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AU G. 27- 31 D O R M C O N T R A BA N D S During recent fi re drills, Student Housing staff had Campus Security remove more than 10 different contraband items. The items included a glass sword, marijuana and related paraphernalia, alcohol, a fishing spear and a candle. These housing fi re drills were announced ahead of time, and students had time to prepare for the drill.

AU G. 24 S E X UA L A S S AU LT At 7:35 p.m. on Aug. 25, a female housing student told a resident advisor that she had been sexually assaulted in her room the previous night. The student said the incident took place at about 10:30 p.m. and that she had known the suspect for four years.

Federal law requires that college staff members immediately report any sexual assault cases to a supervisor. Housing staff also advised the victim to seek medical treatment at any nearby hospital and offered counseling. The victim did not give a formal statement to CS.

AU G. 19 B E L L I G E R E N T B O OZ E R At 2:03 a.m., a 21-year-old male student was approached by a CS officer for drinking alcohol near the entrance to The Market at Hale Noelani. The suspect

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At 1:15 a.m., a female UH employee notified CS that her brother was having trouble breathing and was suffering from chest pain. The victim had previously told his sister that he had taken an unknown amount of ecstasy and crystal methamphetamine while at a party.

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AU G. 19 BAT H RO OM F L O O R

At 12:30 a.m., a female University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa housing student was found passed out in a Hale Mokihana bathroom. The student reportedly locked herself in the bathroom before passing out.

The victim told CS that she had taken shots of an unknown alcoholic beverage. CS was able to wake the student, and EMS checked on her, but she declined transportation to a nearby hospital.

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Short fi lms from around the world will be screened at the DANCEonFILM Showcase on Sept. 9. The experimental fi lms will be shown at the Earle Ernst Lab Theatre starting at 2:30 p.m., with the central theme of the movements and contours of dance and how they relate to life.

Advances in technology have allowed for experimentation in connecting dance to film. Dancers have been working with new equipment and software to help develop choreography.

“A dancer can perform a jump in China and land in Africa in a way that is not possible on the theatre stage,” said theatre and dance assistant professor Kara Miller in an email interview. “In a way, the screen has become a new kind of proscenium stage. The stage is now digital.”

The dance department is developing a dance and visual media course that will explore these concepts.

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The fi lm collection has been curated by Miller and Larry Asakawa and includes fi lms from New York Dance Films Association Lin-

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One of the films, titled “Nora,” is “a dense and swiftly moving poem of sound and image, alternately tragic and comic,” according to a press release.

It is about a “fiercely embattled A frican girl experienc[ing] the joys and disappointments of love, and struggl[ing] against intimidation and violence to gain her independence.”

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Features 10T H A N N UA L H AWAIʻI WOM AN E X P O Skip dinner and a movie: Bring your girls’ day out to the Blaisdell Center for lots of entertainment and shopping for women of all ages. Browse booths with jewelry, scrapbooking, fitness, skin care, self-improvement and more.

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Completely Insane, a local ska band comprised of University of Hawaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;i at M Ä noa graduates and undergraduate students, will be playing at Hawaiian Brianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tonight at 8 p.m. They are one of four bands opening for The Toasters, a band from New York City founded in 1981. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s our biggest show, so weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all really excited,â&#x20AC;? said Jared Young, lead vocalist and bassist. â&#x20AC;&#x153; We grew up listening to them. We actually cover one of their songs.â&#x20AC;? songs.

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Completely Insane features Young, drummer Chad Kikuchi, trombonist and vocalist Arthur Davis, trumpeter and vocalist Chad Higa, tenor saxophonist Lawton Takaesu and guitarist Andy Morishita.

Young, Kikuchi, Davis, Higa and Takaesu have been with Completely Insane since it started out in 2010, and the band welcomed Morishita as its new guitarist in February.

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raised on Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;ahu, and while they met primarily at UH M Ä noa, some of them have been friends for many years. According to the band, Young, who graduated in spring with a degree in electrical engineering, is the glue that binds them together.

