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S U N DAY, N OV. 28 A Hale Noelani resident reported that his black 2010 GTX mo-ped valued at $1,175 was stolen after he had left it parked unlocked at the Noelani mo-ped rack.
SAT U R DAY, N OV. 27 A Hale Kahawai resident reported finding her credit card missing, and after checking her statement found three fraudulent charges totaling $57.66. She later found a receipt in her roommate’s beach bag with her credit card number on it and contacted Campus Security. F R I DAY, N OV. 26 A Frear Hall resident reported that her 2009 green Yugo mo-ped valued at $1,500 was stolen from near the entrance to the Frear Hall mo-ped cage after she had parked it there unsecured while unable to access her reserved parking space in the cage. A parent called complaining that her son was involved with a religious cult originating at or sponsored by UH Mānoa.
T H U R S DAY, N OV. 25 A Campus Security officer stopped a male pushing a red and black Sym mo-ped in front of the Law Library after noticing that there were See CampusBeat, next page
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Volu me 105 Issue 52
Civil Beat publishes UH Mānoa salaries SAM K ING Investigative Reporter Did you ever want to know how much your professor gets paid? John Temple, editor of the new O‘ahu-based online news service Civil Beat, thinks you might be interested. That is why Civil Beat has published all UH Mānoa faculty and staff salaries on their website earlier this year. “I thought that students would be particularly interested [in the salaries because] students are directly encountering the system,” said Temple. “[They] can evaluate for themselves: is Professor X doing a fantastic job?” To help further this quest for transparency, Ka Leo is publishing a downloadable Excel sheet of all UH Mānoa faculty, executive, civil service and A P T employees’ salaries. Emphasizing the lack of transparency, you can see that the civil service and A P T employees’ salaries are nearly impossible to figure out. That is what the new sheriffs in town think, anyway. Temple and his staff of reporter/hosts (so called because they “host” ‘Beat Ups’ on hot political topics of the day in addition to writing) want to know how the government is serving the voters, including how UHM is serving its students. More importantly, the new sheriffs want the government to be able to prove it. Started by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, Civil Beat’s deep pockets means they are not scared to take the local political powers to task. Do you ever wonder why the salaries of union employees at UH Mānoa is a secret? Temple’s theory: “Unions are a principle base, a foundational element of the Democratic Party, and the last thing unions want is, both internally and externally, the public to understand what the com-
Beat’s solution, is to use investigative journalism to “push” the Democratic Party to improve. Civil Beat’s favorite method of “pushing” is to “get to the primary source documents,” said Temple. To get access to primary documents, Civil Beat fi les Freedom of Information requests to obtain such materials as all the names and salaries of UHM employees. “Salaries represent 60 percent of the state annual budget ... Employee information is a matter of public record ... We requested names, titles and salaries for all full-time and temporary public workers,” points out Nanea Kalani. Kalani covers Civil Beat’s financial reporting. She thinks it is perfectly natural for the public to have access to all of the government’s financial data. “How do we know that our money is being put to good use?” she asks. Education is one area where Civil Beat worries money is not necessarily being put to good use. How does Civil Beat measure good use of education dollars? “We focus our education coverage on two questions: everything related to student achievement and everything related to accountability for that student achievement. What systems do we have in place to make sure that students are achieving to the maximum of their ability?” asked Temple. Temple was shocked to disSTEVE WAMPLER/FLICKR cover how antiquated the DepartAPT and Civil Servant designated positions remain hidden per union negotiations. ment of Education is in Hawai‘i. to run Civil Beat, Temple agreed “We asked them a simple quespensation of public employees is.” Why has the Republican Party because he was in accord with tion: How many teachers have not been able to capitalize on Lin- Civil Beat’s idealism and their you fi red? They can’t tell us. How gle’s success? Temple: “I think what focus on investigative journalism can you have a Department of Education that can’t tell you how you saw in the 2010 General election as a means of public service. “I think the danger with so many teachers it’s fi red? That eswas that the Republican Party became too dominated by religion at much dominance by one party sentially means they haven’t fi red the expense of governance and pol- is that it’s more difficult to intro- anyone ... they literally answered icy, and I think that alienated people duce new ideas into a society that ... ‘We don’t have that data.’” doesn’t have an alternative parwho might have voted Republican.” See Faculty salaries, next page When Omidyar asked Temple ty.” Temple’s solution, and Civil
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no keys in the ignition. When the officer questioned him, he explained that he had no keys because the mo-ped did not belong to him and he had, in fact, stolen it. The male was trespassing on campus and was arrested by the HPD. A Gateway House resident reported finding her roommate passed out in the bathroom in a pool of vomit. After Campus Security found the girl breathing but unresponsive, she was transported to the hospital for treatment of possible alcohol poisoning.
