstanding TheBus covered by the $2 fair paid achievement award for this year. by riders) is 33 percent. Thus 67 “This thing is like money percent is subsidized by City and now,” Donovan Wilson said about County or federal funds. his $40 bus pass. “I used to keep At the University of my bus pass out on my bag, but Washington, students are able to now I keep it in my wallet.” Wilson purchase a Upass for $37, which rides TheBus about four times a gives them full fare coverage on day on three different routes to get all three bus transit providers of to work. the Seattle area, and on the local Other riders don’t ride the bus just too much, now,” she said as she Downtown, Waikiki and University commuter train service. They also as often so they decide to pay the pulled an old March 2002 bus pass of Hawai‘i service and with the new TheBus Passes receive other benefits like discounts $2 fare each time they ride. Cheryl from her wallet. A and B express routes and country with participating businesses and Tanaka rides the bus only a few • Adult One Way Fare: $2 While transfers between con- coverage with the new C route, cheaper parking at park-and-ride times a month. She said she used • Adult Monthly Pass: $40 necting buses are free, they only there are more ways than ever for lots. to ride the bus with a bus pass, but • Adult Annual Pass: $440 students to get to where they want. According to the UW news- explained that she now prefers to work for two hours after you board • Youth One Way Fare: $1 letter the Upass service reduces spend the $6 per month on single the first bus. Students can’t ride one But according to many, it still costs • Youth Monthly Pass: $20 the need for students to drive their rides with free transfers. “I don’t bus to school and keep the transfer too much. • Youth Annual Pass: $220 own cars, cutting down on parking think that the bus pass is worth it until they need to go home; the driv- (Youth means a person 6 to 17 used on campus, along with pollu- anymore, unless you ride every ers will not accept it. © The Kapio Newspress, 2004. All years of age) tion. day, or multiple times a day. It’s With new improvements in rights reserved PHoto BY CHRistoPHER WARSH • Ka Leo O Hawai‘i NewsBriefs Hangin’ tough Hamilton Library Hawaiian) books that are currently due. continues service Hamilton and Sinclair books due before Oct. 10 have been extended to Dec. 17, as if they were renewed on Ka Leo News Services Oct. 30. Some fines may apply. Hamilton and Sinclair books Hamilton Library is accepting being checked out now will be due book requests from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Dec. 17 or at the end of the normal To request a book, students and fac- loan period, whichever is longer. ulty are advised to go to the loading Recalled items should be dock entrance to Hamilton Library returned to Sinclair Library. Items off Maile Way and have their UH ID from any UH system library, includ- available. ing Hamilton, may be returned to Until the Voyager system is fully Sinclair Library. functional, Hamilton Library must Sinclair audiovisual materi- operate on a manual system. The Hamilton building remains closed due to flood damage to its electrical Sinclair intervenes power system. Non-circulating material is not als have normal loan periods and available for paging at this time. should be returned or renewed at Library users are asked to limit their Sinclair Library. Faculty may request requests to five books per day and to reserve Hamilton items through should expect a two hour turn-around Sinclair Library. time for requests. Sinclair is accepting fine and Sinclair Library is maintaining fee payments from patrons only if CHRISTOPHER WARSH • Ka Leo O Hawai‘i their regular hours of operation. they are blocked in Banner or have Archival aerial photographs of Hawai'i and the Pacific are hung out to dry after receiving a careful in hand a fine and fee notice from cleaning. The collection of 90,000 photos, most of which are used for geological research, were com- Due dates extended the library. Sinclair business counter pletely soaked in water and mud during the floods. Volunteers worked to salvage as many as they could. hours are 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday Interlibrary Loans (ILL) is accepting requests for book loans in addition to photocopies. ILL still does Dec. 17 is the new due date for through Friday, and 12 p.m. to 4:30 not have a Web request form, so requests should be emailed to [email protected]. Interlibrary Services regular Hamilton, Sinclair and spe- p.m. on weekends. said requests for loans submitted now will probably not arrive in time for the end of the semester. cial collections (Pacific, Gov Docs, Ka Leo O Hawai‘i SPORTSPage 2 | Monday, November 22, 2004 Editor: Stefanie Nakasone Associate Editor: Brandy Flores | (808) 956-3221 | [email protected] SportsCommentary NBA brawl a cowardly sight By Bryan Burwell lent rage inside the arena. I hope they’re escorted into another St. Louis Post-Dispatch And you know what? I hope they one where they’re brought up on all get hammered. I hope the players criminal trespass, assault and riot ST. LOUIS (KRT) — The sports who crossed the line by running into incitement. world, it seems, has lost its ever-lov- the stands, get some of the stiffest What happened Friday night ing mind. From both sides of the line penalties ever issued in pro sports was easily the most reprehensible, that separate the field of play from history. But I also hope the disgust- cowardly and downright criminal the stands, too many athletes and ing, cowardly jerks who were tossing behavior I’ve ever witnessed by an even more spectators have lost all beer onto the players and essentially audience at a professional sporting sense of propriety, common sense instigated the mayhem end up being event in the 30-plus years I’ve been and common decency. prosecuted to the fullest extent of the covering the games people play. But The sports world was always sup- law. it was also an inevitable outburst of posed to be a wonderful refuge from I’m sick and tired of all the out- spectator lunacy because of the pre- JORDAN MURPH • Ka Leo O Hawai‘i the madness of the real world. But rage being dumped on the players vailing mean-spirited anonymity that somehow, over the past few decades, in these ever-growing conflicts. Is Warrior defensive back Landon Kafentzis sacks Idaho quarterback Michael makes these drunken cowards think Harrington in the second quarter of Saturday night’s 51-21 UH win at Aloha Stadium. there has been a slow but steady ero- Ron Artest an unstable man in need they can do anything and say any- sion of that notion. Something has of serious anger management? He thing because they buy a ticket. tainted the waters. There is a mean- certainly is, and I’m 100 percent con- I hear it and see it all the time, and fident that NBA commissioner David spirited, uncivilized hostility between it has gotten progressively worse over the athletes and some jerks in the Stern will take him to task in the Warriors: UH is still in the past few years. They mistake their stands that used to simmer just below proper manner for this madness. angry rants for passion. They confuse the surface. But finally, late Friday But I’m even more tired of all their fanaticism for a privilege. They night inside The Palace of Auburn these morons who think that the are angry about their sad and pathetic contention for bowl bid Hills, in the final moments of an price of a ticket somehow gives them lives and can’t abide the notion that entertaining and heated professional the right to do or say whatever they back over to our side and makes feel to pro and college athletes and athletes are making millions to play From page 8 basketball game, the simmering pot them punt the ball.