WE'RE ALL 4 IT

From Final Four to one of four

Hats off to the University of Hawaii Wahine volleyball team for being named one of four regional host schools for the 2011 NCAA tournament. It'll be UH's first postseason hosting gig since 2006. With the Wahine making it all the way up to Final Four play this past season, the announcement brings added anticipation heading into the next season.

“;I'm really excited about the opportunity to host an NCAA regional,”; said Wahine coach Dave Shoji. “;I think our fans are very deserving and it's a great incentive for players.”; Score!

GOOD MOVE

Thanks for considering appearances

We feel your pain. That seems to be the message from Honolulu City Council members in unanimously saying “;no thanks”; to a pay raise. Council members earn about $52,000 a year — the chairman, a few thousand more — but in light of an anticipated $140 million city shortfall, they've just passed a resolution nixing any raises. Bravo. Let's just hope that the Honolulu Salary Commission, which makes pay recommendations for top city officials, gets the message loud and clear.

ALOHA, J.D.

Author of 'Catcher,' we hardly knew ye

Long after he fled the literary world in 1953, J.D. Salinger tantalizingly told The New York Times, “;There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.”;

Now that the author of “;Catcher in the Rye”; and “;Franny and Zooey”; has died at age 91, after more than 50 years in seclusion in New Hampshire, you can't blame fans for hoping they'll finally get a peek at what he was working on for all those years. But a statement from Salinger's literary agents holds out little hope of that, and confirms the obvious: There will be no funeral service, “;in keeping with his lifelong, uncompromising desire to protect and defend his privacy.”;

Hard to imagine Holden Caulfield ever coming of age in the era of reality TV.