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Administrators shed light on current issues PAIGE L. JINBO News Editor
During a two-hour Faculty Senate meeting, guest presenters addressed staffing shortfalls and the University of Hawai‘i’s recent departure from the Western Athletic Conference. Members of UH Mānoa’s Faculty Senate met Wednesday in the Art Auditorium from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. to hear David Hafner, assistant vice chancellor for campus services and Jim Donovan, director of athletics, discuss the current changes taking place within their departments. According to Hafner, for the last seven years, the number of custodial staff members on campus has continued to decrease. Last December, there were 308 custodial staffers, as opposed to 371 in 2003. “We have an insuffi cient staff to run this facility,” he said. Hafner attributes the decrease to the civil service hiring freeze that was imposed last year due to the budget cuts. “We’re understaffed due to lack of funded positions,” Hafner explained. To compensate for the insufficient personnel, Hafner discussed new approaches for cleaning: breaking the campus into zones
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Jim Donovan, director of athletics at UH Mānoa, will supervise teams in two different conferences beginning with the 2012-13 season. UH will leave the Western Athletic Conference and join the Big West and Mountain West Conferences. Universities and Colleges scale of cleanliness, UHM’s grounds and facilities ranks between casual inattention and moderate dinginess. Cleanliness is determined by the total number of labor hours
... UHM’s grounds and facilities ranks between casual inattention and moderate dinginess.
and building zone managers enabling a custodial management system to take place, shifting cleaning to evening hours when the buildings are closed and making significant investments in new methods and equipment. Based on the Association of Physical Plant Administrators of
put in per year. With a small staff and numerous tasks to be completed, UH custodial staffers put in 200,000 labor hours a year, versus the 700,000 hours deemed ideal by the A PPA. “People have told me, ‘ W hy don’t you just make your staff work harder?’ but that would be
like asking your mom to work harder,” Hafner said. “Most of these people are 60 years old and they already do back-breaking work.” In addition to the new approaches to cleaning, Hafner requested that the Mānoa Executive Team support the necessary reduction in cleaning routines and enforce policies. Following Hafner, Donovan talked about the athletic department’s expenditures and explained the departure from the Western Athletic Conference to the Big West Conference and the Mountain West Conference. “ There’s a false sense out there that if we would have stayed with the WAC, it wouldn’t
have cost more, that’s totally not true,” Donovan said. “Our estimates, if we stayed, would have cost us $1.85 million a year.”
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While it costs $2.25 million per year for the two conferences, the MWC pays $1 million more per year, per school, Donovan explained. Last month, it was announced that UH would be ending its 31year relationship with the WAC to join the BWC and MWC beginning with the 2012-13 season. “If we hadn’t had done anything, and if in three to four years from now the WAC finally dissolved, we would have been up a creek because there wouldn’t have been anywhere to move,” Donovan said. “We had to jump now while there was an opening, than not jump at all.” According to Donovan, the WAC has only a 50/50 chance of surviving for the next three to five years. “ This combination will resonate extremely well with our fans and we’ll be able to generate more revenue,” he said. UH Mānoa’s Faculty Senate meetings are held every third Wednesday from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the Art Auditorium and are open to the public.
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In light of the ongoing renovations on campus, where do you think UH’s construction dollars would be best spent? COURTNEY L ISTON Sophomore Anthropology major “It’s highly inconvenient and I feel other buildings need renovations and just general maintenance before we renovate the Campus Center.”
C HARLIE F IELD Ocean and Resources graduate student “Some of the lecture halls like [the Marine Science Building] are pretty run down; they could use renovation.”
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AUK AI K ING Freshman Pre-Business major “I’d like to see all the classrooms on campus be air-conditioned. Also, I don’t think we need the fitness center.”
JOELLE SOUZA Freshman Pre-Business major “Instead of renovations, put the money towards better faculty.”
H ALEY ZDYBEL Sophomore International Studies major “It’s inconvenient for clubs on campus who would normally meet in the Campus Center.”
