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In this issue: Pages 44-45 Music majors perform concertos with Hawaii Symphony • Pages 86-87 BYUH student
Alec Summers joins the church after searching for a religion • Pages 102-103 How to get around on the North Shore
BYUH President John S. Tanner explains his vision for the school.
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Foodfest brings together culture and cusineIndonesian desserts and Navajo tacos can be found in the Little Circle
Special Ed class goes beyond doing classwork Students help 7-year-old and family prepare to return to Tonga
BYUH president learns fromuniversity’s past to plan futureJohn Tanner and his wife, Susan, work to serve students, community
FEATURES
62Tiyarra Roanhorse:Bringing Native American cultureto Hawaii and Laie
72Bubba Au draws on heritageHe credits his parents, Hawaiian roots and political science education for his 62
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Fishing the communal wayLaie family hosts traditional hukilau, which is huge net fishing, on local beach
Festival honors first Hawaiian hula instructor at PCCPolynesian Cultural Center honors Auntie Sally legacy
Graphic shows hikes on Oahuby levels of difficulty
Point Guard Justin Yamzon 5’7” basketball player excells in a sport amongst giants
76International man of SecurityCampus Security’s Torch Morris worked for years in law enforcement before coming to BYUH
92Tying it togetherHale coordinators start Kie Fashion, a Polynesian influenced company that sells ties online, at bookstore
80Aditya Mongan speaks at Winter CommencementHe says everyone should find some-thing to stand for
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G E T T O K N O WT H E S T A F FWhat message would youput in a fortune cookie?
Alex MaldonadoWriter | “Seeking wis-dom from a cookieis a fool’s errand.
-Confucias”
Michael Morton Writer | “Bewarewhen the great godlets loose a great thinker on this planet- Ralph Waldo Emerson”
Daxon Levine Writer | “Ancient wis-dom says: Respect men who are bald by choice. They hold great power on the battlefield.”
Teresa HwangWriter | “Be yourself, follow your heart, and it’s alright to get lost sometimes.”
Zeph McKeeWriter | “If you seek wisdom, you will have power, and as youobtain power, you will find courage.”
Stop KhemthornPhotographer | “Send change-of-address cards because you’re moving to cloud nine.”
Lauren SteimleLayout Artist | “You go, Glenn Coco.”
Mackenzie McLeod Layout Artist | “You can do hard things.”
Andrea Marshall Videographer and Layout Artist |“Do you.”
Sin Yan Dorothy Chiu Videographer| “Drink more water.”
Emily HallsEditor-in-Chief |“When in doubt, eat steak fries.”
Josh MasonManaging Editor | “Take advantage of everyopportunity.”
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Danna OsumoWriter | “Have you heard about Pluto?That’s messed up.”
Eric HachenbergerWriter | “A good day starts with a good workout!”
Rachel ChambersWriter | “Who needs a degree when you’re schooling life? -Beyonce”
Hunter PonsWriter | “Lookbehind you.”
Matthew Roberts Writer | “So you’re say-ing there’s a chance.”
Sammy DaynesWriter |“Let yourself be an unabashed nerd about something. People may look at you funny, but at least you’ll have fun.”
Zachary Konecki Photographer | “Lorem ipsum dat.”
Kenny Vilayvong Videographer | “Eh... Your life may or may not get better.”
Jared RobertsCopy Editor | “Were the calories worth it?”
Leiani Brown Copy Editor |
“Someone somewhere tolerates you.”
Taylor PolsonCopy Editor | “Don’t think twice, it’s alright.
-Bob Dylan.”
Samone YuenGraduate Intern and Copy Editor | “You will be ambushed at 10:47 p.m. Don’t say you weren’t warned.”
Kelsie CarlsonPhotographer | “Enter to learn, go forthto serve”
Hector Periquin Graduate Intern and Art Director | “Acquire good taste.”
LeeAnn LambertAdvisor | “Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.- Dale Carnegie”
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Take a step in the right direction with a Business Management degree from Brigham Young University-Hawaii. We are dedicated to creating innovative business leaders whose influence for good will be felt internationally. With a degree in Business Management, you will gain the opportunity of learning essential business and professional skills, while also specializing in one of our four tracks:
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campus life
in this sectionNew Hospitality and Tourism Center
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BYUH beekeepers work to combat decreasing bee population
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Salsa Orchestra brings grooves to the McKay Auditorium
Beautiful Women’s Group helps grow self-esteem and friendships
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BYUH celebrates 60-year anniversary and unveils historic marker
International students experiencetheir first Thanksgiving holiday
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Mike Potter takes crown in Concert Choir game of Assassins
Music majors perform concertos with Hawaii Symphony
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Take a step in the right direction with a Business Management degree from Brigham Young University-Hawaii. We are dedicated to creating innovative business leaders whose influence for good will be felt internationally. With a degree in Business Management, you will gain the opportunity of learning essential business and professional skills, while also specializing in one of our four tracks:
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Special Ed 370 class blesses lifeof 7-year-old who has cerebral palsy 16BYUH President John Tanner learns from university’s past to plan future 18
Campus map shows how to get around and find services available to students 22
Food Fest brings more than 30 cultures on campus into one flavorful spot 14
Tanner’s inauguration address inspires campus ohana to create Zion university 20 Theater and Music professors
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Counseling Services director talks about free services for students 56
Hong Kong students place fourth in national business contest 52
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BYU-Hawaii and the commu-nity of Laie enjoyed one of
the university’s most memorable traditions, Food Fest on Saturday, Sept. 5. “I love Food Fest,” said Taylor Holman, a junior graphic design and peace building major from Mesa, Ariz. “I love seeing and experiencing all the different cultures. There are not a lot of universities were you can experi-ence something like this. We are indeed very lucky.” People gathered tothe Little Circle to enjoy a nightof food, music and culture asthey had the chance to eatethnic foods from a number of different countries. A notable association that is in it’s second year here on campus was the Native American Association. Their cultural food, the Navajo taco and fry bread, at-tracted the attention of those who attended. “We decided on the Na-vajo taco since a majority of the Native Americans here on campus are Navajos,” said Tyler Saganey, a junior secondary education major from the Navajo nation. Food historians credit the invention of fry bread to the thousands of Navajo who were forced off their land in the “Long Walk” to Arizona’s Fort Sumner in 1864. With the government only giving the Navajos rations of white flour, sugar, and lard, the
Indonesian desserts and Navajo tacosare on the menuat Food Fest
people began to make fry bread, a tradition that stuck even when they returned to their reservation. Due to the close proximity of the Navajo Reservation to Mexico and the extensive Spanish influ-ence in Arizona the addition of beans, meat, and cheese followed suit and created what it now know as the Navajo taco. While some associa-tions shared dinner food, a few shared typical desserts consumed in their countries. The Indonesian Association featured a delicious combination of native desserts: martabak manis and roti bakar. Club President Narendra Saputra Mongan, an information technol-ogy junior from Indonesia, said the martabak manis is an all-time Indonesian favorite. It is a folded pancake with chocolate, peanuts, vanilla, and cheese sandwiched in the middle. Mongan said the roti bakar is a dessert commonly eaten with friends and family. It is simi-lar to French toast but instead it is topped with chocolate, vanilla, nuts, and cheese. For Indonesians, the mixture of sweet foods with cheese is a common theme in their dessert foods. “In Indonesia we like sweet food and love mix-ing it with cheese. Some people might think it is a bad mix, but it is really good,” said Mongan.
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Working with a 7-year-old girl from Tonga with cerebral palsy named Maikale, along with her family members who are living in TVA, students in this semester’s SPED 370 class have gone above and beyond what they were assigned to do, said Dr. Barbara Hong, who teaches Special Education classes. Hong said her students are helping Maikale and her family, but “it is nothing to do with the credits. It’s just wonderful.” Maikale’s father, Kelepi Akoteu, brought his wife, and three of his six children to Laie through the LDS Church’s International Teacher Education Program. He is part of this semester’s SPED class as well. Hong said her class created two goals for Maikale: “To be able to stand and to be able to express something for herself.” This is part of learning about IEPs, or Individual Education Programs, documents teachers use to set goals when teaching special needs children.
The students in the class spend at least an hour every day reading books and doing matching or coloring activities with Maikale and her two siblings, Lavender and Seini. Stu-dents work with Maikale at Laie Elementary School as well as at home. But Hong said the students decided to focus on helping the whole Akoteu family and preparing them for when they return to Tonga in a few months. In their home country, there are limited resources for Maikale. Akoteu said in Tonga, there isn’t a doctor that is suited for Maikale’s needs and she wasn’t unable to even sit up by herself. However, when they came to BYUH in January 2015, they took her to a hospital here and she got surgery that reconfigured her bones. Now,
“She can sit properly by herself. We were so happy,” said Kelepi. “We see now - the bones are still growing. The bones will get stronger and we need to exercise her,” he added. Hong said
she is training the parents in physical therapy and academic teaching so they can continue to provide Maikale with the help she needs when they return home. Since the class has begun spend-ing time with the family, her father has seen a change in Maikale. “My daughter is really excited when someone knocks on the door and she sees the student,” said Kelepi. Chelsie Lambert, a junior from Utah studying elementary education and pursuing a special education certificate, said she goes over to the Akoteu’s TVA home more than she is required to for class. While the goal of the class is centered around Maikale, Lambert said she interacts a lot with Seini and Lavender as well. “We help more than we thought,” Lambert said. She recalled a time where she handed books to Seini and Lavender andafterward asked them to explain the stories to her. They did.
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More than ClassworkFather says SPED 370 students have brought blessings to his family
The SPED 370 class taught by Dr. Barbara Hong takes a photo with the Akoteu family and Education Department staff. Students in the class include Kelepi Akoteu, Aubree Cameron, Ka Wai Chiang, Chesie Lambert, Korin Lopez and Tiffany Ng. Photo by Lexie Kapeliela
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Lambert said working with Seini and Lavender sometimes makes Maikale jealous. “She’s super animated. She’ll hit my leg like, ‘Pay attention to me,’” Lambert explained. One time, Lambert said she asked Mai-kale, “‘Which Disney princess are you?’ She pointed to Tiana from ‘The Princess and the Frog.’ Then I said, ‘Which princess am I?’ and she pointed to Repunzel. I was like, ‘Yeah!’” The students are also helping the children improve their English language skills. “When we first came here, we wanted them to play outside with the other kids to get the language. They didn’t want to,” Kelepi said. “But now, they are always outside. It gets to be evening and we want to get them back inside, but they don’t want to come in!” “It is a blessing for us, for them to learn the language,” he said. Talking about Maikale’s improvement after working with the students, Kelepi said, “She is understanding everything very well.” Maikale can-not speak words clearly, but she nods and shakes her head to respond to questions. “We count this as a blessing for us,” said Kelepi. “Not only do the students come and read to her and my other kids, they pronounce correctly.” Kelepi said knowing English is a great skill he hopes his children can keep, and because he and his wife don’t “pronounce English properly,” he is especially grateful for the students. For example, he said when his family has Family Home Evening, Maikale is “going to do the prayer first. We love to give her the chance to do it in front of us.” Kelepi added, “She loves to read the book. It is very helpful for everyone.” For the Christmas holidays, Hong said the students wanted to do something extra for the Ako-teu family and gave a bin full of Christmas presents to them. Hong said it was a student, Korin Lopez, who put it together with the help of her generous mother and brother, who bought all the gifts. Lambert said she also took the three Ako-teu children to sing Christmas carols. “It was cute,” she said. “Seini was singing all day.”
Top: Chelsie Lambert smiles at 7-year-old Maikale Akoteu, who Lambert helps with reading and match-
ing games at school and home. Below: Kelepi Akoteu and his family came to Hawaii from Tonga a year
ago through a church International Teacher Educa-tion Program. Photos by Lexie Kapeliela
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Learning from the Past, Looking to the FutureBY RACHEL REED
P resident John and Susan Tanner have started their administration at BYU-Hawaii with plans to learn all they can about the university and to build upon the
strong foundations of their predecessors. “We’re committed to serve and that means to serve the people in the university and to the community,” said Sister Tanner. “We want to build positive relationships with the people of the community. We want to be seen as people who are willing and ready to give all we can to make a good spirit that is here.”
President Tanner admitted his love of teaching and learning, saying with a smile, “I’ve had some wonderful church callings, and the callings and the jobs that I love most are teach-ing. That’s what I really love to do.” Though he has had a lot of experience with administrative jobs that have prepared him to be President of BYUH, he said, “... who I really am is a teacher, masquerading as a president. I love to learn. I’m alive when I learn. It feels exciting to me to learn new things and to teach them to others.” The Tanners have started to adjust to life in Laie, slowly learning how to pronounce street names and where
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they go and feeling the importance of the community. “Laie is especially important as a place,” said President Tanner. “It’s a place of refuge. It’s a place of gathering. But above all it’s a place where a temple of God has been established, and that anchors our spirits. That is what we should look to as a university committee, and as individuals, for setting, helping us know who we are.” The Tanners are learning more about the impor-tance of Hawaii in their own families. George Q. Cannon, who translated the Book of Mormon into Hawaiian, was Sister Tanner’s great-great grandfather. Sister Tanner also discovered that her grandfather was a missionary in Hawaii and attended the Laie Temple dedication. President Tanner’s grandfather also served a mission in Samoa, and translated the Bookof Mormon into Samoan. “I know this is a little far afield from Laie, but we sense the history of the place,” said President Tanner. “We’re grateful for that.” Sister Tanner was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, and grew up on a dairy farm surrounded by family, while President Tanner was born in Salt Lake City but grew up in South Pasadena, California with 13 siblings. After he finished serving a mission in Brazil, he went to BYU in Provo and met Sister Tanner. President Tanner initially wanted to become a lawyer but discovered he enjoyed English far more. “As I was writing a letter to law school, I decided I didn’t really want to go to law school. I wanted to continue to study English and teach. And so I ripped up my law school letter and decided to apply to graduate school,” President Tanner said. He was accepted to U.C. Berkeley, and after careful prayer, he and Sister Tanner decided to attend, despite the lack of jobs. To get through school, President Tanner worked various jobs cleaning married student’s apartments, flipping hamburgers at the Cougar Eat, and working with the Honors program at BYU. At Berkeley, he worked as a night watchman and taught freshman English classes. “We both felt like this is what we should do, but we didn’t know how it was going to work out,” said President Tanner. “Our motto was from the song from John Henry Newman, ‘Lead, Kindly Light.’ There’s one line that means a lot to us, and it was, ‘The distant sea, I do not ask to see one step enough for me.’ And that one step enough was our theme.” After receiving a doctorate in English, President Tanner taught English at Florida State University in Tallahas-see before going to back BYU where Sister Tanner got her degree in humanities. Both President and Sister Tanner have served the church throughout their lives. President Tanner served as bishop and stake president, mission president in Brazil and in the General Sunday School Presidency. Sister Tanner served as General Young Women President from 2002-2008. “When I talked to the incoming students the other night,” said Sister
“... Who I really am is a teacher, masquerading as a president. I love to learn. I’m alive when I learn. It feels exciting to me to learn new things and to teach them to others.”
– John S. Tanner
President John S. Tanner and his wife Susan W. Tanner stand next to a statue of David O. McKay in the president’s office.
Photo by Hector Periquin
Tanner, “I talked about Nephi being called to build a ship. He never built a ship before and he didn’t know how but he went forward in faith trusting that the Lord will help him.” Sister Tanner wrote in the margins of that story experiences similar to Nephi’s great task, such as becoming a mother, General Young Women’s President, writing a book, becoming a mission president’s wife, “and now, leading a uni-versity. These are ships that I’ve never built before, but when we got to the mountain and ask the Lord to help us, he does.” President Tanner has shared his hope for the univer-sity. “I think that there’s a possibility in this community to be a Zion community,” he said. “Really, that’s the kind of thing I want to emphasize in my administration. We’re kind of a temple of learning, and we should look to the temple. The community looks to the temple with that sense of commu-nion as Latter-day Saints. Become that kind of university; a Zion university. Zion people.”
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of President John TannerBY HAILEY RASMUSSEN
President John Tanner addresses the audience after receiving his charge to lead BYU-Hawaii on Nov. 10 in the Cannon Activities Center.
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Tanner takes reins,inspires studentsPresident John S. Tanner said at his inaugura-tion on Nov. 10 he will seek inspiration to help BYU-Hawaii become what God wants it to be and a Zion university. “I envision this university as a house of learning and a house of light—a phrase that I have had engraved on this medallion,” he said, speaking about the medallion given to him by President Henry B. Eyring, first counselor in the First Presidency of the LDS Church, as he was officially installed as president of BYUH in the Cannon Activities Center. “I see a university intended to be not only ‘a school in Zion’ but also a Zion univer-sity—a place where people from many nations learn together in purity, peace, unity, and love. May this school savor so strongly and sweetly of Zion that it creates an appetite in its graduates to build Zion everywhere.” In his address, President Eyring said Tanner asked for direction upon being asked to be the next BYUH president. Eyring responded by inviting him to consult with the Lord, and that is what Tanner said he has done. During his talk at the inauguration, Eyring said,
“President Tanner, you have wisely said that the opportunities to experience a taste of Zion will come most often in small settings. It will be in local congregations, in neighborhoods, and especially in the walls of homes. It will be in classrooms and laboratories. It will be as you meet people in the temple. It may come during walks among those who work at the Polynesian Cultural Center.“ Additionally, Tanner said in his speech when he was in college, he was “a late bloomer,” poor, and he struggled with academics. Stu-dents who attended his inauguration said they feel Tanner is a president they can relate to and who understands their struggles. Michael Nielsen, a junior from Cali-fornia studying business management-supply chain, said he appreciated the empathy he felt emanating from President Tanner. “He is loving and sincere. He cares more about the students and their education than running the school like a business.” Trinity Waddell, a senior from Texas studying biology, said he is interested in seeing what changes President Tanner will bring to this campus. Waddell said he trusts him to have the students’ best interests at heart. Waddell said he thinks Tanner will bring a fresh and broader perspective, and that his attitude will be received well by the local residents.
Caroline Boucher, a freshman from Utah studying international cultural stud-ies, said she thinks Tanner has the aloha spirit, which she feels is important at this university. Keilani N. Briones, the manager of the BYUH Alumni Relations, said in her greet-ing to the BYUH president at the inauguration,
“We pledge to you our support.” Following her words, Elder Kim B. Clark, a general Authority Seventy who is the Commissioner of Church Education, said, “John Tanner is chosen to lead here at BYUH.” Clark called Tanner and his wife the pioneers who the Lord will take to today’s frontier. President Tanner said former BYUH President Steven C. Wheelwright’s “Learn, Lead, Build” motto was valuable for the school and he endorses these goals. Tanner concluded his speech say-ing, “Hamlet says that ‘there’s a divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them how we may.’ There’s a divinity that shapes the ends of this school. I pray that the Carpenter’s Son will help me hew them as He may, for my deepest desire is to shape this school not according to my vision but to His.” Daniel M. Scott, who represented the BYUH Faculty at the inauguration, said President Tanner is the new rock from where this school will receive revelation.
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1. ALOHA CENTERThe SeasiderThe place to grab something to eat on campus, includes a grill, stir fry station, deli, ice cream and the Sea Store that sells packed foods to go.The HubThe place for video gaming, bowling, pool, food and more.Office of HonorStop in the office and get a smile and some candy as a reminder to live the Code.BYUHSA officesBYUHSA puts on events for students and also works with the administration to provide stu-dent input into decisions about campus life.Computer LabMon - Fri, 8 a.m. - 10 .p.m. Sat, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.Print ServicesPrint Services is in the Bookstore. [email protected]. Mon - Fri 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. 808.675.3461
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3. CAREER SERVICESLocated to the right of the Cafeteria’s entrance.Mon - Fri, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. 808.675.3533
3. CLUB DINING/CAFETERIAMon - Fri 6:30 a.m. - 9 p.m. Sat. 7:30 a.m. - 8 p.m. Sun. 11 a.m. - 2 p.m., 4 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Fast Sun 3:30 p.m. - 5:45 p.m. 808.675.3573
5. CANNON ACTIVITIES CENTERMeet here for devotionals and special events.Band Room/Choir RoomLocker Rooms and CageHere you check out your gym clothes and sports equipment.
7. COUNSELING SERVICESSupports students in achieving personal growth and to assist them in resolving psycho-logical and social problems that hinder their progress in life. Mon - Fri, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. 808.675.35188. DAVID O. MCKAY AUDITORIUMPlace for musicals, performances, art shows,and more.
8. LANGUAGE CENTERProvides materials for language learning.Mon &Wed, 7 a.m. - 10 p.m. Tue & Thus,
12 p.m. - 10 p.m. Fri 7 a.m. - 6 p.m. 808.675.3638
9. READING/WRITING CENTERLocated at McKay 199, offers tutorials, work-shops, citation assistance, and helpful hand-outs. Mon & Wed, 8:30 a.m - 11 p.m. Tue & Thur, 9:20 a.m. - 5:20 p.m. (closed Tue for devotional), 6:30 p.m. - 11 p.m. Fri 8:30 a.m.