T U E S DAY, N OV. 23 A Hale Noelani resident reported the theft of a black iPod nano valued at $150 from her dorm room.
Despite the waste Civil Beat has uncovered, Temple shuns cynicism. “I don’t think (public employees) are walking around trying to be bad. I think they’re walking around trying to be good. But they are in a system that has a lot of problems and it’s worth pointing out, and that’s what reporters should be doing.� But releasing all of UHM and DOE employee salaries had one impact: “ We heard anecdotally from people that it ’s been ver y informative in specific offices where people were surprised that some people were making more than they thought they should be, or that some people who are sick leave abusers or poor performers were making more than other people who worked really hard. ( The pay structure) is not based on performance ... That has been a wake -up call in some government organization.� Temple’s parting remarks summed up a new vision for
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Southeast Asia on a shoestring K RYSTAL K IRKLAND Staff Writer
So you’ve decided it’s time to see the world. You bought your tickets, your backpack is packed. You’ve taken a few months off work and you’ve said bon voyage to your family. The only problem is that you’re low on cash. You only have a couple hundred bucks and it needs to last for two months. Luckily, you chose Southeast Asia, one of the world’s most budget-friendly places to travel, as your travel destination. Despite being low on cash, there are ways to make your dollars go further than you would anticipate. Here are ďŹ ve tips to keep the cash in your wallet and your feet on the road.
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who live in your intended destinations. These kind souls will put you up in their home, free of charge. The best part is that you are getting much more than just a place to crash - you make a new friend, someone to show you the undiscovered, non-touristy spots of their local neighborhood.
Airfare is the most expensive part of the trip. If you can travel to each new place by train or bus, you will get to see a large part of the area that you would have missed if you had own over it, not to mention saving on airfare.
2) P E R F E C T YO U R BA RGA I N I N G S K I L L S In southeast Asia, you will bargain for just about everything you buy, from carved wooden Buddhas to silk sarongs; almost every vendor will bargain with you. Some hotel rooms are even negotiable, as is some transportation. When you bargain, smile often and expect to pay a little over half of their ďŹ rst offer.
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Waiāhole wizards: surviving sustainably on the Windward side C HRIS M IKESELL Special from Ka Lamakua
Two taro-farming brothers on the windward side are making sustainable agriculture work off the grid - an effort that has its own special challenges and rewards. Getting to the Reppun Farm in Waiāhole requires a mile-long hike from the nearest roadway across the foothills of the windward side, through dense, dim forests, and over a stream two feet deep with the help of a pair of wooden planks with questionable stability. It’s not enough water to drown in or even swim in, but just enough to ruin any electronics that fall from the most precarious two-foot
drop in Waiāhole. Before O‘ahu Sugar came to the leeward side of O‘ahu and built the Waiāhole irrigation system in the late 1890s, the river our class crossed to visit the Reppuns had been three times as deep. But the irrigation system built by O‘ahu Sugar siphoned off, on average, 27 million gallons of water a day. When O‘ahu Sugar left in 1995, people on the leeward side still wanted the water that the company had diverted over the last hundred years. Leeward developers and corporate farms wanted the water to continue flowing, but Charlie and his brother Paul, among other Waiāhole activist farmers, are still fighting to return the water to their two-foot deep stream in Waiāhole valley. The Reppun brothers make their living at their farm past that stream, off the grid (powered by a couple of solar panels and four hydroelectric plants) among the sparse
