My next question: What about the McKay scholarships? Those schools don't have any requirements.

Like most schools, we tried to get it all done as much as possible last week. We had the fog day and had to test Monday.

UMKC competes not only against KU, Missouri State, some of the local schools that are bigger than UMKC, but we also compete against the Ivies [Ivy League schools]. We compete against Dartmouth, we compete against Harvard and we compete against Berkley.

Let's face it, we're going to have to make some tough decisions and none of us like to have to do that. We were elected to do it.

Education is an important thing in Pacific Grove. If you go to the schools, you'll see a lot of parents volunteering.

Good schools, good jobs, good government. These are not unreasonable demands. But sadly, some of our people have already lost heart and have left Hawaii to look for these things elsewhere.