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Before serving as Warrior football head coach, Greg McMackin was the team’s defensive coordinator in 1999 and 2007. M ARC A R AK AKI Sports Editor
Warrior football head coach Greg McMackin announced his retirement on Monday in front of the media, fellow coaches, players and friends. “Hawai‘i has meant a lot to me,” McMackin said. “I appreciate Chancellor [Virginia] Hinshaw giving me the opportunity to be the head football coach at the University of Hawai‘i. I have decided to retire from my position at this time.” McMackin also put in a fi nancial sacrifi ce as he departs. “In their [players’] honor, I am forgoing $500,000 in the fi nal year of my contract, which I hope will help strengthen the UH foot-
ball program,” McMackin said. “I want to thank my players, my coaches, the staff and the good people of Hawai‘i.” During McMackin’s four seasons as head coach, he racked up a 29-25 record, including a share of the program’s fourth Western Athletic Conference championship in 2010. He also guided the Warriors to the Sheraton Hawai‘i Bowl in 2008 and 2010. But Athletics Director Jim Donovan looked back at McMackin’s off-fi eld accomplishments. “The Bridge program that he created for the incoming student athletes so they could be here on campus and know where everything was at before double days had started has been very, very
effective for our new student athletes on the football program,” Donovan said. “He started bringing in most of our student athletes to go to summer school. We’ve seen great improvements in our grade point averages for football and in our student athletes graduating and graduating earlier – and that’s really something that was never done before. “We’ve made inroads into Japan. He went out and met with the Japanese coaches there. We’ve had more than 50 of our broadcasts shown on cable TV in Tokyo, and those were the efforts of Coach McMackin.” Chancellor Virginia Hinshaw also shared her thoughts about McMackin.
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“He came in to this position during a time of turmoil for this university. ... I know then and I know now that he cares deeply for his team, his coaches and staff, this university and the people of Hawai‘i.” Senior safety Richard Torres played all four years under McMackin’s direction. “Coach McMackin was a great part of my life,” Torres said. “Him and his coaching staff is one of the reasons why I am the person I am today. Coach McMackin gave me a scholarship. I’m so grateful for that, and there’s nothing more I could ask for. The boys are feeling it – the morale is down.” For video footage of the press conference, go to kaleo.org.
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The rare saddle x sunset wrasse is produced by the saddle wrasse and the Indo-Pacific sunset wrasse. M AT T SYLVA Columnist The last of the Hamilton Library lecture series took place on Thursday, Dec. 1, with a presentation given by Mary Roney of the Waikīkī Aquarium.
H I S T O RY At 107 years old, the Waikīkī Aquarium is the third-oldest aquarium in the United States. It originally opened as an attraction for the end of the line for the streetcar. In 1919, the University of Hawai‘i acquired the aquarium, and in 1955 it moved to its current location.
BY T H E N UM B E R S The aquarium houses about
3,500 specimens from throughout the Pacific. This includes some 220 fish and 260 invertebrate species. Today, most of the specimens are housed in complete habitats with several species, instead of outdated singlespecies displays. Every year, about 300,000 visitors experience the aquarium’s attractions, with about 20,000 of those being Hawai‘i or UH Mānoa students coming through school.
UNIQUE SPECIES The nautilus exhibit houses one of six species of nautili found in the world, all of which are from the western Pacific (excluding Hawai‘i) at depths of about 1,000 feet. The Waikīkī aquarium was the second in the world to work
with nautili and the fi rst in the world to see a nautilus embryo. In 1990, the fi rst nautilus at the aquarium was successfully hatched, second only to an aquarium in Japan. Big fi n squid and masked angelfish are two species that can only be seen on public display at the Waikīkī Aquarium. The squid is found in the main Hawaiian Islands, and began appearing more frequently about 15 years ago. The angelfi sh is from the northwestern Hawaiian Islands, or about 400 feet deep in the main Hawaiian Islands. Several other species include the Japanese pygmy angelfish, only found in the northwestern Hawaiian Islands, and the BeardSee Species, next page
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Species housed for display, conservation from previous page
ed armorhead, which is found in both the northwestern Hawaiian Islands and deeper than 90 feet in the main islands. Two more very rare species include the Abe’s angelfish, which was fi rst discovered in 2001 at a depth of 900 feet, collected on a trip intended to fi nd nautili in Palau. The second, the unnamed butterfly fish, was discovered in Hawai‘i in the “twilight zone,” a place where sunlight reaches its limits underwater at a depth of 350-400 feet.
