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A S I A/PAC I F I C JAPAN – Last Friday, Japan was hit by an 8.9 earthquake followed by a tsunami. The disasters left survivors without water, food and electricity. The confirmed death toll as of Sunday afternoon is 1,596, but local police expect that number to reach 10,000 in Miyagi Prefecture alone. Currently, 310,000 people have been evacuated, including those in a 12.4 mile radius surrounding the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. Radiation levels exceeded the safety limit after one of the plant’s housing reactors blew on Saturday. The Japanese government requested international support, and search and rescue teams from around the world are flying into Japan in response. If you have information about anyone affected by the disasters, or if you are looking for someone in the region, use Google’s 2011 Japan Earthquake person finder, available at http://japan.person-finder. appspot.com/. M I D D L E E A S T/A F R I C A YEMEN – Police in the capital city, Sanaa, fired live rounds and tear gas into a crowd of anti-government protesters last Saturday, wounding 14. General Yahya Saleh, head of Yemen’s security forces, denied the claim, saying all weapons used were within legal limits. Student protestors in Al-Tagheer Square are demanding Saleh’s removal. LIBYA – On Saturday, the Arab League asked the UN Security Council to impose a no-fly zone over Libya to stop Moammar Gadhafi’s use of air strikes against rebel forces.

UH was recently awarded a Conservation District Use Permit to build and operate a Thirty Meter Telescope at the summit of Mauna Kea on the Big Island. “It’s the most complicated telescope ever built,” said Dr. Michael Liu, an associate astronomer at the UH Institute of Astronomy. “In that respect, it’s going to be a big leap forward in all areas. The obvious thing that people refer to is the size of the telescope … but just the size of the telescope alone only reﬂects a little bit of the innovations involved.” The telescope is the ﬁ rst in a new generation of Extremely Large Telescopes. It’s named for the diameter of its primary mirror (30m), which is the size of a blue whale. It’s constructed of 492 separate segments, giving it nine times more collecting surface than any telescope on Earth. This will trump the Pan- S TA R R S PS1 telescope on the summit of Haleakalā, which set a world record in January for the number of asteroids spotted in a single night. The selection process for the location of the TMT was UH has been awarded a permit to construct a $1 billion telescope on Mauna Kea.

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conducted in an unprecedented five-year global campaign to identify sites with optimal atmospheric and environmental conditions for observing. The Hawaiian Board of Land and Natural Resources unanimously approved the Mauna Kea site on Feb. 26. The TMT will be the world’s most advanced optical/infrared observatory. The long list of the telescope’s capabilities includes observing dark energy and dark matter, connections between black holes and galaxies and, perhaps most signiﬁcantly, the search for life on planets outside our solar system. The clarity of its images will be previously unmatched in detail. A telescope of this magnitude and functionality doesn’t come without its

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price. As of February 2011, the project’s estimated cost was around $1 billion. While UH is participating in funding support, it’s not alone in the task. The TMT partnership is headed by three major organizations: the Association of Canadian Universities for Research in Astronomy, the California Institute of Technology, and the University of California system. For UH, the TMT Observatory will create construction and operation jobs, and has committed to providing $1 million a year for student education programs.

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PAIGE L. JINBO Staff Writer In an attempt to bring active learning into the 21st century, UH Mānoa’s College of Education has debuted its own virtual island. Through Second Life, a virtual world application, anyone with Internet access can wander Wist and Everly Halls virtually. The college’s virtual halls closely resemble their real life counterparts. In addition, new places have been added to COE’s SL Island, including Diamond Head Amphitheater, Holomua Learning Area, Get FIT tree house, Hale ‘Anuenue dormitory and a dockside coffee shop, according to COE assistant professor Peter Leong. Since the launch of SL in 2003, it has gained popularity with educators as well as Internet users. Leong has taught two courses entirely on SL, and said that it has been very well received in his classrooms. “Second Life increases the level of immersion to get the students engaged in the learning process,” Leong said. SL enables its users, known

as residents, to interact with one another through avatars. According to its website, Linden Research, Inc. developed SL to give residents the opportunity to meet and socialize with other residents, participate in activities, create and trade virtual property and services with one another, or travel to another part of the world. Residents can roam the virtual world various ways: walking, running, swimming, ﬂ ying and riding vehicles. While it’s free to create an avatar and explore different parts of the SL world, there are some restrictions that apply without paying the membership fee. The membership fee – ranging from $9.95 a month to $72 a year – offers users an increased level of technical support. Additionally, a stipend of $300 will automatically be deposited into the avatar’s account. This virtual environment makes it possible for Leong to teach his class on a lanai where the sun is always brightly shining. Leong communicates with his students via voice or text chat. “It’s not meant to replace the face-to-face delivery tools for edu-

cation,” he said. “It’s simply an additional tool to the suite of tools that we already have to teach students at a distance.”

