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Athletic fee benefits not serving students LYNN NAK AGAWA Senior Staff Reporter

The Associated Students of the University of Hawai‘i has reached an impasse with the Athletics Department because the groups cannot come to an agreement on key student benefits.

“We feel like we’re being railroaded,” said Tom Robinson, the Graduate Student Organization representative of the athletic fee working group. “We don’t feel like we’re being taken seriously [by the athletic department].”

The athletic fee working group is a negotiating body on behalf of UH students. They discuss and negotiate student benefits of the athletic fee. Its members include Robinson; Andrew Itsuno, ASUH president; Rich Kodama, Campus Center Board president; and Aaron Bain, Campus Center Board representative.

The working group and the athletics department are divided on allocated seating for students at Aloha Stadium and other logistics of the student benefits.

“If you look at the Board of Regents minutes, [UH Mānoa athletic director] Jim Donovan actually said he would work with students to phase them into better seating,” Itsuno said. “But if they are not going to sit down and talk with us, then how will they get a consultation on where students want to sit?”

The athletic fee working group reports that Donovan has had poor attendance at negotiation meetings, having missed at least three meetings and leaving

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Students are charged a $50 athletic fee per semester, part of which goes toward free or discounted admission to sporting events. However, students are still assigned low-visibility seats behind the scoreboard at Aloha Stadium. one early. The administrative committee also includes Carl Clapp, associate athletics director; John McNamara, associate athletics director for external affairs; and Francisco Hernandez, vice chancellor for students.

The student group also worries they will not be given the power to weigh in on student benefits if the fee increases, primarily because the terms for the working group and the negotiations process has been unstable and slow-going.

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A L O H A S TA D I U M S E AT I N G As part of the fee benefits, there is designated student seating at Aloha Stadium, Stan Sheriff Center and Les Murakami Stadium. It is the location of the seats at Aloha Stadium that concerns the athletic fee working group.

“Athletics is trying to put student seats in the very top row at Aloha Stadium, behind the scoreboard, where students cannot see both the field and the scoreboard,” Itsuno said.

“Students are now $2 million stakeholders in athletics. Athletics needs to try harder with the seating.”

Donovan said they have made some progress in seating negotiations.

DIFFERENT I N T E R P R E TAT I O N S The Board of Regents approved the athletic fee in June 2010. During this time, Donovan said it would be a good idea to return some funds to the students. It was determined that 5 to

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8 percent of the money generated by the fee in a year, or about $100,000, would go to student benefits.

However, the Athletic Department and the athletic fee working group have different ideas about those benefits. In addition, the loose terms of 5 to 8 percent need to be narrowed down to a definite number.

“Allocating 5 to 8 percent [of the athletic fee] for students is not done anywhere in the country,” Donovan said. “But we wanted to enhance the student experience at athletic events.”

Ideas for student benefits included reserved student seating at UH games, use of athletics facilities for intramural activities, and events to build camaraderie such as free pizza at the stadium or a free concert for all students.

Donovan, who described the impasse as a pause, said the appropriate funds will be transferred to the students. Although he said he would prefer that the money go to enhance the student experience at athletic events, he is not opposed to the idea of it benefiting student programs or development in general.

Donovan said student attendance at athletics events, including men’s basketball, baseball, and volleyball, increased this spring semester. As part of the fee benefits, students are able to attend most UH games for free.

The fee is $50 per semester and will generate $2 million for the athletics department annually. It took effect on January 1 as part of UH Mānoa spring semester fees.

Athletics said the money is for student-athlete expenses and not compensation and benefits for staff.

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Uncertainty looms with talks of tuition hikes for UH PAIGE L. JINBO Staff Writer As University of Hawai‘i offi cials await the release of its budget from the state Legislature, rumors are swirling that tuition may increase in the fall of 2012.

If another tuition hike occurs, 2012 will mark the seventh consecutive year that tuition has increased. By 2012, tuition will have nearly doubled since 2005. There has been consistent growth in tuition since 2005 due to the six-year tuition schedule that UH adopted.

Last semester, tuition increased from the previous semester by nearly $500 for full-time UH Mānoa undergraduate students.

Next fall, tuition will soar to $4,200 for residents, an $816 increase since the 2009-10 academic year.

“[Tuition] is completely unaffordable; I don’t feel the quality of education is worth the money I’m paying,” said Kelli Yamaguchi, a nursing graduate student. Yamaguchi pays more than $8,000 a semester for her schooling.

“For a three-credit course, I pay close to $700 per credit, and I don’t feel $700 smarter,” she said.