HYBRIDS The aquarium also houses several natural hybrid species of angelfi sh, wrasse and giant clams. This includes two hybrids with the Potter’s angelfi sh and other angelfi sh, as well as a saddle x sunset wrasse hybrid. Unlike most natural animal hybrids,
these hybrids are not sterile.
C L A M S A N D CO R A L S The largest giant clam at the aquarium is estimated to weigh over 200 pounds and is the longestheld giant clam anywhere in the world. It even spawns in the display. One giant clam has an artifi cial hinge. It was created after it was discovered that the clam could not open and close properly due to muscle damage. The clam now functions just like any other. Irregular rice coral that was discovered in 2000 in Kaneohe Bay is held in fi ve separate exhibits, as well as in behind-thescenes tanks for conservation.
SAV E D F ROM D I N N E R A rare golden lobster (a yellow morph of the American lobster) is currently housed at the aquarium
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N OV. 30 : F E E D BAC K R AG E At 2:28 p.m., Campus Security was alerted about several people arguing in the Hawai‘i Institute of Geophysics courtyard. A graduate student was reportedly yelling at two professors about the lack of verbal feedback that he received on one of his papers. The student then left the scene, and HPD was not requested at the time of the report. PUSHED OUT THE DOOR Campus Security officers received a harassment complaint from a student housing resident at 7:35 p.m. while at Hale Noelani. The victim was reportedly pushed back out the door to her room by one of her roommates twice while she was trying to enter the room. The conflict reportedly arose after ongoing tension between the roommates. Plans
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N E W MO N K S E A L The current resident Hawaiian Monk Seal at the Waikīkī Aquarium, Maka, will be sharing a soon-to-be split exhibit with a new Hawaiian monk seal named Ho‘ailona. The younger monk seal was abandoned by its mother, and after attempts to release it back into the wild failed, it is being brought to the aquarium.
A NEW EXHIBIT? There is talk about the aquarium’s newest exhibit featuring seahorses, seadragons and pipefish, but the plans are still on the drawing board.
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Harley Diven interned at the National Museum of American History (NMAH) throughout the Fall 2011 semester while receiving full-time college credit at UH Mānoa.
This semester, I have been off the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa campus fulfi lling an internship at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. I was matched up with the Jazz Appreciation Month initiatives in the National Museum of American History. While I didn’t know much about jazz music, my supervisor reassured me that I would be a useful set of new eyes (or rather, ears) in the JAM offi ces. I had a few main tasks to complete during my time at JAM. I conducted interviews with a museum curator, teachers and librarians to gather information about jazz legends and JAM public events. I also scoured the Internet
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places in and outside of the United States. The museum provided a welcoming social environment while acting as a magnet, attracting curious museum-goers and knowledge-hungry interns from across the globe. The interns ate lunch together, and we got to learn what each person was up to. Everyone worked in a different part of the museum, so we all had different tasks. Some worked directly with museum artifacts or fi led information about each artifact into an electronic database. Other interns got to speak with museum visitors directly and address concerns and questions. I was really surprised to fi nd out such a large array of jobs were available in the museum. Prior to this internship, I thought the only staff that could possibly be in a museum were curators, administrative assistants and, perhaps, assistant curators. But there was a place in the museum for anyone, regardless of their field. Connecting with the interns was a wonderful way for me to expand my network. Most of the interns were originally from cities other than
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D.C., so I think everyone tried their best to make sure the museum was a place for interns to feel comfortable and fit right in. Check out www.kaleo.org/features to read more about Harley’s experiences in Washington, D.C. The Office of Community and Alumni Relations at Hawai‘i Hall 311 is currently accepting applications for 2012 internships in Washington, D.C. The deadline for applications is March 9, 2012. For more information and application packet materials, visit www. artsci.hawaii.edu/alumni/students/ scholarships_internships.htm.
