A Varnish of Safety at Varsity Gate
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Inside News 2 Features 3, 7 Monday Commentary 4, 5 April 23, 2007 Comics 6 Sports 8 VOL. 101 | ISSUE 127 Serving the students of the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa since 1922 WWW.KALEO.ORG 'As You Like It' A storybook takes Shakespeare ending for softball into modern era seniors Features | Page 7 Sports | Page 8 Ban lifted A varnish of safety at Varsity Gate from UH Clean-up one of See video many community of Friday’s professor clean-up beautification projects Hearing set for with UHM and Kuhio Elementary School D'Andrea's By Alyssa S. Navares students at our sister publica- Ka Leo Managing Editor defamation claim tion http://www.kalamakua. Varsity Place – known for its org/community/varsity. dark alleys, faded buildings and trash-filled streets – has a fresh coat of color after volunteers paint- ed the nearby underpass Friday, bottles. “They’re probably coming as part of an effort to beautify the from residents, walkers and even area. drivers throwing stuff from the “We believe that Varsity is freeway.” our first connection to Mo‘ili‘ili Varsity Place will be more and is a place utilized by a lot of visually appealing and safer once people, mostly pedestrians,” said the UHM Landscaping Advisory Laura Ruby, University of Hawai‘i Committee adds more lighting, at Mānoa art professor and proj- walkways and bike paths, as well as ect coordinator. Students living replaces the current security guard in Hale Anuenue and surrounding shack and gate. A gravel sidewalk D‘ANDREA apartments pass the area to enter and repaired curbs will connect the through Varsity Gate by the Duke portable classrooms. The gate will By Rachel Manuel Kahanamoku Aquatic Complex. be renamed the Mo‘ili‘ili Gate. Ka Leo Staff Reporter The gate is one of three entrances Some students who frequent to lower campus. the area told Ka Leo they do not A ban imposed on a ten- Ruby, an accomplished feel safe. In 2004, the Honolulu ured professor prohibiting him Honolulu artist, and a dozen stu- Police Department investigated an from entering campus and from dents and community members attempted stabbing at Kalo Place, speaking with his students, was pressure washed the underpass’ located a block from the gate lifted after the University of sidewalk and walls. Some Kuhio behind Puck’s Alley. Earlier that Hawai‘i made an agreement dur- Elementary School students and year a man attempted to abduct a ing a court hearing last week. their parents came as well; help- woman near Varsity Gate, and in Michael D’Andrea, a pro- ing to paint triangular designs August, two men stole a woman’s fessor in the Department of with green, blue-green colors. purse in mid-afternoon. ALYSSA S. NAVARES • Ka Leo o Hawai‘i Counseling Education at UH’s These features represent ancient Safety improvements will start College of Education, was Hawaiian kapa patterns, Ruby said, Front to back: Kuhio Elementary School students Jocelyn Pham, eight, and Emily Pham, five, in May, when the committee, com- banned from campus and from which now adorn both nine-foot- painted over graffiti under the H-1 Freeway Friday. UHM has been working with the commu- prised of 15 student and faculty contacting individuals at the high concrete walls – usually cov- nity to make Varsity Place safer and more attractive. members, also creates an irriga- college after receiving a let- ered with graffiti. tion system and plants native palm ter from Interim Chancellor art major. unteers cleaned up the area a few Sophomore Aaron Kia, a UHM trees, shrubs and flowers in an area Denise Konan notifying him of Trash litters the triangular months ago. football player, said the underpass where a rusting, chain-link fence his immediate reassignment to section next to the gate and has “We literally had a mound is the first thing people see when surrounds a kiawe tree and electri- work at home. become a problem in recent years, of stuff that was five feet high,” going to athletic games. cal pole. After arguments made said Office of Sustainability direc- said Miller, referring to pieces of “They ... think they’re going on behalf of D’Andrea and a tor Bruce Miller. He and 20 vol- cars, old refrigerators, couches and recess in the hearing before U.S. through the ghetto,” said Kia, an See Varsity, page 2 District Judge Helen Gillmor on April 16, attorneys for UH vol- unteered to restore his freedom to communicate with students and faculty about the griev- ance process and complaints Don’t need a spoon to feed the hungry By David Pham etary donations to help the hungry in community. They posted fliers around made against