The University of Hawai‘i Symphonic Wind Ensemble and the UH Concert Band will perform tonight at the McKinley High School Auditorium from 7:30 to 9 p.m. The bands will present a variety of selec-tions ranging from classical to pop. Grant Okamura and Dan Kalantarian will be conducting tonight. Tickets are $10 for general admis-sion, $6 for students, seniors and mili-tary with valid ID. Tickets are available in advance at the UH Campus Center or 1 hour before the performance at the door. This event is sponsored by the Music Department. For more infor-mation, call 95-MUSIC, e-mail uhmmusic@hawaii.edu, or visit www.hawaii.edu/uhmmusic/schedule.html

The UH Manoa Halloween Flood Symposium will be held today from 1

to 4:30 p.m. at Marine Science 114. This two-part symposium will feature a technical first half during which university and government agency experts in climatology, hydrology and flood engineering will discuss these factors in rela-tion to the damaging flood of last Halloween. The second half will feature a panel discussion led by UH Manoa Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs Neal Smatresk, of issues pertaining to response and pre-paredness. For more information, call Philip Moravcik at 956-3097 or e-mail morav@hawaii.edu

“Army Courts, Internments and the Constitution: Martial Law in Hawai‘i in World War II” will be presented today from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. at the Law School Moot

Court Room. This martial law lecture will be presented by Professor Harry N. Scheiber of University of California, Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law. This event is spon-sored by the UH Manoa Richardson School of Law. For more information, call Jamee Kunichika at 956-5516 or e-mail her at jameek@hawaii.edu

A blood drive is being held today at the Queen Lili‘uokalani Student Services Center rooms 411 and 412. Anyone 18 years or older (17 with a Blood Bank of Hawai‘i consent form signed by a parent or legal guardian), weighs at least 110 pounds and is in good health is encouraged to donate blood. A valid picture ID with birth date is required to be presented to donate blood.

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Students set UArC seminar By Alexandre Da Silva

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The Graduate Student Organization late Friday decided to organize the first public seminar on a Navy proposal to establish a University Affiliated Research Center (UARC) with the University of Hawai‘i. The announcement came a day after Native Hawaiian activists packed a seminar on classified research policy to protest the UARC. It also arrives three months since the university’s Board of Regents asked UH administrators to seek public feedback on the UARC. UH administrators were not involved in putting together the GSO-sponsored seminar on the UARC, which is scheduled for Thursday, March. 17 at the Campus Center Ballroom, from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. Two UH officials assigned to pre-pare the public forums on the UARC were not available to comment on Friday. UH spokesman Jim Manke said he has not been involved with plans for the forums requested by the BOR, but said the university is welcoming peo-ple’s views on the issue. “On a matter of this importance to the Manoa campus and the university as a whole you can be sure that we will continue to encourage active discussion and allow people ample opportunity to comment,” Manke said. Susan Chandler, of UH’s Public Policy Center, said two graduate stu-dents decided to broaden the final of a series of three meetings on classified research policy so it would also address the UARC. GSO member Michael Kimmitt said the GSO, which represents more than 4,200 UH graduate students, will hold the meeting to hear people’s con-cerns about the UARC. “We need to make sure all voices are heard,” said Kimmitt, who also is in the GSO ad-hoc committee analyzing UARC. Kimmitt said the GSO plans to meet in private after the seminar to decide where the organization stands on the UARC proposal. The UARC seminar is still being

planned out, but the format should include two people in favor of the center and two who oppose it. Each panelist will have 10 minutes to present their arguments without interruption. A mod-erator will take questions from the audi-ence. The decision to insert UARC on GSO’s agenda next month partially resulted from public uproar during the second seminar on classified research policy. Protesters and some faculty repeatedly interrupted a panel of speak-ers to voice their frustrations about the UARC, making discussion about classi-fied research policy nearly impossible to take place. As they had said in the first semi-nar, protesters worried that revisions to current classified research policies are only now being considered because the proposed UARC is expected to increase the flow of classified research coming to UH. Joel Fisher, a professor from UH’s School of Social Work, also said he was particularly troubled with the universi-ty’s decision that classified research be allowed off-campus. “What right does the university have to say to the community that is barely represented here and has not been given an opportunity to respond to this issue that we’ll have classified research done on your land, but it’s too dirty for us to do on ours?” Fisher asked. “This is a bogus consultation. It consti-tutes a disregard for the community and for the faculty.” The seminars to revisit UH’s clas-sified research policy were put together at the request of UH’s College of Social Sciences Dean Richard Dubanoski. Researchers also have noted that a revi-sion to the policy is needed because the Patriot Act passed after 9/11 changed how the government classifies work. However, the seminar series have arrived amid controversy about the UARC, which has been gaining traction since the regents gave the UARC provi-sional approval at a meeting in November. Moreover, the flier that was sent out to advertise the series of semi-nars also mentioned the regents’ request

