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Graduate student workers at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa have not received a salary in-crease since 2004 because they cannot organize to advocate for their rights. Now, members of the UH Mānoa Gradu-ate Student Organiza-tion are urging the Finance Committee to schedule a hear-ing for House Bill 2859, which supports graduate student em-ployees’ rights to col-lective bargaining. “HB 2859 offers an invaluable opportunity for Hawai‘i to recognize the value of accessible higher education while upholding its constitutional commitment to collective bargaining,” GSO president Anjali Nath said. “Healthier and respected graduate stu-dent employees can help to cre-ate a stronger and more success-ful University of Hawai‘i System.” HB 2859 would remove an im-pediment to forming a union by taking graduate students employed by UH off the list of state employees statutorily barred from inclusion in an appropriate bargaining unit. Cur-rently, graduate students are classifi ed as “student help” and cannot organize. If passed, the bill would be effective starting July 1. “Hawai‘i’s public universities de-pend on student labor, but the state’s current collective bargaining laws deny students ordinary, reasonable worker rights,” said Amy Donahue, Ph.D. and former GSO Advocacy Committee chair. “The currently unequal treatment afforded by the state to student workers negatively affects graduate student fi nan-cial health, and in some cases leads to lifelong fi -nancial distress, including poverty conditions.”

The bill was introduced at the end of January, and since then, the GSO has been seeking individuals to submit testimony. Both the House Committee on Labor and Public Employment and the House Committee on Higher Education passed the measure. The bill passed its

second hearing and was referred to the Finance Committee on Feb. 17.

The UH System is the third-larg-est-earning company and the third-

highest employer in the state, em-ploying over 8,000 people. There

are 5,800 graduate students, and about 20 percent of those are estimated to be employed by the university. “Many of these workers are low-paid graduate stu-dents who are teaching and researching. Some are low-er-paid lecturers,” said for-mer GSO president Sharain Naylor. “All of us contribute to the state economy now. And all of us pay signifi-cantly more in fees, tuition and the cost of living, but have not received a pro-portional boost in our mea-ger earnings.” Due to recent budget cut-backs, UH Mānoa eliminat-ed offi ce and administrative positions, further limiting employment opportunities of graduate students. “Faculty and staff are able to collectively bargain, but it is fl at-out illegal for students to do so in Hawai‘i. Collective bargaining is a value of the people in Hawai‘i,” said Naylor. “As a state, we need to ensure students’ basic needs are met so all students can focus on their

education, earn degrees and then give back to our communities through our contributions in the work-force outside of the university system.” The heads of the Labor and Public Employment and Higher Education committees did not respond to emails requesting comments on the bill.

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Campus Center Ballroom was buzzing last Friday, as dozens of students gathered for the spring installment of Mānoa’s Got Tal-ent. The talent show offered fi rst-, second- and third-place prizes for individual and group categories.

F IRST PLACE :INDIVIDUAL WINNER Yasu Ishida earned his under-graduate theater degree from Min-nesota State University Moorhead. Originally from Iwate Prefecture in Northern Japan, Ishida is now a fi rst-year graduate student at the Univer-sity of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Between Minnesota and Hawai‘i, Ishida spent a year in Hollywood working at the Wizards’ Inn magic shop. “I did everything there,” said Ishida. “I taught magic. I per-formed magic. I did negotiations

for the performers and other sides of the management.” When on stage, Ishida feeds off the energy of the crowd to bring his magic to life. “I just feel happy, like that is where I’m sup-posed to be. I’m very scared on stage, but that is the place I am happiest,” he said. Ishida found his inspiration in Patch Adams. “When I was in Ja-pan, I watched the movie with Rob-in Williams, and I was so inspired that I thought, ‘this is what I want to do.” he said. Ishida then saw the real-life Patch Adams in Japan for a workshop, which encouraged him to become a professional clown. “I want to be a culture per-former, and my major right now is [a] Master of Fine Arts in theater for young audiences,” Ishida said. He loves engaging the crowd, and feels that it is the most important aspect of live performance. “It ’s all about connection with the

audience and the entertainment behind it,” he said. “Today, I just wanted to have fun.” He plans on spending his $175 bookstore gift card on art materi-als for his puppetry class, choco-late and macadamia nuts.