“And it’s an online course. I’m online; I’m not using your campus, water, toilets, lights, A/C or classroom. I save you some hassle, so it shouldn’t be this expensive.”

Spring 2012 brings a close to the six-year tuition schedule, leaving tuition and fees to be determined for the coming semesters.

“Any consideration to increase tuition in the future would be accompanied by copious communication, public meetings and

opportunity for feedback, and careful consideration of the fi nancial impact on students and their families,” said Linda Johnsrud, executive vice president for academic affairs and provost for the UH System.

HOW TUITION IS DETERMINED Since the state Legislature has yet to release the budget for the university, officials can’t accurately project tuition fees for the near future.

Johnsrud said the UH System, which includes 10 campuses and administration at the system level, has a nearly $1.4 billion annual operating budget, with around 8,500 employees. UH has two basic sources of funds: the state of Hawai‘i general funds, appropriated each year by the Legislature, and tuition charged for courses.

However, the amount of money the state gives UH has declined by almost 25 percent over the past two years. This is due to declining state tax collections and the shrinking of the amount of money the state has been able to collect and allocate to the many departments it supports, Johnsrud explained.

“UH has been able to absorb these cuts by saving where possible – consolidation, efficiencies, doing without certain functions and things – just as you would manage your own budget during lean times,” Johnsrud said. “We’ve been able to do that without losing valuable instructional hours, which is a huge accomplishment. But we cannot keep that level of austerity up indefi nitely. In the face of diminishing state funding, our only other

alternative is tuition.”

According to the Hawai‘i Legislature website and its general funds by year for fiscal year 201011, the state released $359,222,953 for the UH operating budget, the lowest amount since the beginning of the six-year tuition schedule.

“The truth is, until we see the budget from the legislature, we won’t know entirely what we’ll have to work with support-wise in the coming years,” Johnsrud said.

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In light of all of this, Gov. Neil Abercrombie said he’s determined to hold these tuition costs down.

“I don’t approve of these tuition costs,” Abercrombie said See Rising tuition, next page

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during a 20 -minute inter view for Campus Connections, a newscast produced by upper-level journalism students. “ The tuition at a public university – I’ve been associated with that all my life. I fought tuition increases when I thought they were unfair all my life.”

UH President M.R.C. Greenwood said in a statement in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, “Tuition is not a slush fund. We’re paying real costs, real things that we can’t operate the university without. ... If we don’t raise tuition, we might not be able to pay our electric bills.”

If tuition continues to increase, Abercrombie said he’s going to look into maximizing the utilization of all resources available.

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in budgets rather than figuring out where we needed to make investments,” he said. “I have no intention of simply doing that any longer. I want to see to it that we’re putting in place a funding structure that will last beyond the one-year, two-year biennial budget, and let us make the kind of investments ... in educational excellence we need to make. If we want a quality education, it has to be paid for.”

H OW S T U D E N T S C A N P R E PA R E T H E M S E LV E S According to Johnsrud, while tuition has increased, it ’s critical to note that student aid has quadrupled.

“UH made a concerted effort to hire more financial/application counselors, do more

community outreach into malls and other gathering places, and provide more help to students so they could fill out the forms, apply for, and get that precious financial aid,” Johnsrud said. “ That practice will continue.”

UH student Joie Nishimoto, said that in addition to working two jobs this summer and receiving financial assistance from her family, she’ll be looking into financial aid to help pay her way through school. Nishimoto will be transferring from Kapi‘olani Community College to UH Mānoa next fall.

“I didn’t really notice the [tuition] increase at KCC because I could still afford it,” she said. “I planned to transfer to UH Mānoa last fall, but I couldn’t afford it, and now it’s going up again and

it’ll be harder for me to pay for tuition. The last thing I want to do is apply for a loan.”

Karen Lee, associate vice president for student affairs, reported that for the last two years there’s been a spike in students receiving financial aid. In 200708 academic year, a little less than 40 percent of students received financial aid. Last academic year, 2009-10, 55 percent of students were receiving aid. “ We really have committed to cover the students with financial aid as tuition was increasing,” L ee said.

Johnsrud said the best advice for students is to plan their academic paths carefully: know the requirements for their degrees; talk to advisers; and take advantage of the fact that at UH Mānoa

any credit over 12 is free.

“UH is committed to doing all that we can to keep education affordable for our students,” Johnsrud said. “Financial aid will increase in proportion to any increase in tuition.”

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The exhibit features the history of Pidgin, or Hawai‘i Creole English, from its roots on the plantations to how it is used today. The emphasis is that Pidgin is not limited to the past – it continues to evolve.

