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Inside News 2 Features / WaterLog 3, 5 / 7 Wednesday Commentary 4, 5 June 27, 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 Don't get boxed UH hairstylist into jellyfish share shear scissor tentacles experiences WaterLog | Page 7 Features | Page 5 Newsbriefs University signs agreement with A & S counseling move postponed again Vietnam’s largest bank The Shidler College of Business at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa is now part of a cooperative partnership for training with the Vietnam Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development. University representatives signed the partnership agreement with Mr. Nguyen The Binh, CEO of VBARD and was attended by President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Nguyen Minh Triet at the New York St. Regis Hotel on June 19. During the Vietnam president’s six-day visit, Vietnamese executives from over 100 companies will sign cooperative agreements valued at more than $4 billion. Based on success of the initial pro- gram, a multi-year and multi-million dollar formal agreement for future pro- grams will be developed. The Shidler College of Business Executive Education Center will pro- vide training in the following areas: human resources development, training and updating skills in international pay- ment, credit card management, treasury activities and investment management and modern banking practices. JUSTIN HEDANI • Ka Leo o Hawai‘i Shidler’s Executive MBA is the The College of Arts amd Sciences delayed its move to the Queen Lili‘uokalani Student Services Center because of a lack of cubicles. first AACSB-accredited degree program in Vietnam, and it has been reported that graduates from the Vietnam Executive Services has been indefinately post- July 6 and that services will be avail- Student Academic Servicesʻ move) MBA program control about 25 percent Summer relocation poned with staff members on stand- able again on Monday, July 9. One was started about a year ago,” said of Vietnam’s GDP. by. week later, however, another e-mail Kirk-Kuwaye. After seven years of success- halted due to lack of The move was originally sched- was sent out stating that the intended Kuwaye said they began pack- ful operation in Hanoi, the Vietnam Executive MBA will be expanded to Ho purchased cubicles uled in an effort to consolidate the move is temporarily halted. ing up their offices in Hawai‘i Hall Chi Minh City starting this fall. university's counseling and advising Although the office will not be 108 but will not be able to continue VBARD was established services into one central loacation. transfering buildings, they will still moving until the new offices are in 1988 and is the largest state- By Justin Hedani and Tiffany Hill “There's been a delay caused by be open in the meantime. complete. owned commercial bank in Vietnam Ka Leo Photo Editor and cubicles for advisers that are sched- “The bottom-line is students “The whole plan was to con- with U.S. assets worth $2.7 billion. News Editor uled to be installed the last week of will still report to Hawai‘i Hall for duct the move during the summer,” June,” said Gregg Takayama, direc- services,” Takayama said. said Takayama, who added that the Rotating dome installed atop The University of Hawai‘i at tor of communications at the univer- Mike Kirk-Kuwaye, head of the Mānoa Facilities Office is currently observatory Mānoa College of Arts and Sciences sity. College of Arts and Sciences Student working on the cubicle delay. Student Academic Services' planned A mass e-mail was sent out last Academic Services, said the office Takayama said the A&S advis- The Lanihuli Observatory at move from the basement of Hawai‘i Monday informing students under has been wanting to move out of ing services should be in the new Windward Community College achieved Hall to the more centralized Queen the college that the move was origi- Hawai‘i Hall for a while. QLC offices in time for the fall its dream seven years in the making, with Lili‘uokalani Center for Student nally scheduled to start June 25 to “The planning (for the A&S semester. the installation of a rotating dome. The dome, weighing 3,100 pounds and 16 feet in diameter, will house a 16-inch reflecting telescope, optimal for night viewing of the stars and planets. “The Lanihuli Observatory will Campus Center gets $22M for renovation open up the wonders of the universe to the 12,000 K-12 student visitors who Legislature with great frequency. found their way into serious con- complete, the CCB will again fol- already visit WCC’s Imaginarium each CCB will ask to include It is not certain where the sideration. A new 64,000 square low the project’s funding through year,” said Joseph Ciotti, an astronomy