Aerosmith Locks Down Lower Campus Regents Vote in Favor of Navy-UH Research 7-1 Decision Comes After Full Day of Public Comment for and Against ARL
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VOLUME 102 ISSUE 29 T H E V O I C E Warriors top Idaho 48-20 win pushes team forward in WAC A Sports | Page 11 WWW.KALEO.ORG EO KServing the students of the UniversityL of Hawai‘i at Mānoa since 1922 MOSTLY SUNNY Enrollment drops Aerosmith disturbances Fall festivities Eff orts being made to recruit ‘Biggest test’ for law students relocated Pacifi c writers gather this week MONDAY H:85° L:75° News | Page 2 Commentary | Page 4 Mixed Plate | Page 6 OCT. 1, 2007 Aerosmith locks down lower campus Regents vote in favor of Navy-UH research 7-1 Decision comes after full day of public comment for and against ARL By Tiffany Hill history on the islands, he could not Ka Leo News Editor bring himself to vote for its presence at the university. In a 7-1 vote made Thursday at UH President David McClain 7 p.m., the University of Hawai‘i at did not seem to consider these opin- Mānoa Board of Regents put an end ions however. In a four-page testi- to a three-year struggle by the UH mony requesting the approval of the administration and student body and ARL, McClain stated, “A facility faculty representatives by approv- like the ARL is a financially attrac- ing a three-year contact with the tive construct.” Navy for a UH Applied Research Likewise, many professors on Laboratory. campus support the ARL. At an The BOR meeting took place informational meeting in January on the UH Hilo campus, but, despite 2006, the Board of Regents learned the fact that the lab will be on that the majority of the 100 most O‘ahu, hundreds of opponents of productive researchers at the uni- the ARL turned out to voice their versity supported the UH Applied opinions in protest. So much so, Research Laboratory. JEANNIE YAMAKAWA • KA LEO O HAWAI‘I in fact, that the meeting itself had As an end result, UH Mānoa Aerosmith headlined a private concert Saturday at the Les Murakami stadium as part of a national Toyota Motor Co. convention. Toyota to go into a brief recess as security will soon become a Navy-affili- rented the entire lower campus from the University of Hawai‘i and closed all access points for the day as part of a $500,000 agreement. officers had to calm down the crowd ated research university, join- and escort disrupting protestors out, ing John Hopkins University, said president Christine Stidman Pennsylvania State University, By Matt Tuohy Les Murakami Stadium. admiring some of the “tricked-out” of the Associated Students of the the University of Washington and Ka Leo Staff Reporter “One of the reasons we’re back Toyota Scions bought and modified University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. the University of Texas at Austin, in Hawai‘i is because our first dealer by locals. “UARC is tearing our campus all of whom already have Navy- Cooke Field at the University meeting was here in 1957,” said Mike Blane Tanabe of Hawai‘i Kai apart,” said Stidman in her testi- sponsored laboratories. of Hawai‘i at Mānoa was filled with Michels, corporate manager of exter- showed off his shiny black 2006 mony at the BOR meeting Thursday The laboratory itself will not about 6,000 people on Saturday nal communications for Toyota. “So Scion xA on Cooke Field. He spent morning. “With the official stance be located on the Mānoa campus eating shrimp and chicken kabobs, there’s a kind of nostalgia there.” more than $35,000 on the modifi- of ASUH, Kuali‘i Council, Mānoa but will have direct ties with univer- drinking beer or wine and taking shel- The celebration cost the com- cations and lost a girlfriend in the Faculty Senate, UH Mānoa admin- sity researchers. For the first three ter from some brief Mānoa showers pany $500,000 for use of the uni- process, but was proud of his Scion. istration, Pukoa Council and Faculty years, the laboratory will not engage under the stylish tents. Because most versity grounds, and much more for “It’s a real honor to be here,” he said Senate of Hawai‘i Community in classified “task orders” from the of the lower campus was rented out food, personnel and entertainment. with a big smile on his face. “All College all against proceeding with Navy or any other federal entities. for the Toyota convention, students Gregg Takayama, the UH director of I’ve been getting is compliment after the ARL, why would we continue to UH officials estimate that the were restricted from all points of communications, has said the money compliment about my car.” push this forward?” start-up costs for the ARL will be access over the weekend. will be used to benefit the university When asked about the cost of Despite the overwhelm- about $1 million. The Navy will Toyota