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The Offi ce of the Vice Chan-cellor for Administration, Fi-nance and Operations recently released an open letter to Hono-lulu’s Department of Transporta-tion Services in light of city plans to repave roads near the univer-sity area this summer. Rising gas prices and a growing emphasis on green living have made the cre-ation of bike lanes a signifi cant matter in the city, particularly for University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa students. However, perceived safety risks deter some from com-muting by bicycle. “There have been a number of accidents, particularly on Wai‘alae Avenue, where the importance of
a bike lane becomes critical,” said Ann Sakuma, assistant to the vice chancellor for administration, fi -nance and operations. UH Mānoa conducted a survey in order to learn more about how students and faculty commute to school, and found that more than 26 percent of UHM students, staff and faculty live within one mile of cam-pus. A majority of those surveyed expressed the desire to commute by bicycle, but a hesitancy to do so because of a dearth of bike lanes. Daniel Alexander, an orga-nizer with Cycle Mānoa, said that the survey reveals “the most substantial barrier [to increas-ing the percent of those who ride bicycles to school] was the road around campus ... part of it was feeling unsafe. The study shows
this is a major hurdle.” With repaving coming up on Wai‘alae, Kalākaua and Kapa-hulu, and city plans to include a share row on Young Street, “there’s a lot going on with road improvement,” said Sakuma. She also stated that “this is an oppor-tune time to share with the city that ... we’d like to make sure the infrastructure needs in the cam-pus and the community are met.” The university has been sup-portive of decreasing single-occu-pancy car commutes and increasing the number of people who commute to campus by walking, biking, tak-ing public transit and carpooling. The survey results come at a crucial time, as the Department of Transportation Services begins to implement plans to repave roads
highly accessed by cyclists who commute to UHM. The repaving is set, thus far, to include share rows, which would create a lane that would be shared by both motorists and cy-clists. However, students and other members of the community say they feel a share row does not signifi cant-ly increase safety or promote the op-tion of commuting by bicycle. “In terms of safety and com-fort, there’s a clear hierarchy,” said Alexander. “A lane [exclusively for bicycles] is superior. A share row is an improvement over nothing in that it increases awareness and safety, but not to the extent that an exclusive bike lane does. The share row is a step in the right di-rection, but it’s only a fi rst step.”
ASIA/PACIF IC JAPAN – 250 retired Japanese veterans aged 60 and above have volunteered for the so-called “suicide corps,” agreeing to work in the highly contaminated Fukushima nuclear plant. The volunteers organized the group due to the fact that cells of older people divide more slowly when exposed to radiation than those of younger people, thus slowing down the damage done to their bodies. The volunteers stated that they are near the end of their lives and can take the risk, whereas a 30-year-old exposed at the plant could get cancer as early as age 35.
MIDDLE EAST/AFIRCA LIBYA – Iman al-Obeidi, the Libyan woman who told the world that 15 of Gadhafi’s soldiers raped and beat her, has been evacuated to Romania. She had previously sought asy-lum in Qatar, but was deported back to Libya after officials disregarded protests from various human rights organiza-tions and requests from the United Nations to let al-Obeidi seek refuge in another nation.
NIGERIA -– Nigerian police raided a “baby factory” in which 32 pregnant teenage girls were rescued from the under-ground human trafficking ring. Raped, impregnated and held against their will, the girls (aged 15 through 17) were forced to produce babies that were sold on the black market for use in rituals, unauthorized adoptions, slave labor and organ traffick-ing. Smugglers bought the babies for around $190, depending on the sex of the child.
EUROPE GERMANY – A recent outbreak of E. coli originating in Germany has lead to at least 2,400 infections and 24 deaths. The bacterium is believed to be a new strain which affects the blood and kidneys and is highly toxic. Recent reports in Britain, Spain, Denmark and Sweden have sparked an investi-gation by the World Health Organization.
AMERICAS USA – The town of Joplin, Missouri, is still reeling from the 200 mph May 22 tornado, and has registered the current death toll at 138. Those hospitalized with critical injuries con-tinue to add to the tally. The town of 50,000 lost an estimated 2,000 buildings; among the damaged were schools, a hospital, a nursing home and private residences.
