Reply #7: Navy: Next move up to university

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Associated Press

HONOLULU — The Navy says it is not pushing the University of Hawaii to accept a bitterly contested proposal to open a Navy-affiliated research center on campus.

“The contract would not be awarded until approved by the Board of Regents for the University of Hawaii,” officials with Naval Sea Systems Command said in a statement to The Associated Press.

The Navy is not currently in negotiations with any other U.S. university to establish a University Affiliated Research Center, but its five-year, $50 million offer to establish one at the Manoa campus won’t last forever.

University students and faculty, along with community members, protested the proposed military research center with a weeklong sit-in at interim president David McClain’s office, which ended peacefully last Wednesday. <snip>

http://www.navytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-839379.php