Just about a month ago, there were reports of dwindling student attendance at UH football games. A Star-Advertiser story was headlined: “UH student attendance at football games falls nearly 90%”. According to the story: Athletic director Jim Donovan was asked by Board of Regents vice chairman James Lee on Wednesday why “the last three games [...]
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This notice was sent out today, announcing elevator repairs that will leave only one of the three elevators functioning in one of UH Manoa’s major classroom buildings. The elevator outage is expected to last for two days. Perhaps they didn’t notice that this will be the first week of classes at UH Manoa, always a [...]
Now that the University of Hawaii has hired itself a new football coach, it’s time to go back and take another look at the issue of governance of its athletic program. My initial interest was sparked by a statement by ASUH, the Manoa student government organization, protesting the makeup of the search committee named to [...]
Yesterday’s entry about the backpack burglar on the University of Hawaii Manoa Campus was picked up by BulletproofCourier, a “citizen journalist” blog in Vancouver, B.C. BulletproofCourier included this additional image which originally appeared on the UH Campus Security web site, and added an itemized list of the items found in the backpack Then I heard [...]
A dramatic first-hand story of a UH Manoa grad student’s brush with a sophisticated campus burglar was circulating in the College of Social Sciences yesterday. He returned to his office in the Geography Department on the 4th floor of Saunders Hall around 9:30 p.m. on Thursday night and chased a man seen coming out of [...]
UH President M.R.C. Greenwood learned a lesson last week that’s familiar to any reporter–the lead sentence will often make or break your story. In Greenwood’s case, the first sentence of the message she distributed following the faculty union’s rejection of the latest contract proposal has UH faculty steaming mad. “The university”, Greenwood wrote, “is disappointed [...]
Here’s a small but significant example of how misreporting can confuse the public and impact public opinion about university contract negotiations. A lot of those who teach on the University of Hawaii’s Manoa campus were surprised by an October 7 news item broadcast by KGMB, which reported: The average salaries for tenured professors at UH [...]
The crowd at yesterday’s teach-in on the budget crisis at the University of Hawaii’s Manoa Campus was estimated at “over 500″, while organizers said they signed up 700 people who provided email addresses to be notified of future actions. Please click on the photo for more views of the event. After a march through the [...]
