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NOELLE F UJII News Editor As interest rates double to 6.8 percent on subsidized Stafford Loans, the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa will be dedicating 19 percent of its tuition for financial aid next year and 20 percent for the year after. “We have been and will continue to provide additional funds for fi nancial aid,” Vice Chancellor for Students Francisco Hernandez said in an email. “The UH Foundation will raise additional funds for student scholarships and the UH M ā noa campus will provide additional aid from tuition income. This year the state legislature provided additional funds to the UH system for student jobs on campuses.” The interest rates on subsidized Stafford loans increased from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent on July 1 after the law that kept them from doubling expired. According to the White House, an estimated seven million new student borrowers will have to pay about $1,000 more each in interest on subsequent loans.
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In the 2012-13 school year, UH M ā noa dedicated 16 percent of its tuition to need-and-merit-based scholarships. According to Hernandez, 4,800-5,000 students received subsidized fi nancial aid that year. In 2011-12, 6,500 Continued on Page 2
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How does the increase of the Stafford student loan interest rate from 3.4 to 6.8 percent affect students?
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students received subsidized loans. “For the students who graduated in 2011-2012, (the cost of loan debt) was $21,405,” Hernandez said. In the 2012-13 school year, the cost of attendance for resident tuition, fees, books, housing and personal expenses was $22,227. In the 201314 school year, the cost of attendance will increase to $22,976. On June 26, the Associated Students of the University of Hawai‘i passed a resolution asking Congress to pass legislation that will allow the interest rates of subsidized Stafford loans to decrease or remain at 3.4 percent. “With the resolution, the Senate is officially expressing its concern on the situation on the interest rate of subsidized Stafford loans,” College of Engineering Senator Stephen Nishihara said in an email. Nishihara introduced the resolution and brought it up as a special order in the June 26 general meeting. The special order needed a two-thirds vote from the Senate to be brought to the fl oor and to be passed. The resolution noted that 52.5 percent of the UH M ā noa 2011 graduating class received need-based financial aid and that a five-year schedule to increase tuition for the UH system was implemented in 2011. “We hope that our voice, along with the voices of other colleges is enough to convey to Congress that students take the issue of doubling interest rates seriously and that action should be taken to prevent it from happening,” Nishihara said.
SUBSIDIZED STAFFORD LOANS According to Federal Student Aid, a subsidized Stafford loan is available to undergraduate students with fi nancial need. The interest is paid for by the Department of Education while the students are in school, for the fi rst six months after leaving school and during a period of deferment. In 2007, Congress passed the College Cost Reduction and Access Act of 2007 that gradually lowered the interest rates to 3.4 percent over five years, but the rate rose back to 6.8 percent in 2012, according to Fin A id. org. A measure was then passed to extend the 3.4 percent interest rate for a year. Those with loans issued before July 1 will come with an interest rate of 3.4 percent that is locked in for life. According to Hernandez, students apply for loans through the Free Application for Federal Student A id, and the university processes the loan applications on behalf of the federal government. The government then makes the decision as to who will receive a loan. About seven million students in the country are affected by these loans. According to the White House, in 2012, 16,681 students in Hawai‘i received 18,441 Stafford loans with an average of $4,028 per loan. The statewide amount of these loans was $67,199,532. Congress will be taking up the issue again on July 10.
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“It is so bad for students. The people who increase that must think of the opposite: They must decrease the interest. They must not keep it as high as it is.”
“That’s another reason I started working more over the summer. If I had the option to, I wouldn’t take that loan. I think it’ll be a cutback on attendance, at least for the middle class.”
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“After all we are students, in order to pay that loan, the amount that we’re going to have to give back is just going to increase. … Most of us do work, but in order to get decent grades we have to put our efforts into studying too.”
“It’s definitely discouraging because we’re here trying really hard and then knowing that when we’re done that it’s just the beginning of paying back thousands and thousands of dollars is really discouraging to keep motivated to stay here.”
