Another take on TMT - Aggrieved native Hawaiians

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This calls to mind a, perhaps fictional, story of a university president's speech that began: "We used to be a state-funded university, then we became a state-supported university, then a state-tolerated university; it looks like we are now to become a state-exploited university..."

I think the unstated agenda here is to increase the funding to OHA: if the University were to lease space to the telescopes for cash, then OHA gets a 20% cut of that cash off the top. With the telescope time used by the UH, in lieu of lease rent, OHA gets cut out of the equation and they don't like that... The arrangements with many of the telescopes, of course, pre-date OHA - but that doesn't matter...