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Hawai‘i residents may be able to tune in to a University of Hawai‘i television channel in the not-so-distant future. While athletics and sports-related content would be the big-gest draw, the channel could also host aca-demic content and student-run shows. Vice Chancellor for Administration, Finance and Operations Kathleen Cut-shaw said that UH is “in support of this UH channel concept, as we envision it will give us enhanced opportunities for mes-saging the richness of all that UH Mānoa has to offer.” In an e-mail to the Star-Advertiser, Oce-anic VP Norman Santos said that Oceanic will be “launching a channel dedicated to all things University of Hawai‘i.” The chan-nel would be available statewide. The idea is not a new one. Gerald Kato, an associate professor at the School of Communications, says that the idea of a UH channel “has been kicked around be-fore, popping up every now and then,” but it has never gone beyond that. While the idea is under discussion, the concept is only in the beginning stages. Chancellor Virginia Hinshaw explained, “We have not yet had any detailed meetings with Oceanic on how this might be rolled out,” and that the only headway made was that “Oceanic and UHM have simply agreed that there is merit in such partnership and we will be organizing shortly to investigate these opportunities.” Currently, UHM hosts two shows monthly. One show, “bibliOvision,” is or-chestrated by the department of English, while the Ethnic Studies Department hosts “Island Connections,” a call-in show. Both shows are aired on ‘Ōlelo 55.
OBSTACLES At present, UH has a contract with Oceanic that runs through 2014, but nego-tiations to alter the contract are likely to take place in October. UH originally part-nered with KFVE, which later joined with Oceanic in the 1980s to broadcast games. Now viewers can opt to watch games through pay-per-view, and the income is split between UH and Oceanic/KFVE. The current contract yields $500,000 a year to the school and a few million dollars to Oceanic annually. The new contract would bypass KFVE, making Oceanic the producer. Any changes as a result of negotiations are expected to be in place for three years. One hurdle is that this would put a con-siderable respon-sibility on UH to generate content outside of airing athletic events. “I’m not sure what kind of con-tent the univer-sity could provide,” said Kato. “We’d need considerably more funding to fi ll more than an hour a week. It’s an expensive proposi-tion.” Kato has pre-viously broadcast a public access show with UH students, and de-scribed the un-dertaking as time consuming and
labor intensive, whereas airing sports is “scheduled and predictable, and generates revenue and interest.” Other shows would require much more production and effort to attract and keep viewers. Christine Kirk-Kuwaye, coordinator of leadership development for Student Life and Development, said that a year ago the student-chartered Broadcast Com-munications Author-
ity had a television show once a month. BCA’s focus has since shifted, creating the Student Video and Filmmakers’ Asso-ciation. The move was mostly due to the fact that production resources for a tele-vision show were not as plentiful as they were for filmmaking. “They have the equipment to fi lm. Any-
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can put on a television show,” Kirk-Kuwaye said. Kirk-Kuwaye said she has not heard any discussion from students about producing tele-vision broadcasts, but “that doesn’t mean other students wouldn’t be interested. A student-run broadcast could give commu-nications students an opportunity to work in the fi eld and represent the school, as well as bring more to the communications department. “I’d love to have that, wonderful things could be done with students and the system,” said Kato. “But we just don’t have that kind of budget to sus-tain such a thing right now.” In any event, UH cannot make a move until confi rming that the Mountain West Conference will let them continue with pay-per-view. If UH is denied, the question then remains whether it is worth running a channel, as pay-per-view would be the biggest money-maker.
ADVANTAGES Ann Auman, a professor in the School of Communications at UHM, said that even rais-ing the idea is benefi cial, as it comes in time for the Asian-Pacifi c Cooperation Summit. APCS will come to Hawai‘i in November, and Presi-dent Obama will be in attendance. “Any news that showcases UH and what we have to offer, all the things we’re doing here, could help. We need to show the connections we have in our area of expertise,” Auman said. Auman predicts that sports would likely be the biggest attraction. “Sports will be a big thing because [UH] knows there’s an audience there and it ’s entertaining. It ’s good to see our athletes out there, working hard. They don’t get the attendance they deserve at events.” The renewed interest in a UH channel may have been inspired by the University of Texas’ January deal with ESPN to start a Longhorns sports channel, which will air material 24 hours a day. UT negotiated a deal that would yield $10 million for the fi rst year and $300 million over the next 20 years. Kato observed, “Primarily, many univer-sities across the country that have started a university channel focus largely on sports, for cable purposes and commercial value.” Regardless of the variety of content, Kato said a channel would “provide some kind of identity on television that people could easily access. It could be great.”
