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When computers, televisions or calculators reach the end of their usefulness, the dump is often their final destination. To prevent electronic waste from going straight to landfills, Apple is sponsoring an e-waste recycling drop-off program at three University of Hawai‘i locations on O‘ahu this week.

“I think one of the things that’s special about this [pro-

gram] is that Apple takes all different kinds of equipment, because sometimes there are larger things like laminating machines that are not always easy to recycle, so they take all sorts of things – large T Vs, all that kind of stuff,” said Steven Smith, associate vice president and deputy CIO for Information Technology Services.

Smith, who serves as the eWaste Disposal Days program spokesperson, encourages people to take advantage of this

three-day program – particularly Saturday, when individuals, families and communities may drop off any personal-use electronics. Thursday and Friday are reserved for institutions like government branches and schools.

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“E-waste is a growing problem here as we have more devices proliferate. [We] have to be careful about how we throw things away,” Smith said. “A lot of these electronics, if they just COURTESY OF LARRY WISS go into landfills, if they break down, they can have some things Other eWaste disposal sites on the island will be in them that are really caustic or at Windward Community hazardous to the environment.”

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– contaminated landf ill water – which can make its way into water systems and oceans and pose a threat to both public and environmental health, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection A gency. Wet e -waste also produces methane gas, which is a known contributor to global warming.

The recycling program will give Hawai‘i residents an opportunity to divert e-waste away from these landfills.

RE SPONSIBILIT Y AND GOALS “Apple is one [company] that contributes to the problem of electronic waste because they come out with so many products,” Smith said.

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tive direction Apple is taking with environmental responsibility. “I think that they realize that this [program] is something that they can give back to help take care of this as they come out with new products,” he said.

L arr y Wiss, communications of f icer for I T S at UH M ā noa and manager of the pro gram said that “ … if we recycled one million cell phones, it would reduce greenhouse gas ses equal to taking 1,268 cars of the road for a year.”

Smith stated that the goal for this year’s program, the fourth installment in the past six years, is to generate at least 750,000 pounds of recyclable equipment.

“We hope that … if we get at least 750,000 pounds, since we started the program in 2006 … we will have collected five million cumulative pounds,” he said.

Its ultimate goal, however, is to get e -waste out of circulation and out of landf ills, so that new electronics can be used, reused and recycled to prevent f uture pollution.

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Physics gets grant CAITLIN K ELLY Associate News Editor In a time where federal grants are hard to come by, University of Hawai‘i at M ā noa physics assistant professor Sven Vahsen and his team have managed to obtain one worth $309,000.

The grant comes from the Department of Energy and will allow Vahsen’s team to participate in Belle and Belle II experiments at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization particle accelerator laboratory in Tsukuba, Japan.

The project centers on one overarching theme: to understand why the universe is made of matter instead of antimatter, as it is believed that there were equal amounts of each at the beginning of the universe.

The Department of Homeland Security provided a $174,820 grant last year, which helped fund the construction of an elementary particle detector. The project has already accumulated nearly $500,000 in grants.

“I felt very lucky that it [the grant] worked out because it’s given me some stability in funding for the next few years,” Vahsen said.

ʻ T H E MO S T BA S I C L E V E Lʼ Of the three professors at UH Mānoa working on this project, physics professor Tom Browder, the U.S. spokesperson for the Belle II experi-

Sven Vahsen and his team will be researching CPviolations, which are differences in the behavior of matter and anti-matter.

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ment, has been around the longest.

He worked on the original Belle experiment in 1998 and 1999.

“There must be asymmetries in elementary particle decays that favor matter over antimatter,” Browder said. “And those asymmetries have been amplified since the beginning of the universe, and that’s how we ended up with our matter dominating the universe.”

Vahsen, on the other hand, worked on this topic for four years as a Ph.D. student at Princeton University, pursued other research during his six years at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and returned to the project two years ago. He came to UH Mānoa in 2010.

“The part of physics to me that was the most interesting was the work at the most basic level,” Vahsen said. “So I became interested in that as a grad student and I worked on this experiment, did my thesis on this experiment.”

While this project does not have much direct application to the average human being, other projects that stem from this research do.

“There’s been a lot of technological spinoffs like radiation therapy – accelerators were used for that – biological studies; they claim the internet was invented at CERN [the European Organization for Nuclear Research], which is a part of the fi rst physics research lab,” Vahsen explained.

