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Senate investigates Stevie Wonder blunder UH administration, Board of Regents questioned
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K IM CLARK News Editor On Monday, Sept. 24, the State Senate Special Committee on Accountability called University of Hawai‘i administrators and affiliated attorneys to an informational briefing regarding the failed Stevie Wonder concert. Individuals that were called into the briefing included Dennis Chong Kee, an attorney for the firm Cades Schutte LLP, Robert Katz, of Torkildson, Katz, Moore, Hetherington & Harris, UH System President M.R.C. Greenwood, former athletics director James Donovan and UH Board of Re-
gents Chair Eric Martinson. “ We want to get the information that has not been learned,” Sen. Sam Slom said in a phone inter view. “ W here is the $200,000 or more? W hy have we not gotten it back or will we? A re there other practices the university has engaged in? “This is neither a witch hunt or a white wash,” Slom said. “We have a great deal of respect for the great things the university has done, but these things have gone unattended for a while, and while the Senate does not want to micromanage the university, we have several responsibilities ourselves.” Slom said that appointing the
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BOR and appropriating money to the university are among those responsibilities. UH Mānoa Chancellor Thomas Apple will be among the next set of witnesses, with Martinson and Greenwood returning, to testif y to the State Senate in a second hearing. Former Chancellor Virginia Hinshaw was asked to testif y, but she will be out of town during the meeting. Slom said the Senate has a Q& A from her stating Greenwood violated NCA A requirements by representing UH in the Mountain West Conference. Martinson was told to bring information regarding the
amount of money the failed concert is costing taxpayers to Tuesday’s meeting. “ We want to make sure ever yone is on the same page,” Slom said. “ There’s really no excuse for what happened. They’ve never wired cash money before.” DAVIN AOYAGI Editor in Chief contributed to this story The State Senate Special Committee on Accountability will hold its second hearing at 1 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 2, in Conference Room 211 at the State Capitol. A third hearing will take place on either Oct. 4 or Oct. 10.
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