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Administrators phone prospective UH Mānoa students LYNN NAK AGAWA Senior Staff Writer

Chancellor Virginia Hinshaw covered the receiver of the phone and leaned over to ask Thomas Bingham, dean of Arts and Humanities, if a student can double major in music and theater.

“We’ll make it happen!” said Bingham, who was also on the phone with a student.

Hinshaw, Bingham and deans from various schools participated in a phone bank Tuesday evening to call students who had been admitted to UH Mānoa but had not yet committed to a program.

Hinshaw called students who had been offered the Chancellor’s Scholarship to congratulate them on their acceptance and ask if they had any questions.

Students who are offered the scholarship demonstrate high academic achievement — a high school GPA of 3.8 or higher or a combined 1800 SAT score. The scholarship awards the student with $2,000 annually.

The phone bank is part of an effort to fulfi ll UH President M.R.C. Greenwood’s Hawai‘i Graduation Initiative. The initiative seeks to increase the University of Hawai‘i

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Chancellor Victoria Hinshaw made calls to prospective students on Tuesday night. The phone bank was held as part of an effort to increase local graduation rates by 2015. graduation rate by 25 percent by 2015. It is also a general outreach effort for upcoming high school graduates to hear fi rsthand what the schools and programs in their areas of interest are like.

“We want a higher graduation rate, that’s true. This is about getting great students to

come [to the university],” said Hinshaw. “It’s great to see the leadership team come in and show their passion for getting students to come to UH Mānoa and share in the workload.”

This is the fi rst year the chancellor and deans at UH Mānoa placed calls to prospective stu-

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dents and took their questions.

Some talked to parents, and others answered questions from inquisitive students. Bingham spent 15 minutes on the phone with a student who had many questions about the music program.

The event was planned by the Offi ce of Student Affairs and was

spearheaded by Alan Yang, associate vice chancellor for students and enrollment management.

“These are all outstanding students [they will be calling].

The intent is to extend ourselves to depict what we believe is the excellent student experience we offer here,” Yang said.

Also in attendance were Maenette Benham, dean of the Hawai‘inuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge; Richard Dubanoski, dean of the College of Social Sciences; Peter Crouch, dean of the College of Engineering; Tep Dobry, director of Academic Affairs for the College of Education; and Aaron Teramura, dean of the College of Natural Sciences. Other deans joined the chancellor on Wednesday evening for similar outreach efforts.

The Hawai‘i Graduation Initiative was announced by Greenwood in February 2010. It is meant to increase the educational capital in the state. According to a Georgetown University study, the demand for an increasingly skilled and educated workforce is growing steadily. This demand requires increased output from postsecondary institutions such as the university.

Mānoa unveils new degree JANE CALLAHAN Associate News Editor The University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa is offering a new degree that could make students out of school principals. Next fall, the College of Education will begin classes for the Professional Practice Doctorate in Education.

The new program is part of the Carnegie Project for Education Doctorate initiative, a campaign “aimed at strengthening the education doctorate” and producing “scholarly practitioners.” Currently a consortium of 24 schools, the project has grown popular with

state universities nationwide.

UH College of Education Dean Christine Sorensen said the university has had “a lot of support for this degree,” from the Hawai‘i Association of Independent Schools, Kamehameha Schools and the Department of Education. Sorensen has previous experience working with the CPED initiative fi ve years ago with another school.

The degree is designed specifically for high-level administrators like school principals, who will utilize the program to address See New education degree, next page

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real-life problems in local schools, such as curriculum issues, improvement in student reading ability and grade-specific obstacles.

The idea began three years ago in response to local schools voicing a need for improved educational systems.

Hunter McEwan, a professor in the Educational Foundations department, said “[Faculty] that knew what was happening at other schools approached the dean. Superintendent [Patricia] Hamamoto recommended representatives from other schools, and faculty suggested those who were interested in the project.” McEwan noted that the participants of the design team were not paid for their work. The team consisted of current school principals, people from the Department of Education central office and representatives from independent schools as well as Kamehameha Schools.

Building a degree program from scratch was a “protracted affair,” according to McEwan.

“We began putting it together

in 2008, meeting and planning as a cross-departmental group and involved people from other schools, and studied what other schools were doing. This was followed by a series of approval processes from the College of Education Senate, the Graduate Divisions, the Mānoa Senate and the Board of Regents,” McEwan said.

The Board of Regents approved the degree program on Jan. 20. UH is still seeking approval for the degree from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, which is why it is only open to Hawai‘i residents at this time.

