The outgoing president of the U of Hawaii, David Lassner, recently reflected on the project:
"TMT (the Thirty Meter Telescope proposed for Hawai‘i Island’s Maunakea) was hard for me personally. I’d say it really divided many people inside the university and I had a lot of friends who were very disappointed in me for supporting TMT. I have no qualms about my belief that it would have been good for Hawai‘i. I got a death threat on social media. We had students peacefully occupying our building (Bachman Hall). When they moved out of their own volition, it felt empty. But I learned a lot. It was really hard seeing the pain that was caused and would have been caused in either direction."
Source: https://www.hawaiibusiness.com/university-hawaii-president-steps-down-david-lassner-interview-2024/.
The phrase it would have been good for Hawai‘i suggests he considers the project - at least in Hawaii - to be dead.
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