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Monday October 10, 2005 VOL. 100 | ISSUE 41 Serving the students of the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa since 1922 WWW.KALEO.ORG Risqué movie series Back-to-back ‘Soap Talk’ returns to UH victories for starts new season Manoa campus Wahine volleyball in Hawai‘i Features | Page 2 Sports | Page 8 Features | Page 3 NewsBriefs Parking office sacks QB’s car UARC Author Achy Obejas to read her work contract tonight “Evening Reading with Achy released to Obejas” will take place tonight from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Hawai‘i Institute of Geophysics Building public auditorium. Obejas is a distinguished writer-in- By Dominic Colacurcio residence in the english department for Ka Leo News Editor the fall of 2005. Obejas is the author of the novels “Days of Awe” and “Memory An unfinalized version of the Mambo,” as well as the short story col- contract for the proposed University lection “We Came All the Way from Affiliated Research Center was Cuba So You Could Dress Like This?” Unclaimed vehicles sit released on the University of Hawai‘i The English Department is spon- at Manoa Web site Friday afternoon. soring this event. in the cam- pus security The 85-page contract was one For more information, call the of two documents the Manoa Faculty English Department at 956-7619. impound. Senate requested before they could pass a resolution regarding the pro- College Bowl applications available posed UARC at UHM. The other JESSE BOWMAN document, a business/management KA LEO O HAWAI‘I College Bowl applications are plan for the UARC was made avail- available for pick up at the Ticket and able on Sept. 9, and revised on Oct. Information Window. Michelle White also been ticketed $25 for having an way that leads to the heart of the altered/illegal parking pass. impound lot at the top of campus. 3, after discussion in the Manoa The College Bowl is scheduled for Ka Leo Contributing Writer Faculty Senate. Nov. 14, 2005. Elwyn Watkins, manager of Rusted bicycle frames, mopeds, the UHM parking office, declined to and cars sit rusting in the lot. Motor Gary Ostrander, UHM’s All applications need to be submit- University of Hawai‘i at Vice Chancellor for Research and ted by 4 p.m. on Oct. 24, 2005. Manoa quarterback Colt Brennan comment on Brennan’s parking viola- vehicle inquiries were done on three tion or the reason cars are towed on of the vehicles, and all had outstand- Graduate Education, stressed that the For more information, call the tracked his car to the UHM parking contract released Friday is not final- Activities Council at 956-4491, e-mail impound lot last Monday. Parking campus, citing privacy issues. ing violations and expired registra- The cost to retrieve a car from tions and safety checks. Some of the ized. [email protected], or visit www2. officers towed his car for having an “This [contract] has not been the impound lot ranges from $43.33 vehicles contained personal items that hawaii.edu/~ccbac. expired parking permit. approved by the University of to $64.17. The service fee is higher had been damaged by the affects of “I arrived early in the morn- Hawai‘i Board of Regents. Likewise at night and goes to pay for the tow the sun and rain. IT security lecture tomorrow ing and there wasn’t a guard at the it has not been approved by the charge and guard’s time. A 1989 Honda Accord con- shack. I put up an expired pass,” senior leadership at the Navy,” he The parking office tows about 2- tained surf shorts, a surf rack, and a “The Current State of IT Brennan said. said. Ostrander said there are a cou- 3 vehicles per week. Not all of the cars “How High” DVD. A motor vehicle Security” will take place tomorrow UHM football players, who ple of minor details that need to in the impound lot belong to students; title inquiry revealed it has outstand- from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. at Kuykendall practice from 7 to 9 a.m., Monday be sorted out, but that it shouldn’t outsiders sometimes abandon their ing traffic tickets, a registration that Hall, room 201, and HITS sites. through Friday, do not get special prevent people from being able to October is designated as parking privileges and must go cars on campus. The vehicles that expired in May, and an expired safety review the document and understand National Cybersecurity Awareness through the same process as other stu- are in running condition are almost check. HPD has also placed a stopper it’s ramifications. Month by the National Cyber dents. Guards arrive at 6:30 a.m. and always claimed