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Arts festival: a dream come true

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The first-ever Palikū Arts Festival, “The Art Ad-venture,” will be held

April 2 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on the WCC campus — a dream come true for WCC drama professor Ben Moffat. He en-visions an “art village” full of interactive art experiences in and around Palikū Theatre.

The family-friendly festival will include activities in mu-sic, art, literature, theater and dance for people of all ages. People are encouraged to come in costume or festive clothing.

Moffat, who will be leaving WCC this year, sees this event and the campus as a “hub for arts and culture in the commu-nity” and a chance to “celebrate the creativity in everybody.”

There will be hands-on ac-tivities with supplies provided for drawing, painting, sculpt-ing, print and mask-making as well as music, dance and creating poetry and prose.

Two performances of Cirque-style clowning called “Our Amazing Adventure” will be featured in Palikū Theatre at 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m.

The Imaginarium will be

projecting on the planetari-um dome “The Secret of the Dragon.”

This is a story about two youths who meet a friendly and mysterious dragon, who takes them across the universe to learn about themselves and different worlds. Both shows will have a nominal fee.

If you want to learn an ex-otic form of dance, Taylor Hall will be teaching belly dancing. If you find inspiration through

theater, Michelle Hurtubise, a WCC lecturer, will help bring out your dramatic side.

For music or poetry, check out the courtyard area, where you can listen to WCC students as well as live bands.

You’ll also have the chance to observe WCC artists at work in their studios or in Gallery ‘Iolani, featuring graffiti artists and students Dane Hew-Len and Josh Aipoalani, masks from drama students and a col-

lection of handmade hats from professor emeritus Jacquie Maly. There will be an area to try on masks as well as dress up in fun costumes.

Other WCC faculty par-ticipating in the festival in-clude Snowden Hodges, Mark Hamasaki, Ron Loo, Paul Nash, Norm Graffam, Bryce Meyers, Rob Molyneux, Lillian Cunningham, Janine Oshiro, So Jin Kimura, Aaron Sala and Tara Severns.

When WCC students start registering next month,

they may notice a few signifi-cant changes to the schedule of courses.

For fall 2011, WCC will in-troduce a new scheduling for-mat that includes more classes meeting twice rather than three times a week — a move favored by many students, according to a survey conducted a few years ago.

The new format mainly affects classes offered on Mon-days, Wednesdays and Fridays, which generally last 50 minutes per session. By extending the class periods to 75 minutes, courses that were previously offered only on MWF will now be available on a MW schedule.

There are some exceptions such as English 22 and 100, foreign and Hawaiian lan-guage courses, and many math classes that have been proven to

work better on the 50-minute format. A major change is that all 100-level history classes that were held on MWF will be moved to MW.

Surveys taken in 2006 showed that many students, faculty and staff favored changes to the current WCC class schedule. After the sur-veys, a resolution to modify the WCC class schedule to a 75-minute format was submit-ted by WCC’s social science department, spearheaded by Professor Toshi Ikagawa.

The new schedule is de-signed to offer benefits to both students and instructors at WCC. With Hawai‘i’s high cost of living, the new format can free up Fridays so students can work or use Fridays to take their lab classes, which tend to be longer.

Likewise, instructors who were previously limited to 75-minute classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays now have the option of teaching on Mondays

and Wednesdays with the lon-ger class format.

Both Kapiolani CC and Honolulu CC have adopted similar schedules. The new format will be tried on an ex-perimental basis, then assessed for effectiveness. WCC officials want to make sure people are satisfied with the new system.

“We’re planning on doing a survey in the fall to see what

students and faculty think about the new schedule,” said Brian Richardson, Dean of Aca-demic Affairs. “This upcoming semester will be a good test of whether it works or not.”

One of the biggest factors driving enrollment is the num-ber of classes being offered . At this point, WCC has 10 more classes scheduled for Fall 2011 than were offered for Fall 2010.

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WCC theater student Isaac Ligsay is an explorer interacting with creatures from Well World in the masked performance, “Our Amazing Adventure”— part of the Paliku Arts Festival April 2.

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New class schedule for fall semesterb y P a t r i c k A m b l e rKa ‘Ohana Staff Reporter

Current WCC students can see drafts of summer and fall 2011 class schedules at windward.hawaii.edu. Online registration begins Monday, April 11.

Non-registration counselor appointments will be avail-able the week of April 11. Registration appointments with counselors begin Monday, April 18. Call 235-7413 to sched-ule times.

Fall 2011 classes will begin Monday, Aug. 22.WCC will offer two summer sessions, with the first run-

ning from May 23 – July 1 and the second from July 5 – Aug. 12. The summer session cost this year has been reduced from $283 to $248 per credit hour for all UH community colleges.

The summer tuition is higher than the regular school year because classes must be self-supporting. However, some financial aid is still available to cover summer session costs.

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Taking protests to the streets

After decades of dis-content, people in the Middle East and North

Africa have decided they’ve had enough of unemployment, food price inflation, lack of freedom and police brutality.

Each day, protests are ig-niting through a long list of countries, such as Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, with one united message: It’s time for change.

In an unprecedented turn of events, people from all walks of life, ages and econom-ic backgrounds are banding together and filling the streets with hope and determination to take back their rights.

These revolutions have been decades in the making, which begs the question, why now?

Some have speculated that youth and social media, such as Facebook and Twitter, played a major role in these events.

Thirty years ago, when many of the current dictators came to power, none of these social media existed. The same discontent could be found among the people in these countries, but times were sim-ply different.

As these types of technolo-gies evolved, their popularity grew. The youth in these coun-tries have learned to use social media as a political tool.

So, while it can be said these factors had a hand in the events, they weren’t the main catalyst.

According to Roy Fujimo-to, a WCC political science pro-fessor, “(Social media) made it possible to get (information) out, but if you didn’t have underlying issues from the get-go and people deciding to put their lives, literally, on the line to demonstrate against the government, (the revolution) wouldn’t have happened.”

And lives, literally, have been on the line. In fact, many believe one man, Mohamed Bouazizi, a 26-year-old Tu-nisian street vendor, was the single factor that sparked this

On Jan 11, protesters rallied outside Qa’id Ibraheem Mosque (above), the starting point for demonstrations in Alexandria, Egypt. (right) A man angrily waves a shoe at a figure of Mubarak. The sign reads, “This is your end with us. We are tired of you.”

wave of mass protests in his country.

He was publicly humili-ated when a female municipal inspector slapped him in the face for trying to stop her from confiscating his fruit cart. Then on Dec. 17, “sometime around noon, in the two-lane street in front of the gover-nor’s high gate, the vendor drenched himself in paint thinner, then lit himself on fire.

A doctor at the hospital where he was treated said the burns covered 90 percent of his body,” wrote Kareem Fahim, a journalist for The New York Times.

Bouazizi died 18 days later.Because Bouazizi, a college

graduate, couldn’t find a job, he was forced to sell fruit and vegetables without a permit.

“Tunisia’s big problem is said to be unemployment. But unemployment there is run-ning at somewhere between 13 percent and 14 percent, which isn’t really so bad,” said CNBC Senior Editor John Carney.

“The real problem,” he continued, “is that Tunisia cannot create suitable employ-ment for the huge numbers of college graduates it creates every year.”

As word of Bouazizi’s sui-cide attempt made its way through the city streets, anger fueled citizen protests as a way to avenge their comrade and put an end to years of injustice.

After less than a month of demonstrations and riots, their efforts paid off when President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fled Tunisia after 23 years in power. History was made, but the fate of Tunisia has been left up in the air.

Egypt, 700 miles east of Tu-nisia, shares many of the same concerns: high unemploy-ment, a corrupt government and poor living conditions. But, unlike Tunisia, word of Egypt’s unrest spread like wildfire throughout the U.S.

