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‘Handler’ discusses faith, love amidst adversity

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TIGERS AT SEA Is this slice of ‘Pi’ worth seeing?

“Handler” first premiered at the Actors Express Theatre in Atlanta, Ga.

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CLASSY CURSIVE? CURSIVE? NICOLYN C HARLOT Staff Writer A rural Southern town and the members of the Holiness Way church are the focus of Kennedy Theatre’s second primetime production “Handler,” which opens tonight.

“Handler,” written by playwright and actor Robert Schenkkan, revolves around the tragedy-stricken Geordi and Terri and their experience within the local church as they struggle to rebuild their marriage after Geordi is released from prison.

The play comes with tragic twists and up-

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lifting miracles that will keep the audience asking questions. Kennedy Theatre publicity director Matthew Kelty, who plays Brother Bob, said he believes that Schenkkhan wanted to “throw the audience off-kilter,” so as to keep them from making assumptions.

ʻ T H E C OMMO N A L I T Y O F M A N ʼ Although the setting is religious, it is not the intent of the play to force the audience to believe in a higher power. “ The show is not about trying to push this religion,” explained Tyler Nichols, an MFA directing candidate and director of the produc-

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Though the themes of the show are universal, the setting of the church provides insight into a closed-off world. Through this uncommon setting, Nichols wants to show “the commonality of man.”

“It doesn’t really matter where you’re from: Your relationships with people are going to be the same. The things that you go through, for the most part, are going to be the same; the emotional turmoil that you go through is going to be the same,” said Nichols.

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N OV. 19: S T O L E N L A P T O P At 12:33 a.m., Campus Security responded to a male student whose laptop had been stolen from a Sinclair Library study area. The student left his belongings unattended to help someone to their car. The computer’s estimated value is $1,500. An HPD report was declined.

N OV. 15: L I B R A RY RUM B L E At 8:56 a.m., CS responded to an assault in Hamilton Library. A male student was arrested after reportedly attacking another male student and fl eeing the scene. The assaulted party claimed it was an unprovoked attack, and the assailant claimed he was provoked. EMS and HPD responded. Referred to HPD and Judicial Services.

N OV. 14 : E X T I N G U I S H E D During a routine building lock up, a CS officer discovered that a fire extinguisher was missing near the Hawai‘i English Language Program on lower campus. Case closed.

N OV. 11: N O E L A N I R E D U X At 9:32 a.m., CS received a call about a burglary in Hale Noelani. A female resident had a Macbook stolen. Two of her guests had their smartphones

stolen. The total estimated value of the property is $2,080. HPD dusted for prints and a report was generated. The suspects broke in through the living room screen window. Referred to HPD.

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CS responded to a criminal property damage incident at 9:22 a.m. at the Varsity Gate. The traffic control arm was broken off and missing. The cost of the damage is unknown at this time. This is the third time the Varsity Gate traffic control arm has been broken this semester.

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At 11:39 p.m., CS responded to a fi re drill at Frear Hall. A secondfl oor pull station was activated, but no fi re or smoke was detected in the building. A false alarm report was generated and referred to Student Housing Services.

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CS responded to fi ve sick and two injured persons and seven criminal property damage incidents last week. Almost all of the incidents occurred during the holiday weekend. When UH property is stolen, vandalized or damaged, it is the students who have to make up the cost of replacement or go without those resources.

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Two hearings were held in regards to the failed Stevie Wonder concert. University officials were invited to testify in the marathon meetings at the State Capitol.

CAITLIN K ELLY Associate News Editor The Senate’s special committee for accountability released a report last Monday with 18 recommendations for improvement for the University of Hawai‘i.

The report comes after two hearings during which the committee, headed by Sen. Donna Mercado Kim, grilled university officials and members from the Board of Regents about specific events that surrounded the botched Stevie Wonder concert.

It states that the university has general autonomy over internal affairs, but the legislature has exclusive jurisdiction to identify laws of statewide concern. “Your Committee is deeply concerned that the failed Stevie Wonder Concert and its aftermath have caused tremendous public backlash against the University and have tarnished the University’s reputation within the State and the national level,� read the introduction of the report.

