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IMPROVING EQUALITY FOR ALL
Birth certificate gender change made easy Under the new law, surgery is no longer a requirement ANEMONEPROJECTORS / WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
Marchers at the Pride London in July 2010. MASON HIGA STAFF WRITER
Gov. David Ige signed into law a bill that allows for people to have their birth certificate changed to reflect their gender identity without requiring gender reassignment surgery. Under the new law, individuals with a birth certificate issued in Hawai‘i may now present a statement from a doctor stating that the individual has had the appropriate clinical treatment for gender transition and the individual’s new gender does not match with the gender printed on the birth certificate. After the new certificate has been assigned, the previous certificate is
sealed away with the courts and can only be opened with a court order. “I know so many students who feel that it’s so important to have their identity respected, including their sex and their name. This bill makes it so much easier now that it’s a law,” said Camaron Miyamoto, coordinator at the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) Student Services Office. OPENING DOORS FOR STUDENTS
According to Miyamoto, some people have put off applying to the University of Hawai‘i because the gender on their identification did not match the gender they identified with. Now that the new law has taken effect, LGBT Student Services
Improved access to medical marijuana The new law will create dispensaries to patients and caregivers.
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A Ka Leo poll asked readers if recreational use of marijuana should be legalized. About 58 percent of voters were in favor of legalization. Of the voters, 32 percent opposed it while 9 percent felt indifferent towards it.
has started to prepare for incoming transgender students. “We’ve already started the process to get things going,” Miyamoto said. “We knew that [the law] was coming through, so I sat with the registrar and said, “Let’s get some things in line.” The law will also impact students in other areas besides registration, such as athletics, financial aid and housing assignments. “I think this new law helps make it more easy for us to implement our policy of nondiscrimination for UH,” Miyamoto added. UH’s nondiscrimination policy includes gender identity and gender expression.
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Patients will now have easier access to medical marijuana thanks to a new law Gov. David Ige signed. Act 241, formerly House Bill 321 Relating to Medical Marijuana until its July 15 signing, prohibits zoning regulations that discriminate against licensed dispensaries and production centers and allows qualifying patients, caregivers and employees to transport medical marijuana in any public place. The bill also authorizes background checks for caregivers and patients. “The language of the bill that passed in the House and Senate will now be Hawai‘i’s statute. However, the Department of Health [DOH] will need to write administrative rules which will be the implementing mechanism,” said Susan Chandler, facilitator of the Medical Marijuana Dispensary Task Force, Public Policy Center Director and professor on campus. While not legalizing marijuana fully, the new law is for legitimate people in need of medical marijuana and dispensaries are set to open around next July. “We know that our challenge going forward will be to adopt rules that are fair, cost effective and easy to monitor,” Ige said in a press release. “The bill sets a timeline. We will make a good faith effort to create a fair process that will help the people most in need.” Possession of a medical marijuana
Miyamoto said he felt the old law was unfair because it provided an advantage to those who could afford gender reassignment surgery. “Over the last couple of years, I got to meet with a number of [transgender] people who had trouble … getting basic documentation that the rest of us take for granted,” state Rep. Chris Lee (D), one of the cosponsors of the bill, said in a phone interview. State Rep. Della Au Belatti (D), another cosponsor of the bill, said the bill was intended to reduce barriers. “[The bill] treats transgender individuals with a lot more dignity that they deserve,” Belatti said in a phone interview. During the legislative process, Belatti was very moved after hearing the testimony that the LGBT community gave. “Even the simple act of showing your ID at the airport is being questioned, because your ID may not reflect how you physically look,” Belatti said. ADDRESSING CONCERNS
As the bill was being discussed, some legislators debated over who could give approval and say that a person has a legitimate issue with their birth certificate, according to Lee. Others were concerned that some individuals might try to fraudulently hide their identities using this law. To address these concerns, the law
card does not allow for the possession or consumption of marijuana within housing premises, according to the Student Housing Services website. MEDICAL MARIJUANA LAWS
