K
alamalama Hawai‘i Pacific University Newspaper
Volume 35 Issue No. 4
April 4, 2011
Calling Jack Lord
There was some confusion and turmoil the morning of March 28 after Hawaii Five-O spent the weekend filming in Chinatown near the downtown campus. The crew and all their equiptment stayed on campus longer than expected and hampered parking and the opening of some computer labs on Fort Street Mall. Here a cast production member works to remove a “wreck” that had been staged in Chaplain Lane.
Photo by Thomas Obungen
Gandhi’s grandson speaks here, offers words of wisdom SAIGE MARTIN student body president MIRIAM LANDRU student writer Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, shared his message of peace and non-violence recently at the HPU Hawaii Loa campus. Approximately 200 students and members of the community were present at the March 5 event. People started claiming their seats well before the talk started at 3:30 p.m. By 3:55 p.m. HPU security was setting up more seats as community members, students, faculty and staff flooded the front lanai. The timing of Arun Gandhi’s visit could hardly be more fitting. As the Middle East explodes with street protests and revolution, as the United States seems ever more divided — how do we find peace? Arun Gandhi was born in 1934 in Durban, South Africa, the fifth grandson of India’s great leader, Mohandas K. “Mahatma” Gandhi. He has followed in footsteps Cont page 3 to his grandfather, spreading the
Bannister would like to increase full-time faculty
JANEL LUBANSKY staff writer
Spring semester is winding down -- six weeks left and finals are lurking around the corner -- and Dr. Geoffrey Bannister is preparing for his first days as HPU president, starting July 1. In his latest Kalamalama interview, Bannister shared more details of his plans for HPU’s future: He reiterated his ideas for improving campus facilities; stressed the goal
HPU students raise $5k for Japan disaster victims
of increasing opportunities for studies abroad, and said he would like to significantly increase the number of full time faculty. The new president said he would like to increase the number of fulltime faculty (now at about 260) by 150 over the next five years. “I think our needs are more full-time teachers and to also give the adjunct teachers more time to spend with students,” Bannister said. “We’re not dealing with things on a year-by-year basis, but we’re
“Very young girls” packs a powerful punch
really looking down the line. “I see a lot of challenges with student learning,” he said. “There are some recent studies that have made it very clear that students aren’t learning as much in college as they should. Part of that is we’ve allowed the workload to drop. “The workload needs to go up, students need to understand that getting credentials isn’t enough; they need to have a university-trained mind.” As for campus development, the
full plan on the Hawaii Loa campus expansion is finally in sight, he said. Bannister told the Star-Advertiser that the master plan would be unveiled in December. What haven’t been discussed are the changes coming to our downtown campus. Although there have been very few precise details, Bannister said that new lease arrangements are being negotiated. “Downtown is a classic location for people to live and to work, and I definitely intend to invest in this
campus,” he said. “You need to be downtown, and you need to be on the Loa campus, you need to be where students need to study,” he said. “I think the old notion of ‘everybody will go to the campus where the faculty resides’ is a little out-dated. We need to take our teaching to where the learning takes place.” Speaking of where the learning takes place, more study-abroad opportunities are a very strong part of Cont page 3
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