Although the members are getting older, they surely are not out-growing the band. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a good outlet. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not really something we want to give up,â&#x20AC;? Takaesu said.

The members of Completely Insane have unique â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and possibly even clashing â&#x20AC;&#x201C; personalities that range from soft-spoken to wild and outgoing, but performing together gives them a common energetic quality. â&#x20AC;&#x153; We are fun,â&#x20AC;?

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Funâ&#x20AC;? is an appropriate word for a ska band. Ska is most easily described as an upbeat combination of reggae and punk rock styles. Reggae is a derivation of the ďŹ rst wave of ska music, which developed in Jamaica from the 1950s1960s. Ska experienced a second wave in the United Kingdom and a third in the U.S. during the 1990s.

It is at the close of the second wave that The Toasters were formed, and they are now known as one of the first and longeststanding ska bands in America.

The movement is still associated with British â&#x20AC;&#x153;skinheadâ&#x20AC;? cculture, as well as the Jamaican â&#x20AC;&#x153;rude boyâ&#x20AC;? archetype. In America, the scene has largely thrived underground, though groups like No Doubt have enjoyed mainstream popularity. jo But Completely Insane isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t worried about ďŹ tting into archewo types. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I like being able to play typ whatever I want, and expressing wh myself,â&#x20AC;? Davis said. my Young and Davis, the primary songwriters for Completely Insane, so say the songs are based on events in their lives but are still for the listeners to interpret. Completely lis Insaneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s songs pack an emotional Ins punch and touch on topics such as pu suicide, politics and racism. su

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Opinions Be a part of what you’re doing C HRIS WHITE Contributing Writer

can get old when only one or two people respond in class for weeks on end.

In fact, that sort of know-it-all can’t exist if everybody is participating. It isn’t even always necessary to talk: Just making regular eye contact with the teacher or your study group members can help keep everybody involved.

Of course, you have to know your environment. If everybody had commentary to share in the large survey classes, the professors would never get through a single lecture. But those classes have TAs, and there are always office hours for the professors.

So use those resources. In higher division courses though, it doesn’t do anybody any good to sit there like a lump.

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Classes are a lot like that. Having knowledge is one thing, but teaching that knowledge is a specialized kind of performance art.

If the students (the audience) just sit there, then even the best teachers can’t help but be less inspired. It ’s true that some professors are better at teaching than others, but the give and take of teaching and learning is a dynamic ynamic process that can be good d or bad for ever ybody concerned. ned.

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These statements, along with recent ads attacking Obama for allegedly attempting to re move the work requirements for federal assistance programs (a claim debunked as false), expose how grossly misinformed our politicians are about the realities of welfare and show how A merica’s politicians will intentionally distort the truth to score talking points.

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People who attack welfare and its recipients neglect to mention that cash and food assistance account for only a fraction of assistance to needy Americans. Of the nearly $2 trillion allotted for America’s entitlement programs, cash assistance to needy families, food stamps and unemployment comprises roughly 11 percent of federal spending on these programs. The rest goes to Social Security, unemployment, tax credits and school lunch and healthcare programs. Most of the recipients of these latter programs are either incapable of working or are already employed.

But the majority of federal spending on entitlement programs does go to those who need it: According to a study conducted by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 91 percent of

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Former presidental hopeful Rick Santorum said to Piers Morgan in an Aug. 31 interview that he believes that President Obama has “increased the social welfare state in this country.” benefit spending goes to people who cannot work, including the elderly and disabled, as well as those who are working.

Most states have implemented measures to prevent able-bodied individuals from receiving government assistance benefits.

Here in Hawai‘i, recipients of cash assistance are required to enroll in a subsidized work program, unless they meet exemption requirements, such as having a disabled family member who needs someone in the home to provide care. They must work, or participate in work-related activities, for a minimum of 20 hours each week. In Hawai‘i, therefore, it is rare to find someone on welfare that does not have a job or is not connected to the workforce in some manner.