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Before venturing out on patrol in Iraq, Spc. Joseph Chroniger would wrap his upper body in armor, then sling on a vest and pack that contained batteries for his radio, water, food, fl ashlight, am-munition and other gear. With his M4 rifl e, the whole get-up weighed 70 to 80 pounds – and left him aching. His body hurt the most when his squad came under attack and he tried to run or dive on the ground. His neck and shoulders would burn as if on fi re. Since returning to Western Wash-ington two years ago, Chroniger has been diagnosed with bone spurs in the vertebrae of his neck caused by a degen-erative arthritic condition. Sometimes, the pain is intense, and he dreads get-ting out of bed in the morning. “This is ridiculous,” Chroniger said. “I’m only 25 years old. Arthritis is supposed to happen when you get old. What ’s it going to be like when I’m 50 or 60?” Chroniger’s injury is a symptom of the overloaded U.S. combat forces that have served in the long wars in Afghani-stan and Iraq. In 2001, an Army Science Board study, noting that weight carried by soldiers could decrease mobility and in-crease fatigue and injury, recommended
no soldier carry more than 50 pounds for any length of time. The Army chief of staff hoped to approach that goal by 2010. But the loads combat soldiers typ-ically carry remain far above that goal. That weight has helped fuel an avalanche of musculoskeletal injuries that are eroding the combat readiness of the military. Long after the fighting ends, injuries such as Chroniger’s will remain a painful and expensive legacy of these wars. Nearly one-third of all medical evac-uations from Iraq and Afghanistan from 2004 through 2007 resulted from mus-culoskeletal, connective-tissue or spi-nal injuries, according to a study led by a Johns Hopkins University researcher. That was more than double the number of evacuations from combat injures. The number of soldiers medically retired from the Army with at least one musculoskeletal condition increased nearly 10-fold from 2003 to 2009, ac-cording to Army statistics. The heavy loads contribute to rising numbers of Afghani-stan and Iraq war veterans retiring with degenerative arthritis, cervical strains and other musculoskeletal injuries. Disability ben-efi ts paid for these injuries by the Department of Vet-erans Affairs (VA) exceed
$500 million annually, according to esti-mates done by The Seattle Times. That fi gure is expected to grow as tens of thousands of new veterans apply to the VA for compensation. For years, the Army only had an es-timate of how much weight foot soldiers carried in combat. In 2003, Col. Charles Dean, a mili-tary-equipment expert, formed a seven-man team to conduct a detailed study of weight worn in the combat zones of eastern Afghanistan. “What we were proposing was highly irregular, and my chain of command had to pass this all the way to the generals to get approval,” Dean said. Dean, who is now retired, wanted his team to share an infantry soldier’s life, packing the same loads and facing the same dangers. In Afghanistan, the team joined soldiers of the 82nd Airborne Division. Their missions typically began with a helicopter ride, followed by multiday
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addition to that,” said Col. Diane Flynn, chief of the department of pain management at Madigan Army Medical Center. Through the war years, the use of these drugs has escalated. A 2010 Army report found 14 per-cent of soldiers had prescriptions for opiates. The Army also is con-cerned the availability of pain drugs through medics widens the potential for abuse. For some soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress dis-order (PTSD) and other men-tal wounds, the combination of chronic pain and opiates to treat their physical injuries can help push them deeper into despair. Orrin Gorman McClellan, a veteran of the war in eastern Af-ghanistan, returned to his family home on Whidbey Island with se-vere PTSD. He took an opiate he obtained online, but it failed to relieve his muscle and back pain. In May 2009, he committed sui-cide at the age of 25. McClellan’s mother believes the physical pain contributed to his suicide. “One of the things that he was
angry about was that he always hurt. He never really got a break,” Judith Gorman said. The Army also is trying to re-duce the use of opiates for pain. An Army report recommended the in-creased use of alternatives, includ-ing chiropractic care, massage, meditation and acupuncture. At Madigan, Shashi Kumar, a doctor trained in acupuncture treat-ing Chroniger, says these treatments have helped many patients substan-tially reduce pain and narcotics use. After some 15 minutes, she took out the needles and helped the patient back to his feet. Chroniger said he felt better, not so tight, and will undergo three more sessions. But at Madigan and elsewhere, the Army has few staff trained to offer these therapies, and military insurance does not pay for most of these alternative services from civilian providers. “That’s really one of the things that’s holding us back,” said Flynn, the Madigan doctor who directs the pain center. “We have such limited access to other than what we call traditional medicine.”
