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Working first as a club president and then becoming BYUHSA president during this past academic year has given Hemaloto Tatafu (pictured right) the confidence to do things he never thought he would do.
BYU–Hawaii First Lady Margaret Wheelwright was the first devotional speaker for First Term 2009, held Tuesday, July 28, at the BYU–Hawaii Cannon Activities Center. She was introduced by her husband President Steven C. Wheelwright as an eternal companion, a sweetheart, and an incredible mother.
On June 23, about 225 residents attended a community meeting as a follow-up to the surveys and workshops conducted in April, and to provide additional public input. On June 30, nine members of the City of Honolulu's Planning Advisory Committee (PAC) submitted changes to the City's land use plan in support of Envision Laie proposals. These proposed changes include expansion options for BYU–Hawaii and the Polynesian Cultural Center, the relocation of housing designations to Malaekahana with sufficient unit numbers to address pent-up demand and growth, and village centers in Laie and Malaekahana.
The BYU–Hawaii distance learning program that began in Spring Term 2008 has since gone international. This program was designed to help prospective students that are denied admission to BYU–Hawaii due to low English scores or to students that are offered admission but lack the funds to enter school during that semester. The program also enables participating students to have some credit before coming to BYU–Hawaii, and encourages students to learn American academic style prior to arriving on American shores.
Richard D. McBride, faculty member in BYU–Hawaii's the History Department (pictured at right with student), is one of a few in the Unites States who can read both ancient Chinese and ancient Korean. McBride came to BYU–Hawaii last year, and he specializes in Asian, Chinese, and early Korean history.
Visiting professor of religion, Susan Easton Black (pictured right), shared a message of the significance of motherhood using many powerful anecdotes from the life of a young prophet in her remarks at a BYU–Hawaii Devotional held Tuesday, July 7. Through her passion in studying church history and genealogy, Black was able to recount many instances where a mother had an important influence on the life of Joseph F. Smith. As the sixth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and son of Hyrum Smith, Mary Fielding Smith raised a son who, despite having to grow up rather quickly through many hardships, was profoundly affected by the women in his life.
"We have been going through a process of recruitment,” said BYU–Hawaii’s Social Work Department Chair John Reeves, citing a newly produced brochure as well as marketing attempts toward local high schools. “A large number of students are undecided when they arrive on campus,” he said. “We want to offer social work as a viable option.” (Pictured top: students engrossed in a lecture)
International Cultural Studies-Anthropology and Pacific Island Studies Professor, Doctor Tevita Ka’ili (pictured top) was one of thirty anthropologists from all over the world invited to attend a conference on Indigenous Anthropology at Oxford-Brooks University in Oxford, England, from June 14 through 18. Ka’ili presented a paper that he wrote, titled, ‘Anthropologizing Indigeneity and Indigenizing Anthropology.’ His theory was, “People in the Pacific are engaged in rearranging time and space to create harmony, symmetry and beauty.”
Two Taiwanese families and graduates from BYU–Hawaii, Ben and Shirley Tsai (pictured right with their daughter Kelani), along with Eric and Kate Weng, were featured in the Church News along with other couples in the Church in Taiwan who had served missions and were married in the temple.
BYU–Hawaii alumnus, Elder Yoon Hwan Choi (pictured top with wife Sister Bon Kyung Koo Choi; photo courtesy of ldschurchnews.com), was sustained to serve in the First Quorum of the Seventy, during the 179th Annual General Conference of the Church, in April. Before Elder Choi’s call to the Seventy, he served as bishop’s counselor, bishop, high councilor, stake mission president, stake president’s counselor, stake president, and served in the Eighth Quorum of the Seventy in the Asia North Area.
During the June 23 devotional, speaker, Martin McDonell (pictured right), Assistant Professor in the Social Work department, shared the three basic principles that "will help each of us 'do' something, to 'act', to enable us to achieve our righteous desire of eternal life with our Father in Heaven."
BYU–Hawaii’s International Business Management (IBM) and Hospitality and Tourism Management (HTM) majors recently underwent revision that has changed the structure and curriculum of both degrees. This refinement has given the International Business Management major a new face and shortened name—Business Management. The newly dubbed Business Management has six ‘tracks’ or areas of focus within the major. And the Hospitality and Tourism Management major also faced changes—two classes have been deleted from the curriculum; also, some of the basic business classes have been combined with the Business Management degree. (Pictured above: international business students of BYU–Hawaii)