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FRIDAY, FEB. 24 to SUNDAY, FEB. 26, 2012VOLUME 106 ISSUE 74 www.kaleo.orgServing the students
of the University of Hawai‘i aat Mānoa.
VENUEWEEKEND
WEEKEND EVENTS
– “Souled Out”
– Hawai‘i Chocolate Festival
– Hard Rock Rising 2012: the Global Battle of the Bands
CANDIDATES’ CORNER
The $200 million man
DUSTIN MIYAKAWA
Contributing Writer
From high atop key traffi c lights and street signs, three faces survey thousands of University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa commuters. These ceramic masks are an art project called MiGrate, created by English and art major Michael Moore. The three faces are part of a larger series of identical ceramic masks installed at major intersections throughout Mānoa and Makiki.
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A power outage caused by a run-off-road collision on University Avenue (between Maile Way and Ka‘ala Street) left some 1,000 Hawai-ian Electric customers without power and snuffed the traffi c signal at East Mānoa Road Monday night. Jen, a graduate student at UH Mānoa who asked not to be identi-fi ed, saw what looked and sounded like fi reworks from her window in lower Mānoa at 11 p.m. She said she was startled to see show-ers of light coming from a utility pole. Luckily, Jen had fi nished her homework ahead of time. But other University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa students in the surround-ing area scrambled to fi nd Internet access to fi nish last-minute assign-ments; some driving to friends’ houses, while others headed to Kis-saten, a 24-hour coffee shop. Sarah Ching, who was bik-ing home from a late-night run to the Safeway in Mānoa Mar-ketplace, suddenly found herself
in complete darkness on O‘ahu Avenue. “It was really creepy. My bike light is usually fine, I’d never biked when the streetlights weren’t on. I could barely see 2 feet in front of me. … All the cars had their high-beams on, and it was even harder to see,” she said. Others reported a “burning rubber” smell. While UH students tried to f inish assignments, students and faculty at Mid-Pacif ic Insti-tute, University Avenue Baptist Preschool, St. Francis School and Mānoa Valley Church Pre-school woke up to another day off after the long weekend due to the outage. Some 250 homes in the area were still without electricity in the morning. Power was fully restored to the area by Tuesday evening. Po-lice say there were two people in the car at the time of the crash; one was in serious condition and was brought to the Queen’s Medi-cal Center, while the other did not suffer any major injuries. It is sus-pected that alcohol was involved.
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FEB. 17 BOMB THREAT At about 3 p.m., Ka Leo received a bomb threat via telephone. The staff member who took the call said that a man called the news desk and, speaking in a calm voice, stated that a bomb was going to detonate in 18 seconds. “What motivates people to do that is extraor-dinarily diffi cult to fi nd out,” said Captain Donald Dawson of Campus Security.
FEB. 15 AND 18 DRUNKEN WALK Two reports of intoxicated individuals were f iled this week, one on Feb. 15 at 1:24 a.m. at Hale Wainani, and the other at Hale Aloha Lehua on Feb. 18 at 2:14 a.m.
FEB. 14 -19 AMERICAN GRAFFIT I Several incidents of graffi ti were reported this week. The fi rst was at Kuykendall Hall during the off-hours between Feb. 14 and 15. Another report came from Campus Center on Feb. 18 around 1:30 p.m. A third report came from the geophysics building on Feb. 19 at an indeterminate time.
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FEB. 16 DOUBLE VANDALISM AND THEFT A theft and a vandalism listed on the same case occurred on Dole Street in the late evening to early morning period.
FEB. 18 -20 HOUSING RULES There were four separate violations of the student housing code reported this week. The fi rst took place on Feb. 18 at Hale Aloha ‘Ilima at 5:45 p.m. The next event took place the same day at 8 p.m. at Hale Aloha Mokihana. The next incident took place on Feb. 19, also at Mokihana, around 5:30 p.m. The fi nal incident took place at Hale Aloha ‘Ilima around midnight on Feb. 20.
