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Was it an attempt to stop the sound of cam-pus skateboarders getting healthy recreation between classes? Or was it just the latest in an ongoing saga of noise complaints to Facilities and Grounds that led to the installation of hun-dreds of PVC caps on an embankment along the ‘Ewa side of Sakamaki Hall? Before, longboarders could be seen at all hours of the day, pumping along the side of the asphalt slope that emulated a 2-foot wave. This bank provided a free place to ride with a low-risk obstacle. There was also no potential for dam-aging university property because the mellow slope didn’t have any lips to grind or slide on. However, the sound of skateboarders posed a problem to many individuals in the history de-partment, housed in Sakamaki. David Hafner, assistant vice chancellor for facili-ties and grounds, expressed frustration over dealing with noise complaints in that area throughout the last several years. “While we are not against skateboard-ing – it’s a really great thing to do and great source of exercise and mode of transportation – it does create some problems in this area because of the acoustics. The real complaint came from the history depart-ment, and Liam Kelley in particular, and their com-plaint was they were getting a lot of extra noise in that area,” said Hafner. Skateboarding has not been the only cause of noise problems near Sakamaki. Necessary construction and a lack of space led Facilities to operate heavy machinery and park construction

vehicles in the area currently occupied by the asphalt wave. “We’ve been trying to get Facilities over the years to do things to have it not be so noisy out there,” said Kelley, a history professor. “So from my perspective, skateboarding isn’t the problem, it’s that Facilities doesn’t do things necessary to keep this area out here relatively quiet.” Unfortunately, the desire to render the sur-face undesirable for skateboarders led to a boo-by trapping of sorts by placing obstructions that could literally throw skateboarders should they be unaware and hit a cap. Conor McGivern, a student and skateboard vid-eographer for A‘ala Park Boardshop, put it bluntly: “Somebody’s gonna eat s---.”

WHAT NOW? While the addition of caps curbs the noise problem outside Sakamaki, it doesn’t address the desires of the student body for a safe place to practice the sport. “I wish they would just build a good skate park, something decent, so people could have a good time and know where to go,” said Kelley. “Because obviously so many people want to do it, right? So what ’s the problem with that?” He also acknowledged that perhaps some sort of compromise could be reached in shar-ing campus with recreational skateboarding. “There’s people that come here at 5 in the af-ternoon, thinking about the fact that people work here, so you’ve got to appreciate people like that,” he said. Perhaps a signed waiver/rules form that earns a skate-pass sticker on a

student’s ID would com-municate the need for quiet during working hours and absolve the university from liability for any in-juries skateboard enthusiasts incur. Over the past 60 years, skate-boarding has proven itself to be as important a part of American youth culture as basket-ball, baseball or football. It ’s not just a mode of transportation, but a means of personal expression and a source of joy. Despite the actions taken, the university faculty and staff responsible recognize skateboarding as an intrinsic as-pect of campus culture. Rather than trying to stop skate-boarding, the university needs to brainstorm safe, sustainable mea-sures to foster this activity that so many enjoy. Even Kelley remarked, “What the hell do we need an indoor running track for? Why don’t they build a skate thing? I mean, a hell of a lot more people would use that than ... an indoor running track in Hawai‘i.”

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TAYLOR MORRIS

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Approximately 200,000 deaths, 10,000 child soldiers, 30,000 ab-ductions and 25 years after Ugan-dan warlord Joseph Kony began kidnapping children for his army, people around the world are trying to bring him to a halt. “We are also going to do ev-erything we can to stop them,” promises Jason Russell in the now famous video “Kony 2012.” The video is the 11th film cre-ated by the nonprofit organiza-tion Invisible Children to raise awareness about Kony’s involve-ment with child soldiers and or-ganize his capture. The half-hour video went viral on March 5, and by March 8 it had approximately 32.5 million views. Within the week, people around the world were buying kits and donating money to Invisible Children. “This year, 2012, is the year that we can fi nally fulfi ll [the mis-sion to capture Kony]. And if we succeed, we change the course of human history” the video states. Joseph Kony, a self-proclaimed prophet, founded the Lord’s Re-sistance Army in 1987 to fi ght for a government based on the Ten Commandments. In order to main-tain strength, Kony began kidnap-ping children to use as child sol-diers. He also forced the children to become sex and labor slaves.

CHANGING OPINIONS After the initial f lood of support on the web, Invisible Children came under scrutiny for its actions and beliefs. In 2011, Invisible Children spent $8,676,614, and 32 percent of that went to direct services for

its cause. The other 68 percent of the spending went to staff salaries, travel, transport, film production and other expenses. Invisible Children advocates direct military intervention by the Uganda People’s Democratic Army to stop Kony, but the UPDA

has also been accused of rape and looting. “Kony 2012” focuses on saving Uganda from the wrath of Kony; however, the LRA has been absent in Uganda since 2006. It is still present in South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic. “I like the whole movement that they’re trying to start with

social networking, but there have been African warlords forever, and people are just realizing it now,” said Marcienne Anderson, a political science major. “I feel like people are kind of blowing it up … I feel like people should have real-ized this a long time ago.”

