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Annual law school tuition is set to go up 5 percent this fall, from $4,800 last fall to $5,040 this fall for residents, based on systemwide tuition hikes approved last Feburary by the Board of Regents.
A new four-year staggered increase in tuition slated for approval today has been set aside for a year due to questions raised by regents.
If adopted, the new tuition plan likely would take effect in fall 1998, giving current law students a one-year break from another hike.
At a budget and long-range planning committee meeting yesterday, regents Stanley Roehrig and Lee Ohigashi, both lawyers, questioned the financial effect the proposed tuition schedule would have on students, the law school and the university.
Roehrig said he has "grave reservations" about the plan - which would have raised annual tuition to $7,008 this fall and then to $9,072 in the fall of 2000 - because it didn't give current students adequate warning tuition would rise during their stay in school.
The new schedule, if approved, could be legally challenged by students as a breach of their educational contract, he added.
"We don't need a class action lawsuit challenging what the university is doing to them," said Roehrig, who attended his first regents meeting after replacing Shunichi Kimura, who resigned.
"We haven't heard much support for gambling," said Senate president Norman Mizuguchi (D, Aiea), who has been a leading proponent of shipboard gambling.
Nonetheless, gambling-related bills have surfaced.
One, introduced by Sens. Malama Solomon (D, Kohala) and Joe Tanaka (D, Kahului), would establish parimutuel horseracing in Hawaii as a way to increase state revenues.
The appointment requires confirmation by the state Senate.
Enright has been with the attorney general's office since 1980 and currently supervises the family law division.
Police continue to seek the alleged shooter, identified by the intended victim as a 30-year-old felon.
Stella Zoeller Jensen, 39, was struck in the head Wednesday night by a bullet police said was intended for her 28-year-old companion. She died at the Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center.
A maroon car believed to be the one that fled the scene was later found ablaze in Makaha valley. The alleged driver turned herself in to Waianae police.
A police helicopter spotted a car leaving the Hau Bush area Wednesday, and the pilot asked patrol officers to stop the car after learning the 1992 Nissan had been reported stolen.
When officers tried to pull the car over near Waipahu Street and Waipahu Depot Road, the driver tried to flee.
The car went out of control near Paiwa Street and crashed into a light pole before rolling back and striking a squad car, police said.
The driver fled to a nearby home where officers found him hiding in a closet. His passenger, a 24-year-old woman, was treated at Queen's Hospital for minor injuries.
The driver, who gave officers an alias, complained of a sore head and was taken to Kapiolani Hospital at Pali Momi. An auto theft detective familiar with the suspect's alleged past exploits recognized him. The suspect was taken to the Pearl City police station and booked under his real name.
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