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POSTED:Mon, October 6, 2008 @ 4:16PM

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KKHS FB probe involves civil rights

As promised, here is more to the King Kekaulike High School football probe, as Maui County’s Board of Education member, Mary Cochran, confirmed to me Sunday that the investigation being headed by Maui Superintendent Bruce Anderson involves the DOE’s civil rights office.

Again, the story hits Page A1 of The Maui News.

The reasons for it involving the civil rights office, according to Cochran, are the possible connotations of the gesture.

Here is the way Cochran put it to me for the story in the link above:

'The civil rights office is investigating, as well as Bruce, because there are some things you just don't do,' Cochran said via phone on Sunday morning. 'I am going to let the process run its course. I will let the investigation happen, but when I saw that letter to the editor (in The Maui News on Wednesday), I really became concerned. This one could not be ignored - and civil rights is all part of it - because it could rise to the level of sexual harassment.

'The DOE has got its own civil rights office. That is the reason why they are involved in this, because it has got sexual connotations.'

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rcollias
10-06-08 10:11 PM »Report Abuse	MWF, if you are referring to Oregon State, they LOST to Utah on Thursday. If you're referring to the only other public school in the state, Jerry Glanville's Portland State Vikings, they beat Eastern Washington 47-36 as their QB passed for 623 yards.
MauiWarriorFan
10-06-08 8:42 PM »Report Abuse	How did Oregon lose to USC??? (The other Oregon team won.) ;)
MauiWarriorFan
10-06-08 8:41 PM »Report Abuse	You and The Maui News have done a good job in reporting this. Hopefully the investigation will be accurate and timely.
rcollias
10-06-08 8:01 PM »Report Abuse	A4L, you are a great reader — and responder — to this blog. The fourth-quarter four-fingers symbol is pretty well-known and tons of college and high school teams still do it all over the place. I know Maui High, under Curtis Lee, was famous for doing that around here back in the day and it is still a universally used thing. Watch college football on Saturdays and you'll still see it. Just because the middle finger was part of those four digits in no way made that one obscene. This charge, if true — and I stress the "if" because I honestly don't know — is a totally different matter. If the KKHS gesture was used as some people think it was, it was obscene. Totally different animals we’re talking about here, my friend.
ALL4LUNAS
10-06-08 4:31 PM »Report Abuse	20 years ago players coaching staff held up the 4 fingers (including the middle finger as one of the fingers) in noting "we own the 4th quarter". Whats the difference.

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