Come celebrate our ROOTS http://naio.kcc.hawaii.edu/bosp/kapio Kapi'olani Community College Vol. 32 Issue 22. March 11, 1999 Regent Panoke comments Volunteers needed on Hawaiian tuition waivers to ensure KCC's future charles Bohannan for waivers would be proof of Ha­ when I read it," Panoke said. The process for renewing KCC's the low student turnout. Accredited status is essential for Editor waiian heritage and basic admission Hawaii State Senate bill456, un­ accredited status is off to a slow start. any reputable school in the United Regent Panoke addressed the is­ guidelines. der current review of the legislature, Very few students and instructors States. Most importantly for stu­ sue Of tuition waivers for students of According to the United States state: "Appropriates funds to the have stepped forward to volunteer dents, it ensures that other universi­ Hawaiian ancestry. He said that tu­ Congress, Panoke explained, a na­ Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) their time for this worthwhile effort. ties will recognize completed cred­ ition waivers should rightfully be tive Hawaiian is defined as having to offset the cost of waiving tuition At the Accreditation 2000 com­ its when transferring. To volunteer, granted to native Hawaiians in lieu 50 percent blood quantum. He also to Hawaiian students. These funds mittee's first meeting, only one stu­ please access the Accreditation 2000 of rent past and presently due on said that the definition was unfair, count as credit against the state's li­ dent showed. Committee Chair web site at http:// native Hawaiian ceded lands which considering that presently there are ability for ceded land revenue." Ibrahim Dik is very concerned about leahi.kcc.hawaii.edu/-kcca. the University ofHawai'i Manoa sits very few Hawaiians with 50% or "We are trying to remove OHA on. As the university is only partially more blood quantum. from the picture," said Panoke. autonomous, payment should be the "50 percent would allow congress "They're not an educational institu­ responsibility of the state legislature, not to have to deal with us," he said. tion." Hearing on tuition waivers said Panoke, last Friday, March 13 "We (Hawaiians) say that if you have Panoke in closing encouraged at 1:30 p.m. in the '0hi'a cafeteria. the koko (blood), you're Hawaiian." students to become more pro-active for students of Hawaiian ancestry in administration. He proposed to "We're not saying that tuition Another concern ofPanoke's was Students, faculty, staff, and members of the KCC community students to hold a rally, write letters waivers are the responsibility of the the tuition reduction granted to all are welcomed to present testimony and comments on tuition University," said Panoke. "The state to the Board of Regents, and involve foreign students, according to the waivers for students of Hawaiian of Hawai' i is responsible." Board of Regents Policy: Section VI. state legislators in order to be heard ancestry. Testimony and comments should address the Panoke stated that for the past 92 He said that many of these students and answered with more state fund­ general question of whether students of Hawaiian ancestry years, the University of Hawai'i are partially sponsored by the uni­ ing. He said that the university needs should be granted free tuition. MAnoa has sat on relinquished Ha­ versity to attend in order to make the $30 million for its budget, which it waiian lands, of which the state has student body more internationally will most likely not receive. The open hearing will be chaired by Provost Morton and is not paid any rent on. Panoke sug­ represented, which amounts to $5 - "Students have a lot of power, scheduled for: gested that the state legislature alle­ 7 million lost for the university. $12 they should organize and make Monday, March 15, 12 Noon, 'Ohia 118 themselves known," he said. "Write viate some of the debt through a set - 15 million would be gained if these Both oral and written testimony will be accepted. To me a strong letter and I'll be forced dollar amount allotted to the univer­ students paid the out-of-state tuition. accommodate as many speakers as P.Ossible, we are request­ sity. In return, the university would to address it. We will not stand here Also, as foreign students, they are ing that comments be limited to three minutes. Similar grant tuition waivers for those of not liable for state taxes. and die off the grapevine." hearings are being scheduled on all UH system campuses Hawaiian ancestry. Qualifications · "That was devastating to me ~'W+"W+'W+'W+~ ROOTS ~'W.-t-.