MO D E S T P RO P O S A L S One of the recommendations is a financial and management audit of the university system by the Legislative Auditor to address

the concerns that arose throughout the hearings.

It also suggested that the Board of Regents review its policies and procedures and receive additional training. This is in response to concern that members of the BOR, along with President M.R.C. Greenwood and Chancellor Thomas Apple, “have had discussions outside of properly noticed public meetings that do not fall within the permissible interactions set forth in section 92-2.5, Hawai‘i Revised Statues.�

In addition, it was recommended that the Regents receive annual training on Hawai‘i’s Sunshine Law, an open meetings law that governs the manner in which state and county boards conduct official business.

Ethnic studies professor Noel Kent believes that action should be taken on the committee’s suggestions. “ The Senate Committee recommendations are excellent, and I think the Faculty Senate and ASUH should really lobby hard for them at the legislature,�

Kent explained in an e-mail inter view. “R ight now, the present administration is completely discrediting autonomy, which has become a way for people

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P E N D I N G PAYM E N T The committee estimates that the Wonder concert, along with its recovery efforts, will cost $1.1 million. “While some may argue that in the grand scheme of things, $1.1 million is a small amount of funds for an institution as large as the university, much of these costs could have been avoided,� the report reads.

The Wonder concert debacle began in July with the announcement that the show would be cancelled because it was booked through an unauthorized third party. Since then, former athletics director Jim Donovan has been reassigned to a position in the Chancellor’s Office, Stan Sheriff arena manager Rich Sheriff has been reinstated and Greenwood has been retained.

The FBI has arrested two men involved in the scheme: Sean Barriero pled guilty, and Marc Hubbard is scheduled to enter a plea charge Nov. 30.

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Kuali: ‘cumbersome’, ’slow” A LEX BIT TER Senior Staff Writer

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More than four months after its implementation, the University of Hawai‘i’s version of the Kuali Financial System is still causing frustration among university staff.

The software, used mostly by financial officers in UH programs and departments to process purchase orders, student stipends and other funding transactions, was the focus of years of preparation and planning by financial administrators and university system officials.

Planners heralded the system as a major step forward for the university, touting it as a necessary upgrade that would eliminate paper forms from most financial filings.

But many users and beneficiaries of the new system have been disenchanted.

Christine Kirk-Kuwaye, who advises both KTUH and UH Productions, said that alongside new rules about purchasing from state-approved vendors, Kuali has made it tough for her students to get necessary work equipment. She cited one occasion this semester when she requested money to purchase new cameras and lenses for use by video students at UHP and became frustrated with the system’s capacity for dealing with errors.

“You make one mistake, [the request] has to be disapproved, and you have to go back to the very beginning,” she said, adding that the old paper system allowed corrections to be made quickly with white-out.

ed by the UH system in 1996 and was in use until the end of fiscal year 2011-12. Despite its f laws, K irk-Kuwaye said she prefers FMIS over Kuali because the interface was more functional and accessible.

Although she attended training sessions held earlier this year to familiarize financial system users with Kuali, K irk-Kuwaye noted that some of the procedures described to her were later changed without warning when the system came online.

That discrepancy, she said, has only aggravated an already distressing situation.

Overall, she said that despite the preparation for the switch, the new system acts as a hindrance to completing the regular financial transactions that her programs rely on.

“Kuali adds another layer of slowness and cumbersomeness … It does not ser ve users such as me well,” she explained.

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According to training material provided by UH’s Kuali project, the system was selected

to replace FMIS because it is a noncommercial, open-source software that has been successfully implemented at other universities, including Cornell, Indiana and the University of California system.

In addition, the FMIS vendor has not provided support for the program since 1997, leaving UH to improvise its own solutions when problems arose.

UH System Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer David Lassner said that despite common conception, the Kuali implementation consisted of two parts: one version of the software to replace FMIS and the other to handle only grant funding.

