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The fi rst in the world of its kind and magnitude, upcoming symposium “Rainbow Rising” will facilitate what its organizers feel is long overdue dialogue on LGBT issues throughout Asia and Oceania.

“There are diverse views about sexuality and gender expression across this region. And yet there are a lot of things politically and culturally that unite all of those people.

So [our goal is] just to get an idea of the diversity that is out there and to encourage further debate about that,” said Brad Sova, vice president of Lambda Law Student Association, one of the groups organizing the event.

The symposium will invite well-known scholars, politicians and community activists from across the Asia and Oceania re gion to share their experiences in their local areas. International guest speakers will also participate in discussions surrounding di llaw and d policy li on LGBT issues. i “People will get to network and meet these amazing people from different places that we normally don’t get to meet mee et each Asian--Pacific other,” said Joanne Sheng, editor in chief of the Asian-Pacifi inating Law & Policy Journal, another student group coord coordinating nity for the symposium. “This is just an amazing opportun opportunity munity, everyone, for our school and for the local comm community, to see what’s going on in other places.” posium Organizers hope that this symp symposium cross-cultu ural inwill ser ve as a conduit of cross-cultural mately tellectual exchange that will ultim ultimately ou utputs. result in concrete social outputs. munity They also hope that the comm community growth networking will lead to g in the future.

“International guest olutely speakers were abs absolutely imp portant needed and important b to represent broader

areas and to cover broader ideas,” said Sova. “Since this [symposium] is the fi rst of its kind and scale, it can lead to more scholarship and greater growth.”

Guest speakers include Dede Oetomo, a leading Indonesian scholar and activist regarding HIV/AIDS and sexuality research and advocacy, and Taiga Ishikawa, a Japanese politician and LGBT activist. Local community leaders who will be involved include Associate Justice Sabrina McKenna of the Hawai‘i Supreme Court, author of the civil unions bill Rep. Blake Oshiro and Tambry Young from Equality Hawai‘i.

“We’re anticipating a diverse audience: professors, lawyers, community members, Gay-Straight Alliances of the high school and college students. We really want to engage as many people possible, said Sheng. “Everyone’s going to be taking someas possible,” differ thing different out of it ... [it] could be just inspirational or you can see how different countries are in different places right now in terms of LGBT rights.”

Throug the symposium, the student organizaThrough tions want to expand the local community’s understanding of these issues.

“What m makes our symposium unique is that there c are general constructs that talk about different aspects but we are doing an international comparison. There aare other cultural understandings of sexuality. A Asian and Pacific [cultures] are different from the Western way ... everything doesn’ doesn’t fall under Western understandings of LGBTQI [lesbian, bisexual transgender, queer gay, bisexual, E V E N T I N F O R M AT I O N intersex and intersex],” said Sheng.

“We want it to be a dialogue and learning experience everybody for everybody.”

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EMI A IKO Associate News Editor As four candidates for the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa chancellor position have been invited to visit the campus in April, Hawai‘i’s lawmakers have raised questions about the necessity of UH Mānoa’s chancellor.

State Reps. K. Mark Takai and Scott Nishimoto introduced resolutions in early March asking the UH Board of Regents to analyze whether or not it would be prudent to return leadership of the university system’s fl agship campus to the UH president.

The UH Mānoa chancellor’s offi ce was approved in 2001 with the understanding that it would incur no additional administrative costs to the university. But by 2011, the offi ce’s annual operational budget cost $14.7 million and had incurred an additional administrative cost of over $6.4 million since its establishment.

These costs have been paid for with some of the money raised through student tuition hikes over the past decade.

“What does the chancellor do? I only see her at ... those UH football games or read about her on paper. I don’t know the difference between the chancellor and the president’s roles,” said Aaron Taira, a communications major,

after reading a Star-Advertiser article on this issue. “It is good to know that they’re trying to scrutinize this. ... I don’t want to see anyone losing a job though.”

For two legislative sessions in a row, Takai was a lead author on these resolutions. However, last Tuesday, the resolutions were deferred again for the second time.

“I’ve never heard of the government having [this] much power in the operation of the university.

It is very different from where I come from,” said Megumi Hara, an Asian studies major who has studied at UHM for two semesters.

In 2001, UH was reorganized so that the UH System and UH Mānoa are no longer led by the same executive offi ce. Former UH President Kenneth Mortimer was the last system president to also act as a chancellor.

The separation was meant to allow the system president to spread his or her attention across the nine other campuses that felt overshadowed by Mānoa.

