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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3

Softball staff discov-ered that someone had broken into a storage shed by cutting the lock and breaking a wall. No equipment appeared to be missing, as the market for extremely used soft-ball equipment is slow, due to the economy.

THURSDAY, JUNE 4

A man arrested for trespassing on campus claimed that he would come back no matter how many times he was arrested. He is one of many outstanding citi-zens who keep the island economy in motion by creating jobs in the prison system.

FR IDAY, JUNE 5

A student reported smell-ing smoke in a hallway at the Physical Sci-ence Building. Campus Security investigated and found that some bulletin boards were burnt. Wit-nesses gave a description of a suspect who could not be located.

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The University of Hawai‘i sys-tem continues to build on last year’s record enrollment while battling budget cuts imposed by the governor and state Legislature. Enrollment is increasing about 20 percent systemwide, accord-ing to Louise Pagotto, Kapi‘olani Community College vice chancellor for academic affairs. “Some campuses have more, some have less,” said Pagotto. Much of the rise in enrollment is concentrated into the seven UH community colleges, which have seen a record 28 percent increase since around this same time last year, according to John Morton, vice presi-dent of UH community colleges. While the UH system as a whole is experiencing a surge in

enrollment, UH Mānoa’s freshman class has the smallest number of students at the university, according to Morton. “Mānoa enrollment will grow as the students move through the (com-munity colleges) and transfer in. It’s too early for that to have happened yet,” said Morton in an e-mail. UH Mānoa is not expecting an increase in enrollment next year, according to Kathleen Cutshaw, UHM vice chancellor for administra-tion, finance and operations. “Given the economy, this is good news. ... In difficult economic times we might expect students who were planning to go to college on the mainland to change their minds and either go to Mānoa or a local com-munity college, depending on their individual financial situation,” said Cutshaw in an e-mail. Gene Awakuni, chancellor of

UH West O‘ahu, explained in an e-mail that UHWO is projecting a 15 to 20 percent increase, or about 200 more students, over their fall 2008 enrollment, which was about 1,200.

BUDGET CUTS

Awakuni said because of the budget cuts, UHWO had to “freeze hiring new faculty in certain key dis-ciplines.” As a result, professors will have to teach more courses and the univer-sity planning to hire more lecturers to teach general education courses, according to Awakuni. “This works on a short-term basis but will clearly be problematic in the long term,” Awakuni said. The Legislature has slashed UH’s budget by about $46 million, in addition to Gov. Linda Lingle’s $50 million cutback; UH will collect about

$22 million in federal stimulus money to help soften the blow. UH Mānoa will be taking on about $34 million of the Legislature’s budget cuts for the 2010 fiscal year, which begins next month, and about $30 million of Lingle’s cuts, accord-ing to Gregg Takayama, UHM director of communication and gov-ernment affairs. The budget cuts amount to about a 17 percent reduction of UH Mānoa’s $260 million budget for the 2009 fis-cal year, according to Takayama. About 70 to 75 percent of the money UH receives from the state government goes to employ-ee salaries. “How do you make that (cut) without affecting the people who work here?” asked Takayama. “The answer is you can’t.”

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With a unanimous vote of 12-0, the Board of Regents approved Mary Rita Cooke Greenwood as president of the University of Hawai‘i system after a seven-month-long search. “I will commit my full atten-tion to ensuring that the hard work already done by those before me, especially that of President McClain and his system team, the campus chancellors and many others will be honored as important building blocks for the future,” said Greenwood in a videoconference from the University of California, Davis. As previous chancellor for the University of California, Santa Cruz, Greenwood achieved various accomplishments such as helping launch the college’s

first professional engineering school (the Jack Baskin School of Engineering), increasing the number of academic programs by 52 percent and more than dou-bling extramural research sup-port, and developing the nation’s first NASA University Affiliated Research Center at the UC. “Her experiences will be invaluable in guiding our univer-sity and our state through today’s economic challenges,” said current UH President David McClain in the final selection meeting. The three-year contract includes a salary of $475,008, compared to McClain’s salary of $414,096, and two one-year renewal options. The salary range was decid-ed according to a salary study of institutions similar to UH, accord-ing to BOR Chairman Al Landon. From the very beginning of

her tenure at UH, Greenwood must face the financial crisis the university is currently suffering. “I know this is going to be a painful time for the university,” Greenwood acknowledged. According to Greenwood, more than $100 million in system-wide budgets will be cut over the next two years. Greenwood also brought up the ethical investigation she was involved in during her time as provost at UC Santa Cruz. “I apologized for it, I paid for it and I don’t think I will ever make that mistake again, and with the help of the general council and oth-ers, I’m sure I won’t make anymore conflict of interest,” she said in the videoconference. Greenwood plans to start her job before Aug. 24, 2009, shortly after McClain ends his term on July 31.

