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VOLUME 103 ISSUE 03 T H E V O I C E Healthy start Student health fee on the rise A Commentary | Page 4 WWW.KALEO.ORG EO KServing the students of the UniversityL of Hawai‘i at Mānoa since 1922 ISOLATED SHOWERS Coffee Talk Back on track The world needs more of “Lars & the real girl” It’s in the bible UH places 25th at nation tourney Lars movie review JUNE 18-24 H:85° L:71° Cartoons | Page 5 Sports | Page 8 Mixed plate | Page 7 2008 Students bear burden of summer tuition Students By Abigail Trenhaile face health Ka Leo News Editor fee increase With increasing summer school tuition prices, students at the By Abigail Trenhaile University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa are Ka Leo News Editor finding it harder to get the credits they need to graduate on time. After last month’s Board of “I have friends who said they Regents meeting, health fees are set wanted to take classes, but couldn’t to increase to $68 by 2012, starting because it was too expensive,” said with a $10.50 increase for the upcom- UHM sophomore Kristin Ichiki, a ing academic year. Summer session nursing major who is taking classes health fees will increase by $4 for the this summer. next five years, bringing the fee to $26 While tuition is subsidized dur- by 2012. ing the fall and spring semesters, the The student health fee began state does not provide a subsidy dur- in 1995, when University Health ing the summer. At $214 a credit, Services at Manoa (UHSM) suffered summer school runs on a cost recov- a 70 percent budget cut, a move ery model, according to academic that the university hoped would bring planning and policy Vice President UHSM to self-sufficiency. Currently Dr. Linda Johnsrud, whose office at $17.50 a semester, student fees determines summer tuition. make up 27 percent of the UHSM “Summer school tuition must budget. The increase will move that cover the entire cost of delivering the percentage up to 60 percent by 2013, courses,” Johnsrud said. according to Dr. Lily Ning, UHSM As part of a series of incremental director. increases that began in 2007, summer The new fee is needed to cover tuition is expected to reach $350 per UHSM’s mounting costs, including credit by 2012. Still, little assistance is staff salary raises, liability insurance, available to students. While financial GRAPH BY VANESSA ONG • KA LEO O HAWAI‘I INFORMATION PROVIDED BY • OUTREACH COLLEGE supplies and the creation of electronic aid for the summer session is avail- medical records, a move that will help able to students, aid is based on the compound to the issue, the financial dents during the summer. While 235 despite the fact that the tuition went the center meet practice standards. student’s leftover balance from the aid budget is already constrained. UHM students attended Leeward up 23 percent,” Tanaka said. Health care costs have increased previous academic year. “We do not have enough aid Community College in the spring, Lower enrollment at UHM as much as 11 percent, and Ning “If they haven’t used their maxi- for the regular academic year,” LCC saw an increase this summer, means decreased revenue, tighten- cites the price of oral contraceptives, mum aid, then they can qualify for Clemons said. with 313 UHM students attending ing the Outreach College’s budget. which quadrupled in two years, as an These increases, together with the Leeward campus. “Because the summer is spe- a Pell Grant and federal loans,” said KA LEOexample. O HAWAI‘I ANNOUNCES Linda Clemons, director of financial the economy and unemployment The number is around the cially funded, we have to have “No one likes to pay extra fees,” aid services. rate, have resulted in a decrease in same as last summer’s attendance, enough enrollment to payA SPECIALour Ning ADVANCE said. “Health careSCREENING is universally Most students have used their enrollment at the Outreach College. said Guy Nishimoto, who represents instructors,” said Outreach CollegeThursday, recognized June 25, as a2008 necessary • 7:30 service pm and, maximum aid, said Clemons, leaving “As of the first day of class, the Office of Planning, Policy, and registrar Nena Horn. “Faculty is Doleunfortunately, Cannery the Theatres cost of providing only a small percentage of students May 27, we are about 9.5 percent Assessment at LCC. deservedly getting an increase in care continues to increase.” eligible for aid during the summer. down relative to last year on the same Tanaka notes, however, that salary, but if the tuition that we The health fee is meant to spread The rest must apply for private loans, day,” said Dr. Peter Tanaka, interim the decrease at UHM is minor, with earn is not sufficient, we can’t keep the cost of UHSM services over all Clemons said. dean at the Outreach College. students still able to register for all the classes because we won’t be students, rather than place the respon- According to Clemons, the fed- Despite lower enrollment at second session. able to pay instructors.” eral government, like the state, doesn’t UHM, community colleges have “Last year, we had a decrease consider summer a regular term. 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One pass admits two. 2 Wednesday, June 18, 2008 [email protected] cancel the course,” Horn said. help non-UHM students and enroll- Additionally, the Outreach ment, administrators at the Outreach College charges the same tuition for College find it difficult to object to Tuition residents and non-residents, hoping tuition increases. From page 1 to attract more students from the “We’d rather have students mainland and overseas. take the classes they need and “Compared to the school I go graduate,” Horn said. “Obviously The number of classes offered to, it’s very low. At Marist College, (tuition) has gone up for the fall, this year has stayed about the same it is $500 to $600 a credit,” said spring and summer.” though, with the Outreach College sophomore Julianne Chang. Although many students adapting to compensate loss. Senior Hyunju Jang, a biol- understand the reasons behind the “With approval of the academic ogy major from Korea, said that increase, others find the prices departments, we designate many of she is attending courses this sum- unwarranted. our courses to be ‘guaranteed.’ This mer because the tuition is cheaper “I can understand the increase means that even if the course enroll- than the regular term for interna- if the quality of education was also ment is lower than the minimum tional students. getting better, but it doesn’t change,” GRAPH BY VANESSA ONG • KA LEO O HAWAI‘I needed to break even, we will not While equal-tuition policies said biology major Yuju Han. INFORMATION PROVIDED BY • OUTREACH COLLEGE Health TechnologyBeat From page 1 By Matthew Yasuoka Ka Leo Staff Reporter sibility on individual students who visit the center and pay a iPhone welcomes mini- fee-for-service. revolution To meet their fiscal needs using an increase in fee-for-service charges instead, the fee would have Next month, the iPhone gets to be doubled or tripled, a policy a makeover with a plethora of which would “make services less new features, more color choices accessible and affordable for stu- and a slimmer $199 price tag. dents in need of health care,” said Email and accessing the Ning, referring to students who are Internet will be made easier, COURTESY PHOTO given care regardless of insurance. WWW.APPLE.COM/PR According to Ning, the new according to an Apple press fee is reasonable because, in release. The new iPhone operates comparison to other universities, on the faster 3G network, translating to faster downloads. UHM’s fee is very low. In a study Users will also be able to move and delete multiple messages. conducted by UHSM, the average Images can also be saved from a webpage or email and transferred to GRAPH BY VANESSA ONG • KA LEO O HAWAI‘I health fee at peer institutions was one’s computer. $121.39 per semester. have to pay for something they its reserve fund. The reserve Those with no sense of direction will appreciate the iPhone’s While more than 80 percent don’t use,” said sophomore fund will provide renovations for ability to do real-time mapping and track one’s progress with GPS of the student body agrees with Chelsea Pearson, who has vis- UHSM’s deteriorating facility. technology. For the science geek, the iPhone will have a scientific Ning’s assessment, according to a ited UHSM.