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Wednesday March 1, 2006 VOL. 100 | ISSUE 109 Serving the students of the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa since 1922 WWW.KALEO.ORG Inside Mixed Martial Japanese restaurant Features 2 Arts a brutally offers authentic Sports 3-5 beautiful sport food with style Comics 6 Editorials 7 Sports | Page 5 Features | Page 2 NewsBriefs Engineering professor receives the rising cost of electricity BOR ends presidential search $400,000 grant means a noticeable increase in By Robert Shikina said, “I advised up to speed in terms of our local culture,” Gurdal Arslan, a professor bills every month. A research Ka Leo Associate News Editor [the BOR] ... he said. “We’re really looking at a presi- in electrical engineering at the team in South Africa recently that any perma- dential search two years off. We’re not University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, developed a new type of solar David McClain moved a step nent president looking at one seven years from now.” was awarded a $400,000 grant from panel that is more efficient and closer to becoming the next president whether for Dahilig said a president hired the National Science Foundation less costly than the old silicone of the University of Hawai‘i, yester- three years or from outside UH would need time to as part of the Faculty Early Career panels. day, after the Board of Regents voted for seven to ten familiarize with the university, further Development Program. The new panels, made from unanimously to call off a national years be chosen postponing the repair issues such as search and select McClain as the per- via a search.” housing complaints, determining the Arslan is developing a a very thin metal alloy, will manent university president. McClain Last November, functions of the system president and research and education program allow homes to run only solar Despite warnings of hastiness by McClain stated filling interim positions that plague the centered on a cooperative sys- power. Direct sunlight is best for Sen. Clayton Hee, chair of the Senate that he would Mānoa campus. the panels, but they can also gen- tems design using game theoretic Committee on Higher Education, the not be a candidate for the presidency. Carolyn Tanaka, the associate methods. This design is intended erate energy through other forms BOR unanimously accepted a task “He was being fair to us at the vice president for external affairs, to connect various real-world of daylight. group’s recommendation to appoint time,” said BOR member Michael said McClain is “extremely gratified applications, like national secu- The discovery was made after McClain to the presidency of the 99- Dahilig. “When you look for a new with [the BOR’s] confidence in him rity and transportation networks, ten years of research. “With our year-old university. A week and a half president, you look for someone that and looks forward to discussing with to each other. hours of sunlight we will on aver- ago, the six-member task group, created can make a long term commitment to the regents further and entering into The CAREER program focus- age generate twice as much ener- for searching out a university president, the university.” some negotiation.” es on the combination of research gy than, for instance, European recommended McClain after a foreshort- The BOR will try to strike a bal- McClain, 59, became interim presi- with education. Arslan’s project will countries,” said Professor Vivian ened national search. ance between the needs of the univer- dent of the ten campus, approximately mostly involve the development of Alberts, the leader of the team of With the national search ended, the sity and what McClain can commit 50,000 student university after former ideas, algorithms and publishing scientists who developed the new 11-member BOR created a two-person to, Dahilig said. president Evan Dobelle’s contract was these concepts in academic and panels. task group made of Chairwoman Kitty “We’re postponing the presidential terminated by the BOR in 2004. industrial platforms. Lagareta and Regent Allan Landon to search a couple of years, getting our Four months into McClain’s presi- The educational aspect of the Hawai‘i Student Film Festival begin contract negotiations with Interim affairs in order, getting our university dency, parts of the Mānoa campus were grant comes in with Arslan’s plan looking for students and films President David McClain. in top shape so that when we attract a flooded, hitting Hamilton library and to introduce game theory concepts April 1, 2006 is the deadline “A lot of us on the Board of Regents new president that we look as if we’re causing $80 million in damages. Dahilig in general terms to undergradu- for entries for the Hawai‘i Student feel very strongly that David McClain has an institution that’s running on all cylin- said the way McClain handled the situa- ate and graduate students through Film Festival, which will be held at a very clear vision,” said Chairwoman ders,” Dahilig said. tion “speaks tones about his leadership.” Kitty Lagareta. “It’s a vision of increased Dahilig, who was in the task McClain’s recommendation by the new courses and application-based Dole Cannery Signature Theater on economy for this university.” group charged with searching for a BOR task group came one day after the research projects. May 13, 2006. During the BOR meeting yester- president, said the group met with a McClain’s support of building a con- “The end product is expect- Any university or grade day, Sen. Hee questioned the board’s rea- couple of search firms, but realized troversial Naval research center at the school student can enter. Students ed to be a substantial source of sons for rushing to suspend the national it should take a couple of steps back. University of Hawai‘i. knowledge to support students can work alone or on collabora- search. Hee said in the first six months Dahilig, a law student at UH, said his In his testimony, Sen. Hee asked both in terms of research and tive projects. of last year, only 85 percent of univer- concern is the university’s high num- the board, “Is David McClain the best? education,” Arslan said. There is no entry form. For format sity presidents across the nation were ber of interim positions contributing to We’ll never know and we’ll always requirements go to http://hawaiistu- hired from inside the system. Hee quoted the instability at UH. wonder unless we make the effort flawed South African Solar Panels dentfilmfestival.org/HSFFGroup_ McClain from a November article pub- “To me, the rush is to get an indi- as we may have been in the past to seek For people living in Hawai‘i, files/FRAMEFEST.htm. lished in the Honolulu Advertiser that vidual into the university that could get out and search for the best.” Nam beats down the competition managed to get in a few knee thrusts despite Lee’s attack, and wrestled Lee halfway out of the ring. Lee UH student Tyson Nam had to be untangled from the ropes by the referee and re-situated in center of the ring to continue the fight. wins Icon Sport fight Lee later tried several times to take Nam down but couldn’t. “[Nam’s] stand-up abilities are as good as By Danielle Flud anybody’s in Hawai‘i,” said Patrick Freitas of Ka Leo Associate Sports Editor Icon Sport. “He executed a game plan [Saturday] night that was excellent.” Athletes come in many shapes and sizes and are Round two brought out the kickboxing in each unique and talented. Yet many times those ath- both competitors, with a quick array of feigns, letes who do not participate in the popular Division I kicks and dodges. The fight was wearing on both sports are overlooked despite their skills. opponents and it became necessary for them to Tyson Nam is one of them. press even harder to just keep their feet. With 30 Last Saturday night at the Neal Blaisdell seconds left in the round, Nam sent a round kick to Center, Nam showed off his skills as a kickboxer Lee’s head and delivered several quick jabs. in his first Mixed Martial Arts tournament at the “He brawls with incredible ability,” Freitas said. Icon Sport 45. He took the match against veteran “Like a little Bruce Lee. We (at Icon) almost want fighter Ryan Lee with a technical knockout in the to see him with a yellow jumpsuit and a tiger claw first minute of round three. across his chest. We just love that kid.” “I don’t wanna be at the end of that Round three ended at 1:01 into the three-minute punch,” Nam said after the win. “I thought I round. Nam took down Lee with speed and threw might as well get inside.” him to the floor, taking a dominant position. He Nam fought in the 135-pound weight class straddled Lee as he wailed away with a rapid assault division, the lightest division of the night. A that Lee could no longer handle. clean haircut, a cute smile and a likeable person- For a moment, Lee managed to gain a moment’s ality completes the perfect picture of a nice guy respite by kicking wildly to put a little space between who is a parent’s dream. But when Nam stepped him and Nam with 2:13 left in the round. Nam into the ring it became obvious to the crowd of wasn’t about to let up and pressed through Lee’s 5,000 that looks can be deceiving and that big defense and repeatedly struck Lee with a series of things come in small packages.

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