According to an article posted on ABC.com, “Egypt is one of the strongest U.S. allies in the Arab world, supporting

What’s the role of technology in 2011 protests?

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When they tried to cut off communication to the outside world, the Internet still pulled through. So when they tried to hide what was going on during the revolution, the participants could still give updates and in-formation to the outside world.

So technology played a big role — almost the only resource that these people had to tell the world what was trying to be hidden by the government.

As the world itself has changed, so too has our means of communication. The use of social networking sites has sped up the way young people communicate. What we see now with Tunisia and Egypt is much different from what occured in Tianan-men Square.

The use of social network-ing sites has turned grassroots-style change into wildfire change.

—Leah Joseph

“This new form of communication gave them courage to use their

voice to better their society and turn their state around.”

– Kaliko Lee

In my opinion, I think that the role that technology played in the recent political revolutions is one that facili-tated courage.

We have read that 30 years ago, Egyptians would have never dared to say any-thing bad about Egypt’s poli-cies and government. Under Mubarak’s rule, the people were suppressed and lived

It also showed the world the power of the Internet; it will always find a way to be freed.

—Ihilani Gutierrez

Technology allows news to spread much faster than by word of mouth, so instead of the political revolutions slowly gaining popularity, technol-ogy made this event explode. It’s what everyone’s been talk-ing about for weeks.

Technology also allowed participants to gain follow-ers. It gave people the power to get the word out and make change. Had technology not

We live in the age of in-formation and technology.

been a part of the equation, I think there still would have been a revolution eventually, just not as fast and “explosive” as this one.

—Nani Maxey

in fear. But with the new developments of the Inter-net, young people become more willing to express their feelings. They are no longer afraid, and are finally speak-ing up about the things they want changed.

This new form of communi-cation gave them courage to use their voice to better their society and turn their state around.

—Kaliko Lee

Every day it becomes easier to share, access or spread information. Totalitarian gov-ernments fear this wealth of knowledge.

An argument could be made that without Facebook or Twitter these political revo-lutions might have failed.

Many of the protestors were students who know best how to utilize technol-ogy to their advantage and they proved it.

—Josh Duncan

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CAMPUS NEWS 3Ka ‘Ohana

If you’re wondering what that new “Google@UH” tab is in your MyUH

portal, it’s a collection of communication tools that allow users to email, chat, cre-ate and share documents.

All students on the 10 UH cam-puses are being asked to migrate over to Google@UH by the end of 2011. Over the calendar year, students will receive reminders to migrate to Google@UH. If students have not scheduled a time to migrate to the new services by October, they will have to do so in November.

For those who haven’t taken notice yet, your mail is no longer available through the UH portal. By migrating to Google@UH, you will be able to ac-cess your mail in the portal through the Google icon. Once you have migrated to Google@UH, you will no longer be able to access your mail through mail.hawaii.edu or MyUH Portal mail.

Through Google@UH, users can also access video chat with other users, organize and invite others to events and appointments with Google Calendar and create documents in Google, which could be shared with others.

Currently, Information Technol-ogy Services at UH is focusing on the basic services of Google@UH to ensure a smooth transition for new users. However, over time there will be more services based on community demand.

According to Osamu Makiguchi, the UH system’s ITS specialist, Google@UH started out as a way to reduce com-puter costs in the university. However, the UH administration also found that Google@UH provided students, faculty and staff with vastly improved email, chat and calendar services over what UH offers.

President Greenwood looks to the future

UH President M.R.C. Greenwood and Vice President for Commu-

nity Colleges John Morton talked about everything from tuition increases to new learn-ing options during a March 3 campus visit.

They also toured the Li-brary Learning Commons construction site and met with faculty, staff, students and the ASUH leaders.

President Greenwood said after seeing WCC’s future Li-brary Learning Commons, “It’s going to be a first-rate, modern facility and will make a big dif-ference here.”

As president, Greenwood makes the appeal for govern-ment funding for the entire UH system. Lately, most of her energy has been spent persuad-ing the legislature to restore funding rather than gaining new revenue, she said.

The arguments she makes for the university system are that students are the best in-vestment for the future; the UH system is one of the best in the country; future jobs will require an education of a B. A. degree or higher; and it helps citizens start new careers.

UH has suffered a 23 per-cent budget cut during the eco-nomic downturn. Greenwood explained, “We are not going to recover as much as we would like, but it will not be as bad as we thought.”

The UH system is not sup-ported solely by the govern-ment. “For every dollar the government gives us, we raise

another six on our own,” said Greenwood. Part of UH’s self-acquired funding comes from tuition, but with financial chal-lenges ahead, new tuition in-creases will probably have to be implemented. TUITION INCREASES

Next school year will be the last in the current tuition sched-ule and then UH will enter a new five-year plan. Early next fall, UH will propose a new tu-ition plan for public discussion, which will then be brought to the regents for approval.

However, according to Greenwood, the increase in tuition will simultaneously in-crease the amount of financial aid that will be available. About 11 percent of tuition comes back to the students in the form of financial aid, and that percent-age is constantly rising.DISTANCE LEARNING

One way that UH is seek-ing to improve its learning en-vironment is through distance learning and hybrid classes.

Distance learning involves the use of webcams and tech-nology to allow a teacher to teach students simultaneously in classrooms all over the state. This greatly expands the avail-ability of classes for students.

“You would still need hands-on clinical sites (like sci-ence labs), however, easily de-liverable information would be much more accessible through online contact,” said Morton.

Hybrid classes have one day a week of in-class instruc-tion with the rest online, which more than doubles the number of potential classes.GOING GREEN

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leges have signed on to a project with Johnson Controls Inc. to minimize energy and water consumption.

“We also have research programs for all areas of energy renewal and reduction, degrees for sustainable business and ‘green job’ certificates,” said

Morton. “UH has a $6.6 million grant for those purposes.”

The unification of all UH system colleges allows students to cross-register and take class-es at any campus without hav-ing to apply individually for each one. That opens up more opportunities to UH students.

“We not only have an out-standing academic system, but we are really making progress with improving the chances of citizens to come back to school and begin, restart or finish whatever they need to complete in their life,” said Greenwood in closing.

UH system starts students on Google email“UH would never have been able to

provide what Google is now providing for us,” says Makiguchi.

Google@UH benefits students be-cause it provides many upgrades to the existing service. Some upgrades include, but are not limited to, 7,540 MB of mail storage for every mailbox, compared to UH’s current @hawaii.edu quotas of 500MB for faculty and staff and 250MB for students.

“Increase of mailbox storage alone is a big win for us,” says Makiguchi. He adds, “Faculty and staff also have found Google Calendar to be much more im-proved than the UH calendar.”

Google@UH also includes full sup-port for mobile device synchronization of email, calendar and contacts while UH’s current @hawaii.edu supports mobile email only.

For now, Google@UH has been rolled out to only students of the UH system. Meanwhile, faculty and staff are able to use Google@UH at their discre-

tion. Although ITS is hopeful that fac-ulty and staff will migrate to Google@UH, faculty and staff concerns are still being dealt with.

ITS at UH is expecting that once everyone has migrated to Google@UH, they’ll notice the positive improve-ments. “Usually, cost-cutting project services go down, but with Google@UH, services went up,” says Makiguchi.

For students who have migrated to Google@UH or will be doing so shortly, you will also be able to access your mail by bookmarking hawaii.edu/google to your computer. On the right hand side of the screen, you will find “Already Migrated?” Click on the Gmail link, and your UH mail should appear.

According to Makiguchi, 20 percent of people who have UH mail forward to other services — Gmail being the most popular forwarding address, mainly because of storage.

For questions, contact the ITS help desk at 956-8883 or help@hawaii.edu.

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(top) WCC Chancellor Doug Dykstra and UH President Greenwood survey progress on the new Library Learning Commons.