F IRST PLACE :GROUP WINNERS Jossio Timoteo, Vaimoana Atonio, Cindy dela Vega and Am-ber Lindsay won over the judges with a vocal and instrumental mu-sical compilation. The performers’ mashup included segments of An-uhea’s “Simple Love Song,” Bruno Mars’ “It Will Rain” and Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You.” Even with only a week of prep-aration, the foursome impressed the crowd with Timoteo on ‘uku-lele and Atonio, dela Vega and Lindsay on vocals. While two of the four were performing for their fi rst time in front of a live audience, Lindsay repeated her victory from last semester’s talent show, when she also performed a group medley. Like Ishida, the group was mainly out to have fun. Timoteo said, “During practice we’re like, ‘Oh gosh, do we got this?’ But then before we performed, we’re like, ‘It ’s just for fun anyways.’” Even though it was just for fun, Timoteo was glad to edge out the second-place break-dancing group – who, coincidentally, were his roommates. The four will enjoy a $300 gift card, which they will have to split among themselves.

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The presidential election is in 10 months, and my options are al-ready stressing me out. It appears that Mitt Romney will be the Re-publican elected to run against Barack Obama, and my liberal little heart can’t vote for a man as conservative as he is. In a perfect world, this inabil-ity to vote for the Republican nom-inee would result in a default vote for our incumbent president. How-ever, I’m not so sure I can bring myself to vote for the man who has been such a disappointment. Obama has done great things during his time in offi ce. His pres-ence and speaking ability have brought eloquence and poise back into the presidency. “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” and the Iraq war have ended under his watch. His ac-

complishments deserve to be rec-ognized, and the president should be lauded for them. Unfortunately, he has also overseen several unsettling changes in the nation. The health-care plan he proposed was great, but he and congressional Demo-crats ended up giving too much away to the opposition to pass the watered-down bill that eventually became law. While it is positive that everyone will be allowed to purchase insurance, the conces-sions to conservatives and the re-moval of the public option offers no incentive for insurance compa-nies to lower their rates to prices working-class people can afford. Requiring all Americans to pur-chase insurance with no public option places an additional fi nan-cial burden on people who are al-ready struggling. As the healthcare debacle is forgivable, so are many of his other disappointing actions. After all, Congress has been a mess during this time, and the opposition to

Democratic plans has been out-rageous. It can’t be easy to lead a nation when so many of those who are supposed to be working with him have had the audacity to publicly declare that their only goal is to ensure that our “Kenyan-Muslim-terrorist-socialist-fascist-communist-dictator of a president” does not see a second term. He can only get so far when the rest of the government has lost its mind and has stymied so many plans that he was elected on. But Obama has done things during his time in offi ce that are not forgivable. It is unconscionable that he continues to stand by the intrusive and unnecessary screen-ing methods implemented by the TSA. It is unforgivable that a man who campaigned against the overstepping of George W. Bush’s administration has established himself as the fi rst president to execute a U.S. citizen without due process. But the most atrocious thing he has allowed to come to fruition during his presidency is

the recent signing of the National Defense Authorization Act, which allows for the indefi nite detain-ment of American citizens with-out due process if the president deems that person a threat in the “War on Terror.” Obama issued a statement indi-cating that his administration would not use this new legal power. That is great, but who is to say that the next president will not abuse the powers given him (or her) by this law? Just as the PATRIOT Act signed into law by Bush (and extended by Obama) has been further abused as each year passes, isn’t it likely that the indefi -nite detention clause will also be ma-nipulated and abused in the future? As much as I hate to say it, I don’t think I can vote for Obama this election cycle with a good con-science, but the thought of not vot-ing sends butterfl ies of panic rac-ing through my stomach. I am left extremely frustrated with Ameri-ca’s political apparatus – and ulti-mately hope that the 2016 election offers up some better candidates.

