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As heart disease continues to be the No. 1 cause of death in Hawaiʻi, the John A. Burns School of Medicine’s Center for Cardiovascular Research (CCR) has been endowed with $1 mil -l ion to enhance its research op -portunit ies that may ult imately save lives. It was announced Sept. 27 that the CCR would receive this donation. The $1 million gift was made anonymously. “It ’s not like this donation came out of the blue,” said Tina Shelton, director of communi-cation for JABSOM. “We knew who it was and it ’s the complete act of altruism.” Not only is cardiovascular disease the leading cause of death in Hawaiʻi, but across the nation as well. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there were 26.6 mil-lion people in the U.S. diagnosed with heart disease in 2008. Nearly one out of four deaths in Hawaiʻi is caused by heart dis-ease. In 2005, more than 2,900 people died from this disease. Furthermore, Hawaiʻi is fac-ing a shortage of trained cardi-ologists, according to the recent press release from the Univer-sity of Hawaiʻi Foundation. Due to research conducted by JAB-SOM, Hawaiʻi should have 109 trained cardiologists. However, Hawaiʻi is 47 short. This recent donation will go to-wards training more cardiologists and providing extra funding to con-duct pilot projects to better under-stand the heart and its diseases. “It ’s important that we get ex-ternal funding because it ’ll allow us to explore new ideas that we

haven’t yet explored,” said Ralph Shohet, director of the CCR and professor of medicine. According to Shohet, the money will be invested to en-hance four main areas: pilot projects, young cardiovascular disease investigators, the cardio-vascular fellowship program and enlarging the CCR. One of the pilot projects that Shohet has been overseeing is the effect that methamphetamine has on the heart. While abuse of meth-amphetamine is a national issue, it’s a larger problem in Hawaiʻi because it has been in the islands since the ’80s, Shelton explained. “It’s sad and unfortunate that

we all probably know someone who either had a meth problem or has one,” Shelton said. To better understand its ef-fect on the heart, Shohet and his students have started a test model on mice. They’ve treated the mice with meth. The most common heart problem that meth users or former users suffer from is car-diomyopathy, aka heart failure. Throughout this project, Sho-het has noted that the mice have experienced depressed cardiac function. From this, they’ll learn how to treat heart diseases in meth users effectively. Part of the $1 million will go towards projects such as that

one. It will also enable young in-vestigators to conduct other es-sential pilot projects. “Hawaiʻi needs research that focuses on how cardiovascular dis-ease or different therapeutic appli-cations affect our local population in particular,” said Rachel Boulay, education director for the CCR and assistant professor. “Gifts that support external funding allow us to focus on issues more pertinent to our local community.” In addition, the money will be used to build a stronger fellow-ship program at Queen’s Medi-cal Center and to recruit a select group of seasoned cardiologists to enlarge the CCR.

Like Shelton, Margot Schrire, director of communication for the UH Foundation, was not surprised when she found out that the CCR would be receiving $1 million. “Donors know how important our university is,” Schrire said. “Those who have access to wealth know that now is the time to give.” Although this recent dona-tion was of substantial size, do-nations can be of any amount — from $3 to $23 million. “It ’s important for the com-munity to support the university because we’re developing the workforce of tomorrow,” Schrire said. “They’re helping the univer-sity be all it can be.”

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The myth of the Laʻie Lady brought over 44,000 people to the Haunted Lagoon at the Polynesian Cultural Center (PCC) in Laʻie last year. Thousands of thrill-seekers will visit the Haunted La-goon this October to experience it for themselves. “No one really knows where the Laʻie Lady comes from. Some people say she’s searching for her long lost son who is also in the la-goon. Other people say she’s a lost soul wandering around looking to take other souls. You might catch a glimpse of her in the lagoon,”