President Greenwood meets with (from left)Ka ‘Ohana editor Akela Newman and ASUH senators Justin Sugai, Peter Han, Leah Koeppel, Daniel Kamalu-Grupen, VP John Morton and Dominick Shortall.

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Financial aid helps you get in the gameb y T J M e t c a l f

Ka ‘Ohana Staff Reporter

Who doesn’t like free money to help with a college edu-cation? Did you know that

there are over 10 major scholarships available strictly for new and con-tinuing WCC students?

Some of these include funds from the Kaneohe Business Group, the Lani-Kailua Outdoor Circle, the Garden Club of Honolulu, Charles Hemingway, as well as Paul (former WCC history professor) and Jane Field.

Students should check the guide-lines for eligibility for the different funds, but one common application can be used for several different scholarships.

The KBG Scholarship is WCC’s biggest with funds raised through the annual Windward Ho‘olaule‘a, a festival held in the fall on the WCC campus. Students planning careers in business, nursing or education are encouraged to apply.

Matt Claybaugh, a KBG board member, says they want to “help sup-port the community” and the future leaders of Hawai‘i. “Anyone can be a leader; age doesn’t matter,” he added.

“Apply for every scholarship that

you can,” advised Claybaugh. “Take advantage of the money out there.”

He also urged everyone to sup-port the Windward Ho‘olaule’a be-cause the more funds they raise, the more scholarship money will be available to students.

Last year 13 WCC students re-ceived $900 scholarships each. This year $21,000 will be given away to WCC students.

It’s like a big puzzle…and we find the missing

pieces,” said Blaine Osato, FBI intelligence analyst on the Counterdrug Task Force.

That’s how members of the FBI Evidence Response Team (ERT) described their crime investigation work to WCC chemistry students in a campus forum Feb. 23.

The two ERT investiga-tors, Osato and Anna Schreff, spoke about the use of cut-ting-edge technology in crime investigation and analysis.

The purpose of the ERT is to collect evidence supporting FBI priority investigations in a meticulous and systematic way.

If agents are the FBI’s secret weapon, then the ERTs are the agents’ secret weapon.

The tools and techniques employed by the ERTs range in complexity from electro-static dust print lifters to forensic light source glasses to supergluing fingerprints.

According to Osato, the method of using powder to bring out fingerprints is successful only on smooth, non-porous surfaces. The FBI now uses heated superglue to retrieve tricky prints.

The super glue preserves prints much longer than pow-

Each scholarship has different requirements, but WCC needs to be your home institution and most may want you to fill out a FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid).

Steven Chigawa, WCC’s financial aid officer, and his staff are available in Hale Alaka‘i 107 to assist stu-dents. The main advice he has about financial aid is: There were about 2,800 FAFSA applications that came

through last year. Get yours in — the sooner the better.

There is a 1/2 million dollars of first come, first served money, said Chigawa. Federal aid programs such as the Pell Grant is where most of that money comes from.

Chigawa and his staff will walk you through the whole process — from filling out a FAFSA to reviewing different loan, grant and scholarship options.

One student said of WCC’s fi-nancial aid office, “They bend over backwards to make sure you get all the money you can.”

“Steven is always willing to help. He turns something so complex into something simple to understand,” said another student.

You can get help with your FAFSA with an appointment at the financial aid office, at TRiO or at WCC’s One-Stop Shop in Windward Mall.

April 15 is the deadline for schol-arship applications and April 1 for other financial aid. Turn in your forms into the Financial Aid Office Hale Alaka‘i 107 or fax them to (808) 247-5362.

Students can access the WCC common scholarship application by going to windward.hawaii.edu/financial_aid/.

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Renewing its commitment to WCC students, the

Lani-Kailua Outdoor Circle recently gave $5,000 to their Environmental Studies Schol-arship and the WCC Agricul-ture Scholarship Fund. They have been a part of scholar-ships for WCC since 1994.

“We are fortunate to have the support of the Lani-Kailua Outdoor Circle,” said WCC Chancellor Doug Dykstra. “The two student funds will help the growing need for scholarships and ultimately benefit the sustainability of our island state.”

For the 2011–2012 school year, there is $2,500 for each of the Environmental and Ag-ricultural scholarship funds. Preference will be given to graduates of Windward O‘ahu high schools.

Joan Fleming, president of Lani-Kailua Outdoor Cir-cle, said, “The Lani-Kailua Outdoor Circle cares deeply about the natural resources of Windward O‘ahu—including our youth.

“We have a long history of being good stewards of our islands’ natural enviroment; as such, we must prepare our youth to become active leaders in representing and preserv-ing these vital resources.”

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Lani-Kailua Outdoor Circle members present scholarship check to Windward Community College Chancellor Doug Dykstra for $5,000.

Secret weapons of the FBIder does and allows for dupli-cation of prints.

Another form of Impres-sion Evidence involves the use of an electrostatic dust print lifter that electrically charges the dust where someone was standing to reveal a print. The ERT also uses Mikrosil casting putty to make very detailed casts of footprints, tire prints and more.

Forensic l ight source glasses when combined with LED lights can reveal blood, semen, sweat, f luorescent powders and dye stains by causing it to glow.

“Take these (glasses) into a hotel room and shine (the light) on the bed and you’ll

see it light up like a Christmas tree,” Osato said.

According to the FBI web-site, over 1,200 personnel “operate at a high level of competency to ensure evi-dence is collected in such a manner that it can be intro-duced in courts throughout the U.S. and the world. “ERTs strive to be the model for crime scene processing from the standpoint of safety, expertise, training, equip-ment and ability,”

Some of the major cases that ERTs have been a big part of are the TransWorld Air-lines Flight 800 that crashed near New York in 1996, the SEE FBI CarEErS PaGE 5

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Chemistry students look through forensic light source glasses used in FBI investigations to reveal body fluids such as blood, sweat and semen.

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An international part-nership that could in-volve WCC students

in groundbreaking research and exchanges with China was celebrated at a presentation on campus last month.

The event highlighted both the nutritional and medicinal potential of orchids as well as the untapped potential for expanding research and en-trepreneurship through the sharing of resources.

Earlier this year Dr. Inge White, WCC botany and micro-biology professor, was invited to collaborate with Hainan Uni-versity in Sanya, China as an official judge for the 5th Chinese International Orchid Show. She also gave a presentation on her research with the “Nutra-ceutical Study of Dendrobium Orchids.”

A letter of agreement of cooperation has been signed between Dr. White, WCC Chan-cellor Doug Dykstra and a representative of Sanya China Orchid Organization.

This official letter, also

WCC’s new safety and s e c u r i t y m a n a g e r

Richard “Rick” Murray is a man with a plan.

His goal is to improve WCC’s safety policy and procedures and to develop a crisis management plan with the help of a campuswide committee.

Th e C a mp u s S a f e t y Committee is where stu-dents, faculty and staff can express their concerns about campus security as well as discuss steps for improving safety.

Members will discuss and analyze safety issues in an attempt to reduce the risks of danger on campus.

Since WCC is in a se-cluded area, Murray said we are not as prone to potential dangers as a college in the city.

Students are encouraged to call Murray if they en-counter any potentially risky or uncomfortable situation having to do with health or safety on campus. He is available at (808) 235-7343 and is open to discussing health or safety issues with students and faculty.

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signed by Sanya’s Vice Mayor Yao Li, was created in hopes of building a scientific collabora-tion in research between WCC and Hainan University as well as open up a student exchange program for the two countries.

Assisting Dr. White in this venture is Honolulu attorney and former Honolulu City Coun-cil member Leigh Wai Doo.

“Hawai‘i has only five spe-cies of orchids, so our range of study is limited but China has thousands of new species unstudied. Imagine the pos-sibilities,” said White.

Students involved in the program will be studying the genetic transformation and mo-lecular structure of plants with research that could develop further into ethnobotanical pharamacognosy, nutritional and antimicrobial properties, making bioproducts, and food pharmacy.