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For the Wai‘alae Avenue project, the city is set to open bidding to contractors this month. Cycle Mānoa, a group that works to increase bicycle access, attempt-ed to get the attention of the DTS and make the com-munity’s demands heard. On May 27, students and community members waved signs on Wai‘alae that expressed the desire for a bike-only lane, asking the DTS to reconsider the current plans and rework them to include a lane solely for bicycles. So far, the DTS has not offi cially responded. When asked for comment, the DTS declined to return phone calls. A deterrent to revising current plans is that the project would be more costly and cause significant delays. Workers would need to produce new blue-prints, and the issues of traffic lanes and access to businesses are concerns. “The plan that they were working on to include the bike lane involved taking away a lane of traffi c, so it would affect other traffi c, and create fewer parking spaces, and that could affect local merchants,” said Alexander. Members of Cycle Mānoa approached businesses on Wai‘alae Avenue for support, garnering a list of over 20 stores that support the creation of a lane designated only for bicycles. The list was presented to the DTS. Alexander mentioned that the fi rst city plans for bike rows were created in 1973. These plans sought to build bike lanes all over Honolulu, but never came to fruition. In addition, 12 years ago Wai‘alae Avenue was
designated by the DTS as a priority 1 project, but was never addressed. In 2006, the city presented the O‘ahu Bike Plan, which intended to include more bike lanes along Wai‘alae Avenue, but is still pending approval. “For the city, it ’s a timing issue,” said Sakuma. “This repaving plan has been in the works for some time. If they went ahead with revisions for a bike lane, the whole process would be delayed for quite a while.” Sakuma said the city’s proposal is to create a share row now, and repave the roads later to include a lane for bicycles “the next time around.” Sakuma added that while share rows may not be the ideal, promoting education about how to use share rows, and how to drive and bike safely within a lane, is the key to getting optimal results from the arrangement until the next repaving. However, Alexander said with this arrangement Wai‘alae may never see a lane exclusively for cyclists. “[The city] has had these plans over and over again, and very little has come of it. My apprehension is that it ’s not a matter of now or six [years] from now, it’s a matter of now or never,” he said. Regarding city plans for share rows versus bicycle-exclusive lanes, Sakuma said, “If we miss an opportunity, it will take a long time before the next one comes up.”
Visit kaleo.org/news to see a map that plots the locations of bicycle-related accidents in Honolulu from 2006-2010.
After 2006’s “X-Men: The Last Stand” and 2009’s “X-Men Origins: Wolverine,” the X-Men series is making a comeback. However, rather than start over, the series has returned to its roots in the recently released pre-quel, “X-Men: First Class.” “First Class” not only aligns it-self stylistically with the original fi lms in the series, but goes as far as to replicate the opening Holo-caust scene of the fi rst fi lm. We’re then given a continuation of this fl ashback as a Nazi offi cer (Kevin Bacon) takes notice of a young Erik Lehnsherr and his power to manipulate metals. Throughout the fi lm, dialogue shifts to for-eign languages depending upon location. This scene is the fi rst of many where the characters speak in convincing German, Russian or Spanish, with subtitles provided. The story then progresses to the 1960s. Lehnsherr (Michael Fassbender) is now on his own and plotting to kill those have wronged him. Charles Xavier (James McA-voy) is at Oxford, writing his the-sis on human mutation. They’re brought together after CIA agent
Moira MacTaggert (Rose Byrne) tracks them down, in search of mutants for a task force to combat the Soviet Union. Bent on global domination for the mutant race, the former Nazi offi cer, now going by the name of Sebastian Shaw, is secretly orchestrating a nuclear war be-tween the United States and the Soviet Union. After recruiting and training several younger mutants, Xavier and Lehnsherr, now nicknamed Magneto, team up to avert the confl ict. The fi lm’s pivotal battle smoothly blends with history, as the X-Men take on Shaw and his team of mutants during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Of the many things the fi lm does well, seamlessly providing explanations is at the top of the list. We’re given answers to how Xavier and Magneto met, the reason for their falling out, and the cause for Xavier’s paralysis. Even the expla-nation for the origins of mutants is well crafted – an area where the Wolverine prequel struggled. The style of the production is somewhat similar to Matthew Vaughn’s previous superhero movie, 2010’s “Kick-Ass.” Tran-sitions between scenes are well orchestrated, and the fi lm as a whole is up-tempo and energetic.
“First Class” rises to the top“First Class” rises to the top
Verdict: “First Class” is a great return to form for the X-Men franchise, guided by a strong performance from McAvoy. Watch for a familiar face to pop up in a cameo toward the middle of the fi lm. 4 ½ out of 5 stars.
