Inside News 2 Features 3, 7 Wednesday Editorial 4, 5 January 18, 2006 Comics 6 Sports 8 VOL. 100 | ISSUE 84 Serving the students of the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa since 1922 WWW.KALEO.ORG Warriors prepare ‘Brokeback Mountain’ for volleyball explores romance invitational with cowboys Sports | Page 8 Features | Page 3 Staff shortage causes stall for A&S at UH opened,” said sophomore Irene Galinato, who has been working Students advised at CASSAS since October. CASSAS hopes to fill the to hold off empty advisor positions, includ- ing a representative advisor posi- on sessions tion, by mid-semester. However, because of the lack of funding by UHM, the positions will be only By Alyssa Navares temporary. Ka Leo Associate Features Editor UHM has submitted a bud- get request to the Hawai`i State Students seeking advis- Legislature, from which it hopes ing from the Colleges of Arts to get funding to hire up to 16 and Sciences Student Academic CASSAS advisors, resulting in Services at the University of a new advisor-to-student ratio Hawai`i at Manoa are recom- of about 1:600. “It’s frustrating mended to hold off on non-emer- because [CASSAS] has the exper- gency advising during the first tise but no resources to fully imple- two weeks of the semester due to a ment it,” Kirk-Kuwaye said. staff shortage. This period will be Associated Students of the used to serve students with Spring University of Hawai`i at Manoa 2006 registration problems. president Grant Teichman recent- “We’re turning away over ly placed an ASUH testimony 100 students a day,” said Michael box for students to voice their Kirk-Kuwaye, acting depart- concerns with the inadequacy of ment chair of CASSAS. Kirk- CASSAS. Teichman will take Kuwaye, along with 5 other full- more than 100 testimonies to the MATT ING • KA LEO O HAWAI‘I time and one part-time advisors, Hawai`i State Legislature next serves more than 10,000 Arts and The ASUH testimony box sits outside of Grant Teichman’s office. Students are allowed to voice their concerns with the week. “These testimonies will be Sciences students. inadequacy of CASSAS. very powerful to the Legislature,” To make the most of each Teichman said. appointment, CASSAS encour- dent ratio is 1:1,500. The rec- Like last semester, advis- attend will be reduced, resulting “UH owes it to the students ages students to come prepared ommended ratio, according to ing will be available Monday to in limited seating. Verification of because, look at how much we by reading about the courses and the National Academic Advising Friday from 8:15 a.m. to 4 p.m. academic planning or review of have to pay, we deserve qual- program options before-hand, Association, is 1:300. Advising This semester, however, CASSAS materials will also be delayed. ity service,” said junior Daryl as well as bringing all advising services include in-person will close at noon on Wednesdays. “On the first day of the Gilmore, an Academy for Creative materials to their appointment. appointments, group sessions and The number of mandatory sessions semester, there were like 40 stu- Media major. The current advisor-to-stu- e-mail or telephone conferences. available for 2006 graduates to dents lined up outside before we NewsBriefs Open auditions for the Vagina Monologues Princeton University and a Bachelor of Science Future of Engineering in Today’s Society.” litigator in the New York law firm of Friedman & from the University of Illinois at Urbana- Kaplan. He returned to teaching and social justice Auditions for the Vagina Monologues are Champaign. Stanley Grant — Today 4:30 to 5:30 p.m., HIG work as a faculty member at New York University being held on the substage at Kennedy Theatre on Peter E. Crouch — Dean, Ira A. Fulton 110 in the Lawyering Program, and then at Western Wednesday, Jan. 18, and Thursday, Jan. 19, from School of Engineering and Vice Provost for Mun Young Choi — Monday, Jan. 23 4:30 to New England Law School. Iijima was invited 7 to 10 p.m. The Vagina Monologues, a play about Global Engagement, Arizona State University. 