June 17, 2013

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NEWS, UPDATES, WEB EXCLUSIVES & VIDEO COVERAGE. Ethnomusicology is “ the study of folk and primitive music and of their relationship to the peoples and the cultures to which they belong ,” according to dictonary.com.

PHOTOS COURSTESY OF TERI SKILLMAN

“Musical instruments exemplify an indigenous sense of what is aesthetic, what is creative and - ultimately - what is embraceable heritage,” according to the UH library website.

Ethnomusicology exhibit opens in H a milton NOELLE F UJII News Editor

The Hamilton Library Bridge Gallery is holding an exhibit that features 82 instruments and 19 accessories from the ethnomusicology instrument collection.

The University of Hawai‘i at Mā noa Library and the Music Department’s Ethnomusicology Program collaborated on the exhibit, titled “Musical sounds and native ecologies: musical instruments and cultural sustainability.”

Teri Skillman, Hamilton Library’s outreach coordinator, worked with Dr. Ricardo D. Trimillos, professor emeritus in ethnomusicology, to develop the

exhibit using instruments and resources in the ethnomusicology instrument collection in the music department. The instrument collection is a member of the UH Museum Consortium and the Virtual Museum. The UH Museum Consortium consists of units in the UH system that house living and non-living collections or are engaged in an exhibition program.

“This particular exhibit features a collection and a program at UH Mā noa,” Skillman said. “The instruments come from the AsiaPacific region, and the music department offers classes in which students can learn to play many of the musical traditions in which the instruments are played.”

The exhibit includes 16 categories of instruments from jaw harps, to wooden gongs, to drums. The exhibit also includes three categories of accessories that are used with the instruments such as strings, bridges and picks.

Skillman also tries to keep the cost for the exhibits as low as possible.

“This particular exhibit reuses the banners from the consortium exhibit,” Skillman said.

“All of the instruments are on loan from the ethnomusicology collection. Printing of the title banner, the title panel and the photographs were covered by the library’s enrichment account in the

University of Hawai‘i Foundation.”

There are no set methods for choosing what exhibits will be displayed in the gallery. Some of the exhibits have been developed in-house and some have been a result of a community group asking to install an exhibit.

“I like to collaborate with groups and departments to highlight the wealth of information and resources available in Hawai‘i and at the University of Hawai‘i,” Skillman said. “We always connect the exhibit to the resources we have in the library too.”

The exhibit will be on display until August 15. It is free and open to the public on weekdays from 8 a.m.- 5 p.m.

“Musical sounds and native ecologies: musical instruments and cultural sustainability” debuted at the Hamilton Library in May.

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SATOSHI SUGIYAMA Contributing Writer As U.S. dependence on goods made in emerging economies increases, a series of serious industrial accidents caused by unsafe working conditions is raising questions about the responsibilities of U.S. consumers.

“The government officials want development but disregard the safety of workers,” said Kate Zhou, political science professor at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, in an email.

In April, more than a thousand workers were buried alive after a garment factory in Bangladesh collapsed as a result of unlawful construction of extra floors and poor building management. When an explosion at a poultry factory in a northeastern providence in China killed at least 120 workers, angry relatives of the workers revealed terrible working conditions: inadequate bathroom breaks in 14-15 hour labor shifts, unsatisfying monthly wages and neglected safety standards that hindered workers’ evacuation.

U.S dependence on world economies is significant. Bangladesh exported 23.7 percent of its knitted and woven goods to the U.S. and almost 60 percent to European Union in the 2011-12 year, according to Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporter As-

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In 2011, three workers were killed in an explosion at a Chinese factory that supplies Apple products, according to a New York Times article.

sociation. China shared 17.3 percent of U.S. imports in April 2013, Census Bureau data indicated. An accounting and consulting fi rm, BDO press, reported in March 2013 that outsourcing of U.S. technology increased for the fi rst time in three years and China remains the top outsourcing destination.