“We talk about the roles of the UHM chancellor in our class sometimes,” said Mark Parker, a political science major. Parker said having two positions – both president and chancellor – might be better because they have different roles.

UH System offi cials were not available for comment.

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Eating up literature

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Hamilton Library has books to read – and books to eat.

The third annual edible book contest will take place today, featuring the decorative and culinary skills of students. The event is for the benefit of the Hawai‘i Food Bank, and participants in the contest will give a canned good or a monetary donation toward the cause. Participants are judged upon the categories most booklike, best use of chocolate and best book in UH library.

There is also a “people’s choice” selection. Entries that resemble movies or music in the library collection are eligible for the “audible arts” award. After the judging, the book banquet will be open for guests to eat.

Crystal Watanabe, a UH graduate and staff member, has participated for the past two years.

Her fi rst edible book was a musubi “Twilight” book in 2010. The following year, she submitted a “Hunger Games” entry. “The ‘Twilight’ Spam musubi took me a few hours,” she said, “The ‘Hunger Games’ cake took something ridiculous, like 14 hours. I took it to work at the HNFAS [Human Nu-

trition, Food and Animal Sciences] department and they helped eat it.” Both edible books won.

Watanabe plans to enter twice with new ideas for the 2012 contest. “Once for ‘Game of Thrones’ and then maybe another ‘Hunger Games’ thing,” she said. “I would do ‘Catching Fire,’ but that movie won’t come out until next Thanksgiving and so I fi gure I can enter it next year,” said Watanabe.

Monique Meija, a sociology major, took part in the contest for the fi rst time last year. Her “Monster Book of Monsters” from “Harry Potter” won three categories: most booklike, best use of chocolate, and people’s choice. “I decided on chocolate because that’s one of my favorite fl avors and [‘The Monster Book of Monsters’] is a dark book, so I didn’t want to make it something light or fruity.

Cream cheese frosting is also really bomb with cake so I had to add that in. I used a fruit roll-up for the tongue, yellow candy for eyes and almonds for teeth.”

Meija was going for the theme of childhood classics. “[‘Harry Potter’] was a huge part of my childhood, and the ‘BoM’ has such an awesome cover. So it looked like it was going to be a lot of fun to create.”

When: Monday, April 2; 12 p.m. judging, 1 p.m. eating Where: Hamilton Library Sunroom Cost: Donation of 1 can of food for entry and viewing Contact: 808-956 -8688, skillman@hawaii.edu

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Soul surfers

At-risk youth find solace in waters through mentored surf sessions C HELSEA YAMASE Staff Writer

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Some girls grin, braces showing.

Others look unsure. For a few, it will be their fi rst time in the ocean in years.

“Eh, girly, you know how to swim, yeah?” the big Hawaiian instructor known as Uncle Sam asks one of the participants.

The young girl’s pierced lip and dyed hair are at odds with her shy demeanor.

“No,” she mumbles softly, looking at the ground. She’s afraid she doesn't remember how.

Three hours later, the girl stands back on the beach, hair salty and jean shorts still damp from just getting out of the water.

“I was scared at fi rst, but I tried it again and I liked it,” she says, almost hesitantly. Then she giggles and starts to smile. “It felt like I was fl ying.”

That little change is what Surfrider Spirit Sessions founder Cynthia Derosier strives for. “We are emancipating the minds, making them believe they can do things they never thought they could do,” Derosier said.

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Sessions is giving a choice to teens that adjudicated youth in the rest of the nation do not have: to go surfi ng.

As a community-based nonprofit organization, Surfrider Spirit Sessions teaches youth in Hawai‘i’s justice system life lessons and positive social skills through surfi ng and other ocean activities.

Many of the kids initially express skepticism about surfi ng or even swimming, but as the weeks go by and their surfi ng abilities improve, the program asks them a question: “If you can do this, what else can you achieve that you didn’t think was possible?”

B U I L D I N G A S T RO N G C OM MU N I T Y COMMU At the start of the eight-week program, the staff matches each teen with a mentor who becomes their designated “surf buddy.” Mentors are volunteers who come from a variety of backgrounds.

“Me and my mentor, we really connected,” said one young male participant who went through the program last session. “It’s

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Features someone to talk to, someone to be with, someone to talk to about your problems.”

But the task of fi nding mentors for the program proves diffi cult at times, according to program manager Sam Rodrigues (who goes by Uncle Sam).

“The hard part is getting people to give up their time to be mentors,” Rodrigues said.