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ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES

Because the number of recent high school graduates has in fact decreased, Pagotto said the enroll-ment jump is likely from people coming in from the battered econ-omy looking to add to and improve their skills. No matter what condition the economy is in, the decision to invest the time and energy into school versus using that effort to get paid working is always available, which is what economists call the “oppor-tunity cost.” “In a recession, the opportu-nities are fewer so people have

greater incentive to forego the alter-natives and make the investment in intellectual capital,” said James Moncur, UHM economics professor, in an e-mail. Chung Lee, UHM associ-ate economics professor, said in an e-mail that the training and skills a person obtains from going to school defines human capital. Because of the shaky economy and its effects on the job market, people may be choosing to go to school to improve their human capital, which will help them find more promising employment after the economy rebounds, according

to Lee. Moncur said that UH Mānoa tuition has been rising a little faster than other UH system schools, so students might be opting for the com-munity college route to save money. Students could also be factoring in the cost and time of transporting to UH Mānoa, Moncur said. Both economists pointed out that tuition is cheaper at commu-nity colleges than at UH’s four-year campuses.

COMMUNITY COLLEGESʻ REACTION TO INCREASE

Angela Meixell, chancellor of Windward Community College, said that community college enroll-ment “historically always goes up when the economy is down.” Meixell has a few possible reasons for the record enrollment spike: with the economy knocking out jobs, people who are not work-ing turn to school to gain skills; students already in school may be staying longer because of bleak job prospects; or because UH com-munity colleges have been focusing more on the recruitment and reten-tion of students as well as more marketing. The challenge for UH lies in the near $100 million in budget cuts the university system is fac-ing under Lingle’s and the state Legislature’s spending plans. Pagotto said that all of the community colleges are looking for ways to accommodate the surge in students and that KCC is going to try to add more course sections and online courses while keeping class sizes reasonable.

“You don’t want to squeeze people out of education,” Pagotto said. KCC is trying to find more classrooms to host the additional courses, according to Pagotto. “It’s kind of difficult because the facilities are maxed out at prime time,” Pagotto said. After last year’s record increase, Meixell said WCC tried to fit more students into classes, but “this year we’re going to have to add classes.” Meixell said WCC may have to tap into the half million in enroll-ment growth money that the state Legislature set up. “Enrollment growth money was a program that allowed community colleges to subsidize the cost of classes,” Morton said in an e-mail. “Community col-lege tuition is too low to pay for even the marginal cost of a class, so without subsidy we can’t add classes to accommodate the students. The enrollment growth money provided by the Legislature provided that sub-sidy and basically underwrote the 19 percent growth over the past two years.” The $22 million in federal stimulus funds will also partially help UH to combat the state’s bud-get cuts. “We will use the federal stimu-lus money in the same way to underwrite adding classes to meet this surge,” Morton said. Pagotto said that there has not been any analysis conducted yet to determine the demograph-ics of the increase in students, but that one will be “after the process is complete.”

SUNDAY, JUNE 7

Congressman Neil Abercrom-bie reported that his car had been stolen from the UH President’s residence. He had left his car at the unoccupied house while on a trip to Wash-ington, D.C. HPD responded and discovered that his car had been towed. In the “Old Days,” when Abercrombie drove a giant yellow taxi with checkerboard designs, security would have known it belonged to a special man and just left it alone.

THURSDAY, JUNE 11

A student called Campus Security after a man told him that he had “set his offi ce door on fi re.” Campus Security found a door on the third fl oor of the Physical Science Building smoldering. Offi cers extinguished the fi re and questioned witnesses. Due to the quick actions of witnesses, Campus Security and HPD, a suspect was located at the cor-ner of Dole St. and University Ave. He was identifi ed and arrested for allegedly setting the fi re.