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for little-known facts about jazz musicians, which I used to write articles based on the information I compiled. Eventually, what I wrote will be posted on the Smithsonian Jazz website (smithsonianjazz.org). Every Friday, I aided a high school intern in creating a short fi lm using the fi lm editing software Final Cut Pro – which proved to be a tedious program. Scenes had to be cut just right, down to the millisecond, to create fl uidity in both the visual and audio components of the video. Unfortunately, at times I encountered too many lulls in my internship duties and sometimes found myself trying to fi gure out ways to make the clock tick faster. In light of this, what really captured my interest during my internship at the National Museum of American History was the fact that it was the National Museum of American History. Not the city museum, not the state museum, but the national museum. A diverse, multicultural crowd gathered every day at the museum to fulfi ll their internships; I met college students and graduates from various
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ture students, with narration by Jeremy Ferguson, a UH architecture major, explaining how his field of study impacted his life. “I wanted to profi le someone whose experience had been similar to mine, when it comes to stress and hard work,” said Yamase. “It’s hard to make a video about yourself, so I wanted to do it about someone else.” But Kaua‘i-born Yamase is all too familiar with the difficulties of being an architecture major. After graduating from high school, she went to California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo to pursue a degree in the field, but quickly realized it wasn’t for her. “I could see that I didn’t have the love for it that some of the other people did,” Yamase said. “You really need to love every single detail of it.” Yamase recalled her then roommate, who was also an architecture major, slaving away at her work even into the early morning. w This led to her idea of making a T video that would be relatable not v
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Virgel Rayo, one of the runners-up of the MÄ noa Experience Arts Competition, wasn’t exactly inspired to enter. “Believe it or not, I was kind of forced into submitting an entry by my creative writing teacher,â€? said Rayo in an email interview. “It was actually a midterm for that class, and every student had to submit theirs into the contest.â€? Rayo’s submission was a short story chronicling a day’s experiences (complete with trafďŹ c, skipping class to have an adventure, and zombie ninjas), illustrated in the margins with stick ďŹ gures demonstrating and commenting on the narrative. Rayo described his entry as “one of the many crazy stories I have – in the form of a grammatically inaccurate short story, complete with poorly drawn stick-ďŹ gures.â€? Regardless of technical skill, the stick ďŹ gures bring the story to life and add humor. Rayo initially wrote the story alone, but felt it was incomplete. He began casually doodling on the original, and was so inspired that he started a new version that incorporated his drawings. “I felt like the reader wasn’t just reading my story, but we (the stick ďŹ gure version of my friends and I) were telling the story to you. We’d make sly comments about the stupid things we did, as well as poke fun at each other,â€? said Rayo. “It’s like how you would hear a story from a friend, except in story and art form, which I thought was pretty cool.â€? Even after adding illustrations to his story, Rayo didn’t expect his entry to make the cut. “Honestly, I thought I had no
chance to win anything,â€? he said. “I thought my entry was kinda ‘meh’ compared to all my other classmates’ entries. When I received the call that I was a winner, I just laughed.â€? The story is humorous, but Rayo still thinks it says something important about life at the University of Hawai‘i at MÄ noa. “My story is based off an experience where I was hesitant about going, but eventually gave in and
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For Stanley Chan, a freshman at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, the transition from high school to college was more drastic than he had anticipated. However, Chan took the challenging fi rst semester and used his experience in a positive manner, transforming it into the inspiration behind his entry for the Mānoa Experience competition. The competition presented students with the opportunity to describe a memorable experience at UH Mānoa through media including essays, photographs, posters, music, theater, videos and T-shirt designs. Chan constructed a poster board on which he presented and described eight different challenges that he had faced thus far in his college career, such as meeting new professors, fi nding cam-
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pus jobs, fi nding available seats in fi lled lectures, cramming for midterms and fi nding his way around a large campus. “In the beginning, I was confi dent that I would be able to adapt to the life of a college student,” Chan wrote on the poster board, which included colorful paper cutouts shaped into small diagrams and pictures. “However, I slowly began to realize that this [was going to] be a challenge.” Chan said the medium of a poster board, as opposed to other types of entries, allowed him enough room to display his ideas and an opportunity to put in a lot of details and design. In order to overcome the day-to-day challenges of college, Chan utilized the resources that were readily available, like a campus map. “In most situations, I always fi gure out the solution on my own,
but I sometimes ask for help when it is needed,” Chan said. Regardless of having a tough schedule as a pre-nursing major, Chan still managed to work time into his schedule to hold not one, but two jobs. “I work two part-time jobs. My fi rst job is Kumon ... I am a math tutor for them. The other job is a ‘W+’ assistant at an elementary school,” he said. “I do fi nd it difficult to juggle work with school because I always have to make sure that I have enough time to do everything and be able to do it well.” Despite fi nding schoolwork and meeting new people in college more challenging than in high school, Chan is enjoying his college experience thus far. “I am really enjoying college because there is more time to do your work, more people to meet, and many clubs, organizations and events to explore,” he said.