In 2000, Hawai‘ i became the first state to establish and acknowledge medical marijuana laws. According to the Hawai‘i Medical Marijuana Dispensary Task Force, the laws covered certifying physicians, qualifying patients, and patient caregivers obtaining medical marijuana. Under the law, a patient may cultivate up to seven plants for personal use or designate one caregiver to cultivate up to seven plants on behalf of the patient. However, no dispensaries have been provided for patients. There are approximately 13,000 patients currently registered with the Hawai‘i Medical Marijuana Program, but some of them lack the ability to grow medical marijuana. ADJUSTING OLD METHODS
In 2014, HCR48 (House Concurrent Resolution 48, relating to Medical Marijuana Dispensaries) requested to create a task force facilitated by the College of Social Sciences Public Policy Center. Its goal was to “develop recommendations for the establishment of a regulated statewide dispensary system for medical marijuana,” according to their website. The task force has held six meetings throughout 2014 to discuss this system according the Public
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requires a licensed medical professional to give a statement. Belatti also clarified that any legal obligations a person has does not go away when their birth certificate is changed. Belatti said you could not prevent people from doing bad things with legislature and that individuals who intend to break the law would do so regardless. “I think even [the law’s opponents can] agree now that the sky hasn’t fallen and nothing else has changed, except that now, we’re seeing people in our community who have long been marginalized have an easier time being who they are,” Lee said. Students who are interested in receiving help with changing their records to match their gender identity can contact Camaron Miyamoto of the LGBT Student Services office. Ka Leo O Hawai‘i MORE INFO
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Policy Center website. Thirty-eight recommendations were made to help improve on the old medical marijuana laws. These recommendations include number and locations of dispensaries, inspections, tax structure and more. “We heard a lot of testimony from very ill people who say it helps them during chemotherapy treatments; for glaucoma; pain reduction and for many other problems,” Chandler said. Upon moving forward, medical marijuana is also becoming a more recognizable method of treating the ill, according to Chandler. She said that the DOH usually takes around six months to implement administrative rules and hopes to have them in place by Jan. 16, 2016. Then the DOH will conduct a bidding process to determine who will run the dispensaries. MARIJUANA RESTRICTIONS
Marijuana is established as a Schedule I drug. Recreational use of marijuana in Hawai‘ i has not been made legal. According to Chandler, there has been a pattern that every other state that set up medical marijuana dispensaries has led to full legalization of marijuana use. However, “our Task Force was very clear that we did not see this as a step towards legalization,” Chandler said. Chandler said it is hard to study medical marijuana, since it is an illegal drug. UH has not done any studies so far on marijuana.
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VENDOR FAIR UH Hilo telescope to be decommissioned Damage, governor’s request contributing factors for Hoku Ke‘a UH SYSTEM / FLICKR
The telescope was installed in 2010. RAVEN BELLAMY STAFF WRITER
The University of Hawai‘i at Hilo telescope is set to be decommissioned, along with the Caltech telescope, on Maunakea. UH Hilo’s 36-inch educational telescope, Hoku Ke‘a, as well as the 10.4 meter Caltech Submillimeter Observatory (CSO) are set to be decommissioned in compliance with the request from Hawai‘i Gov. David Ige that 25 percent of telescopes on Maunakea be decommissioned by the time the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) is ready for operation. However, some fear the loss of the Hoku Ke‘a will negatively impact UH Hilo. “Losing Hoku Ke‘a means losing an essential facility to fulfill our mission and to grow our undergraduate astronomy program,” UH Hilo Department Chairwoman of Physics and Astronomy, Marianne Takamiya, Ph.D., said in an email interview. “The news was devastating for the vision of our undergraduate program.” IMPACT ON UH HILO
Takamiya said the observatory is essential for training students about telescope operations, performing scientific programs designed by the students, developing small instrumentation projects, and conducting outreach activities for the general public. “Our program is also aligned with the needs of Maunakea observatories in their search for local workforce,” she said. According to Takamiya, a project to rebuild the facility was underway that would include modern, stateof-the-art technology. “Because our site was arguably the best educational site in the world for astronomy, other national and international institutions had proposed to collaborate with UH Hilo to conduct
research programs for undergraduate students,” she said. The Hoku Ke’a was planned to be remotely controllable from UH Hilo. In addition, Takamiya says new laboratories were planned in the Physics and Astronomy departments to make use of the telescope.
it will follow the decommissioning process outlined in the Office of Mauna Kea Management’s Comprehensive Management Plan. The process is scheduled to be finished in 2018, after the CSO’s decommissioning.