“How was, how stay” was created in part with University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa faculty and students from the linguistics and history departments.

Dr. John Rosa, a history professor at UH Mānoa, will open the event. There will also be screenings of several documentaries on Pidgin, such as the award-winning documentary “Pidgin: The Voice

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Distracting change E THAN ‘ONIPA‘A PORTER Senior Columnist

After much poking and prodding, President Barack Obama released the long form of his birth certificate, proving that he was indeed born in the United States.

The debate can finally end.

But some birthers are still crying foul. They find what they consider as errors in the document. Obama’s father is listed as being “A frican,” which some claim is too politically correct for 1961, despite the fact that Hawai‘i has always been socially progressive and Barack Obama Sr. was actually from A frica – Kenya, to be exact.

John McCain was born in Panama during the United States

occupation, but if he had won the presidential election, it is doubtful anyone would have questioned his paperwork.

The truth is, people cannot handle the fact that a half-black man was elected president.

Many of us, myself included, felt pride in voting for a man of minority status. But was it really that radical of an event?

Obama is hapa: His mother was Caucasian, and his father was A frican. He lived with his mother, spending some of his childhood in Indonesia, then returned to Hawai‘i to graduate from Punahou School on a full academic scholarship – a detail that Donald Trump needs to learn is no small feat.

He attended Occidental Col-

lege in California, then went to Columbia University in New York to fi nish his undergraduate degree. After working in Chicago, he went to Harvard Law School.

Despite Obama’s dark skin, he is not a culturally or racially radical fi gure, no matter how the media attempts to portray him.

He lived in a privileged household and attended top schools. It is not as if we elected a member of the Nation of Islam or someone from the Black Panther Party.

I am not saying that I regret voting for Barack Obama. However, the idea of him as the “fi rst black president” has caused unrealistic expectations for quick change in our government.

But change takes time and compromise.

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Warriors tee up for WAC Championships M ARC A R AK AKI Associate Sports Editor

Nine men’s golf teams have their eyes on this year’s Western Athletic Conference Championship, and the Warriors know their season can end on a high note with a WAC title.

“We’ve worked hard all year, no doubt,” junior T.J. Kua said.

“We’ve been through a couple practice schedule changes, and it’s been working pretty well.

We’re playing a little better than we did last year. We struggled down the home stretch, but I think we’ll be fi ne.”

HAWAIʻI HOSTING Hawai‘i will serve as the tournament’s host in Henderson, Nev., at the Rio Secco Golf Club, Monday to Wednesday.

The course will play to a par 72 measuring 7,313 yards. Teams will play 18 holes each day.

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go to a neutral site, they knew they couldn’t employ an outside agency to run the tournament as far as medical stuff, media [and] refreshments,” head coach Ronn Miyashiro said.

“All the schools agreed that even though we would go to a neutral site, that we would continue the rotation as far as the schools [being] responsible for that kind of stuff. But the Rio Secco Golf Club does a tremendous job in being a host site for us.”

TOUGH COMPETITION Besides the Warriors, Boise State, Fresno State, Idaho, Louisiana Tech, Nevada, New Mexico State, San Jose State and Utah State will compete this week.

The New Mexico State Aggies come into the tournament as the highest ranked team at No. 57 in the Golfweek/Sagarin rankings.

“Obviously with the competition that you’re going up against, you want to be ready to play,” Miyashiro said.

“But the way I look at it is each

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team can win at any time. Anybody can get hot at any time. So all I can do is prepare my team to the best of our abilities.”

FAMILIAR TERRITORY The WAC teams are familiar with the Rio Secco Golf Club, which has been the site for the last two WAC Championships.

“It takes the uncertainty of the course out of the way,” Kua said. “It makes the practice round on Sunday more of a preparation round, rather than learning the course.

“It’s an advantage having the WAC Championships at the same course the past couple of years.”

Hawai‘i concluded 2010 in ninth place after shooting rounds of 302, 298 and 318. Kua was the Warriors’ top fi nisher, as he fi nished tied for 12th place at 2 over par.

NEW FACES Three of the fi ve players representing Hawai‘i will play in their fi rst WAC Championships.

Sophomore Henry Park and freshmen Tommy Yamashita and Nainoa Calip will join Kua and junior Jared Sawada.

Calip said the upperclassmen’s experience has helped him prepare.

“T.J. is one of the perfect guys to ask questions [to] because he’s

played in a lot of big tournaments, and [me] being a freshman, he’s helped me out a lot,” Calip said.