“Among the 100 U.S. technology chief financial officers polled, 63 percent plan to outsource or manufacture products outside of the U.S. ... China (38 percent) is still top-of-mind for technology CFOs surveyed,” a 2013 BDO Technology Outlook Survey reported.

Although the issue of worker safety in emerging economies is debated after each deadly industrial accident, there have been no signs of serious reforms to

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When a poultry factory in China exploded on June 3, survivors said many exit doors were locked, according to a New York Times Article.

improve labor laws.

Labor Law of the People’s Republic of China guarantees workers’ fundamental rights including the rights to “take rests ... receive labor safety and sanitation protection.”

However, Professor Ronald Brown at the Richardson School of Law said China, like other emerging economies, fails to enforce the law properly.

“A lot of [developing countries] have pretty good labor laws, but they are often inefficient in enforcement,” Brown said.

Zhou believes that workers are unaware of labor laws.

“Workers do not know. … They do protest little [as far as their treatment and compensation],” Zhou said.

Populations that live below poverty declined from 56.6 percent in 1992 to 31.5 percent in 2010 according to The World Bank data. Still, the problem of “the race to the bottom” exists, according to Brown’s analysis.

“When you go to Pakistan or various countries around the world with the lowest wages, everybody is racing to the bottom and other countries have to compete, [they] sometimes feel the pressure of lower(ing) standards,” Brown said.

UH students have mixed opinions when it comes to proposing solutions to the labor abuse in emerging countries.

Accounting major Caroline Montero acknowledged the diffi-

culty of refusing to buy products made in countries where low labor standards are tolerated.

“As an average consumer, [purchasing decision] is not based on what is behind it,” Montero said. “It is really based on price.”

Rejil Joseph, who studies biology and psychology, said these emerging countries are endowed with manufacturing outsourcing, but firms need to be attentive about labor condition.

Anthropology major Edem Southworth highlighted her concern on outsourcing, claiming it is “a fallacy” to justify it to obtain inexpensive products made in overseas.

“There is often misnomer given by government that in order to have cheap products we must outsource labor,” Southworth said.

Brown said that it is wrong for consumers, including college students, to be indifferent to the labor issue.

“They need to inform themselves by reading beyond newspapers. ... Talk to people who have been there, and go visit,” Brown said.

He explained that not all companies that outsource labor are reprehensible. “ There is a number of A merican citizen companies in China and in other developing countries around the world [who] do meet the laws, and they can compete,” he said. “[The problem is] these other companies that violate the law that put pressure [on other companies] to lower their standards.”

Just as the U.S. had to go through labor reform in the early 1900s, Brown is optimistic about change in other countries. “[Workers in emerging countries] can rise up and put pressures and create legislative changes,” Brown said. “That is what we did in here. ... As we look at other countries, we should see the reforms that they went through, we had to go through. We should be a little more patient.”

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Features Effortless looks for summer K ARISSA MONTANIA Staff Writer

Summer days are unpredictable – one minute you’re sitting at your computer and the next your friend texts you saying, “Be outside in 10 minutes, we’re going out.”

Instead of scrambling to fi nd something to wear, here are some summer looks you can put together in simple steps.

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C R E A M O F T H E C RO P In Hawai‘i, the weather is sunny year round and only becomes hotter during the ro summer. To put together an outfit that will keep you feeling and looking cool, stay away from dark colors like black and dark blue because they obtain the most heat from sunlight. Instead, wear neutral colors such as white and gray. For this look, pair a white skirt with a printed tank top and wedges.

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Film review: ‘Man of Steel’ JOSEPH H AN Managing Editor In an age of franchises that work hard to marvel, director Zack Snyder’s “Man of Steel” transcends the superhero fi lm and serves as a worthy parallel to Christopher Nolan’s “Batman Begins.” Blending action and drama while remaining grounded in emotion and darker tones, “Man of Steel” chronicles the search and struggle of KalEl becoming the hero that Earth needs and deserves – despite his feelings of alienation and loneliness – and inspires wonder.