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The power of music Blind O‘ahu resident Laurie Rubin talks arts,, performance p

K ARLEANNE M AT THEWS Senior Staff Writer

Laurie Rubin was told she might never find regular employment, much less build an acclaimed career in opera.

Blind from birth and now an international performer hailed

by The New York Times, she’s using her experiences to provide opportunities for children n on O‘ahu and to create a legacy cy – not as a blind performer, rformer, but as an artist and engaged gaged community member who o happens to be blind.

Rubin is gracious about others’ doubts because itt has gotten easier over time. “Hopefully Hopefully they become open-minded inded enough to o take the plunge,” nge,” she said. id.

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F I N D I N G A P L AC E “I was a little bit isolatolated,” said Rubin when asked ked about growing up. “Being g a blind person, a lot of people ple had a hard time wanting to o talk to me; they were kind of afraid.” aid.”

But with the encouragementt of her family, Rubin was able to find d a sense of belonging in the arts.

Soon after seeing “ The Phantom of the Opera,” Rubin decided that she wanted to pursue a career in opera.

Even at school, joining music groups gave her a sense of community. “Sure enough, kids didn’t think of me as a blind kid: they thought of me as someone who was interested in music like them,” said Rubin.

LEARNING RESILIENCE Rubin faced many obstacles when first trying to develop her talent. She once auditioned for an international opera competition and remembers the judges asking her, “How do you realistically expect to be on stage in opera?”

“They assumed I was so fragile, and I needed help with everything,” said Rubin. “They couldn’t imagine that I would walk around the stage by myself.”

to start a performin performing arts festival and school in Hawai‘i, Hawai‘i,” said Rubin.

‘Ohana Arts, is The result, ‘Oh season. They’re now in its third se currently working on a produc“Footloose” that will tion of “Footloos feature kids ages 8 to 18 and professional actors and bring in profession instrumentalists tto both teach performances. and give performa

Laurie Rubin’s guide dog is named Popeye.

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ʻO H A N A A R T S Beyond building a career for herself, Rubin wants to use the arts to give other children the same sense of belonging she experienced in music.

Her Hawai‘i-born partner, Jenny Taira, received a scholarship to attend the prestigious Interlochen Arts Academy, and the couple wanted to provide similar experiences for local children who might not have access to quality arts education.

“One of the dreams that we had was

Rubin has seen their efforts benefit children. “[Music] has a huge amount of power to help she said. Rubin academically,” sh had one student noted that they ha who was dyslexic and a grade level behind in his reading. le he received a But when h lines, he found role with many li practice. “It was a reason to pra and motivating such a great an experience … that after the ended up being summer, he en grade level, but at not only gr level ahead, reada grade leve ing wise,” she said.

Rubin believes But Ru power of the arts the powe goes beyond improvg go es bey academic perforing acad mance: ““I think it’s like the great equalizer.

You forgot about race, or culture or class when you cu hear somebody singing.” hea

A DV I C E F O R D R E A M E R S Rubin gives the same advice to all young people pursuing their dreams, regardless of their individual challenges. “Really be unconditional about the way that you go after your dream,” she said. “When we started ‘Ohana Arts, it was a ridiculous dream that we had, and it didn’t look possible on paper.

“Sometimes you deal with setbacks … but the ones who create their big dreams are the ones who don’t believe [that] it can’t be done.”

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Presidential candidate Mitt Romney is completely out of touch with A merican realities – and healthcare is just the latest example of why.

In an inter view with The Co lumbus Dispatch published Oct. 11, Romney said, “ We don’t have people that become ill, who die in their apartment because they don’t have insurance.” He bases that assertion on federal laws that require hospitals to treat the uninsured in emergencies.

W hile people experiencing medical emergencies may be able to find basic life -saving care at a nearby emergency room, options for uninsured A mericans diagnosed

people are unable to obtain necessar y medical care, they have a 40 percent greater chance of dying from illness than their insured counterparts.

Romney may believe that people don’t die from a lack of insurance because America’s poor can find community clinics or other low-cost forms of healthcare, but the Harvard study also concluded that these methods of healthcare are not adequate substitutions for the hospitals and specialists available to insured Americans.

K N OW L E D G E N E E D E D But even if it were true that the uninsured could receive adequate care only via emergency room or clinic, Romney glosses over the fact that a medical emergency can completely dissolve the quality of life for any American – even for those who do possess insurance.

with debilitating conditions and fatal diseases are more limited than Romney claims.