The suspect is a professor at UH and was arraigned for ar-son on Monday, June 16, 2009.

MONDAY, JUNE 16

Library Security caught a man writing in a library book. HPD was called and the man was escorted out from Ham-ilton Library. The suspect had been underlining and mak-ing drawings in a book about Real World Problem Solving. Hopefully he now knows how to solve his problem.

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Every year, sons and daugh-ters are faced with Father’s Day, a real challenge for those who think that they can get away with the same old gift every year for dear old Dad. For those who don’t know already: some dads are just tired of ties. Mugs might be meaningless. As for cards, well, it’s the thought that counts, but if the only thing you can think to do is spring a Hallmark card on him at the last minute, it’ll be obvious that your gift was an afterthought.

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Doing Father’s Day right means more than just getting him a gift or taking him to some fancy res-taurant. To really do it right, you have to think about what your dad is into, and what may work for your best friend’s pop may not thrill your own. If your dad is a funny guy – even if sometimes you feel like the only place he can hear the laugh track is in his own head – consider taking him to a improv comedy show at the Laughtrack Theater Company, across from Hawai‘i Theatre, this Friday or

Saturday. Tickets are only $10 ($8 if you have a military or student ID) so you can afford to take your dad out to eat after he’s laughed his ‘ōkole off. If your father is more of a foodie, Honolulu has plenty of options for dining. The trouble is that if he’s a hardcore foodie, he’s probably eaten most every-where worth eating, so it might be wise to take his taste buds on a trip he can’t get on the island. Luckily, there are plenty of spe-cialty retailers on the ’Net who can provide in your time of need,

Lindsy OgawaOpinions Editor

Skydiving Sigmund Freud action figures, bacon-flavored mints and a full-sized, fully-assembled wedding chapel are just a few of the absurd items being sold on Amazon.com. Then of course, there’s the highly pub-licized 22-year-old woman who was selling her virginity for mil-lions of dollars on the Web site. It seems like these days, you

can buy and sell nearly anything online if you search hard enough. One notable option recently available is the purchase of cor-rupted files, a trend started by an anonymous individual, to give students the chance to literally buy more time for assignments after teachers find themselves unable to open up their e-mailed “homework.” The site, unsurprisingly called corrupted-files.com, seems simple enough. Though the nor-

mal price is $5.95 per file, there is currently a sale for $3.95 per file until the last day of June. After the purchase, you change the name, send it in and sit tight for the e-mail from your profes-sor asking to resend the previ-ously broken attachment. The site’s creator guarantees that professors will not be able to trace it back to the site. There are also customizing options to deter-mine the size of the corrupted file to differentiate between a one- to forty-page assignment, as well as exactly what type of file is needed. In the Frequently Asked Questions section, it is acknowl-edged that some may consider this cheating. Still yet, the maker stands by his product, saying it prevents plagiarism by allowing students extra time to do their own quality work. After all, the motto is: “Don’t Hand in a ‘Garbage’ Paper! Send a Corrupted File Instead!” But really, I am by no means writing this in order to advertise the site or encourage cheating. Take this instead as a warning. Excuses for late work have evolved over the years. While our parents may have been able to get away with “My dog ate my homework!” and some of us

are still getting away with “My grandma died!” excuse-making has nearly turned into a creative art form that needs no words. Just when students began fig-uring this out, professors came up not far behind. And even if some are more lenient than others, the new excuses and ways of cheating have caused a wave of doubt. Though it is impossible to determine if a corrupted file is accidental or bought, some pro-fessors are simply cutting to the chase; if students don’t get the assignment turned in on time, for whatever reason outside of emer-gencies, they receive no credit. Still, corrupted files happen-ing on their own terms is a common phenomenon, and getting a zero on a long-term paper you stayed up all night writing, but got screwed over by technology, sounds like one of the worst days ever. So instead of getting into the messy position of having to beg a professor for a grade, using the dark circles under your eyes as proof that the files are legiti-mate, get into the habit of copy-ing and pasting your work in the e-mail, on top of sending the attachment. And voilà, no more chances of broken files, and a much, much higher chance of not failing.