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Hawai’i’s 2011 Valentine’s Day gift may have come a few days late for some, but the state’s civil unions bill is far better than any bouquet of roses. On Wednesday, the state House approved the bill that will allow heterosexual and same-sex couples to enter in civil unions and receive the same rights, ben-efi ts and responsibilities as a mar-ried couple under state law. While I applaud Hawai’i for this decision, the approval of the bill signifi es much more than a step forward for gay rights. For one, this bill is a leap to-wards equal rights in all aspects. It parallels the same importance and similar issues of the African-American Civil Rights Movement and women’s rights when they were allowed to vote. It represents this country’s pro-gressive attitude, a country whose former president, Bill Clinton, signed the 1996 Defense of Mar-riage Act which denied same-sex couples the federal benefi ts granted to heterosexual married couples. Sadly, 15 years after it was signed, the Defense of Marriage
Act has still not been repealed, despite promises from President Obama’s administration. Until it is, civil unions can be recognized by states, but not by the federal government. Once Gov. Neil Abercrombie signs the bill this week, Hawaiʻi will be only the seventh state in the U.S. that provides state-level spousal
rights to same-sex couples. And un-til all states in America legally allow same-sex marriages or civil unions, there is much work to be done. However, this bill also gives rights to long-term heterosexual couples who do not wish to be “married.” The biases held by so many, and the pressure to get mar-ried because it is the “normal” and
“safe” thing to do, may no longer hold true for long-term couples. People who have passionate-ly opposed civil unions in fear of corrupting the sanctity of mar-riage may have it all wrong. Al-lowing civil unions can strength-en the divinity of marriage by giving people choices. This is not to say that the term
“civil union” should mean some-thing less than “marriage” — an-other reason gay couples should also be able to get married under the name of marriage. People can get married be-cause they want to, not because they feel they have to for finan-cial reasons or societal pres-sures. Marriage is no longer the only option. Civil union couples will be able to have the same ben-efits as married couples, such as joint tax returns and Social Secu-rity survivor payments. In addition, these “same ben-efi ts” include the rights for sepa-ration in the same family court as married couples who get a divorce. When it comes down to it, talk about civil unions is all about choices. Hawaiʻi’s bill furtherhighlights the unconstitutional-ity of the Defense of Marriage Act which discriminates against a certain type of people. A law focused on discrimination should not be diffi cult to declare unconstitutional, yet old ideologies seem to die hard in the U.S. Hawaiʻi has taken a huge step towards ending discrimination, but we must not forget that the rest of America still has a lot of catching up to do.
