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Paradise Palms reopening with new vendors K IM CLARK Associate News Editor After being closed for fi ve months, Paradise Palms has reopened with The Curb, L&L Barbecue, India Café, Super Gyros, Panda Express and Domino’s as its new vendors.

“The vendors were chosen based on what they could offer the University,” Food Services Manager A ndy

Lachman said in an email. “We wanted a diverse group of vendors that could add to the variety of the program. Overall, I think we were very successful in selecting good vendors for the space.”

The reasons for the closing in January have not been released, but Lachman said the vendors now operate separately, which will keep Paradise Palms from closing again. “ T he new business model for Paradise Palms allows us to switch out individual vendors while the other vendors remain operational,” L achman said in an email. “ T his should ensure that Paradise Palms will remain open in the event of a similar situation to what occurred in spring.”

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THE CURB The Curb, which was formerly a food truck on campus, offers specialty coffee and tea along with pastries and light food. The Curb has an express window that is cash only while the main building is open, and it also stays open later than Paradise Palms.

Although Starbucks opened on Monday in Campus Center, owner Sumner Ohye said he is not worried about competing with the new store. “ The stuff we’re bringing in is so fresh we let it age, whereas some of the main competitors are bringing stuff in by boat and are not using local beans,” Ohye said. “You can really taste the freshness.”

Ohye said sustainability is important at The Curb. The countertops at the express window were made from a Radford High School basketball court. The Curb also uses eco-friendly cups and offers a discount for customers who use their own cups.

L & L BA R B E C U E Tony Shi is the franchise owner of L&L Barbecue, and he said he wanted a location on campus because he is a UH alumnus.

L &L ser ves local food, and the most common items are lunch plates with two scoops of white rice, a scoop of macaroni salad and choice of meat. They also offer a healthier version with brown rice, tossed salad and choice of meat.

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L&L serves breakfast items, such as bacon and eggs, from 7:45 a.m.-10:30 a.m. Shi said that in the fall, L&L will serve the full menu that he has at his other store except for a few less popular items.

INDIA CAFÉ India Café has relocated from Webster Hall to Paradise Palms and will now have new dishes with an expanded menu. Owner

Jiva Segaran said India Café has unique cuisine because of his family’s background.

“Our family is really diverse,” Segaran said. “My dad’s Indian but he grew up in Malaysia, so that’s why the Malaysian fl air’s on there.

And my wife is Indian but her dad is from Trinidad, so there’s the Caribbean Indian style.”

Segaran also owns Super Gyros, which is attached

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to India Café. He said Super Gyros serves “healthy, fast, affordable” food. In addition to gyros, Super Gyros also has other options such as salad.

HONOLULU GOURMET Honolulu Gourmet was founded in 2008 and has its first retail location in Paradise Palms.

The food, which includes sandwiches and salads, is prepackaged for grab and go. Honolulu Gourmet also has frozen yogurt machines, and it will have a promotion for frozen yogurt for the grand opening.

Honolulu Gourmet owner Jill Lee said she thinks it is important to support local farmers, and she buys produce and vegetables directly from farmers.

Lee also said her business offers many vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free options.

“I think it’s really important to offer things that are healthy and also can take care of certain people’s allergies,” Lee said.

Summer hours: Mon-Fri 7:45 a.m.-2 p.m.

The Curb express window is open until 3 p.m.

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The cuisine at Panda Express is “American and Chinese mix” according to store manager Priscilla Quinones.

Panda Express currently serves lunch, but Quinones said they are looking into offering breakfast in the fall as well.

“This is our first university location in Hawai‘i, so I want to invite all the students and faculty to come give it a try. We do have the basic Panda menu. Especially for students who have limited time – you could get in and out in less than five minutes.”

Panda Express will pass out coupons for the grand opening as well as advertise around campus.

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Domino’s is the only vendor that is currently closed, which is due to its pizza ovens having to be shipped.

Lachman said it will open before the Paradise Palms grand opening, which is tentatively scheduled for Aug. 28.

Fall hours: Mon-Fri 7 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

The Curb express window will be open until 7 p.m.

