BYU–Hawaii News

On March 1, or as soon after as weather allows, the main Kulanui Street entrance into the BYU-Hawaii campus will close for approximately three-to-four weeks to allow construction on a traffic roundabout in front of the "little circle."

Billy Casey, BYU-Hawaii assistant director of physical facilities, explained that the construction work is all part of BYU-Hawaii's new front entrance project that "will integrate with the new look that's being developed on Hale Laa Blvd. We're using similar materials and design elements that will tie the looks of the campus into the community."

The portion of the "big circle" road from the Administration Building parking lot to the Temple View apartments access road will also be closed temporarily during the project.

A visiting psychology professor from BYU-Idaho met with BYU-Hawaii students on Feb.24, to discuss stress management techniques and effective methods of handling the day-to-day rigors of student life.

Speaking during an academic forum organized by the psychology club on campus, neuropsychologist Dr. Edward W. Kinghorn told students in attendance that "90 percent of us will be involved in some traumatic event" during some point of our lives.

Kinghorn said even stable people are often unprepared for such overwhelming experiences and emphasized the necessity of "educational debriefing" so that individuals undergoing the trauma can realize some of the changes going on with their bodies both psychologically and physically.

Fox Sports Net will be on the BYU-Hawaii campus Feb. 26 to shoot footage for an upcoming "NCAA On Campus" program that will feature the Seasider basketball team.

The story will focus on the nine married players on the team this year. The Seasiders regularly feature the most married players of any team competing in NCAA II play but nine is an unusually large number, even for the Seasiders.

"NCAA On Campus" is a nationally televised program that features human-interest stories about student/athletes and the challenges they face in balancing their commitment to their sport with their academic pursuits.

The program featuring the Seasiders is scheduled to be aired on numerous Fox channels. The channels most readily available in Hawaii are Fox Sports Net

The American Mothers, Inc. (AMI) Hawaii chapter recently named Donnette Tew, the wife of BYU-Hawaii accounting professor Glade Tew and mother of four adopted children, as its Young Mother Representative 2004.

She joins a growing list of other women in the Koolauloa area with ties to BYU-Hawaii who have shared the same honor, including Lisa Wagner, Leilani Auna, Susan Kunz, and Lanett Ho Ching. Also, BYU-Hawaii alumna Beth Uale was named the 2004 AMI mother of the year.

Tew, who was raised in Parowan, Utah, and earned an elementary education degree from Southern Utah University, said former AMI Hawaii state and national "mother of the year" Carolyn Shumway, wife of University president Eric Shumway, made the announcement at the BYU-Hawaii Women's Organization luncheon on Feb. 20.

Dr. Henrietta Mann, 70, a full-blood Cheyenne Indian who is the special assistant to the president of Montana State University-Bozeman, told a BYU-Hawaii audience on Feb. 17 that her people value peace and those traditional leaders who help bring it about.

Dr. Mann, a former high-level official with the U.S. Department of Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) who was named the 1988 National American Indian Woman of the Year, explained that her people — the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma — traditionally formed councils of "peace chiefs" who "relinquished their warrior role to assume peace-keeping duties."

She

BYU-Hawaii biology professor Dr. Robert Winget borrowed a thought from President David O. McKay, who founded the Church College of Hawaii 49 years ago and demonstrated a lifelong love of learning, to shape the annual lecture named in the prophet's honor.

Winget told of a school friend who "had a hard time understanding the contention people displayed when discussing what he was learning in geology and paleontology. Why did people get so defensive when he mentioned evidences supporting the age of the earth being in the billions of years and of extinct species of plants and animals that had lived millions of years before the time Adam and Eve lived in the Garden of Eden?"

He recalled some Church members thought the notion of such long-term geologic time was erroneous, and reminded us "evolution was

BYU-Hawaii's Chief Information Officer drew parallels at the Feb. 5 devotional between the challenges of running the University's large computer system and choosing to serve the Lord.

Dr. Bret Ellis explained his Information Services team often battles computer viruses, back doors, worms and denial of service attacks with vigilance and anti-virus technology.

He compared prophets with "anti-virus providers [who] are always scanning the horizon, looking for, and detecting false messages sent by the adversary. They have counseled us to keep our guard up against the evil influences and stains of the world. They have named and enumerated these evil influences," Ellis said.