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Football coach answers student questions

OPINIONS

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What AD Donovan has accomplished at UH

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Incumbent mayor Peter Carlisle

weighs in on rail, rivals

See Carlisle, page 2

RIE MIYOSHI/ KA LEO O HAWAI‘I

This article is last of a three-part series covering the candidates for mayor of Honolulu county. Ka Leo interviewed mayoral candidate Peter Carlisle on June 21, 2012. Go to kaleo.org to see the video clips of the interview.

News | Ka Leo | Wednesday, July 18 2012 [email protected] | Emi Aiko Editor | Kim Clark Associate

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Editor in Chief With two candidates in favor of rail vying for the position of Honolulu County mayor, incumbent Peter Car-lisle defi nes his pro-rail position by the progress being made. “We’re actually getting it [rail] done,” said Carlisle in an interview with Ka Leo. “What I would say is take a look at seeing how much has gotten done in the last year and a half.”

ʻTHE RAIL MEET INGTHE GUIDEWAYʼ Rail has been, according to Car-lisle, a plan that has been in progress for years. “Make no doubt about it. In terms of getting the rail going, and mov-ing forward, and now actually be-ing built, that ’s an accomplish-ment that ’s taken 40 years to occur.”

Carlisle, however, asserts that the implementation of rail only oc-curred during his administration. “The actual rubber meeting the road or, in this case, the rail meet-ing the guideway, didn’t occur until I came into offi ce.” Carlisle explained that the current structure for the rail was necessary. “It’s very clear, when you go out there and you take a look at it [the rail] … You get an understanding of why it needs to be this way,” said Carlisle. “You can pass through right underneath it very easily, because the pillars are spaced 125 to 130 meters apart.”

Under the City’s cur-rent plan for rail, the

line’s distance ex-tends from Ala Moa-na Shopping Center to West O‘ahu.

But Carlisle feels that UH stu-dents may still ben-efi t from rail, de-spite the fact that it does not stretch to UH Mānoa.

“I know that students have tests; they have activities; they focus their lives on the university when they’re there,” said Carl-isle. “To make it so that they’re more mobile there, that they can [get] from Kapolei to Ala Moana Shopping Center in 41 minutes every time … All of those things are an incredible value to people who happen to have the need for public transportation.”

DEFINING A MAYOR Carlisle described his manage-ment style as being decisive. “You have to be able to be a manager, and that means to tell people what needs to be done. … You can’t be waffl ing all the time,” said Carlisle. This decisiveness, accord-ing to Carlisle, involved policies including rail, regardless of criti-cism by the public. “Public opin-ion goes back and forth and back and forth, but what’s very clear is that if you want a better tomor-row, you need to have the rail sys-tem going up.” Carlisle also took offense to opponent Kirk Caldwell’s cam-

paign signs. “It seems to imply that he’s [Caldwell] been may-

or at some point in his life. If that’s true, it ’s news to

me,” stated Carlisle. “You are not mayor

until you have been elected. …

I don’t believe he’s been a

mayor for

one month, one week, onehour, or one minute, and thesame thing’s true for [mayoralcandidate] Ben Cayetano.”

ANTI - RAIL CRIT IC ISM Carlisle was not opposed toother alternate transportation op-tions. He acknowledged that busrapid transit was not an idea thatshould be entirely dismissed.“There are times when bus rapidtransit should be used and couldbe used,” Carlisle said. Carlisle however, dismissed anti-rail proponent Cayetano’s BRT plan. “When you ask him [Cayeta-no] about the specifics of his BusRapid Transit, and how things aregoing to operate, you get less andless information, and less andless certainty that it could workwell,” Carlisle said. Carlisle also spoke about anti-railCity Council members that he haddiffi culties working with. He provid-ed council members Tom Berg andAnn Kobayashi as examples. Of Berg, Carlisle said that he is“always and completely anti-rail” andthat some of his activities “suggestconcerns about his stability.” Carlisle said of Kobayashi,“She will do anything Ben Cayeta-no tells her to do, including run formayor a couple of times.”