A fter consulting an adviser, the staf fer called Campus Se-curity half an hour later. When CS arrived on scene, the area was cordoned off and the entire building, including Mānoa Gar-den and Ba-Le, was evacuated. “Bomb threats are usually made just to disrupt things, but we can’t take that chance with people’s lives,” said Dawson. He explained that CS’s policy is to react to all bomb threats as if they were real. HPD was contacted and they searched the building, giving an all clear by about 5 p.m. and let-ting people return to work. No one was hurt and no bomb was found. Dawson said that a few years ago there were four to f ive bomb threats a week on campus, es-pecially during midterms and f inals. “I don’t know why it stopped,” he said. This threat did not seem to be aimed at disrupting classes, and also was not related to the
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MiGrate began as a class proj -ect for Moore, who started mak-ing masks last spring. It took him about four hours to make the f irst mask. The rest took him months, but by the time he was f inished, he had 10 masks that he placed in dif ferent locations. Now, six have disappeared. “The idea that someone took the masks sparked all kinds of ques-tions about the installation and inspired an extrapolation of my original concept,” said Moore. As an English major, formulating a narrative appealed to him. “I started thinking about where did it go, how would I find out where it went?” He formulated a story about 10 brothers who are look-ing for their missing brother, and attached instructions to the back of the masks for people to re-hang them, take photos and post on Facebook. “My hope is for a little conversation,” Moore said, “to get people talking about art.” As whimsical as they seem, the sculptures comment on issues cen-tral to contemporary art, such as challenging viewers to question the way they interact with art and mixing sculpture with alternative media. “It’s nondestructive, just clamps on metal,” said Moore. “But there is still the element of graffi ti art. However, people can interact, either in a vandalist way them-selves or as participants.” The remaining MiGrate mem-bers continue to generate buzz online through the Facebook page. Friends and viewers have already begun post-ing photos and comments. “It’s like ceramic graffi ti,” said business stu-dent Jessie Hironaga, who worked in the ceramics studio as MiGrate devel-oped, “but instead of vandalizing the space, this enhances it.” The installation reveals how objects are accompanied by a con-textual frame, which provides se-mantic information regarding their function and setting. MiGrate chal-lenges the way people experience objects, and offers an interactive alternative to viewing art.
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Film noir is a genre often imitated, yet rarely perfected. With classic tales of the criminal underworld, moody contrasts of dark and light, and timelessly cool style, it ’s easy to understand why the genre is so popular. Though originally an American concept, it has since been embraced by fi lmmakers everywhere, and one prime ex-ample is the French classic “Le Samouraï.” Released in 1967, this neo-noir fi lm fol-lows the character Jef Costello, a killer for hire who operates with a zen-like calm and a near obsessive-compulsive dedication to his routines. The story revolves around the fallout of his latest hit, as he enters a game of cat and mouse with police hot on his trail. Every scene is propelled to the next with tension as Costello evades his pursuers – cop and criminal alike. Director Jean-Pierre Melville, widely regarded as one of the founding members of the French New Wave movement, dis-plays confidence in deftly synthesizing a
variety of international sensibilities. From the opening “quote” from the book of Bushido to the curious spelling and refer-ences in the name Jef Costello, the movie can easily be seen as a love letter to the many influences in Melville’s life. With the help of cinematographer Henri Decaë, he captures the streets of Paris in cloudy tones of blue and gray, giving the film an air of cold detachment that matches the demeanor of his protagonist. Alain Delon gives an amazing perfor-mance as Costello, portraying him as near-silent, preferring to let his steely gaze do the talking. Constantly planning with meticulous precision, his piercing blue eyes scan the land-scape, breaking through the fog of his desatu-rated surroundings as he uncovers solutions. Costello, with his taciturn code of conduct and classic fashion of trenchcoats and fedoras, is very much a man out of time – a last “samurai” of sorts in the Paris crime world. Numerous fi lmmakers, such as Quentin Tarantino and John Woo, have praised Mel-ville as a great infl uence for their directing styles. Melville himself can be seen as a pro-
totype of Tarantino without the self-aware-ness, taking his love of American style like rock music and Ray-Bans, and combining it with a willful disregard for cinematic conven-tions to create a style all his own. It is easy to see why the DVD is available
through the Criterion Collection. I highly rec-ommend any fan of avant-garde cinema and all students of fi lmmaking seek out “Le Samo-uraï” as a prime study in the art of fi lm noir.
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HARD ROCK RISING 2012: THE GLOBAL BATTLE OF THE BANDS
Support local bands as they compete in the Global Battle of the Bands to win the chance of a lifetime: performing at Hard Rock Calling in London’s Hyde Park. This will be the second qualifying battle round.
Cost: Free admissionWhen: Saturday, Feb. 25; 10 p.m.-1 a.m.Where: Hard Rock Cafe Honolulu, 280 Beachwalk Ave.Contact: www.hardrock.com/honolulu
W E E K E N D E V E N T SW E E K E N D E V E N T S
With midterms coming up, many students could benefi t from an evening of smooth jazz to ease those nerves. “Souled Out” will feature mu-sic by Alicia Keys, Aaliyah, Stevie Wonder, Sting and many others performed by Got Soul, a band of jazz musicians. This event takes place only on the fourth Saturday of each month, so don’t miss out.
Attention chocoholics: This month has off icially been declared as “Hawaiian-Grown Cacao Month.” The Hawai‘i Chocolate Fes-tival will take place this weekend as it pro-motes Hawai‘i’s developing chocolate indus-try. Head to the Shops at Dole Cannery to taste exquisite, locally grown chocolate from the state’s top chocolatiers.