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Leong was one of the main advocates for creating a COE SL environment. Leong has used SL in his classes since 2009, and, because of its popularity among his students, decided that the COE needed its own virtual island. However, the cost to create your own island through SL is $700, with maintenance fees of approximately $3,000 a year. UH Mānoa decided against funding this particular project. “I think the school was in favor of it, but just couldn’t justify it in terms of budget – but we felt that we needed to be at the forefront of leading,” Leong said. The COE SL Island was funded partially by parts of different grants and the COE.

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H AIYA SARWAR Associate Features Editor Do you believe in witchcraft and wizardry? Psychic Sylvia Browne doesn’t care what people say about her, because she knows she has a sixth sense. “I was born this way, born with the fluke. I come from 300 years of psychics,” said Browne. Though Browne said she thinks everyone can ultimately tap into the realm of psychic abilities, she feels that there is a genetic component, and someone can be naturally gifted. According to Browne, her grandmother was a psychic. Her son also inherited the psychic gene. Though she has nothing to prove, the Montana native claims to have thousands of recorded validations proving that her ability is legitimate. Browne claims her fi rst supernatural experience came at the age of fi ve when she saw visions of her two greatgrandmothers dying – visions which came true within two weeks. “You better be able to come up with details,” Browne said. According to Browne, detailed descriptions, including

specific dates, are the keys to separating real psychics from the phonies. She added that people don’t like to believe in psychics out of “fear.” “But psychics are supposed to be protectors,” Browne explained. Browne’s psychic abilities go beyond predicting the future. Browne claims she is able to communicate with the deceased as well. According to Browne, the living and dead reside right next to us – they’re only on different planes. As for those creepy ghosts, Browne describes them as spirits who haven’t left our plane. “They don’t realize they’re dead yet,” Browne explained – hence, “they walk among us.” “But most of them are harmless,” she said. You can meet Sylvia Browne in person at her lecture this Friday, March 18 at the Blaisdell Center Concert Hall. The show starts at 7:30 p.m., and tickets run from $55 to $75. Purchase your ticket at www.ticketmaster.com or at the Neal S. Blaisdell Center box ofﬁce. For information, call 808768-5400.

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My initial impressions of the Tea Party’s rallies and protests against government spending on education, Social Security and healthcare were negative, but Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) sounded pretty convincing. Last week, I watched an interview with Paul, who is considered one of the leaders of the Tea Party movement. As I watched Paul speak, he easily convinced me that the Tea Party was much more than a bunch of screaming protestors. He spoke eloquently about how he disliked government spending by either party. Decrying the bank bailouts, Paul asserted that capitalism is

the truest form of democracy in which we, the individuals, choose on a daily basis which businesses succeed or fail. Paul’s speech made me want to join the Tea Part y when he addressed his idea of the cause of the recession. He described t wo ways of looking at the re cession: blame capitalism as a failed system, or blame failed government involvement in the free market. His viewpoint is that the ﬁ nancial crisis was the result of government interference with the economic system. In Paul’s perfect, untouched system, better businesses will triumph over poorly managed companies. Paul said the U.S. needs to reward stronger businesses for providing a better quality product for

lower prices. And the government needs to keep its nose out of it. Then, Paul’s perfect, untouched system idea began falling apart, because of the simple fact that the U.S. does not have a perfect system. What Paul does not realize, or what he chooses to ignore, is that businesses that are succeeding, such as Wal-Mart, are not doing so just through entrepreneurial efforts. Businesses are using underhanded practices such as outsourcing labor to avoid minimum wage laws. Workers making less than a dollar a day manufacture the little novelties we buy stamped “Made in China.” I ﬁ nd an appropriate metaphor for the situation in baseball. Imagine two college shortstops who have identical hitting percentages and are preparing to go professional. Then, one of them starts taking steroids. Suddenly, his hitting percentage goes up, making him a much more appealing pick for the major leagues. Under the “free market” version of this allegory, the steroid-laden player should be

picked up by the major leagues because he is doing everything he can to be a better player, while his counterpart gets relegated to the minors. There is no questioning whether those drugs will later affect his health, and years later he has a spout of ‘roid rage and kills his entire team with a golf pencil.

Thankfully, we have regulations in place that condemn steroid use in professional baseball. So why should we not give more authority to government institutions to ensure that big businesses do not cheat? I do not know about you, but I do not like cheaters – especially when the less fortunate risk their lives simply for our beneﬁt.

