Special Weekend Edition Dining Issue March 23, 2006 VOL. 100 | ISSUE 122 Serving the students of the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa since 1922 WWW.KALEO.ORG Dining Guide and Restaurant ReviewPg. 5– 9 KA LEO O HAWAI‘I NEWS Page 2 | Thursday, March 23, 2006 Editor: Blaine Tolentino Associate Editor: Robert Shikina | (808) 956-3221 | [email protected] Event Calendar Mānoa Search Committee finalized Ka Leo News Desk Compiled by Alice Kim Uyetake at 235-7363 or e-mail [email protected]. The Chancellor Search Faculty Representatives for the selection of Free Events Advisory Committee was announced “New Dynamics in the Lodging A piano recital by the Oahu Piano last week. the next UHM Chancellor Industry,” a lecture, will take place Quartet will be held on Wednesday The committee will be asked to on Tuesday from 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. from noon to 1 p.m. at the Orvis recommend a small number of can- Denise Antolini Tom Ramsey at the Waikiki Beach Marriott Resort auditorium in the UHM music didates to the UH System. President Associate professor Professor department. For more information, & Spa, Kaimuki room. Ed Fuller, David McClain will then make a William S. Richardson School of College of Natural Sciences call Rebecca Goodman at 956-8224, president and managing director for recommendation to the Board of Law Marriott International, will lecture e-mail [email protected], or Regents. The process also requires Elizabeth Tam in this presentation. For more infor- visit http://www.all.hawaii.edu. Ruth Dawson Professor and chair the committee to assess the strengths mation and to reserve a seat for the Professor Department of Medicine and weaknesses of each candidate. event, call Kawehi Sellers at 956- Punk Rock Thursday will be held College of Social Sciences John A. Burns School of Interim Chancellor Denise 4899, e-mail [email protected], next Thursday, March 29, at 10 p.m. Medicine Konan has not indicated whether or visit the University of Hawai‘i at at Kainoa’s Sports bar. This is a 21- Barry Raleigh or not she will be a candidate for Mānoa School of Travel Industry year-old or older event. For more Researcher at the Hawai‘i Ric Trimillos the position. Management Web site at http:// information, call 637-7787. Natural Energy Institute and for- Professor and chair www.tim.hawaii.edu. Last Thursday, Mānoa Faculty mer dean Asian Studies The State of Jefferson will perform Senate Chair Robert Bley-Vroman School of Ocean and Earth School of Hawaiian, Asian and “Fuel Cell Hardware-in-the-Loop next Thursday at 9 p.m. at Anna addressed the Board of Regents as Science and Technology Pacific Studies (HiL#1),” a Hawai‘i Natural Energy Banana’s. This is a 21-year-old or the Search Advisory Committee Institute seminar, will take place on older event. For more information, chair. Bley-Vroman is associ- Tuesday from 3:15 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. visit http://www.myspace.com/thes- ate professor in the department of at the Pacific Ocean Science and tateofjefferson. Second Language Studies, College clerical representative. Organized sented by Janet Yoshida, president Technology building, room 723. G. of Languages, Linguistics and research units will be represented of the UH Alumni Association. Randolf, an assistant specialist at Paid Events Literature. by Rolf Kudritzki, the director of According to Bley-Vroman, an HNEI, will present this seminar. For The DAGRA, Haole Rot, DeBauch, The Kuali‘i Council has one the Institute for Astronomy. executive search firm will be cho- more information, call the HNEI and The Miltons will perform on representative on the committee The UHM deans will consist of sen to assist the Search Advisory Saturday from 6:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. at 956-8890, e-mail mkamiya@ – Lilikala Kame‘eleihiwa, former Dick Dubanoski from the College Committee in the coming weeks. at the Pink Cadillac. Admission is hawaii.edu, or visit HNEI on the director and current professor at of Social Sciences and Vance The committee has plans to Web at http://www.hnei.hawaii.edu. $5. Tickets will be sold at the door. the Center for Hawaiian Studies. Roley from the College of Business complete its work by late fall of This is an all ages event. For more Leimomi Kawakami, secretary of Administration. this year or as late as early spring “Elder Abuse Response: Adult information, call 721-2005. the UHM Honors Program, is the UHM alumni will be repre- of 2007. Protective Services,” a course, will take place on Tuesday from M.A.D Theory will perform 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Windward on Saturday from 9 p.m. to mid- Community College campus, Hale night at Onstage Drinks & Grinds. International Student Night ‘Ākoakoa 105. This course will