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With tuition rising about 35 percent during a five-year period, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa stu-dents are bringing their rally against these hikes to the student government and state legislature. “We’re rallying against (the tuition hikes) be-cause we can see that students are hurting and we want to see a more balanced method of funding the university,” UH Mānoa senior Ian Ross said. Ross and Associated Students of the Universi-ty of Hawai‘i Senator sophomore Sean Mitsui, who will be proposing a resolution to ASUH, worked with Vice Speaker of the House John Mizuno to bring the issue to the state legislature. “It’s necessary,” Mitsui said. “If it’s just a student government we’re not going to have much infl uence because we’re not going to have the power to change the entire school, but the legislature has because the school defi nitely falls under the state’s rule because it receives tax funds. And they have a right to know how the university is spending its own money.”

APPROACHING THE LEGISLATURE In March 2013, Ross began discussing the tu-ition hikes with Mizuno and worked with him dur-ing the summer, planning a piece of legislation. Mizuno plans to propose freezing UH’s resident tuition for the 2014-15 academic year. “It’s just too much,” Mizuno said in a phone interview. “You’ve got fi ve years in a row that the Board of Regents have approved of tuition hikes. That’s just too much, and in the last three

years, they’re going up 7.5, 7.5, 7.5.” Mizuno said he foresees UH students drop-ping out due to the high tuition cost. “We need to ensure that our residents have a very good state system to give them a higher education and allow them adequate ability to obtain the college de-gree, but that doesn’t happen,” he said.

BRINGING THE HIKES TO ASUH The College of Arts and Sciences senator is planning to propose a resolution to ASUH at the end of September. Mitsui’s resolution will request a freeze on resident tuition for the 2014-15 school year as well as a fi nancial audit. “In my perspective, this is the number one issue that students are concerned about, and I be-lieve ASUH is obligated to have an official opinion and official stance on it – this issue,” Mitsui said. Mitsui said he hopes to see the resolution passed and have a consolidated goal so he can work with the student senate more. “Right now it’s only me and a couple of other people on ASUH who are willing to work with this issue,” Mitsui said. “But if we have an offi cial paper to state that we’re all in support of this issue, it’ll be easier to work with the state legislature and the university.”

THE COST OF TUIT ION According to a “Per-credit-hour and full-time semester tuition schedule” on the Board of Regents website, undergraduate resident tuition at UH Mānoa is set to increase about 5.5 percent from academic years 2012-13 to

2013-14, and about 7.5 percent for each year up until 2016-17. Undergraduate residents attend-ing UH Mānoa full-time currently pay $4,572 a semester. Non-residents pay $13,356. Under-graduate non-resident tuition will increase by about 5.5 percent each year until 2016-17. These tuition rates were approved by the BOR in October 2011 and issued in March 2013, according to the schedule. Sen. Brian Taniguchi, Chair of the Sen-ate’s Committee on Higher Education, said the UH administration’s reason for the tuition increases was to make tuition comparable to public institutions in the United States. UH system director of communication Jodi Leong said that the tuition schedule was adopted for fi ve years to give students and their parents the ability to plan. “There are two sources of revenue that pay for the cost of education: state appro-priation and tuition,” Leong said in an email. “The state has not been able to keep UH’s ap-propriation at the same level as it has in the past due to competing state needs.”

THE CAMPUS CENTER RALLY On Aug. 26, Ross led a rally in Mānoa’s Campus Center to “get the information out to students,” according to Mitsui. Ross and Mitsui rallied with other students against the increasing tuition in general. “I personally believe that the tuit ion increase is too high for everyone, and I support keeping tuit ion low for all stu-dents,” Ross said.

Dozens of students attended the rally, ac-cording to Ross. “There’s a lot of people who really want to get involved because this is an exciting idea,” Ross said. “And as you know, the leg-islature has been wanting to address some of the issues with UH.” He believes the rally will be successful be-cause he and the other participants in the rally are working for a plan. “Now we’re rallying for a plan,” Ross said. “We have a bill drafted. We understand how things move forward and we have a positive message about how to get there. … We’re do-ing more than just saying ‘We don’t like plan A.’ We’re offering plan B.”

LOOKING AHEAD “What we need to do is get more stu-dents, you know, get them to understand what’s going on,” Ross said. “Get them talk-ing about it. And pretty much, put together everything we need to rally bigger and stron-ger by the time the legislation gets here.” Mizuno agreed. “What’s next is rally the students – to rally and unite the students to support introduction and passage of this bill for the tuition freeze,” Mizuno said. “The students, this is on them. If they want this to pass, step up and do it.”

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In a strange turn of events, the Russian government has offered a seemingly peaceful solution to the Syrian chemical weapons crisis that has captivated the globe. The some-what idealistic solution was report-edly initiated by Russian Foreign Minster Sergey Lavrov during a “fruitful round of talks” with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem. This plan, which the Syrians say they have agreed upon, calls for the Syrians chemical weapons sup-ply to be placed under international control. This would then lead to the destruction of Syria’s weapon sup-ply under international supervision. The plan is in response to the chemical weapons attack in Da-

mascus on Aug. 12 that Secretary of State John Kerry said had killed 1,429 people and more than 400 chil-dren using the neurotoxin sarin. This plan has been met with hesitation by world leaders who doubt that Syria will comply and suspect a delaying tactic by both the Syrians and Russians. However this plan is at the same time being viewed as a virtual “get out of jail free card” for leaders of war-wary countries like the United Kingdom, France and the United States. In the U.K. the House of Commons has al-ready rejected a proposal to attack Syria, and in the U.S., President Barack Obama faces an uphill bat-tle against a Republican-controlled House of Representatives.