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Is it luck? TAYLOR GARDNER Opinions Editor
Your friend was able to get into that prestigious college. The girl who sits next to you in class received the highest grade on the last exam. On the way to class a man sped by you driving a brand new sports car. The guy living next to you is dating the best-looking girl you’ve seen on campus. These people sure are lucky, aren’t they? But there is no luck, at least not in most everyday situations (unless you’re a daily Russian Roulette player). Yet people are quick to assert that anyone better off than them was simply the “luckierâ€? one. Luck implies good fortune is beyond the control of those who receive it. The people described as “luckyâ€? above simply knew how to develop their own opportunities. They created their own good fortune. Luck doesn’t ďŹ ll out a college application for you. Luck doesn’t give you high grades (although in a week many of us will be praying it does). Unless won in a raf e, luck doesn’t take out an auto loan and get you a vehicle. And, unfortunately, luck isn’t going to ďŹ nd you a date this weekend. If life were like “The Price is Right,â€? would the “havesâ€? be the ones consistently landing on 100, while the “have-notsâ€? are g grandmas unable to even move the wheel who end up on the oor with broken hips? Why do the
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“have-nots� think the “haves� are better at spinning the wheel of luck? Because blaming the eternal cosmos for their own shortcomings is easier than admitting they failed to develop the opportunities for themselves. Most people are not able to recognize the multiple opportunities they are given each day. Little things take away from our ability to take advantage of these opportunities. Fear, nervousness, doubt, procrastination, other negative emotions and insecurities prevent us from doing things we know could improve our lives. And when others are able to overcome these things, we call it “luck� – and deny the reality that we could have taken a similar path and arrived at the same destination. Seemingly tiny missed opportunities add up in the long run. These little opportunities pave the way to the bigger ones, the ones you’ll claim other people got through luck. If you want to be in their shoes, you need to start making the most out of each and every day. For example, that pretty girl you’ve been attracted to all semester but you’ve been too scared to make a move on? Unfortunately, you’ve waited too long and missed your opportunity. She and I started dating last week. Turns out she was just waiting for someone to ask her. I suppose you could call me “lucky.�
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bers too quickly. Almost like a Ponzi scheme, the EU has attempted to add member states in order to pay back earlier entrants who are already invested into the system. Greece’s admission into the EU was dependent on its fi nances meeting certain requisites. It has been revealed that Goldman Sachs’ preparation of Greece’s fi nancial numbers resulted in some infl ated and fraudulent numbers being submitted. Thus, we can see that some nations should never have qualified for membership. Secondly, Europeans are so fi xated on political correctness and having liberal, open-border policies that immigrants from Arab, African and central Asian nations are bombarding the EU These newly admitted people have little to no educational background; they weaken, not strengthen Europe’s workforce. They also abuse the privileges of
receiving medical care. Finally, and most importantly, borderlines have already been drawn and redrawn in Europe over thousands of years. European nations are rather small and nearly every country of the 27 member nations has its own official language. Europeans just need to look at their map to realize that they have had thousands of years to achieve unification, but, unlike China or Russia, Europe has never been able to move past its deeply entrenched divisions. The Eurozone and euro began as well-intentioned plans for a more unified Europe. Unfortunately, there are simply too many unsustainable policies and overly generous programs that have exhausted the resources of the European people. The result is an even further divided, embittered and directionless continent, all too fearful to re-enact the strategies that led Europe during its former era of economic, social and cultural prowess.
