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Editor: Justin Hedani Associate Editor: Tiffany Hill | (808) 956-3222 | news@kaleo.org

By Nathan SerotaKa Leo Staff Reporter

Like any institution celebrat-ing 100 years of operation, the University of Hawai‘i is planning a plethora of promising events to commemorate its centennial milestone. According to the UH Web site, the 18-month celebra-tion begins on Saturday, Jan. 13 with a campus-wide open house being held at various locations around the flagship campus here in Mānoa. Beginning at the Hawai‘i Hall lawn at 10 a.m., the event will showcase lectures on various top-ics, including “Birds of Hawai‘i” and “How to Prepare for a Natural Disaster.” In addition, there will be performances by Kennedy Theatre groups, UH Mānoa musicians and the University Dance Ensemble held at numerous locations such as the front of the Kennedy Theatre. Hands-on activities for keiki will be offered by the physics and astrology departments with UH student organizations host-ing games and awarding prizes to the young participants. On-campus parking is free for this event with food and drinks available. Throughout 2007 and Spring 2008, the UH system will be offer-ing lectures, activities and celebra-tions highlighting the contribu-tions the university has made and received over the past century.

Events planned for Centennial CelebrationFriday, Jan. 12 9 p.m. - 1:45 a.m.

Free Centennial Welcome-Back Bash Campus Center CourtyardSponsored by Campus Center Board

Friday, Jan. 19

UH Day at the State Capitol

Thursday, Jan. 25 7 p.m.

Centennial Distinguished Lecture Serieswith Craig Venter “The Ocean Genome: A Key to Earth’s Habitability” Campus Center Ballroom

Friday, Feb. 2 7 p.m. - 9:45 p.m.

Ho‘okani MānoaHemenway CourtyardSponsored by Campus Center Board

Wednesday, Feb. 14

UH Day of Volunteering

Tuesday, Feb. 20 7 p.m.

Centennial Distinguished Lecture Series with Richard Dawkins on “Queerer Than We Can Suppose?: The Strangeness of Science” Campus Center Ballroom

Tuesday, March 13 7 p.m.

Centennial Distinguished Lecture Series with “Get Rich and Save the World: Global Warming, Peak Oil, and Our Future”Campus Center Ballroom

Friday, March 16

Ho‘okani MānoaHemenway CourtyardSponsored by Campus Center Board

March (TBD)

UH Alumni Association’s New Member LuncheonSponsored by the UH Alumni Association

Friday, March 16 6:30 p.m.

Chef ChallengeCampus Center ForumSponsored by Campus Center Board

Monday to Friday, March 19-23

Signing Day Activities-Campus Sponsored by the Manoa Chancellor’s Office

Charter Documents Exhibit at Hawai‘i HallSponsored by the Manoa Chancellor’s Office & Hamilton Archives

Sunday March 25

Signing Day Event (TBD)Sponsored by the Manoa Chancellor’s Office

Thursday, April 12

Annual Banquet for the College of Tropical Agriculture & Human Resources (CTAHR)

Friday, April 13 7 p.m.

Ho‘okani Manoa

Hemenway CourtyardSponsored by the Campus Center Board

April 2007 (TBD)

Mānoa Festival of Research & Creative Expression (FORCE), and Student Awards Night

Friday, April 27

Aloha BashAndrews AmphitheaterSponsored by the Campus Center Board

Saturday, April 28

Ho‘okani ManoaAndrews AmphitheatreSponsored by the Campus Center Board

Sunday, May 13

96th Annual Commencement ExercisesSponsored by the Manoa Chancellor’s Office

Tuesday, May 15

Distinguished Alumni Awards BanquetWaikiki TBDSponsored by the UH Alumni Association

Sunday, Aug 12

Summer Commencement ExerciseSponsored by the Manoa Chancellor’s Office

For more information visit the Centennial program Web site at www.hawaii.edu/centennial or call the Centennial Celebration office at 956-5526.

