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OPINIONS
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University of Hawai‘i to collaborate University of Hawai‘i to collaborate on Earhart expeditionon Earhart expedition
GIULIO ROCCA
Staff Writer
A new clue discovered by the The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery may offer answers to one of the 20th century’s greatest mysteries: the disappearance of American aviator Amelia Earhart in the South Pacific nearly 75 years ago on an attempted f light to circumnavigate the globe. Analysis of a photograph taken by a British survey team only months later reveals an object near the island of Ni-kumaroro (formerly Gardner Island) in the Pacif ic nation of Kiribati consistent in size and shape with the landing gear of a Lockheed Electra airplane. “Lo and behold, on the left hand side of the frame there’s something sticking out of the water that shouldn’t be there, right on the reef edge,” said Ric Gillespie, executive direc-tor of TIGHAR.
EXPEDIT ION The group plans to launch a 26 -day expedition on July 2 – the 75th anniversary of
Earhart ’s disappearance – onboard the University of Hawai‘i’s research vessel Ka‘imikai-o -Kanaloa.
“KOK is well suited for [this] type of work,” said Al-exander Shor, associate dean for research at the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, in an email. “We routinely launch and recover two manned submersibles ... and the ship is well outfitted for navigating and communicat-ing with underwater vehicles, which is one of its principal mission requirements.” TIGHAR intends to lease autonomous underwater ve-hicles from Phoenix Inter-national, the U.S. Navy’s primary contractor for deep ocean search and recovery. Gillespie has budgeted $2 million for the expedition and raised 75 percent of the amount so far from private sources, including Lockheed Martin and FedEx Corpora-tion. The Discovery Channel will track the expedition and produce a television special later this year.
See New clue, page 2
Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan were last seen on July 2, 1937, after they took off from Lae, New Guinea. Her last-known radio transmission to her destina-tion, Howland Island, was at 8:43 a.m.
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CASTAWAY? Gillespie’s three previous ex-peditions to Nikumaroro (in 2001, 2007 and 2010) have recovered ar-tifacts that support the hypothesis that Earhart landed on the reef and survived on the island. Among these items is a bone-handled jack knife of the same type carried by Earhart on an earlier attempt to circumnavi-gate the world and an ointment pot matching Dr. Berry’s freckle cream sold in the United States (Earhart is known to have been concerned about her freckles). Early indications about the airplane’s whereabouts came from a Fiji woman who recalled seeing airplane debris on Niku-maroro as a child and marked the location on a map for TIGHAR. Subsequent analysis of the Brit-ish survey team’s photograph confirmed her account. “We’ve got all these jigsaw puzzle pieces that seem to fit together and tell a story,” said Gillespie. “The story might be of Amelia Earhart’s presence on this island as a castaway.”
OPTIMISM Nonetheless, the evidence is circumstantial and the search and recovery of Ear-
hart ’s wreckage will be chal-lenging. “It ’s always a long shot to f ind a single plane or single shipwreck in almost any survey area, especially in the Pacif ic, where things tend to be in a high-energy environment,” said Dr. Hans Van Tilburg, Coordi-nator of the Maritime Heritage Program for the Pacif ic region of the National Oceanic and At-mospheric Administration. While Gillespie remains san-guine, his optimism is tempered by a healthy dose of realism. “We could get out there and get skunked,” he said. “There could be things that happen that we have no way of knowing about that would make the wreckage of the airplane unfindable even though we are right that it was once there.”
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JoAnn Falletta will be conducting the Hawai‘i Symphony Orchestra this Friday and Saturday nights as it performs Rimsky-Korsakov’s Russian Easter Overture, Op. 36; Wieniawski’s Violin Con-certo No. 2 in D minor, Op. 2; and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64. Michael Lud-wig will be the featured soloist on the violin.
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ANTON GLAMB
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Where are you from? Southern Vermont
How would you describe your style? Frantically frugal
What’s your fashion inspiration or icon? Not anyone or anything spe-cifi c – perhaps skateboarding culture
What’s your favorite place to shop? Thrift stores, skate shops
What fashion trend irritates you the most? Fashion in general
Do you use any special soap/cos-metic product? Nothing special
What would you like to see more of on campus? A decline in the walking-advertisement style of folks wearing ugly block-lettered logos of name brands. … I just don’t understand why you would want to buy from these big corporations to advertise for them.
