Campus Wars Get More Coverage

Because of the fight at Radford High School between African American students (mostly children of military personell at Pearl Harbor & Hickam Air Force Base) and "local" students, the media is finally taking notice of violence at other Hawaii schools.

The Honolulu Star Bulletin mentioned that there have been violent incidents at Waianae, Nanakuli and Waipahu high schools

http://starbulletin.com/2005/02/05/news/index1.html

They should've done this earlier. Violent incidents that occured at McKinley High School when I was there was IGNORED by the local papers. I even tried looking up on Google and Yahoo on fights involving Samoans, Vietnamese and Filipinos at McKinley. I found NOTHING, even that's what a lot of students have seen!

The local media spend too much time in the ivory tower, not giving a crap about incidents occuring in local high schools. Those incidents involve real people, involve real pain, involve real animosity!

The schools don't want bad light shed on them, due to a fear that all positive accomplishments at the schools would be ignored. But the schools must understand that we should see it's negatives and positives.

Sticking the heads in the sand has never made any problems go away!