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Student coalition strives to implement sustainability fee

$ NOELLE F UJII News Editor If students want a fee that will fund their green initiatives to be implemented by fall 2015, the Board of Regents needs to pass the proposal by fall 2014.

The student sustainability fund seeks to create a fi nancial means for supporting sustainable education, student initiatives, programs, research and engagement.

Antonia Agbannawag, member of the Student Sustainability Coalition of Hawai‘i/Hui Haumāna Mālama Hawai‘i, said the fee would occur like a student health fee and athletic fee.

“We envision the (student sustainability fund) to be student controlled – a fund that students have access to and a fund that a committee of students and carefully selected faculty will preside over,” she said.

Agbannawag is the chairwoman of the SSCH’s policy and advocacy committee, which is spearheading the initiative.

Each campus would manage their own fees, but currently, the committee is researching and determining what the structure and process of that committee and funding process might be.

“We want to make sure it’s done right, and we want to make sure that it’s inclusive of everyone else because it’s the system,” Agbannawag said. “We’re still one UH.”

A ʻM I N I M A Lʼ F E E According to Agbannawag, the committee is thinking of $5 as the initial cost.

“That’s pretty minimal, but with everyone putting that fee forward, that’s a lot,” Agbannawag said. “That’s a big pot of money.”

She said that with the Board of Regents’ adoption of the sustainability policy, sustainability is now an institutional goal.

“As the University of Hawai‘i system faces revenue shortfalls and budget cuts, funding for sustainability efforts is difficult to secure,” she said.

Student Regent Jeffrey Acido thinks the spirit of the fee is to be able to implement the vision of a sustainable system and campus.

“I hope students are able to see this not as an added fee but an incentive to create a greener campus,” he said.

The fee would save a lot of money for the university, according to Agbannawag, as it doesn’t have a lot of money at hand to work on many of the sustainability issues.

$$ “We’ve been researching a lot into that, and we’ve found that there’s about a 20 to 50 percent return on investment and mitigating those costs for the universities because there’s so much good progress that comes of this investment,” Agbannawag said.

According to Interim Associate Vice President for Student Affairs Jan Javinar, the process of getting a student fee implemented includes “proof of a need, preliminary budget plans, preliminary operational plans and proof of

I hope students are able to see this not as an added fee but an incentive to create a greener campus.

JEFFREY ACIDO consultation of students, including discussions with the two student governments, ASUH and GSO.” He said a proposal in the form of an Action Memo to the Board of Regents would also be required, along with a consultation with the Mānoa Fee Advisory committee for this campus.

He said other campuses may or may not have this step.

S T U D E N T S H AV E C O N T RO L The fee would be applied toward all students in the system, and all members, groups and departments can apply for funds.

According to Agbannawag, proposals must meet the requirement that use of funds benefits students and facilitates student leadership.

The SSCH committee has begun to develop criteria for projects applying for funding.

A student-filled committee at each campus will meet and see if applications pass the initial criteria. If the applications pass the criteria, they move on to the deciding board.

Agbannawag said the Associated Students of the University of Hawai‘i and the Graduate Student Organization of each campus that has one will appoint a graduate and undergraduate representative, who are not members of these governing bodies, to be on a decision-making board.

That board of delegates would have the final say in what’s funded and how much funding is given by identifying which, of all projects that meet the criteria, are most important.

“This is because the fee is across the board, and it reinforces

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that our sustainability efforts are all connected and working toward the same goals,” Agbannawag said. “It fosters coordination and cooperation across all campuses and brings multiple perspectives to a decision.”

Acido said he is supportive of fees that are studentled and managed.

Richard Mizusawa, president of ASUH, thinks it makes sense for students to play a major role in the implementation and decision-making of where funds go that will help UH move toward being a sustainable place for students. But, he thinks it would require some administrative or advisory oversight to ensure the SSCH is held accountable for the actions it takes while being in charge of student fee monies.

