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Inside News 2 Features 3, 11 Wednesday Editorials 4, 5 Comics 10 May 3, 2006 Sports 8, 9 Photo Essay 4,5 VOL. 100 | ISSUE 141 Serving the students of the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa since 1922 WWW.KALEO.ORG Photo Essay: state UH faces Utah State to shelters displaced determine WAC seating homeless people Photo Essay | Page 4 Sports | Page 8 NewsBriefs Molecular biologist named 2006 Scientist of the Year UH survives battle over pier Marla Berry, a molecular biol- ogist with the John A. Burns School of Medicine, received the distinc- UH working to tion of Scientist of the Year for 2006 from the Honolulu Chapter of the find a new home for Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Foundation. Berry has researched antioxidant enzymes its marine center that are important to understand- ing many varied diseases, and also By Robert Shikina teaches courses about ethics in bio- Ka Leo Associate News Editor medical research, grantsmanship and scientific writing. After graduating from the “Dr. Berry is an outstanding University of Rhode Island with a example of the world-class scien- bachelor’s degree in marine biology, tific researchers attracted to our Allison Fong left her home state to Medical School,” said interim Dean pursue a master’s degree in the ocean- T. Samuel Shomaker. ography department at the University The Honolulu chapter of ARCS of Hawaii’s School of Ocean and Earth awards Scientist of the Year to a Sciences and Technology. UH professor who contributes to the When Fong arrived in Hawai‘i in advancement of science through 2004, SOEST had already spent years research and by mentoring a “new searching for a new location to move generation of investigators.” its Marine Center. Since 1976 UH has “The award selection commit- operated its Marine Center on pier 45, tee was especially impressed by the or Snug Harbor, the small corner of number of people Dr. Berry has Honolulu Harbor that serves as access trained,” said Cheryl Ernst, president to the ocean for students and scientists of ARCS-Honolulu, “from under- doing ocean-related research. graduates in ethnic groups that are Like Fong, many of the 61 gradu- underrepresented in the sciences ate students in SOEST’s oceanographic to post-doctoral researchers from department came from different states around the world.” and countries to study oceanography, a broad category of marine science ROBERT SHIKINA • KA LEO O HAWAI‘I Maori architect gives lecture with multifarious topics relating to the Kilo Moana, UH's $56 million dollar research vessel, berthed at the Marine Center in Honolulu Harbor. The Navy-owned ship is used by the School Professor Mike Barns, a Maori earth’s oceans and seas. Within ocean- of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology for research projects such as the HOT program. architect currently in residence as the ography there is an understanding that Andrews Chair at the University of the dominance of oceans on the earth’s students condemned the House resolu- the ground repaved and changed into amended the resolution to request Hawai‘i School for Hawaiian, Asian surface creates a direct influence in the tion as it was written and sought to space for container storage. UH and the DOT work collabora- and Pacific Studies, will be giving world’s atmosphere and global climate. protect the facilities that allow them to “They [UH] occupy a huge strike tively to pursue UH’s relocation from lectures on Pacific architecture on The students come to UH to study do research. of land there, Snug Harbor,” said Barry the KMR. The resolution passed with May 3 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the oceanography because “we are one of Fukunaga, deputy director of the Harbor the new amendments. School of Architecture Auditorium the best [oceanography schools] in the DOT’s New Turn Division of the DOT. “To develop a “The new resolution reflects a pro- and May 4 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. nation,” said Lorenz Magaard, chairper- container yard of any significance and gressive spirit and a supportive spirit,” at the Kamakakuokalani Center for son of the department of oceanography. SOEST’s ability to bring in close benefit, we need to actually develop the Keil said. “While there are many prob- Hawaiian Studies, room 101. While the university holds a to $70 million in extramural funding entire frontage area.” lems that need to be solved, I’m happy Barns earned his master’s in 65-year lease with 30 years remain- this year and its oceanography depart- Klaus Keil, the interim dean of with the resolution.” architecture from the University ing on the land the Marine Center ment – a “jewel” of UH as some