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Bio Major Employee of the Year Inside News 2 Features 3,5,7 Wednesday Commentary 4 June 20, 2007 Comics 6 Sports 8 VOL. 102 | ISSUE 6 Serving the students of the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa since 1922 WWW.KALEO.ORG Penguins and hula Kamehameha Day skirts not as cute Parade celebrates as it sounds isle unity Features | Page 3 Features | Page 5 Astronomy Center thrives Bio major employee of the year By Junghee Lee on Big Island Ka Leo Contributing Reporter Student Employees of the Year By Kanani Gabriel Ka Leo Contributing Reporter At the University of Hawai‘i -OVERALL WINNER- at Mānoa, student employees are Phoebe Hwang The Bank of Hawai‘i Charitable everywhere, helping other students Foundation awarded the ‘Imiloa in need. Whether it is in the library, Student Assistant Astronomy Center $150,000 in recog- Student Services Center financial Department of Public Health Services nition for its educational mission and aid services or Campus Center, leadership in the field of astronomy. the student employees are there to Presented on April 27, during a -CATEGORY WINNER- assist. Without them, the campus reception at the Hilo-based Center with Ryland Watanabe more than 120 community and business wouldn’t run as efficiently. Student Administrator leaders in attendance, the donation is the In order to recognize the hard first major gift from the bank. work of the students every year, Department of International Programs “We’re a hundred percent behind campus employers are encouraged to nominate their student employ- the Center’s mission to help inspire -TWO CATEGORY FINALISTS- and educate new generations of youth ees for the Student Employee of to pursue an interest in science,” said the Year program. Monica Tan BOH Chairman and CEO Al Landon in To be a candidate for the Officer Manager Assistant a press release. Student Employee of the Year, the Department of Human, Food and “We appreciate the Center’s role student must first be nominated. Nutrition Science in enhancing the economy of the Big Nominations usually come from Island and the state,” he said. the employer as they are the ones Donna Tanoue, bank vice chair- that observe the student the major- Debbie Quibilan man and president of its Charitable ity of the time. Nominators are COURTESY PHOTO • UH Assistant Foundation, agrees with Landon and required to nominate the students (Left to right) Vice Chancellor for Students Francisco Hernandez, Student Employee of the hopes that the contribution will“support Office of International Education Year Phoebe Ywang and interim Chancellor Denise Konan att past ceremony. the Center’s mission to bridge astrono- through the online application. my with the rich traditions of Hawaiian After all nominations are in, five judges look over the applica- culture to inspire and educate.” finalists, who will each receive a of Public Health Services as a the Department of Human, Food tions. “The five judges that deter- The University of Hawaii’s cash award of $250. From the four student assistant. She received and Nutrition Science as an mine the winners consist of an Astronomy program has continually category finalists, two category a total of $750 in scholarship office manager assistant. Debbie been given national recognition and undergraduate, graduate, faculty winners are selected to receive awards and will compete in the Quibilan is a pre-nursing stu- praise for its state-of-the-art equipment member, clerical worker and an another cash award of $250. regional competition for Student dent who worked in the Office and facilities and soon will have another administrative professional techni- reason to receive national attention. cal,” said Kaipo Tam, student coor- From the two category win- Employee of the Year. of International Education as an UH students and scientists are dinator for student employment ners, one overall winner is select- Ryland Watanabe was the cat- assistant. soon to begin work on designing sat- services. “They are not part of the ed to receive an additional cash egory winner who received a total of “Nominate a student because ellites at the Hawai‘i Space Flight student work-study program, but award of $250 and also become $500 in scholarship awards. Watanabe without them, the campus won’t Laboratory. They are scheduled to they represent part of the school.” the Employee of the Year at the is an MIS and management major run as well,” Tam said. “We launch in late 2009 from the Pacific Every nomination takes place UHM. The finalist has another who worked for the Department of would like to see the students be Missile Range of Kaua‘i. in November, and the students are chance to win more cash awards International Programs as a student recognized at what their achieve- With $4 million in funds recognized in April at the banquet by competing at the state level. administrator. ments are at the campus.” granted by U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye in the Campus Center Ballroom. This