There is also talk of the first book in a series being pro-duced — half in English and half in Chinese — called “Nu-traceutical of Dendrobiums.”

Chinese traditional medi-cine uses orchids to treat such varying conditions as tuber-culosis, impotence and cancer.

Some varieties are said to pu-rify the blood and kidney or treat night sweats and fever.

But orchids can also be used in a variety of food dishes, as demonstrated at the WCC event by the Botany 205 class, who prepared creations using three different orchids. The students made everything from mashed potatoes and curries to chocolate and an orchid-infused dressing for fruit salad.

Dr. White hopes students in her program will continue to become creative entrepreneurs — developing products, foods, and medicines that will lead Hawai‘i to a cleaner, healthier, greener environment as well as open up job opportunities for the state.

As she said, “Any entre-preneur can create jobs, even small ones. This is something all new.”

Dr. Inge White (center), along with her botany students, display a variety of food dishes using orchids.

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Murray refers to his of-fice, which is located at Hale Alaka‘i 125 , as an “infor-mation center for safety for students as well as faculty and staff.”

In his office, he has an emergency def ibr i l lator, which is a device that is designed to administer an electric shock if a person is experiencing cardiac arrest.

“I like being a person of responsibility,” he said.

Murray i s or ig i na l ly from Philadelphia but came to the islands after joining the Marine Corps.

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lived on the Big Island, and Murray visited the islands throughout his childhood.

“I wanted to get into se-curity because I knew I had the ability to respond in dif-ferent pressure situations.”

Murray graduated from Hawaii Pacific University with a bachelor’s degree in justice administration and a master’s degree in organi-zational change. He has 12 years of experience in secu-rity and is a certified safety and health manager. Murray said “I enjoy teaching — ex-plaining what I know and understand.”

Rick Murray welcomes students to his office to discuss safety at WCC.

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9/11 World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks in 2001, the Unabomber (University and Airline Bomber) Ted Kaczyn-ski from 1978-95, the Okla-homa City Bombing in 1995, bombings in Nairobi, Kenya and Saudi Arabia in the ‘90s, and the Al Qaeda attack on the USS Cole in 2000.

ERTs consist of “‘normal’ people with ‘normal’ jobs,” said Schreff, a CPA (certified public accountant) in her mid-twenties who has been with the FBI for five months.

Schreff continued, “We have our regular job and can specialize and work in any of the 56 FBI field offices.

“We gather and preserve evidence from FBI cases and then send it to those who are able to analyze it and act upon it (FBI agents).”

Becoming part of the ERT is a bit easier than trying to become an agent.

To be an agent, you need to have your bachelor’s degree, two to three years of profes-sional experience in the field, pass two polygraph (lie detec-tor) tests and be “badged” by the time you are 37.

To be a part of the ERT, you need to have had a job for three years, pass the two

polygraph tests and be in the FBI Academy at the Marine Corps base in Quantico, VA before you are 37.

There are many different paths for different careers within the FBI. There is no one path for a person to be a part of the FBI, but applicants must have high ethical standards.

Schreff said the polygraph and background check was the hardest thing she ever did even though she leads a very “clean” life.

“You need to evaluate your-self accurately and know your moral compass,” she said.

Osato added, “Tell the truth no matter what. You will be forgiven for a lot of things…but not lying.”

The FBI may be formally known to stand for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, but those within the FBI know it to stand for fidelity, bravery and integrity.

If you’d like to learn more about the FBI’s Evidence Re-sponse Team or other careers, contact Blaine Osato at blaine.osato@ic.fbi.gov.

You can also go to www.fbi.gov/about-us or trade-school.org/directory/law-en-forcement-and-protection/crime-scene-investigation/hawaii.

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Help. Volunteer. Do a good turn. Learn from others. There is much to be done and many ways to contribute to benefit others in service learning and community service.

Pam DaGrossa, anthropology instructor, has been participating in service learning at WCC for the past four years and coordinating for four semesters.

The most recent service learning fair was held on Jan. 25 with over 20 organizations partici-pating. DaGrossa said that approximately 150 people showed up to see the opportunities avail-able. The next service learning fair is tentatively set for Sept. 6, 2011.

Service learning is a way for students to work in fields of their interest and gain experience while doing so. It is a way for them to verify if what appeals to them is an ideal match for future endeavors.

Both students and the organizations benefit from the participation. Because most students live in the windward area, DaGrossa prefers to identify organizations that are on the windward side.

With spring break approaching, many students use this time to fulfill community service hours required for scholarships. DaGrossa encourages them to spread their volunteering efforts over the course of the semester.

If you are looking to participate in service learning or need to complete community service hours, here are some suggestions: the Hawaiian Humane Society, Hawaii Cat Foundation, Blood Bank of Hawaii, Ho‘omaluhia Botanical Gardens, Ann Pearl, Court Appointed Special Advo-cates for Children, Ann Pearl, Boys & Girls Club Windward Clubhouse, and Malama Pono.

For further information, contact Pam DaGrossa at (808) 236-9225 or dagrossa@hawaii.edu.

Every day the number of hungry people in Hawai‘i grows and grows. Young children, troubled teens,

hard-working parents and the elderly alike struggle to have enough food to eat on a daily basis.

“ It’s hard for me to have enough food to put on the table every day,” said one young mother who wanted to remain anonymous. “Kayla” said that between go-ing to school, working a minimum-wage job and paying for her chil-dren’s needs, it is very difficult to provide food for her family.

“When my kids are in school, I can relax a little because I know they are receiving two meals a day. It’s when the weekend comes around, furloughs, or waiver days that I start to freak out,” she ex-plained. “I just can’t do it all on my own.”

She revealed that the Hawaii Foodbank has been a great help in allowing her to put food on the table for her young children.

The Hawaii Food-bank embodies the mission that “no one in (their) ‘ohana goes hungry.” Despite their efforts to make Hawai‘i a better place, they are in need of more volunteers to continue helping people like Kayla.

According to Annie Cadirao, a representative from the Hawaii Foodbank, there are 183,500 people in Hawai‘i who have benefited from the annual food drives and collection sites in 2010. Out of the 183,500

hungry people, 55,000 were children and 11,000 were senior citizens.

An easy and affordable way in which people can spread their aloha is by simply volunteering their time. Volunteers are needed to sort donated foods, inspect fruits to make sure they are in good condition and help at any of the eight designated food drives

around the island. Mon-etary donations are also more than welcome.

“ W h a t w e n e e d most are canned food —canned meats and tuna, soups, vegetables, and fruits. Things like spa-ghetti, chili and corned beef hash are real ly good, too,” she added.

Cadirao said the big-gest donation times are during the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays, but help is needed all year ’round.

“We need to remem-ber that although the hol-idays are over, there are still thousands of hungry stomachs out there. The gift of giving should not only be limited to a few months out of the year. We need to share our aloha constantly.”Ruby Tuesday and Napa

Auto Parts will have donation boxes at every location throughout the year for the public to donate canned goods. The next food drive is at Windward City Shop-ping Center on April 16.

For more information on how you can help, go to www.hawaiifoodbank.org.

Where do you go to get away from it all? For

any resident of the wind-ward side, Ho’omaluhia Botanical Garden offers a place to enjoy nature and get involved in many cultural and environmental activities.

The 400-acre Ho‘omaluhia Garden, is one of five Honolulu Botanical Gardens, whose mission is to conserve tropical flora and propogate plants for botanical research. It is also a place for community rec-reation and education.

Of the five gardens, Ho‘omaluhia has a definite character of its own. Built as a flood control program for the community by the U.S. Army, the 32-acre lake and waterways act as a place for water to collect during heavy rains, preventing flooding of surrounding communities.

