Newswatch
By Star-Bulletin Staff
Friday, October 4, 1996
John Radcliffe, associate executive director of the 3,200-member University of Hawaii Professional Assembly, said the union plans to meet with faculty on Oct. 19 to plan some kind of action.
The faculty has been without a contract since last June, and negotiations have been at an impasse since January of this year.
"Almost 90 percent of them (UH faculty) are ready to do some kind of action, so we've got to make a run at that," Radcliffe said. "Whether or not that's going to take a form of a strike, nobody really knows at this point. But we can't go on forever with this state of affairs."
Diane S.C. Ferreira, an English professor at Hawaii Community College and vice president of the UHPA board of directors, said faculty at the university's 10 campuses are checking whether there is support for a strike or other action.
In Hawaii, a different kind of eclipse is happening this week that's more annoying: TV satellites are being eclipsed by the sun.
For about 20 minutes a day through Sunday, communications satellites pass in front of the sun and the satellite's relatively weak signal is drowned out by the intense electromagnetic radiation streaming from the sun.
This happens twice a year, in spring and fall, and explains the "sun outages" disclaimers seen on TV screens.
This will also affect home satellite dishes, but not Olelo and public-access stations.
Following are satellites affected, times of interference, and channels affected.
If the channel is tape-delayed, the local broadcast times follow in parenthesis:
GTSatellite K-1 - 6:48 a.m. to 7:25 a.m.: TV Japan.
GTSatellite T402 - 7:05 a.m. to 7:25 a.m.: Spice, Adam and Eve.
GTSatellite Galaxy-7 - 7:13 a.m. to 7:33 a.m.: Sega Channel, Access.
GTSatellite Galaxy-3R - 7:30 a.m. to 7:50 a.m.: Adult Vision.
GTSatellite Galaxy-9 - 9:40 a.m. to 9:59 a.m.: Nickelodeon (12:40 p.m. to 12:59 p.m.), The Movie Channel, MTV.
GTSatellite Galaxy-5 - 9:40 a.m. to 10 a.m.: Playboy, Sci-Fi, CNN, TBS, Barker, HBO (12:40 p.m. to 1 p.m.), ESPN, Discovery, CNBC, ESPN2, C-Max, Turner Network Television (2:40 p.m. to 3 p.m.), TNN, MEU, HLN, Arts & Entertainment.
GTSatellite C-3 - 10:08 a.m. to 10:25 a.m.: Family, The Learning Channel (3:08 p.m. to 3:25 p.m.), Viewers Choice 1, Lifetime (1:08 p.m. to 1:25 p.m.), Vision, Court, C-Span House, Music Choice, History, Flix, E!
GTSatellite Galaxy-1R - 10:17 a.m. to 10:33 a.m.: Comedy, Food, Disney (1:17 p.m. to 1:33 p.m.), Cartoon, MSNBC, Value, CNN International, HBO-3, HBO-2 (1:17 p.m. to 1:33 p.m.), HG-TV (3:17 p.m. to 3:33 p.m.), USA.
GTSatellite C-4 - 10:26 a.m. to 10:44 a.m.: American Movie Classics, Request3, Request5, Bravo, Preview Guide, QVC, HSC, Travel, Health, Showtime, Hot Choice. Hits1, Hits2, Hits3, Hits4. C-Span Senate, VH-1 (3:26 p.m. to 3:44 p.m.).
GTSatellite C-1 - 10:35 a.m. to 10:53 a.m.: Prime-Sports.
GTSatellite Pas-2 - 2:46 p.m. to 3:02 p.m.: Filipino Channel.
Police and FBI agents arrested the 33-year-old man on suspicion of robbing the King-Liliha branch on Sept. 23 and the Waipahu branch on Sept. 13. He was to appear before a federal magistrate today.
In both robberies, the suspect was described as having tattooed writing on his neck.
- Police cars rammed after drug bust
- Bank fraud suspect turns himself in
- Charges filed in chop shop case