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Features Raging Crab offers a hands-on experience DIANA BROWN Contributing Writer Put your bib on and prepare to get your hands dirty – the Raging Crab is no place for utensils. Food out of a bag and more than enough seafood to go around make this new Honolulu restaurant worth the visit. Raging Crab was founded in 2012, and judging by the more than 2,000 posts on Instagram hash-tagged “ragingcrab,” it’s pretty popular. On the weekends wait time can range anywhere from 30 to 45 minutes from the times I have visited. The restaurant is average size, and the staff packs the tables to accommodate as many guests as possible. The downside to this is that the chairs are too close to one another in some areas, making it difficult to move without bumping into your neighbor. The service at Raging Crab is efficient. As soon as my dining partner and I were seated, our drink orders were taken and within five
minutes we all had what we had asked for. Our waiters walked up to our table every 10 minutes or so to check on us – all with a smile. One of their dining options is the Captain’s Special, which feeds two. It’s a choice of lobster ($55), king crab legs ($60) and Dungeness crab ($65). The specials come with a side of rice, sausage, mussels, corn on the cob and Cajun fries. The choices of sauce include Lemon Pepper, Garlic Butter, The Raging Cajun and The Works, which is all the flavors combined. I ordered the Captain’s Special with lobster and The Works sauce. When I cracked the tail, the meat slipped out without effort. As far as the sauce goes, I was not a fan. All the flavorings combined did not make much sense to my palate. Some flavors should not be combined because they don´t complement each other, and such was the case with this sauce. I could taste the hint of pepper flake but the rest did not taste good. The mussels were tender and the
corn was sweet, but the Cajun fries were the highlight of the meal. They may not look like much at first glance, but once you bite into one of them it is a burst of salty flavor with a hint of heat. If you do choose to order the fries separately, a basket costs $6. For two people, our bill came out to under $70, so the price was reasonable and worth it. More than great food, dining at Raging Crab is about the experience. Delicious food out of a bag is a concept that seems simple yet satisfying. I felt like a little kid putting my hands inside the bags and pulling my food out. Nobody cares about how messy you may get because that´s the point Without shame, we ate until our bags fell empty – dirtying our bibs the entire time. If you are looking for a different dining experience, Raging Crab is the place to go.
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Armie Hammer and Johnny Depp star as the Lone Ranger and Tonto in the remake of the 1933 radio show. WALT DISNEY STUDIOS MOTION PICTURES/MCT
‘The Lone Ranger’ tries too hard JOSEPH H AN Managing Editor Replace the types in the “Pirates of the Caribbean” films and the setting for cowboys, Indians and a desert and you have Gore Verbinski’s “The Lone Ranger,” a film that limps along while parading as a western and derails as a whole. This story is framed by an older Tonto (Johnny Depp) in a 1933 San Francisco exhibit at a carnival telling the tale of the Lone Ranger to a young boy, which proves to be ineffective and silly as a way to establish the exaggerated quality of the plot. Where the majority of the story takes place in 1869 Texas, lawyer John Reid (Armie Hammer) is made into an honorary Texas Ranger and joins a troupe to track down Butch Cavendish (William Fichtner), a cannibalistic outlaw. Both Reid and his brother are killed but our hero is revived and, with the help of Tonto, takes on the persona of the Lone Ranger. Hammer has the right features and voice to fill the role as the ranger, but his character is ultimately bland in comparison to the strange Tonto. Depp once again dons makeup and the eccentricity that goes with it, giving his usual taste of slapstick and oddity in his performance. At times he is amusing, but the comedy is forced and unbalanced with the seriousness that is supposed to define “The Lone Ranger” as both fun and compelling. The execution of this film’s
premise and other themes are overblown: The pacing of the film can be likened to workers laying out tracks for the impending haul of a train, which comes in the form of the climactic conclusion. But there’s more to the adventure. The lone ranger must stop Latham Cole (Tom Wilkinson), who intends on monopolizing the railway system in the United States, bad guys who are posing as the Comanche tribe and attacking villages to inspire the Cavalry’s intervention in a land agreement and Cavendish. Greed, corruption, a love interest in former flame Rebecca (Ruth Wilson), Tonto’s sympathy inducing backstory, the amount of times Hammer says the word justice and how much he wants it: All of this jumbles together and it’s exhausting to watch the juggle. During most of the film, Reid attempts to become the hero that he’s supposed to be. It isn’t until the last half hour of the film that “The Lone Ranger” inspires excitement and Hammer plays it cool and heroic while Depp continues to do his own thing. Multiple times throughout the film, Tonto feeds a dead raven fashioned to his head and other characters tells him to stop; in the same way, you’ll wonder whether “The Lone Ranger” trying this hard actually accomplishes anything at all.
