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Long: Craven out as dean June 30 By Jay Hartwell Advertiser Staff Writer The -month-1 fight to remove John Craven as dean of marine programs at the University of Hawaii appears to have ended. Chancellor Durward Long announced in a press release yesterday that Craven has agreed to continue as dean until June 30, after which he'll accept reassignment. Craven would not comment on the decision and said the press release was issued without his approving the remarks attributed to him. The decision may end months of bickering between the two. Long reportedly wanted to replace the dean because administrative he does not like Craven's high profile, style.

That style apparently hampered Long's attempts, to reorganize the university. On Friday the Board of Regents approved Long's plan to restructure the College of Arts and Sciences into four separate divisions. Sunday Honolulu Durward Long Not designed to downgrade Aloha! Today is Marathon Day! Dec. 7, 1980 Complete start-to-finish coverage of today's marathon in tomorrow morning's Advertiser Hawaii The industry is starting to give tourists blunt warnings about crime here Page A-3 The Nation Expressing fear that "far-right Republicans" will block a fair housing bill in the next Congress, Senate Democratic leader Robert Byrd vows to fight to the finish for the stalled civil rights measure Page A-15 The World Chinese officials release chilling details of what the prosecutor at the Gang of Four trial says was the private torture chamber of Mao's widow Page A-12 Today The hula: Its respectibility was restored when Kalakava took the throne in 1873, and it's still going strong Page C-1 What should Reagan do about energy and what should he not do? Page J-1 While the Pearl Harbor anniversary is a day of memories and lessons recalled about vigilance, the larger point is that 39 years have changed the Pacific region in ways we must understand Page J-2 Today's chuckle Variety is the spice of life but it takes monotony to finance it. The Index 16 sections, 260 pages Arts C12 Books C13 Classified Crossword ads puzzle B7-40 C13 Entertainment Focus J1-5 Food C18 Hawaii Salutes H3 Home B1-6 Horoscope C7 Money Matters J6, 7 Obituaries A32 Pen Pals H5 Restaurants Dining Out Sports L1-12 Tides A2 Television logs TV Week Today C1-20 Travel F1-8 Weather A2 The main news, Focus, Sports and Travel sections are produced by The Honolulu Advertiser.

The Today section, TV Week and Home pages are produced by The Honolulu Star-Bulletin. The Dining Out supplement is prepared by the Hawall Newspaper Agency. Craven, who has many supporters, unsuccessfully fought Long's efforts to oust him by filing a grievance in September. The grievance was rejected by University of Hawaii President Fujio Yesterday's decision came after weeks of discussions between the three men, according to the release. The release said that no decision was made about Craven's future status or tenure, but the chancellor said he is confident a satisfactory arrangement will be reached, before June.

The release said Craven wrote a memo to Long, in which he stated his intention to submit the necessary papers for appointment as a tenured professor of ocean engineering and to continue as director of the Law of the Sea Institute. Long said reassignment was not designed to downgrade Craven professionally. understand his objections to reassignment, but it is necessary to permit revision entire structure of our marine efforts. We cannot achieve the improvements and distinction we seek without doing so, he said. Though Long said the decision still enables the Advertiser photo by Jim Borg Gooney birds stand guard at a rusting World War II gun emplacement on Midway's Eastern Island, once the hub of naval air operations on the atoll, now deserted except for the birds.

A look at modern Midway: boredom amidst the beauty By Jim Borg Advertiser Military Writer MIDWAY With its clear lagoon, palms and Australian ironwoods, Midway is stunningly scenic, billed on the orientation brochures as "the Navy's Most Beautiful Isle." Yet morale is clearly low and there is evidence of wide use of alcohol and drugs. Tours of duty have been reduced to a year. Everyone knows, to the week if not to the day, how long they have left on the island. The arrival of supply ships and furloughs to Honolulu "Hana" to the servicemen are major events. the pocket of his shirt, Navy Cmdr.

J.C. Barnes, Midway's commanding officer, wears a pin that says, "I Care, Dammit!" He says isolation of the post both creates and magnifies the problems. There is nowhere else to go, he explains, no front gate to flee beyond an evening on the town. "We're like a small town here," Barnes says. "'You can't fart without everybody knowing what you were doing.