5:30 p.m., MSB 114 to join the faculty of the William S. Richardson women and their vaginas, is performed worldwide Dean Crouch received his Ph.D. in Applied Peter Crouch — Thursday, Jan. 26, 4:30 to 5:30 School of Law at the University of Hawai’i at on Valentine’s Day as part of a campaign to end Sciences from Harvard University and a Master p.m., MSB 114 Manoa in 1998 and he became a tenured associate violence against women. Experience not neces- of Science in Control Theory and a Bachelor of Lalit Raj Verma — Monday, Jan. 30, 4:30 to professor in 2001. sary. Please contact Nina Buck at 741-3342 or Science in Engineering Science from Warwick 5:30 p.m., MSB 114 Iijima was known for his work as direc- e-mail [email protected] for questions. University. tor of the law school’s preadmission program. Stanley B. Grant — Professor of Additional biographical information about the Established in 1975, the program admits and Candidates for dean of engineering at UH to Environmental Engineering and Chair, candidates and about the search process is posted at supports students from historically under-served speak Department of Chemical and Biochemical www.hawaii.edu/executivesearch/engineering. communities who show promise as lawyers and Engineering and Materials Sciences, Henry community leaders. Finalists for the position of Dean of the Samueli School of Engineering, University of Memorial held for UH law professor and The Law School students and faculty voted University of Hawai`i at Manoa College of California, Irvine. Professor Grant received his activist him the Outstanding Professor of the Year in Engineering have been identified. They will be on Ph.D. and Master of Science in Environmental 2000, and he was a 2001 recipient of the Board of the Manoa campus for meetings and interviews Engineering Science from Caltech, and a “A Celebration of the Life of Chris Iijima,” Regents’ Excellence in Teaching Award. beginning this week. Bachelor of Science in Geology from Stanford will take place today at 5:30 p.m. in the Campus Iijima wrote law review articles addressing The public is invited to meet the candidates University. Center Ballroom. issues such as “Race as Resistance,” “Separating at open presentations beginning today. Meetings Lalit Raj Verma — Professor and Chris Iijima, law professor, lawyer, teacher, Support from Betrayal: Examining the Intersections will be held at the Hawai`i Institute of Geophysics Department Head, Department of Biological musician, community organizer and scholar, died of Racialized Legal pedagogy, Academic Support, and the Marine Sciences Building. and Agricultural Engineering, University in Honolulu, Hawai`i on Dec. 31, 2005, sur- and Subordination,” “Swimming from the Island of Arkansas. Professor Verma received his rounded by his family. Iijima battled amyloidosis, of the Colorblind: Deserting an Ill-Conceived The finalists are: Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of a rare blood disease, for several years. He reached Constitutional Metaphor,” and “Shooting Justice Mun Young Choi — Professor and Nebraska, his Master of Science in Agricultural the age of 57 the week before he died. Jackson’s ‘Loaded Weapon’ at Ysar Hamdi: Department Head, Department of Mechanical Engineering from Montana State University, Iijima graduated at the top of his class at New Judicial Abdication at the Convergence of Engineering and Mechanics and Associate Dean and a Biological Technology degree in the same York Law School, where he was an editor of the Korematsu and McCarthy.” for Research and Graduate Studies, College of field from the J.N. Agricultural University of Law Review. He clerked from 1988 to 1990 for Iijima is survived by his wife Jane Dickson, Engineering, Drexel University. Professor Choi Jabalpur, India. Federal District Judge Charles Stewart, Jr. in the sons Alan and Christopher, parents, Kazu and received his Ph.D. and Master of Arts from Each candidate will speak on the topic “The Southern District of New York and worked as a Takeru, and sister Lynne. KA LEO O HAWAI‘I NEWS Page 2 | Wednesday, January 18, 2006 Editor: Blaine Tolentino Associate Editor: Robert Shikina | (808) 956-3221 | [email protected] Events Calendar Torchlight procession Compiled by Alice Kim open until Friday, Mar. 3. Admission is free. For more information, call The U.S. Navy Pacific Fleet the JCCH at 945-7633 or e-mail Band will perform today from 12 [email protected]. to 1 p.m. at the Campus Center Courtyard. For more information, “Politics and Science,” a botanical call the Activities Council at 956- science seminar, will take place 4491 or e-mail them at www2. today from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. at hawaii.edu/~ccbac. the St. John Auditorium, room 011. Randy Moorman of the University “Punk Rock Thursday” will take of Hawai‘i at Manoa Botany In the remem- Department will present the semi- place tomorrow night at 9:30 p.m. nar. Moorman will share his expe- brance of the at Kainoa’s Sports Bar. Ages 21 rience as a lobbyist in Washington 113th anni- and older only. For more informa- D.C. for the environmental law versary of the tion, call 637-7787. firm Earthjustice and discuss the United States role of scientists in policy making. Occupation of Supersonic Space Monkeys, For more information, contact Don Hawai‘i, pro- Zoundbox and Pacifica will per- Drake at 956-3937 or dondrake@ testors of the form tomorrow night at 9:30 p.m. hawaii.edu. at Anna Banana’s.