  {"id":21805,"date":"2014-01-14T09:57:52","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T19:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=21805"},"modified":"2020-06-22T16:57:58","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T02:57:58","slug":"asuh-leadership-and-students-rally-in-support-of-governors-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2014\/01\/14\/asuh-leadership-and-students-rally-in-support-of-governors-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"Associated Students of the University of Hawaii\">ASUH<\/abbr> leadership and students rally in support of governor&#8217;s budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_21834\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21834\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/asuh-capitol.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"270\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21834\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/asuh-capitol.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/asuh-capitol-260x175.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21834\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><abbr>ASUH<\/abbr> President Richard Mizusawa being interviewed at the rally.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Two days before the opening of the 2014 <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> State Legislature, the president of the <a href=\"http:\/\/asuh.hawaii.edu\/\">Associated Students of the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa<\/a>, <abbr>ASUH<\/abbr> senators, students and State Representative Takashi Ohno gathered in the State Capitol Rotunda in a show of support for <a href=\"http:\/\/governor.hawaii.gov\/\">Gov. Neil Abercrombie&#8217;s<\/a> executive budget.<\/p>\n<p><abbr>ASUH<\/abbr> President <strong>Richard Mizusawa<\/strong> praised the governor for supporting public education in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span>. &ldquo;Not only am I elated to see his support of the Board of Regents&#8217; request to restore <abbr>UH<\/abbr> faculty salaries, I am also excited to have the backlog of deferred maintenance be addressed in the upcoming legislative session. As many students have noted, the atmosphere of the campus is an important issue, not only for aesthetics but also for educational support, our health and safety,&rdquo; Mizusawa said.<\/p>\n<p>Mizusawa and more than a dozen student supporters took time off from the first day of the 2014 spring semester to urge state lawmakers to support <abbr>UH<\/abbr> students.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;As president of the <abbr>ASUH<\/abbr> senate, my fellow elected student leaders and I have a commitment to ensure that the student voice is heard not only by our university administration but also by our state legislators who have a tremendous impact on student life at the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span>,&rdquo; Mizusawa said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associated Students of the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> leadership and <abbr>UH<\/abbr> students gathered in the State Capitol Rotunda in a show of support for Gov. Neil Abercrombie\u2019s executive budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[349,9],"class_list":["post-21805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-asuh","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21805"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121317,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21805\/revisions\/121317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}