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NOELANI ISABELLA ANDERSON
Contributing writer
On Wednesday, Sept. 8, a teach-in was held at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa to raise awareness on the f loods in Pakistan and its aftermath. The event, sponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies, taught participants about the affected area and showed how to con-tribute to the aid process. “There are not a whole lot of ways people know how to donate money or even (know) what’s going on,” said Ro-han Kalyan, graduate student in the South Asian Studies department. Kalyan helped to organize the event, which was held in Kuykendall Hall on Wednesday afternoon. “The purpose of a teach-in is to dis-seminate information,” said Kalgan. “And to present things in a way that will attract attention.” The three panelists were Dr. Uzma Aslam Khan, assistant English professor, Dr. Shabbir Cheema, senior research fel-low at East-West Center, and Syed Sami Raza, political science Ph.D. candidate at UHM. Recent reports show 1,700 people
have died and nearly 20 million have been affected. The United States has re-cently deployed aid to the area and has pledged $260 million in relief efforts. “The war on terror has fi ltered the way people are reacting,” Kalgan said. “Politics have fi ltered the way people are reacting and it has overridden the hu-manitarian reality.” The fl oods were caused by ferocious monsoon rains in the north of the coun-try that continue to leave people without homes, no access to food and water, and exposed to a number of health dangers. One-fi fth of Pakistan has been fl ooded. The teach-in was co-sponsored by the Muslim Students Association and the Lovers of South Asian Cultures club.
Teach-in sheds light on Pakistan crisisTeach-in sheds light on Pakistan crisis
To donate to the cause call the USA Edhi International Foundation at (718) 639-5120 or toll-free at 1-888-899-EDHI (3344). Donations to UNICEF can be made through their website at www.supportunicef.org.
LYNN NAKAGAWA
News Editor
Taryn Wright, 21, died last Friday af-ter being hit by a Roberts Hawai‘i Tour bus. Wright, a graphic design major at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, was hit as she attempted to use a crosswalk on her bicycle at the intersection of Dilling-ham Boulevard and Waiakamilo Road. Wright lived in a small town in South Africa before moving to Hawai‘i. While in South Africa she studied art at the Paarl Academy for Art. “She was born with an inherent artis-tic ability,” said her father, Mark Wright,
plant and environmental protection sci-ences professor at UHM. Wright said his daughter took her studies seriously. “She was a very diligent student, and had As for all her courses,” he said. “She especially liked her drawing classes and became quite engrossed in her 3 -dimen-sion composition class,” said Wright. Taryn was a waitress at the Rock Bottom Bar and Grill and was training to become a tattoo artist. According to her father, she was also passionate about preventing cruelty to animals and was a “loyal and caring friend.” The accident happened just before 4
p.m. on Friday. The bus struck Wright as it was turning right onto Waiakamilo Road. Wright overtook the bus on the right hand side and was struck by the front of the bus. She was not wearing a helmet and was taken to Queen’s Medical Center following the accident, where she was pronounced dead. The tour bus was empty and headed to Waikīkī at the time of the collision. The 72-year-old bus driver was taken to the HPD headquarters, where officers took a blood sample to test for alcohol or drugs. Investigators have determined that speed and alcohol do not appear to be factors in the crash.
A community grassroots organiza-tion has planned a group bicycle ride from UH campus to the site of the acci-dent to place a “ghost bike” in the area. A bicycle is painted all white, locked to a street sign near the crash site, and in-cludes a small commemorative plaque. Meet-up for the group bicycle ride to the intersection will begin at 9 a.m. at the UH Art Building on Saturday, Sept. 11. Taryn’s family and the art depart-ment are familiar with the event. Organizers of the event, who wish to remain anonymous, encourage Taryn’s friends and family to participate.
