Celebrating 90 years of student journalism!

This in from Jay Hartwell, student media advisor at UH Manoa.

We have completed the installation of an exhibit at Hamilton Library’s bridge gallery that celebrates the 90 years that students have edited Ka Leo O Hawai`i for the University of Hawai`i at Manoa community. It will be open through May 11.

While going through old issues, I found an article about you that I have attached.

For the exhibit, the student curator Erica Lenentine suggested that we scan more than 70 articles, letters, editorials, commentaries, and a cartoon for one section (“The Right to Be”) that focuses on the 1990 controversy generated by Joey Carter, who wrote a commentary in which he objected to being called haole. All of the clips are viewable here, or can be accessed through a QR code.

State Representative K. Mark Takai, who was Ka Leo’s editor during 1990-1991, introduced a resolution honoring Ka Leo’s 90th anniversary, which will be presented to editor Will Caron about noon this Thursday, Feb. 2, at the state House.

The university has a release about the exhibit.

A slide show about the exhibit is also available.