C H E A P A N D AVA I L A B L E? Patients suffering from chronic conditions such as asthma, elevated blood pressure, cancer and HIV cannot depend on emergency rooms alone for medical care. They may have difficulty obtaining all of the medications necessary for daily health maintenance if they are uninsured.

The problems related to living without insurance are fatal. A study published by Har vard Medical in 2009 found that about 45,000 people in the United States die annually due to a lack of insurance and that “uninsurance is associated with mortality.” Because uninsured

In 2007, the American Journal of Medicine found that medical bills caused about 62 percent of bankruptcies, and households with health insurance filed three quarters of those medical bankruptcies. Even if someone is lucky enough to survive a serious medical emergency, their quality of life may still suffer in the

long term due to high deductibles and lifetime coverage limits.

This is something Romney has no concept of, illustrated by his decrying the A ffordable Care Act that seeks to remedy these issues, and further displayed by his remarks on insurance coverage in The Columbus Dispatch.

Romney and his advisers need to educate themselves further on the lives of average Americans before speaking about policies that will only further disadvantage the middle and lower classes of this nation.

Mitt Romney signed a healthcare bill as governor of Massachusetts in 2006, requiring all adults to purchase insurance or face a fine.

KAREN SCHIELY MCT

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Yes we ‘can’nabis: legalize marijuana ROMAN K ALINOWSKI Staff Writer

Until marijuana was outlawed in 1937, different strains of the plant were used for plastic, medicine, paper, biofuel and recreation. The plant is illegal today in part due to William Hearst newspapers and DuPont chemical company, among others, who did not want to compete with hemp for their patented chemical manufacturing processes.

But three states – Washington, Oregon and Colorado – have the chance to re-legalize both industrial hemp and recreational marijuana. We need to support this initiative for the better of our nation.

But since the creation of the Drug Enforcement Administration by President Richard Nixon, drug use has increased among all age groups, incarceration rates have gone up and drug-related violence has jumped.

America’s ballooning prison population is related in part to this war on drugs. Marijuana constitutes over half of all drug arrests, and of the 800,000 people arrested for marijuana each year, 90 percent are for personal use.

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Many people, including President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney, refuse to take the issue of marijuana and the drug war seriously.

Our crackdown on marijuana has also led to global violence. The United States has led an international war on drugs that has wasted billions of taxpayer dollars.

On the U.S.-Mexico border, over 50,000 people have died since 2006. Drug cartels receive about two-thirds of their profits from the sale of marijuana, while all other drugs make up the last

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VO T E T O T O K E In 2012, “Yes We Cannabis!” signifies the hope that change will actually occur this election.

If passed, marijuana will be legal to grow, sell, and use in a similar manner to alcohol – a far more dangerous drug that kills tens of thousands each year. Driving under the influence will still be reprimanded, and persons must be 21 to use marijuana.

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Ka Leo Player of the Week: Ali Longo JOEY R AMIREZ Associate Sports Editor

Junior libero Ali Longo has been named Ka Leo Player of the Week for her performance in Hawai‘i’s victories over UC Davis and Pacific.

The Penn State transfer was key in the ‘Bows’ first match against the Aggies. Longo recorded 14 digs as the ‘Bows took care of UC Davis in four sets. In the team’s next match, Pacific pushed Hawai‘i to its limit as UH took five sets to fend off the Tigers.

“We got off to a slow start both games,” Longo said. “And ... that’s something we really need to correct, but I think that this team [Pacific] fought us off a little more, whereas UC Davis got down on themselves a little bit faster.

“I think when you have a game like that, it’s up-and-down. ... It was us just trying to fi nd a rhythm and get back into it.”

Pacific won the fi rst two sets 25-14 and 25-22, which forced Hawai‘i to mount a comeback to avoid having its 64-match conference win streak broken.

Honorable Mentions Jade Vorster Middle Blocker, Women’s Volleyball Vorster was crucial in UH’s win over UC Davis with seven kills, four blocks and a .545 hitting percentage. She followed up with an even more dominant performance against Pacific with 13 kills and nine blocks while hitting .650.

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“Obviously everyone [was] pissed off a little bit because we shouldn’t ever be down 0-2 to a team like that,” said Longo. “But ... everyone just said, ‘We’ve gotta make adjustments faster.

We gotta just fight a little bit harder.

And every point’s gonna be just as important as any other one.’”

Longo led the ‘Bows defensively with 15 digs and a service ace.

“It’s my job [as libero] to bring energy and to talk and let people know what I see because I have a different vision of the game than what they do,” Longo said.

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