DINNER, CLASSICAL INDIAN DANCE AND A MOVIE The Still and Moving Center will be putting on a dinner, dance and mov-ie night with an Indian theme this Sunday. If you plan on participating in the dinner, show up at 5 p.m. and bring any vegetarian ingredients that you wish to throw into the soup, labeled “Stone Soup” because of the popular fable in which a soup is magically conjured up from the sparsest of ingre-dients. The popular Indian movie “Lagaan” will be shown and a Bharata Natyam dance number will be performed during the intermission.
Cost: $5When: Sunday, Feb. 26; 5 p.m. (to start dinner), 5:30 p.m. (fi lm starts)Where: Still and Moving Center, 1024 Queen St. Contact: 808-397-7678 or stillandmovingcenter.com
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Valentine’s Day may be over, but Eat the Street is back this weekend with a tasty theme: chocolate. All of the participat-ing food vendors will creatively incorporate chocolate into their menus. There will also be entertainment by the Shogunai DJ Crew.
Cost: Bring money for food (cash only); $2 for parkingWhen: Friday, Feb. 24; 4-9 p.m.Where: 805 Ala Moana Blvd.Contact: www.streetgrindz.com/eatthestreet
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EDWARD HICKMAN
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If having the right look de-cided campaigns, former Massa-chusetts governor Mitt Romney would have probably won the GOP candidacy weeks ago. Standing at a slim 6 foot 2, he towers over fellow candidate Newt Gingrich (who comes in at a portly 5 foot 10). Now you may laugh at such a seemingly pointless comparison – until I point out that in the 21 presidential elections from 1904 to 1984, the taller candidate won 80 percent of the time.
SKIN DEEP So what does that mean by extrapolation? It means the American voting base tends
to be shallow. Apparently, we don’t care if your policies are backward and don’t make sense as long as you’ve got a veneer that matches up with our pre-conceived notions about what a leader looks like. Looks, of course, are only skin deep, so what makes Mitt Romney the protean fi gure? He’s come storming out of Massachusetts (a liberal stomping ground) in the hopes of leading a party that has become synonymous with the word “conservative” (albeit not traditionally or fi scally conserva-tive). The very fact that he can be a frontrunner for the GOP candi-dacy after being the key fi gure in enacting a universal health care system that ensures nearly all Massachusetts residents receive
insurance coverage (which would nce coverage (which would normally make any GOP member normally make any GOP member point and scream “socialism!”point and scream “socialism!”) ) suggests that Romney the politi-suggests that Romney the politi-cal fi gure is occupying a space of cal fi gure is occupying a space of profound contradiction.profound contradiction.
MONEY MAN What about Romney the man? For starters, he stands above the other candidates not only in phys-ical height, but in wealth. Exactly how tall of a bank account are we talking about here? Well, if you combined the wealth of the past eight presi-dents, you’d still fall short. There’s been a lot of talk about the 1 percent. Ol’ Romney, with a net worth of $190 -250 million, falls in at about the .006 percent mark. Even among the top 1 per-per-
cent, he stands out – doubly so cent, he stands out – doubly so as a political candidate.as a political candidate. To put it bluntly, the candi To put it bluntly, the candidate with the most money usually wins. In the past six presidential elec-tions, the only candidate who man-aged to win with a smaller coffer was Bill Clinton, but we don’t call him Slick Willy for nothing. In the House, the candidate who raises the most money wins a whopping 93 percent of the time, and in the Senate it’s even worse, at 94 percent. As the old saying goes, “money talks, bulls- - - walks.” If the tallest candidate with the most money stands the best chance of winning, surely Romney is the odds-on favor-ite to win the GOP candidacy. He’s certainly the guy I’d put my money on, even if I think he money on, even if I think he
doesn’t stand a chance of going doesn’t stand a chance of going toe-to-toe with Obama come toe-to-toe with Obama come general election time. general election time. But the real question we But the real question we should all be asking ourselves in should all be asking ourselves in light of light of this information is this: Are we OK with money being a de-ciding factor in most campaigns? The Occupy Wall Street move-ment certainly isn’t OK with that, which is why “getting money out of politics” is often cited as one of its chief concerns. It will take a dramatic shift for that to happen. But if it means we can start choosing our political candi-dates on the merit of their plat-forms and put a stop to the cor-ruption caused by the constant need for candidates to fund-raise, we should be prepared to go as far as it takes.
Mitt Romney:
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Mitt Romney:
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WHAT IT I SA place one fi nds him or herself when intimately attracted to a friend who sees the relationship as merely platonic.
