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Inside News 2, 3 Features 8, 9, 12, 13 Monday Commentary 4, 5, 6 May 7, 2007 Comics 14 Sports 10 , 11, 15 VOL. 101 | ISSUE 134 Serving the students of the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa since 1922 WWW.KALEO.ORG We review the Ka Leo's last issue of the semester Today's issue of Ka Leo O Hawai‘i is the last regular issue for the 2006- year's top 10 2007 school year. The next issue will be printed on May 23, after which time sports highlights we will print once a week until the next academic year. Sports | Page 10 CampusBeat Compiled by Michelle White StaffBy Charlotte Marten to save on pre-tax bus passes Ka Leo Staff Reporter Listen to the Campus Beat podcast on our sister publication’s Web site, Starting this summer, the http://www.kalamakua.org. University of Hawai‘i will be imple- menting a one year state pre-tax bus Monday, Apr. 23 pass pilot program for its faculty and 9:30 a.m. – A man exposed his penis staff. Eligible university employees to a woman on Seaview Avenue near on O‘ahu will be given the choice to Hunnewell Street. He stopped his purchase monthly bus passes through white truck and asked for directions. payroll deduction on a pre–tax basis. When she stepped closer he told her A single monthly payroll deduc- to, “look at this.” She noticed that tion will be made before federal, state he was masturbating. He then drove and payroll taxes are withdrawn. The away. The man had a bald head and savings for each employee will vary was of medium build. depending on their tax bracket, but all employees will save money on 4:26 p.m. – Campus Security offi- their bus fares. cers took possession of a water bong There is a combination of rea- and marijuana. The contraband was sons UH wants to launch the pro- found in a Hale Lehua dorm room gram, said Sam Callejo, UH vice the previous night. president for administration. “The program’s goal is to ease 8:18 p.m. – A student reported that traffic, save tax dollars and encour- his car window had been broken age the use of mass transit in the while at the lower campus parking area,” he said. “This is a good option, structure. Campus Security officers determined that someone had broken a positive thing; I am pleased to offer COURTESY PHOTO • Hawaii.edu the car window to gain entry but it to UH staff.” did not steal anything. The student’s To qualify for enrollment in A pre-tax bus pass for UH staff and faculty will begin this summer. The pilot project will be for one year to encourage mass transit use. jacket was left on the ground near the program, employees must be the vehicle. eligible to participate in the State “Traffic and parking gets pretty “They were discouraged by so [the Department of Education] of Hawai‘i Employees’ Retirement bad here on campus,” Matsuo said. “I the expensive bus fare,” Wu said. decided to participate,” he said. “The Tuesday, Apr. 24 System, not already have paid park- always take the bus to school to save “Reasonable bus fare plan would pre–tax bus pass program will be ing at a UH lot through a payroll money. I am sure instructors would definitely encourage faculty to use it offered to the entire state department 2:12 a.m. – A caller reported that deduction and work at least 20 like to save money too.” and ease the traffic around campus.” but UH are the first to launch it.” some people were setting fire to a tree hours a week, Callejo said. The university also offers a 50 David Doolin, faculty at UH, Kevin Parker, a part–time stu- near Hale Noelani. Campus Security Sandra Wu, a faculty member percent discounted bus pass ($100/ said that he does not take the bus to dent at UH, said he doesn’t think fac- officers found two women trying to at UH School of Communications, semester) called the U-Pass pro- campus because there is no decent ulty and staff will take the bus to save extinguish the fire. The women were said that she uses mass transit often gram for O‘ahu students that can direct route from his home. a few hundred dollars a year. “I think questioned and released. and that she has been waiting for a show student ID. Callejo said that “The bus pass idea is a great most people are too comfortable program like this one to emerge. the U–Pass program also started idea but this being the U.S. I’m driving their own cars,” Parker said. Wednesday, Apr. 25 “I personally think that [the] bus out as a pilot program that became not sure how much it will catch on “I drive my own car even though bus system in Hawai‘i is very good and, 7:41a.m. – A car and a bicyclist ran very successful. – people do love their cars out here,” passes are not very expensive: it is we should take advantage of it,” she into each other on East-West Road. “Hopefully we can get the same he said. “Also, I bet most faculty will just not convenient to take the bus.” The car turned left and hit the man on said. “I definitely think that a pre-tax positive results from the new pilot site the length of time it takes on the UH employees interested in the bicycle. Both drivers claimed the bus plan is a wonderful idea.” program,” he said. bus to get from A to B.” signing up for the pre-tax bus pass other was negligent. Chika Matsuo, student at UH, Wu said that some of her col- Callejo said UH has never had a pilot program should submit an said that this new program for staff leagues live close to campus and similar program but he is hopeful. enrollment form. Enrollment lasts might be a great way to reduce would prefer not to drive to campus “The Department of through June 15 for an August 2007 Thursday, Apr. 26 traffic. and fight for parking stalls. Transportation wants to ease traffic bus pass. 1:35 p.m. – An iPod was stolen from a room in the POST building. 8:10 p.m. – A caller reported seeing a gunman in the Art building gallery. As Campus Security officers arrived they saw that one of the security Climate change heats up research Station ALOHA project. will be a video camera down there as lions to the dangers of climate change, monitors showed that a man was in By Dan Souder the Art Gallery with a gun. An HPD Ka Leo Staff Reporter “We picked up one end of the well. Dr. Lukas said that even if we stopped officer entered the building and deter- cable and moved it,” said Dr. Lukas. The measurements he’s making burning fossil fuels tomorrow, some mined that there was no gunman in This school year has been, “We use it to power our instruments are a part of his work on climate climate change will still occur in this the room. for some faculty and staff of the five kilometers down on the ocean change. century. University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, a floor.” “Our instrumental records, actual “The new IPCC [Intergovern- Campus Security determined that the string of breakthrough projects. With this cable Dr. Lukas can measures of air temperature, sea level mental Panel on Climate Change] security camera on one of the moni- Dr. Roger Lukas, a professor in track measurements in real time. This pressure, water level, and things like report of 2007 says 7 to 23 inches tors was playing a tape. There were Oceanography, does research on cli- gives him precise data from his office that, only go back about a hundred over the rest of this century in terms no signs to indicate which monitors mate change and its implications for chair, and the ability to record the years,” Dr. Lukas said. “But, inde- of global average sea level rise,” Dr. were live, which led to the confu- Hawai‘i. Normally this entails going variations in measurements of tem- pendent of how short that base line is, Lukas said. “The only process they sion. out on a boat once a month to take perature every day, instead of once in conjunction with the models we’re took into account is the warming of measurements of the ocean such as its a month. With a microphone on the able to discern that there is in fact the ocean water and its expansion Editor’s note: The information in temperature and pressure at various ocean floor, Dr. Lukas can also record a global warming trend and that it’s and not the addition of new [melt] Campus Beat has been provided by depths. But last year, an old AT&T the sounds of the ocean, including associated with increased CO2.” water. That means it could easily be a security logs, officer reports and wit- cable on the ocean floor was put to the strange and ethereal singing of While Al Gore’s film, “An ness statements. new scientific use. It’s part of the migrating whales. Eventually there Inconvenient Truth” has alerted mil- See Climate, page 2 Ka Leo o Hawai‘i News Page 2 | Monday, May 7, 2007 Editor: Justin Hedani Associate Editor: Tiffany Hill | (808) 956-3222 | [email protected] recovered because goats, a predator, were eradicated from Lanai‘i 20 or 30 years ago.

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