THE HOKU KE’A
The CSO began operations in 1986 and was operated by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) via a contract by the NSF in conjunction with UH and the University of Texas, as well as international partners. According to the CSO Caltech website, astronomers from around the world have used the observatory to pursue research and to accomplish groundbreaking achievements in submillimeter and millimeter astronomy – the study of light emitted by atoms, molecules and dust grains in the interstellar space where stars and planets form. Plans to decommission the CSO have been in the works since April 2009, according to a Caltech article. The decommissioning of the CSO is due to the construction of the next generation of radio telescope, the Cornell Caltech Atacama Telescope (CCAT), to be located in Chile. “The international community of astronomers that rely on CSO will have a seamless transition as CCAT comes online just as CSO is decommissioned,” said Tom Phillips, director of the CSO and Altair Professor of Physics in Caltech’s Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, in the article. Caltech will begin dismantling the CSO in 2016. In regards to both telescope sites, UH says that no new observatories will be built after the land is restored to its natural state.
THE CSO
UH Hilo received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for an educational research telescope on Maunakea, and in 2008 the Hoku Ke’a was shipped from Colorado for installation. From the start, the Hoku Ke’a faced a variety problems ranging from defective parts to an unreliable dome roof. “In particular, the mirror of the telescope had the wrong figure … [which] results in bad images,” Takamiya said. “The telescope was delivered with no operational software and … the dome leaks when it rains or when the snow accumulating on its roof melts.” According to Takamiya, repairs were possible but deemed too expensive to meet program requirements, such as remote observations from UH Hilo during class days or closing down fast enough to prevent damage if bad weather rolled in. However, Takamiya says that through a close collaboration between the Institute for Astronomy and UH Hilo, funds to replace the faulty equipment were identified and new telescope was going to be purchased weeks after the announcement of the decommissioning. “Unfortunately, from an educational point of view, we are losing the only observatory dedicated to training UH Hilo students to operate the larger one,” Takamiya said. According to a UH news release, UH Hilo will begin the process of decommissioning the Hoku Ke‘a in early 2016. The university says
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Nationals, not citizens Why a group of American Samoans sued the government NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION
The American Samoa Legislature, or Fono, building located in Fagotago. TOMOKI KOBAYASHI STAFF WRITER
The American flag has 50 stars corresponding to 50 states, but few people realize this is not the true number of American administrative divisions. The United States also occupies “territories,” lands with no voting rights and other benefits that nevertheless follow federal laws: Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa. The latter is the only place in the U.S. in which one is not granted automatic citizenship through birth, a constitutional right given to everybody born on American soil. This goes against our most fundamental rights and is unfair to people born in American Samoa. The territory has the most successful Army recruiting station in the U.S. and continues to make enormous contributions to the nation’s sports. Yet these soldiers, veterans, and sportsmen are not even allowed to vote and have a voice in our legal system. It has been over half a century since the abolishment of racial segregation in public spaces. It is time to end this sort of senseless dehumanization, and give the American Samoans their constitutional rights. There is nothing “American” about American Samoa if they aren’t granted automatic citizenship through birth on their soil. TUAUA V. UNITED STATES
In February, Leneuoti Tuaua and the Samoan Federation of America sued the American government
over denying citizenship to people born in American Samoa. The Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment, section one reads, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” “If we are Americans, then why not citizens?” said Tuaua, a retired court-marshall. According to advocacy nonprofit Equal Rights Now, residents of American Samoa have to “pay nearly $700 in naturalization fees and pass an English language and civics exam” to become U.S. citizens. “Many of our people swore an oath to defend the Constitution when they joined the military,” President of the Samoan Federation of America Loa Pele Faletogo said for Equal Rights Now. “Now they find themselves unable to vote in state and federal elections because they are labeled ‘non-citizen national.’ That’s not right.” ‘INSULAR CASES’
However, the Obama administration responded to Tuaua’s lawsuit by citing a series of racist Supreme Court opinions from the early 1900s known as the Insular Cases. These regulate the status of the inhabitants of the new territories the United States acquired after the Spanish-American War in 1898; people from Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines are referred to as “savage” and “alien races.” In the Downes v. Bidwell case, regarding the enforcement of the Constitution in Puerto Rico, Jus-
tice Edward White opined that granting citizenship to an “uncivilized race” in a new territory would “ inflict grave detriment on the United States” from “the immediate bestowal of citizenship on those absolutely unfit to receive it.” Legal scholars like First Circuit Judge Juan Torruella have denounced the Insular Cases. “The Supreme Court has created a political ghetto in the territories, from which there is no escape or solution by inhabitants because they lack the political power to influence the political institution that can make the necessary
port that is “uniquely different.” Its last page reads, “The bearer is a United States national and not a United States citizen.” “It makes me look like I’m an outsider. It demeans me as a person,” Siliga said in the documentary. On Sept. 9, 2014, the U.S. Army Recruiting Station in Pago Pago, the capital of American Samoa, was ranked number one in the world. The station enlisted 153 men and women, which is more than any of the 885 recruitment offices around the globe. American Samoa is the nation’s powerhouse when it comes to recruiting committed soldiers.
