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A cup of coffee and the morning Honolulu Star-Advertiser <\/em>are not always a comforting combination. Such is particularly the case if the coffee’s bad or you are a patriot of the University of Hawaii and a taxpayer.<\/p>\n

Consider, for a few MidWeek <\/em>moments, last Thursday’s morning paper. The top left corner of the front page offered a lure to the “Today” section: “Hot Date,” it said in bold red caps, accompanied by a photo of a pretty girl in red, her hand on the shoulder of a handsome young man, who wore a red aloha shirt. “Fiery red fashions are perfect for celebrating Valentine’s Day.”<\/p>\n

Ah yes, pretty girls in red, a little fiery themselves perhaps, a pleasant memory indeed for the elder demographic that reads the morning paper.<\/p>\n

Eyes right, still at the top of Page 1: “Electric bills fall again, Oahu customers will see lowest rate in four years.” Read all about it in “Money,” B-5.<\/p>\n

Nice. Nice. A little less pain in the household pocketbook. Let’s get to those pretty young people and the good news about electricity.<\/p>\n

Oops. Didn’t move fast enough. The headline above the fold stops you; “CUTS COULD GO DEEP: A UH athletic department report is expected to project record deficits and propose serious impacts on programs,” accompanied by an illustration of a pair of scissors cutting the Hawaii saw-toothed “H” in half.<\/p>\n

In short, more from Bad News Ben Jay, the outgoing Manoa athletic director.<\/p>\n

Jay’s report, according to testimony at the Legislature, will tell of yet another year of multimillion-dollar athletic department deficits, the 11th such deficit in the last 13 years.<\/p>\n

How much are we talking? We’re talking $4 million by the end of this fiscal year in June; $5 million projected for 2017.<\/p>\n

So how might the university bring that spending under control? Jay’s report offers three options: “Eliminate men’s and women’s swimming and diving, and coed sailing” for a savings of $1.4 million. Why not? I’ve never gone to a UH swimming, diving or coed sailing competition in my life. Has anyone else?<\/p>\n

But then again, what would a state that builds statues to Duke Kahanamoku and lives in and off oceans in a multitude of ways do without university swimming, diving and sailing teams. Send a terrible message, that’s what.<\/p>\n

Option 2: “Eliminate men’s volleyball, women’s sailing and coed sailing” for a savings of a little over a half a mil. Almost chump change, but sure. I haven’t watched a men’s volleyball game in ages, in the Sheriff or on the tube. But then again, it’s been a winning program and a fair number of folks do watch it.<\/p>\n

Option 3: “Eliminate football, women’s swimming and diving, and coed sailing,” for a net loss of $1.87 million.<\/p>\n

Given reported football attendance over the past few seasons, I don’t understand how it’s making money for the athletic department. But Jay’s study says it does, and he argues that Hawaii fans would cease supporting university athletics if Division I football were cut.<\/p>\n

Football fans certainly are the most rabid fans of all, as my son, my calabash nephews and my second-favorite retired Waipahu Intermediate School teacher constantly and loudly remind me.<\/p>\n

That was just the front page. The ambiguities of rail funding, the dangers of vog and the Kealoha family feud followed. <\/p>\n

dbboylan70@gmail.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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