University of Hawaii Honolulu - Ka Palapala Yearbook (Honolulu, HI)

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O iA e HUO-n tiai to content itself with the preliminaries. Robert Silva, president of Hawaii Union, and his commit- tee worked out elaborate details for the actual convention itself, which was held during the latter part of March and early April. Pat Takemoto, A.SUH statehood committee head, lined up a series of informative symposiums in Farrington hall with guest speakers and student orators. The compara- tive advantages and disadvantages of bicameralism and unicameralism, of elective and appointive judi- ciaries, were discussed. Ka Leo, campus ne spaper, commented, Re- member that the public views us with keen interest. How the project is conducted and what develops out of it will be the criteria by which the public forms its opinion of the future leaders of Hawaii. We must prove that an earnest and thoughtful group is being developed here.

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I .U h.rc:. OOMU oukn wTk i •Wifc. % x 4 . M .. .-, r w QaHAiituUo-HCil From an idea first advanced by Dr. Allan Saunders and the Hawaii Union, campus forensics organization, the Associated Student government of the University of Hawaii undertook an ambitious program of planning out the workings of a state constitutional convention in anticipation of the time when Hav aii would have to hold one in reality. Delegates to tiie convention were nominated early in March. Campaign rallies were held. Elec- tion took place on March 12. The downtown newspapers carried accounts of the progress from time to time. The territory ' s delegate to Congress, Joseph Farrington, wrote a letter of commendation to the University. Citizens in the community at large complimented the ASUH on the project dubbed by some stutlcnts, Operation Anticipation. Ka Palapala intended to cover the whole process but due to the printers deadline, March 15, it had

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