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Friend troubles: dramatic antics One of my really good friends seems to attract or cause drama everywhere she goes. I don’t think she’s doing it on purpose, but sometimes it gets to be too much. Every time we go out drinking or if she hangs out with more than a couple other people, something happens and all of a sudden we’re not having a good time anymore because someone is either upset or crying. She’s usually a great friend, and I really don’t think it’s on purpose, but sometimes I get fed up with her. Is there a way we can still be friends without all the craziness? - Stressed out From the way it sounds, you have a real queen on your hands. I know from personal experience the exact kind of friend you’re talking about, and it can be trying at times. If you’re lucky, you have a similar situation to mine where all the trouble revolves around other people and has nothing to do with you directly. This usually makes it easy to sit back and laugh at everyone being stupid for silly reasons, typically revolving around boys and he-said she-said stuff. If that is indeed the case, I recommend letting her go ballistic and watch the fireworks with beer in hand. When you’ve had enough, walk away from it and don’t hang out with her for a little while. However, if this is the kind of drama that upsets your regularly programmed schedule, I can see where you’d be getting sick of it. If that that’ss the case, have you tried talking to he her? Sometimes people just don’t don realize that they’re ssocially dysfunctional. Or O maybe the next tim time you notice her star starting to get worked u up someon or working someone
else up to something silly, just squash it. Be direct, even if it’s a little rude. Everyone deserves to have a nice time, and all you have to say is something like, “Is this the best time for that?” or “Would you mind talking about that in private so you don’t ruin everyone else’s night?” I would hope that if your girl is at all considerate, she would then take care of business in private. If you know for a fact that even saying anything to her will cause issues and don’t want to bother with it, then I’m not sure what to tell you. I guess you can just make sure you only hang out with her in small groups or one-on-one ... but then you would have to avoid any situations where you’re both invited to group events by mutual friends and that ’s garbage. If you’ve noticed, which I’m sure your other friends have, then they won’t be pissed about you saying anything even if she is. Final answer: ask her to coffee or something so that you guys can talk privately and tell her what ’s up. Ask her to tone it down a little because sometimes she bums everyone out. Worst case scenario, you’re not friends anymore and then problem solved.
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Sports Midfield/Defender Lidia Battaglia was selected to the all- Big West freshman team in 2012. MARC ARAKAKI KA LEO O HAWAI‘I
K EN R EYES Senior Staff Writer The University of Hawai‘i women’s soccer team has announced its 2013 schedule, denoting its second year in the Big West Conference while hosting two home tournaments this upcoming season. This 16 -game schedule also marks one of UH’s shorter seasons as the team will compete in only four non-conference and four Big West games at home while the remaining eight games will be on the road. “I’d love to have 20 games but the reality is with conference realignments and budget cuts, this is the schedule we’ve been able to put together, and the teams on there are quite good,” head coach Michele Nagamine said.
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Hawai‘i’s season will open with the OHANA Hotels and Resorts No Ka ‘Oi tournament in August. In hosting its first fourteam tournament, UH will face two NCA A tournament qualifiers — UNC-Greensboro and Central Florida. Washington, another NCA A team, will also be competing. Nagamine commented on deliberately setting up a tough schedule to raise the bar of standards that the team would have to meet this fall. “They always talk about quality [being] better than quantity,” Nagamine said. “Sometimes if you play teams that are not as well-known or high-ranked, you can kinda pad the wins there with some games that you know you’re gonna be okay in. We kinda take the opposite approach. We’re a very aggressive staff. We want to play at the highest level that we can all the time, and we’re looking to build our program into a powerhouse not just on the West Coast but in the nation.” Following a pair of road games in Oregon, the team will also host the Outrigger Hotels and Resorts Soccer Classic that features Florida Gulf State, an-
other team that appeared in the NCA A tournament. However, UH will only play Idaho State and Portland State. Hawai‘i will compete in two more non-conference games in Arizona and will begin Big West play on the road for the second straight season. The Rainbow Wahine start and end the conference against the defending regular season champion Cal State Fullerton and Big West tournament champion Cal State Northridge, respectively. “Last year we had a lot of games on the road,” Nagamine said. “ This year we are actually taking two road trips in pre-season and we’ll have another two or three if we get to the conference tournament, so it worked out really nicely. The Hawai‘i crowd’s gonna get to see us play kind of a lot, and we’re really happy about that. I wish it could work out like that every year.”
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Aside from the fact that the roster will boast an addition of 10 new players, all-conference players Lidia Battaglia, Tiana Fujimoto, Chelsea Miyake and Krystal Pascua will also be returning to UH. “I think it’s really exciting,” Nagamine said. “ Things are not gonna be new and scary for a lot of these kids as it was this year, and the ones we have returning are a really good group of players. So with the new players coming in combined with who we have coming back, I think our fall season is going to be a very, very competitive one.” Nagamine also stressed the importance of preparing for the upcoming season during the summer as the players were given a training packet to complete on their own. “I’d like to think that, at this point, everybody knows what to expect, so I think that if people don’t take their summer training seriously, it communicates a lot about their dedication and their commitment to their program,” Nagamine said. “So we’ll see in August where we end up.”