The program is different from a Ph.D. in that it is geared towards active application of research and theory, whereas a Ph.D. focuses solely on research. In place of a traditional dissertation, students must implement a plan to deal with a specifi c problem in the educational field and present a report at a concluding conference. The program is broken into 40 percent face-to-face coursework, 20 percent online instruction and 40

percent field-based projects.

Sorensen described the first year of the program as a consultancy project, with an existing school problem for which student groups must find a solution. The second year involves the independent challenge and subsequent presentation. The debut class is expected to hold about 25 students.

“We are bringing together faculty, expertise and people in the field with considerable experience,” McEwan said.

Sorensen said the majority of the 24 schools in the consortium belonged in the same categor y as UH, as they were research institutions.

The information session held on Jan. 29 had a showing of over 100 people interested in the degree, which requires a completion of 64 credits at a cost of about $30,000. According to Sorensen and McEwan, the price tag is comparably reasonable.

“Looking at the cost of some other schools, we are offering a

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very good program for a reasonable rate,” said McEwan. “USC sends some students over here on weekends and it ends up costing $60,000.”

With the program just beginning, financial aid is not as concretely established as in other areas of study.

“We are working on that and pursuing additional assistance,” said Sorensen, who described a plan of action to seek support from other foundations and agencies.

“There’s no more state money to support these kind of things. We encourage students to apply for fi nancial aid, but we can’t promise it just now.”

With the state’s budget under strain and the recent end of Furlough Fridays, it remains to be seen whether schools can pay administrators who complete the Ed.D according to their level of expertise. “ They may not get a rise in pay,” said McEwan. “ There’s not much the university can do about that. It ’s a political issue,

one that unions and schools must deal with.”

McEwan added that those seeking to enter the program aren’t thinking about personal fi nancial gain, but rather improving schools on the islands.

Robert Witt, the executive director of the Hawai‘i Association for Independent Schools, said in a statement that the “new approach to improving and advancing leadership will soon be underway … this degree will benefit students … all across the state.”

McEwan agreed, saying, “We are all working to effect change.”

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Regime changes in Arab world based on action, not rhetoric SHANE MOORE Staff Writer

It may be true that a single person can make a bigger statement than an entire army, but a statement alone accomplishes nothing.

Revolution is on the rise in the Arab world. These uprisings can be traced to the civil unrest in Tunisia, down to one incident that set off riots across the region.

On Dec. 17, 2010, after suffering harassment and public humiliation at the hands of a police officer, Sidi Bouzid local Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in front of the regional gov-

ernment headquarters in protest of his mistreatment.

Bouazizi’s display inspired other politically driven suicides protesting poverty, repression and corruption within the Tunisian government.

These incidents served to incite the Tunisian citizenry, who took to the streets in protest. Tunisian police responded with a heavy hand, enforcing curfews, arresting dissenters and breaking up gatherings with tear gas and riot equipment.

In return, the Tunisian people rioted, raiding buildings and setting fi res within the capital. This show of force, coupled with crushing political criticism and a history

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The success of the Tunisian uprising has spilled over into other Arabic nations in the Middle East and North Africa, many of which suffer from the same political issues and economic strife. In response to massive protest in Egypt, president of 30 years Hosni Mubarak announced he would not contest the upcoming September election (riots in Egypt still continue, calling for his immediate resignation). Jordan has also seen the appointment of a new prime minister following similar riots.

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To see such a massive uprising in the Arabic world spawned by the protest of one man, where decades of foreign intervention and invasion have failed to do much more than replace one oppressive regime with another, goes to show the statement a single action can make.

Ultimately, it wasn’t Bouazizi’s statement that brought about the wave of change in the Middle East – it was the acts he inspired.

It was the massive protests against the status quo, the march of thousands and the grave actions of the few that brought down the oppressive regimes in the Middle East.

It’s nice to think that pretty

rhetoric and strong convictions can change the political world and replace military presence in international security and diplomacy, but it is an exercise in naïvete.

Just as the Arab uprisings have shown the power of rhetoric, they have demonstrated the need for action and, in some cases, strength of arms, to bring about change.

Fancy words will not disarm Iran’s budding nuclear program.

Well-written reprimands will not end North Korea’s mindless aggression. Application of force can sometimes be the only realistic means of achieving security, political reform or domestic freedoms.

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Birther fees could boost budget C HRIS M IKESELL Senior Staff Writer When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. But what can we do when life gives us birthers?

Sell birth certifi cates.

One of the more creative solutions to the state’s budget crisis comes in the form of House Bill 1116, sponsored by Reps.