“Each of these projects was led by UH executives with functional responsibility for the ap plicable business area,” Lassner said in an e -mail interview.

Lassner, who is also a member of the Kuali Foundation’s Board of Directors, did not respond to requests for comment on the concerns of Kuali users about the implementation process and the functionality of the program.

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Adapted from Yann Martel’s 2001 novel, Ang Lee’s “Life of Pi” is a spiritual odyssey of faith and acceptance. It’s a tale of basic survival, an intimate exploration of existence in the face of nature’s calm and calamity. This film congratulates itself by reinforcing the idea that storytelling can be both moving and powerful.

The film is framed by an older Pi (Irrfan K han) recounting his experience to a novelist (Rafe Spall), promising to tell a story that will make him believe in God. K nowing that he sur vives the ordeal doesn’t undermine the dramatic tension because as the cliché goes, it ’s the journey that matters.

A younger Pi (Ayush Tandon), short for Piscine Moliter Patel (he’s named after a French swimming pool), lives in pictur-

esque Pondicherry in South India where his father runs a zoo.

Pi, who is curious and enthralled by religions and their tales, defines himself as a Hindu, Christian and Muslim. Although Pi’s mother encourages him to seek harmony in self-discovery, his father insists that reason and rationality must be accounted for.

Forced to leave India, teenage Pi (Suraj Sharma) travels with his family on a Japanese freighter to Canada, but a shipwreck devastates the passage and leaves him on a 27-foot lifeboat with a hyena, zebra, orangutan and Richard Parker, a ferocious Bengal tiger.

What follows is a struggle to survive under the pressure of fear and death in proximity, and Pi must negotiate the space and relationship between himself and the tiger while also establishing himself as enduring and strong.

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Parker and the wrath of God, he finds truth in appreciating and abiding by life as it comes with the opportunity to say farewell to what passes.

Through its superb visual effects – exemplified by the digital tiger – “Life of Pi” strives to be sublime by rendering beauty and chaos in the universe. However, as nice as sunsets and endearing tales of perseverance can be, the aesthetics fade with the plodding narrative. The film is captivating, but the amount of scenic moments your eyes can stomach is entirely up to your own taste.

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Surfing tips for beginners A LEX ANDR A COLFER Contributing Writer “Surfing sucks, don’t tr y it ” is a phrase that may be seen on bumper stickers around the island. W hile waves and other surfers can be unforgiving if you don’t recognize the patterns and unpredictability that comes with the sport, beginners should take heart. The best way to learn is to gain expe rience. For now, follow these beginner surfing tips and enjoy the waves.

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Determine if you have a regular (left foot front) or goofy (right foot front) stance – like pictured surfer Carly Wilson – by laying down and popping up to see which foot you bring forward.

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2. Don’t go for a wave if it’s not yours.

If you think the wave is someone else’s, it probably is.

It’s good to be aggressive in the water, but if you are a beginner, the rule “it’s not a burn if it’s your turn” does not apply to you. People who know what they’re doing are going to take waves that you may think are yours – but this is something a beginner has to accept. It is your job to fi gure out how to get waves without getting in the way, burning someone or hurting yourself.

4. Know your limits.

Don’t go out in conditions if you are uncomfortable. If a wave is too big, stormy or sloppy, and you can imagine yourself getting sucked out in a river-like current, don’t risk it.

If someone who has lots of experience is encouraging you to go out, they probably know that you can handle yourself.

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All surfers, beginners and veterans take “beatings.”

Don’t be afraid or embarrassed to get wiped out – the key is to keep trying. Experiment with taking off earlier or later on the wave as it breaks. Even if the drop from the top of the wave to bottom looks steep, go for it. If you succeed, feel the reward. If you fall, think of what to try on the next wave.

Don’t wear sunscreen on your stomach, and make sure to wipe it off your hands. Otherwise, when you’re pushing through a wave or pushing up to stand, you’ll slip and face-plant on your board.

Don’t run down the beach with your leash on – you will trip.