houses and hand-painted signs protesting development that pepper the Waiāhole valley. Paul and Charlie Reppun farm organically, though they were farming organically long before organic became the buzzword it is today in grocery stores. The water that was being diverted to the leeward side to grow the water-intensive sugar cane of O‘ahu Sugar a hundred years ago has ebbed and fl owed, but enough of the original volume has been returned to allow the Reppuns to grow their own water-intensive crop. “The kalo, they only like grow in cold running water,” said Paul, his arm sweeping across his farm’s taro patch. “You grow ‘em in standing water, let the water warm up and all you’ll get is rot.” This taro, he said, is for poi production at his wife’s poi factory down the road – grown for the lū‘au leaf. You have to plant the Chinese stuff; picking the leaves of these kalo hurts the plant, he said. You can tell Chinese taro by its purple fibers in the root – when you buy taro chips from the store, according to Paul, they’re all made from Chinese stock. The Chinese variety has fewer of the irritating crystals of calcium oxalate that make taro itchy. They cook out easy; just slice them and fry them, he said. Grate ‘em into a patty. I t ’ s how the R e p p u n s
feed themselves: taro fast food. A lot of the other crops on the Reppun farm end up fi lling the farmers as well as their wallets. Besides taro, their main crop, the Reppuns also grow guava, breadfruit, papaya, Surinam cherry, mountain apples, cacao and coffee. The last two they process on site – pulping and fermenting the beans before roasting them by hand a few pounds at a time. One crop they can’t sell, however, is corn. The Reppun brothers grow a variety of dry corn that they then grind into fl our at their on-site mill. It’s local, organic and delicious if they can get to it before their chickens do. But it’s hard to call it sustainable when they can’t sell their crop at a competitive price – part of sustainability and survival as a farmer is making sure that your farm is economically viable. “You can go down to Kōkua Market or Down to Earth and get organic corn fl our from Iowa for less than two dollars a pound, but if we were to sell ours here, for what it costs us to grow, it would be more than four times that,” Charlie said, as he cradled a pair of ears in his hands. Because of national farm subsidies and low oil prices, said Charlie, it is cheaper for a farmer on the mainland to grow corn and ship it to Hawai‘i for sale than it is for the Reppuns to grow, mill and sell their own corn here. “ For us to act u ally
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make money on corn,” Paul joked, “the economy would have to collapse, at least to the point where we can’t afford to subsidize corn and have cheap oil. We’re hoping it happens sooner rather than later.” The economic viabilty of a small farm like the Reppuns’ is dependent on more than just what they grow – it’s also about what they do with their product. Taro is taro, but poi is a value-added product for which consumers are willing to pay more. This is true for their other products as well; green coffee is less useful to the end consumer than roasted beans. The cocoa nibs Paul and Charlie produce are more valuable than raw cacao. To Paul Reppun, value-added products are the key to making sustainable, community-oriented agriculture work. A farming community, he said, isn’t just a farmer and the goats that cut his grass – it’s having, for example, a commercial kitchen that can take that agricultural product and make it into something new. “Value-added stuff puts people to work in the community,” said Paul. He harvests the taro, and his wife Laurie and her regular crew of eight clean the taro by hand and mill it by machine. She said that most of the people who come to work at the Waiāhole Poi Factory come from Kāne‘ohe and Kahalu‘u, with a few of their relatives coming from the Waiāhole area to help make poi on a regular basis. Some people come to see the farm and end up coming back to learn about the process; most stay from a few days to a few weeks. But her regulars stay on, continuing to mill the poi that f lows out of Waiāhole. “A lot of people come to make poi,” Laurie said. “It’s a social thing. We hang out, we talk story. They want to learn, they want to see what’s going on. “But whether they come or not, the work is still gonna get done.”
