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Inside News 2 Features 3, 5, 7 Tuesday Commentary 4 April 24, 2007 Comics 6 Sports 8 VOL. 101 | ISSUE 128 Serving the students of the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa since 1922 WWW.KALEO.ORG Passion for fashion ‘Bows take key glows at weekend series Centenial Seven against Bulldogs Features | Page 7 Sports | Page 8 MATT TUOHY • Ka Leo o Hawai‘i Award- Dorms protested winning Murakami kicks off Bylit Patricia fest Wilson Ka Leo Staff Reporter Haruki Murakami, a popular contemporary writer and translator, Removal of will be kicking off the 10th Annual Literary Festival on April 26. He tree causes received the Kafka Award in 2006, an award that has been the precur- sor to the Nobel Prize in Literature a big stink for Kafka Award winners in 2004 By Justin Hahn and 2005. He will be doing a Ka Leo Staff Reporter reading and a question-and-answer session at 7:30 p.m. in the Campus That stinky tree by Hamilton JUSTIN HEDANI • Ka Leo o Hawai‘i Center Ballroom. Library might be moved much to Students were allowed to sign white banners expressing their the delight of some – and dismay History concerns and ideas about student housing. of others. Murakami was born in 1949 in The Baker’s cassia may be Kyoto, Japan, though he spent most facing an untimely demise, or at By Justin Hedani run,” said Michael Bischoff, another of his childhood in Kobe. He went least an undignified upheaval. Ka Leo News Editor student involved in the protest group. Housing Priority Order on to attend Waseda University in The university is planning renova- “I’m from Chicago,” he said arguing that Tokyo, where he studied film. It tions to the area fronting Hamilton Students gathered in Hale Aloha’s students who have to drive from places 1. Students in special categories estab- was also here that he met his wife. Library and one probable plan courtyard Friday to protest against the such as Kapolei and Nānākuli, which are lished by prior commitments such After he completed his schooling, includes the removal of the tree. priority order for students who receive sixth and seventh on the list, live much as Regent and Presidential Scholars, he opened “Peter Cat,” a jazz bar, For those unfamiliar with on-campus housing. Out-of-state and closer. student athletes, National Student in Kokubunji, which he ran until the tree, it is widely regarded foreign students are eighth on the list. “It’s not good for the school,” said Exchange Program, special needs and 1982. as one of the most beautiful on In 1978, at the age of 29, campus, with exquisite pink blos- “I’m representing [dorm residents] John Keene, a student from Hawai‘i. College Opportunities Program. here and am part of a group of students,” [Out-of-state students] are paying more Murakami was watching a base- soms – at least for a few weeks 2. Traditional freshmen-resident and ball game between the Yakult of the year. The rest of the time, said Bryan Whiter, leader and organizer money to come here.” non-resident students confirmed to of the protest. Since housing has refused Swallows and the Hiroshima Carp the tree is, in the words of Steve attend UHM who graduated from high in Jingju Stadium. An American Pickering, physical plant manager to listen to diplomatic pleas, Whiter said Fliers cited these complaints: it was time to “take it to the streets.” school in the spring prior to enrolling at ballplayer, Dave Hilton, came up for Hamilton Library, “kind of to bat and hit a double. It was at Whiter is an Associated Students of the - poor living conditions the university. sparse and scraggly. It’s really this same moment that Murakami University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa senator, - price increases 3. Resident and non-resident students nice for a small portion of the was hit by an epiphany. He felt but was not speaking on behalf of the - obligatory meal plans year, but then it’s ... not that great who lived in the residence hall and that he could write a book, and - Campus Security abuse and kind of stinky.” group. completed their housing contracts as he did. Months later, he turned The tree, like all shower Using white rolls of paper as ban- - poor administration freshmen during the previous spring his finished piece, “Hear the trees, is a prodigious seedpod pro- ners, phrases like “housing sucks” were semester. Wind Sing,” in to the only liter- ducer. Thousands of the stinky, used to encourage students to sign a peti- Whiter said that they got over 300 4. First-year undergraduate transfer stu- ary contest that would take such sticky and troublesome seedpods tion and express their comments