Celebrating 90 years of student journalism! This in from Jay Hartwell, student media advisor at UH Manoa. We have completed the installation of an exhibit at Hamilton Library’s bridge gallery that celebrates the 90 years that students have edited Ka Leo O Hawai`i for the University of Hawai`i at Manoa community. It will be open [...]
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A friend Googled “ilind.net” today and alerted me to the importance of the date. The domain, iLind.net, was created on January 27, 2000, according to public domain records. So today is its 12th birthday, anniversary, whatever. I started in mid-September 1999, when the old Star-Bulletin was targeted for closure. For the first several months, I [...]
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Former Honolulu Star-Bulletin photo editor Dean Sensui dredged up this bit of media memorabilia dating back to the legal-political battle in the 1999-2001 period to block Gannett’s plan to pay the owner of the Bulletin to simply close the newspaper. In an email, Dean commented on the irony of the “no monopoly” message. The impulse [...]
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We received word yesterday that Professor George Ball, simply “Dr. Ball” to generations of Whitman College students over five decades, died on New Year’s Day at age 96. He was a quiet man, a fixture on the small campus in Walla Walla, Washington, who left an indelible impression on many over the years. The Seattle [...]
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I dug out a few more photos from the archives. The first was taken 40 years ago tonight. Meda and I were living in a small, two bedroom apartment in what was then known as the Circle Jade, the unusual round apartment building on 9th Avenue in Kaimuki. It’s now a condominium. In those days [...]
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Merry Christmas, folks! The cats are enjoying their holiday catnip, along with an extra taste of canned food, always a treat. And here are a few things from the ghost of Christmas past that you may enjoy. First, enjoy a quick listen to my Kaaawa Christmas poem, written in 2002 and last revised when Leo [...]
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Don’t miss Keith Rollman’s latest, a satirical swipe at City Councilman Tom Berg’s performance during APEC, on his Atomic Monkey blog. Taking off from the HPD video of Berg confrontation with Secret Service agents and Honolulu police officers, Rollman takes it over the top. Funny stuff! The full documentary video is there as well, with [...]
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In 1937, Professor Carey D. Miller, the internationally-known nutritionist who established the Home Economics Department at the University of Hawaii, traveled to Japan to meet with colleagues and observe farming and cooking techniques. Click on the photo below to view all of Miller’s photographs from Japan. This was likely part of a longer trip which [...]