But once they come out, volunteers seem to stay; many of the mentors are returning for their fourth or fi fth session.

All expressed a desire to give back to the community and share “the stoke” of catching one’s fi rst wave. “ W hen you’re out there surfing, all of your problems get washed away,” said the young male participant, who had never surfed before being in the program. He admitted he didn’t believe his mentor or the SSS staff when they told him he would catch a wave on his first day.

“Just like that, your slate is wiped clean,” he said. “And that for me was a natural high. I didn’t need any drug, I didn’t

need to drink, I didn’t need anything negative to make me feel like this.”

Each session closes with a 5 -minute “mālama ‘āina,” where the staff, mentors and mentees clean their stretch of beach of any rubbish and cigarette butts. Last session, they picked up around 10,000 cigarettes.

“No matter who you are, you always have something to give back,” Derosier said, emphasizing that many of the kids coming through their program have low self-esteem and see themselves as a burden on society.

This is all part of the program’s mission to get youth out of the “bad land” where addiction and abuse prevail and into the “good land,” which is a place of citizens with higher aspirations. Surfing, they argue, can connect these two places.

“It’s not about charity, not about ‘oh, poor you,’” Derosier said. “This is about building them up. My goal ultimately is to just help kids so that our community will be stronger.”

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LFTB is made by running scraps from meat cuttings through a processor that removes the fat from the trimmings. The beef is usually treated with ammonia to kill bacteria such as E. coli and Salmonella. The final results can be found in everything from pepperoni to canned goods to low-fat hotdogs, and while the thought that, according to industry experts, around 850 million pounds of the filler are used each year might make you cringe, it’s important to think about.

LFTB has been found to be just as healthy as regular beef, if not

healthier. It’s 90 percent lean before it is mixed with a higher-fat beef.

This filler can make up about 15 percent of any burger you buy. While it’s unfortunate, a vast majority of the things we eat, meat or otherwise, are filled even with things as harmless as air. Milky Way bars have dropped in weight from 3 ounces to an ounce and a half since the 1930s, due in part to the air that is injected into the candy bars to make them appear fuller – using less product while making more money.

The issue comes down to how socially acceptable it is to consume a fi ller byproduct, not how healthy that product is. Why is it perfectly acceptable to cheat consumers by fi lling candy bars with air, while fi lling beef with more beef isn’t?

Is it because it’s treated with ammonia? The idea of using chemicals, even if it’s to cleanse the meat, is frowned upon. However, meat scientists have tried to reassure the public that the product is as safe, if not even safer, than the other components of lean beef. Edward Mills, an associate professor of Dairy and Animal Science at Penn State, said in a state-

ment regarding “pink slime” that “From a microbial-pathogen point of view, the product has a better reputation than straight ground beef.”

Other defenders agree that removing LFTB from ground beef won’t make it any safer. “You would not reduce the occurrence of E. coli … or Salmonella in ground beef,” Mills continued. “In fact, it would be just the opposite.”

While I’m not crazy about the sneaky name and hidden processing techniques, in this day and age it’s to be expected, particularly of any kind of processed food. That is why it’s called “processed,” after all. In anything we buy off the shelf, there are going to be additives and fixatives and whatever else they can throw in to make it cheaper, tastier or – hopefully – healthier. If we’re going to continue to be a society that depends on these products, then we can’t simply shut our eyes to it. We need to know what it is we’re eating and why it’s there.

Perhaps by doing our research, we can show these companies that we are intelligent enough to make rational decisions about what we do and don’t want in our food.

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A fter watching the “KONY 2012” video this past month, I watched my Facebook feed fill with posts urging all of us to “take action” against this horrible Joseph Kony and the Lord’s Resistance Army. The video seemed to have good intentions behind it, but something about the presentation made me uneasy. Invisible Children’s presentation of the issue didn’t focus on the people who had truly suffered, and Americans were clicking the “like” button instead of researching the charity.

A few days after “Kony 2012” went viral, Al Jazeera (English) released a video that validated my apprehension. It informs us that Ugandans have heard of Invisible Children’s campaign and vehemently agree that Kony should be arrested as soon as possible. But when the journalists of Al Jazeera staged a viewing of the video sensation in a Ugandan village, the reactions of the villagers ranged from quiet anger to shouting into the interviewer’s microphone to throwing rocks at the screen.