What’s your dream fashion item (doesn’t actually need to exist)? Everlasting skate shoes
Do you consider yourself a hip-ster? Defi nitely not. Do people really self-proclaim this title? I thought it was another derogatory, stereotyping label propagated by ignorant, bored people to make ev-erything more boring by putting ev-erything in superfi cial categories.
What do you think a hipster is? Nobody real
How long does it take you to get ready? No longer than 10 minutes
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“Garlic, lemon, cinnamon, carda-mom, cumin and coriander”: These a few of Youssef Dakroub’s favor-ite Middle Eastern spices, and the Xtreme Tacos chef will be using them in upcoming food event “Arabian Nights.” If your taste buds are already tempted, read on to fi nd out more.
ʻPOP-UP ʼ EXPERIENCE “Arabian Nights” will be a pop-up food event – a sort of temporary restaurant – orga-nized by Street Grindz. It will feature Middle Eastern dishes, Algerian Rai, belly dancers and an unlimited hookah lounge, all culminating into an experience
designed to stimulate each of your senses. And it won’t be pre-sented in a traditional commer-cial restaurant. Instead, owner and organizer of Street Grindz Poni Askew has arranged for it to be at Auahi Business Center, in a warehouse removed from the average dining experience. “We learned that there was a segment of customers that would prefer to have an intimate, more sophisticated environ-ment,” wrote Askew in an email. “Each seating is designed to be intimate. … We will only serve 60 people per seating.”
FOR A GOOD CAUSE The event will benefi t more than the diners’ bellies. Street Grindz is working hand in hand with the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Hawai‘i, with a $6,000 donation commitment set for the end of the year. Part of the proceeds will be coming directly from ticket, but some may also come from donations made throughout events. There will also be a experi-ential contribution, as some of the children will be invited to share in
the unique dining experience. “We are really excited about hosting a special dinner for the MAW kids,” wrote Askew, “prior to launching our weekend long dinner service.”
SOMETHING SOUR, SOMETHING SWEET With a fi ve-course prix fi xe menu, Chef Dakroub’s dishes cover a wide spectrum. From Middle East-ern lentil soup to shish kebab mari-nated in a family recipe, fl avors such as lemon, garlic, and honey will be presented in gourmet dishes. Entree options include shish tawook, a bone-less chicken that has been marinated in yogurt then seasoned and grilled, and Lebanese moussaka, a stew made of chickpeas and eggplant. “I worked and lived in Dubai … for 14 years,” wrote Dakroub in an email. “The mixture of Arab cultures who lived in the Emir-ates – from Egypt, Syria, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia – all contribute to the menu I will be preparing for Arabian Nights. All of the items on the menu are traditional to the Middle East region.”
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It seems with every passing de-cade, a fi lm comes along that shines a light on a lesser-known martial art, ushering in a new wave of action fi lms. What “Ong Bak” did for Muay Thai, “The Raid: Redemption” does for Indonesian Pencak Silat. Directed by Gareth Evans, the fi lm revolves around an Indonesian SWAT team’s efforts to take down a notorious drug lord and his army within their headquarters, a 15-story apartment building. Plans go awry when the team’s presence is made known, and they soon fi nd themselves fi ghting for their lives in this wretched hive of scum and villainy. All this occurs within the fi rst 10 minutes of the fi lm, leaving the remaining 90 minutes to be propelled by nonstop action and violence. The plot acts merely as window dressing
to string along set pieces with some sense of logic as the ac-tion escalates. For example, team rookie Rama (played by Iko Uwais) goes in the build-ing, and as the bullets run dry, he resorts to using his fi sts and improvises weapons with whatever he can get his hands on. While the constant fi ghting gets exhausting after a while, the choreography continued to draw me in. Uwais moves through the fi lm with unrelenting brutality, displaying his mastery of Pencak Silat. Yayun Ruhian co-stars as “Mad Dog,” a ferocious lieu-tenant in the criminal underworld with a penchant for equally brutal hand-to-hand combat. Responsible for the design of fi ght scenes within the movie, the pair spent four months perfecting the choreography, and it shows. Six-
against-one brawls in narrow corri-dors play out with violent elegance, maintaining a sense of urgency throughout. Not for the faint of heart, these scenes are unapologetically bloody during some shots. Matching the intensity of the fi ghting is Evans’ frenetic and fast-paced direction, which – combined with Matt Flannery’s shaky-cam cin-ematography – perfectly captures
the chaos of the situation the char-acters fi nd themselves in. These ele-ments are also complemented with a score composed by Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park, which brings the fi lm together with an energetic vitality that pulses throughout. For any fan of martial arts and ac-tion, “The Raid: Redemption” easily stands as one of the new classics of the action genre.