It makes me look like an outsider. It demeans me as a person. – JOHNNY SILIGA CALIFORNIA RESIDENT
changes to the situation,” Torruella said in 2007 at the University of Virginia Law School. “My biggest problem at this present time is with the fact that I believe that the United States is in clear violation of not only the Constitution but also the treaties that we have entered into, which are of course the law of the land.” To remedy this, Torruella recommended that the Supreme Court “steps forward to correct the wrong it created.” SECOND CLASS CITIZENS
In the documentary “Stateless Voices: Part Time Americans,” Johnny Siliga, a 52-year-old California resident, holds up his U.S. pass-
However, the system excludes these unquestionably patriotic people from basic American rights like voting, carrying concealed weapons and holding many government jobs because of their status as U.S. nationals and not citizens. To be awarded citizenship, nationals need to go through a naturalization process, which can take years. ‘FOOTBALL ISLAND’
American Samoa has the reputation of being the “Football Island.” Forbes contributor Leigh Steinberg wrote in May that there are now 30 NFL players of Samoan descent and 200 plus playing in Division I college. University of Hawai‘i’s 2014 98-player roster held four born in
American Samoa, but many others with Samoan roots and connections. According to statistics by Football Study Hall in 2013, American Samoa’s per capita rate of producing football players recruited by the FBS was 12.6 recruits per 100,000 people, more than 6.5 times that of Louisiana, which was the most successful state with a rate of 1.83 recruits. “What if there were 120 million Samoans? How many Samoans would there then be in the NFL?” Pittsburg Stealers safety and twotime winner of the Pro Bowl Trophy Troy Polamalu said for “60 Minutes.” Scott Pelley’s 2011 report paints a contradictory picture. On one hand, Nu’uuli Voc-Tech High School has no playing field, but only a locker room – a rusted shipping container stacked with donated helmets and other protective gear. “It’s actually equipment that would never be allowed to use in the states,” coach Ethan Lake said. Samoana High School’s football team not only lacks a locker room and weight room, but their playing field is also unlined and contains pieces of jarring lava rock. On the other hand, Nu’uuli VocTech has one player in the NFL and Samoana has three. The U.S. is wrong for not giving American Samoans a voice to fight for their rights. However, they have proven themselves as first-class Americans, whether on the football field, fighting for our country in a foreign land or participating in “America’s got Talent.” The least we could do is give them their citizenship. Ka Leo O Hawai‘i
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Technology destroys vacation travels Put your smartphone down and enjoy the view.