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Time for change in Mid-dle East foreign policy
SARAH WRIGHT
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Bahrain, the latest Middle East-ern country to erupt in protest, has also experienced some of the most bloodshed. Police action against anti-government protestors left sev-eral dead and injured yesterday. As is becoming its habit, the Obama administration, speaking through Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, conveyed concerns about the government’s actions. It also stayed in character by failing to make a de-
cisive statement aligning the United States either with or against Bah-rain’s current government. It is no coincidence that Bahrain, like Egypt, Yemen and Tunisia, is his-torically allied with the United States. President Barack Obama, publicizing sometimes confl icting messages of stability and democracy, has strayed little from the Middle East policies of Truman and Eisenhower. Even Obama’s most vocal Republican crit-ics have had little to say about the protests, or the U.S. response. They claim to be helping the nation pres-ent a united front by supporting the president — while taking informal but symbolic trips to Israel. The United States’ hands have
been tied in the Middle East since it aligned itself with Israel after WWII. Israel is seen as an affront to Arab nationalists across the Middle East, and when the U.S. promises to act as an impartial negotiator, but instead acts as an advocate for the Israeli state, sentiment toward the U.S. among both governments and citizens of Middle Eastern countries becomes understandably bitter. Since the U.S. has taken upon itself the responsibility to act as an international police force, it should maintain a degree of impartiality. And when we clearly have national interests in a region — oil, human-itarian concerns and our ties with Israel, in this case — we should
stay out of negotiations. It is too much to ask the United States not to take a position in mat-ters of international importance, es-pecially since inaction is its own type of action, as Obama discovered dur-ing the Egyptian protests. However, it should be understood that stability may not lead to democracy. Farideh Farhi, a UH Mānoa political science professor and Iranian expert, commented on the political situation in the Mid-dle East in an e-mail interview. “Given events in the region, the Obama administration should engage in a thorough review of the U.S. approach to the Middle East,” Farhi said. “With the democratic
wave and the people’s insistence to have a say in the policy direction of their respective countries, the U.S. can no longer rely on unquestioned support of servile autocratic lead-erships whose domestic and for-eign policies are deeply unpopular with their own population.” The Obama administration stands at a turning point in inter-national politics, as revolution re-shapes critical nations in the Middle East. The only question is whether Obama and Clinton will continue to embrace policies built around the dual-superpower world of the Cold War, or if they will — fi nally — push the U.S. into the 21st century in re-gard to the Middle East.
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Three years before releasing their hit song “Apologize,” the band OneRepublic struggled to keep the group together. “We were stuck in Los Angeles trying to fi gure out if our career was going to go any-where,” said guitarist Zach Filkins. “It really seemed like all the chips were against us.” The band’s career skyrocketed after “Apologize” placed in the Top 5 on the Bill-board Hot 100 for 10 consecutive weeks, climbing all the way up to No. 2 on the chart. This opened more touring opportu-nities for them, including a stop in Hawai‘i. The OneRepublic concert will be held at the Waterfront at Aloha Tower on Feb. 21
from 8 to 11 p.m. OneRepublic’s music style is a combi-nation of the band members’ different mu-sical infl uences. Filkins explained, “Brent [Kutzle, bass and cello] is infl uenced a lot by composers from cinematic movie soundtracks. Ryan’s [Tedder, vocals] interests lie more in Top 40 pop songs and Drew [Brown, guitar] is very much into a little more obscure rock bands and also likes British rock bands. I like whatever comes along my path.” The band incorporates each favored style into its music to create its own unique blend. It is not only their sound that keeps hold of their fans, but also the messages the songs convey. The band likes to write songs based on the human condition so ev-
eryone can relate to them. “We want our songs to be unifying and representative of what we all go through at one point or another,” Filkins said. The band receives feedback from their fans through Internet communities. Among other things, fans told the OneRe-public band that their songs “helped people through diffi cult or dysfunctional relation-ships.” After listening to the songs, people with suicidal thoughts said they decided to give life another chance. This kind of feed-back is what keeps the band going. Despite their achievements, the band does not think they have reached their full musical potential. OneRepublic wants to continue writing better music and to keep playing shows.
“My personal goal is to headline an arena tour,” Filkins said. This is the fi rst time the band will be playing in Hawai‘i. “Hawai‘i is defi nitely the highlight of our year,” Filkins said.