Taryn Wright, graphic design major, dies in bus accidentTaryn Wright, graphic design major, dies in bus accident
Syed Sami Raza, a Ph.D. candidate in the Political Science pro-
gram at UHM, and a native of Pakistan,
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A CALL TO ORDER University and community representatives are working
together to make sure our col-lege degrees have an impact on Hawai‘i’s economy. The fi rst higher education summit, titled “E Kamakani Hou (A new wind)”, will commence to-
day at the Hilton Hawaiian Village. “It’s a dialogue about the role
the university can play in the state,” said Reed Dasenbrock, Vice Chan-cellor for Academic Affairs at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. “The single largest factor of the future of any state is the qual-ity of its workforce. It’s vital for the future of Hawai‘i’s economy.” Set into motion by UH Presi-dent M.R.C. Greenwood, the invitation-only event includes guests such as Governor Linda Lingle, Sen. Jill Tokuda, and UH Chancellor Virginia Hinshaw. The keynote speaker is Martha Kanter, Under Secretary of Edu-cation in the U.S. Department of Education, who is visiting from Washington, D.C. Over 200 lead-ers in the local and national sec-
tors of education, business, and government are scheduled to at-
tend. Sponsors include the Bank of Hawai‘i, The Queen’s Medical Center, and the University of Hawai‘i Foundation. The day’s schedule consists of guest speeches, group discus-sions, and addressing questions from the press.
TAKING EDUCATION TO A HIGHER LEVEL The summit applies to all pub-lic higher education institutions in the state, including community colleges, though Mānoa is consid-ered the fl agship. “This is the only state in the whole country where all public higher education is all under one comprehensive system. We need
to capitalize on that. We’ve started initiatives to make it easier for com-munity college students to transfer to UHM,” said Dasenbrock. While the rate of college grad-uates in Hawai‘i is higher than the national average, the United States is falling behind as far as the rate at which it is producing college graduates. The U.S. is in 12th place for adults ages 25 to 34 with college degrees. According to Dasenbrock, of the 32 biggest world economies, the U.S. ranks 31st for the pace of at which citizens are obtaining a higher education, followed by Germany in last place. “Canada and Japan are now edu-cating 55 percent of adults towards an associate’s degree or higher,” said Dasenbrock. “All the other ‘ma-jor’ countries are educating a higher percentage of their citizens.”
KEEPING OUR DIST INCT IVE ECONOMY IN MIND The summit’s agenda ac-
Education summit highlights UH goals Education summit highlights UH goals
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knowledges that the challenges facing Hawai‘i’s higher education differentiates from those faced on the mainland. Dasenbrock feels that, “Solu-tions are going to be as unique as Hawai‘i is; what works for the mainland may not work for us.” While the tourism industry is undeniably a lifeline for the economy, one goal of the summit is to discuss the advancement of new arenas of business in order to diversify the local economy. “Tourism is important for the foreseeable future, but (the mar-ket) needs to be more diverse; ... we ought to have more start-ups to capitalize on the intellectual base of UH,” said Dasenbrock. Post-high school educational institutions “need to keep up with the changing needs of the local workforce, especially in areas of science and technology,” said Rep. Jerry Chang. “We will need a skilled and educated workforce to service those industries.” Chang cited the approval of the 30 meter telescope recently approved for construction on Mauna Kea as an example.
IDEAS FOR CHANGE Specifi c methods for im-provement include increasing the number of UH graduates by 25 percent by 2015. This is in part facilitated by the fact that UH has quadrupled the fi nancial aid available. In order to streamline education with economic de-mands for the future, the fund-ing and further development of research and technology in various disciplines of study is a sure focus. By providing students with cutting edge t e c h n o l -ogy and in for -
mation, they become more valu-able to the job market upon grad-uation. With the speed at which technology is advancing, some schools have begun training stu-dents for jobs that don’t exist yet - but will. An example of that can be seen in the JABSOM (John A. Burns School of Medicine), which received $450 million last year. “That’s more than Prince-ton’s (medical school) received,” said Dasenbrock. The summit comes in time for Lingle’s release of $62.8 mil-lion in funds for improvements to the UH campuses and the con-struction of the first information technology center. In a state-ment, Lingle said that the center would “help stimulate our econo-my and create jobs for residents statewide”. The center is being constructed through Project Renovate and Innovate, an initia-tive to enhance existing facilities on campuses as well as to intro-duce new ones. The project will create jobs for local construction workers, as well. “It ’s a two way street,” said Chang, “We need to hear from businesses on what kind of em-ployees they are looking for, what skills are es-s e n -
tial, and what can the UH do to make our students better prepared to transition into the workforce. UH then needs to fol-low through so that students and businesses all benefi t.”