“We’re trying to raise the bar each year and we haven’t been doing so good, so we’re trying the best that we can so that we can gain some momentum into next year that we can build off [of].”

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Sisto sets eyes on future ally good guy and I’m happy to be with him [here in Hawai‘i].”

The Rainbows know they have big shoes to fill coming off the success from last season, but they know they can rely on Sisto to give his best effort day in and out.

“He’s going to come out and give us everything he has,” Wong said. “That’s one thing you can’t take from Matt. He’s a big-time guy and he’ll come in and give everything he has when he needs to.”

M ARC A R AK AKI Associate Sports Editor Professional athletes like Grady Sizemore of the Cleveland Indians and Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers have donned a No. 24 jersey at one point in their careers.

Rainbow junior pitcher Matt Sisto chose No. 24 because of another sports great.

“I have been No. 24 my entire life because my favorite player growing up was Ken Griffey Jr. [a professional baseball player], who is also 24,” Sisto said. “I got lucky when 24 was available my freshman year, so that was my choice.”

A L A S T I N G L E GAC Y Sisto’s position as Hawai‘i’s ace has also allowed him to infl uence his team.

Freshman pitcher Jarrett Arakawa struggled early this season, but has worked his way up to second in the pitching rotation behind Sisto.

“He has the opportunity to set the tone for the whole series,” Arakawa said. “He’s been doing a great job the whole year, just pounding the zone and putting us in good situations, and it just helps to be behind him. It gives me confi dence.”

Sisto’s infl uence isn’t just based on actions. He also takes the time to mentor Arakawa as well.

“He’s defi nitely helped me a lot just talking to me about the whole mental side of it,” Arakawa said. “If I have a rough inning, he’s there. He’s a leader.”

T H E P I T C H E RʼS RO L E In baseball, position players bat and field. Pitchers, however, are put on the field for one thing: to throw the baseball.

“When we practice, it’s separate. You have your pitchers and your position players,” Sisto said.

However, at the end of the game, the only score that matters is in the run column.

“It’s a team effort,” Sisto continued.

“We just go out there and do the best that we can. [Pitchers] keep the team in the game and let the defense play and let the hitters hit. [I] worry about what I can control, and that’s pitching.”

A starting pitcher sees action just once a series.

Sisto, who is the team’s No. 1 pitcher in the starting rotation, doesn’t see it as pressure, but as a chance to relish the moment.

“I like it because I know when I’m gonna play and where I’m gonna pitch,” Sisto said. “It ’s a good thing if I pitch well, but it ’s a bad thing if I pitch bad, because I have to sit and dwell on it the rest of the week.

“But I don’t really feel it’s a pressure situation. It’s kind of nice to go out there and leave it on the field for one game and that’s it.”

C O N S TA N T I M P ROV E M E N T Sisto’s fi rst two seasons in a Rainbow uniform were almost identical except for one thing: postseason performances.

In his freshman year, Sisto had an earned run average of 4.37 and a 5-4 record. In his sophomore season, Sisto had a 5.27 ER A and a record of 5-5.

That year, Sisto also played a large

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Junior pitcher Matt Sisto has a 2.92 ERA this season and has recorded 48 strikeouts. part in the Rainbows’ charge into the NCA A Regionals.

He pitched a total of 14 innings in two postseason games, picking up a win and a no-decision game that the ’Bows won.

“It’s kind of nice pitching in those big games,” he said. “Getting used to that and pitching in a regional was a really awesome experience. It’s a once in a life-

time kind of thing.”

This season, Sisto has become one of the country’s top pitchers, maintaining an ER A of 2.92, which is good for seventh in the Western Athletic Conference.

“He’s grown a lot,” junior second baseman Kolten Wong said. “From day one, I knew he was a good pitcher and he’s constantly got better and better. Matt’s a re-

Last year, four Rainbows entered the 2010 Major League Baseball Draft and accepted deals with MLB teams. As a junior, Sisto is eligible for the draft. And with less than two months away till the draft, the idea of fulfi lling a childhood dream remains on Sisto’s mind.

“I love it here, but if that opportunity arises, then I’ll be ready to take that next step,” Sisto said. “I just try to go out there and pitch [to] the best of my abilities every week, and pitch the best that I can. But the rest is out of my control. If it’s good enough [to get drafted], then it’s good enough. If it’s not, then it’s not.”

UP NEXT The Rainbows will continue their road trip with the Nevada Wolfpack this Thursday to Saturday.

Thursday and Friday’s games will start at 3 p.m. HST and Saturday’s doubleheader will start at 10 a.m. HST.