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Monsanto’s graduate fellowships in CTAHR English professor Cynthia Franklin, in her letter on Nov. 9 (Monsanto’s investment in CTAHR), provides additional misinformation and lacks an understanding of science and bias. Franklin does not like big corporations, and this seems to cloud her idea as to the purpose of Monsanto’s donation. Her letter reminds me of the principal characters in that Popish playwright Shakespeare’s King Lear and Julius Caesar. Franklin claims that “sterileâ€? seeds with “Terminatorâ€? technology are being sold is wrong. Terminator technology has never been commercialized or seed sold, anywhere in the world. Yes, there has been much speculation on the web and in books about this technology. The web is notorious for scientiďŹ c half-truths and misinformation. The common theme on many websites is to create fear of technology. Fear is created by
the selective use of published information; the inclusion of data that only supports the website’s purpose; failure to look at both beneďŹ ts and risks of all technologies; and a belief that a sentence with the words “could,â€? “may,â€? “possiblyâ€? and “potentiallyâ€? are supported by scientiďŹ c evidence. Terminator technology was the idea of a Delta and Pine Land Seed Company (later acquired by Monsanto) plant breeder with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The objective of the technology was to protect plant breeder rights in the same way that copyright protects author rights. Copyright laws prohibit you from taking a book – such as Franklin’s “Writing Women’s Communities: The Politics and Poetics of Contemporary Multi-Genre Anthologiesâ€? – making copies, and selling them. Franklin seems to think of farmers as dullards who are in the
“deadly gripâ€? of Monsanto. What she fails to say is that farmers have freedom of choice to purchase seed from a number of seed companies. Monsanto is in competition with at least ďŹ ve other large seed companies, plus numerous small companies. Farmers buy seed that best suits their needs; price is one component of that decision. Most farmers in developed countries buy seed each year, as they know the seed will have good germination and be true to type, something that cannot always be said for a farmer-saved seed. Franklin thinks that farmer-saved seed for replanting is always the best approach, when poor seed quality is one of the reasons for low crop yields in developing countries. Franklin also failed to point out that if farmers buy hybrid seeds of any crop, they must buy seed every year. Hybrid seed technology is a breeding approach com-
mercialized in the 1920s, long before genetically engineered technology. Saved seed from hybrid crops does not breed true and the yields are signiďŹ cantly reduced. Another type of non-GE hybrid seed (you might call it a “Terminator seedâ€?) is seedless watermelon, where the plant you get from the watermelon seed you buy produces fruit but does not produce any seed. In her letter, much is made of “scholarly independence,â€? but she does not seem to know for what purpose the Monsanto money was donated. The donation will provide fellowships for graduate students in plant sciences and plant protection. The best students will be funded to study and carry out research in areas such as organic farming, commercial production or sustainable farming practices. It is implied by Franklin that it is not
a good idea to support graduate students in this way, at least not without input from “less biased faculty members.� She apparently does not approve of the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources having “scholarly independence� without her guidance. Franklin has the right to her opinions; that does not mean everyone has to agree or believe in her proclaimed “truths.� Many in CTAHR would be willing to hear from Franklin as to what research and teaching should be done in CTAHR to help Hawai‘i’s agriculture and tropical crop production worldwide. No doubt, we will spend much time on discussing urban fantasies about agriculture – and then maybe reality.
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The Occupy Wall Street movement against big banks and corporations is pitting the 99 percent against the richest 1 percent and causing changes in the marketplace. The Advertising Analysis Organization of America has discovered the 99 percent slogan is improving sales of condoms and hand sanitizers, while laying off cows at dairy farms. “Any publicity is good publicity, except when it isn’t,” said the report. Bollista, a manufacturer of condoms, is releasing a new brand of latex condoms in direct response to the protests. CEO Erik Statham said, “Our previous condoms had a success rate of 99.6 percent, but our marketing experts found that if we reduced that to an even 99 percent, we could tap into the ‘99 percent’ brand recognition created by the protesters and increase our total profits.” Expect the new condoms to hit the shelves this January. The brand will feature the slogan “Because you are not the 1 percent.” Market surveys have been conducted in New York’s Zuccotti Park. “They’re great,” said Neal
Collingwood, an Occupy protester. “For too long, 99 percent of my sperm has taken a back seat to the 1 percent that impregnates a woman.” The condom industry isn’t alone in feeling the effects of Occupy Wall Street. When asked by a protester how he slept at night, one Wall Street banker replied on camera, “With a warm glass of 1 percent milk.” The YouTube video has since gone viral. “Our sales of 1 percent milk have been cut in half since the whole thing started,” said John Breinder of Breinder Dairy Farms. “The 99 percent wants nothing to do with anything related to the 1 percent.” Occupy Wall Street has significantly impacted Breinder Dairy Farms, as well as other dairy companies. Rendwick Dairy & Processing recently laid off fi ve of its veteran dairy cows. “We didn’t want to let them go, but the company had no choice given the rough economic times,” said Kurt Linneman, a spokesman for Rendwick. “Each of our cattle received a generous severance package, including stock options.” Even college graduates are facing a new dilemma as they be-
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If monkeys resort to hurling their bodily excrement because of fear or anger, why are so many of our politicians so eager to do the same?
