MONDAY, APRIL 16 to TUESDAY APRIL 17, 2012 VOLUME 106 ISSUE 90
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Campus authorities shut down parts of lower campus and sent out emergency alerts by text message and email last Friday in response to a report that a distraught, possibly armed male, 20-year-old Jason Nishiki, was at large after a fi ght with his girlfriend. “He was distraught and [it was reported that he] had a handgun. … You don’t know who he would be a threat to ultimately,” said Gregg Takayama, the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa’s director of community and government relations. According to Takayama, the couple had a fight around 10:30 a.m. that escalated into a physical confrontation. The fight was broken up by Campus Security, but Nishiki fled in the direction of the Hawaiian studies lo‘i. His girlfriend, fearing he might harm himself, reported that she’d seen a handgun in his backpack.
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CS sent out an alert to the university community at 12:05 p.m. According to Takayama, authorities decided to lock down the Hawaiian studies buildings and the law school. Nearby Hokulani Elementary also went on lockdown. The rest of the campus was alerted, but not locked down. Although women’s studies major Joyneline Agraan had just left campus when she received the email alerts, she was still worried. “I didn’t want something like the Columbine shooting happening here. I just wanted the whole school to shut down. I thought it was crazy. … This campus is big enough, so they should have like a big alarm system to alert everyone,” she said. Reid Elderts, a senior psychology student who was in a lab at the time that Nishiki was at large, also commented on the effectiveness of the alerts: “ We were getting like four emails, but the alert was ambiguous. First, the information said the guy is 5 foot 7, and he turned out to be 5 foot 3. … Email is the best way to alert us, but it wasn’t sufficient.”
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A Ka Leo reporter following CS and Honolulu Police Department action overheard that Nishiki was seen in a bathroom of the Hawai‘i Institute of Geophysics, located on upper campus, at 12:25 p.m. Although action was taken by both HPD and CS to check out the building, it was not confi rmed that he was there. When asked if Nishiki was seen on upper campus and could have been a threat there, Takayama responded, “One of the things that people need to be on the lookout for with the advent of Facebook and Twitter is rumors.” Instead, he recommended that the UH community get its information from CS’s website in emergency situations. Nishiki was detained by police in the Diamond Head area around 2:30 p.m. He was found unarmed and taken to Queen’s Medical Center for psychiatric observation.
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