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By Matthew MuraiKa Leo Contributing Reporter

Allowing its users to access the Internet from anywhere a cell phone can get reception, air cards have opened a free market to long-distance call-ers. With voice-over Internet protocol products like Voip and Vonage, users can call long dis-tance using the Internet. Daniel Arita, a Computing, Electronics, Networking and Technology program student at Honolulu Community College said, “Companies use different things. Voiced over I.P. is used as a telephone number. You can already do it with Yahoo and AIM, as long as the other per-son has the same program.” As small as a 4-inch wide air card is, Radioshack employ-ee Cameron Davids said, it works at kilobytes per second (kbps). The rate at which data is transferred is “Almost cable, maybe 100 (percent).” These cards are compatible with most personal computers including some Macintoshes. Technological headway and a competitive market has enabled companies to not only increase a products effective-ness but also decrease its size. In the early 1920s the idea of local news was limited. In the ‘30s, the radio took over the instantaneous news trans-mission, and then in the ‘50s, television provided both pic-ture and sound. These have all lead up to the present, when a small phone can allow a tourist in Hawai‘i to access a personal bank account in Switzerland and then a broker in New York.

Housing Audit State Auditor Marion Higa is currently finishing a management audit of the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa student housing services after complaints from students and faculty. Vice Chancellor Francisco Hernandez said that interim Chancellor Denise Konan is con-cerned about the students and their living conditions. “She’s very com-mitted to it,” Hernandez said. Higa assures that the Office of the Auditor is working hard to release the final report expected by early January.

Final decision on mass transit Recently City Council mem-bers voted 7-2 in favor of the 30-mile fixed guide-way that will run from Kapolei to the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa and will branch out to Waikīkī. The total cost of the rail will be about $6 billion. To fund the project, the City Council voted for an increase in tax rates. The new tax rate took effect Dec. 31, 2006, and now is 4.712 percent instead of 4.16 percent. Council member Charles Djou, who voted against the tax increase, said that: “If money grew on trees, we should try the rail sys-tem [but] we don’t have a unlim-ited money supply.”

LCC’s first international grad Attending Leeward Community College in 2003, Yuriko Watanabe, a Japan national, was one of the first international students to earn a degree at the college. Aspiring to improve her English skills, Watanabe not only immersed her-self in an English speaking society and school but also completed the intensive English language pro-gram after one year of attendance. What was only five interna-tional students enrolled at LCC is now 70 from 20 different coun-tries all enrolled in the English Language Institue (ELI) and courses working towards associate degrees. Watanabe received her degree in liberal arts.

NewsBriefs Air cards make long-distance calls free

Through instant transmission of news in the media, to online newspaper Web sites, hosting streaming media video and free long-distance calling, we are only seeing 10 percent of the whole. Free markets have embraced these means to make the global mar-

ket more competitive, using hiring tools like outsourcing jobs to India and other foreign countries. With the Internet invading cellular phones, handheld personal organizers and air cards, privacy issues become more problemat-ic. Confidential information such

as social security numbers and addresses should be sent on secure connections to keep predators from viewing it. At the same time, grow-ing Internet security and software products like Zonealert, McCaffe and Paypal, make privacy a con-cern but not an issue by allowing users to transfer their personal data through secure channels. Companies that offer appli-ances like washing machines, cell phones and televisions are lead-ing the technology market. Life is Good (LG), Samsung in Korea, and Mitsubishi in Japan all utilize the global market to sell their companies technology. Sprint and Cingular, who also make cell phones, both sell air cards. Radioshack, an electron-ics company, host Web sites like www.radioshack.com along with other free markets groups like www.ebay.com and http://hono-lulu.craigslist.org/ to sell products such as Digital Video Disk (DVD) players, Digital Media recorders and other technology products. The reason why companies imple-ment this type of market, Arita said, “[is] time efficiency [and] convenience, pretty much.” With all the choices to be pre-sented, people are no longer limit-ed by convenience and time. From accessing business e-mails from your satellite internet connection through Cingular’s air card, to processing credit card transactions with Sprints E.V.D.O card, tasks that usually need to be done from a personal computer can be done from the palm of your hand.

New handheld products connecting

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MATTHEW MURAI • Ka Leo o Hawai‘i

Sprint offers air cards in its cell phones, allowing users to call long-distance for free. The tech-nology relies on voice-over Internet protocol, broadening global markets.