year, Phoebe Hwang was The two category finalists through the Low Earth Orbit Nanosat the overall winner for the year were Monica Tan and Debbie To check when nomination forms Integrated Defense Autonomous The candidates are placed in two System program, UH plans to have different categories depending on 2007 Student Employee of the Quibilan who each received a for the Student Employee of the two launches and two spacecraft their type of work. Year. Hwang is a biology major scholarship of $250. Tan is a Year are available, visit http://sece. before completion of the mission. Each category has two category that worked for the Department business major that worked at hawaii.edu/seoty2007.htm. Committee seeks custom U. Michigan area embraces hybrid buses By Jake Holmes Michigan has no plan to intro- Replacing every bus in the solution to textbook dilemma Michigan Daily (U. Michigan) duce hybrid technology to its own AATA’s 75-bus fleet with hybrids, By Amina Farha would be ineffective, the commit- buses. which Hieftje has pledged to do Michigan Daily (U. Michigan) tee recommends an online market- (U-WIRE) ANN ARBOR, Although the hybrid buses use over the next three years, will place where professors nationwide Mich. – Public transportation in about 30 percent less fuel than the require a hefty initial investment, (U-WIRE) ANN ARBOR, can order custom-made electronic or Ann Arbor, Mich., is about to ones used now, they cost about 83 but Black said he expects the city Mich. – High textbook prices might print copies of texts for students to become even more environmen- percent more, AATA Maintenance to see more than just a return in be the result of a “broken” market purchase. tally friendly. Manager Terry Black said. environmental well being. Over system that state or federal legisla- According to the report, these Ann Arbor Mayor John Keith Johnson, the general man- the next 12 years, Black said tion can’t fix, said a congressional texts consisting of material from ager of the university’s Fleet the AATA expects to save $2.5 advisory committee in its report to several publications would eliminate Hieftje recently unveiled plans million in fuel and maintenance Congress in May. the cost of chapters that professors to curb the amount of fossil fuels and Garage Operations, said that The Advisory Committee on don’t plan on covering, while pro- used by the city’s buses. because the hybrid buses cost costs as a result of introducing the Student Financial Assistance, an tecting copyrights. As part of “The Mayor’s so much more than regular ones hybrids. independent research panel orga- The university’s Textbook Task Green Energy Plan,” the Ann – $550,000 versus $300,000 – the Johnson said the financial nized by Congress, said high text- Force, which has been investigating Arbor Transportation Authority university will hold off on buying benefit would not be as great for book prices could be blamed on how to reduce the cost of textbooks plans to replace all its buses with hybrid buses for now. the university because its buses a “producer-centric” market that since 2006, proposed a plan to digi- a “green fleet” of hybrid buses But Johnson said the univer- typically only rack up half the doesn’t allow consumers to influ- talize much of the campus textbook within three years. sity plans to reinvestigate hybrids mileage of city buses. ence how products are formatted and market in its report to the Senate But while Ann Arbor plans in 10 to 12 years when higher fuel “It’s just more attractive to sold. Advisory Committee on University to use city funds and outside costs and lower prices of hybrid them,” he said. Instead of regulating the text- grants to buy 15 hybrid buses technology make the transition a book market, which the report says See Textbook, page 2 by November, the University of more cost-effective option. See Hyrbid, page 2 Ka Leo o Hawai‘i NEWS Page 2 | Wednesday, June 20, 2007 Editor: Tiffany Hill Associate Editor: Grant Teichman | (808) 956-3222 | [email protected] tation department updated many vehicles to run on bio-diesel fuel in NewsBriefs Textbook Hybrid 2000 to reduce fossil fuel consump- tion and greenhouse emissions. From page 1 From page 1 Bio-diesel fuels are often made from plant products. While they Emergency Management launches Hybrid technology is espe- are carbon based and release pol- online disaster preparedness courses Affairs in May. cially beneficial for vehicles that lutants when burned, government In the long run, the task force encounter frequent stop-and-go Ka Leo News Desk innovative online problem-based said it would also like to establish a traffic, like buses. Hybrid buses studies have shown bio-diesel to teaching cases that will take the Web site for instructors to compile are mostly powered by fuel com- be less harmful to the environment The Emergency Management learner through mock scenarios parts from several texts into one bustion but are assisted by elec- than petroleum-based fuels.
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