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Of course, if your dad is more into the sophistication of spirits in their liquid form, you might want to try getting him something unique from a special-ty retailer like Liquor Collection over in Ward Warehouse. Jay Hopfensperger, assistant general manager, says that scotch and bourbon tend to be the most popular items for Father’s Day, but they also do a “make-your-own” six-pack assortment. You pick the beers from their international selection – the most diverse on the island – and get a dollar off per bottle when you buy a set of six. If you’re going to get your dad a six-pack for Father’s Day, it might as well be the best six-pack in the world.

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With the Los Angeles Lakers taking down the Orlando Magic in this year’s NBA Finals in just five games, the Lakers proved they were the cream of the crop. Although the Magic lost, they still had a good sea-son, reaching the finals by defeating the previous champi-ons Boston Celtics and Cleveland Cavaliers, who had the best record in the regular season. Although both the Lakers and Magic were the best teams in their respective conferences this year, both were very close to being perennial bottom dwell-ers not too long ago. In 2007, the Lakers were eliminated in the first round of the playoffs and didn’t advance for the third straight year, which upset star player Kobe Bryant. Just a season earlier, the team traded one of his closest friends Caron Butler for the colossal bust Kwame Brown, and despite publicly asking for better players to be signed or traded for, the Lakers came up with nothing. Finally Bryant had enough, and in a somber radio interview with Steven A. Smith, Bryant asked to be traded from the only team he had ever played for. Within a month of the interview, there were reports that a deal was near completion between the Lakers and the Chicago Bulls that would have sent Bryant to the Windy City. The deal lingered for a while, with the Bulls believing that the Lakers were going to be forced to trade Bryant, ultimately refusing to add Luol Deng to the package. Bryant’s desire to flee Hollywood changed quite rapidly on February 1, 2008. On that day, Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak ran into one of the most lopsided trades in the history of professional sports, or as Lakers

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Orlando Magic forward Rashard Lewis (9) rebounds over Los Angeles Lakers forward Pau Gasol (16) in Game 5 of the NBA Finals.

head coach Phil Jackson said, they “lucked into” the deal. The Lakers were able to swing a deal for seven-foot All-Star center Pau Gasol, easily one of the top players in the league. The Lakers had to give up a few bad expiring contracts, a few draft picks and Gasol’s brother, overall not much for a player of Gasol’s caliber. And it didn’t take long for general managers throughout the NBA to scream out ‘foul.’ If previous Grizzlies general manager Jerry West had retired just a little later, current general manager Chris Wallace wouldn’t have been able to pull an all-time boneheaded trade moment, and Gasol wouldn’t be with the Lakers and in this year’s finals. The Lakers are not alone, however; the Orlando Magic have also had a few close calls of their own over the past few years that could have drastically changed their destiny. In the 2004 NBA Draft, the Magic won the lot-tery process and was awarded top pick. The team struggled to decide between the prolific college super star Emeka Okafor or the highly athletic raw high school prospect Dwight Howard. Although the Magic’s decision was tough, they ended up making the right choice, and the decision might have been a lot easier and less desirable for Orlando if NBA Commissioner David Stern had his way a little earlier. An influx of high school players turning pro and not pan-ning out had Stern demanding a change to the NBA Draft eligibility rules, requiring potential players to go to school for at least a year before turning pro. If Stern was able to make his mandate for eligibil-ity changes a year earlier, the Magic would have had an easy choice in the 2004 draft. Emeka Okafor would be in Orlando and Dwight Howard would not. There are, however, other situations whose out-comes could have altered the fate of these teams. The Magic’s starting point guard Rafer Alston, who led the team down the stretch after all-star Jameer Nelson was out with a injury, was supposed to be heading to the Los Angeles Clippers before being sent to Orlando just before the trade deadline this season. Rashard Lewis, the Magic’s starting power forward, almost backed out of his deal with Orlando at the last second to sign with the Houston Rockets, who came to his doorstep with a customized jersey days before he signed. When Fisher found out that Los Angeles had one of the best facilities to deal with his daughter’s cancer, he decided to rejoin his former team after asking out of his contract with the Utah Jazz. Then, there is Phil Jackson’s favorite player to hate on, Lamar Odom. In the post-Shaquille O’Neal, pre-Pau Gasol years, Odom was at the center of scrutiny when the Lakers would be bounced out of the first round of the playoffs. When Kobe would scream for the likes of Ron Artest, Jason Kidd or Carlos Boozer, Odom was always at the center of trade speculation. It’s easy to say that any of those players would have helped more, but if those trades were made, would Gasol be in L.A.? Could they have really made any of those deals without including Andrew Bynum? The one thing that is for sure is that both the Lakers and Magic have dodged several bullets during the past few years to play in the NBA Finals.

