Inside News 2 Features 3, 6-9 Graduation Issue Editorials 4, 5 December 12, 2005 Comics 10 Sports 11 VOL. 100 | ISSUE 77 Serving the students of the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa since 1922 WWW.KALEO.ORG Card security considered for Mānoa Congress By Michelle White “During normal working patched into the system and got a Access to buildings using the cuts aid Ka Leo Staff Writer hours, the main lobby and class- card reader. card system will be controlled by rooms are open access,” he said. “This will be a very extensive the president, chancellor, director The Office of the Vice Chancellor Labs and research areas are always thing to install across campus,” profes- and deans. The responsibility may money for for Administration submitted a draft locked and only accessible with an sor Ruth Dawson said. “It will totally be transferred to a building coor- proposal to identify and establish access card. change the look of the campus.” dinator, who would oversee card According to Emily Kukulies, Access cards are considered to access management. procedures for the installation and students a former employee at the University be more cost-effective than keys. According to the proposal, use of a card access system at the of Central Florida, which uses access “Making a key sets a depart- anyone using an access card with- University of Hawai‘i at Manoa. By Steve Jerue cards, “[The system was] much ment back to the order of $50,” said out authorization or propping doors The proposed new policy, Ka Leo Staff Writer more convenient than carrying a Thomas Schroeder, associate profes- open would be subject to disciplin- dated Aug. 4, would require a mag- whole bunch of keys. Doors and sor of meteorology. “Cards are cheap, ary action and/or criminal charges. netic stripe card to access build- Student aid, along with supply cabinets were programmed and basic computer options easily “Limiting people coming and other social programs like ings on campus. The cards would for authorized users. It also kept validate and/or cancel them.” going is quite chilling. What kind of apply to occupants and users of Medicaid and food stamps, track of who came in and out. They Schroeder has heard from oth- access will students have?” Dawson will be one federal program university buildings and facilities, used a magnetic stripe on the back ers, and thinks that the access card said. “It seems extremely likely it is and be integrated with UH system receiving less money next year of the student identification card. It system would increase access for related to UARC, and it seems that in order to balance the U.S. identification cards. included key access, the meal plan students. this is being used to solve all of “It controls electronic access deficit, since money is being and it was a bank card.” Kukulies “In my current building, the UH’s security problems.” diverted to the Iraq war and hur- to all doors,” said Gregg Takayama, added that a benefit to the system doors are locked at 5:30 p.m. and all The Committee on Campus ricane relief efforts. The House public relations director of the UH was that the cards were also good through the weekends. Our under- Safety and Security and the UHM of Representatives approved a School of Medicine. The school off-campus. They could be used grad majors can’t get in after hours, administration have both been look- bill to cut aid by $14 billion, already uses an access card system. at any business or restaurant that though we find doors left ajar.” ing into the card access system. while the Senate-approved bill will cut $9 billion. In order to save money, the government will raise interest Supreme Court hears NewsBriefs rates on student loans, which have been growing along with the cost of tuition. case over military HYPE VIP Club Card available at Spring 2006 academic calendar: Around 18,000 students Campus Center Jan. 9 — First day of instruction apply for aid every year, with The HYPE VIP Club Card is Jan. 16 — Martin Luther King Jr. Day 10,500 getting aid in the form recruiters on campus available for purchase at the University Feb. 20 — Presidents’ Day of loans, grants or work study, of Hawai‘i at Manoa Campus Center Mar. 27 — Kuhio Day according to the housing office. Box Office. The regular price of mem- By Jan Crawford Greenburg The military actively recruits Mar. 27 to 31 — Spring recess “I receive a $1,300 Stafford bership is $150. The student discount Apr. 14 — Good Friday Chicago Tribune (KRT) on college campuses, and a Bush loan and $1,300 for work study, administration lawyer stressed dur- price is $130 with a valid student ID. May 3 — Last day of instruction which isn’t much aid because The HYPE VIP Club Card WASHINGTON — Most Supreme ing arguments Tuesday that a rul- May 4-5 — Study period it simply means I can get a allows its cardholder and one addi- Court