said Raymond Magalei, PCC di-rector of marketing. Guests are boarded onto ca-noes, and steered through the dark depths of the Haunted La-goon, PCC’s version of a haunted house. That’s right, a haunted house, on water. Evil breeds of creatures come at you from all angles (in-cluding the water below): zombie children, giant spiders, psychot-ic clowns, 10 -foot-tall ghouls, a mutant bat-man, even something that looks like a man-bear-pig. The 120 -person cast and the 35 -minute boat ride under the north shore sky is well worth the price of admission. There is

a brand new section added this year, including a new ending. The extreme success of last year’s Haunted Lagoon has prompted the PCC to try to get

people to go earlier this year. An excess of eager thrill-seek-ers caused them to turn people away closer to Halloween. To solve this problem, custom-ers can now go to the PCC web-site beforehand to book tickets in advance and to make sure it isn’t sold out. Going earlier in October will help to avoid long lines. This year, the Haunted La-

goon is bigger than ever before, with new monsters, a new sec-tion and restyled effects. The ride will include new sound sys-tems that narrate the story and

provide added ambience to the environment. There are me-chanical monsters that do things a person could not and lighting that makes you feel as if you are in another world. The quality of this production is not to be missed. When they are not scaring people, the PCC is a non-profit organization that has entertained

over 34 million people, and pre-serves Polynesian culture in the state of Hawaiʻi. All of the PCC’s revenue is used to support edu-cation and for daily operations.

Halloween comes early this year at the Haunted LagoonHalloween comes early this year at the Haunted Lagoon

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Amy Grace lives a busy life as a self-proclaimed “wandering artist,” graphic designer, avid songwriter, and a mom. But in her spare time, she also likes raising awareness about captive elephants in the circus industry. Grace decided to use her artis-tic prowess and endowed photogra-phy skills to create a thought-pro-voking image that would challenge society’s views on how elephants are treated under the big top, such as in the Ringling Bros. circus. “It is a sad, isolated, and t ir ing existence that (the el -ephants) were not meant to en-dure,” said Grace. “ Taking ani -mals out of their natural habitat and forcing them to per form … is cruelty in and of itsel f .” Grace was inspired to create the art piece after viewing under-cover footage showing Ringling Bros. employees whipping, curs-ing and beating elephants with

bullhooks (a heavy rod with a sharp steel hook at the end). For decades, animal-rights activ-ists have accused the circus industry of mistreating their animals by using cruel training practices and taking the elephants out of their natural habitat. Dressed like a weeping clown in the photo, Grace is shown sitting down and caressing the trunk of a circus elephant displaying cuts and bruises. The elephant is wearing a headpiece that reads “The Cruel-est Show On Earth,” lampooning Ringling’s famous slogan of “The Greatest Show On Earth.” According to Grace, the ele-phant in the photo is also chained by the back leg and is shown standing in a barren location to highlight the isolated lives circus elephants are forced to live. Grace titled the piece “Elephants Never Forget,” because she claims that these gentle pachyderms will forever remember how it feels like to be beaten into submission. “It’s so painful for me to hear about any animal suffering, and

what’s happening to these poor ele-phants is unjust,” said Grace. “What’s even more sad is that a lot of people don’t even know what is happening.” Grace hopes that her art piece will raise awareness about the ways elephants are trained and treated in circuses across the na-tion. Her goal, she said, is to “in-voke some compassion” in people and get them to see what is re-ally going on behind all the color, stunts and laughter at the circus. Always having a natural affi nity for animals, Grace hated seeing them abused. As a vegetarian, she doesn’t support modern factory farms, where masses of animals are raised in heavily-industrialized farms to boost produc-tion and cut costs. For the time being, it’s apparent that aiding her four-legged friends will become an integral part of her lifestyle for years to come. “My inspiration for this piece was just my jumpstart on that av-enue,” said Grace. “I look forward to creating more pieces like this one, in hopes of helping more ani-mals out there.”

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Amy Grace, dressed here as a weeping clown, wanted to create an art piece that would raise awareness about the way captive el-ephants are trained and treated in the circus industry.