that the university seek public feedback about the UARC before finalizing nego-tiations with the Navy. Chandler, who helped organize the two classified research seminars held so far, said the flier may have misled peo-ple to think the seminar would address the UARC. “We are looking at policies,” said Chandler. Chandler also denied allegations made by Fisher that she was probably approached by administrators to deviate public attention to the seminars while the UARC is signed in secrecy. Contributing to Fisher’s suspicion was the fact that one of the two panelists

that UH flew in to speak Thursday was Bill Bakamis, who came to talk about classified research policy at the University of Washington’s Applied Physics Laboratory, which the govern-ment designated as a UARC in the 1990s. Although there was some debate on concerns faculty have on publishing restrictions linked with doing classified research, questions from the audience focused on the impact military research under the UARC could have on the islands. “I’m disappointed, yet again, that we have not been able to do what we were supposed to do,” Chandler said.

“The UARC consultation is something that administrators have to do. The prob-lem here is that the university adminis-tration has not set up a consultation.” When the seminar ended, organiz-ers moved it to another room. But once more, questions written by the audience on posters asked when UARC consulta-tion would begin. One read: “What about the moral issue of having UARC off-campus and in the community?” Another asked: “Can Englert (UH Manoa Chancellor Peter Englert) come and talk to us?” For more information, contact GSO at gso@hawaii.edu.

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Bill Bakamis, the Associate Director of Business and Finance from the University of Washington, spoke at a seminar on Thursday about UW’s classified research policies.

A protester objects a Navy proposal to establish a University Affiliated research Center (UArC) with UH during a meet-ing last Thursday. The first public semi-nar on the UArC will be held March. 17.

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Announcements Tongan Lecturer SoughtThe UHM College of Languages, Linguistics and Literature are seeking a non-tenure track, part-time lecturer to teach an elementa-ry Tongan class.To apply: Send a letter of applica-tion with current curriculum vitae, three recent letters of recommen-dation and a brief statement out-lining the ways in which you meet the minimum and desirable quali-fications listed to: Department of Hawaiian and Indo-Pacific Languages and Literatures, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2540 Maile Way, Spalding Hall #255, Honolulu, HI 96822. Inquirers may also contact Professor Naomi Losch at (808) 956-8672.

NSO RecruitmentNew Student Orientation is seek-ing students who possess an enthusiastic, positive and spirited attitude. NSO needs summer 2005 leaders to welcome new students to the Manoa campus. Leaders should be of sophomore standing by fall 2005, in good aca-demic and judicial standing and enthusiastic about helping fellow students succeed at UHM.For information or an application, visit the NSO office at UHM Campus Center #208 or call 956-3667. Applications are due by March 30, 2005.

Lectures and Seminars

Public Speaking Club MeetingWhen: Today, 11 a.m. - NoonWhere: CC #309Open meeting of the Toastmasters club.

CJS Seminar SeriesWhen: Mar. 4, 3 - 4:30 p.m.Where: Moore 319Professor Seidensticker will share his experiences and opinions of his stay in Japan last year.

In Between Our IslandsWhen: Mar. 2, Noon - 1:20 p.m.Where: Burns Hall 2118Katerina Teaiwa will discuss her tentative thoughts on theory and method for Pacific studies and dis-cussion.

Shifting from Global to Local Economics LectureWhen: Today, 6:30 p.m.Where: Church of the Crossroads, Weaver Hall (1212 University Ave.)Cost: Requested $5 donationHelen Norberg-Hodge, an interna-tional expert and author on the impact of global economics on local communities, will discuss the topic of importing the same prod-ucts that we export and its impact on the local economy.

Manuscript Critique WorkshopWhen: Mar. 1, 7 p.m.Where: Kapuna I, 1015 N. School St.The Honolulu Chapter of The National Writers Association will be holding a Manuscript Critique. Bring at least 10 copies of one manuscript of up to 8 pages, one sided, double-spaced. For more information call Robert T. Tanouye at 845-9585.

