As Campus Center Expands, an Initiative Is Uprooted
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THE VOICE Struggling artists-to-be Looking to expand palett e of options WWhat’shat’s iinn a name?name? Features 4 OOver-Obama-ingver-Obama-ing O‘ahuO‘ahu Running from discrimination A Remembering former track and fi eld coach K LEEOO Sports 11 OOpinionspinions 7 Serving the students of the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa since 1922 WEDNESDAY, FEB. 3, 2010 www.kaleo.org Volume 104 Issue 67 AAss CCampusampus CCenterenter eexpands,xpands, aann iinitiativenitiative iiss uuprootedprooted LYNN NAKAGAWA all are trying to bring to the cam- partment; and Robert Loy of the News Co-Editor pus and the UH student experi- Outdoor Circle, an environmental ence by building it. But you don’t protection organization. The second phase of the improve the campus by removing “It remains to be seen Campus Center Renovation and part of what makes it great to be- whether they will uphold the Renewal Project is set to begin gin with. This should never be an views of the students they this June, despite continued ef- either-or situation.” claim to serve or if they will forts to preserve a tree that will Phase 2 of the Campus Center push this project through in ultimately be removed. project is a multipurpose recre- spite of the protests in form of The tree, known scientifical- ation center estimated to cost $35 the signatures,” Williams said ly as Ficus benjamina var. como- million. The project has been in in the days following the Jan. sa and commonly as the comose the works since Fall 2000, when 25 CCB meeting. or tufted fig, is located between the CCB began talks with KYA However, CCB president An- Campus Center and Miller An- Design Group to plan and build drew Itsuno says the project will nex. It is estimated to be 90 to the center, and implement other continue as planned. 100 years old, according to Dr. capital improvements. “Adam is passionate about his Richard Criley, UHM professor In June 2006, the state Leg- cause and I do empathize with of horticulture and member of islature appropriated $1 million him,” Itsuno said. “However, this the Landscape Advisory Com- for the campus renewal proj- was a student initiative, and stu- mittee (LAC). ect, and in July 2006, the CCB dents have worked hard to build On Jan. 25, Adam Williams, a passed a resolution to increase this new recreation center. We botany major at U H Mānoa and LAC student fees. In November 2006, feel that students have asked for member, petitioned at the monthly the CCB presented 2,500 student it and it will change student life at Campus Center Board (CCB) meet- signatures in support of the fee the university.” ing to save the tree. Williams has increase to the Board of Regents Funds come from CIP (Capital led the “Save Historic UH Campus (BOR), which then approved the Improvement Projects) and rev- Tree” initiative, obtaining print and fee increase and the project. enue bonds, which include student online signatures in support of the Williams has collected 1,300 fees collected for the project. Itsuno tree’s preservation. print signatures and 595 online said the funding is separate from “I want to be clear about petition signatures. Supporters of the university’s operating budget. something. I am not opposed to the tree include Republican Rep. “Capital funds are not trans- DIETER STELLING / KA LEO O HAWAI‘I the new recreation center, and Corinne Ching; Paul R. Weissich, ferable to operating funds,” he neither is the petition I started,” director emeritus of the Honolulu said. “This is not affecting class- The construction of a recreation center at Campus Center that will take out a Williams said in his address to Botanical Gardens; Dr. Jerry Carr, comose fi g tree will move forward despite objections from some students. the CCB. “I appreciate what you former chair of the UH botany de- See Campus Center Project, page 2 DDestructiveestructive vvirusirus tthreatenshreatens HHawai‘i’sawai‘i’s ttomatoomato iindustryndustry LUKE BROG Although most think of the pineap- and environmental protection sciences the plant’s growth. Its leaves become Contributing Writer ple and sugarcane industries when con- (PEPS) department. smaller, wrinkled, yellow-veined and sidering local agriculture, Hawai‘i’s to- Unfortunately, for such a large cash cuplike, and eventually the plant will Scientists at the University of Hawai‘i mato industry brings in approximately crop, a ferocious virus hit Hawai‘i’s to- collapse and die. at Mānoa’s College of Tropical Agricul- $10 million a year. mato farms last November and is still “There’s probably nothing worse; ture and Human Resources (CTAHR) “They’re right up there with bananas sweeping through the Islands. Accord- it’s as bad as a tomato disease you’ll ever report that a new virus has arrived in the – tomatoes are actually a really big crop ing to a Dec. 2009 CTAHR-published find,” Melzer said. “It’s so easily spread Islands. However, instead of affecting hu- here in Hawai‘i,” said Michael Melzer, a report, the tomato yellow leaf curl mans, it affects tomatoes. virology junior researcher in UH’s plant virus (TYLCV), stunts and distorts Tomatoes, page 2 K CO-EDITOR JUNGHEE LEE A L Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010 CO-EDITOR LYNN NAKAGAWA EO 2 [email protected] CO-EDITOR MARY RENEE REUTER NEWS Tomatoes REFLECTIONS STROLL ON A RAINY DAY from front page too; if you try to replant it, the vi- pothesized. rus will just spread.” According to the report, the Although in Hawai‘i the virus virus is spread by the sweet po- is affecting tomato farming most tato and silverleaf whiteflies. severely on O‘ahu and Maui, the The flies can pick up the virus tomato industry as a whole is not within five minutes of feeding yet suffering too drastically. on a tomato and are permanently “There is, by no means, a infected afterward. shortage yet, although perhaps in Attempting to manage TYL- the near future,” Melzer said. CV, some countries have devel- TYLCV is certainly not a oped hybrids (cross-breeding new threat to the global tomato with wild strains) that are, for the industry. The virus was first most part, TYLCV-resistant. found in the Middle East in the Xin-geng Wang, a PEPS ento- 1930s, and from there it spread mologist, believes a brighter future to the Caribbean and North for Hawai‘i’s tomatoes also depends America, and is now infecting on educating local farmers. plants across the globe. “I think it’s important to edu- Though many different crops cate the growers, such as an edu- and weeds can playlay host to cational semi-semi the virus, the CTAHRTAHR re- nar,”nar,” hhee said.said. port says visible symptomssymptoms KENT NISHIMURA / KA LEO O HAWAI‘I present in only a fewfew plants Nursing students Tammy Rich and Erin Kojima are refl ected in a puddle along McCarthy Mall yesterday on the University such as the tomatoto and the of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Campus. common bean. Other plants that TYLCVLCV frequently but un-n- noticeably affectss Campus Center Project include eggplant, potato, tobacco from front page and bell pepper room renovations or teachers. native sites,” Itsuno said. “We felt tiful. Many students have enjoyed its (all members of This is entirely different from the current site would revitalize shade, sat and studied under it.” the nightshade the operating budget. Whether life at the university and create a family), making we build it or not, the classroom much stronger student union.” FOR MORE INFO it difficult to pin- budget does not change.” Criley says the committee point how it ar- The petition can be found The CCB and KYA Design preferred the building site oppo- rived in Hawai‘i. at: ipetitions.com/petition/ Group researched other pos- site Campus Center by Hemen- “My bestt savetree. sible sites before choosing the way Theatre and the parking lot guess is that it current one. near the campus mailroom. For more on the renovation came over from an-an- “We’ve been working with “I would be sad if the tree was cut and expansion project visit: other plant but wasn’twasn’t administration since 2006 and down,” Criley said. “It takes a long hawaii.edu/campuscenter/ visible,” Melzerrhy- hy- GRAPHIC BY KENT NISHIMURA / KA LEO O HAWAI‘I researching all of the other alter- time to grow a tree that big and beau- renovation. 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