T IME WILL TELL The lasting effects of the summit will be seen with the pas-sage of time. Chang said that in order to measure the long-term impact of the summit, leaders can look at “business growth ... (and) student placement in local businesses.” According to Chang, the lead-ers of the summit will compile information from the com-munity in order to create an “action plan.” “I hope that when we begin the 2011 legislative ses-sion, I will see some s p e -
cifi c proposals coming directly from the summit,” said Chang. Ultimately, “It ’s about educat-ing the right students in the right way … our system of educa-tion needs to produce those graduates that build the vitality of the state’s economy,” said Da-senbrock.
participate in self-design, which allows students to write their own brochures and decide what school they want to attend. The time frame for a self-design pro-gram averages a year of careful planning, but the feedback from students has been very positive. “I’ve rarely — if ever — had a student return with negative feed-back on a program,” said Lee. Lee, a graduate from the Uni-versity of Hawai‘i in French, has studied abroad in Paris, France; Angers, France; Berlin, Germany; and Mendoza, Argentina, and of-fers sound travel advice on many destinations across the world. “Students who travel abroad with us come back to Hawai’i feeling a desire to get back again,” said Lee. “It’s an option that every student should at least look into. To study in another country changes the way you see yourself in the world. ” The SAC offers 13 summer programs, 8 semester programs,
and 2 one-year programs in Japan. Each program includes 3 highly detailed orientation sessions be-fore departure, a local support staff, and in most cases, a Univer-sity of Hawai‘i faculty resident di-
rector to assist with various ques-tions a student may have while living abroad. “It opens one’s eye but faculty should approach the programs with a sensitivity of knowing the language or access to the lan-
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Giving studying abroad a chanceGiving studying abroad a chance
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According to the UHM website “The UH Mānoa Study Abroad Center provides opportunities for students to study and faculty members to teach and conduct research in another country. Students earn UH Mānoa credits toward their degrees for course-work completed at a foreign university.”
guage,” said associate professor of Political Science at UHM, Jona-than Goldberg-Hiller. Goldberg-Hiller has been a resi-dent director four times. The fi rst summer program he attended was in 2003 in Annecy, France, and the last was 2009 in Paris, France. Gold-berg-Hiller says that there is a “com-fort level” between the director and students and so even if the resident director doesn’t know the language, he or she can still be effective.
THE COSTS When asked how the stu-dents finance themselves abroad, Lee said at least one-third of the students accept loans from the University’s financial aid office. There are scholarships available for the summer and semester pro-grams, but the amounts awarded are not enough to cover the cost of a trip abroad. For instance, a semester in Copenhagen, Denmark costs approximately $22,000 dollars, including air-fare and personal expenses while living in Denmark. A semester in Seville, Spain is significantly lower, at approximately $11,000. Lee explains that the disparity in costs between the two programs results from a higher standard of living in Denmark. In 2010, the Gallup World Poll ranked Den-mark the happiest country in the world, which may account for an escalation in the cost of a higher living standard. The summer abroad programs offered at the SAC are shorter, lasting about a month, but are af-fordable for many students look-ing to pick up college credits while learning a language abroad. Upon paying their study abroad fees, stu-dents are guaranteed accommo-dation, course credit fees, health insurance, and a set of excursions within their specifi c region.
Interested in going overseas?See page 6 for a list of UHstudy abroad scholarships.
PATRICK TRAN
Staff Writer
Students may be familiar with the frustrating experience of shouting profanities into the phone once the outsourced tech support fi nally takes your call. Unless we have suddenly found a way to read another per-son’s mind, then there is no way for tech support (or anyone, really) to fi gure out what’s wrong with your computer. Even more so if you’re in too much of a frenzy to create a co-herent sentence out. It’s important to give support only information pertaining to your problem.