The name “Ho’omaluhia” means “to make a place of peace and tranquility,” a very fitting name for a place like this. A narrow road winds its way through the garden, surrounded by lush plant life.

Ho’omaluhia specializes in rare and endan-

gered plants of the Pacific, including native Hawaiian plants.

Many of the plants here are extremely rare. Some, like the vahana palm of the Marquesas (Pelagodoxa hen-ryana), are nearly extinct in their native habitat and rely on human cultivation to survive.

Rare native Hawaiian plants are also thriving here: the Hawaii state flower ma’o hau hele, as well as ohi’a

Giving blood saves lives; I know because it saved mine. Being

rushed to the hospital and passing out within steps of the door from blood loss isn’t normal for teenag-ers. But it happened to me, and without blood donations given to that hospital I wouldn’t be alive today to write this.

Statistics show that in our lifetime 60 percent of us will need blood, but sadly only 2 percent actually donate. For this state’s pa-

tients alone, the Blood Bank of Hawaii requires 200 donors every day.

Studies have shown that the safest source of blood comes from com-munity volunteers. One way the Blood Bank maintains its supply is by spon-soring community blood drives like the ones they hold at Windward Commu-nity College.

Their goal is to increase the number of younger, healthy donors by inform-ing them about the difference one hour of their time can make. The whole process of donating blood takes about an hour, with the actual drawing of blood taking only about 5 to 8 minutes. One pint is drawn — all that is needed to save up to three lives.

“I got to share a moment with the one I love and save a life,” said Dallin

Auna when asked why he decided to donate blood. Auna had gone as a first-time donor along with his girlfriend at the WCC blood drive held last fall.

The next blood drive at WCC will be March 28 and is coordinated by Pam DaGrossa and the service-learning students. She explained that the usual goal for WCC’s drive is 50 pints of blood, which may not seem like a lot, but when compared to the 200 the BBH needs daily, the amount in that one-day donation accounts for 25 percent of Hawai‘i’s daily requirement.

“A lot of people think it’s painful because they think of a needle when giving blood, but there’s actually very little pain and the technicians are very careful and gentle,” DaGrossa said. “If you let them know it’s your first time and you’re nervous, they’re really good at calming you down and checking on you.”

The two most common reasons people can’t donate at WCC are pierc-ings and tattoos.

There is a one-year waiting pe-riod after having a piercing or tattoo, although if the piercing was done with a gun, then you still qualify to donate blood, said DaGrossa.

Certain medications could also prevent you from donating, but not

If you enjoy outdoor work and want to learn more about Hawaiian culture, native plants and kalo

restoration, then Kāko‘o Ōiwi is looking for you. The community-based non-profit organization

is restoring 404 acres of land in He‘eia. The goal is a working agricultural landscape, as well as to offer community educational, cultural, economic, and social programs.

All volunteers are welcome. Workdays are ev-ery second Saturday of the month, from 8:30 a.m. till noon. Volunteers help to eradicate invasive species, plant and harvest kalo and build new lo‘i.

Traditionally, this marshland grew kalo, which was later replaced with crops such as sugar cane, pineapple and rice, creating a long-running battle for water rights. The new purpose for the land cre-ated intense erosion, flooding and increased run-off, all of which degraded the health and produc-tivity of He‘eia. Mangrove trees were introduced to help control erosion, but now choke the stream and have reduced the habitats for native species. Kāko‘o Ōiwi community special-ist Kyrie Puaoi said, “Our goal is to build a stronger commu-nity by providing experiential educa-tional opportunities for people to get to know their neighbors and their land.” See Kako‘o Ōiwi s̒ Face-book page for more information about the organization and their projects, http://www.facebook.com/mahuahuaaiohoi.

Lending a helping handServing others

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Hawai‘i’s Hungry Need Your Helpby Vailima Walker

Ho‘omaluhia: A Place of Peace and Tranquilitylehua, koa, wiliwili. All are healthy, mature plants easily accessible for study by any seri-ous botany student or just to admire by the avid nature-lover.

For those who enjoy camping, the area is free until this summer (when new regula-tions take over). Camping permits are avail-able at the Ho’omaluhia office to anyone 18 and over. Cold showers, sinks, and fire pits are already provided; all you need is a tent and food.

If camping isn’t your thing, try one of the many activities offered here. Guided gar-den walks are free on Saturdays at 10 a.m. and Sundays at 1 p.m., and focus on rainfor-est plants and Hawaiian ethnobotany (how Hawaiians used their native plant life).

Free classes are also offered; botani-cal drawing and painting on Wednesdays, pruning on Thursdays. Classes on how to edit botanical photos on your computer are available. Catch-and-release fishing is avail-able on weekends from 10 a.m.to 2 p.m.

Volunteer programs are open to stu-dents and fulfill WCC service-learning

requirements. Volunteers can work in the office sup-plying information to garden visitors, in the nursery propagating the gardens future plants, or as a fish-ing guide or garden ranger, protecting the lake and gardens from unwelcome guests.

It’s a way to give back to the community and fulfill your college requirements as well as a beautiful place to work.

all. However, people don’t bother to check and just assume they aren’t able to donate.

She would like to see more people participate in the upcoming drive and for people to check if they qualify for donating.

There are basic donor requirements that must be met in order to give blood. You must be in good health, 18 years or older or have a consent form from a parent or guardian, weigh at least 110 pounds, and have valid photo identifi-cation.

If you meet these requirements and sign up for an appointment, there are also some guidelines to follow before giving blood:

• Within 24 hours of your appoint-ment drink 8 to10 glasses of water to keep your body hydrated and abstain from drinking coffee, alcohol or caffein-ated drinks that would dehydrate your body.

• Eat a hearty breakfast the day of and also try to eat foods rich in iron before.

• Know what countries you’ve trav-eled to and when.

• Know any medical conditions you have and do not take medication 14 days prior to giving blood.

•Get plenty of rest.

How to save a life by Jennifer Salakielu

Kako‘o Oiwiby Bodie Collins

by Gerrit Evensen

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A volunteer delivers donated food to an elderly gentleman.

Pam DaGrossa, Hawaiian Humane Society volunteer. A majestic view of the Ko‘olau’s from Ho‘omaluhia Botanical Garden’s 32-acre lake.

Community volunteers prepare a section of land for a new lo‘i.

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It’s mask-making time in Theatre 211, and you’re asked to lie down and close

your eyes. The teacher, who is dauntingly tall, asks you to en-vision a mask —the mask that you will become. You must embody this new character to feel the power of it.

Ben Moffat, WCC’s long-time drama professor, has ex-perienced life behind count-less masks, playing different roles on and off campus.

Moffat’s last semester here at WCC will be celebrated with the Palikū Arts Festival April 2, based on a dream he once had. The festival — like his vision —will feature vari-ous performances in a “vil-lage” filled with all sorts of art and artists.

He imagined a celebra-tion where everyone and

Unmasking professor Ben Moffat

If you want to enjoy art in a dressy setting with some music and pupus,

try exploring “ARTafterDARK” at the Honolulu Academy of Arts.

The popular event held the last Friday of the month now attracts 1,000 guests with entertainment, food, drinks and activities in different areas of the academy.

The museum began its monthly ARTafterDARK event with January’s theme, “Show Me the Bunny,” cel-ebrating the Year of the Rabbit and Chinese culture. February’s focus was “Uma Noite de Carnaval” with people in costume celebrating the Brazilian

A night at the art museum

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Retiring drama professor Ben Moffat with two of his handmade masks.

anyone could be an artist in whatever way they chose to express themselves. “You didn’t know who was an art-ist or who wasn’t. ” he says. “Everyone was doing art!” As a child growing up near

the Bay Area in California, Moffat had a penchant for the-atre. His interests led him to the East Coast, where he stud-ied in New York and eventually earned a bachelor’s degree from Vassar College in English.

