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NEWSLETTER - SUMNER SCHEDULE

Vol. XI: 9 May 15, 1979

During the summer months, the Pacific Islands Studies Program Newsletter will be published once each month. Issues will appear in the middle of June, July, and August. Twice monthly publications will begin again in September.

PIP: OCCASIONAL SEMINAR May 22

Mr. ED HOWARD and Mrs. ALICE HOWARD will present a seminar on May 22. Mr. Howard is the publisher and editor of The Norfolk Island News. Mrs. Howard is the associate editor. The topic of the seminar is AUSTRALIA'S NEW COLONIAL POLICY FOR NORFOLK ISLAND. Australia is in the process of increasing its administrative control over Norfolk and plans to make it an integral part of the country. In contrast, the majority of the people of Norfolk would prefer the status of a self-governing territory, and they have appealed to the United Nations. The history of Norfolk Island and the current political situation were given extensive coverage in a recent edition of Pacific Islands Monthly. An editorial by Hr. Ed HovJard which appeared in The Norfolk Island News, April-June 1979 is attached (see pages 6 and 7).

Time and Place: 12:00 Noon, Tuesday, Hay 22 SSRI Conference Room Porteus Hall, Room 704F

PIP: OCCASIONAL SEMINAR June 6

Prior to their departure on a speaking tour through the South Pacific, Mr. JOHN GRIFFIN, Editor, Editorial Page, Honolulu Advertiser, and Mr. JOHN DORRANCE, Foreign Service Officer, Department of State gave a PIP: Occasional Seminar on May 7 (see Newsletter, May 1, 1979). On the tour, Hr. Dorrance is speaking on "Changing U.S. Policy in the Pacific," and Mr. Griffin is discussing "Hawaii's Relationship With Other Pacific Islands." Their itinerary includes American Samoa, Western Samoa, Tonga, New Zealand, Australia, Papua New Guinea, the Solomons, and Fiji.

Griffin and Dorrance will return to their return, they will present and discuss how their Pacific states.

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STUDY ABROAD: TAHITI AND SAHOA

The 1979 Summer Study Abroad of the Department of Indo- ific Dr. JACK WARD's Tahitian Language 17 students. Mr. JOHN ~1AYER's Samoan enrollment of 13. th groups t of the equator next month.

and Samoa o es good enrol ture Studies group now

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PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION ON FOREIGN LANGUAGE AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES TO MEET

IN HAt-JAil, 9-10, 1979

Last year, President needs with regard to foreign languages series of regional

appoint a Commiss to of instruction and res

ernational s s. Commiss a coun to determine current levels

of instruct and research, make a ne assessment, and a set of kind amount future federal recommendations which will influence

support for language and area studies Department of History, is a member of

programs. Dr. PRISCILLA CHING-CHUNG, the Commission .

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The first regional hearing was ld in Chicago last December. second was held on February 23 in San Francisco at which Hawaii was sented by: PRISCILLA CHING-CHUNG, BRENDA FOSTER, ic and Asian Affairs ouncil; FRED HUNG, East Asian Studies; ROBERT , Pacif Islands S s Program; DANIEL KWOK, History; AGNES NIYEKAWA, East Asian Languages; FRANK ODO, Ethnic Studies; TERESITA Rru~OS, Indo-Pacific es; and TED RODGERS, Curriculum Research and Development Group. A summary o the San iso hear is available from the PIP o ice.

The Commission has schedul a hearing in for the August hearing s not vet been available along with further in~ormation. commitment to Pacif and Asian stud s, recommendations will obviously be of con and students.

The following page is a statement JAMES A. PERKINS.

Hawaii should be well r esent should contact Commission Member

Hawaii on August 9 and 10. An ag , but it should soon be the University of Hawaii's

hearing and the Commission's le interest to our ty

Commission by its chairman,

Interested individuals CHUNG or others listed above.

CRITICAL QUESTIONS EMERGE FOR

COMMISSION ON fOREIGN lANG AND INTERNATIONAl STUDIES

President Carter's Commission on Foreign Language and International Studies has just completed its second meeting. Sworn in at the White House on the 25th of last October, we had our first meeting in Washington, D.C., the first of five regional hearings in Chicago in December, and our recent full Commission meeting in New York City. Barbara Burn, on leave from her professorship at the University of Massachusetts, directs the work of the Commission from her office in. Washington.

She is very busy: with .these meetings plus papers submitted by Commission members, and many briefs presented by a great variety of associations and interested parties; with innumerable discussions in our office and at association meetings, and at small conferences; and a good many speeches and presentations by Commission­ers and staff-all has been a high-speed education, and it has • just started. Slowly some of the more important questions begin to emerge. Perhaps the readers of this Newsletter will be interested in hearing about some of them.

Before listing them a point of departure should be stated. Our country faces a dangerous trend. Our international responsibilities as a nation and the international dimensions of our domestic prablems are on the increase. Vital national interests such as military security, export markets, the furtherance of human rights, the supply of energy-these and many others require the skillful management and wide understanding of a democratically conditioned population. But as the horizons of our interests expand our capacity to manage them contracts. Foreign language enrollments decline, requirements-for international competence are reduced, and evidence of essential ignorance and misunder­standing increases. These diverging tendencies must be brought into balance, a pressing and substantial task that will require the combined concern and action of government at all levels, business, universities and schools as well as private associations and philanthropies. It is to this complex and wide-ranging audience that the Commission addresses itself.

Now for some of the specific issues that have alrcJdy begun to clamor for our attention. They are listed not in any order of importance.

