Enrollment Soar Strains UH Resources As Ground Shakes, Scientists Seek

Freshmen start THURSDAY The Voice of Hawai‘i Sports | page 8 September 23, 2004 Inside News 2 Opinions 7 Comics | Crossword 6 Features 4,5 Ka Leo O Hawai‘i Sports 3,8 VOL. XCIX ISSUE 23 THE UnivERSITY of HAWAI‘I AT MANO¯ A www.kaleo.org Enrollment soar strains UH resources By Janet Mock When asked about the lack of Ka Leo Staff Writer seats available in required classes, McClain explained that enrollment Closed classes. Packed parking is up 20 percent since 2001, but “the lots. Lack of dorms. Future tuition resources coming to the system from increases. the state and from tuition, which is With such a difficult beginning rising at the stately rate of 3 percent a in the school year coupled with a year, haven’t increased very much.” chain of complications, University Because of increased competi- of Hawai‘i students’ spirits and out- tion for classes and a lack of funds looks are dam- to hire new teachers and open new TONY BLAZEJACK • Ka Leo O Hawai‘i pered. “ I courses, many this semester found don’t think all required courses closed, which could Scientists are studying a series of small earthquakes at Big Island’s Mauna Loa volcano. Though most of Mauna of these issues delay graduation dates. Loa eruptions have lasted a few days, the volcano could erupt like Kilauea (pictured), which has been erupting since reflect well “We need 180 sections to deal 1983. on the univer- with the surge in enrollment over the sity,” said Jaco last year,” said Neal Smatresk, UH Le Roux, a UH Manoa vice chancellor for academic Manoa agri- affairs. “I have been able to reallo- As ground shakes, culture gradu- McClain cate resources on the Manoa campus ate student. to create 30 to 40 sections this fall.” Freshman Tanya Rivera sug- Although that number does gested: “The administration needs to not satisfy the surge in enrollment, let people know what’s going on and McClain explains the decision was scientists seek clues try not to keep them in the dark about “a proactive, right-in-the-moment issues.” response” on Smatresk’s part. And that’s exactly what UH McClain said there were sub- By Jason Ubay more than two miles above sea A barricade around the weather President David McClain had in stantial requests for funding for Ka Leo Staff Writer level. Mauna Loa, the world’s larg- observatory on Mauna Loa was built mind when he met last week with est volcano, covers 50 percent of the in hope of protecting it from eventu- UH Manoa journalism students. See McClain, page 2 Since July, the Hawai‘i Volcano Big Island. al eruption, said Rowland. Observatory has recorded a number When the volcano last erupted Observatory employees used of small earthquakes, 35 to 50 km in 1984, lava shot from the Northeast bulldozers and piled rocks, creating below the ground surface of Mauna rift and flowed within four miles of a V-shaped wall around the observa- Journalists question Loa. Earthquakes closer to the sur- Hilo. tory, Rowland said. There also was face preceded the 1950 and 1984 Where the lava might flow dur- a trench designed, diverting the lava eruptions. These deep earthquakes ing an eruption is a main concern flow. Bush’s pre-war claim are unusual and scientists have yet for Hilo residents. An eruption can However, neighborhoods at occur anywhere along Mauna Loa’s risk have no such protection. Tight to determine their meaning. rift lines, but it will most likely hap- residential areas makes lava diver- By Alexandre Da Silva erage of the war by the American “I don’t think they wanted to pen along its Northeast or Southwest gence in Hilo and Kona impossible. Ka Leo Assistant Editor media. sound like alarmists, but Mauna rift line, according to Mauna Loa Since the weather observatory is the He said while U.S. news net- Loa is an active volcano and the researchers. only building on Mauna Loa’s hill, Three German journalists yes- works worried about assigning observatory wanted to release this embedded troops in case the war If it erupts along the north- no one should get hurt by the lava terday said they couldn’t understand information to the public,” said why nearly half of all Americans materialized, German networks asked east rift line, following the 1984 when it diverts. Scott Rowland, a professor at the continue to buy President Bush’s a more critical question. eruption’s track, the lava flow may Though most of Mauna Loa’s Hawai‘i Institute of Geophysics and argument that ousted Iraqi President “We asked, ‘Why are we going go towards Hilo, which is 20 to 25 eruptions have lasted a few days, Planetology. “They’ve never seen Saddam Hussein had ties to terrorist to war?’” Kuhl said. “German jour- miles from the rift zone and on its it is possible that once the