First, from the incoming mail, a reader comments on the HGEA negotiations: Yesterday’s article seemed like a puff piece fed by Lingle’s office blamming the Mayors for holding up a contract with HGEA. Absent from the reporting were such details as how long the Mayors have had to review the details of the proposed contract [...]
Tags: Honolulu rail project·Tinfish Press·University of Hawaii at Manoa
University of Hawaii officials have abruptly ordered the evacuation of a flood-damaged building on the Manoa campus due to fears that it could collapse. Gartley Hall, an older two-story building that houses the Department of Psychology, was to be closed to faculty, staff, and students after Friday, according to an emergency notice issued yesterday. But [...]
It was a full house at Hemmenway Auditorium yesterday as hundreds of students and faculty jammed the hall for a briefing on impending budget cuts, including firing of tenured professors. Conspicuous by her absence in the midst of the campus turmoil was Manoa Chancellor Virginia Hinshaw, who has been on the mainland for the last [...]
A flyer being readied for distribution at the University of Hawaii’s Manoa Campus later today charges the UH administration with failing to be advocates for the system’s flagship campus. : UH Manoa is being asked to eat 3/4ths of the budget cuts while consuming only ½ of the system’s costs. Why haven’t we heard a [...]
Update: Gregg Takayama, executive assistant to Manoa Chancellor Virginia Hinshaw, responded promptly to this post as follows: Yes, Chancellor Hinshaw did pay for it out of her personal funds so no state or UH funds were involved. She hosted the cruise as a “thank you” for Manoa campus leaders who have worked very closely with [...]
Kaaawa was featured in a KITV weather report yesterday as the remains of the former hurricane, Felicia, slipped past the island. And the Advertiser reports that Kamehameha Highway, our two-lane access to Kaaawa, was closed for five hours overnight when Waikane Stream overflowed. Police reported about 3 feet of water on the highway after heavy [...]
A well-placed source at UH Manoa says there have been more than 15 administrative-professional-technical staffers laid off recently without warning, complete with the experience of being escorted to pick up personal items and then immediately escorted off campus. Those involved reportedly had all been in their jobs for less than three years and had no [...]