Managing with AlohaWhen: Mar. 3, Noon - 1 p.m.Where: 828 Fort Street, Rooms 101/102Rosa Say will give a talk on her recently published book, “Managing with Aloha,” which explores nineteen different Hawaiian values and demonstrates how managers can bring these val-ues into every kind of business practice today. There will be a book signing after.

Manoa Flood Follow-up SymposiumWhen: Today, 1 - 4:30 p.m.Where: Kuykendall AuditoriumDiscussions and presentations from representatives from the National Weather Service, the U.S. Geological Survey, the State Department of Land and Natural Resources, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and UH scientists who examine the conditions that led to the severe flood.

Brown Bag Biography Lecture SeriesWhen: Mar. 3, Noon - 1:15 p.m.Where: Henke Hall 325“Beatrice Patton’s Hawaii” present-ed by Nancy Morris, UH-Manoa Emeritus Librarian, and curator of the John Charlot Collection.

Experts at the Palace Lecture SeriesWhen: Mar. 3, NoonWhere: Old Archives Building on the Grounds of Iolani Palace“Early Mission Houses in Hawaii” presented by Spencer Leineweber, FAIA.

Events“Real Women Have Curves”When: Mar. 4, Noon - 2:30 p.m.Where: QLCSS #412Counseling and student develop-ment center introduces “Real Women Have Curves,” a film about healthy body image and eating dis-order.

UH Political Film SeriesWhen: Mar. 7, 7 p.m.Where: St. John Auditorium“The Corporation explores the nature and spectacular rise of the dominant institution of our time. Footage from pop culture, advertis-ing, TV news and corporate propa-ganda illuminates the corporation’s grip on our lives.

Youth Speaks HawaiiWhen: Monday and Thursdays (every week) from 4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.Where: The Arts at Marks GarageMembers of the Hawaii Slam con-duct free slam poetry writing and performance workshops for teens ages 13 - 19.

PerformancesSwoop, Tumble, Fly: The Art of MotionWhen: March 4, 5, 11 and 12 at 8 p.m., March 13 at 2 p.m.Where: Kennedy Theatre MainstageCost: $3 UHM students with valid ID, $12 military, UH faculty/staff, non-UHM students, $15 regularThis show features the rhythms of African fusion dance and the grace of hula set in the Victorian era in a collaborative piece that takes the dancers to new heights while sus-pended on ropes and more.

The CaptiveWhen: Mar. 5, 11 and 12 at 11 p.m., March 6 at 8 p.m.Where: Earle Ernst Lab TheatreCost: $3 UHM students with valid ID, $7 military, UH faculty/staff, non-UHM students, $8 regularDirector Episale sees this 19th-century monodrama as a way to explore the 2004 prison abuse scandal at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib pris-on. A post-show rap will be held after the Mar. 11 show.

South PacificWhen: Mar. 3 - 5, 7 p.m.Where: Hawaii TheatreCost: $8“South Pacific” presented by the Iolani Dramatic Players. Tickets are available at the Hawaii Theatre box office or at www.hawaiithe-atre.com. For more information call 528-0506.

ExhibitsLabor and Leisure art exhibitWhen: Mar. 6 - Apr. 15Where: UH Art GalleryThemes of labor and leisure are explored through artworks from collections in Honolulu. Gallery hours are Mon. - Fri. 10:30 a.m. - 4 p.m. and Sun., Noon - 4 p.m.

Tracy Wright Corvo ExhibitionWhen: Mar. 4 - Apr. 9Where: South Street Gallery, 627 South Street 103An exhibition of works by artist and photographer Tracy Wright Corvo. The opening reception is scheduled for Mar. 4 from 6:30 - 9:30 p.m.

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Vietnamese res-taurant Pho’ South King is ‘’(a) little far for students” but worth the trip according to owner Kinh Huynh.