GATHERING INFORMATION Ask yourself these questions. -What was I doing before this problem occurred? -Were there warning signs? -Did someone else use my com-
puter before this happened? -Did I go to a suspicious looking website? Of course, you aren’t limited to these questions. But if you think of some important information that might help narrow or solve your problem, then make a note of that.
RECE IVING SUPPORT There are several ways you can go about on receiving sup-port, more than you may realize. As long as you remain calm about the situation, polite, and recepta-cle to learning, you may fi nd the problem resolved, in one way or another. And hopefully, in the end you also learned a thing or two.
TROUBLESHOOTING One way you can go about receiving support is to call a hotline. However, this makes it difficult for the person on the
other side to help you as they can’t physically look at the computer themselves, but rather gather what information they are given, narrow the problem down, and re-lay instructions to you on how to resolve it. One advantage is that you don’t have to leave your seat; a disadvantage is that you have to be the one trying to fix it yourself through the phone line. Another indirect method you can use is a web forum dedicated to tech support. This may be a little bit easier in the regard that you only have to put the relevant information once, and more in-formation later on if a person re-quests it. You eliminate much of the confusion that you may get through a hotline since the in-structions are written down. And you have more than one person
helping you. The disadvantage of this type of support is that it ’s not done in real time, meaning it may take a few hours or days to resolve your problem. Beyond the lazy man/pa-tient ’s way of resolving a prob-lem, there are the more direct routes. You can physically bring in the computer yourself to a service center such as Geek Squad, a locally ran center, or even your friend. It’s important to be on your guard if you bring it in to a bunch of strangers. No service shops are built the same. It’s best to re-search your options, such as their ratings, pricing, or going inside and asking for an estimate. Of course, you could also ask your good-with-computers friend to help you with your computer, and
they might be able to help you out for cheap (or even free!). A good idea is to buy your friend lunch or dinner for helping you out, even if they weren’t successful (Please?). Lastly, you can simply do some research yourself on the problem and try to solve it on your own. You may be surprised to fi nd how easy it is to fi nd the solution, and how much you may learn. This also extends upon using the forum method of troubleshooting, as you can utilize a combination of both in troubleshooting. You’ll fi nd that you learn a lot, and you’ll also be able to prevent the problem, and future ones. Trou-bleshooting varies greatly. If you continue to learn from the experi-ence, it’ll become easier and easier to troubleshoot to the point where you can simply do it yourself.
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UHM STUDY ABROAD CENTER SCHOLARSHIPS The Study Abroad Center has several endowments through which students can obtain funding to help finance their study abroad experience. These endowments include the Margaret Todd, Mildred Towle, UH center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER), and the Mānoa Chancellor’s International Scholarship. For the Fall 2008 and Spring 2009 semesters, the UHM Study Abroad Center awarded $86,050 in scholar-ships to students. These scholarships are available to all UHM stu-dents that meet the following
requirements.3.0 GPA• U.S. citizen or permanent • resident alien applying for a regular UHM SAC semester program Oct 15 deadline for • Spring, April 1 deadline for Fall Available for only • Australia, Denmark, England, France, Italy, Spain, and Japan (Machida Only)
DISAvailable to UHM students who are accepted to the semester or summer program in Copenhagen, Denmark. Scholarship amounts are $3,000 for Semester programs
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COLLEGE OF ARTS & SC IENCES ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONAvailable to full time under-graduate students in Arts & Sciences. Applicants must have graduated from a Hawai‘i High school. For more information and application forms contact the College of Arts & Sciences.
JAPAN STUDENT SERVICES ORGANIZATION (JASSO)SCHOLARSHIP Available to students accepted to a program to study in Japan. Recipients are not eligible for Konan University Consortium Scholarship. There is no application form required for this scholarship.