R ida Cabanilla (D -Waipahu, ‘Ewa Beach), Jerr y Chang (D Hilo, Keaukaha), Joey Manahan ( D -Sand Island), John Mizuno (D -Kalihi Valley) and House

Speaker Calvin Say (D -Pālolo Valley, Kaimukī).

The bill, introduced last week, would allow the Hawai‘i Department of Health to do something birthers have been clamoring for: release copies of President Barack Obama’s birth certificate to the public for a paltr y $100 fee.

It sounds like a crazy idea if you think the people who re main unconvinced that Obama was born in Hawai‘i are just a mob of idiots.

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If HB 1116 passes, we can finally harness the vast, untapped vitriol of the Tea Party for something constructive. Everyone and their American-born-andcertainly-not-Kenyan grandma is going to want a copy of Obama’s birth certificate, original longform or not.

Birthers will probably say the thing is a fake, sure. But keep in mind this is the same demographic that buys the colorized coin proofs and two-dollar bills they see in commercials on FOX News.

Fakeness isn’t an issue here.

Gov. Abercrombie’s health director candidates have their work cut out for them. Nothing short of a Jedi mind trick is like ly to convince the birthers that this is all Obama legally needs to release.

If HB 1116 becomes law and Obama becomes part of the new class of “people of civic prominence” defi ned in the bill, this “birther tax” could be used to make sure we never have Furlough Fridays in our schools again.

There is a small chance, though, that the plan could backfire. But that will only happen if

we end up spending too much of this new revenue on our children’s education.

Sure, the money could make it possible for us to teach Hawai‘i’s children how to distinguish fact from opinion, something 45 percent of college students are unable to do, according to a recent New York University study.

But by teaching kids how to think critically, we would effectively be killing this golden goose.

It takes a lot of energy, time, money and effort for a society to raise smart children. But stupidity is sustainable.

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Cirque Wings E VA AVERY Weekend Venue Concert Correspondent Aerial dancers take fl ight 30 feet above the Cirque Wings stage at the Waikīkī Shell Amphitheater. Tumblers, trampoline acrobats, jugglers and gymnasts make up the new local talent of Cirque Wings, a circus that has grasped the illusion of fl ight.

“It’s about the passion of fl ying from ancient times to modern days. How humans thousands of years ago always dreamed of fl ying,” said Jill Hansen, Cirque Wings manager and aerial performer. “We start our show in ancient China with fl ying kites … then it goes from Leonardo Da Vinci and fl ying the wings that he created to the Wright brothers and that sort of direction.”

Cirque Wings is not short for Cirque de Soleil. Nor is it an overpriced Vegas attraction, but rather a locally born circus comprised of O‘ahu performers, some of whom are students at UH Mānoa. Ivo Gueorguiev, the director, has more than 40 years of experience in his craft. He has been part of the Cirque de Soleil as well as a director of other productions in New York.

Gueorguiev and Hansen worked together performing on a cruise ship and eventually

made their way to Hawai‘i to create Cirque Wings, where their vision for an up close and personal outdoor circus materialized into reality. The stage is set at the Waikīkī Shell Amphitheater with stands branching up and around it. This allows Hansen, Gueorguiev and the crew to dance and soar right beside the audience. Also, being outdoors, their performance is entwined with the most natural background — the afternoon and night sky.

“This show is way more educational than any of the Cirque de Soleil shows and we’re not trying to be weird. It’s a better theater and it’s all about the drama in theater and not just about being weird and charging high price tickets,” Gueorguiev said.

Cirque fi rst showed this past December and will be launching off again this Friday, Feb. 5 at 5 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. They will host an exclusive Valentine’s-themed show on Feb. 12 at 7:30 p.m.

This could make for a great pre-Valentine’s date or gift, especially with the student deal of $15. Regular tickets start at $20 and kids under 3 get in free. Student tickets can be purchased at UHM’s Ticket, Information, and ID Offi ce. Tickets and additional discounts can also be found on their website http://www.cirquewings.com.

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‘Dancing Greener’ at Kennedy Theatre SAM SWIF T KTUH Correspondent

Garbage is often thought of as disgusting, but can it also be inspiring?

The dance department at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa thinks so.

“Dancing Greener” is a collaboration of art, ethics and interpretive dance to bring environmental issues to life.

The project is under the direction

of Betsy Fisher, professor of dance at UH. Fisher holds a Doctorate of Arts in Dance from the Theater Academy of Finland, a Master’s in Dance and Cultural Anthropology from New York University and a BFA in Dance from the Juilliard School.

The production attempts to challenge the audience and portray recycling as a moral and ethical issue.