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For Avree Ito-Fujita and Brigette Agus-tin the price of textbooks this semester is equal to a T-shirt design. Free textbooks was just one of the prizes offered through UH’s HI Pride T-shirt designing contest, which took place from April 1-21. Open to University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa students, each submission had to express what “HI-Pride” meant to them and include the phrases “HI Pride” and “University of Hawai‘i” on the shirt. Ito-Fujita’s design features the Hawai-ian Islands in the shape of an ukulele. “For me, ‘HI-Pride’ represents the har-monious celebration of aloha, ohana and other elements that make Hawai‘i a great place to call home,” Ito-Fujita said in an email interview. “I incorporated my inter-pretation of ‘HI-Pride’ into my design by using the Hawaiian Islands to shape an ukulele, which symbolizes a harmonious celebration of Hawai‘i.”

Agustin’s design displays “HI” with the fi gure of a shaka dotting the “I”. “Hawai‘i is a simple place and yet that ’s what makes it so unique and beauti-ful,” Agustin said in an email interview. “I wanted to keep my design as simple and bold as Hawai‘i is, which is why I incor-porated the shaka into my design. … The shaka is a simple way to express aloha. Ev-eryone knows it, and we use it every day.” This is the second year of the contest. Prizes included a compilation of a semes-ter’s worth of free textbooks from the UH Mānoa Bookstore, a $50 gift certifi cate from Rainbowtique and the fi rst shirt off the press. Ito-Fujita and Agustin also received a beach bag fi lled with items such as a neon green bag, water bottle, Warrior beach towel, Shaka Laka sunscreen and hand sani-tizer and curry and barbeque sauces. To enter the contest next year, look for ads in Ka Leo f lyers around campus or check the Mānoa Bookstore and Rainbow-tique Facebook pages and your UH email for updates.

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Since the threat of American involvement in Syria, the world has been drawn into the issue, with Syr-ian neighbor Iran publicly defend-ing Syria and Russia consistently calling into question the evidence that America has against Assad. Also, there was the reported inter-ception of a message between the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force and militia groups in Iraq that supposedly called for an attack on the U.S. Em-bassy in Baghdad if America did attack Syria. At the same time, Rus-sia has moved at least two military ships into the Mediterranean Sea, adding to a military presence that already includes a base on Syria’s west coast at Tartus. This only adds to the larger picture of Middle East volatility that includes the nuclear-armed state of Israel. This is why I strongly believe that the United Nations, with the full support of America, should establish a fi rm timetable complete with “pro-cesses and consequences if it’s not done” as U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron stated. This plan would include, as French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius explained, Syrians bring their chemical weapons pro-gram “fully to light” and make all information about their weapons sup-

ply public. Russia has also proposed that the Syrian government join the Chemical Weapons Convention. As for President Obama, this so-lution may come as his saving grace, especially since he played his hand weeks ago when he publicly stated his goal was to initiate a missile strike against Syria. The president origi-nally stated this goal without United Nations approval or Congressional approval, leaving the door open for any military action by the U.S. to be viewed as an act of aggression. Obviously there is the natural human reaction to the reported war crimes by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, which has lead some to wish to punish the Syrian government through violence, a sentiment strongly supported by Obama. But in the discourse of the most powerful leaders in the world, peace must be the most important priority. More importantly, taking the initiative to attack Syria alone only sets an even stronger prece-dence for America to be the police of the world. But this is not Ameri-ca’s duty alone: It is the responsibil-ity of the international community to enforce international norms. By far, the most important aspect is that the international response to Assad’s war crimes is legal.

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At the heart of the Rainbow Wahine soccer team is something more than the ag-gression it shows on the fi eld: its defense.

DEFENSIVE -MINDED As Hawai‘i started training for the Outrigger Hotels and Resorts Soccer Classic that starts Friday, head coach Mi-chele Nagamine stressed the importance of the defensive line’s role. “Everything starts with them, and that’s why our goalkeeper position is so critical and our entire defense,” Nagamine said. “Central, midfi eld, central outside doesn’t matter. Everything starts with them.” “Our defense is the root of the team,” senior defender Chelsea Miyake said. “It keeps the team grounded.”

While the Rainbow Wahine strive to be defensive-minded, they also under-stand that aggression can help them take the upper hand on the field. “We know what we have to do each game in order to keep goals out of the net, but we also have to worry about being offensive-minded and helping out our of-fense by making outside runs and getting the forwards to help them so they’re not alone,” Miyake said. “There’s a lot more tackles involved, there’s a lot more physical play in the bag so as soon as we make a hard tackle the crowd goes wild, and it just makes our force check and it makes everybody play hard,” senior defender Malé Fr-esquez said. “A lot of people have been saying that our team’s very feisty and that feistiness is what kind of keeps us at that high intensity level.”

Nagamine also placed an emphasis on possession of the ball and working with the right strategies to enhance their game, but a reliance on a strong defense became a backbone for the team. “We’re at a point as a team where we have a lot more technical ability and in-stead of just getting the ball and getting it up the field, we look to possess it a little bit more, incorporate a lot of combina-tions,” Nagamine said. “It ’s the way the game should be played. It ’s also utilizing our defense to start the attack, and it ’s huge for us. I think it ’s one of the things that made a major difference for us be-tween last year and this year.” “Coach (Nagamine) puts a lot of trust in the defense, and so she kind of puts all our eggs in the basket,” Fresquez said. “It ’s a lot of pressure, but it ’s exciting to play for a coach that trusts you that much.”

VICTORY ON THE ROAD UH (2-2) came back from the road this week after sweeping the two Pac-12 teams it faced, Oregon and Oregon State. “We had a good chance to kind of put things away because of the fact that we’ve been working so hard,” Nagamine said. “(It has) nothing to do with our opponent. It ’s just the fact that we’ve been working so hard and preparing, so I was thrilled to get the wins on the road.”

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