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Protests mount over school cuts
With the fewest num-ber of public school instructional days
in the nation, Hawai‘i parents, teachers, students and legisla-tors are working to fight “fur-lough Fridays.”
“I’m afraid the students on the bottom will fall out of the system,” said Fern Elementary teacher Shannon Ka‘a‘a, who attended an Oct. 23 rally at the Capitol.
Students and parents were carrying signs protesting the decision approved by Gov. Linda Lingle. An elementary student held a sign asking if it was all right “to play at Lingle’s house” on the Fridays he didn’t have school. Many people were also wearing “My Child Left Behind” shirts.
At the rally, speakers in-cluded parents, teachers, stu-dents and musician Jack John-son and entertainer Ben Vereen.
One speaker talked about her son’s reaction to not having school that morning. He asked, “Why are they doing this to us, Mom?”
Not only are the students
asking this question, but par-ents and teachers are too. Everyone is working to un-derstand and accommodate the changes in schedules and learning time.
Renee Francis, a parent with a son who has just started kindergarten, said he was confused on the days he was supposed to go to school.
“There is no continuity,”
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she added.Kalaheo students Kate,
Madeline, and Maggie Com-pagnoni said now they have less class time with more homework. “We have to take notes (from online material), then go into class to take the tests.”
“The damaging thing in-volves moving at a faster rate to cover the required con-
tent. How in-depth can we go with the content in this short amount of time?” asked Rad-ford teacher Jed Sana.
Rep. Cynthia Thielen thinks a lawyer should repre-sent children at the table when issues such as this come up, as well as mandating a minimum number of days for a school year.
“This way Hawai‘i has
a chance of competing with other schools in the nation,” she said.
Entertainer Ben Vereen believes the children shouldn’t have to suffer and should be the first priority.
“Give students what theyrightfully deserve,” he said.
Ka‘a‘a said she, along with other teachers, “felt pressured into signing the contract for furloughs.” She said a com-mon feeling among teachers was of an inevitable strike that would take away school days and pay anyway.
Kathy Worden, a teacher at Radford High School, is one of the few who didn’t get to vote on the loss of Fridays. She remembers it happening while she was off-island.
“How can you hold back an entire state?” said Worden, referring to the number of instructional days students would have lost in the event of a teachers’ strike.
From her point of view, teachers are not trying to pun-ish the kids, “but how can you ask more from one group and not ask the same from others in the workforce?”
HGEA furloughs to impact campus over holidaysb y L a n c e S a b a d oKa ‘Ohana Staff Reporter
WCC financial aid officer Steven Chigawa and registrar Geri Imai will be among the few employees on campus during the semester break.
Students from across the island have joined their parents in fighting the schools’ furlough Fridays.
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The new Hawaii Govern-ment Employees Associa-
tion contract may have reper-cussions for WCC students, but plans are being made by the college’s administration to minimize possible problems.
Part of the HGEA con-tract includes 13 furlough days: specifically, the day after Thanksgiving, the week before Christmas, the week before New Year’s and spring break.
Because the HGEA is com-posed of UH’s administrative, professional and technical employees, this will mean a shutdown of many campus services and programs, as well as buildings, between semesters.
WCC chancellor Douglas Dykstra said about this, “We will not be running programs that are normally run. How-ever, nothing will interfere
with us starting classes on Jan. 11.”
Fortunately, there is a condition in the HGEA con-tract that helps to continue certain essential services. Vice President for UH Com-
munity Colleges John Morton explained, “Chancellors may determine that certain func-tions or certain staff need to work during those times because of the timing of the work or because of special
needs. If so, that staff member will be given equivalent time off on another day.”
Dykstra has worked out the numbers for WCC’s skel-eton crew. However, these offices will be focusing on preparations so students can attend WCC in the spring and will not be open for regular business.
“In financial aid, for the full eight-day period, there will be one person. For half of that period there will be two people,” he explained.
“In admissions and re-cords, there will probably be one person for half a day (to roll over grades). The book-store and business office are going to be closed.”
However, he added that Hale Alaka‘i, the main ad-ministration building, will be open with a few counselors available to answer questions.
The UH system applica-tion is also expected to remain available on-line for new stu-
dents enrolling for spring. “I’ve been given authority
by the (UH) president to make certain that time-sensitive activities and mission-critical activities are taken care of, not withstanding the paid leave,” Dykstra said.
“Whatever is needed so that we’re ready to go when the students come back, is what we do.”
Steven Chigawa, WCC’s financial aid officer, agreed with putting the mission and students first.
He said, “We have a re-sponsibility as a college to make sure the worst-case sce-nario doesn’t happen and still operate to give students what they need.
“For f inancial aid, of course, job one is making sure students get their money on time in the spring.”
Vice Chancellor for Stu-dent Services Lui Hokoana added, “I am very sensitive to the needs of our students.”
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Tsunami!” The word trig-gers horrific images of death and destruction
such as the December 2004 Indian Ocean disaster and the more recent Samoa tragedy. The human suffering is a grim reminder that Mother Nature has a temper.
The chain of recent earth-quakes in the South Pacific has had many in our islands waiting for warning sirens signaling the approach of a destructive wave.
Over the past 63 years, six major tsunamis have struck the Hawaiian Islands and wreaked havoc on coastal communities. The most fa-mous of these were the 1946 Aleutian tsunami that claimed 165 lives and the 1960 Chilean tsunami that claimed 61 lives in the islands.
The 1960 tsunami was generated off the coast of South America and traveled to Hawai‘i in about 15 hours. Hilo was hit hardest with waves as high as 35 feet. Historical photos of victims fleeing before an advancing wall of water provide a haunting reminder that the threat is real.
But what are tsunamis and what causes them?
Contrary to popular belief, earthquakes in and of them-selves do not cause tsunamis.
“A tsunami is generated when there is a “big-time” disturbance of the seafloor,” said WCC professor of geol-ogy and oceanography Floyd McCoy. “That’s the simplest explanation.”
McCoy was adamant that earthquakes are “byproducts” of events that can generate
tsunamis, but should not be confused as causing them.
“I’ve dumped on col-leagues of mine, even over at the tsunami warning center,” said McCoy. “They (earth-quakes) are not responsible …it’s disappointing when scien-tists say that.”
In fact, most earthquake-generating events do not have what it takes to start a wave in motion. The circumstances have to be just right.
“If an (earthquake event) is deeper than about 10 kilo-meters below the seafloor, it is very unlikely that there will be a tsunami,” said McCoy. “Anything shallower than that, almost invariably, will involve a disturbance in the seafloor…you can have a really huge, massive earthquake and not have a tsunami.”
According to McCoy, tsu-namis are the direct result of the displacement of water within the ocean. They can be generated by violent volcanic eruptions and landslides, but they are most commonly as-sociated with shifting conver-gent plate boundaries. These are areas where two tectonic plates are colliding, resulting in one plate being forced under the other.
When enough pressure builds, an overlaying plate can lurch forward and up over the subducting plate, lifting the ocean and creating a huge bulge on the sea surface, simi-lar to forcing the palm of your hand toward the surface while swimming or taking a bath.
Afterward, when grav-ity takes effect, the bulge col-lapses, causing the water to “bob” up and down over the source. This starts a succession of waves traveling away from
the epicenter.“There has to be a really
significant disturbance to generate a tsunami,” stressed McCoy.
Even if all the criteria are met, and a tsunami is gener-ated, not all areas surrounding the epicenter are at risk for a catastrophic wave.