within a few days. on the car. Robert Bley-Vroman, the Chair Security Alliance. To promote this, cars are able to park earlier but must An effort is made to locate the own- The office doesn’t receive money of the Manoa Faculty Senate, said panelists from various law enforce- go back and pay for parking. ers before turning the cars over to a from the university but operates on he would like the issue to be as fully ment agencies have been invited to “A couple of friends called to say salvage company to be junked. income from fines and permit fees. debated as possible, but that the present their perspectives on the they saw my car hooked to the back “I’ve never been to that part of Cars that are illegally parked, Senate’s Ad Hoc UARC committee current state of affairs in the area of of a tow truck. I had to call security to campus before,” said UHM foot- using an illegal pass or permit, or needed time to go over the contract. information technology security. find out how to get it back,” Brennan ball player Jack Rolovitch. “It’s a parked in a reserved stall can be towed “If the Ad Hoc Committee is This session will be broadcast via said. “I had to pay $48 to get it out car graveyard.” to the impound lot depending on the able to read the contract and relate it HITS2 to Leeward CC, Windward CC, of the impound lot.” Brennan had A chain blocks the gravel drive- hazard it is causing. to the questions that they have, and if Kauai CC, UH Hilo, Kapiolani CC, they can do that in the next 10 days, MCC Molokai and UH Center at West then we can have the discussion Hawai‘i. It will also be broadcast on UH on Oct. 19. It’s hard to tell,” Bley- CTS channel 67. Vroman said. Visit www.hawaii.edu/training Galtung speaks about UARC The Manoa Faculty Senate has for online registration for the brown two meetings before the UARC is By Jenn Boneza of TRANSCEND Peace University (Online). bag sessions. A valid UH username In response to a question about establishing a think- expected to go before the Board of is required to register for brown bag Ka Leo Staff Writer Regents for a final vote, according to tank inside the university to do secret military research, sessions. Bley-Vroman. Just as University of Hawai‘i at Manoa offi- Galtung called such a proposal “a natural part of U.S. The UH system Information Bley-Vroman also said that he cials received a Navy contract last week to establish a militarization.” He elaborated that militarizing universi- Technology Services is sponsoring expects discussion at the next meet- University Affiliated Research Center on campus, peace ties serves the two-fold purpose of legitimizing military this event. ing to include more than the techni- studies scholar Johan Galtung warned that conducting research and delegitimizing the university, “saying that For more information, call cal questions raised at the last senate classified military research destroys “the whole idea of a there are limits to free speech and we are an example of Ginger Carey at 956-2387, e-mail meeting. university, which is public knowledge.” that limit. We have that right to do classified research and [email protected], or visit www. nobody has a right to find out what we are doing.” “The last meeting was really By conducting such research, leaders are “raping the concentrated on technical questions, hawaii.edu/training. Some disagreed with Galtung’s assertions. The idea university,” he said. “They are destroying that precious and that was deliberate. That restric- instrument of free speech and free thought. ... We cannot of all of the university’s research being public is not true, Linguistics seminar tomorrow tion will not be there at the October run the risk of having a little group, a little gang sitting, said sociology professor Peter Manicas. He said that all proprietary research is also private. meeting. When we’re at that stage, producing their private knowledge. The university was we need to have it open up to every “Discovering the Quality of created exactly to get out of that.” Manicas said he believed research was generally Quality: Scoring ‘Regional Identity’ for money driven. “All research should be motivated by imaginable consideration, and there “A university that capitulates to that kind of pressure will be a whole range of them: ethi- Quantitative Research,” a linguistics is no longer a university, but a call-girl if they get well- the researcher,” he said. “Unfortunately, it goes the seminar, will take place tomorrow from other way around. The money comes and he has to do cal, financial, academic freedom. It paid; a prostitute if not,” Galtung said.