Part of the anger erupted over the video’s insistence that the Ugandan military must find Kony before he can be stopped. Kony isn’t operat-

ing in Uganda today, and hasn’t been for about five years. Countries near Uganda, such as Sudan, are the ones suffering from Kony and the LRA today. Invisible Children’s focus on Uganda is completely misdirected and illogical, and some residents worry that the release of this video will cause a vengeful Kony to return to the nation.

The commercialization of the conflict also offended the Ugandan villagers. “If people in those countries really cared about us,” one man says in the video, “they will not wear pictures of Kony for any reason. That would celebrate our suffering.” The marketing of the “advocate materials” available on the Invisible Children site is downright offensive. The advocate kit is advertised with the opening line “People will think you’re an advocate of awesome.” “White goes with everything” is a selling point of the “Lady Justice” KONY 2012 T-shirt. The bracelet designed to support the campaign is described as “the ultimate accessory.” Maybe it’s just me and the Ugandans here, but I don’t believe that support for issues as serious as child armies and children as sex slaves should be marketed with such ebullient language.

The delivery of Invisible Children’s message in this video is also offensive. The footage of Uganda is old and there is not enough of it; the

filmmakers instead chose to focus a great deal of the film on (mostly white) Americans’ responses to the conflict, including the reaction of one filmmaker’s son. The focus should be on the people who have suffered from the LRA and Kony, not on how this confl ict makes children and other Americans feel. By setting the video up in this way, Invisible Children is editorializing an issue that does not need extra emotional charge to prop it up. “We wanted to see our local people who are killed,” a man says in the Al Jazeera video.

“These are all white men.”

The campaign claims that “No one knew about these kids,” but that is just more offensive language intended to tug at viewers’ heartstrings. I’m sure the families of the kidnapped children were aware they existed. And if you do a Google search, you can fi nd dozens of articles that mentioned the LR A, Kony and the children prior to last month’s “discovery” of them.

I’m not discouraging activism.

But I am criticizing the particular brand of activism I’ve witnessed over the last few weeks. If you want to contribute to change, you must educate yourself on the issues charities are taking up and on the aid groups that fund activism. Clicking the “share” button on social media sites just isn’t going to cut it.

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Q: I am in a relationship where the connection is there, but it seems that a connection on a more intimate level is lacking. How important is intimacy in a relationship, and do you think that a relationship is salvageable if the sexual connection is not there?

What you should do depends on your long-term goals. You need to decide what this thing is so you can move forward.

First off, intimacy and sex are different things. I can have a dildo and give it a name, but I don’t expect it to philosophize with me about the meaning of life or our life together. Intimacy implies a deep connection. Sexual attraction is instantaneous, but intimacy – which it sounds like you have – is something that lasts forever. It’s hard to fi nd long-lasting friendships, but not so hard to find someone to have sex with. You can try to push into the carnal world with this relationship, and it might blossom into something even deeper and more beautiful.

However, you may lose true intimacy in the process. So if you’re not looking for the elusive “one,” then just be happy you made a friend.

Finding the right “one” is never easy. I have heard of relationships that evolved into sexual relationships as the couple grew more intimate. I’ve never experienced it, but I believe it’s possible. Don’t give up on finding love with a person you connect and have sex with – but you have to act either way.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with staying in a relationship where time spent outside the bedroom is the main attraction. But before you simply accept such a fate, it makes sense to explore other options.

For starters, competency tends to create chemistry. Don’t look to blame anyone here, but take responsibility for creating chemistry yourself. Improve your own skills as a lover and you greatly improve your odds of success. If you find that your efforts alone cannot bridge this gap, then sit down with your lover and have an open and honest discussion about how you might improve your sex lives together. Be careful not to have an accusatory tone; as long as you do this in the spirit of looking to have fun and improve your lover’s sexual gratification, you should meet few barriers during the discussion. Like most things in relationships, good communication can be the key to success in sexual satisfaction.

If all else fails, ask yourself if you need to be in a romantic relationship with this person. Just as there is nothing necessarily wrong with being in a relationship that lacks sexual intimacy, there is also nothing wrong with simply being friends and enjoying each other’s company.

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M ARC A R AK AKI Sports Editor As you spend Monday afternoon lounging on your couch, chances are you will stumble upon the NCAA Basketball Tournament Championship game, where Southeastern Conference power Kentucky and Big 12 member Kansas will duke it out to become the nation’s best.

But does winning the national championship equate to a successful season?

As former UCLA basketball coach John Wooden once said, “Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.”

Just over 37 years ago, Wooden took his final Bruin squad to another national championship victory. Wooden coached at UCLA from 1948-75 and retired following the 1975 season.