However, by his junior year, he decided it was time to see more of the world. He trav-eled all around Europe, gaining new perspectives on interna-tional culture and lifestyle.

When he felt it was time to return to the East Coast, he kept his focus on the world of theater, but developed an in-terest in international theater, such as Asian arts. What bet-ter place to study the culture and performance of Asia than the University of Hawai‘i?

While studying at UH Mānoa, where he achieved his master’s degree, Moffat was fascinated by all the Asian courses offered, such as Japa-nese dance and music, kabuki and Noh drama. His interests in Asian culture and art are reflected in his styles, masks and performance.

A company he later found-ed called Monkey Waterfall was named after a Chinese

legend about a monkey under a waterfall.

For one of his earlier perfor-mances, he played a tall, lanky character, wearing all white, supported by stilts, while his co-star, who was 5 feet tall, played a red monkey character.

Monkey Waterfall has lit-erally toured the world, along with Moffat’s assortment of masks and stilts.

Stilts have been used as a main tool in his career as well. He says that, while growing up, he loved to play sports, and likes to think of stilts as a similar physical challenge.

Although his days on campus are coming to an end soon, Moffat says he still en-joys teaching his students at WCC how to appreciate and express the unknown charac-ters inside of them. He tries to use daily life as a way to show your creative self, in front of or behind artistic masks.

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Carnival. The March 25 event from 6 to 9 p.m. will emphasize Korean culture: “Seoul Power.”

“Crowds have increased over the years,” said active volunteer Lacy Matsumoto. “It’s a great event to be a part of; there just aren’t a lot of places that entertain with art and culture.”

The volunteer-hosted event exposes a younger crowd to a world of arts and culture with more of a party atmosphere.

“The image of a museum’s sterile, quiet environment has transformed to a user-friendly place where you can hang out with friends, learn and have fun,” said former AAD coordinator Lori Admiral.

“AAD is a unique scene to the islands—a step above the common evening fare of bars and clubs,” adds

Jeremy Hine, who has attended AAD events for five years.

The year’s first event started with the sound of vibrant drums and a lion dance to ward off evil spirits and bring luck to the New Year.

NY DJ Roxy Cottontail was spin-ning dub and house the entire night for those in the mood to dance in the Luce Pavilion.

Many fun-filled activities were held throughout the evening, including for-tune cookies for guests, free gifts at the Academy shop and free docent tours.

Fresh paintings by Andy Lee, a modern Zen artist who was painting in the Chinese courtyard, provided take-home art. The academy also hosted a Chinese New Year activity

to make paper firecrackers. The entire museum was open

for viewing throughout the evening, including the permanent collection as well as many visiting exhibitions.

For more information on upcoming events, visit www.artafterdark.org.

The poster for ARTafterDARK’s March event.

(Above) Kagawa Junior College students Masumi Saito and Natsuki Yamaguchi were among the visitors March 2 from WCC’s sister college in Japan. Both said they liked Hawai‘i’s beaches, kalua pig and Spam.

(Left) Students from WCC’s Japanese 102 and 202 classes showed the students how to weave ti leaf leis, wrist and head bands. Other cultural exchanges that took place were cooking yaki soba and yaki udon. The WCC students used the language skills they learned from Sensei Akiko Swan.

Kagawa exchange students visit WCC

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When you step into Aaron Sala’s office in Hale Pala-nakila, the first thing you

notice is a long row of compact discs. Then you see his welcoming,

gentle face and wide smile surrounded by a full mane of long locks.

Sala, a Nā Hokū Hanohano award winner, is WCC’s newest music and Hawaiian studies lecturer.

He says he is thrilled about what the future holds for Windward’s Hawaiian studies and music depart-ments.

“What is exciting to me,” he says with passion, “is that these two pro-grams are on the cusp of exploding into something huge.” He is eager to be a part of a team that is expanding.

Sala notices a difference between the UH Mānoa campus and WCC and says that students here have changed his classroom paradigm.

He likes that the environment at WCC is “safe” and allows him to ex-

A ”townie” most of her life, this perky young girl

from Korea has come a long way—literally and geographi-cally. Moving to Hawai‘i with her parents at the age of three, music consumed her.

Kimura began sharing her love of music at WCC, teach-ing music appreciation classes in January 2008. Before then, she had never stepped foot on the campus.

With a bachelor’s and master’s in piano performance from the University of Hawai‘i and actively pursuing a doc-toral degree in music educa-tion from Boston University, Kimura is now a music lec-turer and piano instructor at WCC.

When the opportunity to teach piano opened up, Kimura took it. She says her “eyes popped right open” when she walked into Hale Pālanakila106. Surrounded by 18 pianos, she is eager to “take this program and go with it.”

One student says that she is an inspiration and has great patience with her class. Kimu-ra wants to be able to take all that is in her head and share it with her students, she said.

Being an only child, her parents shared everything with her. She was never alone, and her parents made sure to keep her busy with activities. Kimura was involved in ev-erything from hula and ballet

The legendary B.B. King, one of the most recogniz-

able names in blues music, will perform on April 27 at 7:30 p.m. in the Blaisdell Center.

King’s guitar playing has been touted as the best of the best. Rolling Stone Magazine ranked him at No. 3 on its list of “100 greatest guitarists of all time.”

King has a long list of awards, including Grammys and the Polar Music Prize. In 1980 he was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame and in 1987 into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

King has been very active in his career, appearing in a number of television shows, movies and often collaborating with other artists such as U2 and Eric Clapton. During 52 years, King has played more than 15,000 performances.

Award winner new to WCC music staffplore his potential as a teacher and sees that the energy is high around him.

Sala explains that it’s important to view students as being “on the verge” rather than “at risk.”

Voice student Brittany Kalua says she “absolutely adores him and loves his classes because he has a way of making his students feel comfortable.”

Sala says he realizes some students may not be able to “sing for dinner” (as a career) but encourages their love of music.

He would like his students to learn to appreciate the process and that the purpose of the class is to appreciate the voice.

An avid listener of all types of music — from Hawaiian and rock to Jay-Z and Beyonce, Sala laments that “something has happened in society where it’s okay to be mediocre.” But he wants to “become a part of the movement that reclaims the study of doing music.”

For Sala, music has always been a part of his life. As a child, he would spend many days with his maternal grandparents, who helped cultivate his

love for music. His grandmother inspired his

piano playing, and there is a light in

to violin and piano. Receiving her first toy

piano at four years old, she taught herself to play.

Hearing Kimura’s skill, her mother, with the goal of having her in the children’s performing acts in Korea, in-vested in an upright piano and had her begin piano lessons at age six.

Although Kimura didn’t perform in Korea as a child, she does not lack performance skills.

She has won the UH Con-certo Competition, the Morn-ing Music Club Scholarship

Riley B. King was born Sept. 16, 1925 in Mississippi and grew up singing in his lo-cal gospel choir until the age of 12 when he picked up his first guitar for $15.

While working at a local R&B radio station as a disc jockey, he acquired the nick-name “Beale Street Blues Boy,” which was later shortened to B.B. — his performing name for the years to come.

In 1991 King’s Blues Club opened on Beale Street in Memphis. Now with five loca-tions across the U.S., the clubs serve as a hub for musical performances and nightlife.

Tickets for King’s upcom-ing Hawai‘i concert are $50 to $220 —a small price for a chance to witness “The King of the Blues” performing some of his greatest hits on his famous guitar, Lucille.

Get your tickets at the Blais-dell box office or online at stub-hub.com or TicketsNow.com. Competition, and is a three-

time winner/performer of the Youth Talent Pool Concerto Competition, sponsored by the Honolulu Symphony Or-chestra.

Even with all her ac-complishments, Kimura still comes across as a fun-loving and down-to-earth girl next door. She enjoys being a part of WCC and sees “so much room for growth here.”