ʻAN UNFAIR ADVANTAGE ʼ Carlisle spoke against the prac-tice of faculty having access to bothtenure and a union, although he sug-gested that the scope be broader thanuniversity employees. “That’s not just faculty at theuniversity. I think for me, we have asystem of civil service along with col-lective bargaining. That creates twolayers when there should be only one.” He further criticized this protec-tion for faculty as creating ineffi cien-cies in the university system. “It allows the dead hand to con-trol the living too often,” Carlislesaid. “[It] gives an unfair advantageto people that may not be the bestperson for that job.”

Rail has been, according to Car-lisle, a plan that has been in progress for years. “Make no doubt about it. In terms of getting the rail going, and mov-ing forward, and now actually be-ing built, that ’s an accomplish-ment that ’s taken 40 years to occur.”

spaced 125 to 130 meters apart. Under the City’s cur-

rent plan for rail, the line’s distance ex-

tends from Ala Moa-na Shopping Center to West O‘ahu.

But Carlisle feels that UH stu-dents may still ben-efi t from rail, de-spite the fact that it does not stretch to UH Mānoa.

have to be able to be a manager, and that means to tell people what needs to be done. … You can’t be waffl ing all the time,” said Carlisle. This decisiveness, accord-ing to Carlisle, involved policies including rail, regardless of criti-cism by the public. “Public opin-ion goes back and forth and back and forth, but what’s very clear is that if you want a better tomor-row, you need to have the rail sys-tem going up.”

Carlisle also took offense to opponent Kirk Caldwell’s cam-

paign signs. “It seems to imply that he’s [Caldwell] been may-

or at some point in his life.If that’s true, it ’s news to

me,” stated Carlisle. “You are not mayor

until you have been elected. …

I don’t believe he’s been a

mayor for

Carlisle: “...You need to have the rail system going up” Carlisle: “...You need to have the rail system going up”

RIE MIYOSHI / KA LEO O HAWAI‘I

Before serving as mayor, Carlisle was the city prosecutor from 1997-2010.

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Starting as an offensive lineman for the University of Hawai‘i football team during the Dick Tomey era in the early 1980s, James J. Donovan III was the f irst UH alumnus athlete in its 40 -year Division I sports his-tory to return as athletic direc-tor. But he is now on administra-tive leave while he awaits the results of the on-going Stevie Wonder concert investigation.

Ka Leo has compiled a brief time-line of the achievements and frustra-tions of Donovan’s time here at UH.

1981-82 Serves as an offensive lineman for UH

football under head coachDick Tomey

1983 Graduates from UH Mānoa with BA

in geography

1983 -85 Becomes graduate assistant football

coach under Tomey

1985 Becomes Rainbow Stadium manager

1988Promoted to sports marketing

director

1992 Organizes a fundraising effort for the American Red Cross at the UH vs. BYU football game, which raised nearly $150,000

in relief funds

1994 Becomes assistant athletic director

for administrative services

1996Graduates from UH Shidler College of Business with an executive master of

business administration degree

Becomes assistant athletic director un-der athletic director Hugh Yoshida

Signs $6.2 million contract with KFVE-TV, considered one of the most lucrative

television packages in the country

2002 Leaves UH athletics department and starts own marketing fi rm, m2c Inc.,

a business consulting company specializing in event management

Serves as the executive director of the Sheraton Hawai‘i Bowl,

an event owned by ESPN Regional Television

2008 Becomes 20th UH

athletic director

Lowers baseball ticket and concession prices

Makes $1.3 million in cuts to combat the department’s $2 mil-

lion annual deficit

2009 Fires women’s basketball coach

Jim Bolla, who subsequently sues both UH and Donovan, and re-

places him with Dana Takahara-Dias

2010Fires men’s

basketball head coach Bob Nash and replaces him

with Gib Arnold

Carries athletics department to a sur-plus of $322,104 for the fi scal year

2011 Instates student athletic fee of $50 per semester, raising $2 million an-

nually for the department

Fires football head coach Greg McMackin and replaces him with

Norm Chow

2012 Fires Takahara-Dias, and replaces

her with Laura Beeman

Placed on paid, indefi nite admin-istrative leave after a Stevie

Wonder benefi t concert is canceled and

$200,000 goes missing

Athletic director Jim Donovan’s ups and downs with UHAthletic director Jim Donovan’s ups and downs with UH