“I would recommend having staff or advisers be a part of the board, to serve as advisers on best practices, liaisons to the university administration and to provide a different perspective on decisions,” he said.

Mizusawa said ASUH is not currently active in the fee’s implementation and has not yet taken a stance on the matter, but he is open to seeing what ASUH can do to help address the needs of its constituency by working with the SSCH on their next steps in going into the future.

According to Thomas Robinson, president of GSO, the graduate student government also hasn’t taken a position on the fee, as GSO has yet to hear of it.

But he thinks the university and state should be working on greening projects.

“The students shouldn’t have to fund environmentally friendly improvements to the campus,” he said. “That is the job of the university. It makes no sense for us to fund campus improvements. I think it’s more important for students to lobby the Board of Regents and the chancellors on each campus to encourage them to do the right thing instead of charging students for campus improvements.”

RECEIVING STUDENT INPUT The SSCH will be sending out a survey in the near future to see what students think about a student sustainability fund.

“The ultimate goal of the survey in the big picture is just to be able to say, ‘Yes this many students support and they support this specifically and they want this out of it specifically,’ so we can also curtail our plan to exactly what students are asking for,” Agbannawag said.

Students will also be able to give input on the amount of the fee.

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The Pokémon you knew as a kid has changed.

Fear not, though: The game and the culture that surrounds the 1990s card game and television show are going through a renaissance, according to members of University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa’s Pokémon club, “Pokémon Club 2 at Hawai‘i.”

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T H E C R E AT I O N The club, founded in 2012 by marine biology doctoral student Nin Gan, is one of dozens founded in recent years at universities around the world.

It’s also the second that Gan has founded — the fi rst he created at the University of California Berkeley two years earlier.

“College kids are remembering the game from their childhood,” Vice President Colin Seifer said.

“It’s going through a retro phase now.”

THE INTEREST Part of that fresh interest has been fueled by new ways of enjoying the game, including online friend exchanges that allow players to fi nd new battle opponents and “Twitch Plays Pokémon,” a crowd-sourced, Internet version of Pokémon Blue that alloed players to play the classic game collectively by typing commands into chat on a website.

All of these new spins on the classic game have made it more of an individual experience and decreased incentive for players to meet in person, Gan said.

“It’s made meeting obsolete,” he said. “With wireless systems, there are a lot more closet players.”

Many players will enjoy the game anonymous-

ly without ever knowing the people they battle personally, Seifer said.

“They’ll never talk to the person, but they’ll trade with them,” he said.

THE MEETINGS

Still, the club’s head offi cers said they’re working to connect those who play the game in person.

When enough members are able to meet, they said the club breaks members into small groups for tournaments. They are hoping for more members so they can play bigger tournaments and meet more often.

The club primarily plays the video games now rather than using the cards. Gan and Seifer said that they predict new versions of the game will continue to be released in the near future, so the gaming never gets old.

The club is also considering joining activities with other campus clubs as a way to drum up interest in Pokémon.

When members can’t fi gure out a time to meet, the club members still interact. Gan said the club shares information, from memes to news about upcoming game releases, with a group of followers on their Facebook page.

Gan and Seifer hope Pokémon will remain popular so the club will live on.

If you are interested in joining Meetings are every two weeks or as determined by club membership. Contact Nin Gan at uhpokemon@gmail.com or the “Pokémon Club 2 at Hawai‘i” page on Facebook.

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Opinions Sociopaths: malicious or misunderstood?

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K EN R EYES Senior Staff Writer

Benedict Cumberbatch’s portrayal of Sherlock Holmes in the hit BBC series “Sherlock” became the face of the modern-day sociopath. With his cynical wit, relatively clear lack of empathy and antisocial behavior, Sherlock dubbed himself as a “high-functioning sociopath.”

But as eccentric and antagonistic as his character is portrayed in television, sociopathic tendencies in real life are more common than you believe. And individuals who are diagnosed with this disorder are often marginalized and struggle against the stereotype that they are mentally insane and dangerous.