about signatures in the two-hour period they a lengthy piece, and won first fall to the ground, some of which student housing. protested. “I’m trying to get a direct get tracked onto the carpet of “We think there are serious prob- meeting with the chancellor,” he said, See Order, page 2 Hamilton Library. The seedpods lems with [housing] and how it’s being “and I hope things go well.” See Author, page 2 give off a pungent odor. The odor and the sticky seed- pods have elicited complaints from students and some library administrators. But the complaints are not the only reason for the pro- Students show posed removal. It could be easy enough to deal with those problems, accord- support for ing to landscape services head Roxanne Adams. The seedpods Virginia Tech could be plucked from the tree before they fall or start to smell. “That would require a mobile victims crane to lift a worker up to cut the seedpods off,” Adams said. “And we don’t have one of those any- more.” But even if the school gets Yesterday, the Associated Students of the another piece of equipment, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa printed a ban- Pickering said the tree’s location ner to show support for the recent Virginia Tech would still be the issue. shootings. ASUH displayed the banner in front of “The tree just isn’t built to Campus Center and encouraged students to write be in such a high-traffic area,” and show their support for the families, victims Pickering said. “It has really thin and school. ASUH plans to send the banner with bark. You might have noticed the signatures to Virginia Tech’s student government. vandalism to the tree ... and it JUSTIN HEDANI Ka Leo o Hawai‘i See Tree, page 2 Ka Leo o Hawai‘i News Page 2 | Tuesday, April 24, 2007 Editor: Justin Hedani Associate Editor: Tiffany Hill | (808) 956-3222 | [email protected] Order From page 1 dents confirmed to attend UHM. 5. Students whose permanent residenc- es are on the neighboring islands. 6. Students whose permanent residenc- es are in the following towns: Kahuku, Waialua, Nānākuli to Mākaha, Lā‘ie, The Baker's cassia Hale‘iwa, and Hau‘ula. was planted before Hamilton Library was 7. Students whose permanent residenc- built in the 1960s. es are in the following towns: Wahiawā, It now is at risk for Kapolei, and Ka‘a‘awa. removal because of its Japanese author 8. Students from the mainland and smelly pods. Haruki Murakami foreign countries. recently came out 9. Students whose permanent residenc- with a new novel es are in the following towns: Mililani, MATT TUOHY entitled "After Dark." Kunia, and ‘Ewa Beach. Ka Leo o Hawai‘i 10. Students whose permanent likes,” Keeley said. “Look at the residences are in the following towns: [other cassia] over by Bachman COURTESY PHOTO HaruKi MuraKaMi Waipahu and Waimānalo. Hall. It’s not nearly as nice.” That Tree is partly because of the micro cli- 11. Students whose permanent resi- mate. include Raymond Chandler, Kurt dences are in the following towns: Pearl From page 1 Jane Spiro, a visitor from Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan) as City, Kāne‘ohe and Kailua. Oxford, England, agreed. well as Japanese mythology, which 12. Students whose permanent resi- Author can be seen in his writing. might end up killing the tree [if left “[The tree makes a] brilliant dence is in ‘Aiea. in the same spot].” statement,” she said. “They’d kill it From page 1 “My stories are a mixture of Pickering said the tree was if they tried to do anything. It just different kinds of storytelling,” he 13. Students whose permanent planted before Hamilton Library doesn’t seem like a tree this estab- explained. Murakami enjoys residences are located in the City of was built in the 1960s, and the lished can be moved easily.” place. writing fantastic literature the most, Honolulu (all ZIP codes beginning with area wasn’t designed to be so Before encountering the cas- He had never attempted to and laughed as he told me how it was 968) write and had no prior experi- congested. sia, Spiro hadn’t seen anything so his realistic piece that was the most 14. Late: Applications received at the “That’s one reason why we’re ence, but the success of his first popular. lovely. Student Housing Services office begin- going through with the redesign,” “They should just leave it novel encouraged him to continue. When he’s not working on nov- Pickering said. alone,” she said. “They haven’t got Since then, he has authored several els, he writes short stories and articles. ning May 2, 2007 for the Fall Only and The project would include enough to do. What they need to do books, which include “The Trilogy Murakami is also a translator.