Mark Panek > Quotes

“Waikïkï is less Hawaiian than it is a bad mix of Las Vegas and Cancun.”
― Mark Panek, Gaijin Yokozuna: A Biography of Chad Rowan

“The rest of the place was so dilapidated-but-trying that some of its offices and classrooms were still housed in old buildings abandoned by the neighboring State Mental Hospital, unfit for the mentally challenged but perfetly fine for "educating" the parated of probably-ought-to-major-in-business willfully ignorant know-nothings that rotated in and out of its former cells for a couple of months each semester before dropping out.”
― Mark Panek, Hawaiʻi

“Today's "issue" had come all the way down from the System level, where some pinhead wanted to tie each campus's funding directly to its graduation rates.”
― Mark Panek, Hawaiʻi