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Letters to the Editor | The Honolulu Advertiser | Hawaii's Newspaper
Posted on: Monday, December 29, 2008

Letters to the Editor

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Vili drums up support for the UH Warriors at a football game.

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RAINBOWS

TIME FOR UH TO RETURN TO ITS SPORTS TRADITIONS

As an alumnus and sports fan of the University of Hawai'i, it bothers me that one man, June Jones, could make changes to UH traditions.

  • The nickname: Where else can one find a college campus where you often see a rainbow over it? Only at UH-Manoa. It was only appropiate that we were called the Rainbows.

    Jones changed the nickname to Warriors. Maybe as a compromise the team could be called Rainbow Warriors. Ever notice the fans still say, "Go, Bows?"

  • Colors: Do you know of a major college with more than two colors? We were green and white until Jones came along and added silver and black. Let's keep it the way it was. Get rid of silver and black.

  • Mascot: All colleges I know have mascots who are students and they earn part or full schorlarships, which I think is deserving. We have an outsider non student.

    Jones is gone and forgotten. Let's consider going back to tradition. I think Joe Moore will support me.

    R. Komoto
    Kane'ohe

    ECONOMIC CRISIS

    CUT SCHOOL BUDGETS, HURT THE WORKFORCE

    Napoleon's theory: Keep 'em ignorant. Cut budgets of schools and libraries and then you'll have a large pool of cheap labor.

    Barbara Ikeda
    Mililani

    EAST HONOLULU

    FIREWORKS ALREADY GOING OFF IN KULI'OU'OU

    It seems as if the residents of the valley in which I reside decided to begin ringing in the new year on Christmas night (technically before that).

    I saw fireworks go off makai and heard four loud bombs sounding mauka Christmas night.

    Please respect everyone's right to peaceful evenings. Your time to exercise your pyrotechnical skills is Dec. 31. Not earlier.

    Makoa Jacobsen
    Kuli'ou'ou

    RAIL

    EIS SHOULD INCLUDE ALL TRANSIT TECHNOLOGIES

    An acknowledged transportation expert, Roger Morton (Letter, Dec. 19), agrees with the ruling that it is improper for the City Council to approve specifications for the transit system.

    Why didn't Mr. Morton testify on this during the lengthy hearings on Bill 79, that led to passage of Ordinance 07-001? (My notes indicate no discussion whatsoever on specifications during the third reading.)

    Where was the corporation counsel to recommend deletion of Section 7, the one dealing with specifications approval? Why did Mayor Mufi Hannemann sign a flawed bill? The real question, perhaps, is would the City Council have approved Bill 79 without Section 7?

    The "meaningful competition" and "transparency" that Morton refers to apparently only apply to steel-wheel-on-steel-rail systems (i.e., five suppliers, with two of them possibly merging).

    We will not have a meaningful competition until all qualified suppliers, including five other companies proposing non-SWSR systems, are allowed to bid. The draft environmental impact statement, currently limited to SWSR, must be delayed and rewritten to cover all technologies that met the criteria in the city's request for information.

    Frank Genadio
    Kapolei

    PRESIDENT-ELECT OBAMA

    HOME IS WHERE YOU SPEND YOUR HOLIDAYS

    Chicagoans may claim Barack Obama as one of their own, but "home" is where you go during the holidays. Aloha, Obamas.

    David Tanaka
    'Aiea
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