profes- SOEST, said the DOT’s approach to of Hawai‘i and is now a senior stands on, the State House considered sors call it – were not enough to keep the problem was wrong. “The attitude The ideal location for studying the ocean lecturer at Auckland University in a resolution last April to evict UH from it off the radar of commercial inter- of the DOT was really, ‘lets evict UH, New Zealand. As Andrews Chair, Snug Harbor. An eviction would have ests seeking more space in the harbor. and let them do whatever to survive,’” UH scientists sometimes liken he is helping to design the new annulled marine research, obscured Barry Fukunaga, deputy director of the Keil said. “The DOT had to collaborate Hawai‘i to a floating buoy in the middle Hawai‘inuiakea School of Hawaiian the school’s access to the ocean, and Harbor Division, said the UH Marine with the University of Hawai‘i. They of the Pacific Ocean, a perfect site from Knowledge, a new school formed by crippled its ability to do research, UH Center blocks access to a large plot couldn’t just bully us out of that lease.” which scientists can launch their deep the merger of the Kamakakuokalani scientists said. of developable land – the Kapālama This, however, was not the first ocean experiments. Sixty miles north Center for Hawaiian Studies and the Supporters of the Marine Center Military Reserve. In order to utilize attempt made by the university or the of O‘ahu, a data assessment site called Kawaihuelani Hawaiian Language recognized the growing need for KMR, UH would have to move. DOT to relocate UH’s Marine Center. station ALOHA is part of the longest department. cargo space in the commercial harbor Secured behind its fence and guard In 1993, the university created running time-series research project in and were willing to pack up and settle shack off Sand Island access road, UH’s plans with the Department of Business, the Pacific. UH researchers have con- “Zombie Prom” at the Rainbow somewhere new as long as facili- Marine Center shuddered from com- Economic Development and Tourism tinuously hand-collected data, month- Film Fest ties that were comparable or better mercial interests’ attempts to try and at the cost of nearly $1 million dollars to-month, for the Hawai‘i Ocean Time- This year’s Rainbow Film resulted from the exchange. edge it out of Snug Harbor. to relocate the Marine Center onto pier series from sites such as station ALOHA Festival (formerly the Honolulu Proponents of the Harbors Last year the Marine Center gave 38. Brian Taylor, acting associate dean the last 18 years. Along these cruises Gay & Lesbian Film Festival) will Division and commercial interests up one of its 17 acres to ease com- of research at SOEST, said plans were researchers, scientists, and students can be held Thursday, May 25 through drew reference to a study com- merce’s pressure for more space. But so far along that there were “full archi- take measurements of the oceans’ vari- Sunday, May 28 at the Doris Duke pleted by the Harbors Division of the DOT still urged the legislature to tectural drawings of buildings, docks, ability over the deep water rather than Theater at the Honolulu Academy the Department of Transportation in break UH’s 65-year land lease, ceded to the whole thing. They were down to along coastal lines off the mainland. of Arts. “Zombie Prom,” star- 1997. In that study it was projected the university by the Board of Land and picking the color of the walls.” Dave Karl, a UH professor of ring RuPaul, will return for a the Harbor would reach full capac- Natural Resources for educational use Under the administration of then oceanography, helped bring the feder- late-night screening. Over 200 ity by year 2011. Lack of cargo stor- in 1973, and relocate the Marine Center Gov. Ben Cayetano, however, plans ally funded HOT program to the uni- other movies, documentaries, ani- age space, Harbors Division said, away from Snug Harbor. for the new Marine Center at Pier 38 versity in 1988. Although nearly 20 mations and short films will be would mean citizens around the The DOT has already made plans were suddenly scrapped and instead, a years of data have been collected, 30 presented over the four days. state wouldn’t get the goods they for the property. Fishing Village was built in its place. to 50 continuous years of data would Titles include “Meth,” a docu- use everyday. At the cost of $300 million, the Currently the fish auction where hun- be needed to spot trends in climate and mentary on methamphetamine use Harbors Division’s idea was noth- DOT wants to fill in Snug Harbor and dred pound tuna are lined up on skids the earth’s climate variability, Karl said. in the gay community, and “Pursuit ing new.

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