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Inside Sports 2 Friday Features 3, 5, 7 Editorials 4 December 2, 2005 Comics 6 Surf 8 VOL. 100 | ISSUE 72 Serving the students of the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa since 1922 WWW.KALEO.ORG Follow signs Aussie joins the and be safe Rainbow Wahine at Sandy's coaching staff Surf | Page 8 Sports | Page 2 Students speak out to state legislators By Robert Shikina LEFT: Backed by UH students, faculty Ka Leo Associate Sports Editor and administrators, ASUH President Grant Teichman addresses a group of State legislators listened to con- Hawai‘i state legislators. cerns from University of Hawai‘i students and faculty yesterday on BOTTOM: Hawai‘i State Legislators issues covering student housing, listen as students, faculty and admin- advisors, classrooms, library hours, istrators participate in an open forum athletic facilities, class availability, at the Campus Center Thursday, Dec. and a student run television station. 1. From left are Rep. Kyle Yamashita, During the four-hour meeting at Rep. Clift Tsuji, Sen. Clayton Hee, Rep. UHM’s Campus Center, more than Tommy Waters, Rep. Lyla Berg, and 40 people spoke to the committee Rep. Kirk Caldwell. on Higher Education about improve- ments needed at the University of TONY BLAZEJACK • KA LEO O HAWAI‘I Hawai‘i. It was the first time since continue to worsen. Representative Tommy Waters was “In Aloha building they have elected chair of the Higher Education water fountains but they don’t work committee in 2005, that there has or there is a hole in the wall where a been an open dialogue between stu- water fountain used to be,” Ingstrom dents and the legislature. said. “Another thing is the plumbing Representative Waters said he is really horrible. The pipes are just is concerned with the condition of overworked and outdated.” UHM’s facilities after taking a walk in maintenance, city have been Ingstrom said that the dorm pol- through campus. advising hours skyrocketing icies need to be reconsidered. “The conditions of buildings being too limited, in recent years. “Most people are really unhap- is quite appalling,” Waters said. and the need for Grad students py and unsatisfied. They’re getting “Modern equipment, expensive a 24-hour library are being their basic rights violated on a daily equipment in substandard rooms… facility. pushed out of basis,” Ingstrom said. It was horrible and unsafe.” Speaking on the market… “We need to have a median Representative Lyla Berg of east behalf of non- [and] will reached with the adminstration… not Honolulu said her interest in hearing orthodox and not be able to one where RAs and security are the concerns from students and faculty single parent stu- afford housing bad people. The way it is right now, was part of her vision of an “authen- dents, Teichman in or around they are so distant and authoritative tic dialogue” at UH. said, “It’d be the university that the students are scared of them.” “Dialogue should be happening great to make area in a mat- Andrew Ogata, vice president on campus and my question to you accommodations ter of years. of ASUH, added insight into stu- and everybody in the audience is for them and keep The university dent difficulties. Ogata included to what degree is there an authentic those [library] needs to look problems like shortages in academic dialogue by the students in planning facilities open and maintained.” oughfares to and from campus are into providing adequate and afford- advisors, limited class availability, priorities,” Berg said. Vice President of Graduate in sore need of repair and improve- able housing for graduate students on and lack of parking for 13,000 under- Associated Students of the Students Organization Steve Rodney ment,” Rodney said. “These are campus,” Rodney said. graduate students. University of Hawai‘i (ASUH) spoke on behalf of 5,000 post-gradu- small things that can really make a Carl Ingstrom, a representa- On Dec. 15th a joint house commit- Manoa President Grant Teichman ate students about ruined bicycle difference in the quality of graduate tive for student housing, described tee will meet at the state capitol to discuss opened the discussion talking about lanes and run-away housing costs. students’ experience here at UH.” how maintanence on student dorms University of Hawai‘i budget, a billion classrooms that are decades behind “The bike lanes in major thor- “Housing prices all across the is routinely delayed and conditions dollar budget covering 10 campuses. NewsBriefs Lecture to discuss “The Year of Languages” is an oppor- science colloquium. Zhou is an Associate afternoon from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at St. Portuguese colonization tunity to focus America’s attention on the Professor in the UHM Poltical Science John auditorium, room 11. “Maritime Power, Colonial Rights and benefits of studying