- 4:45 p.m. Sat 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. 808.675.3629
COLLEGE OF BUSINESS,COMPUTING AND GOVERNMENT30. Business Management & Accounting11. Computer Science Department40. Political Science Department30. Willies Center - mentors work with stu-dent entrepreneurs to develop business plans and create business and NGOs.
COLLEGE OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT38. School of Education27. English Language Teaching and Learning41. Religious Education29. Social Work Department
COLLEGE OF LANGUAGE,CULTURE & ARTS9. English Department40. History Department9. Music and Theatre Department9. Visual Arts Department9. Intercultural Studies & World Languages9. David O. McKay Center for Intercultural Understanding
COLLEGE OF MATH AND SCIENCE9. Biochemistry & Physical Sciences9. Biology Department28. Exercise & Sport Sciences11. Mathematics Department28. Psychology Department22. Health Center - Located across the street from the Little Theater and next to the cam-pus Construction offices, the Health Center is where injured or physically unwell students may go to obtain appropriate treatments. New Students are required to take a TB test in theHealth Center upon arrival on campus. Mon-day, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 8 a.m. to noon, 2-4:30 p.m. Wednesday 8 a.m. to noon, 1-4 p.m. (for pregnant patients only) 808-675-3510 after hours: 808-675-3911
24. JOSEPH F. SMITH LIBRARYThe Library is where it’s at and also providesa range of services. University Archives, CopyCenter, Reference Desks and Media Services are all inside those library doors. Monday to Thursday 7 a.m. to midnight Friday 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
24 COPY CENTERMake copies and create projectsMonday to Thursday 8:30 a.m. to 7:45 p.m.Friday 8:30 a.m. to 6:45 p.m.Saturday 9 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.808-675-3870
26. ADMINISTRATION BUILDING BYUH and Polynesian Cultural Center offices are here. It’s two buildings connected by a courtyard. The eastern half contains Financial Services, Financial Aid, the Cashier’s Desk and the PCC Employment Office on the ground floor. Upstairs are the PCC offices and De-seret Mutual Benefit Administrators (DMBA). The ground floor of the western building is full of need-to-know offices, including but not limited to: Admissions, the Registrar’s Office, and Student Employment and Travel. The top floor houses the President’s Office and other administrative departments.Student Employment: 808.675.3749International Student Services: 808.675.3516Travel Services: 808.675.3950Financial Services: 808.675.3378Educational Outreach: 808.675.3780
28. FITNESS CENTERWeight Room and Aerobic RoomMon, Wed, Fri, 5 a.m. - 8:40 a.m.,10:30 a.m.
- 3 p.m., 6:30 p.m. - 10 p.m. Closing on Mon at 8:30 p.m. Tue - Thur, 5 a.m. - 10 a.m., 12 p.m. - 3 p.m., 6:30 p.m. - 10 p.m. Sat 6 a.m. - 4 p.m. 808.675.3715
28 POOLCall for hours. 808.675.3391
43. TESTING CENTERPick up test at least 1/2 hour before clos-ing, doors will close at that time. For finals, please check online. Mon - Thur 8 a.m. - 11 p.m. Fri 8 a.m. - 8 p.m. Sat 8 a.m - 2 p.m. 808.675.3536
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Judges praise BYUH entries
BY MEGAN CHURCH
Guest judges say good videos
have impactful messages
At the Great Ideas Video Competition on Nov. 12, BYU-Hawaii hosted four guest judges who helped decide which videos were among the best in their respective categories. Two American entrepreneurs, Zach James and Ricky Ray Butler, American actor Jon Heder, and Italian comedian Marco Lui were the guest judges, and said they were excited to be on the BYUH campus. “If you take the overall skill of all the videos we saw to today, it’s much higher than average,” said James. “I already had a connection with the school. This is my favorite temple in the world, and my uncle has lived here; his sculptures are all over Hawaii,” said James. His uncle is retired BYUH sculptor Jan Fisher. “I have a connection with Hawaii and that’s something I want to continue to grow throughout my life.”
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Meanwhile, Heder said he had always been curious about BYUH. Butler said he felt like he had to make coming out to BYUH for the competition a priority, and Lui said he was impressed when he came to campus, seeing everything that the campus stands for. Both James and Butler operate in the business world. James is the co-founder and co-CEO of a company called ZEFR, which pro-vides businesses the opportunity to keep track of when people on YouTube mention or discuss their brand. Butler is known for being behind the largest nativity scene, working with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, David Archuleta, and the Piano Guys. Butler has connections with YouTubers galore and is no stranger to the world of videography. Lui is an Italian comedian who wrote, directed, and produced his own feature length film, “The Book of Life” in 2010. Heder is most well-known for his role as Napoleon in the movie “Napoleon Dynamite” as well as roles in the movies “Benchwarmers” and “Blades of Glory.” Heder also produces and has won multiple MTV Movie Awards.
Despite the judges’ various back-grounds, they all agreed on one thing: a good video is one that makes the viewer feel some-thing. “I’m looking for an impression,” Lui said,
“a strong impact.” Both Butler and Heder said com-munication is a crucial for a videographer. According to Heder, “At the end of the day, what we were supposed to judge was whether or not the idea was good and how well did they get it across. And typically, a good video will do that, but sometimes you can get that across in a video that looks like it’s made by infants. If they get their message across, then they did their job.” Butler commented on the differ-ences in the students who submitted videos. “I was impressed with the level of communica-tion. There were some that didn’t have the same quality of content as others, and it’s very obvious that some were very trained and some weren’t.” Butler explained, “However, some of the cheaper content was better because they were able to give key messaging points. You were able to understand exactly what was going on and where they were going with it.”
James summed up the overall opinion of the judges, saying, “The main thing you want to come across–regardless of the style of video–is that a story is told, and there were stories told in messages that you would remember.”
From left to right: Ricky Ray Butler, Ethan Precourt, Jon Heder, Marco Lui, Zach James, Adam Ah Mu, President John S. Tanner, Jason Earl. Precourt and Ah Mu won for their video on Food Waste in the social category. Photo by Kelsie Carlson
Winners
PRODUCT:1. “Marzpac”Katie Burg & Nick Marz2. “Cyrus Board Shorts”Brenon Dopp3. “Stellar Ties & Tie Racks”Caleb Bow & Derek Katana
ALUMNI:1. “Stomp Out Bul-lying” Adriel CasellasHonorable Mention:
“Maleka Designs”Martha Christensen
SOCIAL:1. “Food Waste”Ethan Precourt & Adam Ah Mu2. “Kapalu Connection” William Arnett3. “Kente Style”BYU-I Guest Team
SERVICE:1. “Testing Center Cal-culator”John Tippetts2. “Fitcraft”Kevan Hendrickson3. “Pololi”Brylee Bromley& Tori Waite
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The J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation agreed to aid the funding and establishment of a new Hospitality and Tourism Center at BYU-Hawaii, announced University Relations on Dec. 3. The plan has been years in the mak-ing, according to the newly named executive director of the center, Professor David Preece. “It’s really been a long process from start to finish,” said Preece, who is the chair and assistant professor of the Department of Busi-ness Management. “And it’s not finished, but it’s at the end of the planning stage. Now we’re at implementation.” Preece cited three strategic goals of the center: academic enhancement, program expansion, and industry engagement. He said he expects curriculum adjustments will be implemented by Fall 2016 to add “depth, breadth, and flexibility for students to tailor their pursuits to their career.” Richard Marriott, a former PCC board member, helped get funding from the Marriott Foundation to add features to the center’s offerings. According to Preece, these include lecture series, expansion of internship opportunities, a Marriott Scholars program, and an advisory council of about 12 leaders from various industries.
“We want to take full advantage of the new hotel next door in the form of a three credit course,” said Preece, “where students get to go to the hotel or the PCC and observe as well as do things with their sales andmarketing teams.” According to Preece, a new building will not be constructed, but the new center will operate similar to the Willes Center for In-ternational Entrepreneurship in which courses
are offered, but instructors who teach could come from various academic departments. “The global tourism industry is one of the largest in the world, and it’s even bigger in the university’s primary target area, Asia-Pacific, which means a lot of jobs for students because the industry is growing fast there. Those associ-ated with the program always felt that it had a great growth potential and provided a wide
range of career opportunities for students, but there was a need to [...] make changes in the way the program was structured,” said Preece.
“It needed to be a free-standing entity.” Established in 1998, the HTM pro-gram fluctuated in its number of students,said Preece, until about eight years ago when it was put under the Business Management Department and has remained stable at roughly 125 students. One of those students, Dylan Miya-saki, a sophomore from Utah, said he chose his major because he enjoys working with people.
“I love to see people happy and enjoying them-selves and HTM gives me so many chances to do that in the future,” said Miyasaki. “What I have heard so far about the new center is that it will be a great, new resource for all of the students studying HTM…[which] is a big major here and is really important for Hawaii and its future. With the new center, we should have more opportunities to be better prepared for future careers.” Although much needs to be done over the next 12 months, Preece said he’s ready and excited to see it all roll out. “I’m most excited at the prospects for our students to have a better learning experience here and be better prepared for a great career in the industry.”
Preece cited three strategic goals as the plans begin to be carried out: 1. Academic enhancement 2. Program expansion3. Industry engagement
New Hospital ity and Tourism Center to enhance students learning experience
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M usicians banded together by a collective appreciation for the music of Latin America and Brazil recently marched on stage,
clad in black dress shirts, red ties, and a vibrant energy that carried throughout BYU-Hawaii's Salsa Orchestra concert. Professor of percussion music, Darren Duerden founded the Salsa Orchestra in 2006 after repeated recruiting for a big band jazz ensemble became too demanding. He said this semester’s group of musicians impressed him. “The rhythm section players are as good as we've ever had,”said Duerden, “and that shows up in the underpinning of the group, and a lot of them are very tight. We have some very special players and good quality singers.” The concert began when all the members of the band had formed a line on stage, each playing various percussive instruments and rocking their bodies in rhythm with the music. A single musician-
-senior Kevin Peterson from Laie--soloed on his orange, plastic trom-bone. The group played five instrumental songs, featuring solos from every instrument section. Colored background lights contrib-uted to the mood of the songs, and an overall constant bouncing feel kept the atmosphere lively and the audience engaged. Duerden said it is this aspect of appealing to the energy of the listeners that encouraged him to create an orchestra centered on this particular genre. “I like to play audience-friendly music,” he said.
“Most people in the audience never go to hear a salsa orchestra play here. What we do is strip the ugliness and get to the core of the music itself. We want the BYUH audience to be able to enjoy music that they
otherwise wouldn't be able to enjoy because there can be a lot of bag-gage that comes with salsa music.” The sixth song they performed, “Yo Me Llamo Cumbia,” was of a style of music from Colombia that incorporates African, Indigenous, and European cultures. It marked the beginning of the vocalized portion of the performance. “We played the Cumbia piece, which we've never done before, in honor of our drum set player from Colombia,” said Duerden. “He’s the best drummer we’ve ever had here, and so I thought it’d be fun to play the type of music inspired by his country.” Also in the mix was the premiere of piano player, and junior studying music and psychology from Oklahoma, Josh Mason's original composition “Como Las Estrellas,” a piece he said was, “inspired by the Argentine tango and Spanish flamenco.” Kuyo Ulii, a freshman from Laie studying art, joined the orchestra this semester playing baritone saxophone. “It’s a lot more fun than high school band,” said Ulii. “It's really fun because it’s a new style of music that I’ve never played before, but I’m glad I joined. I especially liked the Cumbia piece because there are lots of different rhythms and I just felt like dancing the whole time.” Dr. David Kammerer, who has played trumpet since age 10, was asked to join in on a few songs, and thought the concert upheld previous standards. “The Salsa Orchestra always does an amazing job,” said Kammerer. “The thing I like about it is that we have music majors and other majors coming together. To me that’s really gratifying.” Salsa Orchestra is offered Fall and Winter Semesters and is planning to do a tour in Kauai in February.
Salsa Orchestra brings grooves to BYU-HawaiiBY LEIANI BROWN
Calista Capuccio, Spencer Grubbe and Kei Riggins sing and dance during the performance on Oct. 6, adding even more energy to the already high-energy show. Photo by Monique Saenz
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The BYU-Hawaii Concert Choir wrapped up its 6th semi-annual assassins game after three weeks of sneaking and plotting. The victor, Michael Potter, was crowned in what has been described as one of the most epic conclusions to date. Chris Cornelison, a senior studying English education from Punaluu, with the help of William Arnett III organized this semesters’ game. According to Corneli-son, “Assassins essentially is a fight to the death. Imagine if ‘The Hunger Games’ or ‘Battle Royale’ were fought with 50-cent water pistols... that's the general idea of assassins. The difference is that it's not just a free-for-all.” Choir members were assigned a target and given their picture and name. Choir members followed strict rules. They couldn’t take down their targets inside buildings and 30 minutes before and after choir practice. The only way to take out a target was to shoot them in the head. Cornelison continued,
“People take it very seriously. Ev-eryone who participated demon-strated courage and valor. William and I were very impressed by the tenacity of all the assassins. The final three contestants, MJ Baird, Mathew Harvey, and Mike Potter were all very skilled killers. It was an epic finale.” Michael Potter, a senior from Laie studying music, has participated in assassins in previ-ous years but victory has always alluded him. He said doing well in the game takes a lot of study of your target, including their whereabouts at all times. Potter said, “I want to start off by saying I've always enjoyed the game. It's a great way to have fun and get to know people. Like really getting to know them… their majors, their class schedules, their shoe
Michael Potter was crowned as the winner of
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size, where they eat and sleepand such.” The third runner up, MJ Baird, a freshman studying music education, was the choir’s surprise fighter. She said she was able to take down one of her targets and eliminate the other in a close firefight—or, waterfight—that she narrowly escaped. Baird said, “I actually got lucky with this. The person who had me didn't know who I was for a while and only tried follow-ing me once or twice. Basically, I walked around free for two weeks. Other than that, I took different routes and watched around me all the time. I wouldn't even let my group of friends and I hang out-side until I was dead. I also think a lot of it was beginner’s luck. I can't really take too much credit.” Baird’s downfall came the last week before the finale, she said. Potter launched a surprise attack, jumping over a bike rack to shoot her in the back of the head. According to multiple participants, Potter is known for being an aggressive assassin. This time around, he said he set strict rules for himself, such as only head-shots, clean kills, no gunfights, and as he said it, “NO ALLIES.” His rules paid off as he was able to take down 11 targets. He said, “I set strategy goals, like never take the same route twice, always have a back-up gun in my backpack and other places, always check corners... My main mantra about the game has always been the best defense is a good offense, or as Brad Pitt puts it in ‘World War Z,’ ‘movement is life.’” He added, “In order to win you have to not care what ‘the civilians’ think when they see you creeping around the bushes.” Harvey had a different strategy than Potter. Harvey’s ap-proach was just staying alive. Har-
vey said, “I tried to just be vigilant, invisible, and take advantage of all the opportunities I had.” Potter said he tips his hat to Harvey. “By far my favorite target was the next runner-up to me. He was crafty. He eluded death by fractions at least six times. He wasn't idle himself. He set ambushes for me as well.” Harvey said, “To be up against someone like Mike you have to be super vigilant. He is go-ing to come at you at a time when
you are completely not expecting it.” There were a handful of battles and confrontations be-tween the two. Harvey described his first encounter with Potter. “I was walking with my wife from the CAC. We were by the tennis courts and I see through the trees and bushy area a crouching figure. I could see his eye peeking from the side of a tree. I was waving at him but he didn’t move. I pulled out my gun and approached him. He stood up and walked out with his gun and pulled out the cowboy references, ‘That’s far enough.’” He repeated that line three times
and added, “You just keep on walkin’.” Harvey then asked Potter,
“How far can that gun shoot?” and again Potter replied in cowboy fashion, “Far enough.” After the games, Harvey asked Potter how he was able to come up with so many American West references on the spot. On the subject, Potter said, “I was reading a Louis Lamour book about a modern American Indian shot down behind enemy lines who has to tap into his Indian instincts in order to escape his enemies. I guess the game brings out the Clint Eastwood in me.” Harvey then tried to take matters into his own hands. He said he got Potter’s address through a mutual friend. He went to his house late at night. On his way, he ran into Potter’s younger brother who showed him the good spots to hide out, said Harvey. However, Harvey said he felt uneasy about the situation and thought Potter’s younger brother would give him away. Harvey left early and took a back route to his car parked a couple of blocks away. As he was walking back, he saw a blurry figure from a neighbor’s driveway sprint away. The two soon found themselves again in a standoff. This time, Pot-ter had the advantage as he jumped up onto a retaining wall about 3 feet above the ground. Standing on the wall, Potter said, “You made a mistake coming here.” Guns raised, the two de-cided they both didn’t want to end the game with a shoot out so they parted ways for the night. Potter, living up to the cowboy image, said, “You live to die another day.” Other standoffs between the two took place by the CAC quartet rooms, Aloha Center entrance, the library doors, and Potter’s personal favorite, a James Bond-esque fight from the side of
a midsize SUV. Potter said, “My family drives a Sequoia and was outside to pick me up outside of the Aloha Center. My opponent and I had several run-ins that day already and he found out that I was being picked up.” Harvey ap-proached the car and tried to ask Potter’s mother if he could hide in the back seat. When she declined, Harvey hid behind the car. Meanwhile, Potter took the back entrance of the Aloha Center and sprinted around the Lorenzo Snow building. He came up behind his family’s Sequoia and the waiting Harvey. Potter said,
“He looked back just in time. I fired and he pulled a matrix move on me.” The two commenced yet another water fight. Potter, un-comfortable with the duel, yelled to his mom to drive away. As she pulled away, Potter jumped on the side of the car firing as they drove away. “It was a total 007 moment,” said Potter. The end came as Harvey was walking to his Japanese class. Potter said, “I finally got him as he went to a class in the McKay hallway....I quickly ran up behind him and got him in the back ofthe head.” According to Harvey, the shot hit the upper part of his shoulders and neck. The two started dueling it out and soaking each other. It was unclear who got who first. It was later confirmed by an eye-witness at the scene that Potter hit Harvey’s head on the first initial shot. Potter, Harvey, and organizers Arnett and Cornelison decided, due to the amount of close calls and built up paranoia, to end the games announcing Pot-ter as the 6th winner of the choir’s assassins game. Cornelison said,
“Mike Potter came out on top earn-ing himself a well-deserved and long-awaited victory.”
‘To be up against someone like
Mike you have to be super vigilant.
He is going to come at you at a
time when you are completely not
expecting it.’
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The mission of Brigham Young University–Hawaii is to integrate both spiritual and secular learning, and to prepare students with character and integrity who can provide leadership in their families, their communi-ties, their chosen fields, and in building the kingdom of God.
33FALL 2016President John Tanner becomes the 10th president of BYU-Hawaii and receives a medallion from President Henry B. Eyring. Tanner’s wife Susan, participates in its presentation. Photos by Hector Periquin
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The unveiling event was part of the 60-year anniversary celebration of BYU–Hawaii, and the 150-year anniversary celebrationof the LDS Church in Laie. For more information, visit www.laie150.org.
Y E A RCELEBRATION
Historical marker unveiled at BYU–Hawaii
BY CAMRON STOCKFORD
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A historical marker to commemorate the 1955 groundbreaking of BYU–Hawaii by President David O. McKay was unveiled on Oct. 24 at the Laie, Hawaii campus. The marker, which has been in the works for several years, is placed so that those who stop to read the plaque will be over-looking the actual site of the groundbreaking that took place on Feb. 12, 1955. The marker is made from locally secured lava rock and was placed at the north end of the campus Stake Center. The site was determined from historical photos and accounts of community members who were present at the groundbreaking. The unveiling event was part of the 60-year anniversary cel-ebration of BYUH, and the 150-year anniversary celebration of the LDS Church in Laie. Mark James, president of the Mormon Pacific Historical Society, located the approximate location of the groundbreaking. In his speech at the unveiling, he recounted the story of then-Elder McKay and Hugh J. Cannon, son of George Q. Cannon, who traveled the world visit-ing all of the church’s missions. Upon visiting the Hawaii Mission, Elder McKay witnessed a flag raising ceremony at the local school. “[Elder McKay] was inspired by the sight of so many people from so many places coming together to learn. It was at that time that he envisioned there would be further schooling for many people from many lands,” said James. James also recognized those in attendance who were present at the groundbreaking ceremony, as well as any of the labor missionaries who helped build the university who had gathered to see the new histori-cal marker. In recognizing them for their service, James said, “We stand
upon the shoulders of those who have gone before us. We appreciate those who have sacrificed so much in preparing this place wherestudents would come from many lands and would be able to furthertheir education.” Packard “Pupi” Toelupe, one of the original labor missionar-ies, recounted his own story of meeting the prophet, David O. McKay, at the groundbreaking ceremony and some of the miracles surrounding the event. “We all gathered around here. It was raining, but when his car pulled in, the rain quit. We could see the rain around, but we were not wet,” said Toelupe. Toelupe was later called as a labor missionary in Laie where he learned and worked on a variety of projects during the construction of the campus. BYUH President John S. Tanner talked about the significance of the school being built in the shadow of a temple. “I believe that is one of the reasons why President McKay wanted to build the school in the special town of Laie,” he said. Later in his remarks, President Tanner also called BYUH a
“living laboratory for intercultural learning, where nations would come together in peace, and learn to be able to associate together, bound inthe gospel.” President Tanner continued, “May this memorial, which re-sembles an altar, become our grateful ‘monument to the ages,’ memori-alizing a sacred spot where God’s voice was heard as He spoke through His servant, David O. McKay. Let us ever remember and treasure in our hearts the inspired words spoken here.”