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By Justin HahnKa Leo Commentary Editor

In the upcoming semester, we students face a host of problems. They’re the same old issues that trouble students all over the nation: concerns over meal plans and dorm conditions, security, parking, campus activities, and our deteriorating physical plant (buildings). Add to that issues that are unique to the University of Hawai‘i — like Native Hawaiian complaints, such as attempts to patent kalo and the ongo-ing occupation of a sovereign nation — and we have a mind-boggling array of challenges before us. With so much wrong with our school, it is tempting to turn away and head to Magoo’s for a soothing $1.50 beer or burry yourself in books. But while some of us are deluged to the point of indolence, others are taking proactive steps to solve these problems — and that is what we need. We need students to get involved, get orga-nized, get active, and take their part in fixing our community. From the grass roots to the state-sanc-tioned, we can pursue a host of avenues for social change. Some of us are organizing ad hoc rallies around campus to draw attention to student concerns, while others join organiza-tions that work with the school’s administration to add student voices and insight. Still others work hand in hand with professors and advisors to improve the cultural depth of our university with open air poetry events and front page art

Activism the key to improving our school

By Matthew K. IngKa Leo Editor in Chief

Welina mai ‘oukou! Welcome to another semester at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. This new spring semester brings with it a new editorial staff at Ka Leo O Hawai‘i, the student newspaper at UH, and we’re ready to continue giv-ing you the news about your school that you want to know. However, a student-run newspaper can only be as good as the students want it to be. The production and distribution of 14,000 daily issues of Ka Leo depends completely on the students of UH. From reporting to taking pho-tographs to selling advertisements to printing the newspaper at the Beau Press, our on-campus web press, stu-dents run every aspect of Ka Leo. The newspaper is partially inde-pendent from the university and is in no way controlled by university interests or administration. Ka Leo operations are not part of a class or curriculum. Students who write and

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projects. Whatever you do, do something, because that is what we need more than anything else. We need students who are involved and active. Last semester provided some excellent examples of student activism. Take the Associated Students of the University of Hawai‘i President Grant Tiechman.

He was all over the place addressing issues ranging from campus security misconduct to light rail. As he advocated for a Mānoa light rail spur, Tiechman was on the evening news so often he became a household name. Partly as a result of his push, the City Council is set to send the fixed guide way up to UH Mānoa. Hopefully this will be a much needed parking fix.

But we are still left with the rest of our problems — and the ASUH can’t do much about them alone. As a legislative body ASUH makes recommendations to the administration, but with-out a vocal student body the administration has no reason to listen. So speak up. What’s more, there is a huge disconnect between the student body and its representa-tives. Too often, ASUH doesn’t know what the students of this campus want or need - because we don’t tell them. To remedy this, we need to be in contact with our student government. Go to meetings, speak to our senators, mainly, be involved. But ASUH is not the only way to effect social change on this campus and in this community. In fact, it is but one of many. Late last semester, for instance, a group of concerned students got together for an open forum about many of our most pressing con-cerns. And while not many students showed up because it was finals week, it was a good start to what they promised would be a series. The local news took notice, as did administration. It is heartening to see that students can and will organize and accomplish things, independent of the school’s established power structures. Too often we complain to ourselves and friends about the lackluster food on campus, or shoddy classrooms, or our insecure community. We moan and kvetch without doing anything. Raising your voice is important, but following through is more important. Take the cue of some of your fellow students, and do something this semester.

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FeaturesKa Leo o Hawai‘i

Monday, January 8, 2007 | Page 5Editor: David Pham Associate Editor: Ting Chen Wen | (808) 956-3221 | features@kaleo.org

Outsider bookbuyer makes for ‘Mando’ savingsBy Alan HudsonKa Leo Contributing Reporter

Armed with only her lap-top, scanner and the cover of a Volcano Joe’s umbrella, Eliza Mitchell begins to set up shop and to await customers — students who decided to sell back their textbooks to her instead of to the Campus Bookstore. Mitchell has been buying back used textbooks from University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa students for the past three semesters. Last semes-ter, she situated herself conve-niently at Volcano Joe’s, across the street from Sinclair Library. To get publicity, she and a few helpers posted signs across UH’s campus to attract curious students to her table. Mando Books, the company which Mitchell works for, is an independent bookstore based in New York. It is currently operat-ing at six or seven campuses, buy-ing back textbooks from students. These textbooks are normally bought back at a higher rate than those of the different campuses’ bookstores. Mando Books also sells these used books on its Web site at http://www.mandobooks.com. Mitchell started working for Mando Books after college. When she moved to Hawai‘i after gradu-ating from the State University of New York Cortland, she decided to continue working for Mando

