'PELE MA'

REVIEWER SHOULD HAVE STAYED FOR SECOND ACT

In his Jan. 12 review of "Pele Ma," currently in performance at Kumu Kahua Theatre, Joseph T. Rozmiarek concludes with this astonishing sentence: "I understand that the second act featured a love triangle, but I didn't stay to find out."

To draw broad conclusions about a play after only experiencing half of it, as Mr. Rozmiarek has done, strikes me as unprofessional, bordering on unethical. This flies in the face of the paper's mission statement: "To be diligent, truthful, accurate and fair."

I have tickets to an upcoming performance of "Pele Ma," and I intend to stay for the whole show. I saw this play years ago at Mid-Pacific Institute and recall a stunning second act, so I am eager to see it re-conceived for Kumu Kahua's intimate stage.

In this light, I find Mr. Rozmiarek's review worthless.

UH ATHLETICS

HAWAI'I MUST DECIDE WHAT UH SHOULD BE

I believe the choice is a simple one. If you want UH to be like Cal-Berkeley, then the state, community and businesses must contribute one-third of their resources to the upper campus.

If you don't want to do that, then the state, fans and business must contribute one-third of their resources to UH football to be a Georgia and help bring in money for Title 9 sports and the upper campus.

Those are the facts, and what life is all about, folks.

COMMENTS ARE INSULT TO REMAINING PLAYERS

Lee Cataluna's hurtful comments about June Jones "leaving the kids behind and parachuting out for more money and new kids" is real pilau and an insult to the remaining grown "kids" at home.

Tyler Graunke and company deserve a chance at a positive season, and her rude remarks are uncalled for.

How dare she blame Jones for the Sugar Bowl loss when all year long individual players spoke only of accountability, never placing fault on each other. They got that from their "daddy."

The Georgia game was a heartbreaker for everyone, especially for the players, but the Warrior in us will survive.

Go Warriors! Good luck, June Jones!

UH LEADERS' NEGLECT IS AN EMBARRASSMENT

I disagree with Rick Lloyd's Jan. 9 letter ("Departure shows lack of aloha for Hawai'i").

I wonder how Mr. Lloyd would respond if he were coming to the end of a contract and had no commitment from his boss regarding a new contract. Would he not be open to accepting a well-paying offer from another company that actually showed some interest in hiring him?

Also, how dare the University of Hawai'i reward the incompetency of people like former Athletics Director Herman Frazier with a cash buyout and have the nerve to fine June Jones (the best coach we have ever had) because of UH's incompetence in not submitting a new contract in a timely manner?

I was born and raised in Hawai'i and have extreme loyalty to our 'aina. Yet I am ashamed at how backwards we are in some things. The neglect the UH administration has shown in this and other matters is simply one more embarrassment to me and Hawai'i as a whole.

WITH NEW COACH, CAN UH RETURN TRADITIONS?

Now that we have a new coach let's have a new beginning.

1) Return the Rainbows.
2) Return to the colorful uniforms.
3) If we need a dance, make it to the tune of the Hawaiian War Chant.
4) Return the cheerleaders in hula skirts.
5) Make the team look like and act like they are from Hawai'i.

UNPLANNED PREGNANCY

ABORTION DECISION DIFFICULT AND PERSONAL

Ricardo Burgos' letter (Jan. 14) carries a judgmental tone when he quips about Ellen Goodman's "hangover-like feeling" after watching the movies she mentioned in her column, and he remarks that "choosing life is the right choice."

Please do not be so quick to judge women who choose to have an abortion, Mr. Burgos.

There is no wrong or right choice. Whether a woman chooses to have an abortion or not, it is a very difficult personal decision to make and every decision is made under different circumstances.

Each woman who is faced with an unplanned pregnancy should be able to have the support and comfort she needs to face the outcomes of her decision, whether she chooses to have the baby and raise it on her own, chooses adoption or chooses abortion.

2008 CAMPAIGN

CAN FAITH BE OUR BASIS FOR U.S. FOREIGN POLICY?

I would welcome Mike Huckabee as the presidential nominee of the Republican Party.

It would offer voters a clear and honest choice as to the influence of evangelicals on presidential politics.

Since the ascendancy of George Bush to the White House, policy and executive direction has been shaped by pandering to "the base."

Do we want a ordained minister in the Oval Office as well as the pulpit? Is faith a competent foreign policy? Experience as a preacher does not serve as background to be commander in chief.

How far down the road to an ayatollah and morality police in a theocracy do we want to go?

OBAMA COMMENT WAS COMPLIMENT TO CLINTON

In his Jan. 11 column, Charles Krauthammer called Barack Obama "cruel and deeply ungracious" for his statement to Hillary Clinton during a debate: "You're likable enough, Hillary."

I saw the same debate, and felt that Sen. Obama paid Sen. Clinton a very nice compliment.

So he said it looking down — isn't that what many men, who are not used to complimenting, do when they compliment a woman? So when someone says, "I'm not that beautiful," is it wrong to say, "You're beautiful enough?"

After all, Mr. Krauthammer, Sen. Obama could have easily said "dream on, Hillary, dream on!"