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Features | Ka Leo | Wednesday, July 18 2012 [email protected] | Alvin Park Editor |Maile Thomas Associate

ALVIN PARK

Features Editor

Although it is summer and most college students are busy picking out swim attire to wear to the beach or pool, don’t ask Uni-versity of Hawai‘i at Mānoa stu-dent Remy Hirai to go bikini shop-ping. Instead, she’ll probably offer to sell you one of hers. That’s because the 21-year-old graphic design and apparel prod-uct design and merchandising major owns and operates her own bikini line, called Lōli‘i Swimwear. And business is booming. “I wanted to make bikinis that were affordable,” Hirai said. “I was tired of having to go out and buy bikinis for $70 when I could just make them myself. That’s how the idea really started.”

LOCAL ROOTS After high school, Hirai moved to the east coast for col-lege but soon became homesick and yearned to return back to Hawai‘i’s sun, sand and surf. Upon transferring to UH Mānoa after her fi rst semester, she began to experiment with the sewing ma-chine her grandmother gave her. Hirai soon expanded on her sewing projects and eventually be-gan to offer to sew bikinis for her friends and family. “I fi rst started making [the bi-kinis] back in summer of 2010,” she said. “I would say to my friends ‘Oh, do you want swimsuits?’ and they would call them cute and encour-aged me to sell them.” Hirai soon launched Lōli‘i Swimwear (which she says means “relaxed, at ease or worry-free”) and built her brand through Facebook and other social media websites – which some may say is a meta-feat, considering Hirai is a one-woman team.

“It’s just me,” she said. “I cut and sew all the bikinis, do the photo shoots, design the website, and han-dle the social media by myself.” Although she has not set up an offi cial shop on her website yet, she periodically takes in a lim-ited number of orders via email. Though demand is high, Hi-rai is careful not to take too many orders. The bikini sewing pro-cess, which i n c l u d e s l a y i n g out the pat tern, cutting it out, laying it on the lining and sewing on the elastics can take anywhere from an hour to an hour and a half, Hirai said.

RAPID GROWTH As her customer base is ex-panding beyond Hawai‘i to include clientele from the mainland, Hirai is working on streamlining the order-ing process by putting up an online shop on her brand’s website. She has sewn over 300 bikini pieces so far, with another 300 more to go before she launches her store. But Hirai denotes the challenges of being a student entrepreneur. “It’s really time-consuming and a lot of work,” she said. “It’s also a lot of trial and error. I didn’t know how to sew in the beginning, so it was tough. I had to really work hard at it.” It’s an investment she hopes will pay off, Hirai said. In the future, she hopes to continue expanding her brand to include other clothes and ac-cessories for her customers. “I enjoy being my own boss, and everyone needs a job, so it’s nice that I can do what I really like to do,” Hi-rai said. “It’s also good that I’m get-ting started early, before I graduate, so I don’t have to wait.”

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Chief Copy Editor

The Stevie Wonder concert deba-cle is an embarrassment for both the athletics program and UH Mānoa as a whole – but it also is a sign of deeper problems for UH athletics. At present writing, it appears that the whole affair was a scam: the agency with whom UH arranged to secure Wonder was, in fact, unaffi li-ated with him – a fact that seemingly everyone involved in the process over-looked until after tickets had gone on sale. UH was also duped into handing over a still-missing $200,000. Athletic director Jim Donovan and Stan Sheriff arena manager Rich Sheriff have both been placed on paid, indefi nite admin-istrative leave while an independent in-vestigator fi gures out what happened. This alone would be scandal enough. However, greater concern lies in the fact that the athletics de-partment has gone – according to the Honolulu Star-Advertiser – from an $858,000 surplus to a $2 million defi -cit in the space of a single year. The message this incident sends is clear: trusting UH athlet-ics to manage money is rapidly be-coming a mistake, and its present course is unsustainable.

