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Two weeks after their Broken Trust essay appeared in the Star-Bulletin, Roth hosts three of its co-authors — Samuel P. King, Gladys Brandt, and Charles Kekumano — for a live call-in on the Bishop Estate controversy. King opens by drawing the line clearly: the article targeted the five trustees, not the trust or the school, and calls the estate's use of its own staff and funds to defend the trustees personally a violation of that boundary. He also calls the five-CEO arrangement — each trustee drawing roughly $900,000 annually — "absolutely silly." Brandt describes how fear among faculty first moved her to act, and how the student body's visible support for president Michael Chun at graduation was unprecedented. Kekumano argues the core issue is whether the school, not just the buildings, is serving the people it was built for. Callers push back on the public nature of the campaign; one argues disputes of this kind belong in a courtroom, not a radio show. King responds that the Attorney General would not be investigating now without the article, and that no attorney general in the trust's 113-year history had previously moved against the trustees.
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