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The Rainbow Wahine softball team (12-0) is right where it wants to be at this point in the season. “Right now the chemistry of the team is gelling to the point where we don’t have any issues in regard to anyone not really being where they need to be,” said head softball coach Bob Coolen. “We have our starters, we have our role players, we have dif-ferent players that we use in certain situations. We’ve been getting an op-

portunity to use some of our backup players and nonstarters so they can keep the edge as well.” “I know that we’ve been scoring a lot of runs and that’s great, but we’ve also had games where we haven’t been scoring as many runs. ... We still feel that support and that constant drive to win, and that kind of support and chemistry from the team is really carrying us far,” said senior left-fi eld-er Alex Aguirre. “It’s exciting to see this early in the season.” Hawai‘i is off to its best start in school history after sweeping the

Louisville Slugger Desert Classic in Las Vegas a week ago. And with a week off to rest and recover, the ’Bows have to focus on retaining mo-mentum for this weekend’s battle. “It ’s been really good that we’ve been able to run through a lot of teams,” said junior center fielder Kelly Majam. “We did re-ally well over the past two weeks, so we have a lot of confidence in ourselves and in each other. ... It ’s been a great two weeks, and I hope that this break will help us recover a little bit coming from

the road and [we’ll] just have time to refocus and get used to playing at home again.” Up next for the Rainbow Wa-hine is the Bank of Hawai‘i In-vitational. The tournament will feature Florida State, Radford and UC Santa Barbara and will run this Friday through Sunday. “We have the whole month of March that we play at home. It’s just by design each year that our month of March is three tourna-ments and we’ve opened at home with our WAC [Western Athletic

Conference] opener,” said Coolen. Hawai‘i cracked the National Fastpitch Coaches Association/USA Today Poll at No. 25. This is the Rainbow Wahine’s f irst ranking of the season. “For the teams around the coun-try, the people that are voting for us, they’re the ones that have seen us play,” said Coolen. “They know we have pitching, they know we can hit the ball. It’s just a feather in the play-er’s caps for what they’re doing on the fi eld and off the fi eld that is giving them that recognition.”

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Reaching a national milestoneMARC ARAKAKI

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For the fi rst time in program his-tory, the Rainbow Wahine tennis team has cracked into the national polls. “It ’s a great accomplishment as of right now,” head coach Jun Her-nandez said of the team’s No. 74 ranking. “I know we have bigger goals as a team. We set our [new goal] of top 50 in the nation, and I believe we have the talent and work ethic to do it. “Recruiting is definitely going to help. More Americans will defi-nitely take a look at us. Athletes re-ally take a look at the rankings all the time, and if you’re not ranked then you’re not going to be the first choice, that ’s for sure.” Senior Barbara Pinterova, who alternates the No. 1 singles duties with junior Katarina Poljakova, feels excited to raise the team’s goals. “It ’s amazing that we are ranked, and now for sure we just want to do better and better,” Pin-terova said. “And that’s why we set the goal from top 75 to top 50, and I’m sure we can get it.” “It feels great,” Poljakova said. “We’ve been working hard and now it ’s fi nally paying off.” And if there’s a time for the Rainbow Wahine to improve their ranking, it ’s now.

HOME IN THE I SLANDS Hawai‘i (3-3) will host 11 match-es in a row at home over the course of the next month and a half. The Rainbow Wahine will be-gin their home stand with Eastern Michigan on Wednesday at 3 p.m. in the University of Hawai‘i Tennis Complex. Admission is free to all UH women’s tennis matches. “It ’s really good for us be-cause we don’t need to travel. We

don’t have the time dif ference ... we don’t need to account for new weather conditions and we can be at home,” Pinterova said. “Most importantly, we are playing on our home court.” And for Hernandez, staying home allows the team to be close with its fans. “We have a lot of boosters who’ve been supporting our pro-gram,” Hernandez said. “And for the past few years, we’ve been trav-eling so we don’t see them as much as we like to. We have four new girls on the team, so it ’s a great op-portunity for them [our fans] to get to know our players.”

Tennis matches are scored using a point system. There are six singles matches and three doubles matches. Singles matches are played to a best out of three sets, while doubles matches are one set long, fi rst to eight games. Singles win-ners receive one point for their teams, while a team needs to win two out of three doubles matches to secure one point. Thus, singles matches are weighted more heav-ily than doubles matches. “Doubles, though, gives you such a momentum boost because we start with doubles,” head coach Jun Hernandez said. “Even though singles gives you one point, it gives you a lot of momen-tum going into singles. “It’s not as tough to win three out of six singles versus four out of six singles. But actually we did it two times already ... we lost the doubles point and came back and won four out of six singles against ranked schools (Penn State and UC Irvine).”

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The Rainbow Wahine will feed off the leadership of junior Katarina Poljakova, shown above, as she battles with senior Barbara Pinterova for the No. 1 singles spot.