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SSeptember EPTEMBER 28, 2010 28, 2010 HAWAII HONOLULU, Hawaii Honolulu, V OLUME 86, Volume 86,ISSUE Issue1 1
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Editorials--6-7 Sports--5, 12 A&E--3 Lighter Side--4 Lower School--2 Honors Day--8-11
9/11: Nine years later BY MARC FAGARAGAN A scarce few of the sun’s rays shone through the windows of St. Alban’s Chapel on a Friday afternoon, escaping the shadows of hovering clouds. Chaplain Daniel Leatherman walked up to the podium and glanced at the three people sitting in the pews. He read Psalm 119 from the Bible, followed by a prayer by Chaplain Diane Martinson-Koyama for the 2,819 lives that were taken due to the terrorist attacks on 9/11. The commemoration service lasted ten minutes. Chaos surrounded the serenity of the chapel as students ate their lunch and laughed. The commemoration service, requested by the ‘Iolani administration, was held on the day before the ninth anniversary of the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The service was open to all ‘Iolani faculty members and students and announced twice in the daily bulletin. Junior Sydney
Tamashiro, one of the 1,900 students attending ‘Iolani School, crept inside the chapel before the service began. Dr. Lily Driskill sat in the front of the chapel, head swaying from side to side. She was in deep prayer. Mrs. Kimi Frith sat taciturn in a back pew. The rest of the 1,899 students skipped past the chapel as if there was no service inside to honor the 343 paramedics and officers, the 23 New York Police Department officers, and the 2,016 Twin Tower employees who died on 9/11. As students passed, the clock in the chapel ticked for a full ten minutes. A few others, like sophomore David Clarke, were at extra help. “The images [of 9/11] are so shocking,” Chaplain M.K. said. “It just hits me as it did the day of” the Twin Towers destruction. “I’ve been in that building, and I can imagine the people at their desks.” Dylan Fujii, a junior, had different memories. “Well, it [the airliner] hit the World Trade Cen-
ter, and it was done by Al-Qaeda, I think,” Fujii said. Clarke recalled hearing about the incident in the news. “I was sick that day,“ David said, “so I didn’t go to school. I remember lying down watching TV, and
Doing well by doing good This year, ‘Iolani hired Allison Ishii to integrate community service into K-12 school life. As Community Service & Service-Learning Coordinator, Ms. Ishii is attempting to increase student participation in service-projects such as the upcoming Totally Against Graffiti (T.A.G.) project. She is also in charge of Team Service, a group of small volunteers who organize and participate in service projects. They head Saturdays for Service, a monthly volunteer community service project for anyone connected to ‘Iolani (students, parents, teachers and alumni). They will also head a Book Drive in
the coming months. On Oct. 2, there will be an ‘Iolani alumni service day as different projects are carried out by alumni members in cities such as Boston and Tokyo. In addition to helping ‘Iolani service clubs such as Red Cross and Leo Club, Ms. Ishii feels that every varsity sports team should do at least one service project. Through “One Team to Serve,” athletes can make individually small but collectively large impacts on the community. Projects vary from beach-cleanups to helping restore the He’eia Wetland. Ms. Ishii aims to get all students involved in helping. “How can we help in the community?” Ms. Ishii asked.
“How can we make our community better?” Accessibility and visibility are very important for increasing student participation. In the past, donation drives have been in the Chapel. Ms. Ishii intends to move such projects to the more conspicuous and convenient center of Sullivan Courtyard. By making it easier to give back, she hopes more students will chip in. There will be a community service fair at ‘Iolani on Nov. 23. Over 14 non-profit organizations including the Humane Society and Ronald McDonald House Charities will be manning booths. Ms. Ishii hopes students will be able to find a project that they will truly support.
Land purchase yields protests BY AYUMI TACHIDA The picketers in front of ‘Iolani did not receive the attention they had sought on the first day of school. In fact, most students probably did not even see them. As I arrived, I caught a glimpse of a lone man and I could not even read his sign. Later I saw the signs on KHON’s 10 p.m. news. Directed at ‘Iolani, the sign read, “After 50 years of being my neighbor, you took my home.” From 2003 to 2005, these Date-Laau residents were unsuccessful in negotiations with Lum Kip Yee, Ltd., to buy the 5.5 acres of land upon which their eleven apartment buildings stand. But ‘Iolani wields the means to make an offer more attractive than what the residents could muster. In June 2009, according to head-
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Chaplain M.K. believes that the younger the child, the weaker his/her feelings are towards what happened on 9/11. She was not surprised that three people attended the service. The day of 9/11 is “history to them,” she said.
Kelia Cowan | Imua Iolani The bulletin board outside of the SAO is a reminder of what has become an annual remembrance.
Community service: BY STEVEN YEE
then the TV automatically went from my show to the news.” Clarke was 6 years old when the World Trade Center became Ground Zero. He missed the Sept. 10 chapel service but attended a commemoration outside school.
master Dr. Val Iwashita, “the rare opportunity arose to purchase this land,” the school bought said property for $23 million. A loophole in state law left the longtime residents owning their apartments under the school that will only honor the current terms of their leases to the land until Dec. 4, 2012. Under legal circumstances exclusive to Hawai’i, the property under their apartments is ‘leasehold,’ meaning that these people own the apartments but not the land under their homes. State law specifies that the owners of a condominium project must be notified of any intent of their landlords to sell the land, which lied beneath the project, after which the condo owners have the first right to refuse the selling of the land. This article continues on p. 3
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