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The athletics complex was burglarized sometime on the weekend of May 19. Officials discovered on May 22 more than $10,000 had been stolen. Campus Center and the campus office for Ampco Parking System. According to Dawson, the total cash stolen from Campus Center amounts to $45,000. “Somebody has to know where the money is,” Dawson said. CS has sent out precautionary tips, especially for those
units handling cash, in areas of the campus where it is particularly quiet during the summer, on the weekends and during nonbusiness hours. “ There are security systems, and there are perfectly good locks to keep honest people out,” said Dawson.
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On the morning of May 22, UH athletics department employees discovered two broken safes and found that more than $10,000 in cash had been stolen from the athletic complex offices. Campus Security and the Honolulu Police Department are still looking for burglary suspects. According to Campus Security Captain Donald Dawson, burglars used some kind of hammer to physically tear apart two safes on the fi rst-floor offices of the athletic complex over the May 19 weekend. “This case is being taken seriously by the detectives and the Honolulu Police Department,” Dawson said. “The biggest problem is that they [burglars] seem to know where there is money.”
A rash of burglaries started last summer when the UH athletic department food vendor Sodexo had their office in Les Murakami stadium burglarized twice, following baseball and softball games. Since then, burglaries and burglary attempts have occurred on lower campus in the Stan Sheriff Center and the ticket office, as well as on upper campus, including
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Rock the vote: election year movies RYAN MCK INLEY Contributing Writer
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By September 2013, the NaThe U.S. government is constructing a $2 billion data center in Bluffdale, Utah. tional Security Agency will have Wired reports that, in addition to surveillance, the system will also be used for completed its massive $2 billion code decryption. data center which is designed to read, decrypt and trace every December 2006 – 26 years after you do online, from Facebook email, cell phone communica- his death – that the FBI agreed to MyUH to your bank account, tion and credit card purchase to release the withheld docu- would be recorded. W hile this bill was with(among other things) that you’ll ments, finally ending 23 years of litigation. drawn from debate, public outever make. Located in Utah, it will be F R O M FAC E B O O K T O YO U R cry wasn’t the only reason. A similar bill (which is more likeable to ďŹ lter through yottabytes B A N K AC C O U N T These are part of the dan- ly to succeed) passing through (a unit of computer storage/information equal to one septillion gers of the Internet though, Congress right now, called Probytes) of information that we also right? Anything you do on the tecting Children From Internet assumed were part of our basic Internet is there forever. That’s Pornographers Act (H.R. 1981), just how it is. is sponsored and written by liberties of privacy. But now the companies sup- Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), But that’s okay; your emails are just about work and family plying us with the Internet are who sponsored the infamous gossip, right? There’s nothing to slowly being ordered by the Stop Online Piracy Act. government to keep tabs on us. It would mandate that comworry about, right? So what do you think about Hawai‘i State Rep. John Mizuno mercial internet service providers the government keeping per- proposed a bill (H.B. 2288) in track even more than Mizuno’s bill, including sonal prof iles logging customer on not just Everything you do online, from Facebook to names, bank inpublic or semiformation, and IP public f igures MyUH to your bank account, would be recorded. addresses for poslike governsible future use ment employees, but on anyone that they January that “requires internet in civil cases, criminal, or even service providers ... keep con- divorce trials. f ind “of interest?â€? John Lennon had a top-se- sumer records for no less than cret FBI profile of about 300 pag- two years,â€? specifying that the T W I T S O R T W E E T S Even with all of that, they es, which was requested by Presi- records must include “each subdent Richard Nixon in an effort to scriber’s information and inter- must be really bored, because have him deported and silenced net destination history informa- now they’re even reading your Tweets and Facebook statuses. as a critic of the Vietnam War. A tion.â€? This means your Internet In light of ever y thing else portion of these documents were apparently so crucial that releas- service provider would keep con- they’re doing, it ’s not that ing them would “endanger the na- stant track of what websites you See Privacy, page 7 tional securityâ€? and it was only in visited and when. Everything
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BOR reveals true colors In the fi nal analysis, this cluster of administrative controversies (Virginia Hinshaw’s near-$300,000 self-serving exit payout, and the Board of Regents’ unanimous ratification of the new chancellor and his significant salary increase) opened a window into the Board of Regents and the administration which must be chronicled, viz.: (1) the board is in essence a body of cowards with no independent judgment, and (2) the administration is comprised of disingenuous greeds who care more about their own interests than the interests of the students and faculty. Ultimately, these events have damaged the reputation of the board and the administration in
the public’s eye because they provided an opportunity to see the perverse bureaucracy of the board and administration at work. If the public, faculty or students had voted on either of these measures each proposal would have been shot down with a resounding “No!” In stark contrast, give the measure to the board and the administration, and each measure is approved with a resounding “Yes!” Something is off-kilter here, or as Shakespeare wrote, “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.”