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Who wears short shorts?Who wears short shorts?AMABEL LIN

Contributing Writer

From Paris to Milan, New York to Sydney, men are in-creasingly adopting a look that has previously been reserved for women – short shorts. But is this trend hitting O’ahu? Short shorts are pants that are cut off higher than the knee and are usually worn by women and men who play sports. These garments are highly prevalent in Europe and are worn like surf shorts in Hawaii. “ It has to do w ith culture, what people f ind at t ract ive here,” sa id fashion major Shel ley Wasdo. However, preference towards short shorts varies from person to person. “I don’t think that I own any pants that don’t fall below my knees,” said Tyler Oyasato, a computer science major. “(It) depends on the guy, if he can pull it of f,” said biology major Jennifer Lau. Discussing a dat ing sce -nar io w ith shor t shor ts in -volved, Tadahiro Meya and Kel l i A nn Zak imi sa id it would be “awkward.” “It depends on where we’re going. I would meet him some-where that is not in public be-cause it just doesn’t apply to so-cial norms,” said Zakimi. Meya agreed. “Unless it ’s for sports or cul-tural stuff, it gets kind of awkward anyways,” said Meya. Music major Alissa Torigoe told of one of her encounters with men and short shorts. “There’s like this 30 -year-old guy in class, and he comes in with pink short shorts and makes the place more rainbow-like,” said Torigoe, giggling. “The air just changes.”

B u t d o n ’ t d e -s p a i r . Some UH s t u d e n t s d e f e n d the un-o r t ho dox garments. “ M e n can wear w h a t -ever they w a n t , ” said Jor-dan Lau, an i n t e r n a t i o n a l business and mar-keting major.

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Ah, Canada, land of peace, snow, and politeness. Believe it or not,

our peaceful neighbors in the North are also a source of great hip-hop. Canada has produced names such as k-os, Gonzales, and K’naan. The lat-

est Canadian triumph comes from hip-hop artist Shad.

Shad’s third album, “TSOL”, is perhaps the most auspicious work of any underground hip-hop artist this year. Amidst the overfl ow of nerd-hop, trip-hop, attempted beat poetry, and just plain phallic quantifi cation, “TSOL” shines as an proof that hip-hop isn’t dead, it just moved under-ground… presumably to get away from the noise of the Top-40 posers. Shad is by no means a com-pletely unheard of artist, however.

His sophomore album, “The Old Prince,” was nominated for both the Juno Award and the Polaris Music Prize in 2008. That’s some pretty potent musical street cred for an artist of the genre. Shad raps about a variety of things, from his heritage and re-ligion to Rwandan genocide. His words are fueled by meaning and passion, something that has been lost in mainstream hip-hop since the mid-nineties. He is free of the self-indulgent fever that has caught so many honestly talented artists and made them into un-intelligent, self-centered public-ity poster-children. His message propels the music, reminding the listener of early artists such as Public Enemy and De La Soul. Perhaps the most magnetic aspect of this album is the in-

strumentation. Shad as an acid f low in his rap, but the instru-mentals really make each track coherent and head bobbing. It ’s not all beats and bass; Shad samples in some strings, wood-winds, guitars, and old-school vocals. Some tracks even fea-ture a l it t le bit of an electronic aspect. Each song is heart felt not only in lyrics, but in musi-cality as well. Shad is a music lover, something you can’t fake and something that is obvious in artists of any genre. Despite the genre-bending samples, there is no denying that Shad has put out a straight-up hip-hop album. There is no f lut-tering about and trying to ease anyone in; straight from intro, Shad is pumping the beats and scratching the vinyl so you know exactly what you’re listening to.

His musical style is reminiscent of Madlib and Danger Mouse, bringing in elements of mul-t iple genres and mixing them into expertly produced hip -hop tracks. This brings the indie -el -ement into the old-school feel, and it does it honestly. With Shad, there are no gimmicks. Shad’s clever lyr ics and i l l beats can appeal to hip -hop fans of every age; those who were present at the genesis of hip hop, who jumped in dur-ing the b -boy era, who star ted bopping to it once it hit main-stream radio, and especial ly those who got sick of what was on the radio a f ter 2000 and star ted looking for alterna-t ives. Shad proves that hip -hop is st i l l truly al ive; you just have to dig a l it t le to f ind it .