rented out the athletic as a whole, but stated that the athletic the entire celebration, Michels was ing numbers of those against the then provide a maximum of $10 complex to celebrate its 50th year department has not directly specified hesitant to answer. “We don’t usually Navy research lab, the only regent million a year in funding for the of business in the U.S. The private what the money will go toward. disclose that kind of information,” who voted against the contract was ARL for three years. After the initial party was broken into three parts: a Toyota employees from as far he said. “Mainly so our competitors Native Hawaiian James Haynes. three years, the contract will then be business meeting in the Stan Sheriff away as New York flew in to be a don’t know; but I will say it cost In an article from The Honolulu up for renewal for an additional two Center, a reception on Cooke Field part of the program. They wandered Advertiser, Haynes stated that, years, bringing the total funding to a and a private Aerosmith concert in around the field, talking story and See Toyota, page 2 because of the Navy’s controversial possible $50 million. News 2 MONDAY SURF OUTLOOK Aerosmith concert good or bad? Commentary 4 HONOLULU TIDES Point your cursor to NORTH 1-3+ Wave heights A bump in North Shore Mixed Plate 5 HI 8:00 A.M. | 7:24 P.M. SOUTH 1-2 reported surf expected today and WWW.KALEO.ORG PLEASE Sports 8 LO 12:00 A.M. | 4:17 P.M. WEST 0-2 Hawaiian style, Thursday. and answer our RECYCLE HALEIWA TIDES about half face ó Cartoons 9 EAST 1-2+ special online poll INSIDE TODAY HI 6:58 A.M. | 6:22 P.M. heights. MAHALO Puzzles & Classi eds 10 LO 2:12 A.M. | 10:42 P.M. WINDS 10-25 mph ENE SOURCE: NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE 2 Monday, Oct. 1, 2007 [email protected] Toyota From page 1 LEFT: Some students caught a bird’s-eye view of the concert from the dorms. JEANNIE YAMAKAWA • KA LEO RIGHT: More than 6,000 Toyota vendors met at Cooke Field before heading to the concert. MATT TUOHY • KA LEO Fall enrollment drop doesn’t worry Mānoa officials By Abigail Trenhaile students while still maintaining aca- drop to 17,000 students. The effect ples of the university’s many new FALL ENROLLMENT STATS Ka Leo Contributing Reporter demic resources for all students. of the current tuition increases, adjustments, all of which may have Ronald Cambra, assistant vice however, has been nominal, Furuto contributed to lower enrollment. Fall 2007 There’s a story behind a num- chancellor for enrollment at UH said. UH Mānoa has seen record 20,006 ber, especially the number of stu- Mānoa, said enrollment is fairly This can be students’ reasons graduation rates, especially with dents enrolled at the University large given the constraints with for choosing UH Mānoa. more emphasis being made by Fall 2006 Hawai‘i at Mānoa for the Fall 2007 housing, classroom and office “I love living in Hawai‘i, and administrators and faculty to help semester. The number stands at space, and research space. “With all going to UH was much more afford- students graduate on time. With the 20,307 approximately 20,006, according to those constraints, the number of stu- able than my mainland options,” new STAR degree audit program, Fall 2005 preliminary data. dents becomes an important factor said Melissa Ruan, a marketing and registration process and general Although a 1.5 percent drop in on how UH can serve its students management major. education requirements, graduation 20,619 enrollment occurred, the decrease well,” he said. Still, tuition costs should not rates have increased, coinciding with Fall 2000 does not reflect a problem for the The average number of be a deterrent for students, Cambra lower enrollment, Cambra said. university, according to UH offi- enrolled students has stayed around said. Although the tuition will be But these changes are a part 17,263 cials. Instead, this number reflects 20,000. “Enrollment has been stable doubling over the next six years of “the normal shifting of a campus Fall 1990 adjustment taking place at the uni- for the past several years,” Furoto to get to the national average, UH finding its true rhythm,” Cambra versity. said. “We’re not too worried about Mānoa will also be quadrupling said. “There’s been a tremendous 18,874 “Enrollment is a tricky issue the numbers.” need-based financial aid. More amount change in a short period.” because necessarily a good measure efforts are also being made to help Information provided by on how well UH is doing,” said Enrollment factors students with scholarships with the Recruitment initiatives the UH Institutional Research Office Sandra Furuto, operations manager start of the Giving Tree program and for the Office of Academic Planning the introduction of the Chancellor’s new students are transfers.