W H AT M A K E S A S O C I O PAT H?

The American Psychiatric Association’s “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual on Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition” defines sociopathy, also known as antisocial personality disorder, as “a pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others that begins in childhood, or early adolescence and continues into adulthood.”

The pattern is characterized by the inability to fit into social norms in regards to lawful behavior, continuous and habitual lying, impulsivity and irresponsibility, heightened aggression, disregard for others and an absence of remorse. However, the most prominent traits are often lack of conscience, guilt and empathy.

According to Harvard psychologist and author of “The Sociopath Next Door” Martha Stout, one in 25 people in America are undetected sociopaths. Researchers at the University of Leiden and the Max Planck Institute for Human Development conducted a study regarding incarcerated adolescents between the ages of 15 and 21 in the Netherlands who have been diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder.

Wouter van den Bos, lead author for the study, found that sociopathy is linked to underdeveloped brain regions that are responsible for controlling impulses and processing social information. He also mentioned that the disorder can be traced back to a person’s teenage years, when the brain is nearing its physical development process.

“Adolescence is a time of multiple physical, neurological and social changes,” van den Bos said in an article on the Max Planck website. “This study with adolescents offers us a better understanding of what happens during this sensitive phase and how things can go astray, resulting in the development of antisocial behaviors.”

U S AGA I N S T T H E M? T H I N K AGA I N The study explained why sociopaths think, feel and behave the way they do. In an interview with Interview Magazine, Stout recanted that sociopaths are all about “controlling things … manipulating people.” She also mentioned that those people tend to be charming and scheming, which makes them difficult to spot.

Despite the fact that sociopaths possess a personality disorder that many of us may have a difficult time relating to, she seemed to regard that these people are purely indifferent and incapable of social adequacy and affection.

But that may not be true in every case. M.E. Thomas, a self-confessed sociopath, challenged those views in her memoir, “Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight.”

“I think a complex emotion like love is made up of all sorts of little emotions,” she said in an interview on NPR. org. “And our particular cocktail of love is going to look or feel different to us, but it’s still there.”

She also expressed her concerns in regards to the way people view sociopaths like herself.

“Most people interact with sociopaths in positive ways and don’t realize it,” she said. “It’s only when we catch them, and they are in prison, and we have gone through this lengthy trial to point out all the bad things that they’ve done, that we start thinking that sociopaths are bad.”

Thomas made a point in noting that society tends to associate sociopaths with criminals, social outcasts and high-IQ intellectuals. The media is also scattered with reports on criminals who are diagnosed with the disorder, further fueling the stereotype that all of them are heinous people with malicious dispositions and intentions.

And the matter extends far beyond those who are labeled as sociopath. Individuals who are diagnosed with other mental disorders face similar prejudice associated with their “illness.” They lose their individuality, as people perceive them for only their illness.

In Hawai‘i, more than 32,000 adults live with serious mental illness and around 12,000 children live with serious mental health conditions. They are everyday people you see in classrooms, on campus, in supermarkets, at work and maybe even at home. So, before we start pointing our fi ngers at all the “evil” around us, we need to re-evaluate our quick impulse to negatively judge those with mental illness because they are often not that different from the rest of society, struggling to live their lives.