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MONDAY, OCT. 11, 2010

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Associate Opinions Editor

Earth is sinking into the abyss beacuase of pollution, overpopula-tion, and resource overuse. Humans need to move on to another planet. Fortunately, a team of research-ers has recently discovered an extra-solar planet that may hold potential

for future human civilization. Gliese 581g, a rocky super-Earth planet orbiting the red-dwarf star Gliese 581, about 20 light-years from Earth, resides in a habitable zone where wa-ter can exist in a liquid state. This habitable area, dubbed the “Goldilocks Zone” by many scien-tists (“not too hot, not too cold”), has been popping up in more and more

newly-discovered solar systems. As technology advances, researchers have found more planets that may have life-sustaining elements. However, even the closest of these systems, like Gliese 581s, are extremely far away. Twenty light-years translates to a distance 500 million times farther than the moon is from Earth.

NASA, the National Space Agency (NSA), and other coun-tries’ space programs are happy with the news. The feeling is bittersweet, because space pro-gram budgets all around are low. NASA’s budget is at the lowest it ’s been since the early ’60s. They currently receive just .51 percent of the federal budget, or about $18 billion per year. That percentage of the bud-get is about eight times less than what it was during the Apollo years of the late ’60s. Back then, heavy funding was necessary to push Project Apollo off the ground. According to the NASA Langley Research Center, the project employed nearly 400,000 people working for NASA, indus-

trial and university contractors. Adjusted for inflation, the total effort had $136 billion price tag. It was the biggest explosion of technological creativity and use of resources ever made by a nation in peacetime. NASA should have a larger budget. They’re important to us now and their importance will in-crease this century. Though, to be fair, budgets aren’t so hot for anyone now. Because of this, a big-ger budget will have to remain a thought. Since thought precedes action, which precedes results, a strong notion of thought should be called upon. Here are some facts to refl ect on to create that thought.

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Oil drilling started in fourth-century China, where bits attached to bamboo poles could reach depths of 800 feet. Since then, things have gotten out of hand. The amount of oil in the ground doesn’t increase, but the amount of refi ned oil used above ground does. A crash course into over-re-sourcing can be easily obtained by watching Davis Guggeinheim’s “An Inconvenient Truth.” In the movie, former Vice President Al Gore explains the situation per-fectly. Some of the topics include irreversible carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, melting ice caps, and cataclysmic oil spills. In addition to the direct re-sults of oil exploitation, there are human actions that reduce the quality of life on Earth as a sec-ondary result of energy produc-tion and development. In the Appalachians, entire mountains are resurfaced and dropped in the constant pursuit of coal mines. It’s called strip mining, and it’s much faster and cheaper than digging deep. Unfortunately, its adverse effects are much great-er than traditional methods. Along the Yangtze River in China, 1.3 million people were relo-cated prior to 2006 to accommodate the Three Gorges Dam. The dam fl ooded cultural and archaeologi-cal sites, and has increased the risk of landslides along the path of the river that’s infl uenced by the dam.

In the mid-twentieth century, an estimated 210 megatons of en-ergy were generated in the Pacifi c Proving Grounds, an American nuclear testing project that took place around the Pacifi c Ocean, primarily the Marshall Islands. One of the bombs, the 15-mega-ton Castle Bravo thermonuclear war-head, spread considerable radiation

across several of the islands, includ-ing some that hadn’t been preemp-tively evacuated. Following these tests, the radiation fallout zones were closed for upwards of 50 years. Hun-dreds of miles of reef, millions of fi sh and other animals, and some islands and atolls, were destroyed because of

the pursuit of nuclear weaponry. There are also types of pollu-tion one wouldn’t even consider: noise, thermal, light, visual, and soil contamination. Overhead pow-er lines, scarred landforms, dumps, motorway billboards, astronomical interference, pesticides in the soil, temperature changes in natural water bodies. Sometimes, I think