According to McCoy, the waves have a central focal point. Like a boat navigating its way through the ocean, the largest part of its wake is pushed out in front of the moving vessel while subsiding waves radiate out to the sides. A tsunami acts in much the same fashion.
“A lot of people think that it is like throwing a rock into a lake and having equal waves radiate out,” said McCoy, “but an interesting thing is tsunami waves are highly focused (di-rectionally), which is telling us something about the distur-bance on the seafloor.”
He continued, saying it is not fully understood what contributes to tsunamis be-ing focused because of the
complications of studying the extreme depths of the ocean floor, but research is currently underway.
So what is the danger to the Hawaiian Islands?
“If there is a big earth-quake, almost always the Tsu-nami Warning Center will issue an alert,” said McCoy.
He explained that it is a just a matter of protocol that these warnings are issued until it is known how and why the earthquake was generated and if the circumstances pro-duced a tsunami.
As part of an early warning
system, the National Oceano-graphic and Atmospheric Ad-ministration (NOAA) monitors information received from tsunami buoys placed around the Pacific Ocean. These buoys measure changes in pressure on the ocean floor that signal the passing of a wave.
As history shows, the Ha-waiian Islands are not immune to tsunami impacts. It is not a question of if, but when the next one will hit.
For more details, visit the Pacific Tsunami Warning Cen-ter’s Web site at http://www.prh.noaa.gov/ptwc/hawaii.php.
Revealing the forces behind a monster
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Worden said she puts in long hours for her job, so to her it isn’t just an 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. workday with summer and winter recesses.
She said she works nine hours a day, not just with her students but also grading pa-pers and planning for the next day’s classes.
As a teacher, Worden feels scrutinized by students and parents, as if teachers were to blame for the furloughs.
She said teachers have a lot they need to do when it comes to their students and it’s not easy.
“It’s a constant juggling act of reaching the standards, engaging students and meet-ing the schools’ demands,”
Worden said.As of Nov. 5, 95 public
schools have been approved to change up to six waiver days or teacher training days into
instructional days, according to the Honolulu Advertiser.
Jill Zodrow, the Depart-ment of Education’s specialist for school community coun-
cils added, “One-hundred and fifty-six schools haven’t submitted anything (yet).”
Rep. Roy Takumi, chair-man of the House Education Committee, said in an article in the Nov. 6 Honolulu Ad-vertiser that if the legislature
were to find a solution in a special session, furlough Fridays would still remain in effect until the gover-nor, the superintendent of schools and the school board reopened and renegotiated the contract.
Sisters Kate, Madeline and Maggie Compagnoni from Kalaheo.
MJ CHRISTOPHER
PACIFIC TSUNAMI MUSEUM
A man stands on a pier facing the onslaught of the 1946 Hilo tsunami and its destructive power.
ILLUSTRATION bY PATRICK HASCALL
A graphic representation of how a tsunami can be generated.
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CAMPUS NEWS 3Ka ‘Ohana
It’s safe to say that most students, at one time or another, have blown off
one subject to meet the re-quirements of another. Jug-gling homework and trying to meet deadlines with a full class schedule can be a bit frustrating.
For you science majors out there, WCC has a solution.
Thanks to collaboration between the math and science departments, students are now offered a “Spring 2010 Learn-ing Community.” Courses in-volved are MATH 103, CHEM 161 and CHEM 161L.
What does this mean?
Learning communities are classes that enroll a com-mon group of students and are linked around an inter-disciplinary theme. Students can benefit by taking the two courses and lab concurrently.
They will enjoy more in-teraction among students and teachers, gain from peer sup-port and will be able to take advantage of supplemental instruction.
“We wanted to provide a strategy to help students save time,” said chemistry profes-sor Leticia Colmenares. “It has been shown in the past that students who study in a cohort system actually do much better.”
Students will take back-
to-back classes together and benefit from more interaction with each other and their pro-fessors. Instructors will also schedule activities, such as lab work and exams, so as not to overload students.
“The students will be able to support each other and benefit from the synchronized schedule,” said math professor Jean Okumura. “The purpose is to help the students be more successful.”
The courses are scheduled for MWF from 10 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. with the chemistry lab Wednesday, 1:30 - 4:15 pm.
Interested students can contact Colmenares at [email protected] and Okumura at [email protected].
Take a look at other high-lights for spring:
ART 108: Elementary Studio: Drawing and paintingT/TH 9:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
This studio course focuses on acrylic painting, with an introduction to some basic drawing techniques and color theory. It is appropriate for all students, from beginners to advanced artists. It is a fun course to “discover the artist in you.”
MUS 240: Introduction to Digital Music ProductionT/TH 7:15 – 8:40 p.m.
Taught with Mac-based music arrangement and composition, areas of study include MIDI sequencing, digital audio recording and editing and the use of digital mastering effects for Web, CD and video applications.
Some experience in music is preferred, but reading and/or writing in conventional mu-sic notation is not necessary.
Students with a natural talent for music are encouraged to talk with the teacher, Renee Arakaki, who can be reached at 235-7483.
ASTR130: In t roduc t ion to ArchaoastronomyT/TH 11:15 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
This course is an intro-duction to the interdisciplin-ary study of cultures and astronomy for non-science majors. Topics include na-ked eye astronomy, myths
and rituals, calendar systems, architectural alignments and navigation, with special em-phasis given to Hawaiian astronomy.
ASTR 181: Stellar AstronomyT/TH 3:30 – 4:45 p.m.
This course is a survey of modern stellar, galactic and extragalatic astronomy. Top-ics include the birth, evolu-tion and death of stars, the structures of galaxies and the birth of the universe.
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Exponential intelligence
Letty Colmenares and Jean Okumura team up for new spring course.PAtriCk hASCAll
More new or infrequently offered classes to choose fromTHEA 211: Mask MakingT/TH 11:15 – 12:30 p.m.
Masks have been used by humans throughout history by every culture. They are powerful tools of expression and lead audiences into the world of imagination.
In this course you will learn low-tech mask making techniques, such as paper ma-che and cardboard and tape, and high-tech procedures involving latex, neoprene and thermoplastics.
Teacher furlough days: a dilemma for parentsby MJ Ch r i s t ophe r
Ka ‘Ohana Staff Reporter
On furlough Fridays, WCC students who are parents
find themselves between a rock and a hard place.
They can come to school with their children, make arrangements for daycare or miss class.
Several professors have said they would be okay with students bringing their chil-dren to campus, “as long as they don’t disturb the class,” said history professor Paul Field.
Jen-Nai Rowland has brought her daughter Danesa to school for the last three furlough Fridays.
Her daughter said she likes coming to school with her mom; however, in Row-land’s opinion, “Furlough Fri-days stress out parents more than they already are.”
However, students like Kelii Alapai find themselves with one alternative: miss-ing classes on Fridays to stay home with their children.
“I wish I could bring my kids to school with me, “ she said. “I envy those parents who can.”
She said that if her young-est son weren’t so rambunc-tious, she would definitely bring all three of them with her.
However, on those Fridays when they’re home, she tries to keep the day very structured.
“It’s just like a regular school day, but with mom,” said Alapai.
Her furlough Fridays start with helping each of her chil-dren with the extra homework they get for the weekends, then to a picnic lunch at the park.
“I don’t want my kids to be a statistic. I come to school so they can see how important it is,” she said.
(left) WCC student Kelii Alapai and her children, Roxanne, Samson and Ramsey, work on their homework together on furlough Fridays.
(below) Jen-Nai Rowland brings her daughter, Danesa, to her Friday classes in Palanakila.