Her traditional Asian par-ents wanted her to “work somewhere respectable” so one can assume that WCC is just that!

his eyes as he speaks of them. Born and raised on the Windward

side, Sala attended Kainalu Elementary in Kailua before being accepted to Kamehameha Schools in the seventh grade. It was at Kamehameha where he participated in concert and glee club and began his private voice lessons.

Sala studied with “voice coaches to the stars” Neva Rego and Betty Gri-erson, owners of the Bel Canto School of Singing.

After graduating from Kame-hameha in 1994, Sala moved on to the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. He did some graduate work in ethnomusicol-ogy before earning his bachelor of arts with a concentration in voice.

Sala took the knowledge he ac-quired and returned to UH Mānoa to teach students in applied music classes at the 100 to 400 levels for five years.

With two Nā Hokū Hanohano awards under his belt, Sala enjoys his time with his wife of almost two years and their 14-month-old son and continues to inspire students to be the best that they can be.

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WCC voice and music teacher Aaron Sala.

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Renowned pianist So Jin Kimura shares her talents with WCC students.

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IN THE LOOPB.B. King in the islands

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B.B. King performs the blues with his world-famous guitar, Lucille.

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In the coming months, WCC hopes to bring more college classes to wind-

ward residents in Kahuku and Lā‘ie and reach out to more working adults who want better career advancement.

“Windward Community College has grown 53 percent in the last five years, up to 2,600 students in fall semester 2010—the highest enroll-ment since the school’s inception in 1972,” Chancellor Doug Dykstra told Ko‘olauloa residents at a Feb. 24 meet-ing in Lā‘ie.

Expansion in class offerings, ag-gressive outreach to windward com-munities, and increased financial aid are contributing to this growth.

Imagine waking up each morning, not with a bad hair day but with no hair at all.That’s the reality for many

children and adults who have suffered hair loss due to dis-ease, chemotherapy or severe burn accidents. Unlike the rest of us who take our locks for granted, they have to face each day without the comfort of their own hair.

The good news is there are ways to help — ways as simple as sharing your hair.

“I wanted to donate my hair because I’ve heard of peo-ple doing it before,” said WCC student Kelly Opedal.

“I just couldn’t imagine not donating it to people who lose their hair due to illness.

“I definitely love the idea of doing something good with my cut hair rather than just watch-ing it be swept off the floor,” she added.

Hair donation organiza-tions throughout the world provide people who suffer from hair loss with real hair wigs made possible by the dona-tions of everyday people. These donations entail cutting hair a minimum of 8 to 10 inches, de-pending on each organization’s

requirements.And there are advantages

to sporting a shorter “do.” “Showers are shorter and

shorter hair means less sham-poo and hair products. Longer hair sometimes requires you to pay more at a salon because they have to use more prod-ucts,” explained Lucille Palmer, who has been a hair stylist for 24 years and owner of Salon 45 for 15 years.

“One of the benefits of cut-ting hair on a regular basis is it keeps the hair from splitting

and breaking off. “(Hair grows) roughly

about a half inch to an inch a month, depending on the per-son,” she said, adding that hair seems to grow faster in hotter climates, like Hawai‘i. Some salons even offer a discount when hair is cut for donations.

There are a variety of places you can choose from when it comes to donating your hair, allowing you to not only base your decision on specific guide-lines but also on what age group would receive it.

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Nani Maxey shows off her new look after cutting her hair for donation.

For example, Locks of Love is a non-profit organization that provides free wigs to qualified children under 21. Their mis-sion is to “return a sense of self, normalcy and confidence to children suffering from hair loss by utilizing donated po-nytails to provide the high-est quality hair prosthetics to financially disadvantaged children.”

Locks of Love explains that kids have enough to worry about without being judged or teased because of the effects their illness has on their ap-pearance.

Locks of Love’s guidelines require a minimum hair dona-tion of 10 inches. However, if 10 inches seems too daunting, there are other organizations that have shorter guidelines, such as Pantene Beautiful Lengths. Pantene distributes wigs to the American Cancer Society wig banks specifically for women who have experi-enced hair loss from chemo-therapy. They require a mini-mum hair donation of 8 inches.

Donating hair isn’t just for girls. Guys who want to do-nate don’t have to worry about sporting mid-back length hair if that’s not their style, so long as they do a close cut, like a buzz cut, when donating. A closer

cut means less hair to grow out. Furthermore, there are fundraisers that have partici-pants shave their hair as a bold statement of their support for cancer research.

“It was my first time ever donating my hair, but definitely not my last. I think I’ll just keep harvesting my hair for the rest of my life, or as long as I have hair,” said Opedal.

Other groups open for donations include Wigs for Kids, Children with Hair Loss, Child Leukemia Foundation, and Matter of Trust. Each can be found on the Internet along with the specific conditions hair must be in to be donated, such as free of hair dyes and bleaches.

If you want to help but would rather not put your hair on the chopping block, there are other ways to get involved, such sending in financial donations, arranging your own donation event in your local community, or convincing a local salon to provide discounts for hair do-nations.

“I feel that if anybody else is thinking about donating their hair, they definitely should!” said Opedal. “It’s really re-warding to think about making such a big difference in some-one’s life. You won’t regret it.”

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WCC plans to install video-conferencing equipment to enable students in multiple locations to attend class with an instructor in another locat ion. Lui Hokoana, WCC Vice Chancellor for Student Services offered a scenario, “With videoconferencing, there could be 10 students in a Waimānalo class-room and 10 students in a Kahuku classroom interacting with an in-structor and 15 students sitting in a Kāne‘ohe classroom.”

“A lt houg h t he major it y of students are traditional students r ight out of high school, older students are seeking retraining for new careers and technical educa-tion to gain skills for better jobs,” Dykstra said.

“A n SM S r e s e a r c h s u r vey shows that 74 percent of older students work and go to school at night.”

“There has been a 159 percent enrollment increase in evening and online courses. Being sensitive to the needs of working people, WCC offered 26 percent more evening classes and 79 percent more online classes this year,” said Dykstra.

“In addition to the Associate in Arts degree, plans are under way to add other degree and certificate pro-grams in veterinary sciences, plant biotechnology, ethnopharmacognosy and food production.

“A certificate in food production responds to Gov. Abercrombie’s con-cern that we import too much food and need to grow more of our own food on the island,” Dykstra said.

Financial aid, including federal Pell grants, has been provided to 1,399 WCC students in the past year. Gus Cobb-Adams, WCC out-reach specialist, does not anticipate that Pell grants will be cut, even in these economic times. “President Obama increased the education budget by 38 percent to provide for Pell,” he said.

“WCC has the highest native Hawaiian enrollment in the UH system of 41.5 percent or 1,089 students,” said Dykstra. “The U.S. Department of Education awarded grants to establ ish a Hawaiian Studies center, and an Associate in Arts degree in Hawaiian Studies is being planned for the near future.”

Dykstra cited WCCʻs success-ful outreach efforts with more residents enrolled in Hawaiian language classes in Waimānalo.

He noted that 176 spring se-mester students were from the Ko‘olauloa District living in com-munities from Kualoa Ranch to Kahuku.

He wants to see the Ko‘olauloa enrollment figure doubled, with i nc r ea s e d adu lt pa r t ic ipat ion in WCC programs all along the

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Those who attended the meet-i ng seemed to be ent husiast ic about WCC’s efforts to expand educational opportunities.

“I like your outreach with this Lā‘ie event and regular advertising in Midweek,” said John Olszowka, Hau’ula resident. “ I think positive things are coming out of Wind-ward Community College.”

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Every situation is different, but cell phones going off during class is unac-ceptable. It really is disrupting. In my Political Science 130 class, there’s a student whose cell phone is constantly ringing so loud so it gets frustrating. In my opinion, laptops are okay, and other technology is really up to the teacher. Some students use their lap-tops during class to go onto Facebook, but there are the few who actually use their laptops to take notes in class. As far as iPods, it is rude to listen to them while the professor is teaching, but if the student misses something important, then it was their fault.