WHEN YOU KNOWFriend: “I can talk to you about anything; you’re such a nice guy/girl”Lover: “Our talks are so open; I feel like you actu-ally listen”Friend: “You’re like a brother/sis-ter to me”Lover: “I feel like I re-ally connect with you”Friend: “I don’t want to jeopar-dize our friendship”Lover: “I don’t want to get hurt”
HOW YOU GOT THEREYou’re too passive Waiting around for his/her calls and moves undermines your confi dence – and ultimately, your sex appeal. You never initiate contact If you aren’t fl irting, you are com-municating that either you lack confi dence, or he/she isn’t attrac-tive enough to incite desire. You’re not his/her ‘type’ Yes, you may be cute, but
you’re not hot. Unfortu-nately, there is really
nothing you can do about this, so learn to work other aspects.You took too long He/she fears jeop-ardizing a genu-ine friendship.
WHY IT HAPPENSCaution
It’s safer to admit you as a friend rath-er than a lover, and he/she can enjoy some of the benefi ts without the risks.
Supply and demand The value of a commodity in-creases when the availabil-ity of that object goes down. If you aren’t al-ways available, ro-mantically or pla-tonically, you are more desirable. Poor communication Often, people are afraid to com-municate their true feelings be-cause of the fear of being reject-ed or creating awkwardness. Damaged goods Some wounds take time to heal. Don’t think a new relationship is the bandage; hurt people need you to console him/her as a friend, not a lover.
THE DILEMMAMost guys are shy. When we fi nally do become familiar enough to feel comfortable, we are even more re-luctant to make moves because we are worried about jeopardizing a friendship that might suffer the
agonies of an attempted and failed maneuver.
THE SOLUTION If you’re meeting a new per-son, make a move early. When the foundation of your friendship isn’t set, you can bring your in-tentions into the development of the friendship. If you’re already friends, gradually make your intentions known. As soon as there is sub-st a nt ia l evidence a physical relation-ship might work, make a move. It will be worth it; there are few things
in this world as sweet as the fi rst encounter between friends. For things to avoid when at-tempting to escape the friend zone, visit kaleo.org/opinions.
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Breaking from Mountain Pacif ic Sports Fed-eration conference play will also help the War-riors regroup after losing two straight matches to then No. 1 UCLA. “For us, with a young team, we need to com-pete,” Wade said. “We’re doing a fair amount of things well pretty regularly, and we just got to sus-tain it. We got one guy playing good or two guys playing good; we need three or four guys playing good. We can play good for most of the game; we need to play good for the entire game. It ’s a bye week for us, and we need to keep playing.” “It ’s just a matter of refining,” senior middle blocker Jarrod Lofy said. “We just need to refine a few small things – be able to hit out of system, be able to put away balls when we need them.
We’re going to be able to challenge ourselves against what should be an excellent and good team. Just because it ’s not MPSF doesn’t mean it ’s not high-quality volleyball. That ’s exactly the type of thing we need.” Although Donovan, Wade and the department hope to pick up two wins over Nittaidai, these match-es also have larger implications. “Well, hopefully we can get some good recruits,” Donovan said. “But the other thing there is we can build brand awareness and name awareness out in those countries – we can start building a fan follow-ing. And as the television rights start expanding a little wider, at least into Asia, we’ll already have a set group of people that are already pulling for us because they can identify with us.”
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Freshman Taylor Averill fought his way into the starting lineup midseason, while senior middle blocker Jarrod Lofy started every match this season.
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Freshman outside hitter Stanley Hinkle appeared in his fi rst match two weeks ago and is averaging 1.33 kills per set, hitting .333.
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The University of Hawai‘i Athletics Depart-ment ’s vision stretches nearly 4,000 miles be-yond Hawai‘i’s shores. “We’re doing all that we can to reach out to Asia,” athletics director Jim Donovan said. “I think that ’s, strategically, one of our long-term goals – is to build better relationships with Ja-pan and potentially China and Australia, the Asia-Pacif ic region.” And progress is being made. “I did go over to a couple of seminars with [former football] coach [Greg] McMackin to meet some coaches in Japan coaching Ameri-can football,” Donovan said. “And we do have a company that ’s been able to get some of our women’s volleyball games, men’s basketball
games and football games on a cable network in Tokyo on a delayed basis. “I would say that we’re up to around 40 or 50 broadcasts within the last three years. That ’s about half a million to 600,000 households. We’re talking about playing a football game in Japan in the future, and [men’s basketball coach] Gib [Arnold] just f inished the circuit with China and Japan.” The Rainbow Warrior basketball team played f ive games in Asia this past summer, but this Friday and Sunday, the No. 13 Warrior vol-leyball team (6 -9) is set to host Nittaidai from Japan in two exhibition matches. “We want to do our part too and help get expo-sure,” head coach Charlie Wade said. “That’s part of it with Jim Donovan and kind of the big picture of [getting] more exposure into the Pacifi c Rim.”
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The Warrior volleyball team plays Nittaidai tonight (7 p.m.) and Sunday (5 p.m.)