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Local actor stars as revered saint in UH’s ‘Damien’ R YAN MCK INLEY Staff Writer

Dann Seki, a University of Hawai‘i at M ā noa alumnus, is an actor and storyteller that people may recognize from “Hawai‘i Five- 0,” the 2006 Hawai‘i International Film Festival trailer and many local stage productions. This month, he portrays Father Damien in playwright A ldyth Morris’ “Damien,” a collaboration be tween the UH M ā noa Outreach College and the M ā noa Readers/Theatre Ensemble.

The one-man play tells the story of Joseph Damien de Veuster, Father (or Saint) Damien of Moloka‘i. “This [play] is interesting because it is told in fl ashback,” Seki said in an email interview. “At the beginning of the play, Damien’s body is being sent back to Belgium. I [as Damien] appear and tell my story – of coming to Hawai‘i, life at Kalaupapa and returning to Belgium.”

The play is a drama, focusing on Damien’s legacy of first coming to Hawai‘i in 1864, and choosing to stay and ser ve the needs of people with Hansen’s disease who had been forced to relocate to an isolated peninsula on Moloka‘i.

A LENGTHY RESUME Seki, a retired audiologist and A rmy reser vist, has been interested in performance since his days at ‘A iea High School. He started acting in the 1980s, appearing in local T V commercials that led to stage, film and T V series work. He is also a member of many performance organizations, such as the Screen Actors Guild.

Seki liked “Damien” immediately but was hesitant about the production, “A one-man play is daunting,” he said. “The biggest difficulty is that you don’t have other actors to work with and lean on, [but] the benefit is that you have the freedom to move about the stage.”

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“Damien” first premiered at Kennedy Theatre in 1976, directed by and starring former UH professor Terence Knapp.

The production won a number of honors and was filmed for PBS. “ The pressure is there,” Seki said, after being asked how he felt about taking a role identified with another actor. “[K napp] did such a mar velous job. I should mention that this production is a staged reading.

So it will not be a full production as Terence’s was.”

To prepare for the role, Seki did his research. “Except for the newspaper coverage of Damien’s [canonization], I knew very little about Damien,” Seki said. “ We did research into [Damien’s] personality … how he said or reacted to things.”

In addition to researching the role, Seki also had to alter his physical appearance to play the role. “Damien had a beard and a full head of hair,” he said.

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Twelve were killed and 58 were injured on July 20, when alleged perpetrator James Holmes opened fire on the crowd during a midnight screening of “The Dark Knight Rises.”

The tragic mass murder that occurred at “The Dark Knight Rises” premiere in Aurora, Colo., was shocking, horrifying and completely unpredictable. The American media and law enforcement reactions, however, have been 100 percent predictable.

up their security and are looking into more ways they can prevent such crimes in the future.

I am not disparaging the memory of those lost in Colorado this weekend. Yet the American reaction has left me feeling – for lack of a better word – dirty. These reactions are just so typical and overblown they’re making my head spin.

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Hours after the shooting hit the news, we all came together on our various social networking sites to discuss and cope with this terrible event.

It wasn’t long before news websites began soliciting readers for their reactions: “Were you there or do you have thoughts about the shooting? Share your story on CNN iReport.” Soon the questions changed to: “Can you feel safe at the movies?” Movieline.com, a movie review website, even went so far as to run an article with the headline “You Will Never Feel Safe in a Movie Theater Again.”

Less than a day after the shooting, police were dispatched to theaters across the nation and encouraged patrons and employees to “report any suspicious activity.”

Theaters across the nation amped

The active calls for first-hand accounts and “tributes to the victims” seem smarmy from sites that profit off page counts, and what better way to create news stories than to have random, unpaid people generate content?

Fear of the theater is just flat-out ridiculous. Everyone, regardless of location, is vulnerable at any given time. To fear a place because a killing took place there, or at a similar venue, at some point in the past is ludicrous. That would rule out nearly every public area in the nation, since murders have occurred everywhere from schools to concerts.

The amped-up security is perhaps the most infuriating reaction to Aurora’s heartbreaking ordeal.

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We are becoming a reactionary society that responds to every security threat with an increase in law enforcement. We have even created a massive, and in some cases inept, federal agency to scrutinize us when we travel.

Will we soon have metal detectors at the theater? Will we create an “Entertainment Security Administration” in response to one man’s rampage?

Now that America’s short grieving process is coming to a close, a debate is beginning over the issues of gun control and mental healthcare. Do guns kill people or do people kill people? Could this man have been helped by better mental health services?