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Shokudo Japanese Restau-rant and Bar fuses traditional Japanese cooking with Eur-asian cultures. This casual family-dining experience en-courages sharing food at the dinner table. Although the restaurant fea-tures predominantly Japanese cuisine, different cultures have made an imprint on the dishes. The pork with Japanese scal-lions appetizer combines Chi-nese char siu pork and ponzu sauce. The sushi pizza, another crowd favorite, incorporates sushi rice and seafood cooked pizza-style. The restaurant brings back the traditional cooking style of ishiyaki, a 500-degree Fahr-enheit hot-stone cooked meal that continues to cook at the dinner table. Ishiyaki is used to cook rice bowls such as the Korean-Japanese hybrid suki-
yaki bibimbap and loco moco. Although there are more than 60 dishes to choose from, the honey toast is most com-monly recommended. Collin Luo, who comes to the restau-rant several times a month, said that he goes to Shokudo for the honey toast. This legend-ary dessert consists of toasted bread drizzled with honey and topped with ice cream. If the dinner menu is a little pricey, check out happy hour before dark (4-6 p.m. daily) and after dark (10:30 p.m.-12 a.m. Sunday to Wednesday). Both menus provide food and drinks up to $4 each; however, the $4 food and drinks before dark are only available at the bar. The neo-Japanese atmo-sphere and wide range of food choices makes this a hot spot for dates. Since the restaurant is such a high-traffi c hotspot, it is advisable to book a reservation. The service gets slow on busy nights, but the workers
make up for it with smiles, courtesy and enthusiasm for the food. “You believe in what you sell, so it ’s good,” said Caro-lyn Conroy, who has worked as a waitress at Shokudo for fi ve years. “To me, it ’s always important that you do family-style here so you can spread [the food] and it brings you guys kind of closer together.” The restaurant empha-sizes a dining experience that brings the family together and values a fun and exciting dine-out experience. “I believe in the company’s values and mission … I really enjoy the people,” said Shoku-do manager Justin Mizufuka, who has been working at Shokudo since 2006. From the moment the em-ployees greet you with the fi rst “irrashaimase” (“welcome” in Japanese), to the “thank you for coming,” Shokudo will leave you full and satisfi ed.
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Breath is something we take for granted. We breathe subconsciously. It is essential to living, and we don’t even think about it. One thing you learn as a musician, however, is how to use your breath as a tool. Anyone who plays a wind instrument uses this skill and is forced to use it by the conventions of the instru-ment. But how do we breathe through other kinds of instruments? Jonas Tauber has learned to regulate his breathing. His breath fl ows through his body, moving organically into his own stringed instrument, the cello. You can hear his swift intakes of breath as he plays, making the cello a part of his body. Tauber can be heard on “Port Saïd Street,” his new album with Francis Coletta. Both Tauber and Coletta play their instruments instinctively and with fervor.
It ’s easy to pass the album off as “easy listening” without actually listen-ing to it. While it avoids the blatant ten-sion and speed of bebop and free jazz, it has no less passion and requires no less skill in execution. It would be an insult to place such fi ne music in a genre famous for soullessness. You could call the al-bum smooth jazz as long as you suspend any misconceptions of that genre. The album is a fine collection of music. Coletta plays guitar beautifully, with Tauber chopping and riffing skill-fully in perfect harmony. It ’s obvious the two just like making music, pure and simple. It ’s very stripped down — just the two, but with such fullness it almost seems like a quartet with piano and drums. Each player is equally adept at his instrument: Coletta often riffs over Tauber’s chops, and Tauber recip-rocates over chords from Coletta. The album begins with a pleasantly boppy number (“Surfi n’ On the Neck”), bringing to mind smoky speakeasies.
Tauber plucks his cello in a head-bob-bing pizzicato, and Coletta’s fi ngers fl y over the fretboard.
The next song, “Vasilé,” changes the mood completely, with Coletta strum-ming mellow chords and Tauber darken-ing the mood with ethereal harmonics. The song is slow, almost mournful. The album is full of mood shifts, from the bright and bouncy “Nica’s Dream,” to the contemplative “Body and Soul,” to the passionate title song. The mood changes keep the songs from running into one another; each song is distinct. What I love about the record-ing is that they don’t try to hide Tauber’s breathing: You know he puts himself into his music when you can hear him mark a phrase with a breath. It ’s this sort of unfi nished sound that makes listening to the album like a live performance.
