Kanahele speaks about fight for Hawaiian sovereignty
The activist says that the
U.S. has mistreated the
native Hawaiians
By Kristina Rudinskas
Oregon Daily Emerald
Pu'uhonua Dennis "Bumpy"
Kanahele, 6’2”, has a dominating
presence in the room, especially
when standing next to 5’2'' Missy
Rock, the Coalition Against Envi
ronmental Racism coordinator
who helped bring him to campus.
But Kanahele’s presence is
more than physical; he is one of
the defenders of Hawaiian sover
eignty, and he has been jailed for
his beliefs.
Kanahele spoke to a group of 30
students Saturday in the MCC
about land occupation and the col
onization of indigenous people.
“He was really nice and down
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to earth," Rock said. “For some
one who has never graduated
from high school or gone to col
lege, he knows a lot about his stuff.
His struggles have brought him an
education.”
Kanahele's education was
learned the hard way. He was un
der house arrest from February to
July 13 for interfering with the ar
rest of Nathan Brown, a native
Hawaiian activist and tax protester.
Many link Kanahele’s arrest
with a political backlash against
the fight for Hawaiian sovereignty.
In 1994, the elders who serve as
a Hawaiian provisional govern
ment appointed Kanahele head of
state for the newly restored Inde
pendent and Sovereign Nation
State of Hawaii.
Kanahele was indicted in 1995
by U.S. marshals on the charge of
interfering with Brown’s arrest,
and he was held without bail for
three months. The prosecution ar
gued Kanahele might jump bail
because of his belief he is not un
der the jurisdiction of the U.S.
government.
He was sentenced to four
months in prison, fined $500 and
required to serve four months un
der house arrest with an electronic
monitoring device and restrictive
conditions.
Finally free, Kanahele contin
ues to fight for Hawaiian self-sov
ereignty.
Kanahele believes educating
people about the struggle will
help Hawaiians living on the is
lands and on the mainland under
stand his desire for a free state and
the viability of an independent na
tion.
Kanahele said the U.S. govern
ment has engaged in human rights
violations against the Kanaka
Maoli- the native Hawaiian people.
“It's more clandestine in
Hawaii. It’s more futuristic than
Jews and the genocide,” he said.
"It's a manipulation. What’s going
on in Hawaii is basically political
and economical. ”
He said more Hawaiians per
capita were sent to Vietnam and
that there are more nuclear
weapons stored there than any
where else in the states.
“It’s a lot about human rights,” he
said. “People are too busy doing
everything else to pay attention. ”
Bringing the issue to the fore
front is important for Kanahele.
Speaking at universities is one
step in the process.
“I want to plant the seed and
hope that it will grow,” he said. Col
lege students have open minds and
can bring their knowledge back to
their fami lies, he said.
Rock said Kanahele’s talk to the
students really showed his dedi
cation to a free Hawaiian nation.
“This is something he had a real
passion for because it’s so dose to
him,” Rock said.
Kanahele wants others to know
independence is important and
attainable.
“It’s important to actually take
a look at what an independent
Hawaii would look like.”
Hong Kong and the Philip
pines have successfully transi
tioned from colonial govern
ments, but many question if
Hawaii can do it.
In 1999 Kanahele hopes the
Hawaiian people will vote on a
referendum for independence
from the U. S.
“It’s prime time — they'll take
anything into consideration.”
NetCorps looking for communication interns
The company trains
students to work at
nonprofit organizations
By Thomas C. Sloop
tor the Emerald
Students interested in volun
teer internship opportunities in
information and communication
technologies are invited to con
tact NetCorps, a nonprofit organi
zation addressing the technologi
cal and communication needs of
the nonprofit sector.
NetCorps director Carnet
Williams founded the organiza
tion two years ago while attend
ing the University as a law stu
dent. NetCorps assists both
students seeking technological
training and members of the non
profit sector seeking those who
can instruct and implement the
technology.
"Our basic mission is to recruit,
train and place college-aged stu
dents in the nonprofit sector
while focusing on their commu
nication skills, particularly using
technology as one of those tools,”
Williams said.
"There is a real lack of human
resources in the nonprofit sector
that can implement all these tech
nology tools — this is when Net
Corps comes in. We want to be re
sponsible for the next generation
of human resources for the non
profit sector."
NetCorps is undertaking a one
vear project to construct a model
that can be used at other universi
ties throughout the country.
"What we want to see is, within
five years, NetCorps offices in
every campus across the coun
try," Williams said.
A NetCorps internship is a
three-stage process. Students be
gin a 10-week training course,
which focuses on organization,
management and leadership
skills. During this time, students
are introduced to nonprofit orga
nizations, how they work and
their culture.