U N N E C E S S A RY M E A S U R E S Attacks on these necessar y government programs foster animosity toward our most destitute citizens, even though the majority of them do not fit the stereotypical role assigned to them. This attitude leads to cut-

backs on the programs and government-sanctioned humiliation tactics. In 2012 alone, more than two dozen states have considered drug-testing requirements for welfare users, with a few passing the practice into law.

These bills are introduced by people who have bought into the “welfare queen” stereotype.

Florida residents voted to imple ment the drug-testing program, and with only 2.6 percent of ap plicants testing positive, the state has suffered a net loss of $45,780 as of April 2012. The low positive test rate illustrates how inaccurate the stereotypes of welfare recipients truly are and how ridiculous it is to put any money toward this unnecessary testing program.

If A merica’s politicians re ally desire massive spending cuts to welfare programs, they need to be more honest with the public about who really uses the programs and stop relying on stereotypes and misconcep tions. Voters deserve to know just who will suffer most from cutbacks to these programs.

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Wahine stay hungry, focused heading into Classic JEREMY NITTA Staff Writer It’s a new year and a new attitude for the Rainbow Rai Wahine soccer team.

“We are starting to t believe in ourselves,” said head coach Michele Mi Nagamine.

“Last yyear’s schedule was really, really really tough – we had a really grueling prese preseason schedule. This year, the teams are good, but they aren’t like nationally natio ranked pow-

erhouse teams. I think we’re playing teams that are more of our caliber, but also we are improving every week.”

Hawai‘i has not lost since dropping its season opener at Nevada, currently standing at 4-1-1. The Rainbow Wahine also lead the Big West Conference in goals scored (15) and goals per game (2.5).

A nd Hawai‘i looks to continue that this week as it hosts the Outrigger Hotels and Resorts Soccer Classic.

G E N E R AT I O N A L G ROW T H “It has a lot to do with what we’ve been working on in training,” said Nagamine. “It gives us the flexibility to be creative, to go forward and be

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offensive-minded. Getting a lot of different people scoring is really great because when it happens it boosts the confidence of each player.”

Among those leading the charge for Hawai‘i are sophomores Tiana Fujimoto, who leads the Big West in scoring (11) and goals (5), and Krystal Pascua, who ranks seventh in the conference in shots (14) and points (4). Also anchoring the Rainbow Wahine is junior Chelsea Miyake, who ranks second in points (7) and fifth in goals (2).

But Nagamine points towards the leadership that stems from the team’s veterans: “Our older players empower our younger players. They give them a lot of support and a lot of really good leadership, and I think that the younger players are feeding off of that. ... I think they’re learning and improving and embracing

what’s going on in training and combining that with the role models we have in our upperclassmen.”

IT GOES ON Nagamine is enthusiastic in voicing praise and pride in her team, noting how much they’ve accomplished thus far in the season.

However, she states that the team remains focused on reality, and they don’t allow themselves to become wrapped up in their success.

“It doesn’t change a thing,” said Nagamine. “We know that there are some games that we easily could have lost, and we tied a game that we should have tied.

Those are results that we cannot rest easy over. I think that the team is still very motivated. In practice, they’re coming out really hard and really intense and we’ve been

having some great training. If anything, I think that this success is going to keep them hungry.”

Nagamine also maintains what has become the team’s mantra ever since they were picked to fi nish last in the Big West in preseason polls.

“We control what we can control,” said Nagamine. “We can’t change the way that people think about us, so we’re just going to let our actions speak for us, and hopefully we will be able to come out on the other end of things.”

Outrigger Hotels and Resorts Soccer Classic Hawai‘i vs. Ball State Friday 7 p.m.

Hawai‘i vs. Detroit Sunday 5 p.m.

Both matches will be at the Waipi‘o Peninsula Soccer Stadium.

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