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DAMIAN LYMAN
Staff Writer
There’s an old axiom in presidential poli-tics that the winner will always be the can-didate the voting public would rather have a beer with. It’s a scary prospect, but it rings true when you consider past elections. Sure, in retrospect George W. Bush was a bad choice, but even now I’d rather have a beer with him than Al Gore or John Kerry. There is no surefi re way to be relatable as a candidate, but so far on the 2012 cam-paign trail, musical prowess has become an unlikely measure of both Mitt Romney’s and Barack Obama’s respective everyman-ness. At a campaign stop at the Apollo Theatre in New York, President Obama sang a couple lines of Al Green’s “Let’s Stay Together” – much to the chagrin of his aides, who ad-vised him not to attempt it. Miraculously, the moment didn’t feel like forced pandering. It garnered a positive reaction in the audience and caused online sales of the song to jump
490 percent, according to Billboard. “The Sandman did not come out,” Obama said after his short performance, a comment that was self-deprecating while smartly refer-encing Howard “Sandman” Sims, the tap danc-er who would cane failed acts off the stage at the Apollo. The singing itself stayed on pitch, and Obama displayed an impressive light, natural vibrato. The New York Times pointed out that he even managed to sing the lines in the same key as the original recording, prompting them to ask, “Does the President have perfect pitch?” Contrast Obama’s performance with soon-to-be Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s attempt at a musical interlude during a Florida rally. Romney’s largest fl aw as a candidate is his seemingly incurable lack of anything resembling personality. Rather, he seems to have been produced from some sort of “optimum presidential candidate” ma-chine in a nondescript factory somewhere. Bearing this in mind, it’s unthinkable why he would have chosen to sing the patriotic stan-dard “America the Beautiful.” If we’ve learned
anything from “American Idol,” it’s that song choice is half the battle. Instead of offering a glimpse into some genuine portion of his personality, Romney selected a 100-year-old song merely on its pa-triotism quotient. He could have still turned the performance into a winner if he sang it with heart. But the fi nal product was, well, a little pitchy. His voice strained as he attempted higher notes, go-ing especially sharp at the begin-ning of the chorus. He took some liberties with phrasing as well, which could have sounded like he was channeling Sinatra – if he had the swagger. His last mis-take was that he subjected the audience to 33 seconds of the song, whereas Obama knew to keep things short.
Regardless of his politics, Obama has the gift of song, a powerful tool. If the beer buddy rule is true, things look bleak for the GOP now.
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R.J. BROWN
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In a few short months, Americans will take to the polls to elect the 45th President of the United States. Our options – at least as they appear today – are the Democratic in-cumbent, Barack Obama, or the presumptive GOP nominee, former Massachu-setts governor Mitt Romney. The candidates are each equipped with powerful skills that have helped them rise out of that seemingly impenetrable cloud of political ambigu-ity. They are capable, intel-ligent, af fable and, for lack of a better cliche, theyjust “have it.” But I don’t want either of them to be president.
My apprehension regarding the candidates is not about them person-ally as much as it is about what they
represent. Both are products of their parties, each teth-ered to the respective be-
hemoth machines that boast organization, name recognition and, above all, capital. Putting it simply, I’m ex-hausted. I’m exhausted by the bickering, the game playing, the tit for tat, the absolutely unimportant non-sense that Republicans
and Democrats leverage in an attempt to blacken the
other’s reputation. I ’m exhausted by the polar-ization, the this -or-that men-tality, the emphasis placed on winning elections rather than winning the minds, passions and respect of the voters. The fact is that none of us are free from blame here. As someone who has been inter-ested in politics for as long as I can remember, I have certainly
made my share of ignorant statements. I’ve made my share of ignorant votes. But the failure of one’s past does not require a marriage to that tradition. As our society grows and its depth of complexity in-tensif ies, so too should our political considerations. My argument is this: I f we continue to allow a two party system to define our
choices, we acquiesce to an un-realistic system empowered by our lack of interest. I can say with certainty that neither party fully represents my beliefs. So no more. In 2012, I’m going to vote for a third party candidate because I disagree with the president’s lead-ership and fi nd myself uninspired by the assumed alternative. Is it a losing vote? Yes. And in an election as important as this November’s, there is a de-gree of fear in giving my voice to an individual I can simply guar-antee will not win. But the American experiment deserves more than a vote cast for the lesser of two political evils. It deserves more than a government populated by representatives of only two schools of thought. There is disenchantment with our politics today, noticed by both the right and the left. The odor is pungent and does not discriminate; we all smell the rot that festers in Washington. For the sake of pride, I will no longer allow myself to fuel a two-party system uninterested in securing our future. Victory without meaning is as empty as defeat It ’s time for new ideas, new faces and new voices. It ’s time to begin a movement of real change.