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Kinh Huynh just might be the hardest working man in Honolulu. He arrives at Pho’ South King, his family-owned and operated res-taurant at 7 every morning. For six nights a week, he doesn’t leave work until 10:30 p.m. “I no vacation,” Huynh says in his broken English. “Maybe later, when business better. Seven days a week-hard work.” The 57-year-old Vietnamese refugee escaped the Communist regime by fleeing to Malaysia in 1979. A year later, he immigrated to Chicago under sponsorship from a Christian church organization. Alone, he arrived in Hawai‘i shortly thereaf-ter. “I sell auto parts here,” said Huynh, “but I bring my family here 1990.” Huynh’s wife is a tailor, and his daughter, 33, and son, 34, are both married. His daughter gradu-ated from the University of Hawai‘i in civil engineering, and his son is an auto parts supervisor at Cutter Family Auto Centers. Huynh saved up from his auto parts job and also borrowed some money from a friend to open Pho’ South King in July 2000. “We had grand opening, but first two years business slow,” reflected Huynh. “After that, much better. Now, business not bad.” His brother came from San Diego a year ago to help Huynh in the restaurant. He has two cook helpers, both Vietnamese. But Huynh does all the cooking and much of the serving. How did he learn to cook, since auto parts and cooking don’t quite go together? “I know what taste I like,” said Huynh. “I try

myself.” Before coming into work each day, Huynh buys all the ingredi-ents in Chinatown, where he lives. “Meat delivered, but I buy all the basil, parsley Chinatown-side,” Huynh says. “I get letter from international student organization at UH,” said Huynh. “They like coming here. Many UH students come here every day. They all very nice. “I give students 10-percent dis-count,” says Huynh, “but have to eat here.” Just on the outskirts of Mo‘ili‘ili, right next to Kuhio School (about two blocks away from Puck’s Alley), Pho’ South King at 2743 S. King St. is “little far for UH students,” but worth the trip. About their menu, Huynh says, “everything popular, everything special.” There’s a vegetarian menu, including “Special Vegetarian Noodle Soup.” There’s also the usual cold vermicelli (Vietnamese noodles) with a variety of meat toppings, rice plates (including “House Special Fried Rice”), and their Pho’ (Vietnamese soup), fea-turing special combinations of beef or seafood or rare steak. Topping it off, you might want to try their appetizers, such as green papaya salad or spring rolls. For drinks, there are sodas and tea or coffee (including Vietnamese coffee with condensed milk, hot or cold). The dessert menu includes banana tapioca and fruit shakes. Vietnamese food is similar to Chinese food but lighter, and can be sweet or spicy. While Chinese food can make you feel a little

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By Sebastian BlancoKa Leo Staff Columnist

Ward Churchill has come to Manoa and gone, but his words are still with us. As the local media flounders over itself trying to understand the story and fix their mistakes, we are left to deal with the right wing attacks against a man trying to understand the terrorist attacks of 9/11. For some people, President Bush’s claim that the ter-rorists “hate our freedom” seems to be enough –– even though there are freer countries, the Netherlands, for example –– and these countries were not attacked. For those of us for whom Bush’s childish reasons aren’t enough, we’ve got an alter-native explanation by Ward Churchill. Churchill, a professor at the University of Colorado, has come under attack for an article he wrote in the first 12 hours after 9/11. His article, “Some People Push Back: On the Justice of Roosting Chickens,” which was later expand-ed into a book, gives a harsh criti-cism of the actions of the United States. Of course, anyone who attempts to criticize the Bush administration or the actions of the United States is a fair target for right wing smear attacks (If you want an inside look at how the right wing attack machine operates, check out David Brock’s book “Blinded by the Right”). Since the nationally controversial Churchill came to Manoa recently, we have an excellent opportunity to see how the right wing attackers work. So, gear up, get educated, and see how public debate in America is domi-nated and distorted by the right wing. There are three big right wing talking points on Ward Churchill:1.) The right claims Churchill sup-ports terrorism. This is false. My first real experience listen-ing to Ward Churchill was his inter-view with Amy Goodman on “Democracy Now!” on February 18th. This interview is still avail-able on their Web site, www.democ-racynow.org. “Democracy Now!” is amazing because it allows people to speak in full thoughts. Churchill was allowed over 15 minutes to explain his point, the controversy and the smear campaign. His points, to really simplify, are that what happened on 9/11 was not ‘sense-less’, as so many commentators

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‘Supporters’ of free speech too selective

