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BYU-Hawaii junior forward Jake Chrisman earned Daktronics NCAA II All-West Region First Team honors today as voted on by the region's College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). The honor is the first of the post-season honors to be released and Chrisman was the only Pacific West Conference player named to either the first or second team in the three-conference region.

Chrisman, a junior from Provo, Utah, became just the fourth player in BYU-Hawaii history to average over 20 points per game as he led the PacWest Conference and was tenth nationally with a 22.7 points per game average during the regular season. The NCAA II counts postseason stats along with the regular season stats and Chrisman will lead the Seasiders in the opening round of the NCAA II West Regional on Friday.

Retired BYU journalism professor, Dr. P. Alfred Pratte, reminded those at the March 4 BYU-Hawaii devotional that the prophet Joel foresaw this generation would see visions and "have our own mental pictures and prophecies for ourselves, for our families, and for the benefit of those we will serve throughout the world."

Pratte, a special assistant to President Shumway who has volunteered to complete the 50-year history of BYU-Hawaii, explained Joel's promises in chapter 2, verses 28-32 were so important that Peter quoted them in reference to the last days, and the angel Moroni quoted them to Joseph Smith in preparation for the restoration of the gospel.

The BYU-Hawai'i Concert Choir will present Na Leo Malu: Voices of Peace at the Pearl City Cultural Center on March 6, at 7:30 p.m.

The 50-member choir, under the direction of Dr. James A. Smith, is preparing to perform in the premier concert halls of Japan and Korea during an 18-day tour beginning May 18, 2004. Proceeds from five primary concerts will be donated to local charities.

"The choir is excited to represent the university on this tour," said V. Napua Baker, Vice President of University Advancement. "With over 150 students from Japan and 120 from Korea on campus, we feel it is important to be more visible in those countries."

"To be able to represent BYU-Hawai'i as we undertake this concert tour of

Sally Lee, director of Family Services in Hawaii for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, told the BYU-Hawaii devotional audience on Feb. 26, "When we don't listen and obey the laws of God, we get into trouble. When we listen and obey, we have peace."

In her work for the past 24 years with LDS Family Services, which she describes as "an integral part of the Lord's inspired welfare program," Lee has seen many examples of "people who let down their pride and came with humble hearts with the desire to change and make their lives better."

She added she has also "seen such sadness, grief, regret, hurt, pain and terrible troubles that can come into the lives of people. I have learned that while some problems are caused by accidents or health problems, most

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.

Two brothers who graduated from Kahuku High in the mid-70s have seen their Sunset Beach bakery grow dramatically because of a commitment to high quality products, such as their best-selling chilled chocolate haupia [Hawaiian coconut custard] and cream pie.

Glenn and Ted Nakamura told BYU-Hawaii business students during the Entrepreneurship Lecture Series on Feb. 3 that they have seen Ted's Bakery, which started in 1987, grow from selling a few pies a week to a peak of over 14,000 during a recent Thanksgiving week.

Glenn Nakamura, the older brother who graduated from Kahuku in 1974, told how his parents initially opened a fruit and vegetable stand on their five-acre farm in Sunset Beach in 1956, but soon discovered "it was a lot easier to run a grocery business than it was to farm."

Proposals from three students to establish a first-class pay-stall restroom in a busy Hong Kong shopping district and from two Mongolian students to build an ice factory in their capital city won the business plan competition for developed and developing countries during the annual BYU-Hawaii School of Business Entrepreneurship Conference on Jan. 28.

Judges selected from among visiting entrepreneurs awarded King Lun "Kisslan" Chan, Wing Yi "Stella" Chu and Yan "Letitia" Ho a $4,000 first prize for their detailed business plan that calls for building a 22-stall pay restroom in the busy Mongkok section of Hong Kong, which has daily traffic of over 800,000 people.

Ho explained to the judges and the large crowd of BYU-Hawaii business

The chairman of the BYU Center for Entrepreneurship board of directors urged BYU-Hawaii students and faculty in the Jan. 29 devotional to consistently offer personal prayers and make personal covenants with the Lord.

"I sense your desire to be faithful, to love our Heavenly Father, to love the Savior, and to walk in obedience to their commandments," said Larry Linton, a businessman from Portland, Oregon, and a member of the President's Leadership Council of major donors to the university.

Linton, who is in Laie for the annual BYU-Hawaii entrepreneurship conference, said, "I sense your struggles to continue faithful in consistent daily prayers, consistent daily scripture reading, staying morally clean, finding your eternal companion, paying a full and completely honest tithing,

The global executive and organizational development vice president for IBM in Asia and the Pacific recently told Japanese and other BYU-Hawaii students interested in Far East careers that they should start job planning years before they graduate and take advantage of a new mentoring program.

"One of the key messages I want to give you is your education in an American university is very important in Japan," said Bradley W. Hall, the IBM executive who visited BYU-Hawaii on Jan. 26 at the invitation of the Career Services program and also as part of his calling as a high councilor in the Tokyo South Stake, where many influential business executives live.

Hall, who served a two-year mission in Hokkaido, Japan in the late 1970s for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and went on to earn a Ph.D.