It’s time for a third party.
Vote third party this yearVote third party this year… the American experiment deserves more than a vote cast for the lesser of two political evils. It deserves more than a government populated by rep-resentatives of only two schools of thought.”
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setts governor Mitt Romney.The candidates are each
equipped with powerful skills that have helped them rise out of that seemingly impenetrable cloud of political ambigu-ity. They are capable, intel-ligent, af fable and, for lack of a better cliche, theyjust “have it.” But I don’t want either of them tobe president.
pally as much as it is about what they
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and Democrats leverage in an attempt to blacken the
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With summer quickly approaching, many of us are gearing up by dieting and exercising for our perfect beach bodies, as well as buying summer wardrobes filled with beachwear and accessories. But some argue that these accessories are too big, even ridiculous. Can you say
plastic? Big plastic sunglasses, that is. Although much criticism has surfaced
about bug-eyed sunglasses, I truthfully don’t mind them much. I think they look fi ne, and to an extent, sexy – granted they don’t stretch from up-per forehead to lower cheek. And certain-ly, this isn’t just a fashion reserved for woman. Men do it too (though, thank-fully, to a lesser ex-tent). But what are we hiding behind these supersized accessories? According to numerous articles, oversized sunglass-es were immortal-ized by former f irst lady “Jackie O” ( Jacqueline Ken-nedy Onassis). The trend has since re-emerged through Hollywood stars such as Nicole Rich-ie and Kate Moss. Today, the trend is being per-petuated through bigger and bigger frames and younger and younger wearers. Women have suggested security blankets, sex appeal and even wrinkle prevention as rea-sons for their frames. But many people dislike them because they report they are attracted to the wearers under potentially false pretenses. An anonymous blogger on the subject stated, “A little mystery can entice men in many ways, and wear-ing these sunglasses make[s] it possible for wom-en to emanate the mystique men are yearning for.” This may be true, but when mystique turns out to be mirage, it ’s natural to get irritated.
Granted, there are many attrac-tive people that wear these things. But many use them to make them-selves out to be something they’re not; they hide the identity of the wearer. I assume this was, to some extent, the reason infamous trendset-ters began wearing them: to hide their true identity when among the general pub-lic. Just as Clark Kent hid his identity with a pair of glasses, girls of today manage to hide under thick plastic face shades. But it isn’t just about hiding
identity. Men and wom-en alike use them to take on temporary personas. For in-stance, you wake up early to go to the grocery store or work out and you don’t want to be bothered with getting ready or looking sleepy. Or maybe you are inebriated in public at a beach – or in school at Ba-Le – and you don’t want to give away how drunk you really are (or you get the Asian glow, a fate I too suffer). Or maybe you are just walk-ing from class to class and want to
look your diva best. Whatever the excuse may be, these plastic masks have enabled the general pub-lic to put on a disguise at any time, if only for a few minutes. But this mirage ends when the sun goes down – or when you have to go inside (heaven forbid you keep them on). And if your sunny diva personality doesn’t match up with your real identity, don’t expect to keep anyone you’ve attracted with your shades.
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Tennis seniors make last strokes in the programJEREMY NITTA
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The Rainbow Wahine ten-nis team has enjoyed a strong season, achieving a No. 53 rank-ing. But as the season comes to a close, it also marks the end of the collegiate careers for Hawai‘i seniors Barbara Pinterova and Aglae Van den Bergh. “Their impact has been big,” said head coach Jun Hernandez. “They’ve
taken on more r e s p o n s i b i l -ity and become kind of like big sisters to the younger kids. They’ve done a good job making sure the younger kids understand the culture that we have. We’re defi nitely going to miss them.”