Don’t wax the fins or the bottom of your board. Wax gives you grip and should be used for the top of your board. If you make sticky bumps on the bottom, it will lose its hydrodynamics.

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The main theme of the play is love – romantic love, religious love and love amongst a community. Kelty said that one of the main questions the play poses to the audience is, “Is love strong enough to forgive?”

Characters in the show believe that God’s love is strong enough to forgive any sin, but the question is whether they are able to do the same. According to Isaac Ligsay, who plays Geordi, the role of the church fits in perfectly with this theme because it is a “society of just acceptance, love, forgiveness … [a

society] not looking at any qualifications of a person, but more so what’s the quality of their heart.”

“Handler” will touch upon serious issues, but it has a simple purpose. When asked what the audience should take away from the show, Ligsay stated that though life may prove difficult, there are always ways of overcoming those adversities.

“There’s always hope. … It’s like life is so fl eeting, but at the same time in yourself, you harness this power where you can have faith to believe anything you want, and I guess that … ability to do that is a miracle in itself.”

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CAITLIN KURODA Features Editor Studying abroad in a foreign country isn’t the only way for students to earn credits while engaging with a different culture.

The National Student Exchange gives undergraduates the opportunity to study at one of over 180 universities throughout the U.S., Canada and U.S. territories. The University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa’s NSE program moved last summer, but its new location on the second floor of the Physical Science Building is still offering the same services – with increased student interest.

“It was actually a good move for NSE because we’re far more visible to students on the second floor of Physical Science,” said NSE coordinator Sandy Davis in an e-mail interview. “Many students examine our bulletin boards everyday as they wait for class in this area, and for this reason, our outgoing numbers already increased from Fall 2011 to Fall 2012. We expect even higher numbers of students exchanging for Fall 2013.”

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When going on exchange, students may choose from two payment types: On Plan A, the student pays their host school’s instate tuition; on Plan B, they pay their own school’s tuition.

UH Mānoa has one of the higher resident tuition rates in the program – this means that outgoing students may be able to take advantage of cheaper tuition and housing costs while away. Plan B is good for students who receive scholarships from UH Mānoa, as their funding may carry over, but many schools limit how many students they will take on this plan.

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According to Davis, for the past three years, the most popular exchange schools for UH Mānoa students have included the University of Oregon, California State Northridge, and the University of Northern Arizona. reer on hold. NSE’s website, nse. org, contains major searches for schools to ensure students can take courses within their major.

“Ideally, the idea is that you keep on schedule with your degree program,” Davis explained.

Marissa Mannmari, a senior majoring in psychology and communicology who studied at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, was able to take classes that counted toward her degree.

“I chose UMass because I want to go to grad school in industrialorganizational psychology, and they have an industrial-organizational psychology class,” she shared in an e-mail interview. “[UH Mānoa’s] psychology department is really good about allowing psych majors to transfer credits back … so I knew all my credits would transfer back.”

Some schools also allow exchange students to complete internships for credit. Mannmari was able to take advantage of many such opportunities: “There are a variety of opportunities there that are a lot easier to do than at [UH Mānoa]. I did an internship, two research assistantships, and two teaching assistantships … classes and labs that I wouldn’t have been able to be a part of at [UH Mānoa],” she said.

While NSE presents many opportunities for eager students, it is the students’ responsibility to

research and find their best-fit school. Davis encourages students to determine which tuition plan is most economical when housing costs are taken into account. For credits, “students have to do the legwork, to find potential courses at the host school that will count,” she said. Room and board costs can be found on nse.org, and equivalencies of exchange school courses can be found on UH Mānoa’s Admissions and Records website.

Interested students may visit nse.org or stop by Physical Sciences Room 206 for more information. Applications for Fall 2013 are available outside the offices beginning the week of Dec. 10 .

Student informational meetings When: Wednesday, Nov. 28; 2:30 p.m., Friday, Nov. 30; 1:30 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 4; 2:30 p.m. and Thursday Dec. 13; 3:30 p.m.