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O N T H E R A DA R A lot of these methods could be argued as legitimate and are obviously supported, as bills are passed and actions are allowed consistently.
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The issue becomes finding a balance between safety, privacy and necessity. I doubt that terrorists tweet their plans or send emails to their friends about where the best deals are on explosives, and keeping detailed logs of dramatic status updates seems frivolous. Privacy is a personal liberty that is being ripped away through the technological means which many use every day. When I consider that my father protested the Vietnam War and is now a civil servant to the government, I can’t help but wonder if I’m on the radar as the daughter of a radical. I might be paranoid, or I might not be, but either way, I sure don’t want the government to have a fi le about it.
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don’t have scholarships, but the nice thing is we have the W UE [Western Undergraduate Exchange] so some of them can come to school at the Universit y of Hawai‘i for even cheaper than staying in California.” For Nidds, joining the team has enhanced her college experience. “I was at the Campus Center one day and we got talking and he [Johnson] said ‘you should try come out for our women’s team,’” Nidds said. “As I came out for the fi rst couple of practices, I really liked it – just because I really liked being a part of the team. From there it just kept going. Without him recruiting me, my college experience would not be the same. It’s just such a blessing.”
M A RC A R AK AK I Sports Editor National titles are hard to come by: Only two sports in the UH athletic department can boast national championships. Many know about the Rainbow Wahine volleyball program’s four titles. However, UH’s two sailing national championships may go unnoticed. “Sailing doesn’t get as much recognition as other sports but it’s really exciting that we do have a great program,” junior team captain Bree Nidds said. “Hawai‘i is one of the greatest places to sail. It’s really nice that we can represent UH.” The women’s sailing team won a national title in 2001. In 2004, Hawai‘i captured the coed dinghy national championship. This season, the Rainbow Wahine sailing team will get a chance to add to its total as it heads to Lake Travis, Tex., for the Intercollegiate Sailing Association National Championships today through Friday. The Rainbow Wahine will be represented by Nidds, senior Lani Johnson, juniors Hanne Nagatani and Lindsay Stewart, and sophomore Madeline Kennedy. Hawai‘i got the invite after finishing second at the Pacific Coast Collegiate Sailing Conference Women’s Championship last month. “It’s as hard to win a national championship as any other sport,” head coach Andy Johnson said. “You really have to have some special people and have things go the right way. I’ve always said that if you can be good enough to be in the top fi ve in the country, then you need a wind shift to go your way – you need breaks just like any other sport. But you got to be good enough to get there.”
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UH sailing coach Andy Johnson was inducted into the ICSA Hall of Fame last week. Johnson will lead five Rainbow Wahine sailors to nationals in Lake Travis, Tex., beginning today. pians and led Hawai‘i to more than 40 national championship appearances in the coed and women’s divisions. “When I took over [in 1989], Charlie Dole was in his late 70s, I think, and he was just keeping it going,” Johnson said. “When I took over, there were six kids. Through recruiting and a lot of hard work, we got a fully funded women’s program, [and] 25 kids showing up to practice everyday.” Johnson has also gained national recognition. He was awarded the R ichard H. L ough Memorial Ser vice Award by the PCCSC last month and was
inducted into the ICSA Hall of Fame last week.
RECRUITING CHALLENGES Recruiting hasn’t been easy for Johnson. Without any scholarships to offer, he needed to be creative. “A lot of times people will contact you,” Johnson said. “Like any other sport, it ’s hard to keep the top -end kids in Hawai‘i to stay in Hawai‘i. They grow up here and, if they got enough money, then they’ll go somewhere else. The best kids in the countr y are coming out of Southern California. We
No current UH sailors have garnered All-American honors, but solid performances this week will help their chances of scoring Hawai‘i’s fi rst All-American honor since 2005. “It’s just natural ability and being able to build on that,” Johnson said. “We’ve been fortunate enough to have some of the best sailors that have come out of college sailing sail for us. Most of them come in with almost an innate ability to make a boat go fast, get up the course and to be able to build on that is really special. Those are the kids that are going to make All-American.”
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