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The right has Churchill wrong

have said, but that there are reasons the United States was attacked. American support for Israel, the U.S. role in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children dur-ing the ‘90s, and, in a broader sense, the atrocities the U.S. mili-tary has committed throughout his-tory. On top of this, the Pentagon and the World Trade Center were legitimate targets to attack. It’s at this point that the right wing makes their “Churchill sup-ports terrorism” charge. But, if you pay attention, you know that Churchill’s using “legitimate” to define targets the way U.S. military defines them. Before the invasion of Iraq, military planners “cau-tioned that dual-use facilities, those with both a military and a civilian function, are legitimate targets” according to the Department of Defense Web site. If readers wonder how the World Trade Center had a military function, check out “A Nation Challenged: The Intelligence Agency; Secret C.I.A. Site in New York Was Destroyed on Sept. 11,” from the Nov. 4, 2001 issue of the New York Times. Keep in mind that Osama bin Laden was a CIA opera-tive. If the U.S. military can rain terror on peoples around the world, then why can’t the same terror be unleashed upon us? It’s a difficult question, and the answers might not be very pleasing, but Churchill asks anyway. After hearing his words, I became convinced that Churchill had some darn good analysis of the world we’re living in, and he was a guy worth listening to. It’s funny how, when you learn about things from a responsible media source, you aren’t swayed by the host’s rhetoric or quotes taken out of con-text. So, if there’s a scholar out there with a persuasive argument that makes some sense of 9/11, but destroys the image of a perfect America, what can right wingers do? They can say he “supports ter-rorism” because a cursory reading of his argument seems to support that claim, but anyone who takes the time will see through that state-ment. You can attack his logic, but that sure seems like a poor choice, since he’s already proved he’s got facts on his side. Thus, the right wing resorts to the personal attack option. See talking points 2 and 3. 2.) The right claims Churchill is anti-American.

By Andrew WaldenKa Leo Contributing Writer

Ward Churchill is wrong. Filthy-rich American financiers are not “little Eichmanns,” but revolutionaries. We are freeing the world from the poverty and depre-dation created by socialism, feu-dalism, tribalism and dictatorship. By building and financing sweat-shops, genetically modified agri-culture and free trade, rich

Churchill doesn’t say too many kind words about the history of the United States or the U.S. military. Churchill’s statements are based on a careful reading of history, and he knows that the U.S. has done some things in its past that are horren-dous. While true, the right doesn’t like to talk about this stuff. Instead of talking about how American atomic bombs wiped out two cities or how the U.S. killed millions in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia dur-ing the Vietnam War, the right wing simply bandies around the term “anti-American,” deflecting inquiry from the substance of the matter. Whereas Churchill sees these atroc-ities as having a direct link to the blowback of the terrorist attacks, the right wing wants to exclude them from the discussion. If they win, then Churchill’s argument is reduced to “the terrorists had a rea-son to attack America.” By remov-ing the details of his argument, they can continue their name-calling. 3.) The right claims Churchill is not a Native American. He is. In his last Point-Counterpoint column in these pages, Andrew Walden repeated this “fake-Indian” claim, basing his statement on the Internet. Well, there are decent news sites online and then there are hack jobs. As Churchill clearly stat-

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Gordon Kitsuwa of St. Louis Heights held up an issue of Time maga-zine that showed photos from September 11, 2001. Kitsuwa, a gradu-ate from UH in 1973 in chemistry said that supporters of Ward Churchill have forgotten what happened to America that day. "This is to remind them," he said.

American bankers, stock trad-ers and CEOs are giving bil-lions of people the opportunity to earn cash wages for the first time in their lives or the lives of their ancestors. Al-Qaeda and the anti-glo-balization Churchill left our counter revolutionaries against this Second Industrial Revolution, which has drawn absolute poverty down from 40 percent of the world’s people to

21 percent in 20 years, accord-ing to a recent U.N. report on world poverty. It is Churchill and his comrades whose anti-development campaigns exac-erbate the high infant-mortality rates that come from underde-velopment. It is they whose acts “translate into the rotting corpses of infants.” Churchill is also a fraud. His claim to Cherokee ancestry is a focal point of almost all of his essays and his career, and it is a lie. David Cornsilk, a Cherokee researcher, has searched the Cherokee Nation and Keetoowah tribal rolls, and according to his research there is not one listing of Churchill on any of these rolls. Creek-Cherokee historian Robert W. Trepp did not find Churchill’s family members on the Muscogee Creek Nation rolls, either. Faking his ancestry is not the only lie Churchill, an obvi-ous Caucasian, has told to advance various “histories” of Native Americans in the United States. Churchill’s leftist academ-ic friends have intimidated the usual self-policing mechanisms of academic integrity. Rather than having his right to free speech infringed upon because

