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The women’s athletic teams boast the three longest tenured coaches at the university: volleyball coach Dave Shoji, sailing coach Andy Johnson and softball coach Bob Coolen. Coolen has been at the helm of the softball team for 22 years, Johnson for 22 and Shoji an astounding 37 years.

This type of continuity is part of the continuing success of the women’s athletics program. “Two of our sports, volleyball and softball, have solid foundations because they have coaches who have been around for a long time,� said Associate Athletics Director Marilyn Moniz-Kaho‘ohanohano. “It’s over 30 years for coach [Dave] Shoji, and Coach [Bob] Coolen has been here over 20. So to have that kind of coaching talent and stability really helps build the program up.

Also our sailing team with coach [Andy] Johnson is at the top.�

But Hawai‘i also has a pair of relatively new coaches in basketball coach Laura Beeman, who just completed her ďŹ rst season, and soccer coach Michele Nagamine, who just wrapped up her second. “They’ve come into the program with a lot of experience,â€? Moniz-

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Only two out of the 12 Rainbow Wahine teams – soccer and tennis – ďŹ nished with overall records below .500. But multiple programs enjoyed national rankings throughout the season, including volleyball, softball and water polo. Additionally, the women’s basketball team earned a berth to the WNIT, and many of the individual sports sent athletes to compete in the NCAA Championships.

So the question to ask is: What makes Rainbow Wahine athletics so successful?

Kaho‘ohanohano said. “Coach Beeman was at the community college level, but she got a touch of the high collegiate level [at USC] and also the pro level [with the Los Angeles Sparks].

She’s an ultimate professional in herself. And Coach Bud [Nagamine] brought that enthusiasm and she played at the highest level when she was in college, and she brought familiarity with our local recruiting and the West Coast recruiting. Both of them bring great advantages to our program. They both bring that charisma and attraction that exudes conďŹ dence, and that’s what you need to promote your university.â€?

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APPEAL Everyone likes a winner, and when a school has so many nationally ranked teams, it’s easy to rally behind them. “When you can show the kind of success that our programs have, people want to support it,� MonizKaho‘ohanohano said. “They take pride in their university because their teams are competitive against top teams in the nation. That’s a sense of pride within our state.

There’s nothing that can replace when they are proud of their university and proud of the athletic teams.

They come out and support it. They feel good about it and talk about it at home and work. We can be a bright spot and a positive thing about what our university is doing.�

But Moniz-Kaho‘ohanohano also said she believes that it pulls in some of the top local talent to the university.

In recent years, players like Kaua‘i’s Jessica Iwata and Mid-PaciďŹ c’s Keiki Carlos in softball, and Moloka‘i’s Kalei Adolpho in basketball and volleyball, come to mind. Additionally, seven of 16 players on the soccer team hail from the state of Hawai‘i. “We can attract that top talent, showcase it and give

them opportunities they’ve always dreamed of,� MonizKaho‘ohanohano said. “We can let them compete against top schools, go to the NCA A Championships and maybe even be a national champion.�

I M AG E A N D FAC I L I T I E S Moniz-Kaho‘ohanohano also said she believes that the improvement of facilities has helped improve the program’s image.

Recently, the Nagatani Academic Center had $4.5 million renovations, and construction is currently underway to create offices and facilities at Ching Field. “All the locker rooms and offices will be there, for soccer, cross country and track and field,�

Moniz-Kaho‘ohanohano said. “It’s going to be fantastic for those programs to have that.

And the last big project I plan to do before I retire is upgrade that softball stadium. We need to get that like the baseball stadium, which is an excellent facility, and get that kind of quality for the softball program, too.�

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PRIDE New facilities and playing for a winning team always help generate pride for one’s school. But that pride carries over to the rest of the state. “When the new recruits were coming by, they were impressed with our new facilities,â€? MonizKaho‘ohanohano said. “They were already taking pride in the facilities and feeling good about the university they were going to be representing. “But we’ve had great success in volleyball and softball, and we’ve had national champions in swimming and diving and in track and ďŹ eld. Everyone was so proud when Annett Wichmann always did well in the heptathlon, and Amber Kaufmann when she won the high jump [in 2010] and was a national champion. It starts to bubble up that pride, because people feel that afďŹ nity to the university. We don’t just represent the university, but we represent the state of Hawai‘i. If we can have an excellent program, and excellent student athletes, then everyone can get a little piece of that and feels good about that, then that’s priceless.â€?

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A proposal for a Bachelor of Arts degree in public health has been approved by the Faculty Senate and Council of Chief Academic Officers and will be reviewed by the Board of Regents in July.

The Faculty Senate approved the proposal at the April 17 meeting with a vote of 35:3. The CCAO approved the proposal on May 15. Minor edits are being made to the proposal before it is submitted by the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs’ office to the BOR in July.

“Public health is a very applied, handson field, and the students learn problemsolving skills for some of the biggest challenges facing the world today including obesity, climate change, pandemic influenza and stability,” Office of Public Health Studies Director Jay Maddock said.

Maddock and Robert Cooney, associate professor for epidemiology and environmental sciences, presented a PowerPoint presentation to the Faculty Senate. According to their presentation, current faculty of Public Health Services have endorsed the BA proposal and courses for the degree will be managed and taught by current faculty in the appropriate specializations. There will be 19 credits required of public health major courses, along with 18 credits of public health elective courses.

“There is a movement across the country to create bachelor’s degrees in public health.

These degrees tend to be very popular,” Maddock said. “At the University of California– Irvine they established the degree in 2006 and now have 1,000 majors.”

The office had been working on the degree for the last couple of years, and official authorization to plan for the degree was given last spring.

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started teaching undergraduate courses about five years ago. Cooney said the undergraduate classes that have already started are PH201: Introduction to Public Health, PH303: Global Health, PH310: Epidemiology, PH340: Public Health and the Environment, PH 411: Nutrition and Disease Prevention and PH430: Health Policy & Management.

Pre-health adviser and graduate student Michelle Tagorda said from her experience, not a lot of students knew about the public health field. It was one of the first things she’d tell students who came to advising and were interested in the healthcare industry.

“We would advise students interested in health, whether it be medicine, physical therapy, medical technology … and in the process of exploring different health careers, students would really find an interest in public health because of the different disciplines and concentrations. The possibilities that the field of public health can provide students speak to the various interests students have whether it be research in the lab or in the field, working with people and programs and even in policy or government positions,” Tagorda said.

Tagorda is also a student in the public health master’s program. She grew up in Kea‘au on the Big Island, and her parents are immigrants from the Philippines. She said a big component of public health is concerned with protecting the health of entire populations.

“In going into the master’s program, I felt this is my chance to get the information I needed in order to serve these underrepresented communities and populations,” Tagorda said. “How can we use prevention to increase the healthcare of our society?”

Her decision to pursue a public health degree was influenced partially by having access to resources from the advising office and from having worked in the public health department last summer.

The same formula of memory loss, a missing friend and mayhem alters slightly in the conclusion to “The Hangover” trilogy.

Subtract the rehashed premise of the fi rst film, remove drugs but keep the eccentricities of the Wolfpack and their penchant to get into trouble and you have a movie that is just good enough to appease longtime fans.

“The Hangover Part III” is nostalgic, charming and offers a few laughs and developments that help it conclude in appropriate fashion.

“Part III” revolves around Alan (Zach Galifianakis) more so than the other films, though he has always been the comic backbone of the trilogy. He is immature and stunted in his growth into adulthood, and concerned friends Phil (Bradley Cooper), Stu (Ed Helms) and Doug (Justin Bartha) step in by taking him to rehab.

But the past comes to haunt them in the form of a mobster named Marshall (John Goodman), who is revealed as having a feud with Mr. Chow (Ken Jeong). Marshall sends the Wolfpack to find him and takes Doug as incentive.

Director Todd Philips makes “Part III” tidy by alluding to events and jokes from the other films. Although the missing Doug premise stays intact, there’s much more at stake for Alan. This is his late coming-of-age, and although the antics of debauchery and chaos yield some fun, the consequences and real danger of unraveling are more present in this film.

Callbacks to the other films show how far these characters have come, and the hilarity of past mistakes are reminders to the characters that intoxication in Vegas has just been played out too much. What they must finally accomplish brings their journey to a close.

The cast is consistent but again just thrown into different predicaments. Galifianakis is the heavyweight presence in every scene while Jeong plays up and exaggerates Mr. Chow’s wildness to his peak. Phil and Doug are more secondary in “Part III” and serve as reactionary characters. Although they participate in moving the plot forward, it’s Alan and Chow that become the driving dynamic behind the film. Ultimately, “The Hangover” films have been about relationships and the threat of them unwinding, what it takes to keep them together and what it means to be a friend.

Don’t expect to be completely surprised by “Part III” as nothing can compare to their fi rst series of antics together. It all ends well, and for the fi rst time the Wolfpack doesn’t have to really struggle with anxiety because they don’t even have many drinks besides a few beers when they meet Chow in Tijuana.

Perhaps this is an indication that, like the end of an era, the characters are realizing that they can’t keep doing this anymore; it’s time to sober up and move on.

According to Box Office Mojo, “The Hangover Part III” grossed $54.3 million over the weekend.

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What is the University of Hawai‘i administration?

It is a titanic, multi-stationed bureaucracy with characteristics of a welfare state. What is the University of Hawai‘i administration not? It is not a sharply operated business entity. The administration would be insolvent but for the fact that it is subsidized.

Downsizing and focus are the two keys to success for an organization in such straits. The relevant skill set is the key to choosing an effective future leader.

Close perimeter stations and focus on academics, exclusively. Raise the standards. Matriculating should be a privilege, not an entitlement.

The relevant skill set is indispensable for the next chief. Understanding the landscape is the first imperative skill. Only someone who has lived in Hawai‘i for a number of years is going to meet this requirement. Business talent is the second necessary skill. At a core level, the university is a business. Courage is the third requisite skill. This will be a difficult skill to measure. It will be a more difficult skill to fulfill. True grit is uncommon.

Remember Michael Jordan? Great basketball player. Not such a great baseball player. Different skill set.

Hiring a nutritionist or microbiologist to run a multibillion dollar business is like putting a baseball bat in the hands of a basketball player.

And entities in trouble need to downsize and focus on the core mission.

President Greenwood’s retirement is just another bureaucratic whitewashing. Greenwood is, in essence, breaching her State of Hawai‘i employment contract by quitting two years before the expiration date in 2015. She is alleging health and personal issues as a legal pretext for discharging her contract before her performance is complete in 2015. However, her public relations photos in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser belie her legal defense of impossibility of performance due to health reasons as she looks quite robust in her photos. Moreover, she expressly intends to continue to work as a professor following her quitting in the middle of her executive State of Hawai‘i contract. This latter fact would also tend to prove circumstantially that she is physically and mentally capable of completing her original contractual obligations as president of the University of Hawai‘i. Therefore, her impossibility of performance defense and justification for quitting in the middle of her contract is rubbish.

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Debunking mastectomy misconceptions TIM M ETR A Opinions Editor The United States recently got a wake-up call from the only source it seems to pay attention to: a celebrity. Angelina Jolie’s decision to have a prophylactic mastectomy set the media aflutter, but not all of the attention was positive.

I recently conducted an email interview with Sara Tenenbein of Me, Redone (meredone.com), a modern health and wellness guru who has gone through the trials and tribulations that come with fi nding out that you’re a carrier of the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes. Like Angelina Jolie, she also chose to have a prophylactic mastectomy.

Finding out that something may be terribly wrong with you someday doesn’t have to mean the end of the world; it just means you have to make some tough decisions.

First off, do you have any children or plan to have them?

I do not currently have any children, and my husband and I are on the fence on whether they are in our future.

How has this whole experience affected you and your husband’s family planning?

It has not affected it at all. We were on the fence before, and that is still the case. If mutation carriers wish to have children, there are options if they wish to refrain from passing the gene to the next generation. But even for those mutation carriers who have children naturally, who knows where medicine will be in 20 years. They may be able to fix the mutation by then. Every human being is susceptible to something in their genetics, whether it be cancer, diabetes or heart disease, etc. We just know what our risk is. That’s the only difference.

Do you think that these “family” issues should have a bit more focus in the media and academia, as opposed to the purely personal reasoning that is currently emphasized?

While family issues are not

highlighted in the media, there is some academic research being done to that effect. For those of us who are mutation carriers, the family issues are certainly emphasized, although not to the same extent as the personal journey. It proportionally makes sense given it’s the woman’s personal experience that is the prevalent theme, regardless of her family planning.

Have you considered having your ovaries removed, as well?

Unfortunately, unlike breast cancer, which can be detected in very early stages, there is no way to detect ovarian cancer until it has progressed to a later stage. To that end, all BRCA mutation carriers are recommended to have their ovaries removed by the age of 40. I am 30 now, and that is my planned phase two of surgical procedures when the time comes.

Were you able to get the mastectomy covered under a health in-

remember, I had my surgeries done in NYC at a cancer hospital, so who knows if that figure is inflated.

Do you think that there is adequate support in the U.S. for women going through the same thing?

There is a wonderful organization called FORCE (facingourrisk. org) that caters to women who have a genetic risk of breast and ovarian cancers. It’s an incredible support network. The key is educating women that this organization exists.

Should younger girls/women be receiving a more comprehensive education about their bodies in high school/college?

I can’t comment to the comprehensive nature of all highschool or college classes. As I understand it, some are more comprehensive than others.

BRCA mutations affect a very small percentage of the population (estimates range from 1/300

Breasts are just breasts. They don’t matter more than life.

-Sara Tenenbein surance plan? If so, how painful was the process? What kind of cost are we talking about to have the procedure done at all (including consults?)?

All my genetic testing, mastectomy and reconstruction was covered by my insurance, which as I understand it, is more the norm than the exception. People have this misconception that these surgeries are only for the wealthy and that insurance refuses to cover preventative procedures (which I have not seen to be an issue for those with coverage). On another note, federal law requires insurance companies to cover reconstructive surgeries.

Had I not had insurance, I believe the total cost of everything (genetic testing, surgeries and consults) would be in the $70,000 range. But

to 1/600) although it can be devastating to carriers.

Why do you think there has been so much negative media attention concerning prophylactic surgery? Is it possibly a result of the U.S. being overly conservative/ backwards concerning women’s health and rights in the age of modern medicine?

There is a lot of focus on women’s bodies in our society – and in that way, we are backwards.

Breasts are over-sexualized and are so ingrained in a woman’s identity that some folks take issue with a surgery. It takes away what they perceive to be someone’s feminine identity – especially someone as beautiful, sexy and glamorous as Angelina Jolie. That’s what made her message even more powerful.

Breasts are just breasts. They don’t matter more than life.

We live in an image conscious world, and people have a very negative reaction to the word “mastectomy” because it conjures images of deformity and disfigurement (which historically has been true).

The public doesn’t understand how advanced the procedures are and how beautiful the results can be. Angelina had a nipple sparing mastectomy where essentially her breast tissue was replaced with an implant and the entire outside of her breasts was preserved.

Whenever there is a decision made where the facts are ambiguous, people will express their opinions. And the facts are not black and white. Not everyone with this mutation will get cancer. I often tell people I didn’t get a mastectomy to avoid cancer: I got it for my quality of life. It’s difficult for people to understand the hardship of watching a loved one waste away from a horrible disease. To live with the fear and the anxiety of hospital tests and false positives. Angelina Jolie lost her mother, grandmother and great-grandmother to ovarian cancer. As a mother, I believe she looks at her children and does not want them to feel the pain she went through. And giving up some unneeded tissue is a small price to pay.

What advice would you give to another young woman going through the same ordeal?

Take a deep breath. You aren’t in this alone. Go to FORCE’s website and find others like you who have a unique understanding of your emotional journey. And remember that you, and only you, can make the right choice for your life and your body. Don’t let public opinion sway your gut. If surgery is right for you, then go for it. And if surveillance makes more sense for you, more power to you. It is your choice. And there is life after BRCA – it might even be better than before.

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Angelina Jolie revealed on May 14 that she underwent a double mastectomy.