PhotoS by Mj ChriStoPhEr
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4 CAMPUS NEWSKa ‘Ohana
It was the happenstance of his stolen wallet and pass-port that left Puakea No-
gelmeier stranded in Hawai’i. That was the beginning of
a love affair with the islands that would alter the course of his life.
Nogelmeier, renowned song writer, Hawaiian lan-guage scholar and translator, was the featured speaker at the “Talk Story” event held at WCC’s Palikū Theatre last month for the series sponsored by Ke Kumu Pali.
Known for his work in translating the Hawaiian lan-guage, he has also written numerous songs, many made popular by Keali‘i Reichel.
And anyone who rides O‘ahu’s public transportation will recognize him as the voice of “The Bus,” announcing the Hawaiian street names with perfect articulation at each stop.
What many may not know is Marvin Puakea Nogelmeier is not Hawaiian. He was born in San Francisco and raised in Minnesota.
Th i s non-nat ive ha s earned many accolades for his accomplishments, yet remains
humble and makes jokes about “not being the brightest light in the chandelier.”
All joking aside, Nogel-meier’s commitment to his work and talent seems to be derived from his sense of “aloha” for the people, culture and language.
He recalled the early days when he began learning Ha-waiian sitting with Aunty Edith McKinzie on her back
You could describe Dr. Kaniala Kekaulike’s school
years as challenging, to say the least. “I must have applied at UH-Mānoa 10 times before I finally got in!” exclaimed the former WCC student.
Last month, Kekaulike talked about his years at WCC to ICS 103 and psychology classes.
“I thought it would be good for the students to meet someone just like themselves — a young local Hawaiian guy who struggled in school, yet managed to rise above his cir-cumstances,” said counselor Winston Kong, who arranged the visit.
Kekaulike is the first in his family to earn a doctoral degree. He received his B.A. in Hawaiian studies at UH-Mānoa, then went on to earn his Ph.D. in psychology from Argosy University.
Currently, he is the direc-tor of counseling and behav-ioral health services at Hawai‘i Pacific University, where he works with students and their families as a counselor and
personal psychologist. Kekaulike was brutally-
honest about his six years of academic struggle and lack of self-esteem while at WCC.
And he said plainly, “I never thought, in my wildest dreams, I would be where I am today.”
He confessed, “I was prob-ably voted least likely to suc-ceed in high school. My grade point average while I was here (WCC) was a 1.3… I hated school!” The only reason Kekaulike was in school, he explained, was because “I had no choice,” he said. School attendance was linked to child support and his family depended on the income.
Kekaulike’s academic turning point came when he finally found a subject at WCC that interested him: Hawaiian studies with teacher Carol Silva. “That’s when I received my first “A” grade,” he said incredulously.
Silva’s faith and support, along with that first “A,” moti-vated him to want to do better for himself. From there, he improved grade by grade until he raised his GPA enough to be accepted at UH-Mānoa.
“It is so important to find out what motivates you. It can be anything,” expressed Kekaulike.
He implored, “It’s totally worthwhile to stay in school… You put your mind to it and you just do it!” His tips for survival: “Get and stay orga-nized.” As for all the reading,
A f ree spec ia l lec t u re on “Makahiki in Old
Hawai‘i: Astronomical and Cultural Perspectives,” is set for Wednesday Nov. 18 from 12:30 – 1:15 p.m. in Hale ‘Akoakoa Room 105.
Dr. Paul Coleman an as-sociate astronomer at the University of Hawai‘i and a Native Hawaiian, will talk about the star cluster Makali‘i, which marks the beginning of the Makahiki festival.
The lecture is sponsored by WCC’s Center for Aero-space Education.
porch. And there was Theodore
Kelsey, with whom Nogel-meier would exchange stories three days a week over the next eight years, informally learning the language.
Nogelmeier went on to complete his formal education, earning a master’s degree in Pacific Island studies and his Ph.D. in anthropology.
He has also been teaching
at UH-Mānoa since 1984. As any good teacher
would do, he seized upon the opportunity to encourage the audience to find out more about the story on newspapers by going to www.nupepe.org for an introduction and a search on the area in which they live.
Last for the “Talk Sto-ry,” but certainly not least of his accomplishments, are his achievements in the area of mele (song). Nogelmei-er, whose understanding of mele comes through hula, explained how song writing happens.
“It comes up for a lot of reasons,” he explained. “It happens when you’re in the shower, down shifting when you’re in your car…” He shared a few stories that in-spired him to write his songs.
The lullaby, “Maluhia,” was written for his godchild, U’i, as a way to put her to sleep. Laughingly, Nogelmeier re-ferred to himself as “the voice of Valium” that could put anyone to sleep.
He explained how his res-onant, very deep and soothing voice would “vibrate in the center of his chest.” He would place U’i there while he sang to her. His voice and the vibra-
tion would put her to sleep. While working on his
doctorate, Nogelmeier hit a point where he felt lost and overwhelmed by the stacks of information available to him. He asked himself, “Where do you go when you are lost?”
The answer, he thought was, Kaiona, the goddess of the lost. And he wrote the song entitled “Kaiona,” asking her to help him find his way.
As the music played and he translated each mele, he seemed to be unaware that while seated in his chair, his feet, hands and body could barely contain themselves from the natural impulse to hula.
Every mele had an enter-taining story of how it came to be — just as the story of how Nogelmeier came to be in Hawai‘i.
Thirty-six years later, peo-ple still ask him why he didn’t continue on to his original destination of Japan.
His response to them: “I thought the vacation would be over.”
Little did he know that his “vacation” would turn into a lifetime of dedication to the study and teaching of Ha-waiian language, hula, mele, translation and publishing.
Perpetuating the Hawaiian language b y P a t t y Yo n e h i r o
Ka ‘Ohana Assitant Editor
it’s about “skim, skim, and skimming!”
He advised, “It’s never too late…. When you have your degree, you can do just about anything you like; the sky is the limit! You can teach, be a psychologist or run your own program. You can do what-ever you want.”
Dr. Puakea Nogelmeier is a Hawaiian scholar and music icon.AliSoN loo
Inspiration for the pursuit of educationb y P a t t y Yo n e h i r o
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Dr. Kekaulike returns to WCC with a message of encouragement.THErESA WordEN
Stellar Makahiki
Scholarship ‘AhaA free event to share infor-
mation on scholarship opportunities for Native Ha-waiian students will be held Wednesday, Dec. 9 from 6 to 8:30 p.m. in Hale ‘ Ākoakoa. The groups represented include Alu Like, the Hawai‘i Community Foundation, Ka-mehameha Schools, Liko A‘e and Manawa Kūpono scholar-ship programs and others.
The session will cover crite-ria, the application process and other guidelines. Dinner and child care will be provided.
For more details, call Gus Cobb-Adams at 235-7385.
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Seven years ago, an un-orthodox geography in-structor swept onto the
WCC campus, looking as if he had just jumped on a boat sailinginto gale-force winds.
Though Toshi Ikagawa recently turned 55, he exudes an unabashed energy as he races around the classroom. His style is sometimes grace-ful, but at other times it can be quite startling as he unleashes an inflatable globe to bounce off of a student’s hands (or their heads, should they be asleep).
“I don’t like lecturing stiff from a podium. Learning should be fun,” he says of his colorful approach. “(There are) so many different learning styles so I try to accommodate everybody. Some like to read textbooks, some like a hands-on approach.”