The newly installed marker, located on the north end of the campus Stake Center, overlooks the original groundbreaking place of BYUH. Photo courtesy of University Communications
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The 15-credit, 1-year-old Legal Studies Program at BYU-Hawaii gives opportunities for recent graduates to continue education in law school, accept needed paralegal and government jobs and internships working with senators. This certificate was created to help both U.S. and international students find work and prepare for law school in their respective countries. Rick Plehn, a 2013 BYUH graduate, was a student leader who helped create the Legal Studies Certificate. “The legal stud-ies classes at BYU-Hawaii really helped me prepare for my first job as a paralegal,” he said. Describing his work as a paralegal, Plehn said he had to know the mechanics of lawsuits and legal proceedings. “Law firms do not want to spend the time or resources in teaching you the law above training you for your immediate job duties.” Plehn said learning the legal process can feel like learning a new language and added, “it can feel overwhelming, but having my legal studies training at BYUH and preparation from my le-gal studies coursework helped me learn quickly and do my job efficiently.” Plehn is in his second year at BYU Law School and attributes his success to his
Lay down the law
BY ERIK WINEGAR
From left to right: Sarah Bodily, Trevor Smith, Rick Plehn, Rachel Phillips, Gwen Wolfe, Monique Mullenaux Laing, Alma Borsheim, and Jarvis Yau. These are eight students who graduated from BYU-Hawaii and now attend BYU’s Law School. Photo by Jennifer Kajiyama
time at BYUH. “When I started law school, I came knowing how to break down legal cases and identify critical facts, questions of law, legal reasoning and holdings, having already learned how to write case brief summaries.” He said the certificate helped him understand, interpret and how to administer the law. “Once I got into my first legal intern-ship at a law office, I already felt comfortable writing professional office memos because of the courses and training I received from profes-sors at BYUH… Where many law students are completely starting from scratch, even just figuring out what a ‘plaintiff’ is, I felt my legal preparation allowed me to hit the ground run-ning for a career in the law.” BYU’s Law School is the 34th ranked law school in the nation, according to the U.S. News & World Report. Jennifer Kajiyama, BYUH Legal Stud-ies director, graduated from BYU with a joint law degree and master’s in public administra-tion. She spearheaded the BYUH program and said BYU’s Law School “loves BYU-Hawaii students.” She also said the J. Reuben Clark Law School has nine BYUH students, which is one of the largest groups of BYUH students that has ever attended.
BYUH Legal Studies Program prepares
undergraduates for internships and law school
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Californian Trevor Smith, who recently graduated in finance and a certificate in the legal studies program, explained how his certificate has helped as a newly admitted stu-dent into BYU’s J. Reuben Clark Law School. “During my first week at BYU Law, I’ve already briefed about 30 cases and started writing my first memo,” Smith said. Many of the law students have never briefed cases before, and it takes them quite a bit of time to get through the reading. Smith continued, “I feel truly blessed to have been accepted into BYU Law...As much as I would love to say that my vast intel-lectual prowess is what got me into law school, I know I had amazing teachers, mentors, and family who supported me every step of the way.” According to Kajiyama, there were no legal studies classes or real pre-professional advisement at BYUH before this program.She said there is growing national and interna-tional interest in individuals with legal training.
“At BYUH we wanted to provide students this competitive edge.” She continued, “The poten-tial for job growth in the legal fieldis significant.” According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the field of paralegals andlegal assistants will see a 22.2% increase through 2016. It is also estimated the field will continue to increase to 28% growth through 2018. This number is in comparison to all other occupations that are averaging a 14% increase in their fields. The Pacific has also seen a dramatic increase in the demand for legal jobs. The Australian government reports that entry-level legal positions, such as legal executives, clerks, and conveyancers, will see a 26.6% increase in employment over the next 10 years. Law clerks and legal clerks will see a 40.9% increase in job availability. In New Zealand, ac-cording to the Ministry of Pacific Island Affairs and the Department of Labor, the legal field is growing at a 28% increase through 2018, which is the second fastest growing bachelor’s degree in New Zealand. The National Federation of Paralegal Associations, Inc. also reported in its 2006 Compensation & Benefits Study Report para-legal salaries have climbed steadily 61% since 1993. The Bureau of Labor Statistics found
For more information on the program please contact Jennifer Kajiyama at [email protected].
“These courses gave me the basic knowledgeon how the le-gal process works, how to draft legal memos, which was something I felt the other interns I met had been lacking.”- Greg Broberg
paralegals earn a median salary of $46,680 compared to the median salary for all other occupations at $33,840. Kajiyama said, “The salary amount is quite significant due to the minimal require-ments to become a paralegal. There is no work experience required and the general entry-level education is an associate’s or bachelor’s degree with a paralegal certificate.” She also said the legal studies certificate is not required to get a job, however it will give applicants the edge when competing for paralegal jobs. Greg Broberg, a senior studying political science and earning his legal studies certificate, gives credit to the new program for securing and preparing him for his current judicial internship. “Most judicial internships are not given to undergraduate students. Having a legal studies certificate gave me a competitive edge and prepared me for my internship with Judge Bode Uale,” he said. Uale is a BYUH graduate as well. Broberg continued, “I had little idea how the legal system worked, however that quickly changed when I began taking the legal studies certificate classes. These courses gave me the basic knowledge on how the legal pro-cess works, how to draft legal memos, which was something I felt the other interns I met had been lacking.” Broberg credited the program for giving him real world application of the law, which included writing law briefs and also helping him find an internship. “I needed no further instruction on the matter, which seemed to impress others, but for me it was a basic skill because of the program.” Broberg said, “The professors in our program are some of the most skilled andmost helpful I have ever met. I cannot recom-mend them enough to all of my friends whoare undecided.” Kajiyama explained the program is for “anyone… The law affects everyone and you need to understand the legal process.” Ka-jiyama encouraged students who are graduating this upcoming spring to sign up for the Political Science 354 class in Winter Semester. For more information on the program please contact Jennifer Kajiyama at [email protected].
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Bee-coming aware
“In the last half decade alone, 30
percent of the national bee population has disap-
peared and nearly a third of all bee colonies in the U.S.
have perished.”- Globalresearch.org
BY ALYSSA OLSEN
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Facilities Managementhas goal to increase beehives on campus to combat bee depopulationThe buzz of bees is not an unfamiliar soundfor Brad Hill, a sophomore biology majorfrom Utah, who suits up and braves hives of thousands of bees every week, as part of his campus job. Hill was recently swarmed by a hive of agitated bees. “I went in and they swarmed me. They were not in a good mood that day and just attacked.” Hill said the reason for the attack was likely due to the sensitive nature of the bees he works with saying, “You never know what the bees’ mood will be on any given day.” He dealt with the situation by
“remain[ing] calm and us[ing] the smoker.” The smoker he referred to is a canister that dis-perses smoke, which subdues the bees. Eventu-ally after remaining still, the bees dispersed. When hearing of the bee attack, senior Amanda Moore from New Mexico ma-joring in political science, said, “It’s crazy that it happened, but it’s cool that he knew what to do in that situation. It shows how important it is to know the right way to do things so that when things go wrong, you know how to handle it.” Hill said the attack was uncharacteris-tic of the bees. They usually go about their busi-ness and aren’t a problem. Though this experi-ence is overwhelming and terrifying for some, Hill was unfazed and said, “I’m going back. I’m not worried about it. It’s one of those things you just have to respect and try to understand.”
Brad Hill and Alyssa Olsen help harvest the
honey from the beehives on campus. Photos
by Kelsie Carlson
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Hill works for the BYU-Hawaii Facilities Management Office. He originally applied for the job of recycling worker. He said, “I do that, but it’s just open to everything. We work with so many different things; I go to work and never know what I’m going to be doing. They just kind of throw us into all these crazy projects–the bee [project] was one of them–I never thought I would be doing that, coming to BYU!” Hill said the plans for the BYUH bee project are extensive, and as the program grows, the Facilities Management team hopes to have enough hives so BYUH students can contribute to successful hives and combatthis growing issue. Hill said, “For the timebeing, the most important thing we can dois spread awareness.” Hill and the Facilities Manage-ment team said they are hoping to increase the number of successful hives 10 times over in the coming years. The goal is to have 100 hives and eventually the pos-sibility of a honey business. Hill continued,
“We’re very ambitious here at Facilities Management.” For Hill, the experience he’s gained bee-keeping has changed his emphasis and future career plans. He said it has helped him discover his passion for environmental studies. He said he is especially concerned with the ongoing problem of hive collapse and wants to help the species he has been working with. He explained how bees are in a crisis. According to globalresearch.org, “In the last half decade alone, 30 percent of the national bee population has disappeared and nearly a third of all bee colonies in the U.S. have perished. Though the rate of bee depopulation is growing each year, 42 percent more last year than the year before, even at the current annual rate the estimated monetary loss is a colos-sal 30 billion dollars a year.” Hill said a lot of people are un-aware of the struggle that the beesare facing and the impact that it could potentially have on people. According to the Natural Resources Defense Counsel, bees play a role in producing a third of all food resources.
Hill said the Facilities Management team hopes to one day start a honey
business. Photo by Kelsie Carlson
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T he words “You’re Beautiful” flash through the window of the BYU-Hawaii Counsel-
ing Services Center in a wide array of languag-es, negligible to some, but a reminder to girls like Stephanie Soto, an ICS major and junior from California, that every Tuesday from 1-2 p.m. is special. The Beautiful Women’s Group meets, currently a group of 10 to 16 women, to form kinships and remind each other of their divine beauty and potential. Soto said, “I went to one meeting last semester and I got hooked, and so far I have been trying to come to every meeting I can,” said Soto. “What got me hooked was that it was like a pep talk session for just what girls go through every day and introduces you to new people and friends–kind of like our version of a sorority. I just loved the connection I felt and the fun activities.” A intern and graduate of social work Stacy Chen, who is from Taiwan, said, “The point of the group is to tell all girls that they're beautiful whoever they are and that they're
Beautiful no matter what
BY LEIANI BROWN
beautiful being themselves. We want them to know that true beauty is inside.” The group, which is open to all, both men and women, meets in McKay 181 for an hour each week, where people discuss topics such as the definition of beauty, healthy eating, dating, exercise, and how to forgive themselves. The group seeks to provide an atmosphere where women of all backgrounds can come together and feel free talking about their lives. In addition to discussions, the women tie dye shirts and watch videos, and look for-ward to doing yoga together, holding a mock British Tea Party to learn more about etiquette and eating habits, and makeup and nail polish stations as future activities. “I like it because it's a good op-portunity to make new friends and find out more about your character and potential,” said member Jolin Chen. “It's a very a positive atmosphere for women. People there are really nice; it's a good place for girls if they need more friends.”
Some members, such as Jolin Chen, said if more people attended, the group would be able to “have more activities, and it would make it more diverse.” Women who regularly attend the meetings have noticed a change in themselves, and others have noticed too. “I feel like I have had a change for the better,” said Soto. “Every time I go I just feel good, like no matter what day I had I go there and I think I am beautiful and I am special and I feel like I can carry that all week because I know that I have a support group behind me.” After a meeting discussing the impor-tance of smiling, and even hearing from a man’s perspective on smiling and beauty, Stacy Chen began to see the effects on members of the group. “Now out in the hallway or whenever I see her on campus, I always see her smile,” said Chen. “It’s interesting because I knew this girl before, and I know she’s really shy and doesn’t really open up. Seeing her smile as she’s walk-ing is amazing.”
The Beautiful Women’s Group meets weekly at the Counseling Center. Pic-tured is BYUH alumna Natalia Riboldi. File photo by Hector Periquin
The Beautiful Women’s group is a placeto develop self-esteem and friends, participants say
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LOCATION
CAC ROOM 240
HOURS
Monday: 11:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Tuesday: 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Wednesday: 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Thursday 9:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Friday 3:00 PM - 5:30 PM
D i s c o v e r C I SD i s c o v e r C I S Starting salaries with a degree from the
Computer and Information Sciences (CIS) Department are among the highest
of any degree offered at BYU Hawaii *
Top 10 Majors at BYUH, ranked by starting salary
Median Starting Salary
1. Computer Science $59,800 2. Supply Chain Management $52,800 3. Information Systems $51,900 4. Information Technology $49,400 5. Mathematics $49,400 6. Finance $49,200 7. Accounting $45,300 8. Business Administration $43,500 9. Biochemistry $43,500 10. Marketing Management $42,500
Discover CIS. Come for the Pay; Stay for the Fun!
To find out more about degrees offered by the CIS Department at BYU Hawaii, contact any of the following:
! Computer Science – Geoff Draper ([email protected]) ! Information Systems – Stuart Wolthuis ([email protected]) ! Information Technology – Aaron Curtis ([email protected]) ! One of the BYU Hawaii Academic Advisors
* Source: http://www.payscale.com/college-salary-report-2014/majors-that-pay-you-back
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Monday: 11:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Tuesday: 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Wednesday: 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Thursday 9:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Friday 3:00 PM - 5:30 PM
MISSION STATEMENT
To provide students and their spouses
opportunities for learning by making available
services and supplies to learn to become more
self-reliant. To learn to alter clothing to comply
with the dress code, and also help teach mending
and basic sewing skills.
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The Hawaii Symphony Orchestra was present to accompanyseveral soloist student musicians, as well as the BYUH Concert Choir during the Evening of Concertos on Nov. 25, held in theMcKay Auditorium. The student soloists were chosen in the spring during a con-certo competition. The soloists were: Sun Mi Jin, a violinist from Korea; Koko Ohira, a saxophonist from Japan; Cameron Abaroa, a baritone vocalist from Arizona; Joshua Wallace, a percussionist from California; Kaylee Buss, a soprano vocalist from Colorado; Ayaka Kinjo, a pianist from Japan; Sydney Nemrow, a soprano vocalist from Laie; and David Kinikini, a pianist from Hauula. “The students have been preparing for months, and evenyears for some of them. Some of them have been practicing as manyas 10 hours a day,” explained Dr. Daniel Bradshaw, the chair for the Music Department. He spoke very highly of the student soloists, saying, “This represents the culmination of an immense amount of work on their part.” The majority of the soloists began their musical journeys during their childhood, making this, as Bradshaw stated, the result of several yearsof work.
For soloist Ayaka Kinjo, sophomore piano performance major, the evening was a dream come true. She said, “Playing a concerto has been my dream since I started playing the piano.” Kinjo has had that dream for most of her life, as she started taking lessons at the age of 3. Saxophone soloist Koko Ohira, a senior music major, talked about how over the summer, her concerto piece was changed due to complications with the length of it, yet she said she couldn’t believe that the performance was already finished. While things went by quickly for the soloists, the time possibly went by faster for the choir, who prepared for about two weeks. Accord-ing to freshman Brinley Berrett, a vocal performance major from Colo-rado, “It went by pretty quickly. We had to rehearse just this one song for two weeks.” This was the first time performing with a full symphony or-chestra for many of the students, which provided a number of new expe-riences. Soloist Sydney Nemrow, a music major in her senior year, shared:
“It’s my first time to sing with the symphony. The symphony doesn’t come often. And so to do it with such a big ensemble behind you is amazing.” Soloist Sun Mi Jin, a sophomore music major, added, “It’s a learning experience. I don’t play perfect still. But each time I feel like I’m
An Evening of Concer tosBY MEGAN CHURCH AND DANNA OSUMO
From left to right: Student soloists Sun Mi Jin, Ayaka Kinjo, and Joshua Wallace rehearse with the Hawaii Symphony Orchestra on Nov. 24. Pho-tos by Stop Khemthorn
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An Evening of Concer tosgetting better - especially with professionals.” Talking about performing with a pianist verses a full symphony orchestra, she said, “For pianists, they match me and so it’s easier. For orchestra, if you mess up you don’t get a chance to get back. The orchestra is amazing and has no flaws, and I need to get better.” On Nov. 23, two nights before the performance, the soloists went down to Honolulu to rehearse with the Hawaii Symphony Or-chestra. This rehearsal was conducted as a professional rehearsal, which some students had never been to before. Each soloist had a section of time specifically for them they had to stay within. There were people assigned to keep track of the rehearsal schedule in order to make sure the rehearsal stayed right on track. This is because the orchestra musicians are members of a union, and going over time costs too much. “So we need to run things quickly,” said soloist Joshua Wallace, a junior music major. “But when we run things quickly, we don’t have enough time to go over, for example, things that I want to run over. But everyone is just so talented and professional that it makes things easier. It’s really thrilling and fun.” Ernest Taniguchi, conductor for the North Shore Symphonic Wind Orchestra and the BYU-Hawaii Chamber Orchestra, was the
BYUH Orchestra partners with the Hawaii Symphony Orchestra for a musical night
conductor for the Hawaii Symphony Orchestra for the event. He had to learn every part to the eight soloist pieces as part of his role as conductor. Dr. Scott McCarrey, a BYUH associate professor of Music, was behind much of the detail work for the concerto competition, the concert, and the preparation in between. According to Dr. Bradshaw,
“He had to coordinate a number of things with the symphony. He had to order music from many different parts of the world.” And everyone’s the work most certainly paid off. Students said they were blown away by the performances that evening. Mikaila Sass, a freshman biochemistry major from Washington, was particularly im-pressed. “I think it was amazing to see all of the work that people had put into those performances and all the hours that must have been behind making it so perfect,” she said. Choir member Reyna Shumway, a freshman music major from Laie said, “My favorite part has been watching the others. It’s a good thing we didn’t perform first, not because we were worse, but we were able to get pumped and inspired by the other performers.” Many thanks were expressed to everyone involved in the event as well as those who supported the performances. Each soloist was also called back for a second round of applause from the audience.
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art department adArt is not what you see, but what you make others see.Edgar Degas
Painting Sculpture Graphic Design Visual Arts DepartmentBrigham Young University-Hawaii
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Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.Edgar Degas
Painting Sculpture Graphic Design Visual Arts DepartmentBrigham Young University-Hawaii
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This past Thursday, Nov. 26, students congregated with their wards on and off campus to feast together in Thanksgiving celebration. For some international students, it was their first time experiencing this festive custom. When asked about her impressions of the holiday, Jasmine Wik-aira, a sophomore from Hokianga, New Zealand, majoring in music, said, “I think it’s a cool holiday. You get to eat heaps, so that’s good, and it’s cool just to give thanks for all we’ve been given.” Emele Taivei, a freshman from Nausori, Fiji majoring in social work, said, “Well, [based on] the things I’ve heard from sacrament meeting last Sunday, I think it’s all about being grateful for things you’ve been given.” In both New Zealand and Fiji, perhaps the most similar holiday to Thanksgiving is considered Christmas. “In Fiji, we only celebrate Christmas and New Years. Christmas is pretty similar [to Thanksgiv-ing],” Taivei explained. Christmas involves gathering family members and eating lots of food, although it has more of a religious foundation than Thanksgiving. Margaux Elysse Siasin, a freshman from the Philippines studying business, had these thoughts about Thanksgiving: “I think it’s really nice that people do that here and set a date–like Christmas when we
celebrate the birth of our Savior–and this date is to say thanks. It’s a nice thing that they set a holiday for it. It’s about family and happi-ness.” Siasin added, “What I really liked about Thanksgiving were the intangible things and how people are thankful and the spirit of happi-ness and gratitude. The tangible part that I like is the food–the turkey and ham. I didn’t like the pumpkin.” Contrary to popular opinion, Thanksgiving is not just a Ameri-can holiday. In Canada, Thanksgiving is celebrated in October, on the second Monday. In fact, in 1957, the Canadian Parliament decreed:
“A Day of General Thanksgiving to Almighty God forthe bountiful harvest with which Canada has been blessed to beobserved on the 2nd Monday in October,” according to the HeraldPublishing Association. Thanksgivings are also commemorated in Grenada, Liberia, the Netherlands, and Saint Lucia. Thanksgiving is also celebrated by some people in the Philippines and is becoming more common in the United Kingdom, due to the international influence of American culture, as well as the presence of U.S. expatriate workers, according to The Guardian.
