May 25 2011

JANE CALLAHAN

Senior Staff Writer

Are Hjorungnes, a Norwegian professor on a one-year sabbati-cal at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa’s electrical engineering department, disappeared on a hiking trail on Saturday, May 14. The 40-year-old professor, who taught at the University of Oslo, joined the Hawaiian Ultra Running Team on a 15-mile run along the Peacock Flat trail, lo-cated behind Dillingham Airfi eld, almost two weeks ago. When the group stopped for a water break, Hjorungnes continued ahead.

The trail branches off into many veins that lead to dead ends and wild boar territory; searchers said it was likely he took a wrong turn. In addition, the trail is lined with ravines and steep descents. According to the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, the fi re depart-ment used trained dogs and he-licopters in attempts to fi nd the professor. “Rescue specialists” were lowered by rope from the helicopters into the ravines sur-rounding the trail, as surround-ing trees and greenery prevented any view from the air. The Honolulu Fire Department searched for three days, but called off the search on Monday when no

body was found. When contacted, no one at the HFD could answer as to why the offi cial search window is limited to three days. Independent volunteers con-tinued the search. Search par-ties included the members of the Hawaiian Ultra Running Team, various people from University of Hawai‘i, and local pig hunters. Hjorunges’ family arrived in Ho-nolulu on Thursday, May 19, to aid in the search. Volunteers found a body at the base of a Mokulē‘ia mountain, behind Dillingham Airfi eld along the Waialua range, on Saturday afternoon, a week after Hjorung-es’ disappearance. Offi cials have

not confi rmed the body to be Hjo-rungnes’, but it is understood, as the man was wearing the same clothes that Hjorungnes had on the day he disappeared. During the weeklong search, Hjorungnes’ friends and family set up a blog that detailed the search’s progress. The Hawaiian Ultra Run-ning Team also set up a web page with the trail map, and acted as a hub to organize those who wanted to help with the search effort. The coroner’s offi ce also could not of-fi cially confi rm that the body was that of Hjorungnes; however, on the search blog (www.fi ndare.blogspot.com), his friends expressed their grief about the death of their friend.

One member of the blog said that it appears Hjorungnes fell 40 feet off a cliff ’s edge; broken branches and impacts to the grass supported the theory. Hjorungnes’ time at UH was scheduled to end in July of this year. Hjorungnes published a book in February titled “Com-plex-Valued Matrix Derivatives: With Applications in Signal Pro-cessing and Communications.” Per Christian, Hjorungnes’ friend from Norway, wrote on the blog, “I will miss all emails coming from you and how they made me laugh ... I will miss you as a companion when we went hiking. Now they say I will never enjoy that again, but I will wait for a sign, an email, a phone call or a knock on my door for a long time.”

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Are Hjorungnes (left) is believed to be the hiker found dead near the Peacock fl at trail on Saturday. He is pictured here run-ning a trail with members of Hawaii Ultra Running Team on April 30, 2011.

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Rising tuition at the Universi-ty of Hawai‘i at Mānoa’s John A. Burns School of Medicine may affect the number of local stu-dents able to attend the school and stay in Hawai‘i to practice after graduation. According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, the median income of these stu-dents’ families is $85,000. Tina Shelton, director of com-mu n ic a t ion and legisla-tive coordina-tor for JAB-SOM, said, “The AAMC fi nding was startling, because that means our students’ parents earn the lowest of any medical college in the country – and there are about 134 medical schools.” Of the 250 students attend-ing JABSOM each year, 213 re-ceive some kind of f inancial aid. For the 2011-2012 school year, the in-state tuition is $29,184 per year, and out-of-state tuition is $61,464. However, tuition rates are increasing with the state’s worsening f inancial situation. Currently, 90 percent of JABSOM students are Hawai‘i residents. This year’s graduates include students from Honolulu, Kāne‘ohe, ‘Aiea, Waipahu, Mil-ilani, Kailua and Pearl City. There are also many graduates from the neighbor islands, and seven new M.D.s are Native Hawaiians. How-ever, increasing tuition may force the school to accept more non-res-ident students, which will lead to fewer graduates staying in Hawai‘i where they are needed. Shelton explained that the need for physicians is one of the

primary reasons for admitting 90 percent local students, as nearly half of JABSOM graduates stay in Hawai‘i to practice, and near-ly half of physicians practicing in the state attended JABSOM. Hawai‘i is facing a severe doc-tor shortage, needing more than 150 new doctors a year. Without graduates from JABSOM practic-ing in Hawai‘i, hospitals around the state would lose many special-ists. “JABSOM-trained physicians are a critical source of M.D.s in Hawai‘i,” Shelton said.