Rather than have the stu-dent pay a high price for a textbook, he chooses an on-line version available for free. Should a printed version be desired, then it is easy enough to do in today’s world, and still a whole lot cheaper.
Toshi (he would rather
you call him by his first name) possesses the ability to have you take an astonishing look at our world. In geography classes, he will take you from the ocean’s currents to the up-per reaches of the atmosphere, then back down to the Earth’s surface.
Born on the Japanese is-land of Honshu, Toshi gradu-ated from Nada High School in Kobe, known for its high academic standing. Over half of its students go on to Tokyo University, considered by many the top university in the country.
However, eventually Toshi became disenchanted with the local university system. The entrance exams were ex-tremely difficult to pass and involved a monotonous memo-rization of words and books.
Half a lifetime ago (for him anyway) he sought out an education in America, viewing its education system as less oppressive.
He studied at UH-Mānoa and in 1994 graduated with a doctorate in geography. He took a job at Eastern Kentucky University as a visiting as-sistant professor. A couple of states and a few years later, he returned to Hawai‘i.
Since then, Toshi has re-mained committed to teaching undergraduates.
“A famous (late) American geographer told me that teach-ing graduate students is the most important part of educa-tion. I disagreed,” Toshi says. “I believe an introductory class at the undergraduate level is the most important. Under-graduate teaching should be, in one sense, a performing art to enhance learning.”
Sometimes Toshi will take a hands-on approach to science. When pressed on the issue of global warming, he referred to observing the warm climate cicada spread-ing northward in Japan and fall leaf colors starting to turn later in the season. “I don’t care about the controversy over data. (What I know is that the) entire climate pattern is chang-ing so quickly.”
When asked what he sees as the most pressing issue of geography in today’s world, he replies, “Far more important is overpopulation,” he says this with a sudden sternness in his voice as if someone had just awoken a sleeping giant. He continues, “Every prob-lem, every social problem, every environmental problem.
What is the reason? The bot-tom line is (there are) too many people on the surface of the earth.”
The environmental pre-dicament is the result of exces-sive clear-cutting of the forests to make way for increased agriculture. The land that we have available isn’t enough. In the oceans, the fish stocks have been depleted due to overfishing.
The social dilemma is even more alarming. Imagine too
many people in a small room; people begin to behave oddly. Criminal activity becomes more common and homicides increase.
For Toshi, a college edu-cation should be anything but boring. His solution is to make the subject as interesting and entertaining as possible. “Learning should be fun and an intellectual adventure. It should not be torture,” he maintains.
Who can argue with that?
Geography, according to Toshi
When some hear the word mari-juana, they think of druggies,
stoners and chronics. But others, like WCC student Jason
Kamalu-Grupen, view cannabis as an answer to many of America’s problems.
On Nov. 19, Kamalu-Grupen will be holding the first meeting of a new club called Students for Sensible Drug Policy.
The meeting will be on the Great Lawn or inside ‘Ākoakoa atrium at 1 p.m., depending on the weather.
Kamalu-Grupen plans on introducing himself and the focus of the club: Hawai‘i’s mari-juana drug policy.
He hopes that the group can help change the current policy.
“I’d like to encourage anyone who’s interested in drug policy — any drug, not only marijuana — to come out and learn about it,” says Kamalu-Grupen.
“I don’t feel that all drugs should be legalized, but the negative feelings towards marijuana should end.”
He hopes to one day have marijua-na regulated the same way cigarettes and alcohol are.
“There’s a billion ways to make
money off of marijuana,” said Kamalu-Grupen. He feels that the government could benefit a lot from regulating mar-ijuana and putting a tax on the plant.
But that isn’t the main reason Ka-malu-Grupen wants it to be regulated. “I wish it were more of a human effect focus because the human consequences of the drug war are horrible. People lose
lives.”The drug war that
he speaks of is the government’s attempt to get drugs off the street. “It’s a war of the U.S.government versus the U.S. people.”
Kamalu-Grupen thinks that since mari-juana is illegal, people who do grow and sell the plant only act vio-lently when they feel their plants are endan-gered.
Kamalu-Grupen said this is the only SSDP chapter in Hawai‘i at the moment, but it isn’t the first. He recalls that UH-Mānoa once had an SSDP club. There are also hundreds of clubs across the nation.
“With this club I would like to educate people, to reach out to the community and show that even though we’re a drug policy reform group we don’t necessarily do drugs. And we’re contributing to society in ways a lot of other people aren’t.”
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Geography professor Toshi Ikagawa takes a world view.
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New club will take stand on drug policy
Meet Jason Kamalu-Grupen at the first SSDP session Nov. 19.
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WCC’s Haunted Village lured creatures with Imaginarium’s “Nightwalk,” face painting, spooky storytelling, and ASUH’s Haunted Hotel.
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Equipment:Coal-burning BBQ, such as a Weber, with a rotisserie attachmentHeavy aluminum or steel drip pan
(disposable aluminum pans will melt, so do not use).Charcoal (do not use match light or presoaked)Kiawe wood charcoal (mystique)Butcher’s twine (available at kitchen supply stores).Poultry needles
Ingredients:10-19 lbs turkey.2 sweet onions, preferable Maui, chopped in quarters2 carrots, chopped 2 celery stalks, chopped6 garlic clovesRosemary (fresh branches preferable, but dried will do in a pinch)Garlic powder, coarse ground pepper, Hawaiian rock salt1/2 cup olive oil
Insert two fresh rosemary branches into bird’s cavity, or coat walls with one tablespoon of dry. Stuff bird with chopped carrots, celery, onions and garlic cloves (don’t forget the neck cavity). Using poultry needles and butcher’s twine, close up cavity tightly so stuffing will not fall out while spinning.
Tie drumstick ends together with butcher’s twine. Wrap twine around bird to hold wings and legs secure and tie tightly (three two-foot lengths of twine should do it, but use as much as you need).
Rub bird with olive oil to promote browning. Rub bird down with 1-2 handfuls of rock salt. Sprinkle garlic powder over entire bird. How much garlic you ask? No such thing as too much garlic! I generally used no less than 4 tbsp. Pepper bird to your liking.
Tuck 2-3 rosemary branches under butcher’s twine randomly around bird (lightly dust bird with dry if fresh not available). Insert rotisserie skewer through bird from neck to tail, trying to keep it as centered as possible. Careful, this is not easy and the skewer is sharp. Tightly squeeze bird together with skewer retainers. Your bird is ready.
Cooking:Light grill using about 30 coals. When nice and white hot, divide coals into even portions and push each half to opposite sides
of the grill (you do not want coals directly under bird). Put cooking grill in place. Weber grills have flip-up leafs on either side of the grating. Be sure to align these parallel with rotisserie skewer so you can add more coals as bird cooks. Fill drip pan full with water and place in center of grill.
Place bird in rotisserie cradle and start motor. Make sure bird is not hitting anything as it spins, then place cover on grill with all vents at full open. Check coals about every half-hour and add as necessary to keep fire nice and hot. On average, cooking time is between 2-2 ½ hours. During the last hour of cooking, add kiawe charcoal for added flavor. Periodically check bird’s temperature with a meat thermometer. When temp reaches 165 degrees, remove bird from rack, remove drip pan, and place bird back on rack. Spin bird another 10 minutes for a nice dark brown skin. Your bird is done. Before carving, remove and discard stuffing.