First Thanksgiving
BY TAYLOR POLSON
International students celebrate holiday for the first time with YSA wards
Members of YSA and Married wards come together for Thanksgiving meals. Despite a rainy day, ward members were in a holiday mood. Bottom right, Antonio Cardona from Guatemala eats Thanksgiving dinner
with his ward members. Photos by Yukimi Kishi
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Traditions teeter on the brink of total change in the musical adaptation of Fiddler on the Roof, a story by Joseph Stein and Sholem Aleichems. The production was theatre pro-fessor and director Craig Ferre’s first choice for his last production here at BYU-Hawaii. “Craig asked me a long time ago if we could do Fiddler on the Roof because that was his favorite, and he asked me if I would play Tevye,” said professor and Concert Choir director Michael Belnap, who accepted the main role. “I told him I would if I could have my wife Lila as my Golde and Pononui Cabrinha as my Lazar Wolf, and he did and it worked out really well.” The play was set in Russia, 1906, in a small town called Anatevka where Tevye the dairyman and his wife, Golde—as played by the Belnaps—struggle to raise their five daughters in a changing world. This tight-knit Jewish community included memorable characters such as the rich butcher Lazar Wolf, played by Pononui Cabrinha, the nosy, forgetful matchmaker Yente, the timid tailor Motel Kamzoil, and many others. Cabrinha
produced the choreography for the produc-tion. Not only was Fiddler notable for be-ing Dr. Ferre’s last time directing a show at BYUH, but it was also one of his largest productions, said Belnap. “It was like 50 to 75 percent bigger than any of the other musicals we’ve done so far; more cast, more people, more community people involved,” said Belnap. “It was a lot larger effort for everybody to pull together to make it work.” Playing the part of a village daughter named Rachel, junior vocal performance major Andrea West from Alaska said she has performed in nine musicals total, but this was her first at BYUH. “This was definitely a lot more professional, more upscale, more orga-nized,” said West. “Dr. Ferre did a really good job keeping us on task and on schedule. It was super organized; the lighting, the sounds, the music, the costumes—I’ve never seen it so organized. It all went very smoothly.” “I love the people,” said freshman English major Sammy Daynes from Singapore
who played Anya, an ensemble village daugh-ter. “I got to meet so many people from all different parts of the school, and everyone is so unique and cool—it made me feel special just knowing and interactingwith them.” According to Daynes, rehearsals occurred twice a week and spanned over Thanksgiving and Christmas break. Daynes said much effort was put into remembering lines and cramming as much as they could in the little time they had. “I was actually amazed how they prepared for the whole show,” said audience member Josh Jung, a senior studying TESOL from South Korea. “They have their school work and assignments, especially the students. I’m having a hard time with time manage-ment and all that, but looking at them memo-rizing all their songs and cues and everything, it was super amazing.” The musical storyline fell underthe guise of comedy, with sarcasticdialogue and bickering throughout, butdarker undertones of conflict and familial
‘Fiddler on the Roof’Craig Ferre directs his last and largest musical at BYU-Hawaii
BY LEIANI BROWN
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With a short amount of time to rehearse, BYUH students and faculty members par-ticipate in the comedy musicalFiddler on the Roof.Photos taken by Austin Engemann
struggles remained emotionally attached to much of the play. “I’ve experienced Concert Choir so I know Brother Belnap,” said Jung. “So it was awesome to see him perform. The emotions that he delivers, he was so into the character that I was thinking, ‘wow,’ even though I’d seen the DVD version before.” Costumes, designed by Dani Dooley, and lighting and sets, headed by Bruce Duerden, all contributed to the success of the production. In one particularly memorable scene, Tevye fabricated the retelling of a dream to his wife which included a host of zany characters from beyond the grave. Because of the lighting, loud squeals, and overall Halloween-like experi-ence, audience member Mary Jane Austin from Wahiawa said she heard people actually got frightened. “My favorite part was the dream,” said Austin. “It was beautifully choreographed. It was fun, too. There were smiles all around, and some little kids even got scared.” Austin also said besides her niece, who she came to support, Tevye was her favorite character. “I love it when people really get into character and you can tell they studied, and it brings the whole productionto life.” For Brother Belnap, the most rewarding part was being able to work with his students,
“to watch them do such a really, really fun job and to be successful—to see where all the teaching has paid off.” “As always we struggle with technical dif-ficulties,” continued Belnap, “like not being able to hear the recording of the music, mics not working or falling off, and costumes not fitting the way you thought they were supposed to. So there’s all these little technical things that can be very distracting. But they were all quite minimal, I must say, so it was pretty much just a great experience overall. We had the best people to work with, the best directors, the best cast that we could possibly get and it was a lot fun. Really a lot of fun.” The cast included members of faculty, such as Dr. David Kammerer as Avrahm the bookseller and Randal Allred as the Russian Constable, as well as other experienced stu-dents and community members both on and off the stage.
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Attending Snow College together, serving in the same mission, and now sharing a fourth place victory as teammates in the National Capsim Chal-lenge, BYUH freshmen David Wu and Taylor Lam said when it came to choosing a partner for the competition, the decision was easy. “He happened to be the best student in his class, so why not recruit him?” said Wu, a finance major from Hong Kong. Lam, an accounting major also from Hong Kong, said, “I loved working with David because he's really intelligent. Before the competi-tion started, he did all these calculations and set up formulas that gave us a bigger picture.” The challenge was sponsored by Capsim, a simulation technology used in business courses and corporations across the globe. The competi-tion completely simulated running a business, and pitted students against each other as companies battling to come out on top, according to Cap-sim’s website. The BYUH team was initially up against 141 other teams. Six made it to the finals. “It was like a mental marathon,” said Wu. “The whole competition went on for seven hours in a row; it was the longest competition I’ve ever been in.” Each hour represented one year, and at the end of each year, Wu and Lam checked with nervous anticipation the status of their six com-petitors’ companies. “It’s hard because you don’t really know what other people think,” said Wu. “You have to take risks in doing things you think are best for the company but that uncertainty is always there.” Due to different time zones, thechallenge began at 7:30 a.m. for the BYUH team, who spent all seven hours competing in their hale. “It was disappointing starting off,” said Lam. “We suffered some
unexpected losses and knew we probably weren’t going to make thebig prizes, but we tried hard to focus more on something we coulddo better.” Despite their rocky start, Lam and Wu relied on each other to work their way up. By the end, they knew they wouldn’t finish in last place and had hopes for fourth place, according to Wu. “That’s another thing we had to work on as teammates,” said Lam.
“He is pretty positive about everything, and I am pretty negative about everything, so we needed to findthe balance.” Both agreed two was the best number for the team. “In a team with more people, you have five or six ideas flying around and it can be hard to reach a consensus,” said Wu. “The best part of the simulation was when we were able to work together and get so much out of it.” When conflicts or disagreements did arrive, Wu said it was easy for them to “take a step back and look at the whole situation again, without holding onto opinions or being adamant about ideas.” Although the teams they were up against were better than they had expected, and despite being a little disappointed by the outcome, both Wu and Lam said they learned much that will help them in the future. “We now know what our weaknesses and strengths are,” said Lam.
“We didn’t oversee enough about ourselves to take the courage to do what we should have for our company. And I think that’s what entrepre-neurship is—someone who takes the courage to step somewhere they’ve never been. And maybe I can start a business in the future, using the skills I learned here.” “The biggest lesson I learned in this competition,” said Wu, “is that you’re never too good to continue to learn and improve.”
Hong Kong students place fourth
in national business contestBY LEIANI BROWN
David Wu and Taylor Lam spent seven hours in their hale competing in the
National Capsim Challenge. Photo by Austin Engemann
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Leilani Auna has been appointed as the director of Counseling Services and Special Needs as Elder Jerry Harris, who has been the director for the past two years, finishes his service mission with his wife, Sister Sue Harris. Elder Harris shared that Auna’s role, which consisted of mostly counseling before, will now consist mostly of administrating and coor-dinating special needs services. Auna, a BYU-Hawaii alumna, has worked in Counseling Services as a counselor and as the coordinator for Services for Students with Special Needs for more than 15 years. “I wear two hats,” said Auna. “I do personal counseling because I am a licensed clinical social worker. And the other hat is the special needs coordinator, meaning that I work with students who are eligible for academic, food, and housing accommodations.” Auna commented those with physical, learning or psychological disabilities, as well as medical conditions, could come and work with Special Needs Services to coordinate accommodations in the classroom, housing or food services. Concerning her upcoming promotion, “I’m very excited,” said Auna. “I’m also very humbled.” She shared her excitement at the op-portunity to build upon the foundation the Counseling Services and Special Needs has already established and “to make it even better.” She said one of her major goals will be to reach out to the students and inform them about the services provided by Counseling and Special Needs. “I really want to do a lot more outreach to the students and let them know that there are services available to support them in their educational goals, especially the international and married students.” Students do not need to have a problem to come to Counseling Services and Special Needs, explained Auna. The services are free for all full-time students and their dependents. Auna continued, “One of my goals for Counseling Services and Special Needs together is to let people know that we’re here, that there is a safe place for them to come to and not feel like they’re be-ing judged and all their secrets are being divulged to others.” She said everything is confidential. Auna shared her favorite part of her job is the ability to work with students and her colleagues. “I like working with people,” she said. “I enjoy helping people develop their talents. To be able to let
the students or clients see that in themselves makes my job worthwhile.” She also said she looks forward to directing the progress of Counseling Services and Special Needs, hoping to take out the stigma of using those services, making it accessible and helpful to students. “For me now in this position, I’m able to have a little more flexibility to use my creativity and work with the counseling staff to do just that.” The Counseling Services and Special Needs office holds events to inform students about the services provided. “We’ll probably be having an outreach day in August when school starts,” said Auna. “We’re going to have an open house and a cultural consideration day. Counseling Services will have an open house so students can come in to see what we do and ask questions.” Auna expressed that the open house will be a way for stu-dents to experience Counseling Services and Special Needs at the same time understand and learn about the different cultures on our campus. She encouraged students to visit the Counseling Services and Spe-cial Needs website, counseling.byuh.edu.
Leilani Auna is ready to take the reigns of her department to make it “even better.” Photo by Monique Saenz
Conf iden t i a lCounse l
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and Special Needs wants to inform stu-
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BY ERIC HARLINE
57FALL 2016
With the flexible semester plan, students have more options when deciding which semesters to be enrolled as full time students and which to take off, explained Jennifer Lane, the associ-ate Academic VP of Curriculum. With this plan, an individual will still be considered a student when not taking classes. There are important steps that international students need to take with visa requirements. The administration is working to find accessible options to make these technicalities easier to manage, said Lane
Student MedicalBenefits for Interna-tional StudentsTo arrange for month Student Medical Benefits for students who aren’t enrolled in classes, they need to meet with Beth Martin in the Student Medical Benefits Office in Aloha Cen-ter Room 102. The school offers coverage for single students at $80 per month and families at $205 per month. This Student Medical Ben-
Flexible Semesters BY HAILEY RASMUSSEN
The new semester schedule offers flexibility for students but international students need to consider how taking time off could affect their visas and health insurance. Photo from archives
efit is effective as long as they are in the United States. If leaving Hawaii, a copy of the BYU-Hawaii Student Medical Benefit card is needed. If students are leaving the USA, they do not need to pay the monthly rate, but they do need to show Martin proof they are going home.
For International Students
To qualify for the flexible semester, interna-tional students need to be enrolled as a full time student for two consecutive semesters. After those two semesters, they have the op-tion to take a semester off. Having the Student Medical Benefit is part of visa requirements for international students, and they will be required to provide their own insurance if they take a semester off and stay in the United States. The Student Medical Benefit fee is included in tuition. The situation is similar if they get an internship in the United States. If international students are not enrolled in classes and are
living in the United States, they must get their own insurance.
Mapping Your Semesters
Some major specific classes aren’t offered every semester and there are prerequisite classes that need to be taken in order to take others. Jen-nifer Lane, the associate Academic VP of Cur-riculum, suggested to “look carefully at your map and see when your major specific classes are available.” Martha Christensen, Academic adviser for the Business Department, said, “If students come in and know what they want to do, it would take five minutes to map out their graduation.” She also mentioned how students can e-mail her and she can do it on her own without them if they know what they want. According to Christensen, it’s a relatively easy thing to get done. The academic advisers can help arrange schedules to put students on track to graduate. Lane also suggested looking at the online catalog to see when courses are offered.
Communications
Anthropology
What is ICS?
Humanities
• Study of mediation and conflict resolution• Crosscultural leadership application
• Communications theories & media law• Multimedia production in public relations, advertising, and journalism
• Study of world cultures through literature, film, art, and folklores• Critique and create works through critical theory and aesthetics
International Cultural Studies4 Emphases, pick your primary and a secondary to fit your career goals
• Study of cultural diversity• Ethnographic research & cultural theory• Current issues, professional applications, advocacy
Peacebuilding
For more information, go to ics.byuh.edu or email [email protected]
The International Cultural Studies (ICS) major is an interdisciplinaryprogram that emphasizes a variety of cultural systems and theories, andit includes a range of historical considerations concerning cultural forms
and global social forces.
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features
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Chinese peacebuilding major sees how mediation works during internship
Student Alec Summers joins the church after searching for a religion 86
Campus Security director has years of experience in law enforcement
Justin Yamzon excells inbasketball despite being 5’7”76 88
Tahitian student is beat-boxer and a computer science major
Dorm parents and couple start Polynesian-style tie company82 92
Hawaiian student draws strength from parents, heritage and poly sci classes
Japanese RM learned basics ofballoon artistry on his mission 73 84
Winter 2016 graduate speaker says it is important to stand for truth
Bulgarian tennis player is example for people on and off the court80 90
Political Science major is first student from the island nation of Nauru 61Tiyarra Roanhorse keep Navajo
traditions alive in Laie 62
TESOL grad encourages students to take advantage of opportunities 68
Skipping high school: Freshman plans to go to graduate school by 18
The men named Ben: Five men with the same name from different countries 64
Religion Professor Marcus Martins becomes associate dean 94
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At the young age of 15, BYU-Hawaii student DonEliezer Baize was named one of the bright-est middle school students receiving the honor late last year at a national Talent Search awards ceremony by the John Hopkins University Cen-ter for Talented Youth. Baize graduated from Kahuku Intermediate School and he started his first semester of college this fall. Baize started taking college readiness assessments and standardized tests such as the ACT (American College Testing) when he was 5 years old. He remembers taking them quite of-ten and improving his score through the years. As a child, Baize tried to keep his social life and intellect at “the same level.” “Elementary and middle school was fun, I had a lot of friends and knew almost everybody,” added Baize. Continuing onto middle school only al-lowed Baize to challenge himself even more. At the young age of 12, he registered himself for the official ACT test with other high-school-aged students. As a seventh-grader, Baize was
enrolled in two high-school level courses, algebra and geometry. In eighth-grade, he con-tinued on to take algebra 2 and trigonometry. His combined ACT score and heavily loaded middle school transcript allowed him to skip high school and gain admission into BYUH. Baize said being here has “been so fun.” He said, “I’m everybody’s little brother. I know so many people, almost double the amount of people that I knew.” Baize acknowledges he now has two groups of friends: his high school pals and his college buddies. Carson Hancock, a sophomore at Kahuku High from Sunset, has been friends with Don since he was 5. He said Don is still super social despite being smart. “Every time I’m with him he always says, ‘Hi’ to people,” said Hancock.
“He always asks how they’re doing.” Hancock believes Baize’s dad was a big influence. He said, “I think his dad kind of pushed him into being smart by doing all these extracurricular things. He was already person-able from the start.”
The bright, young student’s expectations of college were nothing too grandiose. “I didn’t really plan too far ahead,” said Baize. “I basically made goals monthly, and when I kept achieving those goals, it just led me here.” The hardest thing for Baize is the transi-tion from the middle school workload to the college workload. “After coming out of middle school, it’s a lot more tiring getting all the work done. I just try to stay up at night and finish all my homework.” Baize’s biggest motivation to succeed is his desire to go to graduate school by the time he is 18 years old, a goal that seems not so farfetched for the young college student. “I just try to maintain a steady 4.0 grade point average, push myself to go to grad school and get straight A’s.” He also acknowledges his parents as a great help to get him to where he is today. “My dad is really good at math and my mom really was just there to help me adjust with every-thing,” said Baize.
DonEliezer Baize took the ACT several times to chal-lenge himself. Despite his intellectual achievements, Baize’s friends say he is personable. Photo by Hector Periquin
SkippinghighschoolFreshman plans to go
to grad school by age 18
BY JARED ROBERTS
61FALL 2016
Jane-Lyn Scotty is the first and so far only student attending BYU-Hawaii from an island country in Micronesia called Nauru, and recently hoisted her home country’s flag to join the circle that marks the university’s entrance. Scotty, a politicalscience major, said she has a pas-sion for people and plans to return home to help her country and fellow Nauruans. “Not a lot of people know where Nauru is, so I’m happy my flag is up there to recognize that I am proud to be Nauruan,” said Scotty. Scotty joined the LDS Church while attending high school in Kiri-bati, where she lived with relatives.
“In high school, I wasn’t that serious about the church until the end,” said Scotty. “I saw different families hap-pily living the gospel and realized I wanted that for my family. It made me really want to be a part of it.” Currently, Nauru has placed restrictions on the church’s presence in its country. Scotty, who served her mission in the Utah Salt Lake City East Mission, hopes to one day bring the church to Nauru. Through her membership, Scotty was able to come here to BYUH and receive an education, the best part of which, she said, is the people. “I love getting to interact with all sorts of different people and getting to know more about their different cultures,” said Scotty. “I love to just talk to people, meet different people and get to know them. I just talk to anyone.” Originally, Scotty said she had planned to major in information technology but switched to political science, which so far she loves. “I love it because it helps me understand how things work, and what’s going on around the world,” said Scotty, “and how a government should run.” Because her country’s gov-ernment is affected by corruption,
Scotty said she hopes to return home to change that, beginning with bringing the church. Elder Sam McCollum and Sister Jeannine McCollum, senior missionaries in the Career and Aca-demic Success Center, met Scotty at the PCC during their scheduled time for distributing tickets. “We encouraged her to come in and see us,” said Sister McCollum. “We have a map on our wall where we try to put a pin for all the different countries students are from. We currently have about 35-36 different countries,” Sister McCollum added. “We found out she was from a country we hadn't heard about before.” Elder McCollum checked into the statistical information of the country of Nauru, which, according to him, is the world’s third smallest country. McCollum then informed BYUH President John Tanner about his findings. “I thought it would be really nice if we could have a flag for her, and he agreed,” he said. “When I first came home from my mission it was hard because there was a specific way I wanted things to work out,” said Scotty, “but it didn’t happen the way that I wanted. Later I realized I didn’t actually want it that way, and I was able to be happy with Heavenly Father’s plan. Everything is going to work out the way Heav-enly Father wants it, even though we may not want it at first.” Elder McCollum said of Scotty, “She has a very positive attitude. She knows where she's going and she sees that she can help her small country so that's what she wants to do.” After returning from her mis-sion, Scotty came to BYUH. She said not seeing her family for so long is hard. But if there’s anything she has learned, it is “everything is going to work out.”
Jane-Lyn Scotty from Nauru said she hopes to use the knowledge she learns at BYUH to bring the church to her home country. Photo by Austin Engemann
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BY LEIANI BROWN
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Bringing Native American Culture to Hawaii
T I YA R R A RO A N H O R S EBY RACHEL REED
Roanhorse faithfully keeps Navajo Nation traditions alive while attending BYUH. Photo by Kelsie Carlson.
63FALL 2016
T he day begins at the break of dawn for Tiyarra Roanhorse, a sophomore studying exercise
and sports science from the Navajo Nation in Northeast Arizona. She gets up and puts corn pollen on her head and some in her mouth to be connected with God. A recent convert, she em-braces both her Latter-Day Saint beliefs and Na-tive American beliefs. One of these beliefs is that, if she is out of Native American land, she must perform this ritual so God is aware and recognizes her in a new land, such as Hawaii. Roanhorse, however, said the Navajo Nation is more modern than most people would think.
“People think we still wear feathers. Their concepts are different,” she said with a smile. She also said some people think Native Americans still live in teepees and deerskins. “I explain to them the dif-ferent tribes. I tell them about the languages... I tell them Native Americans are protective of land because that’s what they believe is most sacred.” Roanhorse said she came to Hawaii through the Native American Scholar Program. Before she came, she had a lot of questions of whether she should go on a mission, but then the scholar pro-gram was introduced. After applying to come to BYU-Hawaii, she was afraid she would not be ac-cepted because she was a recent convert and had not gone to Seminary or Institute. After receiving an acceptance letter, Roanhorse said, “That was an answer to all my prayers and all my questions.” Roanhorse’s roommate, Whitney Holley, a freshman from Utah studying chemistry education, said Roanhorse seemed quiet at first. “She was nice, polite. It took a few days to get to know her. She’s like a big older sister that we know and love. She is joking and always there.” Raised by strict parents, Roanhorse said she was taught to observe traditional Navajo rituals, such as waking up before dawn. Anybody who woke up after dawn was considered a lazy person, according to Roanhorse. After she got up, she would feed the animals first because it was impor-tant to take care of them before herself. She said she grew up close to her grandfa-ther, who encouraged her to pursue an education and taught her to value her culture. She said she learned more about Heavenly Father through him, though she had not been converted at the time.