Admission is $5 per person. This is a Committee on introduce the State of Hawaii’s 21-year-old or older event. For more Adult Protective Services Program. information, e-mail madtheory5@ Higher Education For more information, call Jane excite.com. testimony update By Ka Leo News Desk Four hours worth of student, faculty and administration testi- mony were made to the Committee on Higher Education yesterday. “For me, the issue goes beyond one of housing for our students. It is about creating community,” said Mānoa interim Chancellor Denise Konan. “Many of our student resi- dents are moving away from home for the first time. Many do not know anyone at our university, and it is in our residence halls that they make those formative bonds. It is within our residence halls that students become attached to JULIAN YONG • KA LEO O HAWAI‘I Mānoa.” Students celebrate International Student Night held at the Campus Center Ballroom on Sen. Clayton Hee, chair of March 17. Committee on Higher Education, indicated that he would move the resolution out of his committee the office of the chancellor, Jim campus. Within housing, the orga- with some minor modification Manke. nization is fragmented. Lacking a and with a more detailed commit- “The organizational structure permanent director, or vice chan- tee report, said representative for has long been isolated from upper cellor is challenging,” Konan said. NewsBriefs Kua‘ana scholarships available for Native Hawaiians Kua‘ana Native Hawaiian Student Development Services is a service program for Native Hawaiian students. One such service is offer- ing financial aid and scholarships. At http://www.hawaii.edu/kuaana/schol- arship.html, students can find infor- mation on scholarships and tuition waivers available through Kua’ana. The tuition waiver for the 2006- 2007 school year must be post- marked or submitted by March 31, 2006. Applications can be picked up and turned in at the Kua’ana Student Service office, in the Queen Lili‘uokalani Center for Student Services, room 207. All supporting documents must be turned in by the deadline as well. The tuition waiver is available to See NEWSBRIEFS, page 3 NEWS | Thursday, March 23, 2006 | Ka Leo O Hawai‘i | Page 3 ByAcademic Olivia Rosane Billto State of Senator Rights John DeFrancisco questioned “I don’t think the state legislature Columbia Daily Spectator who helped introduce the bill in has any business policing (Columbia U.) Albany, DeFrancisco supported the professor’s activity,” he said. legislation because he saw a left-wing According to SAF National (U-WIRE) NEW YORK -- The debate bias on college campuses. Campus Director Sara Dogan, the about intimidation and bias in univer- “He thinks that the bill, if enacted organization’s original aim was to get sity classrooms, brought to national to law, would begin to strike a balance universities themselves to adapt aca- attention last spring by a controversy and make sure that all points of view are demic bills of rights, but the schools in Columbia’s Middle East and Asian accepted and tolerated,” Burnes said. have been reluctant to do so. Languages and Cultures department, But not everyone in New York “We’ve had to resort to leg- has begun to move from special inter- State agrees that the bill’s effects islation, and we’ve seen it work,” est groups to state legislatures. would be positive. she said, citing cases in Ohio and If passed, the New York bills “The so-called academic bill of Colorado where state universities would amend state education law to rights is really a misnomer,” said adapted bills of rights after their leg- include an academic bill of rights Denise Duncan Lacey, director of islatures introduced them. which stipulates, among other things, communications for United University But Gitlin has other problems that students have the right to be Professors, a subset of New York with the organization. provided with a variety of viewpoints United Teachers that opposes the leg- “The campaign to get the aca- in the classroom, to avoid controver- islation. “Those kinds of measures are demic bill of rights passed is a crack- sial material in class unrelated to the more like gag orders on the faculty,” pot right-wing campaign based on ... subject being studied, and to receive she said. “Rather than protecting any- outright lies,” he said, echoing wide- grades based on academic merit, not one what they’re doing is threatening spread concerns that the academic bill on political or religious beliefs. The free speech in the classroom.” of rights movement is simply a veiled bills would also state that no tenure She also mentioned that the State attempt to increase the conservative decisions be based on the professor’s University of New York’s Academic presence on university campuses. He political or religious affiliations.