Students take UH leadership to task

The concert debacle raises questions over tuition and priorities

By Ferd Lewis

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Aug 30, 2012

~~<p>Eight hours before the University of Hawaii Board of Regents threw its support behind President M.R.C. Greenwood in the handling of the Steve Wonder concert debacle last week, the board heard a plea from Thomas Robinson to raise graduate assistant salaries.</p>
<p>Robinson, who is president of the Graduate Student Organization at UH, told board members there hasn't been a pay raise since 2003 despite tuition and cost-of-living increases.</p>
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Eight hours before the University of Hawaii Board of Regents threw its support behind President M.R.C. Greenwood in the handling of the Steve Wonder concert debacle last week, the board heard a plea from Thomas Robinson to raise graduate assistant salaries.

Robinson, who is president of the Graduate Student Organization at UH, told board members there hasn't been a pay raise since 2003 despite tuition and cost-of-living increases. Login for more...