Books, though it did not have a store in Hawai‘i. “I needed a job,” she said. “I thought it would be cool to still work for Mando Books.” At the end of the semester, Mitchell set up a shop at Volcano Joe’s. She then geared up with the most effective tools to her disposal: a laptop and scanner to keep track of the books, lots of boxes and tape to package all of the books to transport them to their destination and even more “Mando Books” stickers, which she places on the backs of the

books to show they have been bought. To help her with her job, she hired some people to work for her. The members of her team usually help with “grunt work,” like lug-ging boxes of books. When she is done buying back books, she packs them into boxes and ships them to New York. “I usually use either FedEx or UPS, whichever is faster,” she said. By providing the Mando Books service to the students of UH, Mitchell allows students

to make the choice of where they want to resell their books. Operating at the end of every semester, she provides competi-tion with the Campus Bookstore. Mando Books has no affili-ation with any college or univer-sity; it is sometimes able to buy books at a relatively higher price than the campus bookstores. Since university bookstores are directly connected to the university, it only buys and sells books the univer-sity is going to use the following semester. If, for instance, the bookstore

doesn’t buy back a particular book (or is buying it for a lower price) it could fall under a number of rea-sons including the publishing of a new edition of your book which will be used the next semester, a new professor is taking over the course and is going to use a dif-ferent set of books or the buyer is overstocked with the books and wants to get rid of them. Mando Books is sometimes able to buy books closer to it mar-ket value rather than the need of the book.

Elizabeth Mitchell scans the used books, bought from UH students, for her company, Mando Books, at Volcano Joe’s last semester. Many UH students were able to sell their textbooks to Mitchell for relatively higher prices than to the UH bookstore.

DAIVD PHAMKa Leo o Hawai‘i

Buyers purchase back books on several conditions:•The Edition of the Book

•What books the class is using

•If the buyers are over-stocked or not on the book

•The condition of the book (if it’s marked up, ripped, burnt or in a reusable con-dition)

By Mariam BeardKa Leo Contributing Reporter

I t is no secret that Hawai‘i is one of the most diverse and unique places on the globe, housing all

the majority of the climate zones in the world within the Hawaiian Islands — from the lightly snow-peaked mountains of Hilo, to the breezy winds of Mānoa Valley or to the blazing sun of Waikīkī beach. Weather is one of the main reasons that Hawaiʻi receives so many tourists each year. However, just like the state of Georgia is known for its peaches and Florida for its oranges, Hawai‘i too has signature crops — something com-pletely unique and something that one is unable to replicate at will. Once known and sought out for the pineapple and the sugar cane, Hawai‘i generates less revenue from agriculture due to interna-tional competition. However, Hawaii’s newest signature crop is in the works: tea. Currently, the University of Hawai‘i is developing a tea for Hawai‘i that is desirable to the taste, healthy and economical to grow. The tea leaves are grown on the Big Island at the Volcano and Mealani Research Stations. Dwight Sato, an extension agent at the College of Agriculture and Human Resources, said the funding was provided through “USDA-ARS-PBARC (United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service-Pacific Basic Agricultural Research Service), CTAHR, County of Hawai‘i Research and Development, Agribusiness Development Corporation and Western Center for Risk Management Education. With the help of Dr. Frances Zee from USDA-ARS-PBARC, Sato and Milton Yamasaki from CTAHR lead the tea-grown proj-ect, which quickly gained support from small family farms. Sato said that the idea for the tea project came about when the need for “alternative cropping sys-

COURTESY PHOTO • Dwight Sato

ABOVE: The staff at Mealani Research Station is harvesting young tea shoot tips.TITLE GRAPHIC: Freshly harvested shoot tips spread over a bamboo basket for the solar wilt-ing phase in processing tea.

tem for Hawaii after the demise of sugar on the Big Island.” To assist Sato and Yamasaki with the research, Zee went on a study tour to Taiwan to learn about the major concepts of growing and processing tea. Soon after, he developed a method to process tea using a simple microwave oven. The method was tested and dem-onstrated that Hawai‘i grown-tea leafs have excellent quality. The project’s current termination date is in September. On the topic of profits, Sato said they will focus their profits mainly with private industries. Before actually selling locally harvested tea leaves, Sato said that “if any were to be sold, it would be mainly promotional efforts on a cost recovery program. All gener-ated proceeds would augment or maintain efforts of the existing tea research program for the benefit of

the industry.” With tea being sold on the global level at anywhere from $1 a pound to $100 a pound, the cru-cial characteristic that determines price is quality. Quality is hard to create if prices for the product are too high. Hawaii’s isolated location, several thousand miles of ocean away from both the mainland and Asia, comes at a price for the increased ship-ping costs as well as power costs to fuel the operation. To combat this, many CTAHR researchers are working on creating unique spe-cialty made-in-Hawai‘i tea prod-ucts to establish a good price that it will cover growers’ costs. On the reason for making the new tea, Sato said it benefits and diversifies Hawaii’s agricultural