Roanhorse said she was deeply affected when her grandfather passed away in 2011. “To me, it was really hard. He was a father figure in my life,” she said. Not long after, she and her mother were in a car accident. Roanhorse said she walked away while her mother was placed in the Intensive Care Unit. In the hospital, some elder missionaries stopped by to give her mother a blessing. “After that blessing she was able to walk, though they said she would be paralyzed. She was able to say a couple words even though they said she won’t be able to talk again,” Roanhorse said. This helped her prepare to hear the sister missionaries when they came to her door at Utah State University-Eastern in Blanding, Utah. She was baptized in March 2014. Roanhorse said she wanted to come to BYUH because she had been told Hawaii was a place you had to visit at least once in your lifetime. She also heard the people were kind. She said her people believe they are related to Hawaiians, like distant cousins. “One of the old stories was that our Mother created us and helped Heavenly Father create the Earth. Her name was White Shell Woman. When she was done creating the land and the people and making our Navajo tribe, they believe she de-scended here to Hawaii and settled on the Hawai-ian island, and here she remained,” said Roanhorse. Roanhorse won’t go into the ocean out of respect. “In my culture, we believe in the big water. We say the big water doesn’t know you, and it's not your place to have fun in it,” she said. Roanhorse said since it's the Hawaiian’s land and their ocean, there is no problem with them having fun in it. Ty Saganey, a senior studying social science from the Navajo Nation, said about Roanhorse,
“She’s adding the chance for other cultures to know a culture, a minority of the minority.” Saganey helped Roanhorse learn about the opportunities at BYUH and to apply to come here. Roanhorse said she carries corn pollen everywhere she goes so she stays connected to her land. The Navajo land is marked by the four sacred mountains: Mount Blanca, Mount Taylor, San Francisco Peaks, and Mount Hesperus.
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Ben Papeo
Benjamin Dowda
Benjamin CoffeyBenjamin Fa’oliu
Benjamin Kaivalvatana
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BY ALYSSA OLSEN
The men named Ben
Five young men by the name of Ben share the streets of Laie, a love of international culture, the gospel and gardening foods specific to their country. From Tonga, Italy, New Zealand, Thai-land and the United States, sharing one name, they each gathered to this campus. Ben Papeo, a junior from Italy studying psychology said in his experience, all people by the name of Ben are “good guys. Whether it’s when I lived in Utah, in Italy, in Germany, any time I meet a Ben–Benjamin or another kind of Ben–it was always just a nice guy.” Papeo was given the name Ben Enos. “My name Ben is actually not Benjamin, and it’s not any Italian equivalent such as Benito, Benionito, Benvenuto. It’s actually just Ben.” His Latter-day Saint father was studying Hebrew when Papeo was born, and “he felt in-spired to give me that biblical name,” said Papeo. In Hebrew, “Ben” with “Enos” means “son of man,” he said. Benjamin Fa’oliu, a freshman from Tonga studying math, said he was named after King Benjamin. “I’m trying to reach his standard because of my name.” For Fa’oliu and his Tongan heritage, a name has great importance. “If I be-come a great Benjamin, then hopefully my kids can learn from that and not only try to become more like me, but exceed what I was.” Benjamin Dowda, a former student of Pacific Island Studies from Flordia working at the PCC, was also named after King Benjamin,
though he said he doesn’t read very much into that significance. Benjamin Kaivalvatana, a sophomore from Thailand studying accounting, said, “Benjamin brings two words together in Thai. ‘Benja’ means five and ‘min’ means great or power. A person who has five great things.” Kaivalvatana said he loves his name for the convenience of English speakers, and because it is Thai. “In Thailand,” he said, “it’s very unusual, but here all my teachers easily remember my name. I love it!” Anything but unusual in New Zealand, Benjamin Coffey, a freshman studying psychol-ogy said his dad had several friends named Ben, “so he kind of wanted to pass that on,” said Coffey. The doctor who delivered him was also named Ben, “and so my mom liked that name, and they decided on that there.” Growing up, there were two other Bens in his close friend group. “I didn’t adhere to the name Ben as much as I did to my family name, so I went by my last name, Coffey.” Coffey said
“it automatically instilled a greater attachment” to his last name, his family name. Fa’oliu said a surname “identifies not only your family, where you come from, history, ancestors, lineage.” Working at the PCC and dancing in the night show has been a chance for Fa’oliu to ex-plore other cultures and learn each day. Fa’oliu said, “There’s something valuable that each person brings from around the world.”
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Ben Papeo is a martial artist. Benjamin Fa’oliu embraces his Tongan heritage. Benjamin Coffey grew up in New Zealand with a Maori father and a Californian mother. Benja-min Kaivalvatana took care of his family’s garden in Bangkok. Benjamin Dowda served
his mission in Fiji and plans to return. Photos by Lexie Kapeliela
Dowda has incorporated values he learned from the Fijian people on his mission. He said, “It definitely defines me more” than his own American culture. Dowda uses three dialects of Fijian each day at the PCC as he talks with his co-workers in the Fijian Village. He plans on majoring in Pacific Island Studies, becoming a professor of Fijian culture, and possibly even moving to the islands. Similarily, Papeo said he tries “Take the best from different countries and combine them together, eliminating all the rest that’s either not needed, or not something positive.” Papeo explained Italy “is very worldly. That’s something that’s very common around all of the countries of Europe. It’s not a healthy environment, spiritually speaking.” Papeo had to find a religious connection amongst all the noise of an extremely modern society. He said he has done that through his study of Aikido, Jeet Kune Do, Wushu, and Sanda–Chinese and Japanese martial arts. Since the age of 13, Papeo has been studying Asian cultures and martial arts. Papeo said his trainer required him to learn Chinese medicine, study Daoism, read traditional Chinese religious books and study the words of Confucius. “The religious books became a pleasure,” Papeo described. “It was so deep, so philo-sophical, so different from the western view of the world that I found it extremely fascinating and I just devoured thebook completely.” He also served a mission in Germany, the culture of which has also contributed to his identity. Fa’oliu agreed with Papeo that it can be necessary to eliminate some things from your culture, especially those things that don’t conform to the standards of the church. Fa’oliu said,
“There’s a lot of good things and good values that you find in Ton-gan culture, but there are some things that kind of goes against the church and their beliefs.” One such thing is drinking kava. Fa’oliu said, “It’s a really important tradition back home, especially with nobles and roy-alty.” But because the church advises against it, “none of us drink kava,” Fa’oliu said of his family. One value in Tongan culture that Fa’oliu said he missesis friendliness. “Back home, no one is a stranger. Even someone that you don’t know will talk to you, and when you talk tothat person, it seems like you’ve known that person for your whole life.” The Thai culture is similar in that it promotes showing re-spect to strangers, Kaivalvatana said. “Thai people are known as [one of the most] the respectful people in the world. I’m pretty sure we respect everyone.” Kaivalvatana said regardless of skin color or race, they are always kind and welcoming to foreigners.
“So that’s one thing that really shaped me. That’s why I’m being nice to everyone.” Kaivalvatana said his confidence–which stems from his knowledge of the gospel–and his culture has set him apart in his job as a tour guide at the PCC. Fellow tour guide and friend Kilisi Finau, a freshman from Utah studying international cultural studies, said of Kaivalvatana,
“He’s always fun, patting you on the back and making sure the day is going well. He’s willing to listen to you, no matter the problem. He’s one of my closest friends.” “I grew up in Thai culture and gospel culture,” Kaivalvatana said, “so it’s like 50-50. Not like 100 percent Thai because I was born in the church.” Fa’oliu experienced something similar in Tonga. “Even though I grew up with a lot of the Tongan culture around me, what shaped me more into who I am now is more the culture of the church instead of Tongan culture.” Coffey echoed Fa’oliu. He was raised near the Hamilton New Zealand Temple, and said he was influenced more by the LDS Church than by New Zealand cultural beliefs. Besides being grounded in the LDS faith, each of the Bens share a special connection with their culture through growing things from the ground up. Coffey said he would always help his Californian mom with her rose garden. He would also help his Maori dad with his traditional New Zealand vegetables. Coffey said he and his seven siblings would spend hours weeding the gardens. “Hard work was definitely something my parents instilled in me most,” Cof-fey said. Kaivalvatana said although he did not always enjoy it, he would spend hours weeding and watering amongst the mango, banana, lemon grass, thai chili and basil in his family’s garden in Bangkok, Thailand. Kaivalvatana said he did it because his father asked him to. Dowda said, “I’d be happy to go back [to Fiji] and have my own farm. Actually, I grow tomatoes here. I have a small garden.” Fa’ oliu grew up working hard with his family to grow yams. “We had like a what yous call a farm–we call a plantation–so we would always go to the plantation and grow crops. That’s what a lot of people like to get [in Tonga], so we grew yams.” Papeo said he dabbles in gardening as well. He said ev-eryone in Italy knows “how to make your own food–the whole process from gardening to serving on the table.” He said, “Most people know how to make a basic sauce. If you go back home–usually the mom–if she sees you not being able to do that she’ll give you a nice slap and say ‘I taught you better than this!’”
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Embracing culture
Graduation speaker: Take advantage
of opportunities
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Travel enthusiast and education advocateCarianne Hirano, a senior from California majoring in TESOL, recently met with Vice President of Academics Dr. John D. Bell. She was asked to be the student speaker at the Fall 2015 Graduation ceremony. The oldest of four girls, Hirano grew up in California with her Japanese father and Irish-descent mother, whose examples helped shape her love for culture and language. “The No. 1 thing my parents taught me was probably to cleave to the gospel even though it’s hard or you’re going through trials,” said Hirano, “and to never let God down.” At a young age, Hirano with her family completed a service mission that focused on teaching refugees from Thailand and Vietnam how to be leaders and function on their own as a ward. This was only one of many opportuni-ties Hirano had in coming to love both people and their cultures. “I love to travel. And I love that when I travel I’m always surrounded by different people,” said Hirano. “I think I can learn justas much from them as they learn from me, if not more.” Through the International Language Pro-gram, Hirano taught English in Russia before she served her mission in Seattle, Wash., where she was able to teach English as service in some areas. Hirano said both experiences solidified her dream of studying TESOL, but BYUH was never a part of the plan. “I came here not knowing anything about Hawaii. I just felt like I needed to be some-where with a lot of different cultures,” said Hirano. “I knew I wanted to go to a church school, and TESOL was only offered here.” TESOL Professor Neil Anderson said,
“Most recently, Carianne has served as the presi-dent of the TESOL Society on campus. She was a natural selection for this role because she has had a role as an officer. That initiative has pro-vided her with multiple opportunities to serve other students and to develop her leadership skills.” As TESOL Society president, Hirano was successful in pushing for more students to be involved in the program—evident in the opening social turnout which, according to Anderson, was much larger than past semesters. “Carianne is a woman with vision and her educational and leadership skills will help her
accomplish her vision,” said Anderson. Hirano said she is most grateful for the opportunity to have an education. “I’ve been able to travel to different places and seen how some women don’t have that opportunity due to poverty, trafficking–or really anything related to poverty,” said Hirano. She said the best way for people to com-bat feeling weighed down after witnessing suf-fering and deprivation is to “do what you can to help them if you are better off in some aspect because most people feel sorry, but don’t do anything about it.” Although much of her time andeffort is and will be fueled towards helping other people, Hirano is no stranger topersonal struggles. “One thing I’ve had to overcome is I’ve had severe depression, severe to the point of suicidal,” she said. Hirano explained it was hard to overcome due to her strongly independent personal-ity. “It’s so prideful to not let others help you. You’re allowing others to help when you’re more vocal about your struggles. Not being able to open up about my struggles made me realize how much others benefit when they help me—it’s healthy for both of us.”
As far as post-graduation plans go, she is keeping her options open, unsure if she’ll end up in India helping uneducated women or in Thailand teaching English, but she is confident that with TESOL she can go anywhere. “I’m most afraid of missing out on all the opportuni-ties that life has to offer,” said Hirano. Friend and classmate Kaho Watanabe, a senior from Japan majoring in TESOL, said,
“She is such a well-organized, busy person. However, there is no such word as ‘give up’ in Carianne’s dictionary. She is good at teaching. She works at the Language Center as a pronun-ciation and presentation tutor. Everybody loves how she teaches so her tutoring schedule is always crowded.” Shortly, she will address the graduates, but if she could tell them anything, Hirano said, she hopes they never forget how lucky they are to be educated. “I really like the saying...‘Reach for the stars.’ It’s simple,” said Hirano, “but a lot of us have dreams of what we want to be and what we want to do, but then we don’t always do what we say we’re going to do. I’ve always made sure to do what I say I’m going to do. I always wanted to travel, and that’s what I’m doing. So if you’re reaching for the stars, make sure you get there.”
Carianne Hirano taught English in Russia before serving her mission in Seattle, Wash. She will be the student graduation speaker on Nov. 2. Also speaking at graduation giving the
keynote address will be Elder D. Todd Christofferson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Photos by Hector Periquin
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After finishing his BYUH Media Service internship, BYU-Hawaii alumnus Bubba Au said he plans to attend graduate school to fur-ther his education. Photo by Emily Halls.
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Alumni Bubba Au, a recent political science graduate and only child from Maui, said his parents taught him to be “stubborn in a good way.” “Sometimes you gotta put your foot down for what youbelieve is right in spite of what others may say,” said Au of his parents’ teachings growing up. Just a little over half Hawaiian, he also listed Chinese, French, German, and Portuguese as part of his conglomerate cultural heritage. Au attended the same high school his parents did—Kamehameha Schools—a private school designed to foster a greater knowledge among native Hawaiian students of their Hawaiian ancestry. “Everyone there was Hawaiian in some form. If you were to ask you'd say, ‘Well, they don't look Hawaiian,’ but they were,” said Au. “I've come to associate Hawaii with the gospel. Even though we don't look the same, act the same, talk the same, in spite of that, we’re still the same. We’re still one people regardless of all the eccentricities history has impressed upon time. In spite of all the identities we take upon ourselves, we are still one in some form.” His last two years at Kamehameha Schools set in motion a love for film and editing, because he chose the Arts and Communications Acad-emy at the school as his emphasis. Currently, Au interns at BYU-Hawaii’s Media Production Services, where he worked during the majority of his university schooling. Through his time working there, Au said he has filmed devotionals, live broadcasts, Seasider basketball games, been tackled by basketball players in the process, and learned how to handle complicated, expen-sive equipment. “I enjoy it because it helps you understand how constructed our world is,” said Au. “Everything we see comes from a perspective, all sorts of different things. There's always a specific point of view. And in politi-cal science, too. I learned in my major that a lot of things are artificially constructed.” Troy Smith, professor of Political Science, and one of Au’s teachers, said upon meeting Au, he thought he was shy, but through more interac-tion discovered him to be intelligent and very thoughtful. “I admired his intelligence, his steadiness. Bubba is someone you can rely on. He’s quiet, he doesn’t need a lot of attention, but you give him an assignment, and he takes care of it,” Smith stated. “Get to know him. He is a great guy.”
Political science was a choice, Au said, highly motivated by its lack of mathematical curriculum—or at least that was his reasoning behind the initial decision. But after reading, taking the classes, and having the opportunity to spend a week in Washington, D.C., he came to under-stand that it’s “complicated to try and understand humanity.” Au said he found life in D.C. to be a very fast-paced, different way of life, and enjoyed being able to interact with legislators and political science students from other BYU schools. “Politics in general is difficult to understand because there are so many things going on,” said Au. “At its most basic level, it deals with the concerns and needs of people, and when you have a country with over 300 million people, it’s difficult to satisfy everyone.” Going to D.C. was one opportunity BYUH offered him, but an-other was a 3-month trip teaching English in Thailand. “I learned I can’t be quick to judge a situation or circumstance,” said Au, who described living with a family in a small village with dirt roads, in a house that wasn’t fully constructed and sleeping with bed nets, using squat toilets and water that, despite being drinkable, appeared slightly yellowish.
“Despite all those difficulties, they had satellite TV, a fridge, a govern-ment health clinic just down the road, and basic Wi-Fi that you had to huddle close to for it to work. In spite of all these difficulties, they lived happy lives. It made me feel more grateful for what I have, having been born in a first-world country. I learned that I can tolerate a lot more than I thought I could.” Au had difficulties of his own and admitted the past decade has been the hardest 10 years of his life. “A month and a half before gradu-ating high school, my mother suffered a stroke,” said Au. “And this is my mother, my mother who is knowledgeable and faithful –so to see her slowly degrade over the years has been very sad.” Both of Au’s parents are living in care facilities back in Maui. His father is a retired veteran. Au joked about how his parents, despite always teaching him to be a good person, also taught him through ex-ample what not to do. He said he learned to “magnify the best in them, but stay away from the bad parts.” “In whatever difficulties I’ve encountered in my life,” he contin-ued, “they have always shown me the deepest devotion and love, and I'll always appreciate them for that, as much as any child would hope to.” Au said his parents transferring him to Kamehameha Schools in 3rd grade, was their way of teaching him appreciation for his culture. “It helped to establish the lineage I come from,” said Au. “It’s a very special culture. I come from a culture that explored the Pacific Ocean. It was the world’s largest expanse of ocean, and they explored it. I hail from that culture. They were highly intelligent in what they were capable of. They used advanced astrological navigation in their sea voyaging and constructed great works of architecture.” Au said he looks to the future, hoping to attend graduate school in the mainland but said it can sometimes be daunting to think about.
“It has been difficult and it continues to be difficult,” said Au, “because it’s getting out of the house and trying to figure out what kind of person you are, and realizing you got a long way to go. And every day is different. But in spite of all this, I can still be content.”
BUBBA AUdraws strength from stalwart
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PAY S O F FDING
“I was able towitness a lot ofmiracles like withthe relationshipsbetween mycolleagues.... There is a rank, but I went in, made a good impres-sion, broke the norm and we becamegood frends.”-Shipeng “Troy“ Ni
BY ALYSSA TROYANEK
Top left: Shipeng “Troy” Ni with Arbinger Institute’s C. Terry War-ner and Robert Morley. Middle top: Flags on a street in China.
Top right: Troy and George Kelly. Below right: The Great Wall of China. Photos from Emily Halls
and Shipeng “Troy” Ni
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After being in Shanghai, China on an internship with the American Managing Association for a few months, Shipeng “Troy“ Ni said he learned
“how to interact with people in a business set-ting.” A senior from China majoring in interna-tional cultural studies, Troy said his peacebuild-ing classes were “a huge help. I prepared myself to see others as people.” Troy interned for approximately three months at AMA due to a recommendation from Arbinger. AMA partners with Arbinger, a consulting and training company that “helps people and organizations achieve breakthrough results through a profound change in mindset,” according to Arbinger.com. The peacebuilding courses Troy took at BYU-Hawaii helped him prepare for better relationships. He said, “I was able to witness a lot of miracles like with the relationships between my colleagues. They told me after the first week I was the first intern they were inter-acting with. I guess in the company, the intern world and staff world are two different worlds.
They don’t really talk, laugh or joke around. There is a rank, but I went in, made a good impression, broke the norm and we became good friends.” He said his classes even helped with his roommates in Shanghai. “When I moved into the house, the three other roommates never talked to each other. They lived in the same apartment but different rooms. They would say ‘Hi,’ but that was it. So when I went in I just started thinking about seeing people as people and being tolerant. I started doing stuff with them like making meals for them and that was a game changer. It started at the point where no one talked to each other and then by the end, we all became best friends.” While interning at AMA, Troy had the opportunity to go on a business trip with C. Terry Warner, co-founder of the Arbinger Insti-tute, and Robert Morley, director of Arbinger Global Strategy, to Beijing and southern parts of China. Troy said, “They came to China to visit their clients and promote their Arbin-
ger seminars. AMA sent me to accompany them their entire trip. The American Training Magazine held a forum and a lot of training consulting companies went. It was a platform for companies to learn and customers to come and look at their products.” His main role for the two-week trip was to ensure Warner and Morley were comfort-able and everything went smoothly. Troy said,
“Everything was already pre-arranged, but I was there to coordinate if they missed anything. I was able to translate as well. We went to the Great Wall of China and shopping. I was pretty much their assistant.” He said his internship at AMA was basic.
“I would go into the office at 9 a.m. and start doing normal AMA work like student survey collection. I collected data and put it into a more sophisticated form for the teachers to understand. I was also sent for Arbinger, so I did double the work. For Arbinger, I did a lot of translation of films and videos.”