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I have been traveling on vacation for the past month and a half. Yosemite, Arches, Grand Canyon and Yellowstone National Park are among the places I will never forget visiting. Or will I? While trying to see what these parks had to offer, I found myself juggling two cameras, a phone and a laptop. As time went by, the use of technology ruined my vacation. At the beginning of my trip, I took pictures and video everyday and posted them to social media. I didn’t think much of it. “This is a cool thing I’m doing, everyone I know should see how great this place is and how awesome I am for being here.” Let’s be honest, who doesn’t think that when traveling? When we’re with our smartphones on the road, we want to Instagram and Snapchat our experiences. INSTAGRAMANIA
My five friends and I were traveling for about a week when something upsetting happened. We arrived in Redwood National Park and we got out of the car. Before anyone even said an “Ooh,” or “Ah,” I saw five cameras block my friends’ faces. I made a comment about the trees but I was shushed. They were taking pictures and trying to find Wi-Fi to post them. It was a time-sensitive process that shouldn’t be interrupted. This made me think, why do we vacation? I’m sure there are many answers out there. I vacation to spend time with people I love in places I love. This time, however, one of those components was missing. I was where I wanted to be, but the people I wanted to be with were preoc-
cupied with their cameras and phones. I’m guilty of it as well. I was in a beautiful place, but I still felt the constant weight of my cameras and computer pulling me down. My mind would go to the best shot, then to which app I would use to edit it, then to finding Wi-Fi. My computer would pull me back to daily emails about financial aid, work, classes and bills. I was never fully present in the place I was in. It was exhausting. DEFINE VACATION
According to a 2013 online Tech Timeout survey presented by Foresters, a financial services com-
various forms will hinder this. Second, society as a whole has an addiction to social media. I can look at Half Dome in Yosemite National Park through my computer screen at home. Why would I travel thousands of miles to get there and look at it through another screen? It didn’t make sense to me. Seeing things through a screen prevents us from emotionally connecting with the living history around us. After taking one picture and putting my camera away, I remember looking at it and thinking about how Half Dome was formed and what the Native Ameri-
The more time I saw my self spending with technology, I enjoyed myself less and less. pany that challenged the public to unplug from technology, 47 percent of North American parents think that technology “ruins family vacationing.” The more time I saw my self spending with technology, I enjoyed myself less and less. When I realized that, I declared a war. I vowed to post zero pictures online while I was still on vacation. This was my vacation, and I was taking it back. The definition of vacation according to the Scott Foresman Advanced Dictionary is, “time of rest and freedom from school, business or other duties.” According to this definition, I was not on vacation. If your definition includes daily use of a phone, camera, computer, and Internet access, then go for it. Everyone has their preference.
cans would have thought of it. I even noticed the smell of the nearby deer dung, which was oddly pleasant. BREATHE FREE
Without technology occupying your brain, you have the freedom to look at what your eyes are seeing and think about it, learn about it and connect with it. You are given more opportunities to establish a genuine relationship with the people around you. Rather than using a smartphone to find where you are, ask someone for directions. It creates more space for the unknown to happen. I may be old school, but once I put away my phone, camera and computer, I was able to enjoy myself. I even read a book. It was enjoyable; give it a try next time you’re on vacation.
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I realized two things. One, vacations are time set apart to rest and be present, and technology in its
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INTERNSHIPS & COOPERATIVE EDUCATION CO OP What is Co-op? Like internships, Co-ops are education-based and career-related. It is a nation-wide program comprised of a partnership between the employer, the student and the university. Co-ops are paid and require a two semester commitment.
HUMAN RESOURCES (HR) SUMMER INTERN Hawai‘ i Independent Energy LLC (formerly Tesoro Hawai‘i) Compensation: $15.00/hour Close Date: 9/1/15 or when filled The HR Intern should be pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Human Resources or related field, such as Business Administration, with a minimum 3.0 GPA. The position will provide opportunities for the Intern to learn and develop practical work/business skills and experience to establish a strong career foundation in human resources. The intern will provide an effective work product that contributes to the needs of the HR department. Qualifications: Demonstrated proficiency in MS office Previous office experience, preferred. See job listing for more details. Job Number: 131304
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Owner Justin Parvizimotlagh said that he closes EARL when he runs out of bread. ANGUSINA CAMPBELL STAFF WRITER
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Bacon jam, goat cheese and reductions of balsamic vinegar – these are typical ingredients in owner Justin Parvizimotlagh’s sandwich restaurant, EARL (Eat a Real Lunch): a sandwich experience. Parvizimotlagh said that he created his menu through his experiences as a cook working at his father’s restaurant since he was young. “I never had any formal chef training or anything like that,” Parvizimotlagh said. “I just had a journal I kept [filled with] advice from all the people I worked with throughout my career.” EARL opened in March 2014, and has since appeared at local markets and events. The restaurant uses local ingredients whenever possible, some of which are available yearround because of Hawai‘i’s climate. MENU
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Sandwiches are offered with various choices of bread that are baked daily: ciabatta rolls, wide and soft, or baguettes, narrower and crisper. Pesto chicken salad, with baby romaine, romano cheese, tomato, pesto, homemade croutons and salad dressing; was available for gluten-free customers. Add-ons consisted of Caesar salad ($3), avocado ($2), bacon jam ($2) and chips ($1). The specials had sold out by the time we arrived, around 12:40 p.m., but options included six sandwiches crowned by Parvizimotlagh’s number one sandwich – the French Dip, roast beef with au jus and fennel onion marmalade. Another special was the Fun Guy, sautéed mushroom with assorted vegetables, hummus, the marmalade and balsamic vinaigrette. The sandwiches are $8-9.