Tea Project:1) Designed and partially completed a demonstration tea processing facility at the Mealani station

2) Established a 1.5 acre tea production field at Mealani, and standardized pro-duction management of the plants

3) Bettered an effective and low cost propagation of tea cuttings by direct rooting in ground

4) Adopted and modified a traditional tea processing technique into a proce-dure that reduced labor but still pro-duced a good quality product

5) Promoted the awareness and poten-tial of tea as a new crop in Hawai‘i through extension, demonstration, assistance in organizing the Hawai’i Tea Society, conducting the first Hawai‘i grown tea competition and highlight-ing the tea project at the “Taste of the Hawaiian Range Food Show”

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See Tea Project, page 7

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By Dorothy MulkernKa Leo Contributing Reporter

With the usual commotion at Campus Center, few students noticed a small table of volunteers as Mortar Board members dedicated their time during the last pre-finals session to collect spare change for The Christmas Angel Tree Project, a benefit for The Salvation Army. The University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa student service organization gathered whatever money students could spare to buy gifts for less fortunate families for the holiday session. One hundred percent of the money donated was used to buy presents and was given to The Salvation Army’s booth at Kahala Mall. Members hoped to purchase clothes, stuffed animals, school sup-plies and a variety of toys that kids of all ages would enjoy. “The holidays are about kids,” said Galileo Tan, when asked why he volunteered. Tan and Mortar Board president Michael Chung kept the atmosphere light and friendly at the table, calling out to passersby and waving hello. They estimated that 20 to 30 people donated money every day. Getting people’s attention could be a challenge, but Mortar Board members said most students usually donated the small change in their pockets or a few dollars. Occasionally, volunteers were sur-prised by the generosity of their classmates. Two or three rare and

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“Closing the gap on understanding connexin-linked diseases,” a Cancer Research Center of Hawai‘i seminar, today, 12 to 1 p.m., 651 Ilalo St., room 315. Dale Laird, a professor at the department of anatomy and cell biology at the University of Western Ontario, will present. Info, CRCH, Wendy Mitchell, 586-3010, wendy@crch.hawaii.edu, http://www.crch.org.

“The urbanization and commu-nity development experience of Waipahu, Hawai‘i” a sociology final oral, today, 3 to 5 p.m., Saunders Hall, room 637. Timothy Wong from the sociology department will present. Info, 956-8500.

“The cell biology of connexins in liv-ing color,” a Cancer Research Center of Hawai‘i seminar, tomorrow, 12 to 1 p.m., 651 Ilalo St., room 222 N. Dale Laird, a professor at the department of anatomy and cell biology at the University of Western Ontario, will present. Info, CRCH, Wendy Mitchell, 586-3010, wendy@crch.hawaii.edu, http://www.crch.org.

“Familial colorectal cancer: evalua-tion and management,” a department of medicine grand round, tomorrow, 12:30 to 1:30 p.m., Queen’s Conference Center, 510 S. Beretania St., second floor lobby. Scott Kuwada, an associate pro-fessor of medicine and program director of the Gastroenterology Fellowship Training Program at the University of Utah, will present. Info, department of medicine, Sharon Chun, 586-7478, sha-ronch@hawaii.edu.

“The Vanuatu cultural centre: safe-guarding living cultural heritage,” an anthropology colloquium, Thursday, 3 to 4 p.m., Crawford Hall, room 115. Ralph Regenvanu, the director of the Vanuatu National Cultural Council, will present. The talk will provide a historical background to the development of the work of the cultural center since the mid 1970s. The cultural center’s focus is to document aspects of Vanuatu’s living heritage for preservation and promotion. Info, Geoff White, 956-5601, anthprog@hawaii.edu.

The Coconut Joe Quartet, tomorrow, 6 to 9 p.m., O Lounge. Info, 944-8436.

“Bringing Back Kerouac,” tomorrow, 8:30 to 11 p.m., Anna Bannana’s. Slam poet Anthem Salgado and musician Ace Kentura will perform. Info, 946-5190.