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After nearly a decade, head coach Carmyn James has finally put the Rainbow Wahine track and field team on the map. When James took over the pro-gram, which was reinstated after a 16-year hiatus, in 2000, she envi-sioned the team being competitive at the national level. Now, having garnered a bronze medal and three top-10 fin-ishes at last week’s NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Fayetteville, Ark., it is safe to say her goal has been achieved in this historic year for the ’Bows. “The program has definitely evolved while I’ve been here,” said outgoing senior Emily Sheppard. “Hawai‘i (now has) a legitimate track team.” At the NCAAs, junior Amber Kaufman placed third and took home the bronze medal in the high jump, clearing 6-1.25 (1.86m), while Sheppard placed 10th after clearing 5-10.75 (1.80m).

In the heptathlon, senior Annett Wichmann, who has made a school-record seven appearances in both the indoor (pentathlon) and the heptath-lon at the outdoor NCAA champion-ships, placed seventh and finished her decorated career with a personal best 5,675 points in the seven-dis-cipline event, including first-place finishes in the shot put and javelin. Kaufman and Wichmann earned All-American honors with their top eight finishes. In both indoor and outdoor NCAAs, Wichmann has four All-American certificates for her career and Kaufman has three. Sheppard was named an All-American at last year’s championships with a sixth-place finish. Eight team points were also tallied by Kaufman and Wichmann, placing UH 36th in the final team standings this season. Last season, along with Sheppard, the two earned 10 points, which placed Hawai‘i 25th. According to James, the recent success at the national level has helped the program greatly in recruiting and sponsors.

“We’ve been getting a number of calls and e-mails of high-level athletes that want to come here,” James said. “Success breeds success; you show that you’re producing a top-level program and the top-level athletes are attracted to that.” James said that there are 30 new athletes wanting to join next year’s squad. “We might actually have to make some cuts because our team size is just going to be way too large to handle,” James said. “(But) that’s a good problem to have.” Also, after last year’s top-25 finish, Nike offered to sponsor the program and provide uniforms and equipment.

LOOK IN G AHEAD Wichmann and Sheppard will be hard to replace. James said that they both have been the corner-stone of the program’s success both on and off the field. To put things into perspective, James noted that at the Outdoor Western Athletic Conference Championships in May, Wichmann

scored 32 team points and Sheppard 20. The ’Bows placed fifth with 101 team points, about half of which came from the two competing in multiple events. “They’ve been big contributors to the team not in just one event, but they have shown they are diver-sified and can do a wide variety of events at a high level,” James said. Both have been equally out-standing in the classroom as well. James said that Wichmann (kinesi-ology) and Sheppard (finance) were the only two on the team to get a 4.0 GPA this past semester. “The fact that they can man-age their time, doing as well as they do on the track and in the classroom, just says so much about their dedication and ability to raise the bar that they set for themselves and go out there and achieve their goals,” James said. “And we travel so much ... every second weekend (of the month) we’re on the road and they miss a lot of school, and yet they are able to stay on top of their academ-ics and do well in track,” James

continued. “We’re definitely going to miss them not just for the points they achieved but the high quality they brought to the program as far as being exemplary leaders.” At the end of the month, Wichmann will likely be named Academic All-America for the third time. In April, Wichmann was named the school’s female recipient of the Jack Bonham Award, given to the school’s top senior athlete who excelled in their sport, in aca-demics and in the community. Sheppard has also received academic honors from ESPN (Academic All-District VIII, second team) and the WAC. “They’re going to leave a big mark on the team, and they are going to be greatly missed - that’s for sure,” James said. “Hawai‘i is a great place to train and compete because we have perfect training conditions,” Sheppard said. “I’ve absolutely loved my time here at UH. I’ve met some amazing people and had some of the best times of my life. ... I’ll never forget it.”

Track and field leaps to new heights