The only response that i got to yesterday’s blog said, “you’re a hypocrite”. As beautiful as all this media coverage we got was, it seems some people might have expectations for us that are not our own. When you participate in a movement that is this size, you feel the pressure of all those expectations threatening to curve your decision making process. Over the course of this occupation I think we all did an excellent job of not letting these pressures sacrifice the integrity of what we are trying to create at the university of Hawaii, and the changes we want to see all across the islands. If anyone wants to call us a hypocrite because they were waiting for us to get arrested or give “the kill shot” to our administration that is there prerogative, but…

The supporters of our movement are those who realize that stopping UARC is only a piece of a life long struggle to build a better world. These are the people whom we feel so blessed to have come into contact with through all our media attention. These people will support us in our endeavors to end the militirization of our university and Hawaii, as we will support them in all their similar attempts.

We stopped the UARC from coming to our university until at least November of 2005. We did not stop the UARC entirely. The earliest record that we have found of our administration establishing this UARC dates back to september 15, 2002. That’s two and a half years that our administration has been institutionalizing this UARC. No single protest, or occupation is going to allow us to untangle the knots that have been tied between our university and the military.

Hard work, hope, and firm determination over the next year will topple this UARC.
The occupation of Bachman hall has leveled the playing field. We are confident in our research that this UARC cannot survive a fair, and intense dialogue about its ehtical and financial impacts on our university.

This weeks occupation has begun to forge a whole new generation of leaders on our campus. Many of the old-timers say UH has not been this politicized since the days of the vietnam war. We have reminded those who have forgotten, that individuals really can make a difference. We have restored people’s faith in our university’s ability to be a place of learning and self-discovery. We have begun to forge a new generation of students who will fight for what they believe in, instead of accepting the bitter state of the military in Hawaii as an unchangeable reality.

So to the person who called us a hypocrite. I truly respect your right to say it, if it is what you truly believe. But I would ask next time you right something to remember that there is another human being (myself) on the other end of your comment, and that I have tried to pour every ounce of my heart and soul into this movement. I am not saying don’t be critical, please do, but maybe you could explain why you feel the way you do so that I could better understand.

Wow, so many doors of opportunity have opened up after this action I don’t know where to begin. Actually I do, it’s all about stopping UARC for good. We’re trying to tighten up our networks of advocates and activists, and streamline our channels of communication. Read more…

Yesterday we had an action in front of Bachman Hall where we ate lunch in front of the building and reminded our administration that we were still around. The reason we did this was because the UH administration is attempting to go back on all its promises that it gave to us so we would vacate Bachman Hall. The administration heard that we were coming and locked the front doors to the building. A couple days ago they posted full time guards at the door. UH is paying them 1200 dollars a week to keep its own students, faculty and community members from being able to make their voices heard. Read more…

According to AScribe, nine teams of MBA students planning social enterprises that range from applying nanotechnology to solar power systems in developing countries to training low-income urban youth to conduct market research on their peer groups will compete for recognition and $45,000 in prizes in the final round of the 2005 Global Social Venture Competition at the University of California, Berkeley, April 14-15.
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the Student Social Venture Fund at New York University Stern School of Business, the first student-managed fund to launch at a U.S. business school, announced its inaugural Request for Proposals (RFP) this March. The Fund will distribute up to $100,000 in grants during this initial spring cycle, ranging in size from $5,000 to $50,000. Specifically, the Fund is seeking proposals designed to enhance the “organizational capacity” — operational functions that will foster an organization’s growth — of New York City-based agencies that address the educational transitions of underserved youth. Read more…

The aim of the project is to examine the normative basis of private activity in the public interest. Questions about whether and how a state should regulate charitable giving and the operation of nonprofits have been almost exclusively the province, to date, of economists. Read more…

With the end of the academic year, the student presses have fallen silent and it is time to put Campus Chronicles on hold until the start of the fall semester. However, for those applicants looking for some fun summer reading that has the added benefit of enhancing your MBA applications, the archives of student newspapers are a wonderful resource that is well worth exploring. As we’ve pointed out in past Campus Chronicles columns, student papers often offer excellent insight into the culture on campus and provide a great window on the events and controversies at each school, making them an important part of the MBA application research process. Read more…

Stanford devotes considerable resources to the examination of entrepreneurship and support of students and graduates seeking to launch their own companies. The GSB’s Center for Entrepreneurial Studies (CES) was founded in 1996 and today supports ten associated faculty members in publishing articles in scholarly journals, composing cases for use in instruction, and designing courses to introduce students to entrepreneurial issues.
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Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business has just released its essay questions for the coming admissions season:
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With $26 billion annually donated to charitable organizations and 8.3 percent of wages and salaries paid in the United States coming from the nonprofit sector, there is a significant portion of the US economy and population focused on making a difference. Collectively, we are faced with the task of learning how to use these resources efficiently to have the greatest impact on our community. Read more…