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TheBuzz

BY ERIKA ENGLE

Thursday, June 28, 2001

Win-win situations
wanted

A new internship program could ignite the new Center for Entrepreneurship and E-Business at the University of Hawaii College of Business Administration.

CBA Internship Director Richard Varley said the center is looking for "emerging, high-growth companies," to participate in the Ewing Marian Kauffman Foundation program.

As many as 15 graduate and 35 undergraduate students will spend the upcoming fall semester with the CEO or principal of a small business, "not only watching, but getting involved in development phases of the business," Varley said.

To qualify on the employer side, companies must have fewer than 200 employees, less than $50 million in annual revenue and must have been in business for fewer than five years.

Employers must also pay half the student's stipend, or the equivalent of $7.50 per hour for grad students, and $5 per hour for undergrads for 150 hours' work. The foundation pays the rest for a total of $2,250 for graduate students and $1,500 for undergrads.

UH has obtained a $63,000 renewable grant for the program from the Kansas City, Mo.-based foundation established by Ewing Marian Kauffman. Varley said Kauffman started out in the early 1950s selling pharmaceuticals out of his garage.

In 20 years, Marian Industries became a multimillion dollar corporation which bought Major League Baseball's Kansas City Royals and built them a stadium.

Hacked off

Star-Bulletin Webmaster Blaine Fergerstrom burst into the newsroom's business section yesterday saying "n-a-a-dot-org, check it out."

Browsers were immediately pointed to the Web site of the Virginia-based Newspaper Association of America, mice were clicked and the mighty iMacs produced a page topped by a title bar which read, "You were hacked again ... think about it ..." What should have been the newspaper trade organization's homepage instead read, "Admin think of your security ... check your server ... greetz to everyone i know and who knows me."

The message seems to contain good advice -- of the "do as I say, not as I do" variety.

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Erika Engle is a reporter with the Star-Bulletin.
Call 529-4302, fax 529-4750 or write to Erika Engle,
Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 500 Ala Moana Blvd., No. 7-210,
Honolulu, HI 96813. She can also be reached
at: eengle@starbulletin.com