The Green Hornet: a film that stings back M AY SALCEDO Staff Writer
Based on the original hit radio series of 1936 and the television series of the ‘60s, “The Green Hornet” takes the typical “can-doanything” superhero and turns him into a partying man-child who must constantly be saved by his kick-butt sidekick. W hen his father James Reid ( Tom Wilkinson) passes away, Britt Reid (Seth Rogan), the heir to a L os A ngeles newspaper empire, joins forces with his tech-
nology sav v y, kung-fu fighting Chinese butler Kato ( Jay Chou). The two become masked vigilantes who fight crime by posing as the bad guys themselves. Britt Reid hires L enore Case (Cameron Diaz) as his secretar y to predict the hero’s next move and spread the Green Hornet ’s fame through the media. The plot thickens when the vigilante’s reputation reaches Chudnofsky (Christoph Waltz), a merciless drug lord who doesn’t mind turning the city red to get the head of the Green Hornet on
a silver platter. The fi lm is rated PG-13 for violence, language, sensuality and drug content. The movie is action packed with constant, rapid-fi re quips that keep you rolling in your seat with laughter every five minutes, but save a few bucks and stick to 2D. Seth Rogan’s witty comments and Chou’s unlikely humor mirrors the relationship be tween Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan in “Rush Hour,” where two friends team up to fight crime. “ There’s talent and ambition in this $100 million-plus epic,
thanks to Rogan and the visual wizardr y (in 3D and 2D) of director Michel Gondr y (“Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”), even when the action gets fre netic and the twisty plot goes off the rails,” said Peter Travers of Rolling Stone magazine. However, the 3D scenes were less than extraordinar y and difficult to appreciate, as there were only a few throughout the movie. The lack of 3D action failed to put value into “ The Green Hornet ” and was definite ly not worth the extra $3.
T H E G RE E N H O RN E T FINAL VERDICT: BDirector: Michel Gondry Screenwriters: Seth Rogan and Evan Goldberg Cast: Seth Rogan, Jay Chou, Cameron Diaz, Christopher Waltz Released: Jan. 14, 2011
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Incompatible products and frivolous business practices — both are ingredients for a rotten Apple. A few years ago, during my senior year in high school, my classmates and I were deciding on laptops for college. When I asked some of those classmates why they were getting Macs, they said, “they don’t get viruses,” “they’re easy to use,” and “iTunes on the Mac works better with my iPod.” Apple’s inability to get viruses is a valid reason, but a misconception. A primary reason why Macs don’t get viruses is due to its low market share compared to Windows. Macs aren’t a good target on which to make a profitable attack. However, the operating system still has vulnerabilities that make it susceptible to attacks. In the 2010 Pwn2Own, a hacking competition, Apple’s own browser, Safari, was the fi rst to fall, followed by Firefox, Internet Explorer and Opera. Some may fi nd Macs easier to
use than Windows, but it’s a matter of personal preference. But the final reason to buy a Mac — iTunes working better on a Mac than on a PC — makes no sense at all. For one thing, the fact that iTunes works better on Macs than Windows should not be the deciding factor between a Mac and a PC. To be fair, my experience with using Apple products on Windows is fairly limited. However, iTunes should work as well on the Windows platform for Apple products as it does on the Mac. Peter Bright of Ars Technica said, “The failure to play nicely with normal Windows networks is indicative of a broader frustration of Mac OS X, and Apple’s devices in general. Apple gadgets all work nicely with each other … but if you dare venture outside Apple’s world, things all rather fall apart.” And they should work nicely, shouldn’t they? There are users out there who use both Apple and Windows products, yet the disadvantage of using Apple with Windows products pushes them to use
solely Apple products. In a case last year, Apple fi led a lawsuit against HTC for infringement on several patents. One of those alleged infringements was “unlocking a device by performing gestures on an unlock image.” In other words, Apple patented swiping to unlock. Isn’t it ridiculous how Apple can patent a simple motion of unlocking a phone? It’d be as ridiculous as patenting “losing your wireless signal through the use of a death grip.” Regrettably, this sort of practice is common in the technological world, especially in the fl awed U.S. patent system. And yet, just look at all the touch screen-based mobile devices we have today — most have similar features, including the “swipe to unlock” motion. Apple is a company I can respect for its innovations in the technological world. Its iPhone and iPad helped to reinvigorate its respective markets. And yet, I fi nd its business practices to be unacceptable. But maybe that’s just me.