eruption organizations. nalists are very critical.” this kind of pattern before.” way downhill to the ocean. begins, Mauna Loa could erupt like “Why does the American Kristina Kayatz, a journalist with Though the volcano is more If Mauna Loa erupts along the Kilauea –– which has been erupt- people, many of them ... still think the German ZDF television news net- likely to erupt while tremors are southwest rift line, it could pose a ing nonstop since January 1983. Saddam was linked to Sept. 11?” work, said the coverage coming from active beneath the base, the Hawai‘i hazard to developments in South In 1855, Mauna Loa erupted for asked Deutsche Welle TV anchor embedded American journalists were Volcano Observatory said that an Kona. Lava in the 1950 eruption approximately 450 days, according limited to the broadcasting of explo- Karsten Kuhl during a meeting with eruption is not exactly imminent. from the southwest rift line had to the Hawai‘i Volcano Observatory sions that failed to paint an in-depth student journalists at the University Mauna Loa, which means reached the ocean within four Web site. picture of the conflict. of Hawai‘i at Manoa. “Long Mountain” in Hawaiian, rises hours. “(It) didn’t explain anything,” Kuhl said that, unlike Americans, she said. “You saw something a wide majority of Germans reject the green and far away. But what did it White House’s claim that says the mean?” former Iraqi dictator had links with The three German journalists are NewsBriefs terrorist organizations. visiting Hawai‘i for four days under a The alleged relationship was program co-sponsored by UH Manoa New Hawaiian ing of the Ici and remarks by UH Saturday. among Bush’s top argument for and the Radio in the American Sector Manoa Chancellor Peter Englert. The event is free and will fea- launching a preemptive attack against Berlin Kommission, a binational paper blessed For more information call 956- ture San Francisco’s DJ Behrouz of Iraq, along with claims that Hussein organization promoting the interac- 9932. Refreshments will be served. Yoshitoshi Recording, along with intended to use weapons of mass tion of German and American broad- live bands and DJ performances destruction against other nations. The University of Hawai‘i at casters. MTV rocks the Representatives from various Though an investigation by a Since the mid-90s the program Manoa libraries will hold a Paphana bipartisan commission concluded Mawaewae, a blessing of the path- political parties also will encourage has brought German journalists vote wih DJs educated voting. Hussein had no links with the al to stay at different U.S. states so way, for the new location of Bishop Qaeda terrorist network, a Newsweek Museum’s Ho‘olaupa‘i, Hawaiiana There will be a post-party from they can become familiar with the Positive Beats and Kokopeli poll done earlier this month found 42 American media and issues, said UH Language Newspaper Resource 10 p.m.-4 a.m. at The Living Room, Hawaii will present a voter regis- percent of those surveyed believed Manoa Journalism Professor Thomas Project. above Fisherman’s Wharf, where tration drive sponsored by MTV’s Hussein was directly involved in the Brislin. The ceremony will be at 4 p.m. Behrouz will play a four-hour set. Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Sinclair Library’s entrance on Friday. Rock the Vote. “DJs 4 Democracy” This is a nonpartisan event. Kuhl said he wondered if this It will last approximately 45 minutes will be from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. at For more information, contact assessment resulted from poor cov- See Germany, page 2 and will include a traditional oli, unty- Kapi‘olani Park Bandstand on Jeremy VerStrat at 392-1187. Page 2 | Ka Leo O Hawai‘i | Thursday, September 23, 2004 | NEWS Financing a Journalists discuss media McClain: Germany: From page 1 ings against U.S. troops. Germany said German news station report on focus for student growth has focused military operations a variety of topics. In contrast, she in peacekeeping missions in said the presidential elections, the Brislin. Afghanistan with an estimated war in Iraq and a recent wave of “When general funds aren’t com- “(There’s been) a lot of criti- From page 1 2,100 troops. hurricanes have all but dominated ing in, we have the squeeze that we cism against what happened,” Though much of their one- American news. have and every business has to deal Kayatz said about her country’s hour meeting focused on the Iraq McClain said there were sub However, the journalists with limited resources,” McClain said. reaction on Bush’s preemptive war, the German journalists also McClain said there were substantial Addressing irate, compassionate attack.

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