languages and cultures Dept. Donald Price will present this zool- Trade in Portuguese Colonial Presence in from around the world. Zhou is the author of the book, “How ogy weekly seminar. Price is an Assistant Asia”, a lecture on Portuguese colonial In an effort to promote the learning The Farmers Changed China: Power of the Professor of the Biology Department at UH presence in Asia, will take place this after- of foreign languages and the conserva- People” (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, Hilo. noon from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Center for tion of minority languages, the Language 1996), and has two more under review: The Zoology department is sponsoring Korean Studies. Documentation Center is organizing a “Liberal Movements in China” and “Letters this event. Professor Ivo Carneiro de Sousa will Language Fair to increase public awareness from China: Soft-power Diplomacy.” For more information, call Irene present this lecture. De Sousa is a historian of the diverse languages and cultures at UH She is a frequent visitor to China, and Shigano at 956-8617 or e-mail her at shi- in the department of history of the Faculty Manoa. most recently presented a paper, “City [email protected] of Letters at the University of Porto in The LLL College and the East West of Women: Gender and Development of Portugal. His specialization is the history Center are cosponsoring this event. Capitalism in Shenzhen,” at the 36th World Microbiology seminar of Portuguese colonialism, and he is the For more information, call Graduate Congress of the International Institute at Geophysics Director of Post-graduate studies in Asian Student Valerie Guerin at 956-8602, e-mail of Sociology, Beijing, China, July 7-9th, “Regulation of Fatty Acid Metabolism Studies. her at [email protected], or go on the 2004. in P. aeruginosa,” a microbiology semi- The Center for Japanese Studies and web to http://www.ling.hawaii.edu/~uhdoc The Political Science department is nar, will take place this afternoon from 3 the Center for Southeast Asian Studies are sponsoring this event. p.m. to 4 p.m. at the Hawaii Institute for cosponsoring this event. Kate Zhou speaks about For more information, call Zhou at 956- Geophysics, room 110. For more information, call Christopher Chinese Politics 8777 or e-mail her at katezhou@hawaii. David Nguyen will present this micro- Bondy at 956-2667 or e-mail the Center for “Grass root Constitutional Liberalism edu. biology seminar. Nguyen is a Graduate Japanese Studies at [email protected] in China: Take the Government to the Student at Department of Microbiology. Court”, a political science colloquium, will Weekly zoology seminar The Microbiology department is spon- Language fair tomorrow take place this afternoon from 2:30 p.m. this afternoon soring this event. “The Year of Languages”, a language to 4 p.m. at Saunders Hall, room 624, the “Speciation and species differences in For more information, call 956-8553 fair, will take place tomorrow from 11:30 Friedman Room. two Hawaiian Picturewinged Drosophila,” a or e-mail the microbiology department at a.m. to 4 p.m. at Hale Halawai. Kate Zhou will present this political zoology weekly seminar, will take place this [email protected] KA LEO O HAWAI‘I SPORTS Page 2 | Friday, December 2, 2005 Editor: Scott Alonso Associate Editor: Robert Shikina | (808) 956-3215 | [email protected] Bolla completes coaching staff for the ‘Bows By Robert Shikina to Philedelphia,” Paton said. “I said Ka Leo Associate Sports Editor I hadn’t planned anywhere specific at this stage. He said, ‘come see me At 26 years old, the Australian tomorrow.’” has more experience in this business Over a year later, the 22-year-old than his age would suggest. saved enough money for his trip over- The new addition rounds out seas by working the graveyard shift at head coach Jim Bolla’s coaching staff a gas station while attending college. of five. Last year, only Bolla and He graduated in the summer of 2001 his assistant, Pat Charity, coached with a degree in applied sciences while Mathew Paton Rainbow Wahine basketball. also coaching club basketball, working his night job, and working as a resi- was UH Head “It just made sense to have some- dential advisor of the living quarters body on our staff from Australia,” Coach Jim Bolla’s for the Institute of Sport. Bolla said. “[Australia’s] a big recruit- lastest hiring Despite the worries by his fam- ing area for us, and Mathew’s got a lot to complete his ily after 9/11, Paton made the trip to of experience.” coaching staff. Philadelphia in Oct. 2001. For one Mathew Paton traveled more than month, he spent time with the 76ers’ 5,000 miles from down under and assistant coaches and players, took stepped onto University of Hawaii’s TONY BLAZEJACK notes at practices, and sat courtside KA LEO O HAWAI‘I practice court the same afternoon he during games.