“Broke da mout’” BBQ rotisserie turkey
Ingredients:1 large acorn or butternut squash (2 pounds) 1/4 cup shelled walnuts1 tsp melted butter1 medium leek, cleaned and chopped 1 tbs olive oil1 tsp dried sage1/8 tsp five-spice powder4 cups vegetable stock1/2 tsp salt1/4 tsp fresh ground pepper1 medium apple
Halve and seed squash and place, cut-side down in shallow pan. Roast in oven at 375 degrees until flesh is tender, about 45 minutes.
Combine walnuts with butter and spread on cookie sheet. Roast in oven alongside squash for 7 minutes, until deep brown. Set aside.
In large pot, saute leek in olive oil for 2 minutes. Add sage and five-spice powder. Cover and simmer about 10 minutes. Add stock, salt, pepper and bring to simmer.
Peel, core and dice apple. Add to simmering stock and cook 15 minutes. Remove squash from shell and add to stock. Simmer for 2 minutes. Puree soup in a blender
or food processor until smooth. Serve topped with roasted walnuts.
Vegetarian roasted winter squash soup
Filling:1 can pumpkin1 can evaporated milk (12 oz size)1 cup sugar3 eggs1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
Crust:1 box yellow cake mix1 cup chopped nuts2 blocks of butter (melted)
Frosting:1 pkg. (8 oz) cream cheese3/4 cup Cool Whip1/2 cup powdered sugar
Preheat oven to 350. Line a 9x13 pan with waxed paper. Mix all filling ingredients together and pour into the lined 9x13 pan. Sprinkle the dry cake mix and chopped nuts on top of the pumpkin mixture, drizzle with the melted butter. Bake 50 to 60 minutes, until golden brown
Remove from oven and cool completely. Once it is absolutely cool, turn the cake into an-other 9x13 pan so that you have the crust on the bottom and remove the wax paper. Cream the frosting ingredients together and frost cake. Refrigerate. Cut into squares to serve.
Tasty pumpkin squares
Ingredients:1 pkg Sage Flavor Jimmy Dean Pork Sausage1 cup finely chopped onion2 cups chopped celery1 cup diced mushrooms1 teaspoon dried rosemary1/4 cup chopped parsley4 cups crumbled cornbread2 teaspoons poultry seasoning1 cup chicken broth3/4 cup chopped pecans (optional)
Preheat oven to 325 F. In a large skillet, cook sausage over medium-high heat, stirring frequently until thoroughly cooked and no longer pink. Add onion, celery, mushrooms and rosemary; cook 10-12 minutes or until onion is translucent, stirring frequently. Transfer mix-ture to a large bowl, add remaining ingredients and stir well. Pour into a buttered 2-quart casserole dish. Bake covered for 35-40 minutes. Makes 4-6 servings.
Jimmy Dean sausage cornbread stuffing Ingredients:
1 frozen turkey 18 -20 lbs.1 cup Hawaiian saltWater
Line a cooler with a clean plastic bag. Place frozen turkey in lined cooler and cover with water. Add 1 cup Hawaiian salt, cover cooler and let soak overnight, but no longer than 24 hrs.
Drain water and remove turkey from bag. Place turkey in roasting pan, cover with foil and seal tightly.
Bake at 500 degrees for 1 hour 30 minutes, then remove foil and continue baking for 20-30 minutes to brown and crisp skin. This turkey should fall away from the bone.
“Way ‘ono” brine turkey
Ingredients:Cooking spray1 tbsp reduced-calorie margarine2 lbs carrots, scraped and thinly sliced1 cup sliced celery1 1/4 cups chopped onion3 cups low-sodium chicken broth, undiluted1 cup 2% low fat milk1/4 tsp saltfresh chives (optional)
Coat a Dutch oven with cooking spray; add margaine. Place over medium-high heat until margarine melts. Add carrots, onion, celery and saute’ for 10 minutes. Add chicken broth; bring to a boil. Reduce heat, cover and simmer 20 minutes. Remove from heat and let cool 10 minutes.
Transfer mixture in batches to container of electric blender or food processor; top with cover and process smooth. Return puree to pan. Stir in milk and salt. Cook over medium heat just until thoroughly heated (DO NOT BOIL). Ladle soup into individual bowls. Garnish with chives if desired. Yield: 7 cups (94 calories per 1 cup serving)
Cream of carrot soup
Happy ThanksgivingIn 2001, we had Thanksgiving at my grandparents’ home in Kalihi. It was just like every other year
— lots of food and family — the best combination anyone could ask for. Everything was perfect, except for the turkey.
My dad was in charge of the turkey and that year he decided to “deep fry” the poor bird. However, we all know (except for my father) that you are supposed to thaw the thing first.
You probably all know what happened next. It was like a Las Vegas show —lots of yelling and screaming, and we can’t forget the fireworks. Thankfully, no one was hurt, but from that Thanksgiving on, my father was not allowed to touch anything, and for that we are all THANKFUL.
– Solomon Kaimimoku
One Thanksgiving, it was just my girlfriend and me. A turkey seemed too much, so we opted for a couple of Cornish game hens. (No price break, just less mess.) She lived seven hours away, down the coast, and I felt that should’ve been long enough to have the fowl prepped as I had pulled it from the freezer the evening before the drive.
They were still hard as a rock, however, when I packed my bag and left that morning and got on the freeway. That winter morning driving at 70, the engine surely would produce the heat needed not only for myself, but to thaw the rock-hard fowl.
By midday, I still had the defroster blasting like a furnace on the dashboard, and all I could do was rotate the birds on an imaginary skewer. And I drove.
When I arrived at her house later that day, I had nothing to show but a couple of birds that had sur-vived hell’s kitchen, and still, they came out penguins!
My experiment of combining cooking and driving had failed miserably. We went out to some dive and it wasn’t very good.
– Scot Lycan
The wor ld of cook ing t raumasIt’s that time of year again—time to bust out the Tums and those holiday pants. You
know the ones with the…elastic waist? It’s when relatives and friends gather to chew the fat and regale us with their adventures as mouth-watering aromas float through the air. Yes, the holiday season is upon us.
To help stretch that elastic and satisfy those chattering guests, Ka ‘Ohana has put together a few recipes we hope you’ll enjoy.
– by Patrick Hascall, Ka ‘Ohana Editor in Chief
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“A Christmas Fantasy” returns to Gallery ‘Iolani with an array of arts and crafts to get shoppers in the holiday spirit.
The event will run Nov. 28, 29 and Dec. 3, 4, 5 and 6 with sale times 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Tree ornaments and dec-
Michael Jackson lives on — on screen, in his music — and, in some ways, has become
even more the superstar in death.Indeed, it’s been four months
since the passing of the “King of Pop” and yet people around the world continue to celebrate his mu-sical genius.
Some leaders in the music indus-try predicted that the spotlight on Jackson would continue long after his death.
Don Cornelius, creator of “Soul Train,” said, “His passing will be grieved far beyond that of any other singer, composer, producer, dancer and choreographer in the history of the world.”
Singer Ne-Yo spoke about re-membering Jackson through his musical impact. He said, “Michael Jackson will live forever through the thing that he put all of his life energy into: his music. Long live Michael Jackson.”
Generating the most buzz re-cently is the superstar’s documenta-ry film, “This Is It,” which covers the behind-the-scenes rehearsals of his planned London concert. The movie garnered $101 million worldwide in the first five days of its showing and
It’s not too early to start thinking about . . . yes,
you guessed it — Christmas shopping for those special people on your list.
But instead of battling the holiday crowds at the malls, consider something original, handmade and, b e s t o f a l l , r e a s on a bly priced.
WCC’s Ceramics Club “Pot Sale” will be held Fri-day, Dec. 11 from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Saturday, Dec. 12 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Pālanakila 216 studio.