BAD DECIS IONS? Students in particular have cause to be concerned about the athletics department’s inability to manage fi nances. In 2010, UH administration de-cided to instate an athletics fee for every student. The fee was justifi ed predominantly by the athletics de-partment’s desperate need for fund-ing. Students give approximately $2 million annually to the department, with fi ve to eight percent of the mon-ey used to enhance student activities and experiences at athletic events.

As a result of this income, as well as other austerity cuts to administra-tive costs, the department had actu-

ally begun to turn things around. It looked as if UH athletics could fi nally begin paring down its accumulated overall defi cit that the Star-Advertis-er reports totaled around $10 million. But poor performance on the part of the football team this year meant decreased ticket revenues, which led to the fi ring and $600,000 buyout of then-head coach Greg McMackin before the end of his contract. The athletics depart-ment’s decision to switch from the Western Athletic Conference to the geographically farther Mountain West Conference incurred numer-ous fees and penalties, including $1.2 million to accommodate travel fees for its new opponents. With UH back in the red, these desperate fi nancial times are seem-ingly what compelled UH to resort to this benefi t concert. The $200,000 UH invested in the concert would have been recouped by a $250,000 profi t – if the concert had sold out.

NEW SOLUTIONS NEEDED The university does have an uphill battle when it comes to main-taining its athletic programs. UH’s geographical isolation means that the university accumulates higher travel costs and has more diffi culty recruiting talent than most of its mainland peers. Many of its sports – aside from football – are minimally profi table. The department has a $30 million budget – and as noted, carries a multi-million dollar defi cit that grows almost every year. When Donovan fi rst became athletic director, he was instructed to run the program “like a business” by the Board of Regents. To this end, Donovan has done an admirable job of trimming costs without hurting student-athletes, and his decision to instate the athletic fee was monetari-ly wise for the department. When UH Mānoa students in the midst of tuition increases were asked to sacrifi ce for its ath-

letic program – a program that has little impact on the academic ven-tures of most students – they were told that the money would benefi t the student-athletes. But students are not sacrifi c-ing an extra $100 per year so that the school can back out of commit-ments and incur fi nancial penal-ties haphazardly. What it boils down to is that UH athletics used $200,000 – money equivalent to the fees paid by 2,000 students – to invest in a highly risky venture with a comparatively low re-turn and now the money’s gone.

MAKE THE SACRIF ICE The athletics department has already received its fi nancial bail-out from students. If it is to remain solvent and profi table, it needs to downsize. The program is sup-posed to be self-sustaining. If it can-not afford its current budget, then parts of it simply need to be cut. The department’s heavy reliance on the football program as a money generator is problematic. A single sport should not have the power to sink the entire department. Ad-ministrative costs might need to be trimmed even further – a necessary sacrifi ce if student-athletes are to re-main as unaffected as possible. Money should be invested in long-term solutions, not merely one-time charity fi xes. Helpful as this concert could have been, it would have been the equivalent of a transfusion, not a cure. These will not be popular or easy decisions to make, but debts do not simply go away. Students, now shareholders in the athletic department, have the right to know that the athletics department – and their investment – is being run smartly and shrewdly. Incidents like these only lower the department’s credibility – because maybe the next time they want a student handout, it won’t be so easy to come by.

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Sports | Ka Leo | Wednesday, July 18 2012 [email protected] | Marc Arakaki Editor | Joey Ramirez Associate

Chatting with Coach ChowMARC ARAKAKI

Sports Editor

Ka Leo sat down with Warrior head football coach Norm Chow last week to ask him some of your ques-tions. Hawai‘i begins fall practice in August to prepare for its season open-er at USC on Sep. 1. For the video coverage of the en-tire interview, check out kaleo.org.