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COURTESY OF PLAN B

Artist Plan B flirts with the forgotten old school hip-hop and blends it with his experimental rap.

SETH L ILLEY KTUH Correspondent These days, it’s hard to fi nd a good soul singer. Soul is a genre of music that has been transformed over decades, taking many forms. It’s been mashed up with various other genres, bastardized by poppy Top 40 radio, and then thrown back to the old school. Hip-hop artist Plan B is an outcropping of this genre potpourri, combining an honest oldschool sound with well-versed rap.

If you haven’t heard of Plan B, it’s probably because he’s an English musician just breaking into the U.S. music scene. His fi rst album, “Who Needs Actions When You Got Words,” was straight hip-hop. His new album, however, “The Defamation of Strickland Banks,” is a soul concept album.

He still raps on a few songs, but surprisingly Plan B has an excellent singing voice; something we see all too rarely in the American hip-hop scene.

His smooth, almost falsetto voice is reminiscent of singers such as Robin Thicke and Jamie Lidell.

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gether is the story of Strickland Banks, a soul singer who has a one-night stand with a woman who is madly in love with him through his music (“Stay Too Long”).

When he rejects her, she takes him to court, alleging he raped her (“She Said”).

He loses the case and is thrown into jail, surrounded by murderers and rapists (“Welcome To Hell”). After contemplation of his plight and being threatened by other cellmates, he fi nally procures a weapon with cigarettes (“Hard Times,” “The Recluse,” “Traded In My Cigarettes”).

In a confrontation with some prisoners, another inmate assists Banks in protecting himself. In the struggle, Banks kills an attacker in self-defense. The inmate who intervened takes the blame for the killing, as he is already has a life sentence and Banks only has five years (“Prayin’”). Banks spirals into depression and sings to the girlfriend he left behind and cheated on, asking for forgiveness (“Darkest Place,” “Free,” “I Know A Song”). Finally, Banks returns to court, pleading for closure so he no longer has to suffer, not knowing his fate (“What You See Squid’s pick, next page

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ROBERT C HOY Staff Writer Gracing Makaloa Street is Yaatkitori Yoshi, a new Japanese eatnd ery specializing in yakitori and izakaya-style pūpū.

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Sadly, I was somewhat less impressed with their pork onion with spicy miso. The onions were very tough to eat and the sauce they used was very uneven in flavor.

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The coating on the fish was thin and light and the fish wasn’t dried out by the cooking process.

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Gonna’ Do”). By the end of the album, it is unclear whether he wins the appeal.

What really makes this an oldschool-sounding soul album is the production and orchestration. The arrangements make it, from the clean electric guitar to the string orchestra to the horn section. “Love Goes Down” brings back elements of artists like Aretha Franklin and Otis Redding. You can hear the strings serenading over

the sweet clean electric guitar, bringing the feeling out from the vocals.

Other songs, such as “Writing’s On The Wall,” “Welcome To Hell” and “The Recluse” have a down ‘n’ dirty quality, really seen when hip-hop and soul fi rst started mixing together. It’s a dark sound, with more distorted organ and heavy bass and drum lines. This is what makes Plan B’s rhyming so natural – the heavy bass accentuates the beat so he

can fl ow smoothly over the music.

Perhaps the only drawback of the album is the subject of the concept. It seems there are too many songs where the fictitious Strickland Banks is simply lamenting his plight in prison. With a story like this, there is only so far you can go, and prison stories have been pretty picked over in both music and film. While the album is thoroughly enjoyable, the listener finds himself think-

ing, “Wow, is this really necessary?” The album almost seems like it’s trying too hard to have a unifying concept.

Overall, Plan B produced an album on par with Cee-Lo’s “The Lady Killer.” In fact, if they had both been original U.S. releases, there probably would have been some pretty stiff competition for airplay between the two. Plan B has let us in to his very emotional side musically, and really put out a solid album.

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25 recruits set to join Warrior football JOE F ERRER Senior Staff Reporter The University of Hawaiʻi got a glimpse of its football program’s future on Wednesday as head coach Greg McMackin announced the 2011 recruiting class.

“I’m proud of our coaches, players and support staff for their efforts in recruiting this Warrior class of 2011,” McMackin said. “We’ve put together a class made up of talented and fast athletes who will complement our current team. “ The Warriors signed 25 new

prospects including 19 prep standouts and six from the junior college ranks.

McMackin and his staff dipped mostly out of the Califor-

Zealand and American Samoa.

“This group can contribute immediately,” McMackin said.

“We recruited to the positions that we lost. We feel really good

We’ve put together a class made up of talented and fast athletes who will complement our current team. nia recruiting pool, signing 13 players from the Golden State.