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INTERVIEWS AND PHOTOS BY CHRIS MIKESELL
Opinions Editor
This week, Hawai‘i Repub-lican Party Chair Jonah Kaau-wai and Dennis Arakaki of the Hawai‘i Family Forum made news by saying that some can-didates were more righteous than others because of their religious beliefs. We asked UH Mānoa stu-dents about religion’s place in politics, and we’re asking the same question in this week’s web poll: Do you believe a candidate’s religion is important when decid-ing who to vote for? Vote now in this week’s KaLeo.org unscientif ic web poll. The results of this week’s poll will be published next Friday.
Does a candidate’s religion affect your vote?Does a candidate’s religion affect your vote?
I don’t think religion is important when you choose a candidate be-cause it shouldn’t matter what re-ligion a candidate has, it just mat-ters what they’re gonna be doing when they’re elected into offi ce.
KRISTOFFER SARAMADE
Sophomore, Undeclared
I guess, yes, because then it shows that they’ve actually cho-sen a point of view, you know? I’m not saying that they should push it in everything that they’re sup-porting, but it just shows that they support something rather than just trying to please everyone.
KAUA SEGAWA
Junior, Kinesiology, Rehabilitation and Leisure Sciences
I’m going to have to say no, be-cause having someone be reli-gious doesn’t mean they’re gonna make a great leader. I’d rather just know what they stand for as a leader, a politician, and what their plans are. I don’t really need to know their religious background.
KAIUIPA SEGAWA
Senior, Nursing
I think religion is important when choosing a candidate to vote for because a lot of the time, other candidates with other beliefs won’t agree with a lot of the things that you think. Like Duke Aiona, he’s a Christian and I’m a Christian, so like a lot of the things that he supports would be things I would support too.
KRISTEN NAKASONE Freshman, Kinesiology, Rehabilita-
tion and Leisure Sciences
I’m open to all religions. I’m a Christian, and I don’t judge people on their religion or anything. If I like their standing on a particular view I’m gonna vote for them for that and not because of their re-ligion, because they’re Muslim or something else. That’s not gonna cause me to not vote for them.
ANDREW EBY
Freshman, Marine Biology
No, I don’t think religion is impor-tant when choosing a candidate to vote for because you’re looking at their political values and not their religious values. Religion shouldn’t be an issue in deciding governmental matters.
ERIN CHUNG
Senior, Theater
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There is a maintenance yard on East West Road that once had the best soda machine on cam-pus. Most may not even realize this yard is there, but my young-er brother and I spent many af-ternoons enjoying strawberry soda (still in bottles back then) as we waited for my grandpa to get off work. My mother’s father worked for decades as a main-tenance man in that yard. UH Mānoa was my childhood play-ground. I love this campus. On my father’s side, my grandparents met at UH Mānoa. My grandfather completed a Bachelor’s in Engineering after honorably serving in the military. My grandmother would complete a Bachelor’s in Business Adminis-tration, one of only a few Hawai-
ian women doing so at the time. My grandparents were lifelong UH donors and avid UH sports fans. When they passed, my fam-ily endowed a scholarship in their honor for UH athletes. Both sets of grandparents would send their children, my parents, to UH Mānoa. My par-ents met in Spalding Hall in His-tory 151 (yes, it ’s been around that long). I was born 11 years later. My younger brother would follow a few years after that. Both my brother and I went to UH, where I met a boy who would become my husband and the father of my son (who is now 7 years old). He was a UH baseball player - my grandparents loved that. I completed four degrees from UH. I worked at UH Mānoa.