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If a new technology bubble were emerging, what advances and innovations would we be left with at the end? Some argue the answer would be very little. Facebook recently received a $50 billion investment from Gold-man Sachs, Microsoft has pur-chased Skype for $8.5 billion, and Groupon and Zynga have both ex-pressed forthcoming high-value initial public offerings. With LinkedIn valued at $8.9 billion and an opening day increase of over 100 percent, the “World’s Largest Professional Network” is now “worth more than household names like JC Penney, Electronic Arts and Chipotle” according to CNN.com’s Adam Ostrow. Accord-ing to a poll on The Wall Street Journal’s website, 64 percent view this as evidence of a bubble. A market bubble occurs when speculation spurs products or as-sets to be traded at an infl ated val-ue. Markets see a steep increase of prices in the bubble sector, as prices rise to match speculative demand. Market bubbles are typi-cally marked by defi ned “boom and bust” periods, as a sharp drop follows the rapidly infl ated growth period. Examples of this infl ation-and-burst pattern are the dot-com tech bubble and, more recently, the housing bubble leading up to the 2008 fi nancial crisis. As shown by the US housing
bubble, speculative bubbles can have damaging effects on an econ-omy. The illusion of rapid growth in the bubble sector draws investment that could have otherwise support-ed growth in another sector. Bubbles can, however, also bring positive results. Often the investment poured into a bubble sector will drive innovation. From the computer tech bubble in the 1980s associated with Mi-crosoft, Compaq and Intel, we received personal computers. Despite the falling stock prices of these companies in the late 1980s, innovation in the form of inexpensive microprocessors remained, and therefore allowed further growth. Even the dot-com bubble that many assume to have been largely unbeneficial left us with Internet infrastructure that has benefited both consumers and businesses. So the important question isn’t if there is a new technology bubble forming from social networks such as Face-book, Groupon, and LinkedIn, but what is there to gain from it if there were? In a Businessweek article titled “This Tech Bubble is Different,” Ashlee Vance claims that a bubble “driven by social networking could leave us empty handed.” Social net-works function to develop precise advertisements, tailored to individ-ual users, increasing sales for those who choose to advertise and luring even more advertisers.
In Vance’s article, Jeff Ham-merbacher, a former research sci-entist for Facebook, asserts, “the best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads ... If instead of pointing their incredible infrastructure at making people click on ads ... they pointed it at great unsolved prob-
lems in science, how would the world be different today?” Ham-merbacher’s views point to the fact that resources and highly skilled workers have shifted to the tech-nology sector, particularly focus-ing on advertising. With such intense focus and investment on the ads selling prod-
ucts and services, less is invested in actual research and develop-ment of new ideas. Unless the in-novations made in analytical tech-nology used for advertising can be used in other fi elds such as medi-cine or fi nance, the boom and bust cycle of a new technology bubble will be largely for naught.
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Social media sites may be the next bubble in the U.S. economy. Even though market bubbles can harm the economy when they burst, they also create innovation and fuel the creation of new ideas.
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A variety of bland-colored suits shuffl e in and out of the train at each destination. A body of movement starts from 5:30 in the morning and doesn’t stop until 12:30 at night. I sit there, watching the people moving and shifting while I wonder what life they lead, self realizations they have made, and what drives them to continue to exist. But really, I’m standing. I’m standing out. My ma-roon shirt reads “fl avor.” My brown hooded sweatshirt car-ries a golden graphic upon its exterior. My fedora sits high on the back of my head, the
brim pointing up on all sides. I sit there gazing, but really it is me who stands out. I used to live here, but now I’m just another tourist who came back to enjoy the fruits of London. Like most tourists, I realize my role is only to take from this city. The bustling Londoners are the life force of the city. Natives give all they can to London and London gives back. I’m here to take from London, take experiences and give them back to the rest of the world.
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Street performers, tourists, smoke shops, boardwalk ven-dors, paddle tennis courts, and an outdoor gym with an amaz-ing view of the Pacific Ocean all come together to form the color-ful landscape of Venice Beach. Just south of Santa Monica in California, Venice Beach hosts a variety of attractions for a coun-terculture of aspiring artists, tourists and bodybuilders. Since the 1950s, Venice Beach has been a product of the Beat generation. American nov-elist Jack Kerouac defined the Beat generation as a “perceived underground, anti-conformist youth movement” that advocated for freedom of expression and an experimental lifestyle. This can be seen through the 1960s, when the beach was dominated by the hippie culture. In Venice Beach, art and creativity provide a great atmo-
sphere for socializing. Street performers are always conjuring up new acts to impress tourists. In one instance, there was an old Caucasian man dressed as Osa-ma bin Laden, playing an elec-tric guitar with a portable amp while rollerblading across the boardwalk and following people
around. Many other artists can be seen pulling people aside to listen to their CDs. Tourists can walk the strip and be provided with oceanfront entertainment.