The second phase is more
hands-on. Recruits receive techni
cal training on information and
communication hardware and
software. For example, the cur
riculum might cover: What is a
database? How do nonprofit
groups use them? What are the
applications for using the data
bases within these groups? Soon
students are prepared to conduct
a “needs assessment,” an evalua
tion of a nonprofit group’s com
munication needs.
The final stage transfers stu
dents from the NetCorps office
into the nonprofit sector. How
ever, interns are often working
"in the field” before their 10
week training is complete. Net
Corps interns begin to install the
new technology and instruct
nonprofit members and associ
ates on its use.
NetCorps’ outreach into the
nonprofit sector is a combination
of its own interests and those of
students, Williams said. The ap
plication and interview process
allows students to suggest poten
tial nonprofit groups that Net
Corps could assist. Their input re
flects their own interests as well
as the goals of NetCorps, Williams
said.
“It’s a hill-circle process,” said
Joseph Bronfman, who has in
terned at NetCorps for two
months. “You’re not just being
trained and doing assessments.
You create a project and see it
completed. It’s amazing, very ex
hilarating and exciting.”
NetCorps is currently involved
with the Alaska Rainforest Cam
paign, Trustees for Alaska, North
west Coalition against Pesticides
and Eugene’s Growers Market.
For more information, contact
NetCorps at 465-1127. The Web
site is www.netcorps.org.
Coursebook resale value changes with demand
With careful timing,
students can make sure
they get the most resale
money from their books
By Jennifer Asher
lor the Emerald
Every term thousands of stu
dents flock to the University
Bookstore only to find that their
books have little or no resale val
ue. And chances are that manv of
them will blame the bookstore or
even the person working the desk.
But the process of buying back
textbooks is more complicated
than many students realize.
There are two steps in this
process, according Michael
Kroetch, a University Bookstore
employee. "One when the book
store itself is buying books for the
needs of the next term,” Kroetch
said, “and one when there is a
national wholesaler doing it."
If the textbook was used dur
ing the previous term, the book
store will buy used copies from
students. The bookstore will pav
up to 60 percent of the book’s
original value until it has enough
copies for the number of students
enrolled in the class.
After reaching quota, tire book
store will continue to buy back
books. But many students are
disappointed when they are paid
significantly less than the possi
ble 60 percent.
“Students are often very frus
trated and upset by the money
they get for their books during
buy-back," Kroetch said.
In addition, the bookstore sells
back excess copies to one of three
national wholesale companies.
The wholesaler gets its supply of
books by buying extra copies
from various bookstores. It buys
books at about one-third of the
cost and, in turn, sells them to
other bookstores for about half
their value.
Students buy used textbooks at
75 percent of the new-book cost.
They also receive 9 to 11 percent
off the price, depending on the
bookstore’s profitability. The
bookstore’s bottom line deter
mines that discount.
But classes that are only of
fered one term per year are a snag
in the book buv-back process. If
students try to sell back books
that will not be used in the up
coming term, they will probably
get less than if they had waited
because there is little or no de
mand.
The best way to determine when
to sell a book back is knowing
when a course is offered, said Chris
Standish, coursebook manager.
"Sell the book at the buy-back
just prior to when that course is
offered again,” Standish
said.Books prices also drop when
new editions are released, giving
their predecessors the boot.
Sometimes relatively new books
will become old news, and the
bookstore will not buy them
back.
Books are updated, in part, be
cause of the market. If the book is
a success, the publisher will
make the most money during its
first release. But after the first
year, the publisher doesn’t profit
much. So, publishers stay in
business by raising prices or
printing new editions.
“Publishers, in many cases,
need to earn back their invest
ment in two or three vears time,”
said Stephen Hochheiser, direc
tor of campus marketing with In
ternational Thomson Publishing.
There is no set rule, said
Hochheiser, that dictates how
much content must be changed
before publishing a new edition.
Often, it depends on the subject.
Hochheiser said national politics
and astronomy are updated fre
quently because they change
rapidly, whereas math and for
eign language are not.
“The reason is mainly to keep
up with new developments in a
field and to keep the book com
petitive," said John Gage, a writ
ing professor. Gage, who wrote
his textbook in 1987, revised it
once eight years ago. But he has
resisted pressure from publishers
to revise it again.
Regardless, students should
not expect to turn a profit on
their textbooks.
“A textbook is not an invest
ment that should be intended to
make money,” Standish said.
“Don’t expect money from them.
Don't be angry if you don’t re
ceive money because you still get
something out of it.”
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