— Logan Kealoha

I think if you give an inch they’ll take a mile. Laptops and iPads are great for taking notes and keeping things organized, but it leaves a lot of room for cheating and dishonest behavior. It’s not fair if one student gets an A grade because of genuine studying and hard work, and another gets an A because they know how to look something up on their high tech devices.

If “technology etiquette” was put in place, I don’t see kids obeying it. It is too hard to monitor who is cheating and who is following the rules.

—Caroline Doenm I personally do not think we need

technology etiquette in class. For example, many people listen to their iPods because it helps them relax, and concentrate more. Laptops are also good. It’s a good way of looking up info and saving it for later.

—Brian Cox

I think it’s essential to adopt

Do you think we need tech etiquette in classes?“technology etiquette” out of respect to those who want to learn.

I think the acceptable way is to put these technological devices into silent mode or vibrate mode so that you can still have the communication access in times of emergencies as our university system implements an emergency text messaging system to disseminate information in the event of tsunamis, campus lockdowns, etc.

—John Cando

I believe that technology should be allowed in class to an extent. As for me I’m not the best speller and I don’t understand some words, so I look to technology to help me. When misused, it is distracting in class.

— Wallace Kainoa Choy

I think that it is fine for a student to use technology in class. College is a place where you make your own decisions. For instance, not doing work and just playing on Facebook. It is that person’s life, so let them waste it as they please.

— Corey Lewis

I pay to attend college, and come to learn and participate in an aca-demic environment. I think it’s highly inappropriate for individuals to use distracting devices in class. In my opinion, it clearly demonstrates a lack of respect for fellow classmates and instructors. My advice: Put your cell phones and electronic devices on silent and show a little respect for the people around you.

—Jessica Lindenberg

In my opinion, the line of accept-able technology use in class should be limited to laptops and iPads. There

is simply no need for cell phones and iPods during class time. They have little to no educational benefit. There are many people among us (fellow stu-dents) who need a refresher on “tech-nology etiquette in the classroom.”

— Erik Danner I think as long as it is not disturb-

ing the class, and the teacher does not have a problem with it, then it’s okay. And yes, we do need technology etiquette.

—Matthew Gasparine

I believe there needs to be “tech-nology etiquette” in class. Technology is a wonderful thing, but like any good thing it can be abused. Cell phones and iPods have no place in the classroom. They are just distractions. The class-room is a place of learning, so iPads and laptops are okay. We are all adults

here, so we should know when things are okay and when they are not.

—Charlie Grellner

I do think the new technology has quickly gotten out of hand and people seldom use it in to excel in class.

When I see someone on their laptop or iPad in class, hardly ever is it notes or research; it’s Facebook or YouTube. And we all know cell phones are used in class to text!

So, I do think that there should be some sort of “technology etiquette” because it gets to a point where it’s just disrespectful to the teacher and the students who are in the class to learn.

—Yvonne LaRouche

I think we need technology (in the classroom) because a lot of stu-dents keep their work on computer.

—Tarisa Monmaney

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It’s no secret that football is one of the biggest sports in

Hawai‘i. Whether it’s Little League, high school or college level, football plays a big role in Hawai‘i’s culture. However, football season is over. So what now?

The Hawaii Professional Football League is the latest thing to hit Hawai‘i.

Games are held every Fri-day and Saturday at various high schools starting at 7 p.m.

The season runs through April with playoffs on April 15 and 16 and a championship game on April 23.

HPFL all started with one man’s dream to create a league to help football players who were dropped from the team due to low grades or who didn’t have the opportunity to be recognized.

“Just one player, just one coach to make it to the NFL, and I’m satisfied,” said Carson Peapealalo, commissioner and founder of the league.

Peapealalo went to several people he knew in the foot-ball industry with his idea of starting HPFL but had no suc-cess in finding support. Most people he initially went to didn’t think the league would become as big as it has.

However, with the help of his mentor, former Dallas Cowboys scout Jim Garrett, Peapealalo was able to get the league going.

Although the majority of the funding comes from Pea-

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pealalo, franchise owners also helped financially.

HPFL started in early Jan-uary with tryouts; now there are four teams on O‘ahu: the Waianae Sharks, Ko‘olau Hur-ricanes, Kailua Storm and the Honolulu Volcanoes.

Although no extensive football experience is required, it would definitely help the player to make the team. Play-ers also need to be at least two years out of high school.

Darrick Branch, owner of the Honolulu Volcanoes, hopes this first season opens up op-portunities for players and future seasons to come.

“I have high expectations for this team because I know what it takes to make it to the NFL, and many of these guys have what it takes,” Branch says.

HPFL offers many benefits for the players, including sea-sonal pay, medical insurance as long as they are in the HPFL, and possibly being scouted by

the NFL. However, it’s not just op-

portunities for the players, but also for the coaches to get coaching jobs.

Linebacker and defense co-ordinator coach Sam Taulealea of the Honolulu Volcanoes says, “Anyone can catch a football, but when the pads come on and it’s time to hit, it’s a totally different story.”

Honolulu Volcanoes’ prac-tices are held at Kalihi District Park every Monday and Friday from 5 to 7 p.m. and Saturdays from 2 to 4 p.m. at Ke‘ehi La-goon.

Some of Hawai‘i’s most talented players are on the Honolulu Volcanoes, including ex-UH football team members Alonzo Chopp, Larry Sauafea, Mike Lafaele, Cy Hirota, and B.J. Fruean, Arizona State play-ers and guys in their mid 30’s.

Receiver Caleb Spencer says, “The league gives me a second chance in getting some-

where bigger. There are really good players who came out this season.”

Tickets at the gate cost $12

Honolulu Volcano football players practice for their upcoming game.

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for adults; children 6-12 years old, $7; and children under 5 are free. For details, visit www.hawaiiprofootball.com.

Hawai‘i’s new professional football league is here

a Mideast peace process and fighting terrorism.

“If the Egyptian govern-ment falls, then all bets are off throughout the region,’” said David Bender, an analyst with the Eurasia Group.

President Hosni Mubarak, who held office for 30 years and was the main focus of the protests, had close ties with the U.S. However, promised democratic reforms never came.

On Jan. 25, protests erupt-ed. “It was a countrywide phenomenon,” said Amanda Teirelbar, who moved to Alex-andria, Egypt from Colorado in 2007.

“Cities all over Egypt had major violent clashes with the police and, in the end, the po-lice fled in every city,” she said.

“At that point,” she con-tinued, “we still did not have cell phone service or Internet access, yet the people united in their own way and took on the police who are a hated group in Egypt.”

“The next day was very peaceful,” she went on to say. “Citizens stepped up and took responsibility for managing traffic, protecting their neigh-borhoods, and catching any looters. Again, without any single group calling the shots and without cell phones and

the Internet. It was a united, self-organized effort that I per-sonally find incredible.”

After 18 days of protests, Mubarak resigned. The crowds cheered and thousands of pro-testers dropped to their knees in prayer. Finally, all their tire-less efforts were not in vain.

Teirelbar says she is “opti-mistic and hopeful for Egypt’s future.” She does fear “that momentum will die and people will want to go back to how it used to be. Change is not always easy and it requires sacrifice.”

The next step for Egypt is unknown. “At least temporar-ily there seems to be somewhat of a peaceful transition, but transition to what, under whose control, is the question,” said Fujimoto.

“What if the people de-mand more than what the military is prepared or willing to accept? What then?” he continued. “In six months it’s said they’ll hold new elections, but I don’t think six months is enough time.”

Since protests began in Tunisia and Egypt, Algeria, Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Jordan Libya, Morocco, Omen and Ye-men have started a revolution for change.

The people have spoken, which is the first step in rec-ognizing a true democracy.

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