To read more on Shekinah’s Venice Beach experience, visit www.kaleo.org/blogs
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MARC ARAKAKI
Sports Editor
With no collegiate sporting events during the summer, most athletes are looking to stay in shape, go to school, or visit family; however, the summer provides golf-ers opportunities that playing just in collegiate tournaments wouldn’t. “Some of the tournaments in the summer are a lot more com-petitive than you get at a regular collegiate event,” Warrior golf head coach Ronn Miyashiro said. Collegiate golf is just one ave-nue for golfers to get their names out into the golf world. Playing well in the local and national tournaments also help to boost a golfer’s ‘résumé.’ “It ’s a really good avenue to take,” junior T.J. Kua said. “If we can play well enough to get into national and PGA Tour events, it ’s huge for us. It ’s just a matter of getting your game up to that point where you can compete at the na-tional level or the world level.”
A WIN-WIN SITUATION Playing in other amateur tour-naments not only boosts a colle-giate golfer’s resume, but also helps the golfer in college tournaments. “Because of the [high] level of competition in those tournaments, it only helps you in your develop-ment throughout the whole year,” Miyashiro said. “It just helps to become competitive 12 months out of the year.”
NATIONAL TOURNAMENTS The United States Golf As-sociation hosts national tourna-
ments throughout the summer that propel world-class amateur golfers into the public eye.
Of its 13 national tourna-ments throughout the summer, collegiate golfers have a chance to enter six of them. They in-clude the U.S. Open and U.S. Women’s Open, the U.S. Ama-teur and U.S. Women’s Amateur, and the U.S. Amateur Public Links and the U.S. Women’s Amateur Public Links. After winning a qualifi er on Kaua‘i, Kua has already qualifi ed for the 2011 U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship from June 27-July 2 in Oregon. “The USGA events are a tre-mendous opportunity,” Miyashiro said. “Aside from winning a na-tional championship [in collegiate golf], winning a USGA event, that’s the cream of the crop. If you can be competitive, your exposure is more national.”
LOCAL TOURNAMENTS Before a golfer achieves suc-cess at the national level, suc-cess at the local level is vital. Local tournaments, such as the Manoa Cup in June, help golf-ers gain experience by playing against the best talent at the lo -cal level. “It ’s kind of like a ladder. You have different levels of success,” Miyashiro said. “You want to be successful here first. And then once you’re successful here, then you can move up to the national level. For a lot of the kids I re-cruit, it starts here.” Golfers who achieve consis-
tent high fi nishes in select local tournaments have the opportu-nity to become a part of the Gov-ernor’s Cup Amateur Team. Each season, the 12 members of the team get a chance to qualify for the PGA Tour’s Sony Open at the Waialae Country Club. Kua was the 2010 qualifi er into the Sony Open, and freshman Da-vid Saka was the 2011 qualifi er. “For the local guys, playing the Governor’s Cup and getting their way into the Sony Open – that was huge for me,” Kua said. “That ’s a shot of a lifetime right there.”
Junior T.J. Kua qualifi ed for the 2011 U.S. Amateur Public Links Championships at the Bandon Dunes Golf Resort, which runs from June 27-July 2.
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The St. Louis Cardinals selected ju-nior second baseman Kolten Wong as the 22nd pick in the fi rst round of the 2011
Major League Baseball Draft. Wong became just the third player and
the fi rst position player to be drafted in the fi rst round in Rainbow baseball history. The all-Western Athletic Conference fi rst team selection was also named a 2011 Lou-
isville Slugger third-team All-American. Wong was also drafted in the 16th
round of the 2008 MLB Draft, but decided to play at Hawai‘i.
“It ’s a culmination to a great career here at the University of Hawai‘i, and it ’s
the beginning of a new career in profes-sional baseball,” head coach Mike Trapas-so said. “It ’s a great pick and a great team, and we’re all very excited.”
Tune in next week for a complete MLB Draft wrap-up.
