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For Immediate Release:	August 19, 1999
Contact: Donnë Florence, PIO, 808-956-7522

Photo/Interview Opportunity. New and returning students move into UH apartments beginning Aug. 20 at 1 p.m. and into dorms beginning Aug. 21 at 1 p.m. (New/freshman students especially to Hale Aloha Lokelani Tower, 2579 Dole Street, on Saturday afternoon.) Student Housing Director Jan Camara will also be on hand. CityExpress! bus extends its route to connect UH Manoa and Pearlridge beginning August 23, celebrates with free fare for all CityExpress! riders Aug. 23-28. The expanded line will be feted Aug. 23, 8:15 a.m. at Sinclair Half Circle (University Avenue, mauka of Dole Street). The program will include speakers Cheryl Soon, Honolulu Mayor Jeremy Harris, Honolulu City Council Member Andy Mirikitani, Associated Students of UH President Pi'ilani Smith and ASUH Senator Charles Izumoto. Contact: Leslie Opulauoho, UHM Co-Curricular Activities, Programs & Services, opulauoh@hawaii.edu, 956-4824. UH West O'ahu starts the new academic year Aug. 23 celebrating half a dozen auspicious "firsts": · first permanent chancellor, William Pearman, formerly of UH Hilo. · first major endowment to UHWO, Art Rutledge Endowment in Labor Studies, provides $1 million to Center for Labor Education and Research. · first fall semester in the new classroom building that opened last spring. · first totally Web-based course. · first courses offered by UHWO at the West Hawai'i Outreach site. · first semester delivering courses to all UH Outreach sites via Hawaii Interactive Television System (HITS). Contact: Melinda Wood, melinda@uhwo.hawaii.edu, 454-4750. Kapena in concert at UH Manoa Campus Center Courtyard, Aug. 23, 11:30-12:30, presented by Campus Center Board/Activities Council. UH Manoa School of Nursing holds a convocation Aug. 23, 12:30-1:30 in Campus Center Ballroom, for faculty and students. The event resumes an earlier tradition of beginning a new academic year in fellowship and good will. Dean Rosanne Harrigan will present "A Vision for the Millennium." Nursing alumna Jamie-Ann Ka'alekahi ('99) will perform a hula. Contact: Jenn Martin, martinje@hawaii.edu, 956-8939. At UH Hilo the 1999 Student Art Exhibition hangs at Campus Center Gallery through September 20. Contact: Wayne Miyamoto, wmiyamot@hawaii.edu, 808-974-7307. Campus Center Board/Activities Council presents Del Beasely in concert at UHM Campus Center, Aug. 24, 11:30-12:30. Campus Center Board/Activities Council presents Kala Boys in concert at UHM Campus Center, Aug. 25, 11:30-12:30. Campus Center Board/Activities Council presents Brother Noland in concert at UHM Campus Center, Aug. 26, 11:30-12:30. Campus Center Board/Activities Council presents Kapena in concert at UHM Campus Center, Aug. 27, 11:30-12:30. UH Manoa All Nighter starts at 10 p.m. Aug. 27, includes music, dance, karaoke, food and fun at UHM Campus Center, Mall and Hemenway Hall. UH Wahine soccer team preps for its first on-campus season Aug. 28 at 10 a.m. with a game against the Wahine Alumni. This year's home games will be played at the Lower Campus Athletic Complex Grass Field (instead of Ala Wai Field, as in the past). Season opens Sept. 3 at 4 p.m. with a game against Hawai'i Pacific University. A new National Science Foundation-funded initiative, "Biology in the Light of Evolution," gets under way Sept. 1 at the University Lab School. The project aims to foster collaboration between Ecology, Environment and Conservation Biology (EECB) graduate students and elementary and secondary classroom teachers. The grad students will "mentor" the K-12 teachers, helping them prepare research-oriented science education materials on biology and evolution for their young students. At the same time, UH Curriculum Research and Development Group will offer workshops for the EECB students to ensure that they are aware of how material is presented to students at the elementary and secondary school level. NSF will provide more than $470,000 for the first year of the three-year project. Contact: Kenneth Kaneshiro, kykanesh@hawaii.edu, 956-6739. Photo Opps R Us. Pep Rally, 5-8 p.m. Friday Sept. 3 on Bachman Lawn includes a bonfire, food and game booths, three live bands. Coach June Jones and the football team will be present in the beginning, then board buses in Sinclair Circle to leave for an unnamed hotel for the traditional Friday night sleep-over prior to game day. ROTC plans to fire a cannon to send the team off. The bonfire (across University Avenue fronting Lab School) will be ignited by a torch carried by a student athlete from inside the Stan Sheriff Center, where a crowd will be on hand for that night's Wahine Volleyball game; the torch-bearing student student will lead a student procession up the hill to light the bonfire at 7 p.m.; ignition will be shown live on the scoreboard video screens in the Stan Sheriff Center just as first serve happens of the volleyball match takes place. Contact: Special Events, 956-6934. Hawaiian Airlines Wahine Volleyball Classic, Sept. 3-6. (Hawai'i-UCLA matchup, Sept. 6, 5 p.m.), Stan Sheriff Center. Football season opener, Hawai'i vs. USC, Sept. 4, 6:30 p.m., Aloha Stadium. University of Hawai'i Fall Convocation honors award-winning faculty and staff Sept. 7 at 10 a.m. in Kennedy Theatre, UH Manoa. The ceremony, including President Kenneth P. Mortimer's state-of-the-university address, will be broadcast over Hawai'i Interactive Television System (HITS) to neighbor island campuses. The Faculty Excellence Luncheon in UHM Campus Center Ballroom after the convocation is a chance for colleagues to celebrate the winners of awards for excellence in teaching, research and service. Awardees' meals are complimentary; others may purchase tickets, but seating is limited. Contact: Special Events, 956-6934. Awards Ceremony at the Office of the Senior Vice President and Chancellor for Community Colleges, Sept. 7, 3-4:30 p.m., offers a chance for the Community Colleges 'family' to recognize winners of the Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Service, Kunimoto Award for Faculty Service to the Community, and other UHCC personnel who are winners of systemwide awards. Reception for Community Partners, Sept. 8, 3 p.m. at UH Center at West Hawai'i. Board of Regents resumes monthly meetings after August hiatus, Sept. 9-10 at Kaua'i Community College. Contact: Jim Manke, 956-6106. UH Manoa Marine Option Program sponsors "Get the Drift and Bag It" beach clean-up, Sept. 18. at Wai'alae Beach Park, Kahala, 8:30 a.m. to noon. Free transportation provided for volunteers. To sign up, call UHM MOP office, 956-68433 (UH Manoa) or 808-974-7544 (UHH); preregistration is required. Students from all UH campuses are welcome to participate; Windward Community College students, pre-register at 235-7389; Leeward CC, 455-0282; Maui CC, 808-984-3202; Kaua'i CC, 808-245-8251. Kaua'i Community College Provost Golf Tournament tees off at 8 a.m. Sept. 26 at Kiele Golf Course.

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