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International Man of SecurityTorch Morris
BY ALEX MALDONADO
Morris’ said he knew he wanted to work in law enforcement since he was a child
Earl and Darlene Morris have traveled to more than 80 different countries to-gether. They are pictured here in January 2015. Photo by Monica Rubalcava
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Earl “Torch” Morris has been involved with local, state, and federal law enforcement and security for more than 30 years and nowworks as the director of campus Security for BYU-Hawaii. His wife, Darlene, said, “He lives up to his name ‘Torch.’ His light burns brightly in many aspects of his life. He’s a good husband, a good father, and a good grandfather. He’s just an all-around good person. He’s set out to do good in the world and that’s all he’s ever done.” Despite his countless awards and ac-colades in law enforcement, Morris said, “I’m most proud of my family. My wife and I have been married for 36 years, and at the end of the day, family is all that really matters.” Born Jan. 5, 1958 to Joan and Lawrence Morris, Torch was given the name Earl Morris after a deceased grandfather, but his family looked at his fiery red hair and decided Torch was a more fitting name, he said. Morris met Darlene at a gas station two weeks after returning home from serving for two years in the Spain Barcelona Mission. In their 36 years of marriage, they have raised four children, five grandchildren, and have traveled to more than 80 different coun-tries over the course of Morris’ career,he said. Morris first knew he wanted to go into law enforcement when he was 8 years old.He said he grew up in a less than ideal environ-ment where interactions with law enforcement were common. “They were always the people who came in and saved the day… [They] were like a beacon of light at a time when things that were happening in life seemed a little dark, so I decided at that point that I wanted to be one of them,” Morris said of police officers. As soon as he finished his mission, Morris joined the local police department in Ogden, Utah, where he worked for about six years as a patrol officer, responding to typical criminal reports, family fights, drunk drivers, and going after warrant arrests. According to his wife, during the six years Morris served as a patrol officer, he was earning his bachelor’s degree in political science, while raising three young children and serving as a bishop in their ward. By the end of his time at the Ogden Police Department, Morris had reached the police
rank of corporal and transferred to the State of Utah Department of Public Safety, serving as a teacher in the police academy. Morris worked as a drill instructor where he would take new recruits through their three months of training. Morris said, “I think I was a pretty nice guy in that job. I got intense at times and expected a lot out of them but was a pretty nice guy. I would run with them at 6 a.m. every morning. I’d be with them throughout the day, and I’d even put them to bed.” He spent three years as a drill instructor until he was promoted to lieutenantand was moved into an investigative role in internal affairs. There, he investigated the misconduct of law enforcement officers and other cases of corruption within the police force. “Of all the jobs I’ve had in the 35 years of law enforcement, that was the worst. There’s nothing worse than investigating your fellow officers: [no one] is going to win in that situa-tion,” said Morris. During that same period of time, Morris was drafted into the state Special Operations Unit, or what some call a SWAT team, he said.
He spent five years serving as a command-er in his team, performing high-risk felony ar-rests and executive protection. The high profile individuals he was tasked to keep safe included the governor of Utah and other heads of state. At the same time, Morris was also obtain-ing a master’s degree in economics and human resource management. “Back then, it wasn’t a popular thing to do and I remember a lot of people asking me why, but it was because I just wanted to be educated,” said Morris. After earning his degree, the position for the director of the State of Utah forensics labs opened up. Only applicants with some form of gradu-ate degree could apply, due to the department’s regulations. “I was the only lieutenant on the list who had a master’s degree. I think I was qualified in other ways too that helped, but ul-timately it was because I had a master’s degree that got me the job,” said Morris. “I spent four good years with the labs, and helped get them all accredited. It was a fun assignment that I enjoyed a lot.” After working in the labs, Morris was promoted to lieutenant colonel and made the director of The Division of Investigation and Law Enforcement Services for the State of Utah. His new position put him over the state Bureau of Investigation, the crime labs, and the communications centers. After two years, Morris was assigned to work in the governor’s office, working as the Director of Emergency Services Division. At the same time, he was made a member of the Olympics Public Safety Command, a council of 22 people from around the state who had been asked to ensure the public’s safety during the 2002 Winter Olympics, which took place in the Salt Lake City area. Morris said, “We spent four years training and preparing for the Olympics. Part of our research included going to Australia for the 2000 Summer Olympics to observe what they did and what we could incorporateand improve.” In 2000, Morris was promoted to colonel of the Department of Public Safety, where he oversaw all the highway patrolmen, criminal investigation, the police academy, andanything that had to do with law enforcement.
“They were always the people who
came in and saved the day…
They were like a beacon of light at a time when things that were happening in life
seemed a little dark, so I decided at that point that I wanted to be one
of them.”-Earl Mor r i s
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As colonel, Morris was directly re-sponsible for how the state law enforcement would be used to ensure security duringthe Olympics. Leading up to the Olympics, Morris did a lot of work with the Secret Service. “They would always ask me what they could do to pay us back for all the work we did, and I would always say, ‘You don’t owe me anything, but I would like about five minutes with Pres-ident Bush,’” Morris said. “I was always just kidding, but on the morning of the Olympics, they called me and said, ‘Hey, President Bush said he’d meet with you this afternoon at the University of Utah after he finishes speaking with the athletes.’ So I went and got another haircut, went up to [the university] and sure enough, after his speech, he came around the cornerand told me he understood I wanted to meet with him.” After what he described as a fun conver-sation, Colonel Morris asked if he could give President Bush his hat. The President accepted and a few months after the Olympics, he contacted Morris asking if he would send his full uni-
form to be displayed with the hat at President Bush’s Presidential Library in Texas. In 2002, Morris was hired on to the Department of Homeland Security as it was first opening up and was placed in charge of 45,000 employees, every airport in the United States and several key airports around the world, covering 452 airports in total. In this position, Morris traveled the world ensuring all his airports were operating safely and instated a layered-based security system that is now used globally by the TSA. With the start of the Obama Adminis-tration, Morris left the DHS and moved to Miami, Fla., to work with a company called Sekura, which is the Latin word for security. Sekura is an international company that consults with foreign governments on how they can improve national security and deal with everything from drug trade to hu-man trafficking. While with Sekura, Morris worked as a managing director over Latin America, working with the presidents and defense ministries in Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Colombia, and Aruba. Morris said he really enjoyed his time with Sekura, but his wife didn’t like how he
was regularly away from home and how many of his activities were dangerous. Morris stayed with Sekura until coming to BYUH in March 2014. He said Darlene found the listing for his current position on-line and after a little convincing, Morris was able to land an interview for the job. “I had to talk the school into interview-ing me. They were concerned about the salary, but when we came here, I had pretty much done everything I wanted to do from a career standpoint. The decision was really more of just wanting to contribute,” Morris said. Sifa Talakai, the shift supervisor for the BYUH Security Department, said, “Torch is the kind of guy who would give you the shirt off his back. I remember a time when he saw some Polynesian kids playing rugby in shoes being held together with duct tape. After they finished their game, he took them all to Sports Authority to buy them all new shoes with his own money. That’s the kind of guyhe is.” Once he finishes his work here,Morris said he hopes he and his wife can live out their summers in Idaho and their winters in Hawaii.
The BYUH Security Team has had Earl “Torch” Morris as their director since March of 2014. Photo by Lexie Arancibia
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A ditya Mongan, a senior from Indonesia studying business
management, has been selected as the student speaker at the BYU-Hawaii Winter 2015-2016 Commencement ceremony. With his knowledge and experience, he said he hopes his speech will illustrate that success is possible no matter where someone comes from and teach students how to stand up for their beliefs. Born in Jakarta, Indonesia and serving a mission there, Mongan said he is humbled to represent his country as a graduation speaker. “Knowing that there are not a lot of people from my country in this school, I feel it’s a great privilege to show how much I’ve learned from my culture and my family,” Mongan said. Mongan said at first, he had felt overwhelmed at the prospect of being the student speaker because he thought there were other people who were better qualified, smarter or more faithful than him. “However, I realized that there was a reason why I was chosen. Maybe it is because someone will need to hear what I have to say, or maybe this is an important event that will give me an essential skill that I need to develop to change my life,” Mongan added. His wife, Annie Mongan, a senior studying business management from California, said when Mongan came here from Indonesia, he did not know what to expect or where he would be going in life. According to Annie, through his diligence and hard work, he was able to grow and develop to become a leader in his church callings and relationships with others. “As he delivers his speech, I hope that individuals are empowered and feel that they can become great people and succeed in life, no matter where they come from,” Annie continued. In his speech, Mongan plans to inspire all the graduating students, including himself, to stand for what is true. Mongan said, “Elder Renlund’s talk in Regional Conference gave me
an idea of what I wanted my theme to be. So I’m basing my speech on how all of us, members or non-members, should find something to stand up for.” He decided on this theme because he knows after college, there will be more hardships in life and “we need to know what we stand for.” Mongan is the eldest of three, and his brother, Nerendra Mongan, a senior information technology major from Indonesia, said he was surprised and happy after hearing the news about his brother. “My brother has always set the bar and I am proud of him. He is very knowledgeable and re-sourceful so I know that when people listen to his speech, they will learn a lot,” said Nerendra. Although Mongan said he is sad to be leaving BYUH, he is grateful for the time he spent in the school and described it as a “learning experience.” Having studied finance and supply chain since 2013, he said he is excited to no longer be in “hard classes” and juggling work. His first job was in the Island Buffet restaurant at the Polynesian Cultural Center where he met his wife, Annie. “I think we’re the fourth couple that got married from that restaurant,” joked Mongan. He then worked on campus as a tutor for SATs. He also served as the president for the Indonesian Student Association for two semesters, he said. Despite all these opportunities he received at BYUH, Mongan thinks the people he has met are the biggest assets he has gained from his time here.
“I’ve developed a strong relationship with my friends here and that bond will last longer than we can expect,” said Mongan. As a strong believer of the im-portance of education, Mongan does not believe his education willend after graduation. “I’m excited for the future ahead of me. I want to obtain my master’s degree, pursue my career so on and so forth. I don’t know what is coming, but I’m excited,” shared Mongan.
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Photo by Hector Periquin
BY DANNA OSUMO
STANDINGFOR THE TRUTH
“As he delivers his speech, I hope
that individuals are empowered and
feel that they can become great
people and succeed in life, no matter
where they come from.”
-Annie Mongan, wife
Aditya Mongan
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A talent for beatKeanu Lee Chip Sao and others discuss their shared hobby of beatboxing
Keanu Lee Chip Sao started beatboxing at 14, but said he has cut back on his performances despite invitations from Waikiki. Photo by Stop Khemthorn
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Keanu Lee Chip Sao, a juniormajoring in computer sciencefrom Tahiti, found his niche for making beats during a bed-ridden surgery recovery. Soon after, Sao was receiving widespread praise from various sponsors for hisnewfound talent. Beatboxing, the practice of making drum and machine-like beats with the mouth, lips, teeth, tongue and voice, has long been acknowledged as a musical art form, reported openculture.com. While practicing for a Tae kwon do competition at the age of 14, Sao cut his foot on glass, which resulted in an abscess. The follow-ing surgery confined him to bed for a month. “I didn’t want to waste my time,” he remembered. After finish-ing all his homework, he decided to learn how to sing. “It was one of my life goals, but it was hard lying down.” On YouTube, he discovered professional beatboxing and imme-diately fell in love with it. “I practiced every day for six hours. After a month, I impressed people so I wanted to learn more. My first performance was two months later on a stage in front of everyone. After that I had spon-sors and managers calling me to do shows,” explained Sao. Fellow beatboxer Joshua Beijerling, a freshman majoring in graphic design from Washington, said, “I don’t think most people learn it from videos on YouTube
but just happen to pick it up. I was just making sounds with my mouth and eventually it turned into what people would call beatboxing.” He talked about the difficulties of beatboxing well. “It’s not for ev-eryone. You need a certain control over your mouth and lips to be able to do it. It is hard to learn and you need to practice a lot.” Beijerling said, “People like beatboxing because theydon’t usually hear this out of aperson’s mouth. It is pretty unex-pected. You are making soundswith your mouth that normally machines make.” Beatboxing is also atalent of Jeff Mellor, a freshman majoring in biomedical science from Washington. Mellor said, “I am not a pro, but I can beatbox. It started out of having lots of extra time. Beatbox-ing was something to pass time. I would always be whistling or beatboxing around the house and practicing different beats. On my mission, whenever I would ride my bike around, I would keep the beat to what I was peddling.” Doing something in an artistic field so long came with challenges that led both Sao and Mellor to keep their talents at a hobby level. After two years of perfor-mances and concerts, Sao abruptly decided to stop. “I didn’t want to do it for money,” he said. He said he focused on developing his program-ming skills instead. However, he
maintained his beatboxing ability during his mission in Madagascar. Sao explained how the rigors of being a full-time musician can negatively affect his life. “Right now I am getting calls from musi-cians in Honolulu inviting me to perform in Waikiki and some other places around the island. The only problem is as an artist it’s very time demanding and you need to be healthy all the time physically,” he said. “From time to time, I am glad to perform for little local perfor-mances, and I don’t do it for money.” Music always has been a big dream for Mellor, but keeping it as a hobby, which he said is more realistic, is also what keeps him happy. “If it was just solely a career, it would lose its meaning to me. The biggest challenge is competi-tion. There are so many people who are good at the arts.” Sao concluded, “ You have to develop your own skills. Everyone is different. Find outwhat your purpose here onEarth is. Why weren’t you born earlier in the world?” Sao said he believes God wants you to hone skills and talents. “You have to discover your mission, by looking at your natural skills and talents, passions and your patriar-chal blessing. When you develop one talent, you automatically develop others. We have talents everywhere, but what is the best combination for you?”
“When you develop one talent, you automaticallydevelop others. We have talents everywhere,but what is the best combination for you?”
- Keanu Lee Chip Sao
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Ibuki Kishi Balloon Ar tistExtraordinaireJapanese student serves as local entertainer with his lifetime of performing experience
BY ALEX MALDONADO
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Ibuki Kishi is a master in the art of balloon twisting, and that’s just the tip of histalent iceberg. Kishi has practiced magic, juggling, and countless other performing trades through-out his life growing up in Kumamoto, Japan. “I grew up with a big family [of 10 children] and was surrounded by a lot of unique talents. Since I was little, I loved to entertain people. I learned howto juggle from my younger brother and learned magic from my elder brother,” Kishi said. While he was serving in the Japan Nagoya Mission, Kishi met Masashi Yahagi, a street performer who Kishi regarded as “the best balloon artist in allof Japan.” Yahagi was serving as the branch president in Kishi’s final area of Ise, Japan, where he taught Kishi the basics of balloon bending. After completing his mission and returning home, Kishi returned to his mission area to live with and train under Yahagi for another two weeks. Then he went home to stay, continuing to refine his abilities on his own. Initially, Kishi said he would practice several times a week for up to three hoursa day. Over time, he polished his skills to the point where now he only needs to practice when he is learning how to perfect a new design. Kishi’s wife, Yukimi, said, “I’m impressed with how diligent he is at improving his skills. He doesn’t [look at it like] he is practicing. He sees it as just having fun.” Kishi said, “I can create almost anything. I can make little things like poodles, dog-gies, teddy bears, and flowers. If I spend a little more time, I canmake [bigger things like] rainbow hats, Super Mario, the Pink Panther, or anything.” The most complex piece Kishi makes is a green Chinese dragon with blazing red eyes and yellow spines down its back. It measures in at nearly 8feet long. Upon request, he can even make large balloon archways that can take about an hour and well over 200 balloons to create. When Kishi first moved to Hawaii in early 2014, he started advertising his abilities on Facebook and would contact people to see if they would like him to make an appear-ance at their parties. “The first time I was asked to go to a party to create balloons for children was a few months after I had moved to Hawaii. I wasn’t used to speaking English or using it as part of my act, so if I talked with an adult they could understand, but the children could not,” said Kishi. “I couldn’t talk but I could still communicate with them when I made them a doggie or a sword. They would give me a big smile and were so happy. Even though we couldn’t have a conversation by talking, I could still feel they were happy.” One of Kishi’s top priorities for the future is to improve his English to thepoint where he can entertain with the comfort of knowing his audience understandshim perfectly. After he graduates with his accounting degree next year, Kishi and his wife plan to move back to his hometown in Japan where he hopes to work in an office at Kyushu Denryoku Power Company. He hopes to use his talents as an entertainer as often as pos-sible and eventually pass them on to his children. To see a catalog of what Kishi is capable of or to book him for a party or event, visit his website at http://ibukiballoon.blogspot.com/
Ibuki Kishi uses a skill learned from a branch president on his mission to create a bear hugging a palm tree. Photo by Hector Periquin
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Born Catholic, Alec Summers joined the LDS Church just over 9 months ago after searching for religion throughout high school. Summers, a freshman in general studies from Southern California, said he was baptized as a Catholic when he was a child, and his fam-ily only went to church on special occasions like Easter Sunday. He was the one in the fam-ily who would pray on his own, and his family looked to him to say the prayer at Christmas, New Year’s or Easter when the family would gather for dinner. At around 16 years old, Summers said he began looking into various churches. “People would ask what are you. And I would answer, ‘I don’t know’…. I was searching for churches. I wanted to find something to identify myself as.” Gillian Warren, a freshman from Tem-ecula, Calif., studying art, went to high school with Summers and joined him at BYUH. “He is so approachable. He makes you feel like you are one of his friends,” said War-ren. She said she and Summers had Mormon friends in common.
He went to several mutual activities. One of them wasa Joseph Smith-Restoration-themed mutual activity. Summers said, “During the activity, I was sitting there unsure as to what is going on.” Summers said he was confused about what he was learning. He said, “I left for a bit. My friend confronted me and asked if I didn’t like mutual. I said, ‘I’m just confused as to what I want.’” Summers decided to continue research-ing the church. He said, “It was really confus-ing at first. I watched General Conference before I ever went to church. Watching conference made me even more confused… I thought, ‘What the heck is happening?’ I went over to my friend’s house and talked with my friend’s Mom about it. They never pressured me at all. It was never something that I felt obligated to do.” Summers eventually asked his LDS friend, Brayden, if he could go to church with him. He said, “From that moment on, it was an in-credible experience. I walked into the church
and everyone greets you, everyone asks you what is your name....This welcoming experi-ence wasn’t an outsider type of thing. They all wanted to benefit from each other.” “That was after my first Sunday,” Sum-mers said, “but all I know is that I felt some-thing. I didn’t know until later on that it was the spirit.” Summers said although it was a great Sunday, “It was rough, though. It was three hours and I had no idea what was going onin sacrament.” Two weeks passed and Summers asked Brayden if he could take the missionary lessons. Brayden responded by sending the sister mis-sionaries. Summers said he answered the sisters’ questions exactly how they had written them in their journals and lesson plans. “It was weird because I felt like I had answered these questions before. I was sitting there and I thought… I know this stuff. I was being taught it for the first time but I already knew it. It was kind of confusing at the time, but I thought why do I understand this so much?” Warren said she was able to cross-reference a lot of things from the Book of Mormon to the Bible with him. She said, “He was really humble and open to it. He actually saw that the Book of Mormon reflected all the Christian, Catholic beliefs. It was almost like the Book of Mormon enhanced it.” As Summers continued to take the les-sons and his desire to get baptized grew, he soon found it wouldn’t be smooth sailing. He had life-long friends sit him down and tell him that they were concerned for his salvation and that he would “go to hell” if he continued. He said he was asked about all sorts of topics in-cluding polygamy and other hard issues. Many of his friends from childhood stopped talking to him. He was told the only reason he was listening to the missionaries is because of his Mormon friends. His devout Catholic grandparents ex-pressed concern. Summers said, “It was rough for my grandparents to accept it, because they saw it as me going against them and their culture. They said that by doing this I was go-ing against family and culture and that is really disrespectful for me to do that.” His mother also complicated things at first. “She wasn’t okay with it at all. She actu-
AlecSummers
Persevering through confusion
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ally came to one of the lessons to see what it was all about and you could tell that she wasn’t feeling it at all. She was skeptical and left after the lesson and I asked her about it. She said, ‘I will talk to you about it tomorrow.’ Tomorrow came and she didn’t talk to me about it. The day after that came and again she didn’t talk to me about it.” For two weeks, Summers and his mom avoided the topic, talking about everything else but the church. To break this silence, Sum-mers said he decided to pray to change his mom’s heart. “I remember on a day of a lesson, I prayed before I went to bed and prayed that god would open her heart and uplift her and see what it going on.” Summers continued, “I prayed that she would see that there was some-thing deeper, that I wanted to do it for myself.” Two days later, his mom sent him a text while he was in class. Summers said it was the most powerful text he has ever received. The text read, “Alec, I love you and I will always love you and I noticed lately that I haven’t been open minded to the things that you desire. I’m sorry for not taking in consideration your wants and desires. With that I give you permis-sion to get baptized. I love you so much.” On Jan. 11, 2015, Summers was baptized a member of the LDS Church. Warren sang “I Need Thee Every Hour” at his baptism, which left both Alec and his mom in tears, he said. “My mom is good about it now. She is ex-cited that I have been able to come [to BYUH],” said Summers. He shared his mom defended his choice to a coworker, who got upset after seeing pho-tos of his baptism on Facebook. The coworker told her the church was a cult and she needed to get him out of it immediately. “Although this coworker was someone who she respected, she went back and told her, ‘I love him and will support him through anything. If it is some-thing that he wants, it is something that I want too.’” Warren, Summers and nine other fellow high school students from Temecula all have found their way to BYUH. Gillian said, “I don’t think that any one of us alone could have led him to be baptized.” She said the collective influence of all the LDS friends gave him the resources to choose to be baptized.