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The Rainbow Wahine softball team led the nation in homeruns last season with 158, which set a UH and NCAA single-season record. That year, eight of the nine starting hitters had more than 10 homers. GLENN VER ASCO Senior Staff Writer

In 2010, the Rainbow Wahine softball team led the nation with 158 homeruns through 66 matches – nearly 2.4 per game. This year, the ’Bows have only 29 bombs in 23 matches, for an average of 1.26 per game. But despite the lower numbers, the ’Bows aren’t stressing. According to head coach Bob Coolen, the ballparks that the Rainbow Wahine have played in this season have a lot to do with the change in power output. Last year’s team played games in Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Idaho – states with high altitude. “The ball was ﬂ ying and everywhere we went. And I said this all year [last season], ‘We were in the right place at the right time to do what we were doing.’” Seventeen of the team’s 29

homeruns this year came in the Louisville Slugger Desert Classic in Las Vegas. But despite the slower homerun rate, the ’Bows are still 18-5 overall through the ﬁ rst 23 games. Last year, the team started 15-8. And besides, Coolen isn’t concerned with statistics. “We didn’t come into [this] season setting our goal to hit like we did last year,” he said “We come into the season wanting to hit the ball hard; put the ball in play. I’m not looking at the homerun numbers.” This week, the ’Bows host the Chevron Spring Fling Tournament. They open on Wednesday against Cleveland State at 6 p.m. at the Rainbow Wahine Softball Stadium. Also in the tournament are BYU, No. 11 California and Iona. Each team will play each other once in the ﬁ rst round; then they will be seeded No. 1 through No. 5 for the championship round. Ad-

mission is free for all of the games. Sophomore pitcher Kaia Parnaby said the ’Bows aren’t focusing on last season’s success. “I believe that our team is the same – if not better – than what we were last year,” said Parnaby, who tossed a perfect game against Weber State on March 5. “We don’t live under the pressure of what happened last year … just go out there and play the best you can.” Freshman catcher Sharia Kliebenstein added, “We just have to be able to work harder and get ourselves up to where the team was [last season] and where the players from last year were.” She said the team’s mindset and preparation are keys to this season’s success. “Our energy just has to stay up and we have to constantly think that we are number one,” Kliebenstein said. “We have to keep practicing and getting everything down.”

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Rainbow Warriors earn postseason bid JOE F ERRER Senior Staff Writer

Turns out fans won’t have to wait till next year to see the Rainbow Warrior basketball team play at the Stan Sheriff Center hardwood. Despite a disappointing 75-74 ﬁ rstround loss to San Jose State in the Western Athletic Conference Tournament, Hawai‘i accepted an invitation to play in the CollegeInsider.com Tournament. This is the program’s ﬁ rst postseason appearance since the National Invitational Tournament in 2004. “It was a little bit of a surprise,” senior forward Bill Amis said. “We thought we played well enough to get in a postseason tournament and we were fortunate enough to get a home game, so that was exciting for us.” Hawai‘i (18-12) will host the Portland Pilots of the West Coast Conference on Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the Stan Sheriff Center. UH-Mānoa students get in free with a validated student ID. This is the third year of the CollegeInsider.com Tournament’s existence. It is one of four postseason tournaments held for men’s college basketball. “It feels good to have the opportunity to keep playing in a postseason tournament,” junior guard Zane Johnson said. “It’s even

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Sophmore forward Joston Thomas drives the ball past a Boise State defender on Jan. 8 at the Stan Sheriff Center. The Rainbow Warrior basketball team will host Portland this Tuesday in the CollegeInsider.com Tournament. It is the team’s first postseason game since 2004. better, just because last year we only had 10 wins and we turned it around this year.” First-year head coach Gib Arnold is excited that his team’s hard work resulted in a CIT bid.

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teams that aren’t playing now and we are.” Like Hawai‘i, Portland was upset in the fi rst round of the WCC Tournament. Loyola Marymount, the WCC’s lowest seed, beat Portland 72-68. The ’Bows have little time to prepare for the Pilots, but are learning on the fl y. “It’s a little bit diffi cult because they’re not in our conference,” Arnold said. “We didn’t know who we were playing until just a couple days ago, but we watched fi lm and got a good idea of who they are.” Amis will likely match up with Luke Sikma, Portland’s all-time leading rebounder. Sikma is ranked No. 12 in the nation with 10.5 rebounds per game. But Hawai‘i can’t focus soley on Sikma in the post – Portland is ranked No. 2 in the nation in 3-point percentage at .417. “They have a good team – primarily a 3-point shooting team – but they got a good big in there too,” Amis said. UH has a long-range threat of its own in Johnson, who shoots .415 from beyond the arc. Still, the ’Bows are expecting a battle. “Portland is very, very good,” Arnold said. “They’ve won 20 games and are undefeated against the WAC this year, so it’s gonna be a heck of a game for us.” If Hawai‘i wins, they will host another CIT game on Friday, March 18.

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