UH's McClain to ram UARC down everybody's throats

[KamaAina]

against the advice of basically the entire University of Hawai'i community: the student body, faculty senate, and even the chancellor of the main Manoa campus.

http://starbulletin.com/breaking/breaking.php?id=4200

University of Hawaii interim President David McClain is recommending that the University system enter into an agreement for a controversial Navy research center but that it not be administered by the UH-Manoa campus....

The contract, if approved by the regents, would be for five years. McClain recommended that the Navy not conduct classified research for the first three years of the contract. He also recommended that after the third year the university evaluate the contract and decide whether to proceed with the final two years....

At the meeting last month, UH-Manoa interim Chancellor Denise Konan told the regents she decided not to recommend the UARC because of opposition by the faculty Senate, student government and native Hawaiians and the need for her administration to concentrate on developing research facilities in Kakaako, where the new medical school is located.

In May of last year, opponents of the UARC staged a sit-in protest at Bachman Hall. They occupied the president’s office for about seven days and left after a promise by McClain to hold an open discussion on the issue.

What makes McClain think the Navy is going to go for this "no classified research for three years" thing? Or is he just putting this out there to shut people up until they can ram this down our throats?

And where are they going to put the UARC, if not under the Manoa campus, the UH system's designated research campus? Are they going to have a separate "Institute of Top-Secret Classified Research, No Foreigners Allowed"?

If this goes through, the UH Warriors athletic teams should change their colors from green to orange -- as in Agent Orange, which was developed at UH the last time it collaborated with the military. :grr: