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NOELLE F UJII News Editor Commuter Services at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa recommends that students who couldn’t get a parking pass this semester consider alternatives to driving and driving alone to campus.

“We encourage students to take advantage of the UPass program (included in their student fees) and ride TheBus, when possible,” Phyllis Look, marketing and communications manager for Campus Services, said on behalf of Commuter Services in an email. “Those who live within a three mile radius should consider the health and environmental benefits of walking and biking, or take advantage of free Rainbow Shuttle routes, which connect the campus to Mānoa (Faculty Housing), Kaimuki (Wai‘alae) and new this semester, Mo‘ili‘ili.”

Commuter Services said other alternative transportation solutions are in development. According to a presentation in September by Crystal Steiner, Transportation and Demand Management coordinator, Commuter Services is working with the university and city offices to improve bike and pedestrian facilities. A feasibility study is also underway on a bike-share program. According to Commuter Services, UH Mānoa has asked for two bike stations if the Honolulu Bike-Share project is found to be feasible.

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PA R K I N G O N C A M P U S According to Commuter Services, there are about 5,700 permitted parking spaces on campus. There are 2,300 various student permits, 500 daily student parking and 130 upper campus daily parking spaces. According to a presentation by Steiner at UH Mānoa Chancellor Tom Apple’s Campus-Wide Conversation in April, there are seven visitor parking lots available on campus.

Steiner also said in her presentation that 28,000 people access the campus on a daily basis.

“Parking has been in high demand for most students and employees since the parking system was created in the 1970s,” Look said.

“Commuter Services is constantly working to achieve a sustainable balance between our customer’s needs, economic realities and the sustainability goals and academic priorities of our university.”

The cost of building additional parking structures is $50,000 per space, according to Steiner’s presentation.

“Building on to the existing structures is not possible, and building additional structures is cost-prohibitive. In addition, creating more parking structures is not in keeping with one of the University of Hawai‘i’s core values – environmental sustainability – as these facilities will reduce the amount of green spaces on our campus and only encourage more SOVs (single occupant vehicles), adding to traffic congestion and air pollution,” Look said.

O T H E R MO D E S O F T R A N S P O R TAT I O N In 2010, TDM conducted a survey and found that 33 percent of all affiliates drive alone to campus. This includes students who live on campus.

TDM also found that 43 percent of affi liates live within three miles of the campus and 20 percent live within a mile.

Steiner reported that there are 10 bus routes that directly service the campus. The 2010 TDM survey found that 83 percent of affiliates live within a quarter mile of a bus stop.

Based on the survey results, Commuter Services calculates that about 3,700 people who currently don’t ride transit, but who expressed interest in doing so, might change to that mode.

The survey also found that 17 percent of affiliates who don’t walk to campus are willing to change to that mode.

TDM found that eight percent of affiliates carpool to campus.

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PA R K I N G A F F E C T S STUDENTS Kayne McCarthy, a senior majoring in biology and English, said that parking is expensive and illpartitioned for students.

“Although parking may be available, it does not provide the capacity for all who need and desire it,” McCarthy said in an email. “Experiences as both a commuter and resident on campus, much of my parking experience has been purely avoiding off campus parking and looking for residential parking options, which are far distanced, unreliable and not as secure.”

Although McCarthy has been able to get a parking pass for the last three years, he still believes there is a parking problem due to the lack of available parking on campus.

“But like many other university campuses, this is not a unique issue to the University of Hawai‘i and is inevitable with the amount of students/faculty/staff on campus,” McCarthy said. “However, I believe that parking could be managed more efficiently for both student and faculty.”

Throughout his college career, McCarthy said he has tried different modes of transportation to commute to campus, including biking, walking, carpooling and taking the bus.

“I believe that commuting in

Parking passes for cars and trucks cost $142 per semester. environmentally friendly ways is important and should be supported,” McCarthy said. “Unfortunately, the best way to travel far distances is using the state’s TheBus system.”

He said TheBus system is inefficient on many of its routes.

“For students, like myself, walking, biking, and the bus, are unable to get me to my destination of work within the required time,” McCarthy said. “As most jobs are weekly 8-5, in which classes are also held, and time becomes a major factor from getting from work to school. Waiting for TheBus’ services becomes a major expenditure of time due to possible 30-45 minute wait for the bus to arrive and also the need to transfer.”

Troy Ballard, a junior with a double major in political science and American Studies, said that “parking is an absolute nightmare on campus.”

Ballard currently parks on Dole Street and said that he sometimes has to park farther. He dorms on campus and has had to occasionally walk up to 30 minutes to get to the residence halls.

He said he was unable to obtain a parking pass at the Zone 22 and Zone 20 parking structures.

Ballard said students waking up at 2 or 3 a.m., in some cases camping

out to receive a parking pass on the first day of school, is like something out of a bad movie.

“These aren’t tickets to the Super Bowl – this is a parking pass,” Ballard said in an email.

Ballard said he would not consider taking an alternative mode of transportation to campus “for the simple reason that all alternatives are not only historically dangerous (biking accident rates in Honolulu are the highest in the U.S.), and TheBus is hardly consistent.”

“The autonomy that comes with driving is something that every college student looks for in transportation options, and if you have a running vehicle, why not be afforded this liberty?” Ballard said.

Ballard believes the student body needs to show the administration that parking is an issue and that it needs to be addressed immediately. “ There needs to be a collective effort, across the board, to communicate the expansive needs for parking at UH. …

Parking has been an issue for students at this university for far too long, and students need to rally around that frustration and convert it directly into change,” Ballard said.

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It offers more options. I’m currently taking TheBus to school right now. So it’s an alternative way to kind of cut back costs.

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TH O M A S WA N G SENIOR P O L I T I C A L SC I E N C E A N D A N T H R O P O LO G Y

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I think it’s better if they just provide us money so we can all get mopeds or bicycles. Because TheBus is pretty slow too. TheBus is inefficient. The transportation they give us, the Rainbow Shuttle thing, is inefficient too. It’s better off they just give us electric scooters so we can go off around the school. … Pretty much they should just give us our own transportation, our own private transportation and just increase the parking lots. …

I take a motorcycle.

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“What do you think about taking alternative modes of transportation (other than driving or driving alone) to campus?

Would you take an alternative mode?”

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I think it’s a good idea.

I mean, it’s environmentally efficient. And it like reduces traffic on the roads.

So I think it’s a great idea. ... Yeah, I would (take an alternative mode of transportation).

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M A N A H I R AO K JUNIOR K I N E S I O LO G Y

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I’m not really too sure.

I don’t really have a personal vehicle. I really just catch rides with friends. … I live on campus, but like as far as getting to other places, I just get a ride from somebody.

”

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Calling all photographers: workshops on campus K ARISSA MONTANIA Associate Features Editor “The lens is the brush, the camera is the canvas, the fi le is the sheet music and the print is the symphony.” This is the title of photographer Vincent Versace’s public lecture that he will be hosting at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa from Sept. 12 to 14, along with two other workshops: “How to Light with a Single Solar Point Light Source” and “From Soup to Nuts: A Photoshop Workfl ow for Photographers.”

UH Mānoa invited Versace to host a public talk focusing on his journey in photography. Versace will speak about the methods he takes in creating images, his use of cameras, and the process behind why he makes certain decisions within his photography. “ The world around me (inspires me). From the f lower growing in a f lowerpot to the Taj Mahal: The world we live in is an inspiring place,” Versace said in an email inter view. “I don’t take photographs – they take me. I believe that you

should not take a photograph but be taken by your photographs. It is my job to tell the truth and see the pretty.”

Based in Los Angeles, Versace began his interest with photography at the age of seven with the help of his uncle, a wedding photographer, who introduced it to him. Versace is also the author of how-to books, “From Oz to Kansas: Almost Every Black & White Technique Known to Mankind” and “Welcome to Oz 2.0: A Cinematic Approach to Digital Still Photography with Photoshop.”

Versace advises aspiring photographers to take photos daily.

“Be tenacious, don’t let self doubt be the beast that consumes you from the inside,” Versace said.

“Always carry a camera, other than your smart phone, and take at least one photograph – one of your lunch with an iPhone doesn’t count – every day and create at least one finished photograph a week.”

Versace’s public lecture will be on Thursday, Sept. 12 at 7 p.m. in the UH Mānoa Art Building Auditorium.

His noncredit workshop, “How to Light with a Single Solar Point

Light Source,” will be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sept.13 and 14 at Krauss Hall 12 for $225. The workshop will explore concepts of shooting portraits as landscapes and focusing on forms of natural light.

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“From Soup to Nuts: A Photoshop Workflow for Photographers,” will be held at the Sinclair Library Basement 3 for $150. This workshop will be an all day intensive class specializing in techniques used to create images that best showcase the photographer’s voice and vision.

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ANSWER Coalition and other groups organized a mass protest on Sept. 7.

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U.S. policy should turn its focus to protecting civilians PIA L OPEZ The Sacramento Bee

The United Nations special envoy to Syria warned, “The situation in Syria is bad. Very, very bad.” He continued, “If, God forbid, this crisis continues for another year, it will not only kill 25,000. It will kill 100,000.”

That was December. Today, the civil war in Syria is a humanitarian disaster.

In 2 1/2 years, 110,000 people have been killed. More than 2 million refugees have fled Syria. Some 4.25 million people have been displaced from their homes.

That is nearly one-third of Syria’s prewar population of 22.5 million.

Yet the U.N. Security Council has not acted, blocked by Russia and China. Nor has the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, with European countries divided. Nor the Arab League, whose 22 members also are divided.

Even after poison gas killed more than 1,400 people in the eastern suburbs of Damascus on Aug. 21, the international community remains paralyzed.

That atrocity has changed the debate in the United States, but with the prospect of acting largely alone — with support only from France, Turkey and Israel, and behindthe-scenes support from Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.

We are seeing a post-Iraq hangover.

World leaders who support intervention face extreme public skepticism about any

claims of chemical weapons use after the Bush administration’s deliberate — or deluded — misinformation about Saddam Hussein’s “weapons of mass destruction” to sell the Iraq invasion in 2003. That was a major factor in the British Parliament’s Aug. 30 vote not to support military action.

Equally damaging, Hussein used mustard gas and sarin against Iran in the 198088 Iran-Iraq War and against his own people in northern Iraq in 1988, killing 3,000 to 5,000 people. Though the State Department argued at the time that the United States should respond or lose credibility in our official opposition to chemical weapons, the Reagan administration balked and continued to provide support to Hussein.

That emboldened Hussein to further aggression. If we do nothing again, Syria’s Bashar Assad will use every weapon at his disposal to survive — and rogue regimes elsewhere will take comfort.

That past also makes it difficult for the United States to argue that Russia should drop its support for Assad – and gives cover to the Russians and Chinese who denounce U.S. condemnation of the Syrian regime’s use of chemical weapons for crossing “humanity’s red line” as hypocrisy.

Historian Keith David Watenpaugh, who directs the UC Davis Human Rights Initiative, pointed out that civil wars tend to end in two ways: One side has a decisive victory (U.S. Civil War, 1861-65) or the sides reach a state of

mental and moral exhaustion where the cost of continuing war is more than the cost of talking with the enemy (Lebanon, 1975-90).

Decisive victory either by the regime or the rebels is not going to happen in Syria. Observers note that the rebels control 60 percent to 70 percent of Syrian territory while the regime controls 60 percent to 70 percent of the population. Outside nations provide weapons and money to both sides. With momentum in the last couple of months shifting to the regime, President Barack Obama is asking Congress for authority to “degrade” the regime’s capabilities to change the balance, with the aim of bringing both sides to the negotiating table.

UCL A historian James Gelvin said that this strategy to “restore a stalemate” is an “extraordinarily cynical plan, prolonging the bloodbath deliberately.”

The idea that limited surgical strikes would force Assad and the rebels to the bargaining table Gelvin believes is a “harebrained scheme.”

A third way that civil wars end, Gelvin points out, is in failed states like Somalia, with both sides locked down into militia-controlled areas. Syria already has become a sectarian conflict, pitting the Sunni Arab majority against the ruling Alawite Shias.

Watenpaugh rightly observes that, “The president’s proposed course of action is not about protecting the lives of Syrians — in that way it isn’t a humanitarian intervention.” He believes the United States should reset its Syria policy around two principles

– civilian protection, and relief for refugees and internally displaced persons.

Lebanon has 716,000 registered refugees from Syria — Jordan, 515,000; Turkey, 460,000; Iraq, 168,000; Egypt, 110,000. This, of course, is destabilizing these countries.

The best way to minimize the harm to the region, Watenpaugh believes, is to “mitigate the effects of the refugees on Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and Egypt — it is also the humane thing to do.” He adds: “By helping Syrians we build a reservoir of good will for ourselves in the region that will benefit us.

Trust me, the refugee camps are full of recruiters for jihadi groups like al-Qaida.”

A solution, he says, also should include “civilian safe zones” within Syria. Turkey supports the idea; it shouldn’t be difficult to win support from other neighboring nations with refugees.

A successful model would be “Operation Provide Comfort,” where the United States and allies established a civilian safe zone in northern Iraq after the first Gulf War. This, however, is not for the faint of heart. It requires major military intervention – a no-fly zone and boots on the ground, such as Arab League forces.

A strike to deter future chemical attacks certainly is morally and legally justified. Humanitarian relief for Syrians is a human responsibility. But let’s not pretend that Obama’s proposed limited surgical strike will bring about a negotiated settlement or save civilian lives.

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Sports

Mita Uiato:

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M ADDIE SAPIGAO Senior Staff Writer When watching volleyball, spectators tend to gravitate toward the big hitters and defense specialists. A player who is overlooked is the setter, who is often referred to as the “quarterback” of the team. But Rainbow Wahine senior setter Mita Uiato is not one to be disregarded.

“She’s just so confident,” said senior outside hitter Ashley Kastl.

“I look at Mita, and I just know that we’re not worried. We are all together. Mita just has this look about her like we are going to do this. It doesn’t matter if we drop one game, we are going to come back and win.”

L O N G B E AC H G ROW N Uiato’s hometown is Long Beach, Calif., where she attended Long Beach Poly High School and lettered three years in volleyball. During her time at Long Beach Poly, she was honored in the volleyball magazine Fab-50 and ranked No. 61 on prepvolleyball.com’s Senior Aces list.

LEVEL-HEADED Senior setter Mita Uiato (top) currently ranks second in the Big West with 10.6 assists per set.

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Uiato is described by teammates as quiet. Being the “quarterback” of the team, she is expected to be loud and assertive, but she is a leader in her own way. Her teammates know that she says the right things at the appropriate times and can calm them down.

“When she knows the hitter is in trouble, she takes a second, comes over and makes them feel relaxed and gives them the ball to kind of get them back in the game and in a rhythm,” said senior outside hitter Emily Hartong.

P R AC T I C E M A K E S P E R F E C T

Uiato has put in the work to achieve what she has in her time with the Rainbow Wahine. She works closely with former UH Olympic setter and current assistant coach Robyn Ah-Mow Santos to perform at the caliber that is expected of her.

“She works so hard with Robyn, and Robyn does a great job,” Kastl said. “But Robyn can only give her the tools. Mita has done a great job at taking everything she has learned and putting into action.”

T H E AWA R D S

In Uiato’s previous three years, she has compiled numerous honors and awards. Her sophomore year, Uiato was named to the First Team All-Western Athletic Conference and led the WAC in assists per set. In her junior year, she earned AVCA AllAmerican honorable mention, first team All-Big West and AVCA AllRegion honors. Last season, Uiato led the BWC with 1,180 assists.

“Mita is always just straight,” Kastl said. “She’s very confident, and it’s always level with her. There (are) never real highs or lows.”

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