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MO N DAY, N OV. 15 Musical Theater Review 7:30p.m. - 9:30p.m. Orvis Auditorium Description: Students of the UH Musical Theater program will present a variety of performance styles and approaches. Ticket Information: $10 general admission, $6 students, seniors, UH faculty/ staff (ID required) at the door
T U E S DAY, N OV. 16 UHM Oral Communication Workshop 3:00p.m. - 4:00p.m. Mānoa Campus, Hamilton Library, Yap Room Description: the Oral Communication Focus Board BRIAN TSENG / KA LEO O HAWAI‘I will be providing a workshop Daniel Ellsberg speaks with his wife Patricia by his side during the Davis Levin First Amendment Conference at the Hilton Hawaiian Village on November 13, 2010. on integrating creative oral techniques in your class. The lage in Honolulu. He and his wife, Aviam Soifer of the William S. mation would give the public what panel of instructors will be covA LICIA PARTRIDGE Patricia, spoke on the issues of Richardson School of Law at the needs it to truthfully evaluate the Senior Staff Writer ering subjects including debate, government secrecy and moral University of Hawai’i, the audi- government. facilitation, negotiation, and “There needs to be transparcourage. The 2009 Academy ence’s questions were asked of Our First Amendment rights presentation warm-ups. University Chorus - A Light of Song 7:30p.m. - 9:30p.m. Orvis Auditorium Description: UH Mānoa’s University Chorus and the Windward Choral Society will provide an evening of choral music from various world traditions. See Mānoa Minute, page 5
are once again being challenged due to matters of national security after the recent and largest document leak in history: the Iraq War Logs on Wikileaks. This was déjà vu for the “most dangerous man in America” who faced a similar situation 40 years earlier. Daniel Ellsberg was the guest speaker for American Civil Liberties Union of Hawai‘i’s Davis Levin First Amendment Conference on Nov. 13 at the Hilton Hawai’i Vil-
Award nominated documentary of Ellsberg’s life, “The Most Dangerous Man in America,” opened up the conference. This was Ellsberg’s fi rst live appearance in Hawai’i straight from his work in London with Wikileaks’ Julian Assange. Ellsberg is popularly known for leaking the “Pentagon Papers” to the press during the Vietnam War and Nixon presidency. In a discussion led by Dean
both the Ellsbergs. Is history repeating itself with the Iraq war? “ Yes unfortunately,” Ells berg said. “ We were lied to in Iraq like we were lied to in Vietnam. A ll of this has remained much the same under the Obama administration.” Ellsberg explained that national security is necessary but many things that don’t need to be kept secret are because that infor-
ency in government,” he said. On Oct. 22, 2010, Wikileaks released nearly 400,000 military documents from the past fi ve years of the Iraq War detailing events as seen and heard by the US military troops including deaths of thousands of Iraqi civilians. The logs imply that evidence of torture was ignored. This has questioned the relationships of See First Amendment, page 3