Yet none of the major political players are willing to take a side on these topics and demand policy changes that would prevent these tragedies from happening again. By failing to change the American violence problem, the Colorado victims will fade into memory and be forgotten… Until the next mass murder occurs.

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According to Ross Oshiro, an improperly fitted football helmet can increase the risk of head trauma.

Oshiro said that what he and other high school trainers are trying to do is create a support system to help an injured athlete recover.

“We want them to know that they have family and friends to help them recover,” said Oshiro. “We also want there to be others helping to monitor the athlete’s behavior, and how the symptoms are.”

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The concussion clinic tomorrow will feature Oshiro, Dr. Ben Chun from Kaiser Permanente Sports Medicine and Dr. Jennifer King from Kapi‘olani Orthopedic Associates. Jamie Higa, a former collegiate basketball player who is suffering from post-concussion syndrome, will also speak.

“Concussions don’t just happen to athletes. It can happen to an everyday person who falls down the stairs, or playing at the beach or surfi ng,” said Oshiro.

“Our goal is to reach out to a lot of people who may have young kids or family members.”

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Oshiro stressed the ability for coaches, trainers and athletes to recognize the signs, which in-

Oshiro debunked another myth when it comes to what happens after a concussion.

“Many people think you just need physical rest after a concussion, but you need cognitive rest as well, and that’s a very diffi cult concept for a lot of people to grasp,” said Oshiro.

Oshiro pointed to the growing use of multimedia, such as email, texting and Facebook as major reasons why getting cognitive rest is so difficult.

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Oshiro also said it’s important to get educators on board with handling concussions.

“An athlete might need certain accommodations made in the classroom,” said Oshiro. “They might need more time on a test, or they might need to wear sunglasses in the class if the light is bothering them, or maybe a note taker or the notes from the lecture so they can go over it at their own pace.”

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The Center for Disease Control estimates that 1.6 million to 3.8 million concussions happen every year in the United States. And the Hawai‘i Concussion Awareness and Management Program is doing its best to educate Hawai‘i about the dangers of concussions.

The program will be holding its second annual concussion clinic tomorrow at the UH Mānoa Athletic Department in room 242 from 6 p.m.-9 p.m.

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Penn State football. What’s the fi rst thing that comes to mind?

Is it media reports on the Jerry Sandusky scandal and Joe Paterno’s career? Or is it the $60 million the school needs to pay the NCA A in fi nes along with vacating all of its wins from 19982011 as penalty for said scandal?

Regardless, NCA A President Mark Emmert made clear Monday in a press conference that this is an unprecedented incident.

The punishment to Penn State also was implemented to make a statement.

“The lesson here is one of maintaining the appropriate balance of our values,” Emmert said.

“Why do we play sports in the fi rst place, and does that culture ever get to a point where it overwhelms the values of the academy? ... And if you fi nd yourself in a position where the athletic culture is taking precedent over the academic culture, then a variety of bad things can occur.

“One would obviously hope that we would never, ever see anything of this magnitude or egregiousness again in our lives, but we do have to make sure that the cautionary tale of athletics overwhelming the core values of an institution and losing sight of why we’re really participating in these activities can occur, and that’s the balance that every university needs to strike.”

All universities will think twice about committing another crime of this magnitude, but do universities get away with more minor types of offenses?

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A tainted Joe Paterno legacy serves as a lesson to all Division I institutions, according to Emmert.

One sticks out.

Warrior football head coach Norm Chow signed a fi ve-year contract worth $2.5 million dol lars, or $550,000 annually.

In contrast, UH Mānoa Chancel lor Thomas Apple receives an annual salary of $439,000 while UH Sys tem President M.R.C. Greenwood receives $371,340 per year with a monthly living stipend of $5,000.

Not to undermine Chow or other Division I football coaches around the nation, but this is a con tradiction to Emmert’s statement.

Chow leads a group of about 100 players and coaches. Apple leads an institution of over 20,000.

Does “ t he at hlet ic c ult ure t a ke precedent over t he aca dem ic c ult ure? ” Yes it does – in nearly every Division I program.

If Emmert wishes to have the academics come fi rst, as well it should be, then look no further than to salaries.

At the very least, the NCAA should institute a coaches’ salary cap. This should be the fi rst step The NCA A needs to take action instead of placing blame elsewhere. Or else way it stands now, all schools will continue to put athletics above academics.