“Kaleidoscope” tomorrow, 9 p.m. to 2 a.m., NextDoor. 21+. Info, 548-6398.

“Welcome back bash” Friday 6 p.m. to 1:45 a.m., Hemenway Courtyard and Campus Center courtyard. B.E.T., ‘Opihi Pickers, Kapena and Lahaina Grown will perform. Juice from Jamba Juice and food from the lunch wagon will be sold at special prices. Info, Campus Center Board Activities Council, Laine Malson, ccbac@hawaii.edu.

“N.W.A. Professional Wrestling,” Saturday, Jan. 13 7 p.m., Kahalehoano o ke akua Activities Hall 1760 Nalani St. Kalihi, on the card former: NWA North American Heavyweight Champion JT Wolfen, Sickdog, Ricky Thunder, Bushido X, NWA Hawaiian Heavyweight Champion Kapu and The Waz! Info, 783-7809, http://www.nwahawaii.com

economy. Sato explained the tea research project and its findings will “provide assistance in diver-sifying agriculture in Hawaiʻi with tea as a novel alternative cropping system.” Sato described Hawaii’s environmental conditions are great for tea growing. “Tea thrives under cool, misty conditions, acidic soils and general sunny conditions with intermittent shade” Sato said. The research stations house mainly two tea experi-mental seedlings and cultiva-tors — amellia sinensis and C. assamica seedlings and cultivars have been the main attempts. The tea can be mixed with other types, similar to how Kona coffee blends usually 10 percent Kona with other beans. Sato said if the made-in-Hawai‘i tea “incorporated in an agri-tourism program setting and involving visitors to Hawaiʻi a unique romantic experience ... A 100 percent pure product would be ideal.” The vast majority of tea sold throughout the main-land is imported from China or Indonesia and tapping into that “tea gold mine” will prove profitable for both Hawai‘i and mainland buyers. The money generated from buying tea in U.S. can remain largely domes-tic, if the tea industry in Hawai‘i is successful. However, Sato said that the actual market sectors or export destinations are in the next phase of the project’s investi-gation, matching up “the final tea products being developed.” Projections are to test market high-end niche markets with regional Hawai‘i-grown label-ing. Two hundred years ago, the nation was born because of cir-cumstances leading to unfair tea trade. Now in Hawaiʻi, tea grow-ers will be entering the trade again and determining the most appropriate market sectors and level of profitability for Hawaiʻi grown tea, which would be capi-talizing on the revival for tea in America.

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unknown benefactors donated $20 bills. Volunteering is nothing new to Chung, a business major. He brought “The Christmas Angel Tree Project” to his own Kalani High School about six years ago. When speaking of Mortar Board, Chung said, “If you have heart and want to do something meaningful [for] your last year, this student-run organization could be for you.” Mortar Board is a service proj-ect-oriented honor society open to seniors in good standing. Mortar Board members organize many vol-unteer opportunities every month. Annually, the group helps with grad-uation commencement. This past month, some members participated in the Gingerbread Festival, spon-sored by Easter Seals. Next time you’re running to a class or looking at some sunglasses on sale at Campus Center, stop and take a look around. Many student organizations fund-raise all year

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An unusual cast of characters came to Kennedy Theater stage a couple of days ago, as Jim Gamble awakened them for his show, “The Circus.” Gamble, a master puppe-teer, has been amusing audiences at the Kennedy Theater for almost 40 consecutive years. The word “puppet” may bring to mind a child’s amusement, but puppets are not just for children. In fact, it is believed that during the Middle Ages puppets first began performing in churches. They were used to tell stories from the Bible. Puppets, being great comedians, were eventually banished from the church. They then appeared on street corners and fairs amusing audiences with their playful antics.

“Puppetry is alive and well in America” said Gamble. Present day puppetry is used extensively in conjunction with live theater and recorded media. Disney, he said, is using a lot more puppetry in its productions, both at the parks and in shows like “The Lion King” on Broadway. Just recently Gamble toured and brought to life the popular BBC children’s series, “Charlie and Lola.” He said it took over five months building the staging alone. He per-formed the show in front of live audiences across the United States. He added that there are many advantages that puppets have over people in performances. He didn’t specify what that was, but one could imagine that there are not too many puppet divas out there and puppets, unlike people, are always on time.