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THE ART OF YOGA WITH COCO ZHANGHit off you morning with some inner peace. Yogies and newbies, this is your chance to have an exclusive yoga class with acclaimed Japanese yoga teacher Coco Zhang. The class will be held in the natural serenity of the mu-seum garden.
Cost: $12 general admissionWhere: The Contemporary Museum, 2411 Makiki Heights Dr.When: Feb. 22, 10:30-11:45 a.m.Contact: (808) 526 0232
SHOKUDO AFTER DARKIf you’re going to stuff your face with those late-night calories, make it work it at Shokudo. Their late night menu consists of tapas-style dishes like their teriyaki chicken quesadilla and their infamous honey toast (a special Japanese white toast stuffed with ice cream and honey).
Cost: $3 per dishWhere: Shokudo Japanese Restaurant and Bar, 1585 Kapi‘olani Blvd.When: Feb. 20, 10:30 p.m.-12 a.m.Contact: (808) 941-3701
HAWAI ʼ I TOP MODEL COMPETIT IONCan’t stop admiring yourself in the mirror? Put that narcis-sism to use and head out to the casting for new local show Hawai‘i’s Top Model! Selected models will compete for over $1000 in cash and prizes.
Cost: Free!Where: Honolulu Design Center, 1250 Kapi‘olani Blvd.When: Feb. 19, 10 a.m.-12 p.m.Contact: (808) 372-8283
9TH ANNUAL JEWISH F I LM FEST IVALGet cultured at the fi nal weekend of the Jewish Film Festival. The weekend will feature the foreign fi lms “Le Rafl e” (The Round Up), “Nora’s Will” and “Seven Minutes in Heaven.”
Cost: $12 general admissionWhere: Honolulu Academy of the Arts, 900 South Be-retania St.When: Check Honoluluacademy.org for showtimes.Contact: (808) 532-8700
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ONCE -A -MONTH PUNKMosh pits are the greatest places to channel your anger over those ridiculously early midterms — so bring out that inner punk and rage this Saturday at the Waikīkī Sandbox. Featured bands will be Socially Fucked, Sketchy, Substitoots, and 13th Legion.Every third Saturday. 21+
Cost: $10Where: Waikīkī Sandbox, 2260 Kūhiō Ave.When: Feb. 19, 10 p.m.-4 a.m.Contact: (808) 923-8848
KCC FARMERS MARKETGet a fresh start to your day with some fresh local food, from fresh produce to freshly baked pastries and pizzas. Some delicious must-tries are the mochi covered strawber-ries (from the Made in Hawaii stand) and the Neapolitan grilled pizza from North Shore Farms. The KCC Farmers Market is heaven for foodies — and all hungry people!
Cost: Free!Where: Kapi‘olani Community College, 4303 Diamond Head Rd.When: Feb. 19, 7:30-11 a.m.Contact: (808) 848-2074
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Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Lewis
By Dan Nador 02/18/11
Fill in the grid so that every row, every column, and every 3x3 box contains the
digits 1 thru 9.
Puzzles will become progressively more diffi cult
through the week.
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Go to www.kaleo.org for this puzzle’s solution. HARD # 43
9 2 43 1 9 6
1 71 9
9 4 56 42 5
7 3 6 81 6 3
ACROSS1 Timeworn observation6 “Pronto!”