My brother now works there. Some Hawaiian families bleed blue and white; we bleed green and white. I am a proud UH gradu-ate. I am also a proud supporter of Mufi Hannemann. I am deeply bothered by the way Mufi is being portrayed to the UH community. What stu-dents need to understand and appreciate is that while Mufi may not have gone to UH, he has con-stantly surrounded himself with people who graduated from UH. I strongly encourage all stu-dents and faculty to research Mu-fi ’s opponent’s campaign payroll. The records are available online through the Campaign Spending Commission. I have, and I have not been able to identify a single person on his campaign payroll who is a UH graduate. Not one. Whereas, nearly all of us who are with Mufi’s campaign are UH graduates. Ask yourself which is more important: to have a governor who may have graduated from UH but tends to hire more from universities on the continent; or, to have a governor who may not have gone to UH, but has created internships programs for UH stu-
dents and is more likely to hire you when you graduate? As a four-time UH graduate, I believe it is more important to have a governor who creates internships programs for our students and hires them upon graduation. That governor is Mufi Hannemann. For years, I watched my students approach graduation with fear and dread rather than excitement. For years, students came to me as graduation day neared unable to f ind jobs, not knowing what the future held, or how they would begin to wrestle with their student loans. This cannot continue. I have helped the campaign in my own ways. I have helped in the areas that are near to my heart: Hawaiians, the environment, education. I find it amazing that he has given someone like me, who is young and Hawaiian and female, an opportunity to work on platforms that can improve Hawai‘i in such important ways. It has been an amazing and hum-bling honor for me. My involve-ment in Mufi’s campaign is my way to tackling these problems on behalf of all my students who
deserve to have good jobs waiting for them on graduation day. Mufi Hannemann is the only candidate with a real plan to make this happen. I have scru-tinized this plan; I believe that when implemented, it will result in more jobs, higher pay, and bet-ter lives for UH graduates. I hope you wil l a l l join me in suppor t ing Muf i Han-nemann for Governor. Me ka ha`aha`a,DR. TRISHA KEHAULANI WATSON
B.A. Sociology, 1999
B.A. American Studies, 1999J.D. William S. Richardson School
of Law, 2003Ph.D. American Studies, 2008
Former Lecturer, History, Women’s
Studies, American StudiesFormer Staff, Offi ce of the Vice
Chancellor of Research and Gradu-ate Education
Trisha Kehaulani Watson is the President at Honua Consulting and a volunteer with Mufi Han-nemann’s campaign for Governor.
COMMUNIT Y PERSPECT I VE
Mufi hires UH alumniMufi hires UH alumni
Is keeping the D worth it? Is keeping the D worth it? Number of votes cast in last week’s poll
NO, THE D IS AN UNNECESSARY GRADE
YES, KEEP THE D
Students speak out on our kaleo.org web poll
OPINIONS DESK
Last week, we asked our readers if they thought keeping the D grade was a good idea, or if the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa should ditch the D and go di-rectly from A, B and C grades to F’s. Forty-six percent of our respond-ers (46 people) said that they want-ed to keep the D grade. Fif ty-four percent of our poll participants (53 people) thought that the D was an unnecessary grade.
Note: This was an unscentifi c poll.
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EDITOR RUSSELL TOLENTINOASSOCIATE MARC ARAKAKI
FRIDAY, SEPT. 10, 2010
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RUSSELL TOLENTINO
Sports Editor
In the past, the Rainbow Wahi-ne cross country team could not fi ll a full roster of distance runners. “We used to put sprinters and jumpers on the cross coun-try roster,” head coach Carmyn James said. “We started doing it because the school (University of Hawai‘i) wanted us to have 20 people on the cross country ros-ter and we only had 10 that were cross country runners.” That’s no longer the case. This year’s team has 22 mem-bers – including 10 freshmen. “ There’s a whole swarm of new (athletes) this year and they ’re al l looking great ,” James said. The Rainbow Wahine will open the 2010 season this Satur-day at the BYU-Hawai‘i Invita-tional in Lā‘ie. Four of the seven athletes that participated in the Western Athletic Conference Champion-ships last season are back, in-cluding seniors Ashley Aitken and Mariana Monasi and junior Liisa Cushing. The ’Bows lost last season’s top runner Jessica Forrester, who fi nished up her eligibility last year, but James said Arizona State freshman transfer Kevyn Murphy could make an immediate impact to this year’s team. During a practice, James said reigning NCAA high jump
champion Amber Kaufman was shocked at how fast Murphy was. “She’s looking great,” James said. The cross country and track and fi eld programs have also seen an increase in local recruits. There are seven local ath-letes on the cross country roster:
junior Alexandra Herd, originally from Kailua-Kona, sophomores Denise Nakamura (Saint Fran-cis School ’09), Rochi Sanchez (Kapolei High School ’09) and Ashlee Jimenez (Kamehameha Schools ’09), and freshmen Bronte Kaneakua (Kamehameha
Schools-Hawai‘i ’10), Noelani Mi-kami (Kamehameha Schools ’10) and Tiare’ Nakashima (Hawai‘i Baptist Academy ’10). “We always try to recruit as many local athletes as we can,” James said. “We’re getting more and more of them, we want that.”
