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Graduate students initiate ethics complaint against Hinshaw, four regents ELL LLISE A K AZAWA Managing Editor Man The Graduate Student Organization has ﬁ led an ethics comp complaint against UH Mānoa Chancellor Virginia Hinshaw and four regents for imposing a $50 athletic fee on students while accepting free season tickets to Rainbow Warrior and Wahine games. The GSO has ask asked the Hawai‘i State Ethics Commission to determine whether Hinshaw and the regen regents violated rules that st govern the actions of state employees. The regents’ dec decision to impose a mandator y $50 athle athletic fee on all UH Mānoa students prompted prom GSO President Sharain Naylor and GSO Advocacy Chair A my Don Donahue to initiate

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an ethics inquir y. A spokesperson for the university said, “Unfortunately, we can’t comment on any possible allegations.” The HSEC also would not answer Ka Leo questions. In a statement e-mailed to Honolulu media, the GSO said, “The university chancellor and several regents receive fi nancially signifi cant perks” from the department that the fee benefits. According to gift disclosure statements fi led for fi scal years 2007-2009, Hinshaw received $13,194 in gifts from UH Mānoa Intercollegiate Athletics. These gifts included season tickets for football, women’s and men’s volleyball, men’s basketball and baseball. Naylor and Donahue are asking the

HSEC “to clarify how and when university representatives may ethically receive university athletic tickets and other gifts from units that they supervise and have ﬁ duciary responsibility over.” Additionally, Naylor and Donahue seek clarification regarding “how and when [university representatives] may ethically act as advocates for and/or decision makers about policies that financially benefit programs that they derive significant financial benefits from.” Donahue said, “We started exploring this possibility [of initiating ethics charges] last summer. We have serious concerns about the ethics of how the fee was implemented.” She added, “Also, we have concerns about the continuation of the fee.”

UH, state officials testify against Senate Bill 120 d severe reperand cusss ions for the cussions UH System. The ﬂ exibility afforded to the university by the special and revolving funds is what has allowed

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At a Senate Ways and Means committee hearing last Thursday, UH and state ofﬁ cials submitted testimony in opposition to a proposed bill which threatens to transfer state and UH special funds to the State General Fund. “We are concerned that this bill would reverse 25 years of progress that the universities have been able to make, using these funds,” said UH System President M.R.C. Greenwood. Greenwood warned that SB120 would have wide-ranging

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thee university to continue operating normally. This is after a $108

million reduction in its general fund during the 2010-2011 ﬁscal year. “With an all-time high enrollment exceeding 60,000 students in fall 2010, as comx pared to approx00 imately 50,000 students in fall 2007, we’re

serving many more students with far fewer general funds,” she said “If we had been required to wait until new general fund allocations could be made ... we would have had to turn away students.” Greenwood stated that affected operations would include student housing, See SB120, next page

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Malama Solomon is the vice chair of the Hawai‘i State Senate Ways and Means committee. She is also the author of Senate Bill 120.

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