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Families of children registered at Kamali'i Elementary School have until Thursday to voice their opinions on whether the pupils should wear uniforms.
Opponents contend that proponents, including Kamali'i Principal Sandra Shawhan, tried to rush the idea through without their feedback. But Shawhan denies that.
Proponents say uniforms would promote school pride, allow kids to concentrate more on academics and less on what everyone else is wearing, reduce theft that occurs when one child covets another's fashionable belongings and ultimately cost parents less.
But critics such as Ina Williamson, whose two grandchildren are registered at Kamali'i, say forcing kids to dress alike tramples on their right to free expression. And they note there is little evidence to support claims that kids are better behaved or more studious because they wear uniforms.
At a Hilo news conference, Jervis yesterday announced plans for a 100-acre campus across the Wailuku River from downtown Hilo in a land division known as Kalalau.
Simultaneously, trustee Lokelani Lindsey announced plans for a 100-acre campus at Pukalani, Maui.
Plans for additional campuses in west Hawaii and west Oahu are further in the future.
The Maui facility is expected to cost about $20 million, which includes the cost of buying land there, Lindsey said.
Jervis said Bishop Estate has long owned the Kalalau land on the Big Island. Bishop spokeswoman Elisa Yadao said trustees have a ballpark idea of how much the Hilo facility would cost but would not release that figure.
Both Hilo and Maui will have temporary sites for the schools, with 80 students each in grades K-3 this fall, until the new campuses are built.
The Taiwan Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics is teaming with the Smithsonian Institution's Astrophysical Observatory and the University of Hawaii's Institute for Astronomy to use a submillimeter array telescope to explore largely unknown phenomena hidden by light-blocking dust and gas clouds.
I. Michael Heyman, Smithsonian secretary, and Yuan-Tseh Lee, president of the Academia Sinica of Taiwan, signed an $8 million agreement in a ceremony yesterday at the Institute for Astronomy in Manoa.
The telescope will have six instruments, each about 20 feet across, set up on widely spaced concrete pads. The dishes will work together as one giant antenna about 1,500 feet wide searching for clues to star births, galaxy formations and distant quasars.
Rosalind Torres appeared in District Court today on one count of second-degree forgery. Her bail is $11,000.
Police arrested her at Waipahu Safeway on Saturday.
Torres was allegedly caught on bank video cameras attempting to withdraw money at four locations, the first hours after Fujie Hasegawa was robbed.
Police Specialized Services officers acting on a tip arrested Fred M. Kiyabu Jr. without incident at the Outrigger Hobron in Waikiki at 6:30 a.m. yesterday.
He was booked for robbery, kidnapping and four probation violations.
His girlfriend, 24, of Waipahu, was arrested for hindering prosecution.
Kiyabu, who fled before police arrived at the Waipahu Street home April 30, was alleged to be one of five men who robbed the occupants of money and jewelry. They had gone to the home to collect a drug-related debt from the boyfriend of one of the residents, police said.
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