Mexican soda and ginger beer are offered for an extra charge. DECOR
The restaurant has a small rectangular dining space. Customers can sit bar-style and pick from four or five red chairs with white and blue glass-tiled counters on each side. The kitchen is at the front, with a large open window to place your order on the left and the pickup window to the right. Colored-chalk writing marks the large blackboard menu on the wall. The other wall has large windows, one glass and one open-air frame. TASTE
I ordered the Goat Cheese sandwich ($8.25) which was goat cheese with herbs, sautéed asparagus, halved cherry tomatoes and a balsamic reduction on a baguette. My friend ordered the Turkey Jam Sam ($8.50) which was turkey salad, lettuce, tomato and bacon jam on ciabatta bread. Parvizimotlagh described the bacon jam as caramelized spreadable bacon, made from onions, fresh bacon, wine and spices that takes three to four hours to process. We received our sandwiches 10 minutes after ordering them. Each sandwich was neatly cut and presented in two five-to-six-inch pieces in black oval mesh baskets lined with brown paper. My sandwich had goat cheese spread on the bottom baguette half, with a single layer of asparagus spears on top. Halved cherry tomatoes were strewn on top, and the balsamic reduction had pinked the bread in places. The Turkey Jam Sam had bacon jam and turkey salad topped with sliced tomatoes and whole lettuce leaves. The Goat Cheese baguette was crusty and because there was less soft bread inside, I was able to
taste more of the ingredients. The asparagus spears were tender and easy to bite off but not stringy or mushy. I liked how the cherry tomatoes, slightly cooked and softened, provided a contrast to the asparagus, but I felt they could have been omitted. The balsamic reduction’s fruitiness combined well with the goat cheese, but the herbs in the cheese seemed to detract. The Turkey Jam Sam had a good balance of ingredients but lacked a standout flavor. The jam tasted more like onions, probably because the bacon was fresh, not smoked. The disappointment may have been because I associate bacon with a smoke flavor. VERDICT
EARL serves flavorful, quality sandwiches at reasonable prices. and service is prompt and friendly.
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Woods has missed the cut in four of his last eight tournament appearances.
The grass isn’t always greener on the other side DAVID MCCRACKEN SPORTS EDITOR
From 1997-2008, nobody was better than Tiger Woods. It’s been seven years since he last won a major and, though he’s occasionally signaled a renaissance in his career - most recently with a top-20 finish at The Master’s – a run of scores in the 80s and missed cuts at big tournaments have resulted in the subsequent end of the Tiger Woods era. Once the scandal broke concerning Woods’ adultery with multiple women several years ago, his play suffered on the golf course. Woods was the perfect jolt for a sport in need of someone to take it to the next level in the late 90s. Someone not only capable of
Woods doesn’t look comfortable on the green, and hasn’t looked comfortable for a while now. energizing hardcore golf fans, but of also putting the sport into the mainstream. He was the poster boy for a sport that needed attention as he was one of few golfers who really took the sport by storm. While Jack Nicklaus had challengers like Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Lee Trevino and Tom Watson during his time on top of the golfing world, Woods had very little competition to speak of. Phil Mickelson contended for a while, but he too has trailed off over the past few years.