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Story”23 Presidential advisers?26 Trademark cousins27 Trains on supports28 “Discreet Music” composer29 Movie beekeeper30 People person?32 Presidential ATM sign?39 “Contact” author40 “Uh-uh”41 Ex-Saudi ruler __ Saud44 Managed45 Onetime California gubernatorial
candidate Huffington48 Presidential university?51 Biblical words before and after
“for”52 Title subject of a G.B. Shaw play53 Presidential belt-tightening?56 Blitz attachment59 Prefix with “Language” in a 1993
comedy best-seller60 Gaston’s god61 Perform penance62 Scraps63 U. of Maryland athlete64 Streisand title role
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Europe33 Connecticut coastal town near
Stamford34 “Yikes!”35 Qualm36 Like some workers in an open shop37 HMO employees38 Thumbs-up vote41 Response to a doubting Thomas42 More scrawny43 Prohibitive door sign45 Misbehaves46 British rule in India47 Post-fall reassurance49 Interpol headquarters50 Glyceride, e.g.54 Setting on the Mississippi: Abbr.55 A lost driver may hang one, briefly57 M.D.’s specialty58 Styling stuff
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EDITOR RUSSELL TOLENTINOASSOCIATE MARC ARAKAKI
FRIDAY, FEB. 18, 2011
Ka Leo O Hawai‘i
JAKE CAMARILLO
Senior Staff Writer
For the University of Hawai‘i men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams, February isn’t about love — it’s about winning conference championships. Although the Rainbow War-riors (Conference USA) and the Rainbow Wahine (Western Ath-letic Conference) compete in dif-ferent leagues, their champion-ships fall on the same four days (Feb. 23 to 26), which forces the coaching staff to split in half. “I have to choose every year who I go with; so, right off the bat, half the team goes without their head coach,” said Victor Wales, who is the head swimming coach for both teams. Wales will head to San Anto-nio, Texas with the women’s team, while the other coaches go with the men to Houston, Texas. “Because we have such a big staff, that’s okay — we’ve got great leadership in both the men’s and women’s team,” Wales said. Still, it ’s dif f icult to be sepa-rated. “The meets are simultaneous, so I’m getting updates texted to me from what’s going on in one meet,” Wales said. “It ’s tough be-cause I don’t know why they were successful or why they weren’t.” Despite not competing in the same venue, the teams say they feel ready. “It’s always nice to have the men’s support, or the women’s sup-port for the men’s,” senior Rainbow Wahine swimming team captain Amanda McTeague said. “It’s nice to be all together, but we’re pre-pared for being separated.” For the WAC Championships, McTeague said the team has goals to accomplish. “We’d love to place in the top
three; last year we came in sixth,” McTeague said. “So to come back and be one of the top teams would be a good goal for us.” Senior men’s swimming team captain Ilia Reyes also has winning on his mind for the Rainbow Warriors. “We’ve been coming in sec-ond for the last two years, and last year was the fi rst year that we ac-tually had a better chance,” Reyes said. “This year we have an even better chance, because the teams are pretty much dead even.” The divers have a different perspective on the championship meets than the swimmers do. “For the swimmers, most of them, it’s their last meet of the year,” diving head coach Mike Brown said. “For the divers it’s an important meet, but not the most important, because two weeks later, we go to Minnesota for our qualifying meet for nationals.”
The zone qualifiers that fol-low the conference champion-ships are the only meets at which divers can earn berths into the NCAA championships. Although the conference is not the most important meet, senior diver Emma Friesen, who won the 1-meter NCAA title in 2008, is still looking forward to it. “We’re all feeling like it ’s com-ing up pretty quick, but we’re ex-cited,” Friesen said. “We’ll all be ready to peak by next week.” And after redshirting the 2009-2010 season, Friesen wants to go out with a bang. “I’m looking forward to fi nish-ing off my senior season strong, but we’ll get up to looking at NCAA qualifi ers later,” Friesen said. “It ’s a great meet to go to be-cause we’re with the swimmers. It ’s all very team-oriented, and all of our points make a difference.”
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Reyes grew into leadershipJAKE CAMARILLO
Senior Staff Writer
Who would have thought that a boy from Moloka‘i would become the leader of the Rainbow Warrior swimming team? That’s the story of senior swimmer Ilia Reyes, who is from Kaunakakai, Moloka‘i. “I have three older sisters, and my parents urged them to swim,” Reyes said. “When I was nine, I kind of grew up doing what they were doing and fell into swimming as well.” Without any competitive swim meets or clubs in Moloka‘i, Reyes and his siblings travelled to oth-er islands to swim. “We would have to fl y to Maui every time to do a swim meet and we’d just do our thing and come back home,” Reyes said. After only two years at the club level, 11-year-old Reyes moved to O‘ahu and attended K a m e -hameha
Schools-Kapalama. T h e r e ,
his swim-ming ski l ls shone, but the t ran-sit ion to K amehame -
ha wasn’t easy.