about why the water is so warm by the shore at Waikīkī. I wonder how many germs are in that water. How many fl uid ounces of sunscreen are fl oating around? Urine? Loose pieces of skin? Hair? But really, my mission isn’t to depress readers. It’s to incite them! Here’s something useful: look up the planet mentioned above. Gl-iese 581g. Read about it and get excited. The excitement won’t last long — several days, several hours, depending on the person — but it’s enough to pull a fresh breath of air into our heads, about the future, about the want to conserve, to re-plenish, to not make poor decisions, to look at the stars at night. We live in Hawai‘i, we can see them easily, and don’t give me that, “I live in Makiki and can’t see nothing,” bull — Tantalus is right there.

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MONDAY, OCT. 11, 2010

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ETHAN PORTER

Staff Columnist

I recently had the privilege of taking a vacation to Canada. I enjoyed the new culture, the dif-ferent accent, and playing in the snow. But when I arrived, I in-stantly noticed that everything seemed a little different: most

signs had the message twice, or there were two separate signs. At fi rst I thought I was crazy, but then I fi gured out why there were two signs. One sign was written in Eng-lish, and the other in French, as per Canadian law. Canada is an official bilingual nation. The signs were fun. I learned a

little French, which I promptly forgot. The best part was watching Canadian television. While watching the news, the reporter interviewed a man who fl uently spoke French into the micro-phone. This behavior is encouraged. The Canadian Constitution, as well as numerous other laws, protects the bilingualism, which makes provi-sions for bilingual education, federal

services, and the public sector. That reminded me of another law in Article XV, Section 14 of the Hawai’i State Constitution: “Eng-lish and Hawaiian shall be the of-fi cial languages of Hawai‘i, except that Hawaiian shall be required for

public acts and transactions only as provided by law.” According to the mandate, we live in a bilingual state like Canada. Ke kāko‘o ‘ana i ka ho‘ōla ‘ōlelo ‘ōiwi ma ka hana pū ‘ana me ko ka ‘āina ē. If you looked at that last sen-tence and thought that our printer jumped, that means you probably do not speak Hawaiian. Most of our population cannot. This is mostly due to the ban on the language in schools in 1896 by the Republic of Hawai‘i, the predecessor to the Territory of Hawai‘i. Children who spoke Hawaiian in school were pun-ished. This conditioning led to a fear to speak in Hawaiian that passed from that generation on to

the next, killing the language. But about thirty years ago, a movement started to revive the lan-guage. The Pūnana Leo Schoolswere incorporated in 1983 and began teaching Hawaiian Immersion. This idea spread to the founding of charter

schools that taught in Hawaiian. The language is being learned again. There are many arguments against learning Hawaiian. The fi rst is that it’s useless as the rest of the world uses English to conduct its busi-ness. Well, people in Germany still speak German, and people in China are still speaking Chinese, why can we not speak Hawaiian in Hawai‘i? The second is: We live in Amer-ica, why should we speak Hawaiian? Well the next time you look at your address, note that it says “Hawai‘i.” Can we speak both? Is it that hard to teach our children? In California, they just held their fi rst political de-bate in Spanish, which is not even an offi cial language. We can do this.

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MONDAY, OCT. 11, 2010

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HoroscopesBy Nancy Black and Stephanie ClementsTribune Media Services (MCT)Today’s birthday (10/11/10). If you obsess over personal issues, you lose power in the social or career arena. Overcome this tendency by detailing work priorities and sharing the list with family members. That way they’ll know what’s on your plate and understand your moods better.To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest

day, 0 the most challenging.Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is an 8 -- Combine romance with work today by including your partner in social events involving clients and co-workers. Use creativity to make it really fun.Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is a 6 -- Your many talents take you in different directions now. Follow the traditional wisdom as far as it will take you. Then be willing to branch out.Gemini (May 21-June 21) -- Today is a 7 -- Work closely with children and elders to produce better results. You share talents you may not know about. Listen and learn from each other.