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Since its launch in 2004, Facebook has become a powerful tool for networking, organizing events, guerilla advertising and inevitably, procrastination. M ICHAEL BREWER Associate Opinions Editor I recently quit Facebook. Well, technically speaking, I “deactivated my account,” which means that if I were to login with my username and password again, my page and statuses would reappear for my friends to see. But I don’t want that to happen. I don’t want the ceaseless notifi cations of what the girl I knew ten years ago in math class is doing with her hair today, or notifi cations informing me of a picture thread with 57 posts made by three people, all having a conversation together. I also dislike the alerts: the ones that say that the Dalai Lama is having a peace ceremony on Facebook next Tuesday— you’re invited! Are you attending? “Like” this page if you think it’s cool, and that way all your friends will know you’re “in” with
the Dalai Lama and his crew. I’m sure someone agrees with me that there are too many Facebook distractions. I understand that there are fi lter options, but the inexorable fl ow of unrelated content breaks down those fi lters over time, exposing me and my cyberpage to the world of “friend spam.” Not only is it irritating, it draws me into its snare. More often than I would like, I’ve found myself commenting on Brittany Who-the-hell-cares’ message about her anniversary and regretting it later as Facebook bombards me with messages from strangers. This is a result of the “seven degrees of separation.” It’s my theory that because we have so many friends on Facebook and because our dependence on the site to stay socially connected is growing, our concept of “friend” is morphing to allow the massive infl uence of cyber-interactions to take hold of our lives.
Toward the end of my FB career, I began doubting whether people cared for me or not based on the speed at which they responded to my posts. If I said something and didn’t get a response within a few hours, I started to get anxious. Would they reply at all? What’s keeping them? Do they not like me? This is coming from a person who’s never had social anxieties. My self-esteem was taking a hit, and I was delivering blows to my own ego. Then there was the temptation of Facebook stalking, or trying to fi nd out as much as possible about a new person I met or took an interest in through their pictures, info and posts to friends. Although it had been engrained in me that snooping was morally wrong, enough of my friends did it to make it seem socially acceptable. The power to size up others in the comfort of my computer See Facebook, page 8
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Football security: safety or status?
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Under heavy security, University of South Carolina head coach Lou Holtz leaves the field after losing 29-7 to Clemson in “Death Valley,” Clemson University’s memorial stadium in South Carolina. MORGAN CARMODY Staff Writer
The riled up, drunken, adrenaline-fi lled crowds at football games provide insight into why football coaches feel safer with their own version of the Secret Service. But do coaches ask for personal security for safety reasons, or to simply add credibility to their football programs? While watching the NCAA [National Collegiate Athletic Association] games this year, I noticed security guards surrounding the coaches. Flip to ESPN’s channel, and sure enough, next to your favorite football coach, there will be a state trooper, city police or a campus security officer attached to his hip. According to Kawika Ornellas, a cornerback on the UH football team, UH also participates in this practice. “We actually have a security guard travel with us home and away, as well as other staff to keep an eye on us. Then, driving to the games, we get escorted by local cops or troopers of the area.”
According to a 2006 ESPN article by Pat Forde, “It’s only theoretically about safety ... And it’s mostly about status — for the coach and the cops, who seem to excel at working their way into background of TV shots.” Forde’s statement that cops are often at football games for a few seconds of television airing are bold. Though it may be true in some cases, security is necessary at large events. During games at Aloha stadium, security on the field is so tight that it is nearly impossible to get onto the field if you don’t belong there. And I can only imagine that it is more diffi cult at other schools in tougher conferences with bigger football programs, especially ones with overheated rivalries. “In 1964, Florida trooper Billy Smith was asked by then-Florida State University coach Bill Peterson if he would be interested in traveling with the team, which was a new concept at the time,” stated the American Associate of State Troopers’ website. See Security, next page
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chair was too easily available not to use. Eventually I felt stupid. I could not recognize the motivations behind the person I became, compared to the person I was before I started heavily using Facebook. As such, I got rid of it. Lately I’ve been doing other things. The itch is still there whenever I get home from classes at night. I still have a small desire to jump on Facebook and
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see what ’s going on with friends, but it passes as I think about doing something else, like watching television or starting on an essay. I feel like I’m talking about quitting cigarettes, cold turkey. But feeling the need to log onto our social networking sites is an addiction. Take my suggestion and deactivate your account if you feel you’re in the same boat.
Since Peterson was looking to add credibility to his team, which at the time was still in the process of gaining respect in the state, he accepted. Smith later continued his Florida State football coach security job with Bill Peterson, Larry Jones and Darrell Mudra. Most famously, Smith was Bobby Bowden’s security guard while Smith was 78-years-old. When Bowden was 80-years-old, and nearing the end of his coaching career, he made a 2009 joke saying that he and Smith
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were able to run onto the playing fi eld before a game in the 1970s, but eventually had to slowly try to keep up with each other in their old age. Imagine the senior Smith trying to take on two or three drunken 22-year-old football fans. During these hard economical times, the Smith-Bowden story, while cute, brings awareness that there may be jobs that are more about status than function — on and off the football field.