Where: Physical Science Room 206 Fall 2013 application deadlines NSE will begin accepting applications on Wednesday, Jan. 9.

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The process of learning how to master language by hand gives students a fi rm ground to lay down their thoughts. Without this fl uency, too much energy is spent focusing on how to type instead of what is being written.

Research done at Indiana University in Bloomington with fMRi scans suggests that handwriting leads to more adult-like neural activity than typing.

written note or filled-out form creates a snap judgment on the part of the reader, who assumes that the writer must be lazy or sloppy – much Handwriting has been falling like their handwriting. out of favor lately, as schools turn A printed or simply written towards requiring students to turn signature is also easier to counin only typed work. Many students terfeit than a cursive one. On a cannot write correctly in cursive bepurely aesthetic note, students yond their own signatures. While the will miss out on the graceful and advent of the Common Core State elegant culture of the handwritten Standards Initiative may be one of the letter. I have letters from friends final nails in cursive’s coffin, cursive and family all over the globe, each handwriting is a skill that must not be a unique and personal history that lost in the rush towards a technocratI can pass on to ic education system. my own family The CCSSI is a when the time federally sponsored comes. curriculum that Finally, when strives to raise the educators argue test scores of U.S. that students students from elneed to hand in ementary through typed work behigh school. Presicause of illegible dent Barack Obama handwriting, it’s and Secretary of Eda sign of laziucation Arne Dunness on both the can bribed states teacher’s and stuto adopt this curdent’s parts. The riculum by offering student should $4 billion in grant be marked down money – but only if for poor penmanstates complied with ship, but at the the CCSSI or someTIM METRA / KA LEO O HAWAI‘I same time the thing comparable. teacher needs to As it stands now, Before the 2011-2012 school year, Hawai‘i’s public school standards required make an effort 48 out of 50 states that students could write legibly and in cursive by the fourth grade. to help correct have adopted at the problem. It’s least a portion of the Another problem is the increas- hypocritical on the part of the teachCCSSI. This means that a majority of the U.S. has decided to forego ing disconnect between students er, since the majority of teachers tomandating the teaching of cursive and written history. It would be day were educated without the aid of writing in grade school in favor of a shame if younger generations word processors.

As the next generation of keyboarding, with the exceptions of couldn’t read the original script of the U.S. Constitution, let alone parents and educators, it is our California and Massachusetts. anything else handwritten as op- responsibility to make sure that C R I P P L I N G K E Y B OA R D S posed to typed, like the journals or cursive does not become a lost art This is a problem for several old love letters of their parents and form in favor of word processing. reasons. First and foremost, experts grandparents. Handwritten words It gives us cultured refi nement in in the field of educational psychol- convey a depth of feeling and time the midst of a digital age. Just beogy have concluded that learning to that keyboards have scoured away. cause we no longer have to teach write by hand – cursive in particular our children to write, doesn’t – has an effect on cognitive and mo- P E N N E D P E R S O N A L I T Y mean we should cripple them beGood handwriting is easy to fore they barely begin to discover tor skills. Children who do not learn handwriting suffer from lower test respect and hard to forge. A poorly penned language.

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Battle-tested ‘Bows look to uproot Utes JEREMY NIT TA Senior Staff Writer

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Junior forward Kamilah Martin leads the Big West in rebounding and is fifth in scoring.

After a brutal season opening, the University of Hawai‘i women’s basketball team will look to get back on a winning track against the University of Utah Utes this Saturday at 2 p.m. in the Stan Sheriff Center.

Hawai‘i has so far faced three nationally ranked teams: No. 1 Stanford, No. 3 Baylor and No. 13 Oklahoma, as well as Tennessee-Martin, who made the NCAA tournament last season.

Despite exiting the first seven games of the season with an overall record of 2-5, the ‘Bows remain optimistic about the future of its season.

“We have grown as a team,” said head coach Laura Beeman. “It’s more than ‘everyone is proud of the way we’re competing,’ but we’ve also gotten better. From a coaching stand-

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point, our execution has gotten better. We just held the 13th ranked team in the country to 28 points in a half.