But what was the legacy Coach Wooden left behind?

Was it winning 10 national titles in 12 seasons? Or was it his 664-162 coaching record? Perhaps it was off the court where Wooden was most known.

Wooden established what he called the “Pyramid of Success.” Each block in the pyramid describes an important trait one must have in order to achieve his defi nition of success.

Bill Walton, one of the greatest basketball players in histor y, played under Wooden from 1970 -1974, in the heat of UCL A’s dominance in NCA A basketball.

“It’s life – it’s what allows you to build and create a life for yourself,” Walton said on Wooden’s pyramid of success. “Coach [Wooden] spent his whole life thinking about how to teach. He taught us how to learn, how to think, how to build and create, and he was fabulous at what he did. … He was an incredibly fun and happy person who changed all of our lives for the better.”

Current UCL A men’s volleyball coach Al Scates is in his 50th and final season at the helm of the Bruin volleyball program.

“I didn’t really get to know the man [Wooden] well until he retired,” Scates said. “I brought him over to a junior high school I was teaching at in Beverly Hills and these are 6th, 7th and 8th

grade boys and girls who were never quiet for anybody during an assembly. And he talked to them for 50 minutes – you could hear a pin drop. They didn’t even know who he was because he had already retired and he was old. He talked about the pyramid. That was pretty amazing to me. These children were so mesmerized by this great man talking to them.

“I liked to talk to him about other things: about, for example, a book he wrote called ‘[Practical] Modern Basketball’ – the first 20 pages were about coaching. And I read that when I was a young coach and got more out of that than any other book ever written about coaching.”

So when you’re watching the big game today, or perhaps watching the highlights on TV, think about what Wooden meant not only to the game of basketball, but also to life.

Are you successful in your life?

Do you try to be the best you can be?

Although Wooden passed away two years ago, Walton summed up the man he was.

“His last public comments – he apologized for leaving the word ‘love’ out of the pyramid.”

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Senior left fielder Alex Aguirre launched her second home run of the season last weekend to help Hawai‘i sweep New Mexico State.

K EVIN FOX Staff Writer University of Hawai‘i centerfielder Kelly Majam thinks she’s on the team to beat in the Western Athletic Conference.

The junior set a new career home run record against San Jose State and leads the team in runs scored and walks. But Majam attributed her success to teamwork.

“When I’m on base, the girls have been hitting me in,” Majam said.

“That’s a tribute to the girls behind me – Kayla [Wartner] and Jess [Iwata] and Sarah [Robinson]. They’ve been doing a really good job, and they’ve been getting a lot of RBI’s.”

Majam and freshman designated player Leisha Li‘ili‘i lead the team with seven home runs, but sophomore outfielder Sharla Kliebenstein and junior shortstop Jessica Iwata have each contributed six. Iwata leads the team in batting average with .402.

Meanwhile, the pitching tandem of senior Stephanie Ricketts

and junior Kaia Parnaby have combined for 232 strikeouts, 58 walks and an ER A of 0.83 in 32 games, good for second in the nation.

probably one of the things we could build off of … flushing the good wins as well as flushing the bad losses and moving forward the next day,” Majam said.

ʻBRINGING THEIR BESTʼ The No. 16/18 Rainbow Wahine (29-3, 5-1 WAC) are in the midst of a six-game road trip. The ’Bows have a three-team trip in Utah, playing the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, the Utah Valley Wolverines in Orem and the BYU Cougars in Provo.

“I feel like we’re the team to beat in the WAC, so a lot of the teams are going to be coming for us and bringing their best,” said Majam. “We have to try not to let our guard down.”

How long can the ’Bows maintain this level of play? The team is not without its flaws, as shown against some of the best competition. It upset then No. 1 California, but fell to Texas and Texas A&M. “When we came off such a high of beating Cal and the next day we didn’t turn it around and continue that [against Texas A&M] – that’s

MARQUEE MATCHUP BYU will be the marquee matchup of the road trip, a team coming off of a three-game series against preseason WAC favorite Fresno State. Last year at the Hawai‘i Spring Fling Tournament, BYU beat Hawai‘i in two games.

Majam said UH softball head coach Bob Coolen always reminds the team to focus, and she believes that focus will be the key to winning against BY U. “That’s the only thing we can really improve on,” Majam said. “Our physical abilities are obviously really good. We can hit the ball really far [and] … we have one of the best pitching staffs in the country. We’re really solid physically, and I think mentally we could get even better. And that could help us win more games.”