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| An illustration of the future Hawai`i Loa campus shows additional dormatories, academic buildings, and a gymnasium. Illustration by Group 70 International | |
| Volume 33, Issue No. 11, November 16, 2009 |
| Top Stories |
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Despite a downturn economy, Hawai‘i Pacific University is moving forward with plans to expand the Hawai‘i Loa campus with a $100 million project. |
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More than 50 new South Korean students arrived at HPU this semester—about twice the number of Koreans who transferred last semester. Thirty students come from Konkuk University, located both in Seoul and Chungju, which set up a partnership with HPU this March. |
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In 1995, HPU’s newly founded Swedish Student Association figured it needed to do something for all the Scandinavian people who stayed in Hawai‘i over winter break. So Bob Popp, an HPU political science instructor, and his wife, Ulla, together with Lilian Hallström (formerly Krzykawska, a Kalamalama writer then) and the SSA board decided to throw a Christmas party for those away from home. |
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After a year or two in Hawai‘i, most college students begin to experience "island fever." They become bored and restless; believing that they have seen all there is to see on the island. One wonders if they know about one of O‘ahu’s, if not Hawai‘i’s, most important historical landmarks, one that ranks right up there with the Arizona memorial or the Battleship Missouri. Located atop Punchbowl crater, it is only a few blocks, literally, from HPU, a view of Honolulu and O‘ahu’s south and west shores that will take one’s breath away, and a story that will silence even the loudest anti-war critics. | |