~+'W+'o/~ ~ ~ · ~ · ~ · ~ - ~ Kapi'o March 11,199911 ~ - ~~/AS': ~ - ~ ~ Hawaiian Keynote address by Mililani Trask "The Roots of Hawaiian waiian Homestead subdivision of trial. World Conference on Human Rights Blessing Issues" Kalapana on the Big Island. The of­ Her maternal grandmother was a in 1993 and addressing the UN Gen­ Tuesday, March 16, 10:30- ficial position of OHA is that the member of a benevolent society that eral Assembly as a representative Mele by Kawika Napoleon and 11 :30 a.m., 'Ohi'a Auditorium State should pay for the entire cost. supported Queen Lili 'uokalani when from the Pacific Basin. She served the students of Hawaiian "Its time for OHA to carry the the monarchy was overthrown. Be­ as a vice-chair in 1993 in the UNPO­ Language ball. OHA has $300 million in the nevolent societies were formed to the Unrepresented Nations and Tuesday, March 16 Andrea Fagan bank. It should be working in the help preserve the cultural and politi­ Peoples Organizations founded by 8:30-9 a.m. outside Campus Staff Writer community to help people," said cal ideals of Hawai 'i. his Holiness, the Dalai Lama- as an Mall Mililani Trask is no stranger to Trask. · Her father and uncles worked for alternative forum to the United Na- Revenues from the ceded lands controversy. Applause and criticism, Harriett Bouslog, a lawyer who stood tions. like siamese twins, follow every pro­ will bring even more. The resistance up for the rights of union members She stressed self determination as to spending the money, she says, is Malia Bird nouncement she makes. Founding in Ha wai 'i during the McCarthy era. the most important element of a Ha­ Staff Writer member of Ka Liihui Hawai'i {the because the other trustees know that U nions were particular targets in the waiian Sovereignty model and favors Hawaiian language students, under Native Hawaiian Nation)- and un- . '50s when paranoia over commu- the nation-within -a nation model as the direction of Kawika Napolean, will til recently, it's Governor- she led nism was running rampant in the the most realistic and comprehen­ perform three chants to open the Inter­ the group into the forefront of the country and ruining the lives of many si ve. The ceded lands would be the national Festival in front of the cafeteria broad based, but extremely innocent people. Her uncle David territories of the nation. Trask said on Tuesday at 8:30a.m factionated Hawaiian Sovereignty . Trask was president· of the Hawai 'i that before this can be done, a full The first chant, Kunihi ka Mauna, is movement. Taking on the State o( Government Employees Association inventory of the ceded lands must be a traditional entrance chant used to ask Hawai 'i, the Hawai'i Sovereignty for years. taken and mapped out by metes and permission of the ancestors to be- Elections Council and often OHA Trask said that her family's in- bounds. This has never been done, gin. (Office of Hawaiian Affairs), in her volvement has had a great influence so the boundary lines of the ceded A 120 outspoken, forthright style, she has on her and has given her a local per- lands are not clearly defined, and the emerged as a leader in the ongoing spective. actual corpus of the trust has never recognjze struggle for reparations. Since she was in law school, been identified. Mililani Trask has been involved Independence must be addressed the p~st When she ran for OHA as a trustee-at-large last year, many ap­ with literally dozens of political, le- in the international arena with full plauded, and some felt betrayed And gal and international organizations. UN oversight because it is not in Mililani Trask most people were a little surprised, She has made it her life's work to State or US congressional jurisdic­ given her harsh criticisms of OHA. the more money you have, the more help not only Hawaiians, but all in- tion to provide for the process. The Trask is undaunted by both applause power you have, and the more influ­ digenous and native peoples - to re- negotiation for reparations to the and criticism, acting upon her own ence you have with "the Bishop claim their rights and their lands. She Hawaiian people is complicated and beliefs with complete singleness of Street boys ... has negotiated treaties for numerous many voices will be heard in the pro­ purpose. A quality that people in­ "If OHA can't help Hawaiians Native American tribes across the cess. Count on Trask's to be one of and acknowledge ancestors. stinctively look for in their leaders, then something is wrong," she said. United States. the most predominant of those The thiid chant is mxlem and was it is perhaps this undaunted single­ Politics runs in her veins. Look­ Trask has also worked exten- v~ices. Whether they like what she written by Napolean to address the po­ ness of purpose that has given her ing back to her grandparents, Mililani sively with the United Nations, par- says or not, people do listen to sition ofHawaiians in today's world He the influence she now has in both the Trask recalls how her grandfather, ticipating in the United Nations Mililani Trask.