Snyder begins the fi lm at Krypton, where the planet is doomed due to its resources being exhausted and where General Zod (Michael Shannon) stages a coup to reestablish order with the proper bloodlines. Jor-El (Russell Crowe) has other plans and sends his son to Earth with the hope that he will help guide humanity away from the same fate.

Once the Kents fi nd Kal-El and adopt him, Clark Kent (Dylan Sprayberry) emerges, and the

fi lm explores his challenges of growing up trying to understand his abilities while also being human. The fi lm weaves the present Clark Kent (Henry Cavill) searching for meaning in his identity and fl ashbacks to his childhood to seamless and poignant effect.

Kevin Costner plays a compelling and warm father as Jonathan Kent, who lays the foundation of moral choice for Clark and guides him through accepting his responsibility to embrace the kind of man that he wants to be.

Other than the world’s destruction at the hands of General Zod, much more is at stake for Clark. The anxiety of belonging, identity and purpose are driving forces in his struggle to understand what his powers were meant for. Cavill gives a nuanced and brooding performance. Once Clark discovers his origin, namesake and the meaning of his family symbol and puts on the suit, his presence can make anyone swoon.

In Kal-El’s need to embrace his new role and trust mankind, Lois Lane (Amy Adams) serves

as his bridge to humanity. Adams doesn’t overplay her role in the fi lm but proves a necessary companion, while Shannon draws out General Zod’s steadfast ambition and adds a surprising level of sympathy to his destructive motives later on.

With long and entertaining action scenes, they speak to KalEl’s endeavor to become the ideal of both Krypton and Earth, along with his will to protect the innocent and abide by doing good. The charm of “Man of Steel” is that the notion of ‘Superman’ doesn’t come to being until the story approaches the fi nal showdown, where we see Kal-El become what he was striving for.

After the dust settles and our hero takes off into the sky, “Man of Steel” not only satisfi es the hope in what this fi lm set out to be but presents a hero that we can snap our necks looking up to and patiently wait to come back.

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Opinions

The end of literature?

A 2007 report by the National Endowment for the Arts found that 15-24 year olds on average watch two and a half hours of TV and read seven minutes a day.

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TIM M ETR A Opinions Editor

Nicholas Carr, a technology writer and Pulitzer Prize fi nalist, like other writers and educators, has started to assert over the last decade that the younger generation, or net generation, is being mentally handicapped by their chronic use of the Internet and its associated technologies.

Thanks to its prolifi c use of the Internet and modern technology, this younger generation of students is losing the ability to focus on written information without any trade-off in the ability to multitask or process information.

Some educators and researchers are coming to the conclusion that being exposed to a constant barrage of information is making students adapt. This is a popular opinion, but it’s not true.

A qualitative study by Eduardo Meyer, a professor at the Center for Advanced Research in Education, and his peers didn’t find any evidence that the younger gen-

eration is especially talented at multitasking or processing information. The Internet, instead of promoting an ability to multitask, is promoting a focus on instant gratification and short attention spans. The flood of pop culture that the net generation is exposed to every day is eroding its ability to pick up a newspaper or a book and learn from it, not helping it learn in a different way.

Reading is hard, which is part of the problem. Learning to read isn’t a natural thing, and it requires a great deal of work on the part of the student. The net generation has been rewired to process information in a more visual than textual way. Even if educators tried to switch more of their curriculums to present information visually, it simply is not possible to convey the same things as the written word. Most people can barely sit through a two-anda-half hour movie, but to make an accurate attempt at portraying a simple 400 or 500 page fiction novel would take several more hours

than that. The hidden machinations and meanings of the author are lost when converted this way as well; there is not a satisfactory way to change words to images.

Yes, there is more information more readily accessible than ever before in the history of mankind, but at what cost? Who will write the new literature? Who will be our next Walt Whitman or Homer if in 30 years the written word has been written off? While there is some research that indicates there might be a trade-off in different types of information processing skills, there is a preponderance of evidence to the contrary. While the digital age is certainly rewiring mankind’s youth, it is doing so in a way that inhibits their ability to use textual language. The written word is a keystone in every innovation that man has come up with for the last 5,000 years, and with this latest round of invention, it seems like the next generation of potential innovators and inventors is intent upon crippling themselves before they start.