Need and requirement. With increas~d attl.nlion to the accountability for public funds, demands have appeared for more precision in projecting national needs for language and international expertise. How far can precise numbers be assigned to the requirements for competence in Chinese language or Iranian sociology? How can we determine the level of competence we need and competence we have? How can these needs be measured for the federal government, international business, and our educational institutions? Can market forces be relied upon to produce the right people right research?

General leadership in a

understanding. How can our educational institutions and our non formal opportunities improve the level of our linguistic and an international point of view? How serious the apparent decline in language offerings, language requirements for academic advancement and employment, and student interest? Is this decline in formal offset by on­the-job training or commercial ventures? Can curriculum be modified to embrace the fact our own lives cannot be understood outside an international context?

Advanced training and research. Since World War II the universities, with the support of foundations, state and federal governments, have established centers for specialized training and research in most areas of the world. Cleady a national asset of major proportions, are they now in danger of reduced effectiveness because of greatly reduced funds? Are they all still needed or do we need more of them? How can they best be financed and by whom? Does th~ir mission their place on campus need to be better understood? How to do it?

Teaching and using foreign languages. Why have our foreign language offerings enrollments gone down in our schools and colleges? Is it ·worldwide use of English? the increased employment of native personnel in business and government offices overseas? traditional instruction that emphasized writing as part of humanistic and literary ? the downgrading of oral language? Can a better be struck?

Ethnic interests as domestic asset. How can we take better advantage of our large numbers of people whose mother tongue is not English, whose different cultures will enrich our society? Can their languages become a more stable part of our system of instruction? Can we promote the use of their languages understanding of their cultures without damaging necessary coherence of our social fabric? Can we avoid current agony of a linguistically and culturally divided Canada?

There are . other matters of equal importance and complexity on our agenda such as the improved role of teacher and student exchanges, new legislation and· administrative arrangements that may required, the process of public education, and, course, the shape, content and distribution of our report or We have

on our plate to keep us more than involved. members of the Commission are to give all time they ca·n to our of work. We plan to

by October 1, 1979 our will useful.

A. Perkins, Chairman Commission on Foreign language

International Studies

February 1979

Two cash Universi of Hawaii Foundation. One pr

1979

graduate student. are awarded each May (see

Graduate: JOEL (Bi1 Micrones ) "Mu1ti1 Mixture Among

Undergraduate: FRANCIS ( II s

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Dr. CARL DAEUFER 1 offer P e the 2nd Summer Sess MTVJThF. 10: 11:2 a.m., Porteus 635. Reading and Research (v) and P 700 Thesis sear (v) both summer terms.

1st Summer Session I May 29 - 6· '

CERTIFICATE IF

The Cert icate in Stud Division. The Certif te is designed in other areas and whose course of study specifically Pacific related courses and Certificate is to provide re ion of further study of the Pac region.

Certificate Requirements:

Students desiring the Certi Graduate Division in a fi required of all Pac student is assigned a two of the Pac ic Is1 s S the student's f 1d of s

A Certificate student is r courses or 12 credit hours thesis/dissertation. courses, as prepared the student's it courses.

The Certificate s As with M.A. students, a repeat within one from the Program. semester during his/

·Summer Sess I

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1udes a substant research. object th ertise and to

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The Certificate is awarded upon the s in his/her field of study.

PIP Flyer:

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's letion of an advanced degree

With the approval of the Certificate, the revisions and additions to the Pacific Islands Studies Program that have been considered over the past two years are now complete. An integrated description has been epared of the revised M.A. requirements (approved fall 1978), the above tificate requirements, and the option for a B.A. concentration in Pacific Islands Studies that is available through the Liberal Studies Program. A flyer cribing these facets of the program will soon be published and available for distribution.

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TOPIC

International Year of

South Pacific News

ly Planning Pacific ies

Journalism Seminar American Field Service

ls Brigade

Law of the Sea

Women's Interest

South Pac ic News

m1ite House Libraries Youth Counc 1 Teaching Reading

Jaycees

Appropriate Building

Church 's Groups

South News

Child Seminars

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revenues are to be spent, and a local able to interfere. "Thh would the ly a chance to thwart the necessary financial Commonwealth within Norfolk Government should not away iu reserve powers. It is

alistic but it represents the Government' bility."

11 . rf the are dissatisfied can to the Administrator. "This allows you to at-tack the Government. You can pass resolmions without the Administrator present to caution you ... if the Administrator says he will not listen to you, you can go back in the Assem­bly and say you tried to talk to the Administrator."

UL Most of aH, two sentences to the eight elected repnisentatlves of the of the h!and, March 26th, 1919.

... AND SO THE FEW MEN who direct che Australian Government have declared that it b their absolute to

rule the people of Norfolk kland It would seem

that decldon. to ask one If a momrbt b

to show his ddver's

move to enforce question.

officer and asked to sho"' it. It is

been this car say, "!am a Minister

say, "We will solve

not good to say, for 64 years: ~ It 1! not of State:" It b not with CO••Otl>ll!fli collaboration and consensus." Show your license,

May we see you license, Australia? Please show the people of Norfolk hland • and the of the South Pacifk, and the of the United Nations, and your friends ln ASEA N - your credentials

Show us your license to govern the of Norfolk Island against their wUL

Show us your license to tax the without their representation.

Show us your Ucense to require Norfolk Island to be self-supporting· and then to of the money the Island raises l.rself.

Show your license take away from Norfolk the large resource most islands have the sea and seabed.

own the can demonstrate that 1856.

te t' s have a discreet who wl.ll be much the

We'll abide

ou don't Uke that either?

Pacif Is S s 17 55 Popl:: Road, EQ 31, Room 1 University of Hawaii Honolulu, Hawaii 96822

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