of his different view of Osama bin Laden, Churchill’s views are actu-ally being used to shield him from proper scrutiny. When these issues have been raised in the past — and they have been — somebody, such as UH Manoa English Professor Ruth Hsu, is there to pretend that these are “red herrings that detract from the main issues Professor Churchill is bringing to the table.” It is time for that to change. Fake Native Americans and pseu-do-intellectual academic Marxists must be subject to the same aca-demic scrutiny as other professors. America’s students deserve to be taught by serious academics, not liars, con-artists and frauds. America’s professors deserve the chance to keep their profession clear of those who don’t measure up. Here are three examples of his fraud with links to academic sourc-es: First, in defending his claim of American “genocide” against Indians, Churchill invents a story about smallpox blankets being dis-tributed in 1837 to the Mandan Americans Indians of North Dakota. The story is completely false and is refuted by the sources that Churchill claims support him. With this lie dispatched, the only documented incidence of smallpox blankets being distributed was by a British General, Lord Amherst, at Fort Pitt, 1763. Yet the cultural nationalist majority in liberal arts and ethnic studies faculties across America has sold this lie for years as if it were normal operating pro-cedure for America rather than a one-time occurrence perpetrated by the British. Second, Churchill claims that “scalp bounties (were) paid by every English colony — as well as every U.S. state and territory in the lower 48.” False. Scalp boun-ties were paid by both British and French to Indians and non-Indians for every enemy of Indian or non-Indian background killed in the French and Indian war of the 1750s and 1760s — before the United States of America existed. Third, Churchill invented lies about the Dawes Act of 1887 that reor-ganized Indian tribes. He does this in protest against the blood-quantum basis for tribal membership. Apparently, he wants non-Indians such as himself to be allowed to come in and take con-trol from the real Indians. These obvious frauds show that Churchill’s anti-American lies are the reason he has his job. Rather than being a First Amendment test case, Churchill is the means by which the First Amendment is denied to any-body. Look at Harvard President Larry Summer — a former Bill Clinton advisor — who is now being skewed for making a politically incorrect statement about women’s math abilities. He is now being roasted over the coals by the same legions of frauds who are so con-cerned about Churchill’s free speech right — just for mentioning

See Fraud, page 5See Churchill, page 5

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news sites online and then there are hack jobs. As Churchill clearly stated while he was here, he is Native American, and he told us where we can go to verify his remarks. But the truth of Churchill’s ethnicity is not really of interest to the right wingers. Just like the ‘anti-American’ charge, the questions of Churchill’s ethnicity

serve only to draw attention away from his actual argument. The real trouble only begins with this attack on Churchill’s ethnicity, since it reveals the right wing’s true motive in lashing into him. Churchill sees the coming attacks as not only on him and his department, but on liberal arts every-where. And his attackers don’t bat an eyelash. They’re proud of what they’re trying to do. In the end, this is what we’re fac-

ing. The right wing deliberately mis-states what a man has said, then uses those falsehoods to attack him and then plan to attack thousands more people. They’re devious, and we have reason to worry. But Churchill’s visit provides us with an education. Not only can we learn from what he says, but from what others say about him. The lessons here is simple: Be aware, stand up, fight back.

an idea some consider sexist, not even advocating it. The Churchill kerfluffle isn’t about free speech; it’s about political control of aca-demic discourse. Churchill’s fake free speech supporters are the same people who have repeatedly attacked Ka Leo cartoonists for “racism” — their favorite code word for any-thing they oppose. They caused the firing of cartoonist Grant Crowell in October 1994 and car-toonist Casey Ishitani in spring 2003. These individuals ran anti-Akaka Bill activist Ken Conklin Ph.D. off campus in 2002, forcing him to teach a class titled “Hawaiian Sovereignty: Another View” — in an undisclosed loca-tion for an entire semester. They are the same people who right now seek to deny the rights of faculty to express their patriotism

by participating in classified research. The University of Hawai`i, from McClain on down, has made it clear that it will protect the free speech of an Osama-lover like Ward Churchill. Fine. I will now make it my personal business to invite every local, state and national conservative or libertari-an speaker I can find. They will all come to speak at UH Manoa and collect an honorarium. Then I will fly them over to UH Hilo for a repeat. Professors will assign their classes to attend the speech-es. The UH System — for the first time in years — will protect the First Amendment rights of patri-ots and conservatives. Any time the usual suspects try to stop this, I will point out that Osama-lovers are allowed to speak at this uni-versity, but ordinary Republicans are not. The anti-Americans just overplayed their hand. We are now unstoppable.

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Churchill: ‘Be aware, stand up’Fraud: Where does free speech really begin?

