Athlete stipends cause concern ADVERTISING Athlete stipends cause concern HONOLULU (AP) — The University of Hawaii Athletics Department is worried about coming up with more money to pay athletes’ stipends when it’s already strapped for cash. The National Collegiate Athletic
Athlete stipends cause concern
HONOLULU (AP) — The University of Hawaii Athletics Department is worried about coming up with more money to pay athletes’ stipends when it’s already strapped for cash.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association is allowing universities to pay stipends to athletes in the next year or so.
It’s a major change in college sports driven by the five biggest revenue-producing conferences in the country.
Each full-scholarship athlete at the University of Hawaii will be eligible for nearly $3,550 a year, on top of having tuition, room and board covered by the university.
When the NCAA starts allowing schools to pay athletes’ stipends, those new expenses could cost the University of Hawaii anywhere from $803,441 to $964,050 a year, university Athletics Director Ben Jay said.
The department is already $3.5 million in the red, so the financially struggling university will be scrambling to keep up with the schools that can afford to pay even higher stipends, he said.
“You have the Big Five conferences with all the money that they have being able to pay these types of stipends. Where does that leave mid-major schools like Hawaii at?” Jay asked.
Woman freed in infant death
HONOLULU (AP) — Police have released a 32-year-old woman who was arrested in a murder investigation involving a newborn found dead in a Waikiki hotel room.
The woman was released pending investigation on Friday.
Police had responded to a report of a dead infant Wednesday evening at the Sheraton Waikiki Hotel. The woman had been arrested late Wednesday night.
A group known as the Visitor Aloha Society of Hawaii, which helps tourists who have been victims of crimes, says it sent a Korean-speaking volunteer to help family members. An autopsy report on the newborn baby is pending.
Striped mullet
season to close
HONOLULU (AP) — The Department of Land and Natural Resources is reminding the public that the season for catching amaama, or striped mullet, is about to close.
Fishing the edible mullet will be off limits from Monday, Dec. 1, through the end of March.
The department’s chairman William Aila says the amaama are about to enter their peak spawning season.
He says the annual winter closure helps the fish reproduce successfully.
A violation could result in criminal fines of up to $500 and 30 days in jail, plus $100 for each fish taken. It also could result in civil fines of up to $1,000 per violation.