ticed,â&#x20AC;? and later asked the reader, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Are you prepared to see your dwelling in ďŹ&#x201A; ames, hoary heads bathed in blood, female chastity violated, or children writhing on the pike and the halberd?â&#x20AC;? In context, electing Herman Cain with his multiple alleged sexual harassment claims would have seemed preferable to electing this obviously demonic Jefferson. Others against Jefferson claimed he was â&#x20AC;&#x153;the son of a half-breed Indian squaw and a Virginia mulatto father.â&#x20AC;? Mulatto refers to a person with one white parent and one black parent. You mean Barack Obama wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the ďŹ rst part black president?
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No way). James Buchanan, who had a medical condition causing his head to tilt to the left, was accused of unsuccessfully attempting to hang himself. And one of the most controversial campaigns ever was Lyndon Johnsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ad featuring a little girl pulling petals off a ďŹ&#x201A; ower, only to be interrupted by nuclear holocaust. If monkeys resort to hurling their bodily excrement because of fear or anger, why are so many of our politicians so eager to do the same? Well, because fear and anger arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t strictly restricted to monkeys, and nothing scares a politician more than losing an election.
Research by the National Institute for Civil Discourse has found that candidates trailing in the polls are more likely to use negative campaigning. The effectiveness of the campaigning depends on how candidates approach their attacks. Voters today react better to legitimate, issue-based criticisms than unrelated ones. When you compare the past to the present, you realize that while negative campaigns today are more prevalent due to technology, the ads used today are typically much more directed at the issues and track records of candidates than the personal, often untrue, attacks of the past. Perhaps the worst ad campaigns of politicians today are for themselves. Between candidates like Michele Bachmann forgetting basic history and Rick Perry hoping two out of three in a debate is good enough to pass with a C, it seems simply letting candidates speak for themselves is more harmful than any negative campaign could ever hope to be.
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In 2006, host Hawai‘i knocked off USC in the NCA A Regional Semifinal. Five years later, the Rainbow Wahine have a chance to do it all over again. “I was watching. I was with my family. We got to get out here,” senior outside hitter Kanani Danielson said. “I was probably one of the little kiddies enjoying the match out there.” No. 10 seed Hawai‘i will face No. 7 seed USC on Friday at 7 p.m. in the Stan Sheriff Center. Students with validated UH Mānoa ID will not be admitted for free because it is a postseason match. The Rainbow Wahine are coming off of victories over Northern Colorado and Colorado State in the first and second round of the NCA A Tournament. The ’Bows are led by Danielson, who is a three-time Western Athletic Conference Player of the Year. Danielson leads Hawai‘i with 4.13 kills per set and 3.05 digs per set. Junior Brittany Hewitt leads the Rainbow Wahine in blocks with 1.32 blocks per set. But Hewitt knows that in order to advance in the NCA A Tournament, ever yone needs to contribute. “At this point in the season, it’s vital for everyone to be on,” Hewitt said. “And even if one of us is struggling, [to] just stay in the game and do what we can is really all we can ask.”
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For USC head coach Mick Haley, preparing for Hawai‘i is going to be a battle. “Basically, the way we do each team is we don’t go beyond the team that we’re gonna play, and we sit down and look at how they play and what they do. A nd we tr y and see what we do best
“AT THIS POINT IN THE SEASON, IT’S VITAL FOR EVERYONE TO BE ON.” and then tr y to match that up a little bit – and then we go to battle,” Haley said. USC comes into Honolulu after defeating Yale and Tulsa in the first and second rounds. The Trojans are led by senior outside hitter A lex Jupiter, who averages 4.32 kills per set and 0.50 aces per set. “She’s been at USC ever since I was being recruited,” sophomore setter Mita Uiato said. “I knew who she was even before I came here. She’s tall, she’s [an] AllAmerican, their go-to hitter, [and] she plays all the way around.” For Hewitt, preparing for USC starts like any match. “[We begin] by studying the scouting report that [associate head coach] Scott [Wong] writes up for us and just knowing their hitting tendencies, and figuring out where I need to be and where we can attack offensively,” Hewitt said. The winner of Hawai‘i and USC’s match will face the winner of Kansas State vs. No. 15 seed Pepperdine on Saturday at 7 p.m. The Wildcats and Waves will square off in the other semifinal on Friday at 5 p.m. The Rainbow Wahine are familiar with Kansas State and Pepperdine. Hawai‘i swept the Wildcats last season and defeated the Waves twice this season.