That wasn’t because they didn’t come out playing hard, but because of what these young ladies did on the floor.

“We need to take that intensity and that execution through the rest of the preseason and then into conference play.”

PUT TO THE TEST Hawai‘i has also faced size mismatches against the nation’s elite.

The Rainbow Wahine’s leading scorer, junior forward Kamilah Martin, has matched up against the 6’8” Brittney Griner of Baylor, 6’4” Chiney Ogwumike of Stanford, and 6’6” Nicole Griffin of Oklahoma, despite only measuring 5’11”.

Nevertheless, Martin has produced, averaging a career-high

14.9 points per game, as well as 10.3 rebounds. This trend extends to the rest of the team: Seven players, including Martin, are averaging fi ve or more points per game.

Still, the condensed tournament scheduling has tested Hawai‘i’s physical endurance.

Four Hawai‘i players, led by Martin at 32.4, are averaging over 23 minutes per game, including freshmen Destiny King and Ashleigh Karaitiana, and senior transfer Monica DeAngelis.

“There’s a difference between being in shape and being fatigued,” said Beeman. “I don’t know how many minutes [Kamilah Martin] has racked up – my guess would be between 96 to 105 minutes over a span of three days. Then you throw Destiny and Ashleigh and Mo [DeAngelis] in

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there, and you see that our conditioning is very, very good.

“We’re fatigued, but it shows that our conditioning is good, but we need to work on our depth. We need to find some depth, we need to develop some rotations and we need to find some fresh legs.”

Among those Beeman hopes to get back soon is junior guard Shawna-Lei Kuehu, who has played sparingly this season and has missed the last five games with concussion-like symptoms.

“At this point, we’re rolling with what we’re rolling with,” said Beeman. “That’s been our motto: All we need is five, and we’ll go. If she’s ready, hopefully she’ll give us a little more depth, but if not, we’ll look to her after Christmas. Maybe HPU will be a good game for her to get her feet wet.”

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A December clash of titans M ARC A R AK AKI Sports Editor

The Rainbow Warrior basketball team has had success early in the season, going 4-1 in its opening homestand – 0.1 seconds shy of a fifth win.

However, the ‘Bows must now head on the road against a team that has dominated the last two seasons. No. 18 UNLV (3-1) will host Hawai‘i on Saturday at 2 p.m.

HST to conclude a six-match opening homestand. The Runnin’ Rebels host UC Irvine tonight. “[They’re] very talented, very athletic [and] very well-coached,” head coach Gib Arnold said. “They have a great home-court advantage, so it will be a great test for us.”

UNLV has had UH’s number in recent years, defeating the Rainbow Warriors in two of the past three seasons.

Arnold coached last season’s New Year’s Eve 74- 69 loss against UNLV. “I remember it was tight the whole game,” Arnold said. “I don’t

remember anybody ever got up by more than a few points. I was very proud of our guys, staying with it and being around and having a chance to beat them. They were awfully good last year as well. I remember us doing a good job on the game plan and feeling real good about the guys preparing for the game.”

T E S T I N G T H E WAT E R S Three of the fi ve expected starters for Hawai‘i will go on their fi rst road trip in a Rainbow Warrior uniform.

Senior forward and returnee Hauns Brereton will provide his experience for the newcomers.

“This is a big part of college basketball, and I’m excited that it’s their [the newcomers] fi rst one – against a top 25 team,” Brereton said. “This is as best as it gets. I’ll tell them to ‘get ready and to enjoy it and get ready to battle because on away trips, it’s always a battle.’”

But A rnold does not know how his team will react to road trips just yet.

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“We’ll see,” Arnold said. “Every team’s different. Every team handles the road real different. It does have a lot to do with maturity but not necessarily with age. Freshmen can be mature on how they approach the road and how they handle big crowds.”

Freshman forward Isaac Fotu is looking forward to playing in the Thomas and Mack Center, which drew an average of 16,047 fans in four games this season.

The Stan Sheriff Center at its capacity holds 10,300.