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In a sport where height is a big factor, junior point guard Justin Yamzon is not your typical college basket-ball player. Standing at 5-7, Yamzon is living proof that height is not everything. “I just see it as a challenge, you just have to learn to use the things that work for you,” said Yamzon, an exercise and sports science major from Las Vegas, Nev. Though just 5-7, Yamzon uses his speed, agility, and ball handling to lead his team and is one of the Seasiders most prolific scorers this year. Playing college basketball has been a dream of Yamzon’s since he was a little kid. Having parents who both played college basketball, it is no surprise Yamzon was playing basketball all his life. “I had a ball in my hand as young as I can remember. Basketball has always been around me,” said Yamzon. Like most kids Yamzon played a lot of different sports but early on he decided he wanted to focus on basketball. Growing up his favorite player to watch was Steve Nash. Captivated by his speed, dribbling, and passing, Yamzon began to implement what he saw of Nash’s style into his own game. Yamzon continued to improve and progress through the years as he made his junior high and high school teams. Then in his junior year of high school, a local family member in Hawaii put Yamzon in touch with then Assistant Coach David Evans. After going through the recruiting process, Yamzon was offered an athletic scholarship that he quickly accepted. “I have family out here, and when I visited before my senior year, I just loved the school and the atmosphere. It wasn’t a hard choice with me,” said Yamzon. After he was offered a scholarship, things got a little uncertain for Yamzon as he tore his ACL during his senior year of high school. Fortunately, the offer to play at BYU-Hawaii remained and Yamzon decided to get surgery on his knee.
JUSTIN YAMZONPOSITION:POINTGUARD
HOME:LASVEGAS
YEAR:JUNIOR
POINTS PER GAME:
ASSISTS PER GAME:
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Getting out to Hawaii in 2013, Yamzon spent most of his freshman year recovering from his knee surgery. Later in the season, Yamzon would forgo redshirting and received somegame time. Through his freshman and sophomore years, Yamzon served as back-up point guard to then starting guard Robbie Mitchell. Though some might find it frustrating, Yamzon relished the opportunity. “It was a great learning opportunity for me. Robbie is a great guy and competitor,” said Yamzon. “He was always teaching me and helping me. We both respected each other and pushed each other to work harder.” Now in his junior year, Yamzon has stepped into the spotlight and starting position for the Seasiders. With the increase in playing time, Yamzon’s productivity has increased. Throughout this year he is averaging 13.1 points and 4.1 assists a game. He also has had 23-point games two times this year. “I love watching and playing with him. He is such a great player and friend. I have learned a lot from him,” said Brody Berry, a sophomore exercise and sports science major from Alpine, Utah. Yamzon is also one of the few athletes at BYUH who is not a member of the LDS Church. Although not a member but growing up Christian, Yamzon quickly adjusted and fit right in. “Justin is my boy. He is awe-some to watch play and thento just be around,” said Brandon Barron, a sophomore exercise and sports science majorfrom Sunland, Calif. Yamzon is hopeful for this year’s season and is looking forward to finishing out his career along with the program’s last year before being phased out. “It’s sad that the program is being phased out, especially since we have been so successful. But I really want to go out with a bang and finish my career and the last year of the program strong,” said Yamzon.
BY MATTHEW ROBERTS
Justin Yamzon always dreamed of playing college basketball andhopes to end his career at BYU-Hawaii next year with a bang. After being the back-up point guard for two years, Yamzon is one of the team’s leading scorers this season. Photo courtesy of University Communications
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ON & OFF THE COURT
Ibrahim Karmadzhe, a junior from Asenovgrad, Bulgaria studying computer science, has been playing tennis since he was 6 years old. His friend introduced him to the sport and he went on to play for the Advantage Tennis Academy before coming to Hawaii. Karmadzhe said he liked it because it was a competitive game. “It’s very fun because you can do a lot of interesting things while playing,” he said. “If you watch the pros, they have very interesting and long rallies and it’s fun to be able to do it.” Karmadzhe first learned about BYU-Hawaii from one of his coach’s brothers. Through him, he came into contact with Coach Porter and applied for the team through emails and video recordings of his gameplay. Having identified potential in Karmadzhe, Coach Porter told him to apply to the school.
“He recommended me, and I got a good scholarship,” said Karmadzhe. “Also, the school is in Hawaii and I’ve never been.” BYUH has benefitted from Karmadzhe, with him being one of the best players on the team and now team captain this year. Friend and tennis player Colton Pate said, “I know his work ethic and I know he’ll be good for the team.” “He stands out because of his game style,” said fellow teammate and friend Grant Zukeran, a junior studying accounting from Kaneohe. “He’s very aggressive and attacking.” Coming to Hawaii, Karmadzhe has traveled with the team from California to Florida, and has made close friends with his teammates. “[They are] some of the closest friends I’ve had,” he said. “I love practicing with them when they’re
all dedicated to the team and they want to win.” “Not only is he a very prominent player on our team, he’s also a very good friend,” said Zukeran. “And the fact that he has that kind of leadership quality that allows us to follow his example, it kind of draws us to him and makes us want to be more like him.” According to his friends and fellow tennis players, Ibrahim is one of the hardest workers on the team, working hard on the court and both off the court. He helps his friends stay on track, “and asks if we are caught up in our classes,” said Pate. Pate continued to say how whenever they get together to study in the Aloha Center as a team, Karmadzhe finishes his homework and then will have fun. “He’s on top of his coursework more than anyone else.” His friends also said since Kar-madzhe has been here, he has improved mentally in tennis. “He has this desire to be really, really good at this sport and in the beginning, that got in the way of his improving because he was so focused on things that he couldn’t do at the moment,” said Zukeran. “Over the years, coach has been able to calm him down.” Since not being back in Bulgaria since 2013, Karmadzhe has missed his family and friends. Seeing his teammates leave, he said it “gets pretty tough some-times…It’s not about where you are, it’s the people.”
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With hopes of integrating Polynesian culture and western fashion, Tuitakau Funaki, a senior accounting and business management major from Tonga, and Amanda Funaki, his wife from California, have created Kie Fashion, a growing tie business. Tuitakau said the business started inJune, and purchases were only available through their website. However, about a week ago, the BYU-Hawaii Bookstore has started sellingthe Funakis’ products, and they are hopingto expand their market to the PolynesianCultural Center. Amanda shared, “We had been thinking of the idea for a while now. We wanted to bring in Tui’s culture.” She explained he has Tongan and Fijian heritage in him and he had served his mission in Samoa, all of which influenced the designs. Tuitakau said, “Our ties don’t just focus on one specific island. We make surethat everyone is represented. We’ve made designs for Tonga, Samoa, Hawaii, the Maori and Fijians.” Amanda added, “If you look at a lot of Polynesia, they have a lot of tattoos, and so we took some of the tattoos that they’ve had that are important to their culture and we just put our twist on it. We combined designs from dif-ferent cultures and made it our own.”
Tuitakau explained they pick the color and the Polynesian design as a way to empha-size Polynesia. “The designs are for authentic people who want to be recognized when they walk through a crowd,” said Tuitakau. “We both design the ties. There are nights when we wake up at night and we say, ‘Got an idea!’ and then we draw it.” Nhil Banda, a communications senior from the Philippines, who modeled for Kie Fashion’s online catalog, said, “When Tui ap-proached me, he said aside from just selling ties they actually wanted to sell the Polynesian art, the culture itself. And so I think that’s what makes it special. They’re not just selling clothes or apparel. They want to share their culture and that’s wonderful. His designs are very hand-picked just like the images. It will make you feel like it’s an authentic tie from the island.” According to Tuitakau, the ties in the Bookstore now are their first and second editions and they are made of either polyester or polyester twill. The third and fourth edi-tions are in the process of manufacturing and customers can expect them to be high-end silk ties with Polynesian designs. He shared, “we are also going more into Polynesian-designed leggings. We start with ties, and then we’ll branch out. Leggings should start somewhere in January or February next year.”
Despite the busy schedule of a being parents, employees and for Tuitakau, a student, much of the success and creative process of the business is a team effort. “I am in charge of financial and supply chain issues, and my wife is my partner and takes care of the marketing and operating side of things,” said Tuitakau. Tuitakau emphasizes that students should have hope. He said if students have ideas, right now is the time to do it because there is really nothing to lose. Students can be successful out-side the classroom. “Follow your dreams. When people say no, don’t believe them. If you really love it, do it. There’s a way,” he said. Amanda added, “It’s scary to do that first step. We were having our baby at the time, and we had this idea and wondered could we really do it? Most of the people we talked to said we should wait until after we’re done with school or that someone already has done this thing. But we loved what we had in mind and we just went for it and gave it all.” Information about their businesscan be found on their website,kiefashion.squarespace.com.
Hale coordinators start Kie Fashion,a Polynesian influenced company
Tying it together
The creators of Kie Fashion, Tuitakau and Amanda Funaki, pictured with
their child, plan to expand their Poly-nesian influenced apparel to not only
ties but also leggings.Photos by Stop Khemthorn
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Effective Nov. 3, Dr. Marcus H. Martins will become BYU-Hawaii’s new associate dean of Religious Education in the College of Human Devel-opment. Martins will assume responsibilities of representation to the University Academic Counsel and provide insights and leadership to the various professors of the Department of Religious Education. Martins served as a mission president of the São Paulo North Mis-sion from 2011 to 2014, with his wife, Mirian Abelin Barbosa. Martins had served in that mission previously when he was younger, and accord-ing to him some missionaries had to travel up to three days to reach their new areas. From experiences of teaching on his mission and courses he has offered at various church institutions, Martins has been involved with several gospel-related projects. He is the author of “Setting the Record Straight: Blacks and the Mormon Priesthood.” On his YouTube chan-nel, he produces educational videos both in English and Portuguese on church doctrines and teachings. In 2008, Martins appeared in five episodes of the “Messiah.” He has spoken to audiences throughout the United States, Brazil, and Japan, and participated in conferences in China, Malaysia, Singapore, and Qatar.
“One day I decided to put my name in Google, and I found outthat someone had written a Wikipedia article about me,” said Martins. After having read the article, he revised the incorrect portions and added more information. Dr. Keith Lane has served as chair of the Department of Religious Education for over three years. According to Dr. Martins and faculty of the department, Lane has done tremendous work in the transition of the new Church Educational System religion curriculum, and has helped shape the Religion Department to what it is today. Martins is originally from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where his family joined the church in 1972, and his family became prominent among the early church members. “The church was small enough that you could talk amongst your own stake, and before you knew it you had ties to most of the members in Brazil,” Martins said. With massive expansion of the church in Brazil, Martin’s father, Helvécio Martins, became the church’s first black General Authority. Martins was the church’s first black full-time missionary and one of the first black members to be ordained to the priesthood. When talking about his coming responsibilities, Martins said he will “create the organizational and physical climate conducive to research and development.” He said professors are required to have a doctorate or be working towards one to be qualified to teach here. “By extensive research, our professors will then have a greater desire to educatetheir students.” “The point of BYUH’s religion classes are not for our students to have conversional experiences, but rather we want them to understand what our church’s teachings are and why we practice them. We want them to see all of the dispensations as part of an entire plan that God has created. Having their testimonies strengthened is a by product, but it’s not what we are aiming for. Religious education is our main priority.” Dr. Daniel Sharp, BYUH Religion professor,said, “You will know everything you need to know in order to make your own religious conclusions through your study of the scriptures, and insights from these classes.” Junine Wang, a freshman from Hong Kong studying business, said her experience from taking religion classes here on campus has been profound in her life. “Since most of us live in places where the church isn’t predominately present, we can all come here and be unified through common scripture study. And then we can take that knowledge with us and share it with the world.” Martins hopes to include the church more in community outreach programs and events, and project a positive image for the church. “In the past, our department brought the Dead Sea Scrolls in and they were featured in the [temple] visitor’s center. We had media from all overthe islands here to cover that story. I want to bring these community events back.”
Dr. Marcus Martins is pictured with Elder Richard G. Scott, of the Quorum of the Twelve who recently passed away. Martins will be taking Dr. Keith Lane’s place as associate dean of Religious Education at BYUH. Photo courtesy of Martins
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T he Kahawaii family orchestrated a hukilau at Hukilau Beach in celebration of Laie Days on Saturday, July 18. More than 100 people participated in the wet and sandy team activity
of pulling in a fishing net - creating an overall happy, exciting and easygoing atmosphere, as one participant described. Robert Kahawaii said his family does hukilaus for special occa-sions, like Memorial Day, funerals and Laie Days. “We do it for the community in July. We are the only ones who still practice it. This is a good thing for us to do as a family.”
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Top: Robert Ah Puck and his sons Jeronn, Cobi and a neighbor, Talanoa Kaluhiokalani pose with the catch. Bottom left: some of the
fish caught lie in a burlap sack. Bottom right: Kaleo Kahawaii (in red) helps kids manage the net. Photos by Hector Periquin
When everyone was gathered around at the beach, Kahawaii gave an introduction about the hukilau. He said, “In the old days, when the community needed food, they would gather families together because you need a lot of people.” He explained what the “lau” is in “hukilau.” “The lau—it’s a piece of rope with dried ti leaves tied to it. It scares the fish into the net.” He said in the old days, the Hawaiians only had a small net because they were poor. They would use the lau to extend their fishing area. The net used on Saturday was roughly 80 feet long, he said, but they still used lau. Kahawaii’s brother-in-law, Robert Ah Puck, announced to the novice helpers, “This net is like gold to us. It is how we feed our family. There are plenty rocks and trees in the water and they’ll rip and tear the net. It’s not a race to pull it in. So when the captain says, ‘Stop!’ You stop. The biggest thing with hukilau is it’s a team effort.” The hukilau began as three men pushed a small wooden boat filled with net into the ocean. Kahawaii rowed the boat in a large curve until he reached the shore far down the beach, creating a semicircle where the fish were trapped by the lead-weighted net. Another man acted as an anchor, holding the end of the long net as it unfolded. Divers were around the net, and Kahawaii’s son, Kaleo Kahawaii explained why. “As divers, we have to surround the net so we can lift it over debris…so it doesn’t rip the net and the fish doesn’t escape.” Zane Clark acted as the anchor at this hukilau. He helped organize hukilaus 50 years ago, “and it’s pretty much the same,” he said, laughing.
“We’d come down every Friday—it was a church assignment. We had to gather 80 to 100 coconuts and make the haupia. I learned to husk them, but I was never as good as the Polynesians.” Fifty years ago, he said he was a librarian at BYUH, and returned to that position as a senior mis-sionary 18 years ago. He said he and his wife visit Laie every summer. Senior missionary Sister Mary Robinson, said, “We sang the song as kids, and now we are going to the hukilau!” Clark held on as the rest of the participants pulled the lau on the other end, bringing the net in from the ocean under the direction of the Kahawaiis. Once the net reached the beach, the long lau ropes were untied and people began to pull directly on the net. The top and bottom of the net were brought together to keep any fish securely caught as more and more net was brought up to the beach and closer to where Clark was holding the end.
Emi Miskin and Alina Allen came to their first hukilau in conjunc-tion with a Young Single Adult conference that was happening the same day. Miskin, a sophomore at BYUH from California studying graphic design, said, “It’s way fun. I would totally come again.” She said it is a great community-strengthening activity. Allen drove from her home near UH-Manoa, where she studies ma-rine biology. She said, “It’s really cool how all these people are together just to do this.” That community aspect of the hukilau is what makes it special, as Kaleo Kahawaii said. “One big thing I like about hukilau is everyone coming together for a cause. Just with it being a community activity and with all the help from everyone, it’s a good place to be at. The size of the community was a big factor in helping. As Hawaiians, we say ‘laulima’: many hands make the workload less.” Once the net had been gathered in to the beach, children and adults untangled the fish and carried them around in their hands. Some posed for photographs with the fish dangling from their mouths to the laughter of those present. Bags of cut oranges were passed around for the refresh-ment of those on the beach. Sina Fonoimoana, an alumna in ICS communications from Califor-nia and Laie said her family was eager to eat the fish. “We are not going to cook them. We are going to eat them raw.” They planned on removing the scales cutting up the meat. “Just salt is good. Nothing fancy. We just like fish.” Kaleo Kahawaii said he had expected a larger catch, “but with it being a hukilau, it doesn’t really matter. I remember growing up we’d always catch loads and loads of fish. We’d have coolers here filled of fish. Now with the ocean kind of changing and things happening in the world, global warming, stuff like that, there’s not that much fish now. But we are always happy with what we catch.” He said his family will eat some and they’ll give the rest “out to people who need food, like the old kupu-nas of Laie.” The Kahawaiis also do a hukilau every Memorial day and have partnered with Hawaiian Electric to bus homeless youth to Laie. “The majority of those kids have never been on this side of the island.”
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WHEELS, HEELS AND AUTOMOBILESMaking the most of transportation options on the North Shore
Walk - The oldest and most independent mode of transportation can sometimes be the best. If you are headed to the beach, shopping center, or anywhere else in Laie, walking willget the job done. The shopping center is only
.5 miles away from campus, which meanswalking is convenient. The Polynesian Cultural Center and beach access points are also a short walk away. There is a bike path parallel to Kame-hameha Highway between Laie and Kahuku that is good for walking or running, too. The path is three miles round-trip, with picturesque views of the mountains and open fields near Laie.
Bus - For only $2.50, you can get a transfer slip that allows for a round-trip journey on The Bus. Bus stops line Kamehameha Highway, in-cluding nearby stops at Foodland, Temple Beach, and the PCC. The bus comes every hour and can take you almost anywhere on the island. Travel time will vary depending on your final destination, but a one-way trip to Waikiki takes about two hours. For bus schedules and stops, check Google Maps or thebus.org.
Bike - Even though bikes are generally quicker than walking, they require frequent maintenance on the North Shore. The salty hu-midity, rain, and trade winds can make bikes rust very fast, and loose gravel can leave you looking for a replacement tube. Luckily, Ace Hardware in the Laie Shopping Center has everything you
need to get your bike back in working condition. Tires can be filled up for free near the physical plant behind the Old Gym. A lock or chain is a must, as bike theft is common on campus and in the community. Even if you are just going inside for a few minutes, make sure to lock your bike. Bikes must be ridden only on the streets. There is a counter-flow bike lane on campus, and several bike lanes around Laie. Bikes are not al-lowed on sidewalks.
Skateboards - Longboards and skate-boards are great for navigating around campus and fun to ride. You will see many students and some teachers longboarding to classes. However, don’t ride them on sidewalks. Use the bike lane on the street.
Drive - Although not everyone is fortunate enough to own a car, there are still several ways to drive around Oahu. The car rental company Enterprise has four cars on campus available for rent. Also, the facebook pages “BYUH Rides” and
“Sell your stuff @ BYU-Hawaii” are good places to find students willing to carpool or rent their car out for the day.
Uber - The ride-sharing company has been in Honolulu for a while, but has recently debuted on the North Shore. Fares tend to run a little high, but a ride in an Uber car is most likely faster and more comfortable than The Bus.
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Laie’s small town feel can make traveling to and from your favorite places a breeze. While moving about the island other times it can be a nightmare. Here are the top methods of travel, and how to make the most of them.
Wheels, heels and bicycle spokesHow to get from point A to point B on North Shore
Walking is a great way to get your heartbeat raised, and a free way to get to a close location. If you’re headed to the beach, taco bell, or the Laie cinema, walking is the way to go. The Foodland complex is only .7 miles from the Little Circle. Remember not to walk alone after dark, or you are in some potential danger. If you get lost walking the streets of Laie, look towards the temple to orient yourself. It’s right in the middle of town. Other places within walking distance of campus are the Hukilau cafe, the Polynesian Cultural Center, and Chevron.
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BusIt’s good to get used to riding the bus. Only $2.50 for a round trip, and it travels to most places on the island. Bus stops are all along Kamehameha highway, including outside of Foodland, the temple,
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BYUH, and the PCC. The busses come every hour, and the schedule can be checked online at thebus.org. Trips on the bus are extra long due to frequent stops, so plan accordingly. The bus is great for a trip to Haleiwa, Ala Moana, or Ted’s Bakery.
DriveNot everyone is fortunate enough to own a car, but that doesn’t mean they are impossible to get a hold of. Hertz rents out cars to students for a reduced price. BYUH has a Facebook page for carpooling, dedi-cated to loaning out and borrowing students cars. Traveling in groups is ideal because gas money can be split. When navigating around Oahu for the first few times, be sure to have a GPS handy because it’s easy to get lost. A car is good for late nights in town. Get friends together in a car for an evening in Waikiki, shopping in Honolulu, or to visit a faraway beach like Lanikai. Brit Conley, a senior majoring in social work from Texas, said, “I have a car so it’s nice, but there are negatives as well. You’re always responsible for driving your friends everywhere. You always have to pay gas, you don’t get to chill in the passengers seat, and you’re in charge of lives. It’s good because I can have a job at Turtle Bay, and the pros outweigh the cons.”
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Transportation photos by Hector Periquin
Click for bus schedule: http://thebus.orgClick here for bus schedule: http://thebus.org/
The BusIf you don’t want to get a car, you can always spend $2.50 to board the city bus and receive a transfer slip for one more bus ride. There is also a semester-long pass available at the Aloha Center Front Desk for $120. That is only worth buying if you ride the bus more than 48 times a semester, which would be more than twice a week.
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Carrying it around can help you get things a little cheaper: You can go to Hanauma Bay for free, get a discount at Laie Palms Cinema, discounts on skydiving, etc. Turns out it’s handier for a lot more than getting into theTesting Center.