“Stoneware, porcelain, raku and pit f ire pottery pieces will be available,” said art professor and ce-ramics teacher Paul Nash. “Come and get some great pottery at very low prices.”
Shoppers ca n f i nd a w ide ra nge of plat ters , mugs, vases, bowls a nd dishes, handcrafted by tal-ented students and commu-nity members. The artists receive 75 percent of their sales with the remaining proceeds going to the Ce-ramics Club.
The pot tery sale was originally started in 1983 by Nash and his students to help offset the cost of mate-rials and supplies needed
Guitar virtuoso and song-writer Richard Thomp-
son will bring his distinctive folk-rock style to Windward Community College’s Palikū Theatre at 8 p.m. on Nov. 21.
Thompson got his start in 1967 with the band Fairport Convention, whose music coupled acoustic folk with electric rock. This marriage of genres changed Britain’s musical landscape and paved the way for an inspired and influential musical profession.
He has also won numer-ous awards and honors — one of the most prestigous being
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has been extended to play for two more weeks in theatres.
One art icle’s headline read, “Jackson’s tragedy begets cinematic triumph,” asserting that the movie’s success is indicative of what could’ve been for Jackson’s concert.
But Jackson is the true success here — the movie a mere reflection.
Michael Jackson’s new documentary, “This is It,” is creating Oscar-worthy buzz.
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“This is It” shows why he has been called the “King of Pop” through one amazing musical performance after another. The documentary totally captures Jackson’s talent, innovation, artistry and passion—showing why he is considered the most quintessen-tial and consummate performer ever.
More than that, it shows Jackson’s compassion for those around him. Throughout the movie, he makes reference to always doing things “out of love.” As a result, the concert crew seems more like family and the working environment one full of compromise.
Sony distribution head Rory Bruer attributes the overall success of the movie to Jackson’s international popularity.
He explained, “It doesn’t matter if it’s Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe, or South America. He’s just loved every-where on the planet.”
Statistics support this global fame. In fact, geographical media.com reports that Michael Jackson was recently the 7th “most talked about person in world news.” Before him, on that same list, were such world leaders as President Obama and prime minister of India Manmohan Singh.
Of course, not everything being said about Jackson has been respect-ful. An article in a UK paper, “The Guardian,”talks about the singer’s
haunted past and scandals, with its subheadline reading, “From child performer to megastar to humiliated, sickly and bankrupt – the dizzying ascent and tragic fall of the man who would be King of Pop.”
Another article in the Indo-Asian News Service talks about Jackson’s after-death-earnings. According to the article, his enterprises have earned $90 million through monies made from album sales, rights to his name and royalties from the Sony/ATV music catalogue.
Danny Casler, a former Kailua resident and singer for a local band, had positive things to say about Jackson.
He said, “I just hope he can be re-membered for all the great things he did for people rather than the media hype that really tried to destroy the magical person he truly is and was.”
Noelani Pearson, a student at WCC, added, “His death was really sad and unexpected. He was a big role model for a lot of people: his mu-sic, his dancing, everything.” Jackson once said, “If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.”
The “between” is said and done, and just the same, Michael Jackson is still loved.
during the semester. The funds are also used for im-provements not covered by
named in the list of Top 20 all-time guitar greats in a 2004 Rolling Stone issue.
Thompson’s prolific 40-year musical career is chron-icled in his recently released 4-CD box set “Walking on a Wire: 1968-2009.” The set includes 71 tracks from every stage of Thompson ‘s career and a 60-page booklet with new liner notes.
Ticket prices are $35 and can be purchased at the Palikū Box Office or online at www.eTicketHawaii.com. For more information, call the theatre at 235-7310.
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Richard Thompson performs at WCC’s Paliku Theatre on Nov. 21.
WCC ceramics club ‘pot sale’the studio’s annual budget and much-needed repairs to pottery wheels and kilns.
Gallery ‘Iolani’s annual holiday sale begins nov. 28
orations, prints, paintings, photographs, handmade jew-elry, greeting cards, clothing, etched glass, wood carvings and more will be for sale.
All the items are of high quality and handmade by WCC students and commu-nity artists.
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Shoppers browse the variety of handmade cups, bowls, plates and vases at a previous WCC ceramics club pot sale.
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The Beatles’ influence on popular music is far-
reaching and ubiquitous, but it’s not exactly obvious any-more these days. Many people from the emerging generation don’t really appreciate The Beatles. It’s a sad state of af-fairs when the greatest band in history is reduced to “that one band on ‘Rock Band.’”
The Beatles are the best band that ever was, and that ever will be, for a long, long time. Prominent music critic Chuck Klosterman put it best when he simply asserted, “The Beatles made the best songs ever recorded. Thus, they’re the best band ever.” It’s simple logic, really.
The Beatles shifted the conventional paradigm of what popular music should and could be. They were sonic shape-shifters during their 10-year run. Their first albums were essentially Chuck Berry impersonations, but after their experimentation with halluci-nogens and religious pilgrim-ages to India, they started churning out the weird stuff.
The Beatles were a direct reflection of the ideals of the ‘60s counterculture. Their transformation paralleled America’s.
If there were a UH athlet-ics dictionary, you’d see a picture of Dave Shoji under
the word “great.”Shoji, 62, went into his
35th season as the Rainbow Wāhine head coach, looking for his 1,000th win.
The team came through on Oct. 17 and won in four sets against New Mexico State before a crowd of 9,293 at the Stan Sheriff Center.
Since 1982, Hawai‘i has been ranked in the top 25 nationwide every year except for one. If consistency is a sign of greatness, this clearly proves it.
Shoji ranks third among women’s division-I volleyball coaches of all time with a win percentage of .850 at the start of the 2009 season. He also became only the second coach to ever win 1,000 games in Division I volleyball be-hind Andy Bonachowski of UCLA.
The Rainbow Wāhine, along with Shoji, has built a
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Ka ‘Ohana Staff Reporterculture here in Hawai‘i. With local fans filling up thousands of seats in the Stan Sheriff Center every game, the Rain-bow Wāhine have led the na-tion in attendance since 1994 when they first started to play there.
A student at UNLV and a lifelong fan of UH athletics, Fuchsia Yamashiro says that there’s “something special” when it comes to the Wāhine.
Yamashiro believes the one tradition that will always continue at Rainbow Wāhine volleyball games is the chant of “Let’s go, Bows!”
Another reason Yamashi-ro thinks fans will consis-tently show up is that they have “the coach Hawai‘i loves and a team that we can rely on to consistently win.”
“They ha rdly le t us down,” says Yamashiro.
Not only are these games available live to fans, but there is a l ive television broadcast for each home game. Most matches, home or away, are also available on the radio.
During Shoji’s tenure, the
Rainbow Wāhine has won four national championships. And since the Wāhine joined the WAC in 1996, they have at least won a share of the confer-ence championship.
Volleyball wasn’t one of the sports Shoji played in high school. But when he went to UC Santa Barbara for college, he played volleyball for three years. There he earned vol-leyball All-American honors
in ’68 and ’69.After a two-year stint in
the U.S. Army, he returned to Hawai‘i and became the coach at Kalani High School for the boys’ and girls’ volleyball teams. From there, he went to Punahou and was an assistant coach before becoming the coach of the Wāhine.
Volleyball runs in the Shoji family as well. His wife Mary was an assistant coach for the
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Punahou volleyball team.His daughter, Cobey, is the
director of volleyball opera-tions at Stanford University. His two sons, Kawika and Erik, both play for the Stan-ford men’s volleyball team.