Shelton also mentioned that the school strives to be consistent with former Gov. Burns’ dream for “a medical school whose primary mis-sion would be to produce doctors to serve Hawai‘i and the Pacifi c.” JABSOM is the only medi-cal school in the state. Shelton said that JABSOM’s rising tu-it ion might af fect low-income students’ ability to attend not only JABSOM, but any medi-cal school. “We do know that because of Hawai‘i ’s high cost of l iv ing, there is even more of a burden on our students. That said, many of them do live with their parents to save on hous-ing and food expenses, which if they had to go to the mainland for school would probably mean they couldn’t go to school,” Shelton said. Shelton said that the decision to allow a greater percentage of out-of-state students is up to the Chancellor of Mānoa, the UH Pres-ident and the Board of Regents. Shelton shared a response from JABSOM’s dean in which

he said, “The [estimated fu-ture tuition] f igure was based on speculation on what tuition might have to be in order to offset losses from tobacco fund-ing monies, should there be no other f inancial options. How-ever, we are pursuing multiple other options, and no increase of tuiton is expected to be above 10 percent annually. The current tuition schedule for all of UH (including JABSOM) expires in 2012. “No tuition increase after the current schedule is

p o s s i b l e w i t h -out UH Board of R e g e n t s proposal,

a process which will include no-tice and public hearings before implentation. Our already vig-orous efforts to increase schol-arship opportunities will be in-tensif ied in the anticipation of tuition increases.” In addition to scholarships, the school has presented other ideas to the Legislature. Class sizes could be increased through additional training on neighbor islands (at a cost of $2 million per year). A financial aid program to target placement of JABSOM medical school and residency/fellowship graduates in practices on neighbor islands could also be created (at an estimated cost of $1 million per year). These and similar measures may ease the physician shortage. But raising JABSOM tuition and changing the ratio of in-state to out-of-state students will lessen the ability of low-income families in Hawai‘i to send their children to medical school, and may wors-en the shortage of physicians in Hawai‘i now and in the future.

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In theaters this Memoria l Day weekend is “ T he Hang-over : Par t I I ,” the fol low-up to the highest-grossing R-rated comedy of a l l t ime, 2009 ’s “ T he Hangover.” The film includes appear-ances by Jamie Chung and Paul Giamatti, but in director Todd Phillips’ fashion, largely features many of the same cast members from his previous films. Here’s a look at several actors that have had recurring roles in Phillips’ films in the past 11 years. Seann William Scott- A f-ter co-starring as E.L . in Phil-lips’ debut comedy “Road Trip” in 2000, Scott reappeared in 2003’s “Old School” as a tran-quilizer gun-wielding petting zoo operator, exclaiming the memorable line, “You just took one in the jugular, man!” Amy Smart- Also co-star-ring in “Road Trip,” Smart made

her reappearance as the cheer-leader Holly in 2004’s “Starsky and Hutch.” Horatio Sanz – The for-mer SNL cast member played a waiter who defiles a customer’s breakfast in “Road Trip,” and also appeared in 2006’s “School for Scoundrels.” Matt Walsh- The comedian has appeared in all of Phillips’ fi lms, having originally made an appearance in “Road Trip.” Andy Dick- In “Road Trip,” Dick made a small cameo as a mo-tel clerk, and later appeared with an uncredited role in “Old School.” Will Ferrell- Ferrell’s fi rst starring role was as Frank “The Tank” Richard in “Old School.” The following year, he played prison inmate Big Earl in “Starsky and Hutch.” Vince Vaughn- Also mak-ing appearances in “Old School” and “Starsky and Hutch,” Vaughn co-starred as electron-ics storeowner Bernard “Bean-ie” Campbell, and later made

an appearance as Jewish drug kingpin Reese Feldman. Juliette Lewis- Lewis made appearances in “Old School” as the unfaithful girlfriend Heidi, “Starsky and Hutch” as Feldman’s girlfriend Kitty, and as a drug-dealing mom in “Due Date.” Bryan Callen- Playing two heavily accented European char-acters, Callen fi rst appeared as the waiter in “Old School,” with the catchphrase “Love, it ’s a motherf**ker,” and later as wed-ding chapel owner Eddie Palermo in “The Hangover.” Dan Finnerty- Best known for his expletive-fi lled cover of “Total Eclipse of the Heart” as the wedding singer in “Old School,” Finnerty reappeared with equally foul-mouthed performances in “Starsky and Hutch” and “The Hangover.” Snoop Dogg- D O Double G made an appearance as himself in “Old School,” and played infor-mant Huggy Bear Brown in “Star-sky and Hutch.”

Ben Stiller- A fter starring as David Starsky, Stiller later appeared as Lonnie in “School for Scoundrels.” Zach Galifianakis- Gali-fianakis’ break-out performance came when he co-starred in “The Hangover” as the socially