remaining $6 million that was foot fitness facility for students is the university budget process, the professor at WCC in a news release. $6M not approved in not funded will come from. planned alongside more meeting Hawai‘i State Legislature and “The observatory will bring them inti- Meanwhile, there are sufficient spaces for campus clubs. Other finally the governor’s office. This mately closer to the rich heritage of next year's UH budget funds to begin the planning and popular ideas include a children’s process has been repeated numer- Polynesian navigation and modern astro- initial construction of the reno- center and a possible sports bar. ous times to secure design, plan- nomical discoveries on Mauna Kea. Its vated and expanded facilities. Yap “anticipates the project ning and construction funds. ‘wow’ factor will inspire the natural By Grant Teichman Although the CCB did not will be split into three phases.” The project will be financed curiosity of our youth to explore, to learn Ka Leo Associate News Editor receive all of the funds, Campus Phase one will deal with minor through both increased student and to appreciate.” Center Board adviser Sarah Yap renovations and designing the fees and taxpayer money. The The observatory currently accomo- The Hawai‘i State Legislature dates solar, radio and optical telescopes. says there should be no disruption Campus Center expansion. Phase increased student recreational fee recently authorized over $22 mil- in the project at this point, and two will be construction of the goes into effect beginning Fall The $850,000 dome, financed lion out of a $28 million request through private donations, will soon that CCB “will definitely ask the expanded facility. Phase three will 2007. to renovate and expand the stu- house the reflecting telescope. The university” to include the remain- deal with extensive renovations of Campus Center Board encour- dent owned and operated Campus telescope’s concrete tower going ing $6 million in next year’s the existing Campus Center build- ages any students with ideas for into the ground must first be weath- Center Complex. supplemental budget. ing. the upcoming renovation to con- er-proofed and painted before the The funding is largely attrib- The needed funds will have The effort to secure funds for tact them at (808) 956-9670 or telescope’s installation. uted to the advocating efforts of to go through an entirely new the renovation and expansion has [email protected]. Ciotti said the new dome and Campus Center Board (CCB), a budget cycle. spanned for years and will con- The Campus Center Complex telescope project will be completed in self-governed group of students While the design “is very pre- tinue to be an ongoing project. includes both the Campus Center September with a dedication ceremony. who visited the Hawai‘i State liminary,” many new ideas have Once preliminary designing is building, and Hemenway Hall. Ka Leo o Hawai‘i News Page 2 | Wednesday, June 27, 2007 Editor: Tiffany Hill Associate Editor: Grant Teichman | (808) 956-3222 | [email protected] Four Utah schools Talking on cell phone questioned for shady akin to drunk driving lending practices By Rochelle McConkie Texas director also had stock in a Daily Utah Chronicle (U. Utah) lender company. The Utah state ethics law concerning lenders and student (U-WIRE) SALT LAKE CITY – loans prohibits schools’ receiving Four Utah universities were placed any kind of gift or compensation on a list of schools with question- beyond $50. When Kennedy pro- able or illegal lending practices posed the Student Loan Sunshine regarding student loans, but Utah Act in the U.S. Senate, it limited Higher Education officials said gifts to employees to $10 and they have done nothing wrong. kept colleges from “branding” Utah State University, Utah the loan products. Valley State College, Southern But regardless of whether Utah University and Dixie State these Utah schools were in the College were among the schools wrong, the U has pledged that its listed in the congressional report student loan practices are clean. by Sen. Edward Kennedy, D- John Curl, director of finan- Mass., on June 14 calling for a cial aid and scholarships, said the reform of the marketing practices U’s policy is not to receive any in the Federal Family Education kind of compensation for any kind Loan Program. of volume of loans. But David Feitz, execu- Although the U used to have tive director of the Utah Higher a list of lenders to give out to Education Assistance Authority, students seeking loans, they elimi- a branch of the Utah Board of nated it two years ago because Regents, said this is unfair. information on the companies and The report exposed schools loans was changing too quickly to involved with lenders that pro- be kept current.