TIGHT-KNIT COMMUNITY Both seniors looked back at some of the memories they’ve gathered in their time on the team. “I’m really going to miss all the girls,” said Pinterova, a native of Bratislava, Slovakia. “We’re not just like eight pieces of a team, but
we’re a family. There’s such a great culture and atmosphere of winning and being part of Hawai‘i as a stu-dent athlete.” “I’m defi nitely going to miss the fun I’ve had with my teammates,” said Van den Bergh, a Leuven, Belgium, native. “Defi nitely some of the matches we’ve played in the past have been memorable. It’s re-ally fun when the matches are close and all your teammates are cheer-ing together for you.” This season, the two seniors anchored Hawai‘i’s singles, with Pin-terova playing fi rst singles and Van den Bergh playing sixth. However, they refused to place the importance on any one match. “It doesn’t matter if you play one, two, four or six,” said Van den Bergh. “We all play together. If one person wins but another person loses, it doesn’t matter. It’s really important to stick together and support each other. You can do more as a team than you could do by yourself.”
ROLE MODELS Each expressed gratitude for the opportunities they’ve been given and the responsibilities they’ve taken on. “When I was new, I was a little shy around people I didn’t
know,” said Van den Bergh. “As a freshman I was really respectful to the coaches and other players that were here before me. Now I’m one of the older ones, so I have to look out for the younger ones on the team.” “As a senior now, I feel I need to be more responsible because I’m one of the oldest ones on the team,” said Pinterova. “I take a lot of responsibility in being a role model for others and always being my best. Because you’re the oldest and the most experi-enced … the younger ones look up and follow you.”
FINISHING STRONG Pinterova has a career record of 34-36 in singles and 36-29 in doubles. Van den Bergh stands with a 36-54 record in singles and a 37-42 record in doubles. Howev-er, both are fi nishing their careers strong: This season, Pinterova is 11-7 in singles and Van den Bergh is 11-6 in doubles. But the players aren’t done yet. “I’m definitely going to try my very best because these are going to be the very last [match-es],” said Van den Bergh. “It ’s good and bad to be a senior. It ’s been really fun to play for the team and be a student athlete.”
Both seniors were honored at a ceremony during the men’s volleyball match last Saturday. Pinterova and Van den Bergh will play their last matches at home as the Rainbow Wahine host Utah State and San Jose State this Friday and Sunday.
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Senior Barbara Pinterora will lead the Rainbow Wahine in their last two home matches of the season.
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The Rainbows rank No. 1 in the Western Athletic Conference in pitching – and last in hitting. But Hawai‘i turned this around during its last three games against UC Davis. “Any time you play well it boosts the team,” said head coach Mike Trapasso. “We’re playing with energy, and it looks like we’re hav-ing fun out there. Hopefully we can continue to get a lot of hits because that’s going to give us a chance.” “Victories are huge,” said ju-nior shortstop Pi‘ikea Kitamura. “We know what we can do. After the first game of the UC Davis series we came together and said we were going to play for each other and play hard like we can.” The series win over the Aggies was a needed boost for the Rain-
bows, who had lost four straight on the road against Gonzaga. “Baseball is all about confi -dence,” said Kitamura. “There are going to be games where you just can’t win because we can’t scratch a few runs together, but that’s base-ball. We have to have a short-term memory like Coach [Trapasso] tells us, and come out and play ev-ery game like it’s our last.” The Rainbows now turn their attention to Fresno State, the team picked to win the WAC. The Bulldogs come in with a re-cord just above .500, but have played and beaten quality teams, including top-ranked Stanford. “Whenever you play Fresno, or whenever you play someone in our conference, we want to go out and sweep them,” said Kitamura. “We go out there and we want to beat them one game at a time.”
“Any time you play against a team that has the quality of Fres-no, it ’s fun,” said Trapasso. “They won the national championship a couple years ago. But I hope that these wins let our guys know that they can battle through attrition, where it comes down to who’s go-ing to get the big hit. We really ex-ecuted well [against UC Davis].” The Rainbows are eager to test themselves against a team of Fresno State’s caliber, but a strong start to the WAC season would also help Hawai‘i get off to a good start in its quest to win the WAC title in its fi nal year in the conference. “You always want to win the WAC, but it would be extra spe-cial to be able to do it in your last go-round,” said Trapasso. “But I think we’re looking at a Fresno and Nevada team that are prob-ably saying the same thing.”