With the inconsistent per-formances from other sports, the Rainbow Wāhine continue to be the team the people of Hawai‘i can count on to de-liver a win.
After 35 years of excellence, multiple All-Americans, numerous WAC championships and four national championships, Dave Shoji finally earns his 1,000th career victory with a win over New Mexico State.
This fall marks the 40th anniversary of the release of “Abbey Road,” The Beatles’ last recorded album before their tumultuous break-up in 1970. The “Let it Be” sessions that preceded “Abbey Road” were somewhat strained and unfruitful due to intra-band tensions (Yoko Ono). The Beatles were the inventors of “creative differences,” the now time-honored reason for disbanding.
The Beatles probably knew going into the studio that this was the last album they were likely to create together. Per-haps it was this knowledge that propelled the immense
creative artistry and musical-ity of “Abbey Road.” Their mastery of the studio is appar-ent on this record more than any other Beatles album. It’s hard to believe that the entire record was produced with an eight-track recorder. Perhaps going into it, the four of them knew that “Abbey Road” was going to be their swan song, so they had to make it their best effort to date.
And they did.The A side of “Abbey
Road” is home to most of the albums hits. It starts off with Lennon’s “Come Together,” with its driving blues back-bone and Lennon’s distinct,
Dadaist lyricism. “Oh! Dar-ling” hearkens back to the early straightforward rock n’ roll days of The Beatles, with McCartney’s trademark howl taking center stage.
“I Want You (She’s So Heavy)” is a singular achieve-ment. It’s nearly eight minutes of dark, organ heavy rock and contains only fourteen words. Musically, the verses are blue-sy and laid back, while the chorus is a haunting arpeggio with a driving guitar line.
Side B starts with the oft overplayed but still infinitely uplifting George Harrison song “Here Comes the Sun,” but quickly evolves into a 16-minute, frenzied, intercon-nected medley of songs. The emotionalism and grandeur become more intensified with each passing song, and cul-minates with the alternating guitar solos in “The End.”
Music expert/ WCC coun-selor Renee Arakaki said of side B “The medley stands out on Abbey Road. Its different musical themes, rhythms, and harmonic textures no doubt influenced later masterpieces, like Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhap-sody.’”
The impact of The Beatles on popular music has been profound. If you made a fam-ily tree of influences for virtu-
ally any present-day rock act, it would inevitably be traced back to The Beatles.
Stylistically, their cata-logue is so diverse that you could argue that they helped create a multitude of genres, from LSD-inspired psych-rock (“Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”) to avante garde experimentalism (“Revolution No. 9”).
EMI remastered and reis-sued “Abbey Road” in Septem-ber, along with The Beatles’ other 11 studio albums. Re-mastering a Beatles album is a bit like doing touch-ups on the Sistine Chapel, but sur-prisingly the final product improved an already perfect album. Rock aficionado/ WCC student Stephen Agustin said of the reissue, “The clarity of the sound is amazing. It’s ‘Abbey Road’ in a completely new light.”
“Abbey Road” is The Bea-tles’ crowning achievement. Quite frankly, these songs are the best sounding things that have ever been captured on tape. The album creates a wistful, dreamlike world. A sense of longing and senti-mentality pervades the music; it’s the perfect conclusion to the Beatles’ meteoric career. Forty years later, this music is still relevant.
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The Fab Four during Lennon’s infamous “Beard Years”: Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and John Lennon.
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For the past 18 years Paula Akana has been in our homes as well as our
community, bringing us sto-ries from all over the Hawai-ian Islands. Positioned at the KITV anchor desk, she has been a familiar face to viewer-for the 10 o’clock news.
But although she’s a re-spected figure in local news, Akana is anything but in-timidating. With her down-to-earth nature, she makes people feel as though they’ve known her all their lives.
Her interest in journal-ism began when she was a sports editor for the Ka-mehameha High Schools’ newspaper. After starting off as an accounting major at UH-Mānoa, she said she “wised up” and went back to journalism.
“It was at UH that I was able to experience broadcast journalism,” Akana said. She fell in love with the hunt for a good story and present-
ing it to her audience. With a high school back-
ground in speech and debate, broadcast journalism was an easy transition. “It was like, ‘Oh, this is a natural fit; I like to talk!’” exclaimed Akana.
After finishing her in-ternship at KITV4, and just a semester away from re-ceiving her bachelor’s in journalism, she was offered a job there.
“They called me in be-cause it was Christmas break and a whole bunch of report-ers were trying to go on vaca-tion,” explained Akana.
Starting as a night and weekend reporter, she was later given a f ive-minute segment on the morning show. Shortly afterward, she was asked to co-anchor the weekend news.
Akana has received offers from other news stations but explains, “Doing things like Merrie Monarch and Keiki Hula and things outside of the news . . . that’s a great thing that KITV has given me the opportunity to do.”
Kualoa Ranch is a 4,000-acre ranch with green, luxurious valleys and
rolling hillsides. It is the site of well-known movies, such as “Jurassic Park” and “50 First Dates,” and TV shows like “Lost.”
It’s also a family-owned company, not only because of its cattle ranch opera-tion, but also because it is one of O‘ahu’s largest tourist attractions that employs over 150 people.
Kualoa, meaning “long back” in Ha-waiian, was named so in 1927 and is now owned by the Morgan family. John Mor-
gan, president and CEO of the ranch, and his brother, David, the operations manager, have many responsibilities.
“It’s really just a calling” says John about what drives him to keep the ranch as beautiful as it is.
According to the ranch’s Web site: “Kualoa Ranch, family-owned and operated, has as its mission to be a role model as stewards of the land. We do this by preserving, protecting and enhancing its natural beauty and culture, while developing recreational and agricultural enterprises compat-ible with the environment.”
Carrying on traditions through the last decade, John Morgan described the vast area and what stands out most.
“Ala Moana Shopping Center, in-cluding the parking lot, can fit in just the fishpond,” said John.
”There are also three different ahupua‘a that make up Kualoa Ranch, including Hakipu‘u, Kualoa, and most of Ka‘a‘awa. Kualoa is one of the most sacred lands and was owned by King Kamehameha.”
An ahupua’a is a common sub-division of land. Hawaiians would normally divide the land from the top of the mountain out to the reef in the ocean. That way they would always have resources and food in any emer-gency, such as a drought or overfishing.
Kualoa was the home of kings, a training ground for royalty, and a sacred spot to all ancient Hawaiians.
It was in 1850 that King Kame-hameha III sold 622 acres to the Wilder family, who then handed it down to the Morgans.
“The Morgan family has held this
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(from left) Sports anchor Rob DeMello, news anchor Paula Akana, Kristine Asato and meteorologist Justin Fujioka.
Wit h de sk s pla nted throughout the newsroom, producers, anchors, and pro-duction crew mingle freely.
“I really feel like I’ve grown up here,” Akana says, “ because I started here when I was 21, and we just know each other so well. It’s really a family atmosphere.”
Some colleagues claim
that if the newsroom were a family, Akana would be the mother hen. Weekend sports anchor Rob DeMello recalls his first day on air.
“My very first day anchor-ing sports, I had never worn a tie before,” he admitted. “So she actually put on my tie for me, like a mother putting on your tie when you go off to
the prom.” Added meteorologist Jus-
tin Fujioka, “She is someone who has had my respect from day one.”
One of the biggest ob-stacles Akana had to overcome was pushing people beyond their comfort zone to get the interview.