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Sailing ’Bows want to win for Wenner P R E PA R AT I O N
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“We’re going to win it,” head coach Andy Johnson said with a smile when asked about the Peter Wenner Rainbow Invite. And there’s a heartfelt reason why the team wants the title. Peter Wenner, a former Rainbow sailor, lost his life in November 2008 because of a recreational boating accident. He was a member of the University of Hawaiʻi’s coed sailing team that won the PCCSC Sloop Championship in 2007, and then went on to participate in the Sloop Nationals. This is the third year the Rainbow Invite was renamed to honor Wenner, but Hawaiʻi has yet to win it for their former teammate. “We need to get the University of Hawaiʻi on the trophy,” Johnson said. “Ever since it’s been dedicated to Peter Wenner, Brown won it [two years ago] and Stanford won it last year.” UH freshman Maddy Kennedy is confi dent as well.
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Eight coed and four women sailing teams will participate in this week’s regatta. “We have a good chance,” Kennedy said. “It’s pretty important. It’s our home regatta for the year, so we want to do well.” The invitational runs Saturfor Summer 2011, Fall 2011, and Spring 2012
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Johnson and his teams are trying to pick up from where they left off before winter break. “We sailed all last semester [but] this is the fi rst one of this semester,” Johnson said. “It’s basically like any other sport; it’s our fi rst event of the spring, so it’ll give us a chance to see how we’re matching up with a lot of the West Coast teams.” Last week, the Rainbow sailors practiced with Salvere Regina, a university from Rhode Island. “It was nice to practice against another team, just to match up with some other sailors,” Kennedy said. The ’Bows have a different focus this semester because there are multiple events held in the sport of sailing. “Last semester we had the sloop and [sailed] single-handed and this semester’s focus is mainly on double-handed sailing,” Johnson said. “The whole semester is a buildup to the Pacific Coast Championships in April and the Nationals in May.”
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’Bows out to prove polls wrong RUSSELL TOLENTINO Sports Editor
Whether they are playing at home in the Stan Sheriff Center or on the road in Ruston, La., the Rainbow Wahine basketball team wants to prove them wrong. But who is “them”? Well, they are the Western Athletic Conference coaches and the media that voted the ’Bows to fi nish 7th and 8th in the WAC preseason polls. “Other schools think, ‘It’s just Hawaiʻi, it’s no big deal, and it’s frustrating when that’s how people view you,” senior guard Megan Tinnin said. “We defi nitely want to fi nish higher than what people expected,” freshman forward Kamilah Jackson added. “Everyone’s expecting us to not do very good so we defi nitely want to prove them wrong.” This season, the Rainbow Wahine did have a promising start. They were only 6 -7 before conference play started, but posted big wins over BCS schools Oregon State and Mississippi. And overall, their preseason schedule featured No. 8 UCL A, No. 10 North Carolina and eight other schools that made the postseason last year. “Our strength of our non-conference schedule is a plus for us,” head coach Dana Takahara-Dias said. “It prepares us for the WAC. That has proven successful but only time will tell.” Time has passed – four WAC games to be exact – and the Rainbow Wahine are still looking for
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Freshman guard Sydney Haydel has played in 17 games this season. She is averaging 10.1 minutes per game. their first WAC win. But despite its 0 -4 league record, the team has shown they can compete with one of the
league’s best teams (taking Louisiana Tech to overtime at home) and also have a shot at winning road games (losing at Boise
State by only six points). According to Tinnin, these matches prove the ’Bows are capable – they just need to keep
believing. “Playing together with confidence is one thing that we’re trying to focus on right now. We need to realize that we are a good team,” Tinnin said. “We definitely have the ability to come out and do a lot better than in the past and it gives us a lot more motivation to play even harder.” The ’Bows are on their second road trip in as many weeks and are looking for their fi rst road win since 2009. They play San Jose State Saturday at 5 p.m. HST, Fresno State Monday at 4 p.m. HST and Utah State Thursday at 4 p.m. HST. This could be an opportune trip for the Rainbow Wahine to notch a road win. San Jose State was picked to fi nish last in both polls while Utah State was picked to fi nish 8th by the coaches and 7th by the media. Fresno State (12-6, 3-1 WAC), however, is projected to win the WAC title. They also feature senior guard Jaleesa Ross, the preseason WAC Player of the Year. However, Tinnin said it doesn’t matter who the opponent is. The ’Bows know they have been the underdogs since the season started and, of course, that they have a lot to prove. “We’ve worked our butts off for so long and we deserve to come out with some wins and have a winning season,” Tinnin said. “We have nothing to lose, people aren’t expecting much out of us. So let’s prove everyone wrong and show people what we’ve been working so hard for.”
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