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be sweet or spicy. While Chinese food can make you feel a little heavy if overeaten (and, according to the cliche, “hungry an hour later”), Vietnamese food is healthy, very light, and your appe-tite is fully satisfied. The portions at Pho’ South King are generous, and the price is right for students. Almost all the main dishes are under $6, within the range of a poor student’s bud-

get. Ronald T. Nakagawa, 50, and his son, Grant, 6, “come here a lot, at least once a week.” Nakagawa, chief of an architec-tural and design section at Ft. Shafter, says he usually brings the whole family to Pho’ South King. “My wife likes the cold vermicelli with barbecue pork or the chicken salad and my daughter likes the Pho’ with meat balls. She also likes the summer rolls with shrimp. “I like the ginger chicken with rice or the Pho’ chicken. My son

usually likes the Pho’ with meat-balls,” says Nakagawa. “And it’s the Pho’ that really makes or breaks a place. “We live in Manoa, and we find it very close and convenient. They have good prices, and they give a lot. “And the owner’s very nice and friendly,” says Nakagawa. “When we come here, we always say we’re going to the ‘friendly guy’s place.’”

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‘Pho: Vietnamese cuisine served big

Almost all the main dishes are under $6 at ‘Pho South King, a Vietnamese res-taurant which offers deals to UH students.

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Signs of the campaigning times

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Signs were put up around campus last Friday criticizing the way in which political candidates raise money for their election campaigns.

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By Tim MacMahon, Gary Jacobson and Gregg Jones

The Dallas Morning News

COLLEYVILLE, Texas (KRT) — Colleyville Heritage High School made its first public step toward addressing steroid abuse Thursday night, although the district superinten-dent acknowledged the opportunity had been missed months earlier. The district held a seminar on ste-roid abuse Thursday, three months after nine Heritage athletes admitted using the banned drug. “We missed a golden opportunity from December to February to be very proactive as a district to address this,” said Kay Waggoner, Grapevine-Colleyville Independent School District superintendent. Waggoner learned of the steroid abuse after The

Dallas Morning News submitted questions to the district on Feb. 3. Dr. Larry Gibbons and Don Hooton held the 80-minute seminar about steroid abuse in front of about 500 people and a dozen television cameras in the Heritage auditorium. The crowd included several Heritage athletes, who Waggoner said were “strongly, strongly encouraged” to attend. Gibbons explained the medical risks and warning signs of steroid abuse. Hooton shared the story of his son, Taylor, a Plano West Senior High School student who committed sui-cide in 2003 after suffering from depression that Hooton attributes to steroid withdrawal. Kelly Johnson, father of a Colleyville Heritage sophomore base-ball player, had tears in his eyes after Hooton’s speech. He said he and his wife, Robin, often discuss drugs with their son but didn’t realize the extent of steroid use and the availability of the drugs. “I thought it was a great presenta-tion,” said Kyle Davis, a junior foot-ball player for Heritage who attended

the seminar with his parents and brother. As Davis spoke, he spotted Lori Lewis, the Colleyville mother who first phoned school officials with ste-roid allegations in the fall. He hugged her and apolo-gized for the harassment her son had faced from some Heritage foot-ball players. Lewis’ son transferred to another high school earlier this month. “I still love him as a broth-er,” Davis said. Lewis said, “I can only hope that the football players were listening and taking it all in.” Carroll school district Superintendent Gary Mathews was one of several Carroll administrators

who attended the seminar. Heritage football players told coach Chris Cunningham that they shared a com-mon dealer with at least one Carroll football player. “We’re standing here talking about

replicating this in the Carroll ISD in the very near future,” Dr. Mathews said of the seminar. Cunningham was originally sched-uled to take report-ers’ questions after the seminar. However, school district officials canceled the access to Cunningham a few hours before the event. Cunningham brief-ly addressed the

audience at the end of the seminar. “The key is to move forward with a proactive approach,” Cunningham said.

High school students admit to steroid use

Seminar addresses steroid abuse in schools

Students wanted for women’s

intramural basketball league

Ka Leo Staff

The Intramural Sports Department is now accepting entries into the women’s basketball league. University of Hawai‘i at Manoa students interested can sign up in the Intramural Sports Office, PE/A 200 on lower campus. Deadline to sign up is March 7.