him, according to Ka Leo Features Editor Hawai‘i. About 80 percent of canned campus notifying students that toddlers The food train (courtesy of the D’Andrea’s attorney Eric Seitz. goods like soups, fruits and SpaghettiOs would be pulling wagons around cam- UH agreed to lift the ban “You don’t need a spoon to feed a are from the community and help keep pus collecting the canned goods, and Children’s Center) is scheduled while allegations that D’Andrea hungry child.” That phrase was infused the nutrition levels of the hungry bal- dropping it off at Bachman Hall – the to pick up on April 26 from bullied students and faculty into my brain when a guest speaker from anced. Monetary donations can help storage base of all the collected foods. at the College of Education CAPS and Student Services the Hawai‘i Rotary Youth Foundation pay for food, shipping costs and fund- “[We] wanted to generate aware- are investigated. A July hear- presented during an anniversary lun- ing to help the less fortunate. ness of the food drive by taking 40 kids buildings. All of the donations ing is scheduled to look at Campus organizations and clubs singing and chanting around campus,” D’Andrea’s claims for dam- cheon I attended. I find it fascinating are collected at Bachman Hall ages and defamation. how children are starving in some parts have already started collecting canned Watkins said. “[It] gives kids hands-on at the end of the Food Drive. On April 12, D’Andrea had of the world, while in America we have foods to help the hungry. participation to provide attention to the filed a lawsuit against the uni- obesity problems. Regardless of the “The staff, faculty and students are food drive,” said Wayne Watkins, the versity for what he called an new technologies that are developed or encouraged to donate because it gives director of the Children’s Center. anywhere else and helps a tremendous infringement of his constitution- the new scientific breakthroughs that them a chance to reach out to the com- In the aftermath of the food drives, amount of people.” al rights. According to the letter are discovered, people are always starv- munity,” said Addy Mattos from the the collected goods go to homeless This week, if you’re feeling kind- ing and ‘ohana will always remain a Office of Student Affairs Assembly. shelters, rehabilitation centers, feeding sent from Konan to D’Andrea, hearted or if you need to check that prominent value to society. So what can The goal behind collecting canned programs and even outer-island loca- there were concerns about his empty box next to “do-something-to- we do to uphold what’s dear to us? goods is much more than just feed- tions. “alleged intimidating, hostile help-mankind” on your Things-To- and bullying behavior.” Last Saturday, from 8 a.m. to 5 ing the hungry, it can also serve as an “I think the food drive is a great Do List, feeding the hungry is a fine UH officials issued a state- p.m. the Hawai‘i Foodbank had its educational purpose to enlighten the opportunity to help the hungry,” said Annual Statewide Food Drive. One day minds of generations to come. OSA’s Kate Bepko, P.R. and volunteer manag- opportunity to make a difference in each year, the Foodbank goes into the Children’s Center has made it possible er for the Institute for Human Services. someone’s life. Remember, “you don’t See D'Andrea, page 2 community to collect food and mon- to provide awareness of the hungry “It’s much cheaper than buying food need a spoon to feed a hungry child.” Ka Leo o Hawai‘i News Page 2 | Monday, April 23, 2007 Editor: Justin Hedani Associate Editor: Tiffany Hill | (808) 956-3222 | [email protected] by the American Civil Liberties to investigate complaints he had wrote that since the attorney “rep- Union of Hawai‘i, wrote an open filed regarding problems of insti- resents” the university, he finds it Social-justice and peace letter to UH’s Board of Regents tutional racism and sexism at the reprehensible that Vice Chancellor D'Andrea to address what he called “the university, the high crime rates on Neal Smatresk and Interim Dean advocate works crisis of administrative leadership” campus, the continuing problems Donald Young, both of whom were From page 1 Dr. Michael D’Andrea, a ten- and the violation of faculty mem- gay and lesbian people encounter present, would allow such tactics bers’ free speech and due process on campus, the unsafe dormitory to be used to serve the university’s ured professor at the University ment that the university is com- rights. rooms and the increasing tuition interests. of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, had been mitted to and has an obligation to After his removal from cam- costs.