No it is NOT  a friend to friend relationship, rather a parent-child relationship where the child CANNOT support itself yet wants to own a Nissan GT-R, own the latest in designer clothes & sport tats costing thousands of dollars.  Despite UH bragging about how much money they get in grants & "multiplier" effect for Hawaii's economy, every year they constantly BEG for more Hawaii taxpayer money from State legislatures.  UH got greedy by expanding UH with a new pharmacy school on the Big Island, new medical school/cancer research center at Kakaako waterfront & built  UH W Oahu when it can NEVER be more than a community college feeder school to UH Manoa since Manoa faculty will NEVER agree to relocate to West Oahu.  Add the fact that UH Manoa has over $1/2 BILLION in badly needed repairs for UH Manoa & they just gave all of their admin staff making way beyond $100K massive pay raises.  Also UH failure will cost millions for the UH researcher who got her arm blown off in a faulty lab exp.