“It is exciting that we have seen those other two teams,” Uiato said. “We still can’t take them lightly, even though we’ve seen them already. Obviously they beat good teams last week. If we were to be looking at them, we would take them like any other top team.”
T H E R I VA L RY A lthough Hawai‘i and USC are nonconference opponents, they played each other once each of the past three seasons. The Rainbow Wahine defeated the Trojans in the second round of the NCA A Tournament in 2008 and 2009 on the road. USC returned the favor last season, handing Hawai‘i what ended up being its only regular-season loss that year. For both teams, a No. 7 seed and No. 10 seed doesn’t seem to do each other justice. USC, the Pac 12 conference champion, finished the season atop the AVCA Coaches Poll, while Hawai‘i, the WAC champions, finished the season at No. 3. Haley feels frustrated that these two teams couldn’t face off later in the tournament. “It’s hard to know who’s right on the poll,” Haley said. “We haven’t played Hawai‘i, we haven’t played Kansas State, and we haven’t played Pepperdine. So we really don’t know who’s best. Polls are, at best, a guess. I really don’t know who the best teams are at this point. We’re just trying to win all our matches. That’s kind of the goal.”
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Home sweet home M ARC A R AK AKI Sports Editor No school in the nation supports its women’s volleyball program like we do here at Hawai‘i. The Rainbow Wahine lead the nation in attendance, averaging 6,655 fans per regular-season home game. The nearest team to Hawai‘i is Big Ten member Nebraska, with 4,522 fans per match. “It’s amazing – just the fi rst and second rounds [last weekend]. The emotions going around the Stan Sheriff [Center] are just crazy,” junior middle hitter Brittany Hewitt said. “You can tell that we were getting a lot of energy from the fans, and the other team was kind of shutting down.” Fan support is important to sophomore Mita Uiato because it was her first season as the starting setter. “It helps a lot like when I’m walking around at football games, [people] telling me ‘good job,’” Uiato said. “It’s really nice to have them here to support us. Seeing them outside getting tickets makes
me more excited [and] more motivated to play well for them.” Hawai‘i will get a chance to show off its crowd this weekend, as Honolulu is one of four host cities (along with Minneapolis, Minn.; Lexington, Ky.; and Gainesville, Fla.) for the NCA A Regionals. The Rainbow Wahine are set to host USC in one regional semifinal, while Pepperdine and Kansas State will battle in the second semifi nal. For USC, which averages 1,482 fans per match, adjusting to the Stan Sheriff Center environment may seem difficult – but not according to USC head coach Mick Haley. “We have a really nice facility [Galen Center],” Haley said. “We have 10,000 seats, and we had 5,000 or more two or three times this year, so our crowds have been somewhat comparable. It’s allowed us to play in any situation pretty much unnerved.” Hawai‘i last hosted the regional in 2006. The Rainbow Wahine defeated USC in the regional semifi nal before losing to UCLA in the regional fi nal. Senior out-
side hitter Kanani Danielson was a junior in high school during this regional, and she remembers the effect the crowd had on the match. “I was just amazed at how the crowd is huge for a sport that is so small,” Danielson said. “ The support from the fans is so hard to come by.” And fan support is not the only benefit from staying home during the regionals. “It’s really huge, especially because we know it’s the atmosphere that we’re used to,” Danielson said. “Other places, it’ll probably take us another week to get used to the fact that balls are going to stay in the air longer, and have a feel of where you are on the court. “It’s just a matter of can we take full advantage of everything that’s here for us – the crowd, the atmosphere. And the fact of the matter is that you have the time difference in our favor. We don’t have to adjust to anything. We’re here; we’re waiting for everybody else to come down. We’ve just got to prepare for a fi ght.”
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