Gamble also believes that col-lege students interested in study-ing the theater should learn about puppetry in order to increase their opportunities for employment. And for those in elementary education, the art form can also be used to enhance learning in the classroom. The master puppeteer said in an email interview that many of his productions have been designed spe-cifically to foster music education and cultural enrichment. He said that he firmly believes there is a market for good, applicable and entertaining work with puppetry. So just how hard is it to manip-ulate a marionette? Gamble likens it to learning how to play the piano. For some they can never master the art. For others it takes years. He wrote, “in order to give a puppet a personality, it takes a very long time studying acting and show-manship before one could manipu-late a puppet to perform expertly. I usually have new puppeteers train for many months before allowing them to represent my company in a public performance.” Then there is the art of creating the puppet itself. A true puppeteer can not just walk into the puppet shop and buy a character; they have to design it themselves. “Time required depends on the complexity of the puppet charac-ter,” Gamble said. “For a simple marionette, I spend 50 to 75 hours to complete ... for a more complex one, maybe 200 hours. Even after creating the puppet, it takes several

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interesting. I have seen some of his other shows that he does, and you are just so mesmerized by it that you don’t even realize someone is actu-ally manipulating the marionettes.” Gamble said that he usually has a puppeteer practice for hours with the marionettes in front of a mirror. He then has the puppeteer make the marionettes walk without sagging and without looking down at them. After they have mastered that the puppeteer must learn how to perform a variety of emotions with the puppet character without using any words. Gamble wants them to be able to project the feeling from the puppet character and to be able to do it almost automatically. With almost 40 years of per-forming and about 40 productions in his repertoire, Gamble just might retire someday. He said that he is “actively looking for someone” to eventually manage his production company and continue long after he has retired. His puppet shows are timeless and the artistry combined with the entertainment will never go out of style. It is suffice to say that the audi-ences who have grown up watching him perform would always miss that extra quality only a true puppeteer master like Gamble can bring to the stage.

TOP: Jim Gamble and his custom- made puppets performed at the Kennedy Theater stage last week in “The Circus.”

LEFT: Gamble’s puppets featured trick marionettes which have won international acclaim and awards at puppet and theater festivals in Moscow, Prague, Croatia, Korea and Japan.

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years performing with it, constantly adjusting the strings, adding and subtracting strings, or modifying controllers or the body of the puppet itself. I’ve created probably 2,000 marionettes and rod puppets.” Christy Ah-Sing a local pup-peteer on O‘ahu, said of Gamble, “How he makes things work is so

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The University of Hawai‘i Warriors’ prolific performance wasn’t unnoticed as their record shattering night appealed to the masses who watched the Warriors defeat the Arizona State Sun Devils 41-27 on Christmas Eve. The largest crowd in the Sheraton Hawai‘i Bowl history (43,435), as well as a record 2.33 million households throughout the nation, tuned in as the Warriors ended their season. While the Sun Devils closed 7-6, the Warriors finish off their 2006 season with an overall 11-3 record and 7-1 in the WAC, tying their school record of 11 victories set in 1992 and showing that they deserve a rebirth in the national rankings. “The only thing that is keeping us from the top 25 is that we have one WAC coach who won‘t vote for us,” defensive coordinator Jerry Glanville said during the post-bowl interviews. “I hope he came home in time to see [our game] because the team deserves to be there.” The coach Glanville referred to is former UH coach Dick Tomey. Tomey was mentioned to be the reason the Warriors continue to hang around the 27th/28th rank in the national polls. San Jose State head coach Tomey didn’t vote for the Warriors in the coaches poll this year. Conversely, Tomey has said he believes UH could be next year’s Boise State and make a run to the Bowl Championship Series. While UH continues to linger around the national rankings, Warrior junior quarterback Colt Brennan and left wideout Jason Rivers’ performance on Christmas Eve will remain engraved in the NCAA record book. Brennan completed 33 of 42 pass-es for 559 yards and five touchdowns to set a new NCAA single season record for touchdown passes. He completes the UH season with 58 touchdowns, sur-passing the previous 16-year-old record set by David Klinger of 53 touchdowns. Brennan also learned recently of his NCAA single season record for passing efficiency with 185.96 rating, which out-did the 183.3 rating set by Shaun King in 1999. “I want to thank coach Jones and the whole offense for the support they