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I Ulu Nō ka Lālā i ke Kumu na Aleka Lyman Aloha pumehana mai kākou e nā pua mae ‘ole mai ka hikina a ka lā i Kumukahi, a i ka napo‘o ‘ana a ka lā i Lehua. ʻO kaʻu ‘ōlelo noʻeau punahele ka inoa o kēia wahi ‘akikala. Aia nō ia i loko o ka puke ‘o ʻŌlelo Noʻeau na Mary Kawena Pukui . Piha ua puke nei i 2942 mau ʻōlelo noʻeau a Pukui i ʻohiʻohi ai, i unuhi ai, a i hōʻakāka ai hoʻi. ʻAʻole i kana mai ka nani o ka manaʻo kahiko, a nui ʻino nā manaʻo naʻauao mai nā kūpuna mai e pili ana i kēia mau ‘ikena; ka lani i luna a me ka honua i lalo, ka moana a me ka mauna, ka mahina a me ka lā, ka iʻa a me ka lāʻau a pēlā aku. Eia kekahi mea hoihoi iaʻu, hoʻohālikelike ‘ia ia mau manaʻo me ka nohona kānaka. Ma ka ʻōlelo noʻeau #1261: “I ulu nō ka lālā i ke kumu.” ‘Aʻole e ulu ka lālā me ka ‘ole o ke kumu. Pēlā nō me nā kānaka. ‘Aʻole hiki iā kākou ke ulu me ka ‘ole o nā kūpuna, ‘o ia ho‘i, ‘o ko kākou kumu paʻa. ʻO nā aʻa hoʻi o ia kumulāʻau, ʻo ia nō ke kumu, ʻo nā kūpuna kuakahi a kualua a pēlā aku, i ulu ai nā kūpuna a me nā mākua e noho nei me kākou. Hoʻokahi nō kumulāʻau o ka ʻohana.

Eia ka mea ʻāpiki, i kēia mau lā, ʻaʻole paha hoʻomaopopo pono ka hapa nui o nā kānaka i ke ‘ano a me ka nohona o nā kūpuna.

‘Aʻole ho‘i i maopopo leʻa iaʻu iho.

Eia nō au, kekahi wahi lālā, ke ulu nei mai ke kumulāʻau o koʻu mau kūpuna, akā, ‘aʻole au e pili pono me ke kumu e ulu ai. I kuʻu wā e

ulu aʻe ana, ʻaʻole au i aʻo mai i nā mea a koʻu mau kūpuna a me koʻu moʻomeheu Hawaiʻi. Nāwaliwali paha koʻu hoʻopili ‘ana i koʻu kumu ma muli o kēia aʻo kakaʻikahi.

Kamaʻāina hoʻi ‘oukou i kēia ‘ike ‘ole? ʻAʻole kēia he moʻolelo i malihini iā kākou, ʻeā? ‘Aʻole paha nui ke kahe ‘ana aʻe o nā māhuaole mai nā aʻa o ko kākou mau kūpuna a hiki i ko kākou lālā. He minamina kēia kahe liʻiliʻi. ʻO ka māhuaole, ʻo ka ʻike hoʻi i nā lālā.

He kuleana ko kākou i ka hoʻonui ‘ana i ke kahe ‘ana o ka ‘ike mai ka ‘āina o ka wā kahiko.

He mea pono nā māhuaole i mea e ulu ai a e paʻa ai ko kākou lālā.

Inā e ʻike pono kākou i ke ʻano o ke kumulāʻau a kākou i ulu mai ai, hiki iā kākou ke hoʻomaopopo pono i nā kuleana ponoʻī i mea e kūkulu ai i ke kahua paʻa no nā lālā aʻe—kā kākou mau keiki. ʻO kēia nō ka manawa pono i ka mālama ‘ana a me ke kaʻana ʻana i ka ʻike mai ka wā kahiko mai! ʻO kēia nō ka manawa koʻikoʻi e nīnauele ai i ko kākou mau kūpuna a me ko kākou mau mākua i nā mea a lākou i hoʻomanaʻo ai mai ko lākou wā ‘ōpio mai a me nā moʻolelo mai ka wā kahiko mai. Pēlā nō e ho‘ohanohano ai i nā kumu a me nā aʻa. E pili pono aku kākou i ko kākou kumu paʻa e ola ai.

Ua paʻa ke kumu, e ulu kākou, nā lālā.

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Sports

Wahine turning season around in Big West play JEREMY NIT TA Senior Staff Writer @Nitta_ Jeremy After several key members of the Rainbow Wahine softball team were lost to graduation last season, conventional wisdom suggested that it was only natural that Hawai‘i would take a step back from the previous year’s 45-13 mark.