“The goal is the same everyyear,” said Kitamura. “We wantto come out and we want to win inthe regular season, win in the tour-nament and go to regionals. Ourgoals haven’t changed. We wantto be WAC champs. We’re as con-fi dent as we can be. We’re playingas a team and we trust each other.That frees up a lot of people to goout and play like they can play.”
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Was it destiny? Perhaps it was. Senior Larissa Nordyke fi n-ished her four-year college career in indoor volleyball at UC Irvine two seasons ago, but used her remain-ing one year of eligibility to return back home to play sand volleyball for the University of Hawai‘i. “It’s really fun. It’s comfortable,” Nordyke said. “All the girls are super welcoming and I was pretty familiar with the coaching staff before I came on the team. And to come and play is like the most awesome opportunity.” “[Indoor and sand volleyball] are two different sports – you have fi ve years to play four,” head coach Scott Wong said. “So essentially it’s like she redshirted one year of beach and then had this last year. “It ’s good having her back. Her knowledge and ability of the game are at a high level, and on top of that she brings a lot with her personality and her desire to get better on the beach.” Nordyke’s teammates agreed. “We’ve seen Larissa before; she’s a big fan of ours,” sophomore setter Mita Uiato said. “We hang out sometimes, so her coming in was fun. She’s a fun girl. [The incoming players] had no problem blending in with us. On the beach, they set such a good example for us. It’s good hav-ing them older girls who are better at beach set examples for us.”
LOCAL GIRL Nordyke grew up in Honolulu and was a 2007 Punahou graduate. Current UH sand volleyball player and senior Liz Stoltzman was Nor-dyke’s teammate at Punahou. “We’ve always had such a great relationship,” Nordyke said. “It ’s just really comfort-able. Liz and I work well togeth-er. She’s a great leader.” Following her years at Puna-hou, Nordyke headed to UC Ir-vine and played four seasons for the Anteaters. Despite getting
extensive time on the court, it was off-the-court experience Nordyke cherished most. “It was really fun. I had great teammates,” Nordyke said. “I made some of the best friends of my life at UCI and I got to live on the beach for four years. It’s a real beach community in a bigger en-vironment, and it was good for me to get away and get off the islands for a few years. … [But] now I’m back and intend to live in Hawai‘i.” And after graduating from UCI, it didn’t take much for Nor-dyke to return home. “It was basically just a phone call,” Nordyke said. “Liz [Stoltzman] called me and let me know and then I called Scott [Wong], telling him that I would come out for the team next year.”
THE TRANSIT ION The quick transition, however, did involve some speed bumps. “I graduated with a degree from UCI, so I came to UH with the inten-tion of taking business classes and being in the business school. But the NCAA requires you to be in a pro-gram,” Nordyke said. “So I’m in the Peace and Confl ict Resolution pro-gram at UH, taking a few classes.” Nordyke also needed to make adjustments on the court. “[I played] not much [sand volley-ball],” Nordyke said. “Our men-tality now is completely different than when it was when we used to play together. … In the summers [Stoltzman and I] would enter tournaments, and at UCI we played a couple of times in the spring on the beach, but what Scott and Danny [Alvarez, volunteer coach] taught us and the team has really changed my mindset of beach vol-leyball. It’s a completely different game for me now.”
MAKING HISTORY Nordyke and the Rainbow Wahine are a part of the fi rst-ever sand volley-ball team at the University of Hawai‘i.
“It’s so awe-some,” Nordyke
said. “We had a banquet last week and some of the ladies from
the fi rst indoor volleyball team
were there and got kind of emotional. It’s
really come full circle now that we’re part of the fi rst beach team. … We’re super lucky to have the girls that we have on this team and really the knowledge that the coaches have. I just feel really fortunate.” After spending Spring Break playing in Florida, the team re-turns home this week to host its last home match of the season versus HPU and Chaminade on Saturday at Queen’s Beach. “The season is short and my goals are long term,” Nordyke said. “We only have a few more weeks left in season, so I guess the short-term goals would be just to get better. In the future, I hope to play on a professional tour and just to get better every day.”