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Sports Editor

The heat of the Arizona desert won’t be the only thing on fi re going into this week. The Rainbow baseball team will enter the Western Athletic Conference Tourna-ment in Mesa, Ariz., after securing a share of the WAC regular season title – some-thing Hawai‘i hasn’t done since 1992. “We’ve gone to a couple regionals in the last fi ve years, but this is something we hadn’t been able to bring home to our fans,” head coach Mike Trapasso said. “Winning the WAC [regular season] championship – while [it] re-ally has no effect on who’s going to postseason – there really is a pride factor involved.” Hawai‘i (32-23, 17-7 WAC) shared the title with Fresno State after both teams fi nished with identical 17-7 records in the WAC. But by virtue of a tiebreaker deter-mined by the WAC, the ’Bows secured the No. 1 seed, which earned them a fi rst round bye in the double-elimination tournament. “It ’s important because if you win the fi rst two games then you are in the cham-pionship game, and the other team has to beat you twice,” junior pitcher Matt Sisto said. “Hopefully we can take care of busi-ness the fi rst two games.” The Fresno State Bulldogs, who are

ranked No. 20 nationally, secured the tour-nament’s No. 2 seed, and is the only other team to receive a fi rst round bye. Louisiana Tech, Nevada, San Jose State, and New Mexico State round out seeds 3 through 6. “The fi rst round bye was the big thing,” Trapasso said. “[But] confi dence and mo-mentum, things like that, none of that comes into play with this group. These players just go out and play every day. Whether they do well or they don’t do well, they’re going to come out the next day and give it their best – and that’s what I’ve been more proud of than anything else.” Nevada and San Jose State will open the tournament on Wednesday at noon HST, followed by Louisiana Tech and New Mexico State at 4 p.m. HST. Hawai‘i will play its fi rst game on Thursday at 4 p.m. HST against the lowest seed remaining after the fi rst two games. “Honestly, it doesn’t matter who you play and when you play ‘em and what your seed is. You have to play well every game, or you’re going home,” Trapasso said. “That’s the fo-cus now. Just go out there and play well.”

WITHSTANDING THE HEAT Temperatures in Mesa, Ariz., may reach 100 degrees during the day this week. However, if the ’Bows are able to

win three straight games to capture the tournament title, all of their games will be played at 7 p.m., when the temperature will be around 70. “It’s defi nitely important, because play-ing during the day in 100 degree weather is not what anyone wants to be part of,” Sisto said. “If there’s any opportunity where we can play at night, it ’s defi nitely something we want to take care of.”

UNCHARTED TERRITORY The ‘Bows entered last season’s WAC Tournament as the No. 4 seed and managed to pull off three upsets en route to its fi rst conference tournament title in 18 years. As the No. 1 seed in 2011, the ’Bows now have all eyes on them. “Coming into the season, we won the WAC tournament last year and got the automatic bid to the regional, so you feel l ike you have the target on your back a l it t le bit there,” Sisto said. “And then going out into the WAC [this season] and taking care of business there kind of adds to that. “Everyone’s going to be gunning for us, but that’s where you want to be. You want to be the best team in the best position.”

MARC ARAKAKI

Sports Editor

Reaching the postseason is all too fa-miliar for fi ve Rainbow Wahine track and fi eld athletes. Junior TeRina Keenan qualifi ed for her third straight NCAA West Preliminary Round Championships, while juniors Sar-ah Saddleton, Madara Apine, Emma Mac-Corquodale and sophomore Samantha Bal-entine qualifi ed for their second straight. This season’s preliminary round will take place Thursday through Saturday at the University of Oregon’s Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore. Hayward Field, the site of the 2008 and

2012 U.S. Olympic Track & Field Team Tri-als, will present a world-class atmosphere for the Rainbow Wahine. “I explained to them that Eugene is like track city USA,” head coach Carmyn James said. “The stands will be packed... every per-son in the stands is a knowledgeable track fan. It will defi nitely be an adrenaline boost for them.” The athletes earned their spots in the NCA A West Preliminary Round by f inishing in the top 48 of the West Re -gion, based on their season-best mark in an events. Leading the ‘Bows is Saddleton, whose season-best mark in the high jump was 5-10.75 (1.80m), which was good for a tie

for ninth in the West Region. Also qualify-ing in the high jump is Balentine, who tied for 15th in the West with a season-best mark of 5-10 (1.78m). Apine qualifi ed in the triple jump with a distance of 41-8.5 (12.71m), which is good for 25th in the West. MacCorquodale’s ham-mer throw of 184-11 (56.36m) is ranked 34th, while Keenan’s discus throw of 161-7 (49.27m) is ranked 39th. Last year, former high jumper Amber Kaufman became Hawai‘i’s fi rst national champion in 26 years, and James described Kaufman’s success as an added motivation for her athletes this season. “I don’t think that anyone feels like they’re going to win the championships,

but just knowing that someone on their team has gone to the highest level and won gold is motivating,” James said. The top 12 athletes in each event at both the NCAA West Preliminary Round and the NCAA East Preliminary Round, held in Bloomington, Ind., will earn spots in the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Des Moines, Iowa, June 8 through 11. “In 2008, we did send three athletes to that event – and it was the finals, and it was in Des Moines – so it ’s kind of like a been there done that, and the three that we took all came back as All-Americans,” James said. “But [sending any athlete to the NCA A Outdoor Championships] would be amazing.”

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Junior Matt Sisto is expected to be the Rainbows’ starting pitcher when they take the fi eld Thursday in the WAC Tournament.

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