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Colloquium Lecturer Questions Destructiveness of 'Judicial Supremacy'
Mike Foley | University Advancement | 2 October 2006
BYU-Hawaii political science Professor Dr. Troy Smith recently asked in an honors student colloquium if the U.S. Supreme Court's historical and contemporary practices of judicial review and supremacy are "destroying America."
"There's this idea that America is pulling itself apart, and at the center of this is the Judiciary," said Dr. Smith, who explained that in 1789 the U.S. Constitution created two levels of government: Federal, consisting of the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches — "the highest of which is the Supreme Court"; and state governments, the vast majority of which mirror the national government."
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"There's this idea that America is pulling itself apart, and at the center of this is the Judiciary," said Dr. Smith, who explained that in 1789 the U.S. Constitution created two levels of government: Federal, consisting of the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches — "the highest of which is the Supreme Court"; and state governments, the vast majority of which mirror the national government."
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Career Services Volunteer Shares Asia Expertise, Experience
The retired CEO of a "big four" accounting firm in the People's Republic of China is currently sharing his expertise and Asia experience as a job search advisor for BYU-Hawaii Career Services.
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Resident Entrepreneur Outlines Business Career Paths
Mike Foley | University Advancement | 19 September 2006
BYU-Hawaii's current entrepreneur in residence used a financial author's "cash flow quadrant" model to suggest ways School of Business students might pursue their own careers.
In the September 19 entrepreneurship lecture in the McKay Auditorium, Elder Jim Sheffield, a service missionary who is president of a family-owned real estate development company in Colorado, drew from Hawaii-born financial author Robert T. Kiyosaki's Cash Flow Quadrant and added a student state to reflect the following paths to a successful career: employee, self-employed, business owner and investor.
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In the September 19 entrepreneurship lecture in the McKay Auditorium, Elder Jim Sheffield, a service missionary who is president of a family-owned real estate development company in Colorado, drew from Hawaii-born financial author Robert T. Kiyosaki's Cash Flow Quadrant and added a student state to reflect the following paths to a successful career: employee, self-employed, business owner and investor.
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Agreements Strengthen Homes Ties, Returnability
For the past eight years Brigham Young University Hawaii has been conservatively developing relationships with various universities and programs that enable our international students to maintain stronger educational ties with their homelands and enhance their opportunities for returnability.
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Academic Convocation Explores Ambiguity in Education
BYU-Hawaii History Associate Professor Dr. James B. Tueller created a classroom atmosphere in the Cannon Activities Center on September 14 as he explored aspects of ambiguity in university education during the annual faculty convocation.
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First Returned Missionary from China Enrolls at BYU-Hawaii
After successfully completing his two-year mission in Brisbane Australia (Mandarin speaking), the first Elder called from the People's Republic of China has enrolled at BYU-Hawaii.
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A Honolulu Attorney Advises Business Students on Exit Strategies
In the first entrepreneurship lecture of Fall Semester 2006, Honolulu attorney Larry Gilbert provided BYU-Hawaii School of Business students with "some real world lessons" on the "big payday most entrepreneurs dream of" — the exit, or selling off a start-up company.
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BYU-Hawaii President Urges Singles to Acquire Marriageable Qualities
Mike Foley | University Advancement | 7 September 2006
In the first BYU-Hawaii devotional of the 2006-07 school year, President Eric B. Shumway pled with single students "to acquire those personal attributes that will sustain a happy marriage. If you learn all this school has to offer, but fail to acquire these qualities that sustain a marriage and family, your education will be sorrowfully incomplete."
Speaking in the Cannon Activities Center on September 7, President Shumway, who is also an Area Authority Seventy for Hawaii and California, spoke of the alarming decline of traditional families — "that is, a father and mother married with children" — and "the hesitancy for a variety of reasons of many young people to enter into formal marriage."
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Speaking in the Cannon Activities Center on September 7, President Shumway, who is also an Area Authority Seventy for Hawaii and California, spoke of the alarming decline of traditional families — "that is, a father and mother married with children" — and "the hesitancy for a variety of reasons of many young people to enter into formal marriage."
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BYUH Interns, Counterparts Complete Professional Surveys in China
Twelve BYU-Hawaii interns, led by psychology professor Dr. Ronald M. Miller, formed a mentored consulting team with 15 students from the Shenzhen Tourism College from June 28 to August 23 to design, execute and analyze a high-level visitor satisfaction and marketing survey for the largest entertainment-based company in China.
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AEM: Building Bridges of Understanding for 25 Years
Twenty-five years ago — at a time when relations between the United States and the People's Republic of China were expanding — six promising young Chinese officials came to Laie to participate in the first BYU-Hawaii/Polynesian Cultural Center Asian Executive Management training program. In the years since then the significance of the program for the participants, the two institutions and their sponsor, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has grown exponentially.
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