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Playing it safe

The Student Leisure Center ISMAEL MA / KA LEO O HAWAI‘I offers students a safe Classes and excursions offered by Student Recreation Services range from $5 to $210 for UH Mānoa students and $10 to $225 for guests of UH participants. way to learn a variety of activities to enjoy in the water. To register, go to the SRS “ The best way to put it “ The sun is a lot more heav y Ocean activities offered to UH office with your UHM student ID JEREMY NIT TA and payment. For more informastudents include surfi ng, stand-up duty during the summer, so is to find opportunities to Associate Sports Editor tion on ocean activities offered at paddling, body boarding, kayak- you gotta be prepared,” John- go safely and within your UH, contact the Leisure Center office. son said. “Make sure you have limitations. Don’t be afraid W hen summer rolls around, ing, sailing and snorkeling.

Classes and excursions offered “Our classes are aimed at be- a lot of sunscreen and hats. You to say no if you’re a beginmany college students, look for• Beginning Surfing ward to heading out to the beach ing beginner level, and you can also can get easily dehydrated at ning swimmer and your • Stand-Up Paddling learn the basics,” Johnson said. the beach, so make sure you’ve buddies are egging you on to relax and soak up some sun.

• Body Boarding But in all the excitement, it’s “Then, if you want to pursue things drank a lot of f luids and have to go surfing when there • Hiking are huge waves.” easy to push safety and common further, you can do it on your own.” some with you there.”

• Kayaking Johnson also had some Johnson stressed that anysense aside; while having fun at the • Introduction to Sailing one who is uncertain about his recommendations for inexbeach with your friends may seem AVOIDING HARM • Beginner Sailing harmless, there is potential danger When students want to go to or her abilities in the water perienced swimmers who • Intermediate Sailing simply want to have some you could be putting yourself in. the beach by themselves, there should play it safe.

• Sailing Adventure “I think there are a lot of peo- fun at the beach.

“The most important thing is won’t be safety instructors to help • SCUBA Diving “If you’re a marginto know your limits,” Hawai‘i sail- out. That’s why Johnson has some ple who get in over their heads,” • Snorkeling ing coach Andy Johnson said. “If tips for students looking to have a he said. “We have people who al swimmer, maybe you come to our classes asking if could go down to Waik ī k ī you’ve never surfed before, don’t good time while being safe.

CO N TAC T I N FO go charging in when there’s a high “When you’re going to try they have to be able to swim to or Magic Island. Those Address: Student Recreation surf advisory. Take it slow, and something, make sure to go with take the surfing classes. You al- would probably be the safServices Office learn to do things safely fi rst.” people who have done it before,” most want to laugh, but if you’re est spots. Kailua Beach 1337 Lower Campus Road Physical Education/Athletic “I think it ’s important that Johnson said. “When you get wondering things like that, is also nice, and there are Complex, Room 200 if people are interested in tr y- there, check to see if there’s a then it shows maybe you aren’t lifeguards there. There’s a Honolulu, HI 96822 ing new things or get new ex- lifeguard there. It’s important ready to do stuff like this and bit of wind and some shore Phone: 956-6468 periences in the water, they do to check with a lifeguard to ask you should work on your swim- break, but usually it ’s not too Email: cclp@hawaii.edu it safely,” Johnson said. “Our about currents or other things you ming first. We also have people bad. Waimanalo is pretty nice Hours: Mon-Fri, 8 who ask how well they have to be too and also Bellows. There’s programs provide a water safety want to be watching out for.” a.m. to 6 p.m.; Sat, 8 instructor that goes along and Johnson also warned against able to swim to go scuba diving. lots of pretty safe spots, but I’d a.m. to noon tries to make sure people are some concerns that extend be- It shows that people really aren’t say just swim somewhere that sure of their limitations. there’s a lifeguard.” doing things that are safe.” yond safety in the water.