Volunteer for half an hour and get 10 items for free. If you look closely,you could find books for school, laundry detergent, new clothes, sheets, kitchenware, movies, and more. It’s a gold mine of reusables, all for free! Sunny Jin, a sophomore studying music from South Korea, said, “I go to Give
‘N’ Take often so I get good stuff and I don’t have to buy it.” To get to Give ‘N’ Take, turn right off of the Big Circle by the Stake Center and it’s at the endof that road.
There are a lot of beautiful beaches, breathtaking hikes, and places to see on this island. If you have a car, take people with you to make the ride cheaper, and if you are getting a ride from somebody, chip in on gas money. Gas is expensive, and it’s always nice to show a little gratitude.
Stop paying money on Netflix or Hulu. There is our own LibFlix in the library with a lot of movies you can rent out for two nights for FREE. “You don’t have to pay to watch a movie, like Redbox,” said Pate Latu, the circula-tion supervisor at the library.
ways to save money while at BYU-HawaiiCollege isn’t cheap, especially when in Hawaii where the cost of living is high. New students come and gape at the expensive prices of milk at Foodland ($5), dishing out their savings to pay for tuition, board, and the textbooks. Yet there are small things you can do to keep some of your money and not be completely broke. Here are tips to save your spare change
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Make and keepa budget
Cook Smart
Work to Eat
School Events
Keep yourgrades up
Textbookoptions
Use socialmedia
Make a budget and keep to it. Don’t just map it out and forget about it; know how much you earn and how much you spend. The more you lose track, the more you lose that precious change that makes all the difference. “Whenever I have to get food, I have to write it down and make a list to go buy. If I want to buy anything else, I don’t buy it,” said Saebom Park, a junior studying business finance from South Korea.
Don’t always buy prepared food. Buy in bulk and freeze the food you don’t use immediately to save for later. If you live off campus, share the cost of food with a friend. Carpool to Costco or Sam’s Club with someone who has a card. Look for coupons in the newspaper and online.
Attend school events such as FHE, activities held by clubs, and other activi-ties for students. They will mostly likely have food, as well as new people to meet and new things to experience. There are also a lot of free, fun things to do like movie nights, and bowling.
Work at a place that feeds you. The Seasider, the Polynesian Cultural Center, Pounders, and the Caf will feed you once per shift, and that is one less meal to pay for!
Do well in school. There are scholarships for those who get high grades. A GPA of 3.25 will earn you a 1/4 tuition scholarship. A GPA of 2.45 gets you 1/2 tuition. A 3.75 GPA will pay for 3/4 of your tuition, and if you manage to get a 3.95, you don’t have to pay for tuition at all. Isaiah Gillenwater, a se-nior studying biochemistry from Indiana, said, “I keep my grades up because I automatically qualify for the academic scholarship and it can save up to all your tuition.”
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12If you want to save and get other cheap stuff, look on the Facebook page Sell your stuff @ BYU-Hawaii. You can find textbooks, bikes, clothing, electric fans and all sorts of other things for less than the retail price.
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Halaus honor legendary kumu hula and celebrate their cherished cultureThe Moanikeala Hula Festival welcomed seven different halaus or hula schools to the Poly-nesian Cultural Center to honor the late Sally Naluai with hula performances in the Hawaiian Village courtyard on Jan. 16. “Aunty Sally,” as she was known,was a masterful kumu hula or hula teacher who was renowned for her graceful dancing andfor being a student of the famed kumu hula Lokalia Montgomery. Aunty Sally taught several generations of young Polynesians both the kahiko or ancient and auana or modern styles of hula during her years at the Cultural Center, according to Polynesia.com “She was so graceful when she danced. Her hands told the whole story so she wouldn’t have to tell you what she meant. You could feel it,” said Sunday Mariteragi, a niece of Aunty
Sally’s and Laie resident. “I think this [festival] really is a legacy in and of itself andI think it’s exactly what Aunty Sally wouldhave wanted.” Kala Reed from Hauula said, “The Moan-ikeala is a great way to show people what hula really is and its importance in remembering who we are and where we come from. These groups definitely stayed true to their respec-tive styles of hula. The hand motions, the oli or chants, and the gestures were just spot on. It was an excellent day to showcase something as great as hula and I hope everyone who saw it enjoyed it and learned something new.” On the microphone were festival hosts Telesia Tonga and Terry Pane’e who introduced all of the halaus to the field and presentedeach kumu with a gift bag after their 30minute performance. Lilinoe Lindsey’s halau from Honolulu, Ka Pa Nani O Lilinoe, was the first to perform, featuring four different groups ranging in age from 3 1/2 years old, all the way up to 71.
Lindsey’s students danced to thesinging of local performer, Sam Kaina, who sang of the different islands of Hawaii andtheir many beauties. Lindsey came with her aunt, Joanie Lindsey, who has been a kumu hula for about 65 years and founded the Joan S. Lindsey Hula Studio. Joanie’s halau performed immediately after Lilinoe’s group finished. About her halau, Joanie Lindsey said, “Our dancing is very simple. We just love to dance just as Aunty Sally did, and we’re so grateful to be able to honor her today.” Following the Lindseys was Sun-day Mariteragi’s PCC-based halau, Napuananionapalionako’olau, which was an ensemble mostly made of children aged 2-13. Mariteragi’s troupe started their segment dancing with baby dolls and stuffed animals to the songs “Baby Doll Lullaby” and “Dance out Baby Doll,” and slowly progressed into seg-ments which focused more on natureand Hawaii.
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Ka Pa Nani O Lilinoe, a halau from Honolulu, dance at The Moan-ikeala Hula Festival held at the PCC on Jan. 16 in honor of the late, legendary hula teacher, Sally Naluai. Photos by Hector Periquin
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who traveled all the way from Japan to dance at the PCC. Aria Loh from Sunset, said, “It’s amaz-ing how they’re from a completely different culture but still embrace ours so skillfully. I remember last year there were some Japanese guys at the fireknife competition and I was just as impressed then as I am today.” After Puanani Aloha, CorrinePark’s Honolulu-based halau, Hui Park’sHula Studio, danced. The members were three children and the four senior dancers known as the “Gracious Ladies,” and then the slightly younger “Pre-Gra-cious Ladies,” making up seven dancersin total. Park said, “The numbers the keiki did were all mostly fun numbers to make everyone happy, and our older ‘Gracious Ladies’ danced to love songs like Ali’i poi, a song about how a man describes his love for a woman.” Park said her halau has performed at the PCC every year since the mid ‘90s and she fully plans to keep coming back in the future.
Anela Kapu, a 5th grader from Laie, performed a solo hula about the mountains of Kauai and said, “I was very nervous, but I feel like I overcame my fear. Hula has really helped me get past being so shy.” The last two songs of Mariteragi’s halau’s performance were Elvis Presley classics, spe-cifically chosen to honor her father and Aunty Sally. They were sung by Tupua Ainu’u. Aunty Sally was once asked to choreo-graph a hula for the song “This is my Heaven” for Elvis’ movie, “Paradise, Hawaiian style,” but she instead chose to assign Mariteragi to choreograph in her place, said Mariteragi.
“Many of the moves you saw today were the same ones we came up with for the movie,” Mariteragi explained. “The final song, ‘Blue Hawaii’, was for my dad and Elvis,” said Mariteragi. Her father was able to serve as Elvis’ bodyguard during the filming of “Blue Hawaii.” After Mariteragi’s halau came Sensei Yuko Kawamoto and his group Puanani Aloha,
The following act, The Men of Kawai’ulaokala seemed to be the crowd favor-ite, offering the only performance of male hula throughout the whole show. Kumu Keli’i Puchalski chantedand played an ipu while directing 20 young men, the youngest was 13 years old and the oldest 21. Puchalski’s team is based out ofSt. Louis School in Honolulu and has nearly100 members made up of students andrecent graduates. Puchalski said, “I want people to be able to appreciate men’s hula. I don’t know if a lot of people get to see the more athletic style of men’s hula. So we try to help people see it and know there’s more than just a song and dance, but a spiritual connection as well.” “Hula has a tie to a Hawaiian martial art called lua, which is where a lot of the move-ments in men’s hula come from. That’s what our halau is about, trying to perpetuate men’s
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Above: Sunday Mariteragi choreographed a hula for Elvis Presely’s movie “Blue Hawaii.” She also has her own halau in Laie.
Top left: Performers of Ka Pa Nani O Lilinoe.
Middle: Group of girls take part in the festival, which showcased different types of hula.
Bottom: Hui Na Opio, the Men of Kawai’ulaokala from St. Louis School in Honolulu.
Photos by Hector Periquin and Mike Foley
hula as a very strong, masculine, powerful style that’s more athletic and vigorous than people give it credit for,” Puchalski continued. Following the men was Hula Halau O Kekela un-der the leadership of kumu hula Kela Miller. The group of about 20 was a blend of seniors and youth from the North Shore community. “I love how this group seemed to bring the whole community together. It’s nice seeing the kupuna and keiki dancing together. The only way to keep culture like this alive is by sharing it from generation to gen-eration,” said Tami Mancebo from Ka’a’awa. The scheduled final act of the day didn’t make it to the festival because its kumu was sick, so the PCC Hawaiian village dancers stepped in and delivered a grand finale hula to wrap upthe show. According to Mariteragi, the fact that the festival was able to happen at all was a miracle. Since the festi-val was outside, rain would have canceled it, she said. “Yesterday it was definitely a blue and gray Hawaii with all the rain. I’ve been praying all week we would be able to do this today and I just knew it would be sunny today,” said Mariteragi.
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Despite the name, the chances of running into a shark at Shark’s Cove are slim, although white tipped reef sharks are occasionally spotted here, according to ha-waiiweb.com. Located in Pupukea, this is known as one of the best snorkeling places on the island and the world, according to the Huffington Post. Shark’s Cove provides a shel-tered cove for the inexperienced and beginner snorkelers with diverse tropical fishes just waiting to be viewed. “Shark’s Cove is very close to campus and it’s not as packed with tourists,” saidTerri-Lee Bixby, a junior from New York studying history. “The fish are everywhere. There are many sea urchins so bring some water shoes.” The Hawaii Snorkeling Guide says, “The bottom is made up of large smooth boulders and coral heads forming small caves and ledges for marine life to hide. The walls of the surrounding cliffs provide calmer water attracting schooling surface fish.” There is a tunnel called the “Blue Room,” a 75-foot tunnel about 15 feet below the surface of the water. Due to the amount of crevices and tunnels at Shark’s Cove, scuba divers are seen navi-gating the passageways. Katelyn McBeth, a senior from Utah studying EXS,said she is a frequent visitorto Shark’s Cove. She said snor-keling is an adventure. “There’s always somewhere new to explore and discover.”
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This snorkeling spot is located on the west side of the island adjacent to a power plant. The plant uses seawater as a coolant and recycles this water through a big tube going out into the ocean. The tem-perature of the water is noticeably warmer as you approach the pipe, and the marine habitat thrives off that warm water, especially the spinner dolphins. If you arrive early enough in the morning, you may be able to swim side by side with these dolphins. The underwater current tends to be strong in this area so it’s advised snorkelers use caution so they don’t get swept out to sea. The depth increases suddenly creating an ideal environment for scuba divers as well. Chris Page, a junior from North Carolina studying interna-tional cultural studies, said Elec-tric Beach is his favorite because it’s not as touristy as Hanauma Bay.
“I love going out and having to find the fish and turtles. It’s really cool how the turtles don’t swim away from you. They just hang around you.”
Located on the south side of the island, Hanauma Bay is an old volcanic crater that has collapsed and been engulfed by the sea. This is one of Hawaii’s most popular tourist destinations, and depend-ing on the day, you could be one of nearly 3,000 visitors there, ac-cording to the Huffington Post. “You can see just about every type of fish at Hanauma Bay, and you can swim amongst various schools of fish circling around you,” said Kavin Mendez, a junior from Utah studying accounting. Mendez said Hanauma Bay is the most popular snorkeling site on Oahu and often times is “too saturated with tourists,” making it a less personal experience. Hanauma Bay is a protected preserve, and visitors must use caution when entering the waters so the coral and the fish aren’t harmed.
HANAUMA BAY
Sheltered by a natural rock barrier, Kuilima Cove is a calm snorkeling place with no waves crashing over-head and it’s suitable for an adventure with children. “It’s like you are swim-ming in an aquarium. The sensation is unreal,” said Lucas Marchant, a freshman from Oregon studying psy-chology. “The white sand and crystal clear water of Kuilima Cove make for a perfect combination of paradise.” Located at Turtle Bay, parking is available nearby.
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Snorkelers take a glimpse at the Blue
Room, one of the caves at Shark’s Cove. The
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A passion for cosplay builds confidence and friendships
F i n d i n g y o u r n i c h eBY ALYSSA OLSEN
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Cosplay has helped a pair of best friends with the same names find new friends, confidence, and passion. Senior TESOL major Kierah Thurgood and freshman ICS major Cyra Olsen became friends while living in their hometowns in Idaho and are continuing to pursue their passion for cosplay on this side of the sea. Cosplay is a combination of the words costume and play, according to Business Insider. “The best supported origin story on the Internet says that in 1984, Nov Takahashi, founder and writer for the anime publishing company Studio Hard, was sent to Los Angeles to cover the World-Con science fiction convention. He was impressed by the fans’ costumes and the elaborate displays at the masquerade, and when he returned to Japan, he coined the term to describe what he saw,” it said. Cosplayers translate their love of anime, manga, video game, movie or television show characters into costumes, transforming the wearer into the character. While some people have misconceptions about cosplayers, Thur-good and Olsen said once you understand cosplay, it is not that different from other hobbies. Thurgood said, “It’s really fun bringing a character to life that you love or a character that you just think looks cool and being that character. It’s kind of like acting.” Olsen said before she was introduced to anime, she also thoughtit was weird. She said listening to convention-goers explain why theydo it, her perspective changed. She compared it to dressing up on Hal-loween and having favorite TV show characters, both of which are cultur-ally accepted. Another misconception, Thurgood said, is that convention-goers are antisocial. “People think that ‘nerds’–whether they’re for comic books or anime–are just weird people who don’t like to socialize. If you’ve ever been to a convention, they socialize until they have to kick you out of the convention center.” Anime conventions are held periodically and annually. Olsen said,
“For the larger conventions such as Comic-Con, they’re just once a year, and it’s a big, big thing, drawing hundreds of thousands of people.” Sophomore Teenie Wang from China said of cosplay, “I think it’s re-ally cool, but I’ve never done it, [but] I went to comicon two years ago in Japan.” Conventions are held all over the world, Wang continued, “There are comicons held in Bejing, Shanghi and Guangzhou.” Regardless of where it is held, Thurgood said, “The atmosphere at a convention is amazing...Showing off my hard work,” she continued,
“That’s where my conceit side comes out. People are like ‘Oh my gosh you look amazing. Can I have a picture?’ So you stop and you’re maybe there for like five minutes or more because people keep coming and you just pose and pose.” Olsen said it is a “buzzing” atmosphere, and convention-goers rou-tinely compliment cosplayers even if they don’t know each other. “It’s a really nice environment.” This atmosphere of acceptance draws people who love anime to conventions. Thurgood said it has made her more social and outgoing.
She said, “Especially in my younger years, I didn’t really talk to a lot of people. I felt like no one had an interest in what I had to say.” When Thurgood began going to conventions and doing cosplay, she talked with people who were interested in the same characters and shows as she was. She said, “It just gets you comfortable and happy. Just apply that to real life and life gets better.” Olsen concurred and said, “People who are there are all usually there for the same thing, which is to find people who will love them and won’t be rude to them or judge them. It’s the love of cosplay that brings them together.” Thurgood and Olsen agree that among the cosplaycommunity, those who make their own costumes are considered more serious cosplayers. Thurgood has learned how to sew and build props out of papier–mâché and foam. She said, “[They’re] very real life skill[s] that you can take with you in life.” Thurgood has been making and wearing costumes since she was 17, and has won a Master Cosplayer award at a convention in 2011. Olsen is relatively new. The Anime Matsuri convention they attended on Nov. 28 in Honolulu was just her third convention. Thurgood has attended 13. Olsen said, “This is my first convention making my own cosplay costume. I’ve been in one other competition and it’s very exciting.” The process of making a costume begins months in advance. Both Thurgood and Olsen began preparations as soon as they decided they wanted to be characters from the video game “Five Nights at Freddy’s.” Olsen is dressing up as an Animatronic fox. “He’s one of the more popular animatronics. His name is Foxy. But I’m doing more of a hu-manoid version, so we’re taking animatronic and making it a little more mixed with human.” Her costume includes armor, oversized furry fox ears, a tail, and a corset, all of which the two friends have been sewing and crafting for three months. Thurgood is cosplaying a female version of “the purple guy.” In the video game, the character is always shown in pixelated form. “It’s kind of hectic sometimes, doing it with school,” Olsen de-scribed, especially given the time and material constraints that come with being a full-time college student. In the end, they both agreed it is worth every effort and they want to continue in years to come. Olsen said she has seen families of cosplayers at conventions. The children “get to go see some of their heroes and they love it.” She said she wants to do such a thing with her future family. “I think that would be something really fun as family time, because [conventions] are onthe weekends.” Thurgood echoed, “I really want to raise my family in costuming, creating, conventions and artistic things.”
Cyra Olsen and Kierah Thurgood share a hobby in designing and creating
their own costumes for anime conventions. Photo by Hector Periquin
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For singles wondering how to go about dating at BYU-Hawaii, students Brittany Liu, Annabelle Phillips, and Eric Hachenberger shared their words of wisdom to help singles better date. Liu is a senior from Roy, Utah, and an international cultural stud-ies major. Phillips is a senior from Ohio majoring in marine biology. Hachenberger is a freshman and undeclared major from Austria. All three said they have dated recently and frequently.
GETTING A DATELiu: “Girls need to be out there more and so do guys. It’s good to be talking to people.”Some guys will ask a girl out through text or will play it off as hanging out, which is a no go. Liu said, “I don’t accept being asked out through text. I’ll make him call me,” and being asked out in person is still pre-ferred.Phillips said she doesn’t actively seek dates, but they happen naturally. “If you just have a nice personality, and you don’t blend into the wall like a fly, but you are very friendly with people–try to get to know them, talk to them and really pay attention–they will notice you treat them differ-ently than other people would normally treat, them making that person feel really special.”Hachenberger: “For me, it is the direct approach. As on a mission, go up to somebody and ask the right questions. Ask someone out while you are having a conversation with them.”Hachenberger: “Another approach I found out is a little bit better is try to get to know the person a little bit before–have some condition of friendship–that way it makes the date a little bit easier.”Hachenberger: “If I meet someone at the temple or see them doing something extremely valuable, it makes the person very attractive on a spiritual level and on a character level.”
ON THE DATELiu: “My last date was going to watch the sunrise.”Phillips: “I would want to go paragliding, or doing something outdoorsy because it is one of my favorite things.” Activities like these are meaning-ful from a dating perspective because they reflect personality.Phillips: “I like walks, too, because you can talk. It can also be spontane-
Daters give advicefor BYUH singlesFind balance between being
proactive and not rushing it
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ous and turn into a fun adventure. Is he going to take you through the streets of Laie? Maybe he is going to take you to the temple or the beach.” Hachenberger: “When I go on dates, I try to do fun activities – adven-tures. I love hikes and I love sports activities. Often I get to know people. I don’t frame it as a date, but I invite them to surfing or play sports. It could start as a group date but eventually you will want to go one-on-one.”If you want to get to know someone on your date, he said, “It is all about the topics you talk about.” Indicators that two people are getting a little closer are “when you can talk about your family; when you can talk about your life goals and dreams with each other; when you can talk about the challenges you have had; [and how] past experiences can shape you,” he said. If you want to make this happen, he said, “A movie doesn’t work. It is better if you are walking or doing something together.”
AFTER THE DATELiu: “After a date, some guys will just stop talking to you and get all weird and awkward if they are not still interested.” To which she added,
“It is much better to be up front.”Hachenberger: “When it doesn’t work out, I try to keep it friendly and keep it open. Keep it normal.” Hachenberger: “Sometimes when you don’t know a person good enough, it becomes awkward afterwards. That is why friendship at the beginning is really important.”
BENEFITS OF DATING AT BYUHPhillips: “There should never be a conversation-killer because if a person is from another place–which everyone is from a different place–then it’s so fun to find out about their home and the things they love about their home, and they can introduce you to new things.” Phillips: “There are unlimited things to do. You could have adventures on every date.”Hachenberger: “Everybody is a member … It is protection… When you are dating someone who is Mormon, the odds that the person values are similar to yours are much higher.” Hachenberger: “Eventually we are looking for that one person, and to be honest, I couldn’t really see myself marrying a person of another faith be-cause the focus in life is so different and the values in life are so different.”Hachenberger: “It is vary culturally diverse so you can get to know differ-ent values and different viewpoints.”
DATING SMARTLiu: “Don’t hand your kisses out like pretzels.” Phillips: “Be careful. You don’t know if a guy is just dating you for a green card.”Phillips: “If you’re an 18-year-old girl and dating an RM, expect the guy will want to marry. Don’t just be thinking, ‘This is so much fun.’”Hachenberger:“The more you can start building a friendship the more you can date long-term and meaningfully.”All three suggest you try to find a balance between being proactive and not rushing it.
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