The team also signed fi ve players from Hawaiʻi, two from Washington and one each from Minnesota, Ohio, Australia, New

about that.”

Fifteen were recruited to play defense and 10 were set to play offense. The Warriors lost 13 starters from last year – eight on offense and fi ve on defense.

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All fi ve Hawaiʻi recruits are poised to play defense.

Safety Tigi Hill and linebacker Ben Mamea led Kahuku High School to the state championship game in 2009 and an undefeated regular season last year.

Someone the coaching staff feels could contribute right away is wide receiver Chris Gant from Moorpark College in California. “ This guy I’m really excited about,” McMackin said. “He’s got great hands; he’s gonna fit right in.”

Gant tallied 1,945 yards on 145

catches and recorded 33 touchdowns in two years at Moorpark.

One of the more highly touted players in this year’s class is junior Mike Edwards. The former Tennessee defensive back received over 30 scholarship offers from top schools from like Michigan and Michigan State before choosing UH. “We welcome our new recruits to our Warrior ‘ohana,” McMackin said.

The team also held walk-on tryouts Wednesday and hoped to add another 15 to 20 players before spring training begins.

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Beggars can’t be choosers.

And make no mistake, the University of Hawai‘i is ecstatic that in 2012, its Warrior football team will be in the Mountain West Conference, and most of its other sports will be in the Big West Conference.

But if anyone isn’t completely satisfied, it could be Rainbow Warrior basketball head coach Gib Arnold who may want to tag along with head coach Greg McMackin and his Warriors to the MWC. Why? Well, while sports like women’s volleyball and baseball receive a competition upgrade in the Big West, men’s basketball takes a nasty hit.

Now, it’s not like the Western Athletic Conference (UH’s current league) is a men’s basketball powerhouse. According to RealTime.RPI.com, the WAC’s Rating Percentage Index puts it 15th out of 32 total conferences.

But the Big West is four more spots down, checking in at No.

19. Its “top team” is No. 104 Long Beach State, and overall, its nine members’ average RPI is 217.

Granted, the ’Bows aren’t sitting much better at No. 202, but if Arnold wants to build a team that gains national respect and attracts top-notch recruits, moving to the Big West doesn’t help.

Two selling points Hawai‘i has for prospects are its 10,300-seat Stan Sheriff Center and its 6,000 fans per home game — both good numbers in college basketball.

But unfortunately, even worse than the Big West’s quality in men’s basketball are its facilities and fan attendance — some of which rival high school teams.

For example, UC Riverside’s Student Recreation Center only seats 3,168, and Cal Poly’s Mott Gym seats 3,032. Both schools’ average attendance fi lls less than 65 percent of their venues.

Oh, and let’s not forget Cal State Northridge’s 794 fans that attend the 1,600-seat Matadome for home games.

Talk about a weak college basketball atmosphere.

I’d imagine most of the nation’s best recruits would pass up Hawai‘i for a school in a conference with better competition, facilities and fans — a conference like the MWC. The MWC is the No. 4-rated conference, above the ACC (No. 5), SEC (No. 6) and the Pac-10 (No. 7) — all of which are BCS leagues.

No. 5 in the RPI is the MWC’s San Diego State, which is 21-1 and ranked No. 6 in the AP and No. 7 in the Coaches’ Top 25 polls. And although they will be leaving the conference next season, the MWC also has BYU, which is ranked No. 3 in the RPI and No. 8/9 nationally.

Overall, the MWC’s average RPI is 90.

The MWC’s venues include New Mexico’s 18,018-seat University Arena and UNLV’s 18,776seat Thomas and Mack Center.

The MWC’s basketball facilities’ total average capacity is 13,230 seats, and the conference’s members average 8,024 fans per home game.

In comparison, the Big West schools’ average capacity is only 4,614, and they average only 1,734 fans.

And as far as win-loss record, the MWC’s non-conference record is 86-33 while the Big West’s is 35-63.

Don’t get me wrong, the Big West does have positives.

Because all of its schools are in California, it means lower travel costs for UH teams and more time for student-athletes to be in class.

But to me, it’s obvious: If I were Arnold or a prospective basketball recruit, I’d want to play in the MWC rather than the Big West.

Unfortunately, joining the MWC in men’s basketball wasn’t an option for UH. And what would be the alternative? Stay in the WAC, which is likely to dissolve in the next five years?

In any case, it’s a fact: Hawai‘i will compete in the Big West for men’s basketball starting in 2012, against average competition, in small facilities and with even smaller crowds.

Hawai‘i had no other choice.