Cancer (June 22-July 22) -- Today is a 6 -- A friend or associate brings a gift to a social event at your place, sparking the interests and talents of all guests. Let others play fi rst.Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Work and play interweave in an unusual way today. Time away from a problem often allows a solution to emerge. Other imaginations provide the missing key.Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is a 6 -- Shop for supplies early in the day, so everyone has what they need to get their work done. Capture imagination with the right tools.Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is a 7

-- Even if you have to work today, make time for recreational activities. You don’t need to push that stone uphill all day. Hand it off to someone.Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is a 6 -- Allow your thinking to wander now. Blurred focus is just what you need, as you apply artistic talents. Use a light touch and broad stroke.Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is a 6 -- When issues impinge on your core values, pay attention. You don’t want to give up something important to your philosophy. Others suggest solutions.Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today

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The military could become the biggest funder of Green Technology in America. The military is requesting bids for additional battle -tested renew-able energy research. On Oct. 4, 2010, the New York Times reported that the military, concerned by its dependence on foreign oil, is going to be deploy-ing a unit of Marines who will sur-vive off of renewable technology. They plan to use solar-chargers for the communications equip-ment; solar-shaded tents to pro-vide shade and electricity; and energy-conserving light bulbs. The reason this news is so fascinating is because it is iron-ic: The military, usually associ-ated with Conservative Republi-can values, is hell-bent on using Green Energy, the symbol of Lib-eral Democratic progressivism, to wage its wars more efficiently. If the military succeeds, the United States will be able to f ight wars longer and with a low-er carbon-footprint. They will also, as a side effect, create an entire industry of battle -tested, military-grade renewable en-ergy technology…which I will probably be able to put on the roof of my house when the mili-

tary is done with it. The message: “Republican” entities can fund “Democratic” initiatives. And, equally, “Lib-eral” ideas can make “Conserva-tive” ones work better. This all speaks to a larger issue that America faces today: neither the Republicans nor the Democrats have any good ideas anymore. We see the stress this is causing our country in the polarization of poli-tics that we are witnessing today. Perhaps there is a solution: Synthesize both Republican and Democratic ideas. Instead of yell-ing at each other, maybe we could sit down and calmly discuss how the military could secretly subsidize the entire environmentalist cause of renewable energy. That way the Republicans will not get angry that we are subsidizing the renewable energy industry and the Democrats will not get angry that we are spend-ing too much on the military. The military is not the only organization catching on to this idea. It is everywhere. Last week Thursday, at a Spark M. Matsuna-ga Center for Peace Studies panel discussion on torture at the Wil-liam S. Richardson School of Law, Col. Larry Wilkerson, a former Colin Powell aide and fi erce critic of the Bush Administration’s En-hanced Interrogation policy (he called it torture) was asked this

simple question: “Why be a Republican at all? Why not just be a Democrat?” It was a question that a lot of moderate Republicans–the kind who don’t understand how the Republican Party, the party of small government, personal lib-erty, and self-reliance, became the party of Big Government Conservatives, the Patriot Act and Medicare Part D– are asking themselves these days. And Wilkerson had an answer. “There isn’t a whisper of differ-ence between the basic domestic

and foreign policies of the presi-dents of either party for the last 60 years. I don’t think it matters anymore that you’re democratic or republican, because neither really has, or seems to have the answers, or if they have the answers, the courage to execute... . “There’s a radical thought that the center is now radical. In fact there are a couple of think tanks in Washington that claim the radical center, because that is the radical thing to do these days; not be Rush Limbaugh and not be Nancy Pelosi,” said Wilkerson. One week later I attended a