’Bows host USTA ’Bows host USTA outreach eventsoutreach events
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The Rainbow Wahine ten-nis team will host the Univer-sity of Hawai‘i Tennis Campus Showdown on Saturday, Sept. 18 at the UH Tennis Complex at 2 p.m. and Ace to Success, which is a series of mentoring programs for Hawai‘i’s youth. The Campus Showdown is a one-day, short-format tennis tournament open to juniors, college players, profession-als, and adults. The tournament serves as a player development program for the United States Tennis Association (USTA) and is run during the fall on college cam-puses across the nation. The entry fee is $1 for sin-gles and $2 for doubles. The deadline for tournament entry is Thursday, Sept. 16. The Ace to Success is a USTA-funded program. Mem-bers of the women’s tennis team will work and play with youth players. Participants may bring their homework to work on and still have time on the court. The program runs Oct. 6, Nov. 10, and Dec. 1. For more information on either event, e-mail Rainbow Wahine assistant head coach Bridgette Strickland at [email protected].
Cross country running on full rosterCross country running on full roster
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The Rainbow Wahine cross country team has 22 members on its roster, including seven athletes from Hawai‘i
EDITOR RUSSELL TOLENTINOASSOCIATE MARC ARAKAKI
FRIDAY, SEPT. 10, 2010
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JOE FERRER
Staff Reporter
The University of Hawai‘i Warrior football team (0 -1) will travel to West Point, N.Y. this Saturday to take on the Army Black Knights (1-0) at 6 a.m. HST at Michie Stadium. “Mental toughness is what the academy is made of,” Warrior head coach Greg McMackin said. Army should be a favorable matchup for the Warriors. The Black Knights haven’t won a home opener since 2007 and haven’t fi nished with a win-ning record since 1996. Junior quarterback Bryant Moniz will start against Army de-spite suffering a mild concussion against USC in the third quarter and sitting out of practices ear-lier this week. Backup QBs junior Shane Austin and senior Brent Rausch have been taking snaps during practices and are prepared to play if needed. “We don’t know what’s going to happen,” Austin said. “We’re just getting ourselves mentally ready.” The match up at Army’s Michie Stadium will be a clash of two dif-ferent offensive philosophies. Army head coach Rich Eller-son, who is a former UH player and coach, has his team run the ball while McMackin and the Warriors are known for their run-and-shoot offense. In their season openers, both teams excelled in their respective offensive styles. Hawai‘i ranked third in the country last year in passing yards and tallied 459 against USC. The Black Knights notched over 300 rushing yards in their come-from-behind victory against the Eastern Michigan Eagles last week. Warrior senior slot receiver Kealoha Pilares led the Warriors against USC with 176 receiving yards and three touchdowns.
Warriors to battle Black Knights Warriors to battle Black Knights
For Army, sophomore full-back Jared Hassin scored from seven yards out in the fi nal minute to give the Black Knights a 31-27
victory over the Eagles. The Warrior defense strug-gled against USC giving up 524 yards of total offense and 252
yards rushing, but the defense is looking to rebound. “We need all eleven guys to play as a unit, not individual
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Senior wide receiver Greg Salas turns upfi eld in the Warriors’ 49-36 loss to No. 14 USC last Thursday. Salas was named the Fred Biletnikoff Award, which is presented to the nation’s top receiver. Salas was also named to the watch list and was among the national leaders in receiving stats last season.
parts,” defensive coordinator Dave Aranda said when asked how he planned to slow down Ar-my’s potent rushing attack.