justices appeared sympathetic ing against the government could May 8-12 — Examination period job; something I could do with- Tuesday to arguments that colleges encourage a university to put the tional guest, 21 and over, entry into May 14 — Commencement out the financial aid office’s and law schools must allow mili- brakes on recruiting if it disagreed several participating dance clubs at help. I feel that I should have tary recruiters onto their campus- with other government policies, no cover charge. Members must enter Education final oral Friday received more,” said University es to talk to students, even if the including the military’s treatment of during a specified time frame on des- “What Really Matters: A of Hawai‘i at Manoa freshman schools oppose the military’s “don’t women or the war in Iraq. ignated days in order to take advan- Collective Case Study Describing Kelly McElwaine. ask, don’t tell” policy of excluding “The free speech interests that tage of card privileges. A few of the How Six Community College Students however, can some clubs and their hours include, but are openly gay people. are articulated on the other side Instructors Grade Freshman have influence over the policies not limited to: Pipeline Café every Taking up a case that pits the would extend to any basis for criti- English Compositions,” an edu- by petitioning their congress- Friday until 11:30 p.m., Zanzabar government’s efforts to maintain cizing the military, whether it was cation final oral, will take place men and senators, urging them every Thursday until 11:30 p.m., an all-volunteer military against the not liking the war in Iraq, the war Friday from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. in not to vote for these cuts. W Hotel every Friday and Saturday free-speech claims of law schools, in Afghanistan or the discrimina- Kuykendall Hall 205. While there may be fewer until 11:30 p.m., and Nextdoor every colleges and universities, a majority tory hiring policies,” said Paul The College of Education is federal grants given, there are Friday and Saturday until 11:30 p.m. of the justices seemed to be on the Clement, the solicitor general. He sponsoring this event. For more infor- several other outlets for students Benefits also include discounts and government’s side. They suggested also argued that the law does not mation, call 956-8500. to get financial assistance. they saw no constitutional problems VIP line entry at participating bars interfere with schools’ free-speech and lounges. Visit www.hypevip.com “Students do not take full with a federal law that requires rights because it applies only if Linguistics final oral advantage of all the aid and schol- schools to welcome military recruit- to order or for more information. the institutions choose to receive Tuesday afternoon arship opportunities available,” ers if the institutions accept gov- “Narratives and Identities: federal funding. UHM Fall 2005 graduation to take said Bert Fujishige of the UHM ernment money and allow private A Look at Talk Among Three E. Joshua Rosenkranz, a law- place Dec. 18 Financial Aid Office. “There are employers to recruit. Generations of Chinese-Thai- yer for New York University and The University of Hawai‘i at several scholarships available on “It doesn’t insist that you do Cambodian Americans,” a linguistics other schools, argued that the feder- Manoa fall 2005 graduation cer- the financial aid Web site and on anything. It says that if you want final oral, will take place Tuesday our money, you have to let our al law was unconstitutional because emony will take place Sunday from other sites online.” Scholarships afternoon from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. in recruiters on campus,” Chief Justice it forced educational institutions to 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Stan are also available for students Moore Hall 575. John Roberts said. condone the military’s policy on Sheriff Center. already in college. The linguistics department is The case has drawn signifi- gays, even though it runs afoul of This will be a combined undergrad- The UHM Financial Aid cant attention as an intersection of schools’ policies prohibiting dis- uate and advanced degree ceremony. sponsoring this event. For more infor- Office plans on making the Free two hotly debated subjects, military crimination based on sexual ori- Campus parking is free. After mation, call 956-8500. Application for Federal Student recruiting and gay rights. As the war entation. He said the law violates the ceremony, friends and family may Aid (FAFSA) process simpler in Iraq has drawn out, the military schools’ free-speech rights because meet the candidates at Les Murakami Nursing final oral by having everything done has been under pressure to recruit it requires them to help spread the Stadium and the soccer field.