Q How does it feel to be coach-ing back at home? (Keola T.,

animation senior)

AA It’s different. I left home at 18 and never came back. I came

back for a three-year period of time to coach high school football. It’s different. It’s exciting. It is home for me. Home is always home, wher-ever you’re born or raised. But once the game starts, it doesn’t matter what color uniform you have on. The biggest thing is you have to beat the one who has the oppos-ing colors. Yes, it is exciting to be home, but we certainly understand the responsibilities that we have and know that it is a big task.

Q What will you do differently from previous coaches? (Rach-

elynne D., undecided freshman)

AA Hopefully not too much, be-cause they were awfully suc-

cessful. I thought June Jones won a lot of ball games in his time. We just want to do it our way; which ev-ery coach does it a little differently.

We’re going to change the style of offense. We’re going to change the defense a little bit. It’s a new coach-ing staff – and not that what June and those guys did was not the right way to do it. They obviously were very successful with it. It’s just our way of doing it, and our way of play-ing football, and the things that we deem to be important.

Q How would you rate this year’s recruits as compared to your

past classes? (Kathy C., kinesiology and rehab sciences sophomore)

AA You don’t really judge re-cruiting for a couple of

years. Three or four years down the road, I’ll gladly answer that question. But right now, we’re not sure. We got in fairly late. We got in a great group of guys – they’re good people. Will they contribute right away? We’ll just have to see.

Q Who do you think will be the key players next year? (Wy-

min C., economics/marketing junior)

AA Defensively should be the strength of our team, up

front [senior defensive lineman] Paipai Falemalu, [junior defensive lineman] Tavita Woodard, [sopho-more defensive lineman] Beau Yap, [sophomore defensive lineman] Moses Samia, [junior linebacker] Art Laurel, [junior linebacker] George Daily-Lyles. We feel like we have an experienced front seven, [sophomore linebacker] TJ Taima-

tuia. Corners we hope will hold up for us – [junior cornerback] Mike Edwards is playing very well. Offensively, obviously we’re unsettled at quarterback. [Sopho-more running back] Joey Iosefa is a key player for us; we need to keep him healthy. [Freshman run-ning back] Will Gregory – we have a lot of players that we’ll be count-ing on. Football is a game not like basketball or volleyball where it’s fi ve or six guys. It’s 22 guys and they all need to contribute. While we have key guys, the strength of our team will be our ‘team.’

Q What will be the outcome of the players who recently re-

ceived DUI convictions? (Eric M., ethnic studies senior)

AA I just visited with one and there will be some punish-

ments and consequences. We need to make sure we teach life lessons. We’re going to wait till we hear what the courts say, but there will be con-sequences and unfortunately prob-ably more severe ones.

Q How will you prepare for the game against USC?

(Jon S., business senior)

AA Just like any other one. The reason why [USC] is an im-

portant game because it’s the next one up. We understand that. We un-derstand that they’ll be [No.] 1 or 2 in the country. We understand we’re 38-point underdogs. But the prepa-

ration and the game planning and getting our players ready will not change, whether it’s USC or someone down the line. We’re go-ing to try as hard as we can to put together a good game plan, and we’re going to go from there.

Q Since 1999, Hawai‘i has been a predominantly a

pass-heavy team with the run-and-shoot offense. Do you plan to change the offense to incorporate more running? If so, how? (Dayne K., com-munications junior)

AA Without question. I’m fi rmly convinced –

and I guess I have enough experience to know – that you have to run the foot-ball. You have to be able to run the football if you want to win the big game. I shouldn’t say that, be-cause the run-and-shoot has been awfully success-ful, but I think there are times when you absolute-ly have to run the football.

Q If or when do you see Hawai‘i

playing in another BCS Bowl? (Victor F., nursing senior)

AA That’s way out of my

league. I think our job is to be the best we can be and whatever after that happens. You can’t control the powers to be – I think the BCS will undergo dramatic changes in the next couple to three years. I don’t think the picture will re-main the same. Whether we’re a part of it or not, I think is up to us. We have to prove that we should be a part of this thing called the BCS because we deserve to be.

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