“ T h e first two weeks was rough for me, being away from home,” Reyes said. “But af-ter those two weeks, I was like, ‘All right, I can do this.’”
A NEW KIND OF WARRIOR Reyes won multiple high school state cham-pionships at Kame-
hameha, which earned him national attention. He
received recruiting letters from Division II and Division
III colleges, but Reyes wanted better.
He wanted to go to a winning Division I program.
Reyes turned to Davis Kane, a friend and teammate at Kamehameha. Kane
was swimming for the Rainbow Warriors, and Reyes asked him about the University of
Hawai‘i. “I did it for a year and really liked it,” Kane
said. “I knew that it was someplace where [Reyes] could have fun, stay at home, as well as get faster
competitively in swimming.” For Reyes, it came down to going to California or stay-
ing at home. He contacted Victor Wales, UH’s swimming head coach.
“He gave me the opportunity to walk on and see what I got,” Reyes said. “He said my times were okay, but to be at a Division I level, I had to work hard for it.” But it was decided: Reyes would continue his education and swimming at UH. Academically, Reyes said that the transition to college was easy, but for swimming, it was a whole different level. “Coming from Moloka‘i, winning states, you kind of come into
college thinking you’re fast. Then, at the fi rst practice, I was like, ‘wow, I suck,’” Reyes said. “It humbled me and brought me onto a level where I could look up to more people.” During high school, Reyes said he wouldn’t attend every practice. “For me, out of the six practices we had, I’d go to maybe two or three of them,” Reyes said. “My whole high school career was like that. I was kind of nonchalant about it.” But at UH, he realized it would take more commitment to be the best. “Even if you ask him, he did more in his fi rst month when he got here than he did the year previous to being here,” Wales said. “Sometimes it ’s hard to be a talented athlete in Hawai‘i, because your scope’s limited.” Wales and the rest of the coaching staff saw potential in Reyes, and began suggesting of competing at national and Olympic trials. To do so, however, Reyes learned what it took to get to that level. He began training harder, and immediately noticed the differ-ence in intensity between high school and collegiate swimming. “The fi rst year was the hardest year. It was a different kind of training. A lot more intense and a lot more yardage,” Reyes said. In his sophomore year, Reyes improved and went to the men’s conference championships. He wasn’t scored by his coaches, but had his best times. “I trained that summer, got my national cuts and got on schol-arship,” Reyes said. “From there on, I just got better and better.”
ʻHE ʼS A LEADERʼ After being named a team captain his junior year, the expecta-tions for Reyes grew higher — both in and out of the pool. For example, if guys aren’t showing up to practice, coaches ask Reyes where they are, and he then gets them all together. “They expect a lot, and they hold me to the standard,” Reyes said. “I don’t want to say [the younger swimmers] look up to me, but when I was a freshman, I could look up and say, ‘I want to be like the senior guys. I want to be just as fast as them.’” Reyes’ impact as a leader has also been noticed on the wom-en’s swimming team. “His work ethic and determination to do well impacts the other swimmers,” Rainbow Wahine senior team captain Amanda McTeague said. “I see him helping other guys with their starts because he’s known for having a really good, fast start. It ’s nice to see that he’s there to lend a helping hand.” Wales said Reyes’ leadership is holding up to his standard. “My expectations for him ... he’s come pretty close to fulfi lling, which not many athletes do, to be honest,” Wales said. “Coaches should have extremely high expectations for their athletes.” But perhaps more importantly, Wales noticed Reyes’ growth not only as a swimmer, but as a student and person as well. “He really understands the importance of an education,” Wales said. “He’s become a scholar-athlete, and he’s done some great things in the pool. “He’s bettered himself from when mediocre used to be good enough for him, and he realized he’s not a mediocre person,” Wales continued. “He’s a leader, and leaders lead. That’s what sets him apart in my mind.”
EDITOR RUSSELL TOLENTINOASSOCIATE MARC ARAKAKI
FRIDAY, FEB. 18, 2011
Ka Leo O Hawai‘i
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Senior swimmer Ilia Reyes started his career at UH as a walk on. Since then, he earned a scholarship, was named team captain and is one of the university’s top swimmers.