The problem is, when (drug and alcohol abuse) happens here, it's just a lot more visible than anywhere Earlier this fall, Barnes asked the Seabees to blow up one of the vacant buildings which he admits create "an eyesore" on the island. But the rubble and wire that resulted was even less acsthetically pleasing, so he gave up, deciding to devote his budget to renovating the hangar and other construction, rather than demolition. That only enhances the ghost-town atmosphere. The island has its own radio and television station, with delayed programming, but no newspapers, and one officer complained last week that he didn't know the university to benefit from Craven's "talents and enthusiasm, he also made several veiled digs at Craven in the press release. chancellor noted a report that said the university's excellent marine programs were limited by lack of an overall plan." He also noted that several department heads said Office of Dean of Marine had been of little benefit to their program Programs, When reached phone, Craven would not comon the decision.

Instead he directed his at how the decision was announced. "I'm really nonplussed. I have never seen the release and heard it for the first time when it was read to me by the press. I would not have used those words to describe those things attributed to me," he said. In the release, Chancellor Long said Craven has agreed to assist in reorganizing the marine.

programs, possibly through a new marine in the interim. If the center is established, Long said, Craven will be elgible to apply for appointment as director, but a nationwide search would be conducted "for the most qualified director." No HomE Star-Bulletin Final John Craven "I'm really nonplussed" 71 ON Advertiser on Oahu Beyond Oohu 75c Remembering 1941: Midway under attack By Jim Borg Advertiser Military Writer MIDWAY One of the first shells from the Japanese destroyers hit the battery command post of Marine Lt. George Cannon, spraying shrapnel and breaking Cannon's pelvis and legs. same blast wrecked the command post switchboard and snapped the leg of Corp. Harold Hazelwood.

Bleeding heavily, Cannon refused to leave his post. Hazelwood quickly fixed the switchboard and, with communication re-established, the guns continued firing at the enemy ships offshore. It was just past 9 p.m. on Dec. 7, 1941.

In all, four Americans died and 10 were wounded in the shelling of Midway some 15 hours after the Pearl Harbor attack. Cannon became the first Marine to be awarded the Medal of Honor in World War II. Today, Midway's George H. Cannon School, once attended by hundreds of children of Navy personnel, stands vacant, its yellow paint peel- ing, a symbol of changing U.S. military needs and emphases.

Sand Island, the larger of two lowlying islands at the southern end of the reef, resembles ghost town. The family quarters are vacant. the windows broken and plaster cracked. On Eastern Island across the channel. 20-foot trees have grown in seams of the World War runil ways, now used only by gooney birds, which by December have arrived in Hitchcockian force to mate and nest.

Throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, the atoll, 1,150 miles northwest of Honolulu at the far end of the Hawaiian archipelago, remained an important link in the DEW line the "distant early warning" defense network. But DEW dried up with more modern technology. Dependents were shipped out two years ago. And a year or so from now the target date is October 1981 most of the remaining 540 sailors and officers will leave as well, their duties to be taken over by private contractors. A small contingent will stay to See Shelling on Page A-4 football rankings back home.

Collecting glass float-balls, the spheres that Japanese fishermen use with their nets, is one of the main preoccupations. An unavoidable activity is bird watching, since the gooney birds, numbering an estimated two million, nest. in every field and on every lawn. Gooneys have several different squeaks and whistles, and in various moods will moo like a cow or honk like a goose. When approached while nesting, they will snap their beaks like castanets.

This cacophony is heard throughout the island day and night this time of year. For some servicemen and women, the clubs are a gathering place. One sailor, as I sat with a group at one of the island's three military bars, obligingly scrawled on a piece of my notebook paper the going Midway prices for a joint of marijuana leaves, a joint of buds, a marijauna "Thai unlikely," he added), hash, speed, acid, cocaine and Quaaludes. After providing this list, he asked me not to use the amounts in my story, fearing Honolulu dealers would up the already exorbitant prices. Alcohol is cheap and more available with a bottle of beer or mixed drink going for 40 cents at each of the clubs.

"This is a lonely place, sir," said one junior enlisted woman, among about 60 females on the island. "There's not much to do unless you like swimming or bowling. Some people drink to pass the time. Not me but then, I don't mind being alone." Another sailor said: "This place could be excellent, if they'd bring the families back. I've done almost everything to do on the island I'm taking scuba lessons right now and my time has gone quick." It was just over a year ago that laundry is not a chore, because Mr.

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