A new era of golf has arisen, and is led by the youth movement of Jordan Spieth and Rory McIlroy. Woods doesn’t look comfortable on the green, and hasn’t looked comfortable for a while now. He looks awkward with the club in his hand; he’s either pushing the ball way right or getting crossed up and pulling it left. Meanwhile, McIlroy and Spieth are winning majors by confidently bombing the driver and then hitting easier clubs into the green. As long as the other is around, neither Spieth nor McIlroy will settle into the dominance that signified Tiger’s run from 1997 to 2008. That’s not to say that Spieth or McIlroy aren’t elite talents (because they are), but it’s difficult to replicate dominance in golfing in today’s game due to the influx of competition. With six majors between them at the ages of 26 and 21, respectively, McIlroy and Spieth already appear to be taking the sport by the scruff of its neck, putting themselves into position to replicate the success of Palmer, Player and Trevino. And even if neither ultimately reaches the Woods/ Nicklaus heights of 14 majors and beyond, they are both sure to carry the torch until the next golf phenom comes to fruition. McIlroy and Spieth are now the faces of golf as Woods takes a backseat. Woods’ golf game may never recover after the scandal, not to mention his multiple back issues, and the hopes of catching Nicklaus’ major record is a thing of the past. And even if he does win another major, it will just be another major. It won’t be a part of the Tiger Era. That era is now over.
David McCracken Sports Editor
Staying afloat NFL players facing the end of the line JEFFREY BEALL / WIKIMEDIA
Trent Richardson was suspended for the final two games of last season for the Colts. DAVID MCCRACKEN SPORTS EDITOR
With NFL training camps starting off this week, there are many players who find themselves in do-or-die situations with their respective teams. From rookies trying to make an impression with new teammates and coaches, to NFL veterans who are trying to save their career, training camp is a time to show your worth; eat, or be eaten. There are some players in tricky predicaments and others who are surrounded by opportunity to take a starting job in the league. Here are three players who are vying to keep their NFL careers alive, even though it wasn’t too long ago that they were potential franchise-changing players.
SOURCE: WASHINGTON REDSKINS
ROBERT GRIFFIN III
What a collapse. The former Heisman trophy winner and second overall pick of the 2012 NFL Draft, Griffin is facing the end of the line with the Washington Redskins franchise. It’s been well-documented about his troubles with former head coach Mike Shanahan and his inconsistent play after returning from a torn ACL in the playoffs from his rookie year, but there is no more room for excuses. Griffin will be entering his second year under the tutelage of head coach Jay Gruden and must prove his worth in order to obtain his contract as free agency approaches in a year’s time. Griffin still has the potential to be an elite player in the NFL as a dual-threat quarterback and has shown flashes of game-changing ability, but this summer will be his last opportunity to create chemistry with his coaching staff and wide receivers before the season starts in September.
SOURCE: INDIANAPOLIS COLTS
SOURCE: OAKLAND RAIDERS
VICK BALLARD
TRENT RICHARDSON
Anyone remember Vick Ballard from 2012? The Indianapolis Colt running back rushed for over 800 yards as a rookie in 2012, looking to become a solution to the running back crisis that the Colts have faced over the past few years. However, Ballard tore his ACL in the first game of the 2013 season and was lost for the year. The very next season, Ballard tore his Achilles at the start of training camp; another tough break for the young running back drafted out of Mississippi State. Fortunately for Ballard, he is back and healthy for training camp this year and has his eyes set on the backup running back position on the depth chart behind former San Francisco 49ers’ half-back Frank Gore. Gore is basically guaranteed the starting job after his impressive work from Organized Team Activities (OTAs) so Ballard will have to battle against Daniel ‘Boom’ Herron and Zurlon Tipton for a roster position this coming fall.
It’s no exaggeration to call this is the biggest summer of Trent Richardson’s life. His once promising career is hanging in the balance as he joins the Oakland Raiders, his third team in four seasons. After a decent rookie year with the Cleveland Browns in 2012 where he scored 11 touchdowns, Richardson was infamously traded to the Indianapolis Colts in exchange for a first round pick. What was supposed to be a franchise-altering move for the Colts, turned out to be one of the biggest busts in franchise history. No longer with the Colts, Richardson is vying for the starting running back position for the Raiders along with second year back Latavius Murray and former Redskin Roy Helu Jr. Both Helu Jr. and Murrary have proven to be factor backs in this league, but it’s not too late for Richardson to erase the ‘bust’ label. However, if he can’t prove his mettle in the next month, this will likely be his last shot at becoming an NFL running back.