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Ka ‘Ohana Writerproperty for over 150 years and pre-served it,” said John. “Happy to say, we employ many local people from the area with good jobs.”
Even with the bad economy, Kualoa still seems to be running strong. Over 100 new tourists are seen there almost every day, and all of the activities at the ranch are still getting filled up fast. With the economic downturn John simply stated, “Fortunately, everything is doing pretty well.”
Being brothers and both part own-ers of the ranch, you’d think there would be “bad blood” or family disagreements from time to time, but John said there aren’t any significant ones.
“David loves being in the thick of the day-to-day activity and is a very per-sonable kind of guy. He is also a great storyteller,” said John with a chuckle.
David said, “John is more the face of Kualoa Ranch in the broad community. He’s very good at communicating with people who aren’t close with the ranch and loves to fill them in.”
Every activity at Kualoa has kama’aina rates. Some favorites for the guests are the two-hour horseback tour, ATV ride and the hour movie site tour.
All the activities take you through Ka’a’awa Valley where the movies are filmed, through Kualoa to see the WWII bunkers, around the old sugar mill, and back to where the journey started.
The movie site tour is $18 and lasts 40 minutes while the two-hour ATV tour and horseback tour both cost $79.
At Kualoa Ranch you are also able to purchase a full day of activities priced around $115, but that does not include any two-hour activities.
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(above) A view from above of the 4,000-acre Kualoa Ranch.
(left) Brothers David and John
Morgan have been carrying
on traditions through the last
decade.
Courtesy of KuAloA rANCh
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Editorial 11Ka ‘Ohana
To cut public education in a state with some of the lowest test scores and already abysmal attendance record is criminal, and illustrates exact-ly where our true interests lie.
An uneducated populous is the most easily intimidated, manipulated, and subjugated. I feel that situations such as a “budget crisis” provides the perfect opportunity to reallocate taxpayers’ money towards the essentials, which is almost always anything that will keep commerce healthy, away from social services, allowing the population to ad-just to the new lack of public services and accept the new norm.
However, we shall not fear, for there are always private companies offering the same services so there is no need to go without. If you truly care about your child’s education, simply place him/her in private school. And for those who cannot afford private school, it ’s most likely that your opinion doesn’t matter any-way, so it ’s probably best that you stay uneducated and marginalized.
– Dominic Billand
It doesn’t bot her me that much. I’m a little jeal-ous because I would like more time to go surf in the morning. But it ’s a minor situation that doesn’t af-fect me.
– Davis Giang
The idea of furloughing teachers and shorten ing
the academic year speaks volumes about the way ad-ministration is carried out in this state. It is deplorable as it is puerile. I shudder to think of our future gover-nance when I consider the depths of idiocy to which our present leaders, who enjoyed fully untampered school years in their youth, can stoop.
Moreover, I went to great effort to stack my academic schedule in such a way as to leave Fridays open. I have no classes. Now, my mother, who works in the DOE system, has Fridays off as well. When will the indignities end? Must I spend all Fridays, with the exception of four of five not covered by furloughs or holi-days, in the company of my mother?
– John T. Harrison IV
I find it to be completely ridiculous. This is basically taking away education from children for their future. How is this going to help us solve anything, for not only our financial problems, but our schools as well? People every-where have a financial situ-ation, but cutting education does not help. If anything, they should cut that ridicu-lous rail project.
– Cammy Lau
I honestly think the fur-loughs are a good idea in terms of dealing with the shortage of funds. I also think our idea of school is flawed. School for parents is a day-care in which the govern-
ment is supposed to provide. Meanwhile, parents do the various responsibilities they need to tend to. Our children aren’t learning enough from their parents and we are put-ting too much stress on our teachers who are obviously outnumbered.
– Keali Frank
I think furlough Fridays are a horrible and unfair idea for both students and teach-ers. Students miss out on edu-cation and the teachers lose out on money. Teachers have families to feed too! We’re all in this together, and as a com-munity we should pay to solve the problem. Raising taxes would put the burden on all of us instead of just government employees.
Furlough Fridays affect me because I have two chil-dren. Who will watch them on Fridays? Will I have to pay someone? I work full-t i me a nd go to col lege. The state is just making things harder. If parents are going to pay someone to watch their kids on Fri-days anyway, why not pay a small fee every month to the school to keep the teachers working and our children learning? I know many parents agree with me when I mention paying for Fridays.
– Hector Zapata Berrios
Linda Lingle should be forced to work at a day care center every furlough Fri-day for allowing this to go through. While the State is
saving money, the people are losing because parents have to take off work or pay to send them to day care.
– Alex Bocchieri
I have a younger brother in elementary school and because he will have Fridays off, I must skip my class to pick him up and take care of him until my parents get home.
If I fail that class and my future is put in jeopardy, Linda Lingle will get a very
What do you think of ‘furlough Fridays’ in the public schools?
angry voicemail in her inbox!– Colin Cassady
They already have events for those days for child and parent to partake, but the radio is making it sound like furlough days are a good thing.
I don’t have any brothers and sisters, but my father drives a school bus for Kai-lua Intermediate. He’s part time but he loses half his work on Friday because of it.
– Christopher Chabriel
Furlough Friday protestors at the state Capitol on Oct. 23.Kanu hawaii
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ASUH-WCC PresentsChristmas Bashnoon - 2 p.m., Hale ‘Ākoakoa
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Christmas Fantasy10 a.m. - 5 p.m.Gallery ‘Iolani
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Plant Sale9 a.m.- 4 p.m., Hale Uluwehi
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“Larry the Cat in Space”7 p.m., Imaginarium
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Chemistry Forum:“Chlorofluorocarbons and Global Warming” by Kevin Hamilton. 1:30 - 2:30 p.m., Imiloa 111
Hawaiian Music Workshop - Aaron MahiMele Paniolo: Songs of the Hawaiian Cowboy10 a.m. - noon, TBA
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STUDENTS are encouragedto attend the first meeting of theKo’olau Poko Sustaninable Commu-nities Plan to discuss land use issues.They include protection of resources and improvement of infrastructure .
Astronomy Symposium:“MAKAHIKI IN old HAWAI‘I”: Astronomical and cultural Perspectives” by dr. Paul Coleman12:30 - 1:15 p.m., Hale ‘Ākoakoa 105
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Akana“I’m not an extremely ag-
gressive person,” she admit-ted. “And I think a lot of that is just culturally, we grow up being more laid back. So I’ve had to learn to push myself more when I’m going to do the interviews.”
Also being Hawaiian her-self, Akana has met with con-troversy from people saying she’s either being too Hawaiian or not Hawaiian enough.
But even with the chang-ing news industry, she faces
the challenge with enthusiasm. “That’s one of the hardest
parts about being what I call an ‘old-time journalist,’” she said. “You have to jump on that train and go with it.”
It’s evident that Akana enjoys what she does. “It’s a great career, and since I’ve always been really ni’ele and nosey, it’s a great fit.”
But she’s not done yet. Akana wants to help produce more Hawaiian language and cultural programs, to help her heritage continue into the next generation.
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Star of Bethlehem:“The Magi’s Story”7 p.m., Imaginarium
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Christmas Fantasy10 a.m. - 5 p.m.Gallery ‘Iolani Christmas Fantasy
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Christmas Fantasy10 a.m. - 5 p.m.Gallery ‘Iolani
Christmas Fantasy10 a.m. - 5 p.m.Gallery ‘Iolani
Christmas Fantasy10 a.m. - 5 p.m.Gallery ‘Iolani