“Their fans [are going to be difficult to deal with] because I heard there’s going to be like 20,000 people there, so all the freshmen haven’t played against a big crowd like that.

So that’ll be tough,” Fotu said.

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Senior point guard Jace JJa ce Tavita Tavitita started in all five games g mees for the ‘Bows ga tthis season.

“Coach [Arnold] really wanted uss to focus on our school work, so that’s hat’s what we did, and focus on us this his semester, so we’re able to get our school work done, and focus on us as a team,” Brereton said..

“This is is a good test for us, being ourr first away game.

“The only thing we’re going to focus ocus on is the game. The good d thing about our team is everyone veryone is focused on basketball ketball and on schooll work, k, so I don’t think k [playing Veying in Las Ve egas] is a distraction distractio on for anybody.” nybody.”

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O N E A N D O N LY The road trip to Las Vegas will be the team’s only trip outside Hawai‘i before hitting Big West play in January. With this in mind, the players will focus on this trip to ensure conference road games go on without a hitch.

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Do or die in Husky territory M ARC A R AK AKI Sports Editor

Call it what you want – a 26-2 overall record and a perfect 18-0 Big West Conference record were not good enough to let the Rainbow Wahine volleyball team crack the Top 16 of the Ratings Percentage Index and host during the first and second round of the 2012 NCAA Women’s Volleyball Tournament.

Hawai‘i, ranked No. 8 in the AVCA Coaches Poll and No. 17 in the RPI, is forced to travel to Seattle, Wash., to play Santa Clara in the first round. If the Rainbow Wahine win, it could mean a match up against No. 13 seed and host Washington.

“There’s no doubt that our team deserves a seed,” head coach Dave Shoji said. “If anybody thinks that we’re the 17th best team in the country – I think they’re wrong.

But we need to move on and prepare for Santa Clara.”

The ‘Bows play the Santa Clara Broncos (20-11, 9-7 West Coast Conference) on Friday at 3 p.m. HST. In the other first-round match-up, host

Washington Huskies (23-6, 14-6 Pac-12 Conference) will play Central Arkansas (30-4, 15-3 Southland Conference) at 5 p.m. HST. The winners will meet in the second round on Saturday at 5 p.m. HST to decide who advances to the Omaha, Neb., regional.

“We’re excited, obviously, but at the same time, [we were] hoping for the Top 16 seed and a home host,” junior libero Ali Longo said. “But it happens. I think we’re excited to get out there and take it game by game.”

A RETURN TO THE HUSKY HOUSE Hawai‘i was faced with a similar predicament in 2010. The ‘Bows were ranked No. 7 in the AVCA Coaches Poll and faced No. 11 Washington on their home floor and were swept in the second round of that year’s tournament.

Junior outside hitter Emily Hartong played on that squad.

“They were a good team then. I remember we didn’t put up too good of a fight,” Hartong said. “Their gym is pretty small but very crowded. All the fans are there getting under your skin. But I think we’ll

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definitely play a lot better than we did a couple of years ago.”

Hawai‘i is familiar with Pac-12 schools, facing three in this year’s preseason. The ‘Bows defeated No. 2 seed Stanford but fell to No. 7 seed UCLA and California. But with seven of the 64 teams in the tournament coming from the Pac-12, Hawai‘i knows they must tackle a few more Pac-12 teams if they wish to make it to the Final Four in Louisville, Ky. “It’s nice to see some of those teams in the preseason,” Hartong said. “It’ll be nice to play some early in the tournament, and I think it’ll be a good challenge for us.”

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Junior outside hitter Emily Hartong was named Big West Player of the Year.

A P E R S O N A L MO T I VAT O R Penn State received the No. 1 seed, and Nittany Lion transfer Ali Longo is looking to possibly meet her old team in the Final Four.

“They’re a great team and [I] love all of those girls to death,” Longo said. “I wish them the best. I know we’ve talked about it a couple of times randomly, but it will be nice to see if we can get there and put up a good fight throughout the tournament.”

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