university, lab, school, all-city, band, played, wednesday, morning, state, capitol, festivities, opening, legislative, session, among, crowd, in, rotunda, just, before, start, was, group, led, by, activist, walter, ritte, foreground, holding, megaphone, activists, called, house, speaker, calvin, say, standing, next, to, support, bill, which, stalled, last, putting, year, moratorium, efforts, create, genetically, modified, strains, taro, gathered, urge, attempts, but, some, experts, plant, pathology, genetic, engineering, hosted, own, yesterday, ywca, across, from, explain, how, research, creating, resistant, could, protect, traditional, crop, against, devastating, diseases, senate, chamber, well-filled, s, former, senator, nadao, yoshinaga, introduced, rep, kirk, caldwell, opening-day, ceremonies, president, colleen, hanabusa, pounded, gavel, open, as, delivered, remarks, minority, leader, fred, hemmings, addressed, sen, suzanne, chun, oakland, had, year-old, daughter, lauren, along, day, events, darren, benitez, his, musical, performed, part, ovation, members, hawaii, faculty, administration, warriors, football, team, who, were, audience, legislature, lynn, finnegan, response, during, speeches, majority, poi, pounder