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stay on the West Coast until the start of the NCA A Tournament. Hawai‘i opens in the Seattle, Wash., subregional tournament hosted by the University of Washington. “I’m excited we get to stay on the West Coast,â€? Danielson said. “That means we have a chance to get ourselves adjusted now. We have more time before we travel out.â€? They play the Big Sky Conference champions, Portland State Vikings (21-8, 14-2 Big Sky), in the first round at 5 p.m. HST on Thursday in the Hec Edmundson Pavilion. The site will also host the regionals next week. The Vikings defeated Northern Colorado last weekend to seal the Big Sky’s automatic – and only – NCA A berth. They are led by senior outside hitter Whitney Phillips who averages 4.81 kills per set, good for ďŹ rst in the Big Sky. They’ve got to be a good team to do that,â€? head coach Dave Shoji said on PSU beating Northern Colorado. Hawai‘i is arguably in the toughest subregional and region-
al of the NCA A Tournament. No. 2 seed Nebraska, No. 7 seed California and No. 10 seed Minnesota are all in the Seattle bracket. Shoji felt that the NCAA committee may have been unfair to the Rainbow Wahine. “I don’t think there are 14 teams better than us, but that’s their decision,� Shoji said. “It’s just a mystery to me how they work. It’s a tough job, but it’s disappointing that we worked so hard and we’re not highly thought of, but that’s okay.�
ON DECK Should they win, Hawai‘i will play on Friday at 5:30 p.m. HST against the winner of the Washington and Michigan game in Thursday’s other opening game. Washington (21-8, 10-8 PaciďŹ c-10), who is ranked No. 11 but was not seeded, ďŹ nished ďŹ fth in the Pac-10. This is Washington’s ninthstraight NCAA Tournament bid. The Huskies are led by senior outside hitter Kindra Carlson,
who ranks ďŹ fth in the Pac-10 with 4.06 kills per set and junior middle blocker Lauren BarďŹ eld who ranks second in the Pac-10 with 1.21 blocks per set. No. 23 Michigan (23-9, 12-8 Big-10) will make their ďŹ fthstraight appearance in the NCA A Tournament. The Wolverines’ high-powered offense leads the Big-10 in kills per set with 14.2. Junior outside hitter Alex Hunt leads Michigan with 4.44 kills per set. “Michigan and Washington is a toss-up,â€? Shoji said. “Michigan has been a top-10, top-15 (team) all year, and Washington struggled in the Pac-10 but they got offense now.â€? Hawai‘i will take things one game at a time and knows that every match in the NCA A Tournament is a must-win in order for them to win a national title. “For us, mainly, we just want to know who we got coming up against us, where we got to be and who we got to beat to get to that ďŹ nal four,â€? Danielson said.
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Road to national title begins in Seattle ’Bows put WAC-title loss behind them M ARC A R AK AKI Associate Sports Editor Recover, prepare and execute. This is what the Rainbow Wahine volleyball team must do this week during the fi rst two rounds of the NCA A Tournament. Following a critical loss to Utah State on Wednesday in the Western Athletic Conference Championship game, Hawai‘i will need to right the ship if they are to win their fi fth national championship. “The loss on Wednesday really made us refocus and get back to work,” senior setter Dani Mafua said. “It made us realize the
The Rainbow Wahine volleyball team celebrates a vitory against Saint Mary’s College on Saturday, Sept. 11 at the Stan Sheriff Center. JOEL KUTAKA KA LEO O HAWAI‘I
little things that we got to work on and not forget about. It really did put things back into perspective on what we got to work on.” Junior outside hitter Kanani Danielson wants to put the loss behind and look forward to better things. “I’m really excited [to play again],” Danielson said. “It was really hard after the game and coming back home and everybody’s wondering what happened and you get the questions. We just want to wash it out and get to the next match and turn it up.”
FIRST UP Despite not hosting the fi rst and second rounds, the Rainbow Wahine are excited that they will See Volleyball, page 11