SportsBriefs

Clarett gets second chance to make first impression

By Jim ThomasSt. Louis Post-Dispatch

INDIANAPOLIS (KRT) — Running back Maurice Clarett showed up at the NFL scouting combine a year older, a year wiser — and by all appearances — a lot humbler. Any regrets? “About what?” he said. “I don’t really look at it like that. It’s kind of like a blessing. I got a second chance to make a first impression.” Suffice it to say, his first chance didn’t go very well. Last year at this time, Clarett was the scourge of the NFL’s legal department, hav-ing challenged the league’s long-standing rules for college players entering the draft. When he showed up at the com-bine one year ago, he was but two weeks removed from a U.S. District Court ruling in New York that made him draft eligible. It proved to be a temporary victory, because the ruling was overturned in appeals court two months later. “I really didn’t expect that one to come,” Clarett said. “I didn’t expect the overturn.” By NFL rules, Clarett was ineli-gible for the draft because he was not three years removed from his senior year in high school. He also was ineligible to continue his col-lege career at Ohio State. So he spent a second year out of football. He was ruled ineligible to play for the Buckeyes in 2003 for accepting improper benefits. He hasn’t played since the 2002 season at Ohio State, when he rushed for 1,236 yards and scored 18 touchdowns. He hasn’t been tackled since spring drills in 2003. For Clarett, it’s been a long two years of watching college games on Saturday and NFL games on Sunday.

“You watch the highlights of other people, and you know you could be out there doing those same things and helping your team win,” Clarett said. Although he doesn’t regret chal-lenging the NFL’s draft entry rule, Clarett realizes his overall predica-ment was largely of his own doing. “We can say `coulda, shoulda, woulda’ about a lot of things,” Clarett said, “but the fact that it didn’t turn out that way, I’m not about to be mad or cry over it. ... I made some mistakes that are obvi-ous to everybody in this room, and I paid for `em.” Granted, Clarett has had a year to be coached, not on football, but on his image. He’s learned to say the right thing and present himself in a better fashion to the media and to NFL coaches and scouts. Clarett has spent countless hours talking to his attorney, David Kenner, about those types of things. Either Clarett is a very good actor, or the events and misfortune of the past few years have made him a more sincere and mature per-son. “I worked on so much stuff with my lawyer,” Clarett said. “Just per-sonal things. I worked on me. It was a good thing, because he wasn’t scared to tell me my faults and the wrongdoings I had.’” All of which helped Clarett gain some self- perspective. “I had to take a look at myself, from outside myself,” he said. “When I looked at myself, some-times I kind of looked like a joke to myself. I looked at it like one of you (reporters) might (think), `He wasn’t mature.’ I did some things I shouldn’t have done. I’vetaken responsibility for all those things. And I’m just ready to move forward.” Move forward, and get a job. Last Thursday, Clarett said he didn’t

care who drafted him, or when he was drafted. He just wants to play football again. Even it’s on special teams in the NFL. “It’s a humbling thing being humble,” Clarett said. Maybe so, but Thursday was a good start. The 2005 combine is the start of what could be his last chance to play in the NFL. “This is a big day that I’ve been preparing for for a long time,” Clarett said. “This day has been on my calendar for a long time. Coming here, interviewing (with) everybody, kind of knocking off the kinks everybody had on me, and the knocks everybody had on me. I’ve been real focused, and ready for this day to come.” Looking at Clarett on Thursday, it’s obvious he has been working on his body as much as his head in the past year. At last year’s combine, he weighed in at 237 pounds, and looked doughy. This year, he weighed in at 234 pounds, and looked lean. He has been training in Orange County, Calif. In another change from last year, Clarett decided to run and work out at this year’s combine. “I’m doing everything,” he said. “I’m just putting everything on the table out here.” A year ago, Clarett didn’t endear himself to NFL teams by skipping the workout portion of the combine. One of Clarett’s harshest critics at the time was Buffalo president and general manager Tom Donahoe. Donahoe called Clarett’s deci-sion not to work out “a farce ... .that’s ridiculous. You have immedi-ate questions on what kind of shape is he in, why he’s not prepared to work out.” This time around, Donahoe is reserving judgment. “This is another opportunity,” he said. “We’ll see what he does with it.”

Going up strong

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Wahine Amy Sanders goes to the basket against Tulsa’s Megan Moody in the first half of the ‘Bows’ game against the Golden hurricane last Thursday. read tomorrow’s Ka Leo for a recap of the ‘Bows’ Senior Night, as well as the rainbow baseball team’s series against Washington State.

“We’re standing here talking

about replicating this in the Carroll

iSD inthe very near

future”— Gary Mathews,

Carroll School District Superintendant