But not many expected the team to struggle the way it has so far this season. The ‘Bows failed to win any of the five preseason tournaments they participated in and held a losing record at 13-14 after the tournaments concluded, their worst start since the 2009 squad also opened with 13 wins.

A QUICK FIX Hawai‘i seemed to right the ship during its past road trip, when it went 5-0 to push its record back above the .500 mark. The wins have also done wonders for a young team struggling to find any kind of consistency.

“We’re playing with more of a conviction now,” senior catcher Sharla Kliebenstein said. “We realize we’re in conference play now, and we spent the preseason trying to figure out where we were as a team. But now that we’re finally putting it all together, I think that it’s causing everyone to play with more of a drive.”

That conviction proved to be essential in all of Hawai‘i’s wins last

weekend, as the ‘Bows trailed in each game before coming back to win.

“We were starting to come up with more clutch hits during the trip,” junior designated player Kayla Wartner said. “When we had runners on base, we were coming up with hits to move them around and score them. But early in the year we weren’t, and sometimes we weren’t getting runners on at all.”

Wartner and Kliebenstein combined to hit .428 during the road trip, with five home runs. The success by the pair is especially encouraging considering that both players were struggling offensively heading into the trip.

“For Kayla, we needed her to wake up,” head coach Bob Coolen said. “She’d been our number two hitter for two years now and had been thriving. But in the preseason tournaments, she struggled, and her production was not where she wanted it to be. But now, she’s starting to hit for power again. And Sharla’s always had the ability to hit for power. And in her career she’s always gotten off to a slow start in the preseason, then comes on strong in conference play.

It’s always taken her a while to get started, and right now she’s got it.”

A HARSH REALIT Y The ‘Bows’ five-game winning streak is their longest of the season.

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Despite the recent run of success, Coolen is trying to keep the wins in perspective. “We’re beating the teams we’re supposed to beat,” he said. “If you look at the teams we played in this road trip, on paper we were supposed to beat them. Now, we’re about to face the teams that on paper are better than us, and that’s going to be huge for us.”

Coming up on the schedule for the ‘Bows are Cal State Fullerton, Long Beach State, Cal Poly and UC Santa Barbara. Each team boasts at least 20 wins, more than the 18 Hawai‘i has earned at this point of the season.

“In the conference, a lot of the teams played tough preseason schedules, and it made them better,” Coolen said. “Along the way, they beat some good teams, and it gave them confidence. You look at us, and our only good win is over California, and they’re in a down year. If we don’t pull it all together now and beat these teams, then we aren’t going anywhere. We’re going to have to do some magical things if we want to do well again in the Big West.”

LOOKING TO THE FUTURE Coolen’s players, while pleased with their recent success, are not blind to this reality and know what lies before them if they hope to defend their Big West title. Coolen’s

concerns have been heeded by his team, and they hope to prove doubters wrong.

“He keeps telling us that we needed to find that conviction and play with some chemistry, but I don’t think everyone understood what he wanted us to do,” Kliebenstein said.

“But I think that during this road trip, we started figuring out what it was that he was talking about. Everything he’s been saying to us is starting to make sense to us.”

Wartner agreed, pointing to the improved bonding among teammates, as well as the team’s recent development as signs of better things to come.

“I’m not going to lie; it’s gotten pretty frustrating,” Wartner said.

“This year, I think we’ve already passed our loss total for the last two years. It’s been difficult because I’ve been a part of teams that were well established and talented, and this year it’s been a lot different. But at the same time, we have to be patient and understand that this is a young team.”

And for Coolen, all he can do is keep pushing his young squad and hope that it comes through for him.

“The wins showed the girls that we are talented enough to beat the teams that we’re supposed to beat,” Coolen said. “Now, it’s a matter of us going out and beating the teams that everyone else thinks is better than us.”

SHANE GRACE / KA LEO O HAWAI‘I

Junior designated player Kayla Wartner smacked two home runs in three games against UC Riverside last weekend.

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