talk on immigration put on by the Federalist Society at the WSRSL. The speaker, Dr. James Jay Ca-rafano, identifi ed himself as an in-dependent and he worked for the Heritage Foundation, which is the offi cial Conservative Think Tank of Washington, D.C. I expected the speaker to be a radical, ranting conservative yell-ing about Mexicans taking their jobs and securing the border. What he turned out to be was a perfectly sensible independent who said that “securing the border” never works and that we really need to secure the Mexican economy if we want to reduce the amount of Mexican im-migration to the United States. Is it possible that centrism could be the new radicalism? Would the cen-ter be radical enough to suggest that the Military use Green Technology to more effi ciently fi ght its wars? Would it be centrist to suggest that Teacher’s Unions are actually hindering educa-tion reform all across the country? Could it be centrist to that immigra-tion is a more complex problem than just installing a border fense? The time has come for a new wave in politics. Maybe it will be called the Radical Center. What-ever it ’s called, I hope it ’s smart enough to give our troops ma-chines that can convert readily available plant life (read ‘Poppy Seeds’) life into bio-fuels.

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The military’s pursuit of renewable energy research is an example of how centrist policies can yield positive results.

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Associate Sports Editor

Following a College World Se-ries appearance last season, the Rainbow Wahine softball team will prepare for the upcoming season with three fall matchups. “Right now we are just trying to fi gure out what we want to do as a team since we lost four starters,” said senior fi rst team All-American third baseman Melissa Gonzalez. “So coming into these games we want to see who’s go-ing to mesh well with other people.” Hawaiʻi will host a doubleheader against Christian Brothers on Oct. 19 starting at 6 p.m. The ’Bows continue with matchups against Chaminade on Nov. 5 and 6, starting at 6 p.m. and noon. The fall schedule ends with an alumnae game on Nov. 12 at 5 p.m. All games will be played at the Rainbow Wahine Softball Stadium. Hawaiʻi fi nished the 2010 cam-paign ranked No. 7 after being one of eight teams to make the Women’s College World Series. The Rainbow Wahine led the nation with 2.39 home runs per game and also led the nation with 7.39 runs scored per game. The Rainbow Wahine return reigning Western Athletic Confer-ence Player of the Year sophomore shortstop Jessica Iwata. Iwata led

the team in doubles with 21 and was 2nd in runs scored with 65. Second team All-American and WAC Freshman of the Year Kelly Majam, a sophomore outfi elder, also headlines the team. Majam led the team in batting average, homeruns, runs scored and runs batted in. Gonzalez and senior designated player Jenna Rodriguez are the only two seniors on this season’s ball club from last year. Gonzalez sees herself as a leader based on the amount of time she has spent playing. “I see myself as a leader because I’ve been here a long time and I know what it takes to be out there,” Gonza-lez said. “I didn’t play my freshman year or my sophomore year and I fi -nally got to play and I just feel like I know enough to be able to lead now.” Gonzalez feels there is pressure on Hawaiʻi to perform well againafter coming off of a season where the team won the WAC title, won the Alabama Regional and made it to the Women’s College World Series. “There’s always a little bit of pressure after fi nishing such a good season,” Gonzalez said. “But I don’t think we’re really worried about that just because we know we have a good team and as long as we can come back and know we have the talent then we’ll be fi ne.”

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JAKE CAMARILLO

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Senior running back Alex Green is this week’s Ka Leo Athlete of the Week for his high-scoring performance in the Warrior football team’s win against the Fresno State Bulldogs this past Saturday. Green ran for 96 yards on 13 carries and three touch-downs. He also averaged 7.4 yards per carry. This is the first time in

Green’s career that he scored three touchdowns in a game, going for a 38 -yard, 14-yard, and a 2-yard touchdown. This was his highest yardage total since 2009, when he ran 110 yards on 10 carries against Utah State. Green now has seven touchdowns for the Warriors, six being on the ground and one through the air. He is now averaging 7.3 carries, 41.3 yards and one touchdown per game.

Alex Green, Warrior FootballPosition: Running Back

Class: SeniorHeight: 6 feet, 2 inches

Hometown: Portland, Ore.

KA LEO PLAYER OF THE WEEK

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Junior outfi elder Alexandra Aguirre had a break-out year as a sophomore and was named to the WAC All-Academic team for the second time. She was also featured twice on ESPN’s “Top Ten” plays.

JOEL KUTAKAKA LEO O HAWAI‘I