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gave me,” Brennan said. “I know I got the record tonight, but one thing that should be said is that if you watch Ryan Grice-Mullin or Rivers and Nate Ilaoa out there, you can see that I had a lot of good company all year and there is a reason why that record was broken and it’s not solely because of me.” With the 14 completions and two touchdowns sent by Brennan to Rivers, another record was established. Rivers’ 308-yard performance set a school and NCAA record for receiving yards in a bowl game. “Brennan is everything everyone said he was, and those receivers - I asked June where he had been hiding 84 [Rivers],” ASU head coach Dirk Koetter said. “I don’t know where that guy came from because they had been talk-ing about all those other receivers and 84 played as good as any receiver we’ve seen all year.” With 2:01 left in the game, the Warriors, already ahead 34-24, extended their lead once again 41-24 after a 79-yard pass to Rivers. “A couple years ago I caught [the school record] pass for Timmy and to do it again for Colt is kind of strange actu-ally,” Rivers said. “But it’s really good to be part of that and this receiving core really had something special this year.” Following their performance, the Warriors broke another NCAA record for most points in a season with 657 points under their belts. Brennan com-pletes the best statistical season per-

formance set by a quarterback in the history of NCAA football. The ques-tion that is raised is what’s next for the record-setting quarterback. January 15 marks the deadline for underclass-men to apply for the draft as well as the day Brennan will make his deci-sion on whether to return nest season to UH as a fifth-year senior or to join the elite and apply for the 2007 National Football League draft. “I mean I’m going to come back probably,” Brennan said during the post-bowl interview. “It’s just that there’s a lot of things to do - I have to be smart and look at the best opportunity out there and people would literally call me an idiot if I didn’t see what the NFL had to say.” Brennan filed an application on December 26 requesting that an NFL advisory panel evaluate his skills and project where he would be selected if he were to enter the draft. “They could come back and say negative things,” Brennan said. “But that’s just more motivation for next year, but coming back to Hawai‘i for my senior year would be a true blessing.”

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“[Brennan] is the best college quarterback in America,” Jones said. “After they evaluate everything, he, myself and his family will look at all the pluses and all the minuses and go from there.”

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Warrior defensive back Ryan Keomaka reacts after tackling Arizona State Sun Devil Justin Tyron on the kickoff return in the third quarter of the Hawaii Bowl on Sunday, December 24, 2006. Wide receiver Jason Rivers runs the ball as Arizona State Sun Devil linebacker Derron Ware pursues in the first half. Rivers caught a NCAA bowl record 308 receiving yards. Defensive lineman Rocky Savaiigaea performs a haka after defeating the Arizona State. Colt Brennan scrambles with the ball looking for an open receiver in the second half of the Hawai‘i Bowl.

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Fresh off a five game winning streak, including the Rainbow Classic championship, the University of Hawai‘i Men’s basketball team had momentum in its favor. Unfortunately for the ‘Bows, momentum wasn’t enough to produce Western Athletic Conference victories as Hawai‘i opened WAC play on the road in losses to New Mexico State (92-86) and Louisiana Tech (70-67). The Rainbow Warriors have now lost four of their six games on the road this season, bringing their record to 9-6 overall, and 0-2 in conference play. On Saturday the ‘Bows fell to Louisiana Tech 70-67, their sixth straight loss to the Bulldogs. Hawai‘i and Louisiana Tech have played each other closely, with nine of the last ten meetings being decided by four points or less. Despite leading by one after the first period, the ‘Bows found themselves in a seesaw battle with the bulldogs. LTU pulled away with an 11-1 run late in the game, but the ‘Bows battled back to get the game within three. After a pair of missed free throws by LTU’s Terry Parker, Hawai‘i was unable to convert a game-tying three pointer. On Thursday, the Aggies of New Mexico State improved their home winning streak to 13 consecutive games as they rallied back to defeat the ‘Bows 92-86. Hawai‘i led New Mexico State at the break 38-34, however Martin Iti led the Aggies’ comeback with 10 of his 14 points in the second half. There were nine lead changes in the game, and Hawai‘i made one final push at the lead as guard Matt Gibson made a breakaway dunk to bring the game within four, 86-82. The Aggies made four of their last six free throws and held on to take their first victory in the WAC. Matt Lojeski led the Rainbow Warriors with 22 points against NMSU, while adding 16 more against Louisiana Tech. Forward Ahmet Gueye added 18 points and 8 rebounds in the loss to LTU. Hawai‘i returns home to face Fresno State Thursday, at the Stan Sheriff Center.

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