PREVIOUS AT TEMPTS AND US INVOLVEMENT Previous missions regard-ing Kony have been unsuccess-ful. The U.S. Africa Command has attempted multiple missions to kill or capture Kony, and the Pope has been involved in unsuc-cessful peace talks with him. The Juba peace talks with the LRA that began in 2006 and lasted for two years seemed as if they would be successful, but Kony never signed the fi nal peace agreement. In October 2011, a group of 100 U.S. military advisors were deployed to central Africa to help stop Kony. Another small group of troops were deployed to Uganda on March 7, and additional forces are expected to be sent later this month. The United States’ involve-ment is restricted to an advisory role to support Uganda in elimi-nating the threat of the LRA, and continued U.S. participation relies on the regional government’s par-ticipation in fi ghting Kony.

The Campus Center Board Activities Council will be showing “Kony 2012” from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Monday in the Campus Center Ballroom. There will also be a speaker from Uganda to present information about the situation. An event called “Cover the Night” is taking place in numerous locations around the world, including O‘ahu, on April 20. People in each location will plaster their cities with posters, signs and stickers in order to bombard the general public with information about Kony and encourage people to help bring him to justice.

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ISABELLA HASTINGS

Staff Writer University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa debaters learn more than just rhe-torical skills in competition. “The competitions are pretty intense, but it’s also a lot of fun,” said second-semester debater Samira Fa-temi. “It helps you develop your argu-mentation and persuasion skills, but at the same time you learn to keep an open mind and to analyze what’s go-ing on in the world around you.”

The UH Mānoa debate team is participating in a tournament this weekend, featuring over 60 competitors from Hawai‘i Pa-cific University, Hawai‘i Com-munity College and Leeward Community College. The debate will include topics such as com-pulsory voting policies, the pros-pect of women in combat and a manned mission to Mars. Next month, eight competi-tors from the debate team will go to Willamette University in Oregon for the National Tournament. They will be competing against the top schools in the country, including Harvard, Yale and Columbia. “There’s a lot of smart people and a lot of good dialogue going back and forth,” said Fatemi. “But there’s only one winning team by the end of the tournament.”

The UH debate club has been around since the late 1920s, but it was fully resurrected three years ago, when Robert Boller, the director of the Debate and Forensics Society, teamed up with undergrad-uate student Daniel Hugo. “The university has historically supported a ro-bust debate program,” said Boller in an email interview. “In 1928, the UH debate team was the fi rst collegiate squad to compete on Japa-nese soil. [But] in the 1960s, support for the debate team waned and it went defunct until January of 2008.” Since then, the team has par-ticipated in competitions through-out the country and the Pacifi c Rim.

“Debate is a perfect place for students who want to become bet-ter critical thinkers and communi-cators, and have a desire for a social outlet that is academically rigor-

ous, competitive and construc-tive,” said Boller. “Furthermore, debaters develop self-confi dence, sophistication and become opinion leaders on myriad subjects.”

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COURTESY OF ROBERT BOLLER

The fi nal round of this weekend’s intramural debate tournament will focus on current U.S. foreign policy.

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SILA MANAHANE

Contributing Writer

International Night 2012 will be an event full of cultural per-formances, contests and cultur-al displays. It is an area where University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa can celebrate its culturally di-verse demographics and bring international students together to celebrate their traditions. There will be a range of per-formances from students repre-senting various countries in the Pacif ic and Asia. However, the only country from South Ameri-ca being represented is Brazil. Ph.D. biology student An-dersonn Prestes is a native of

Porto Alegre, situated in the state of Rio Grande Do Sul in the southern part of Brazil. He will be representing Brazil by playing acoustic guitar and singing the song “Vapor Bar-eto.” He will be mixing this ’70s Brazilian pop with a contempo-rary tune in Brazil’s well-known bossa nova style. Prestes has performed in Brazil as a drummer. His family is a large inf luence and support system for him as a musician. But he said he has never played acoustic guitar in front of a live audience and is nervous about the upcoming event. Prestes shared about the number he will be performing,

“It ’s not a really happy song; it ’s a little bit sad actually. It ’s about some guy who is obses-sive of a girl and he just wants to forget her.” But, he added, “It ’s nice; the poetry is good.” Prestes said he wishes to share a part of his culture with others to invite the community to listen to the sounds of Brazil.

Spotlight on Brazilian performer Andersonn PrestesSpotlight on Brazilian performer Andersonn Prestes

When: Today, March 16; 6-9 p.m.Where: Campus Center BallroomCost: Free

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JUDAH LANDZBERG

Staff Writer

“All art has this voyeuristic quality to it … you’re allowed to stare as long as you want, you’re just not allowed to touch,” said James Charisma, an artist majoring in psy-chology. Located at Glazers Coffee, Cha-risma’s photography exhibition “Sight Spe-cifi c” deals with the idea of art as spectacle. “While traveling, I took pictures of people observing. I couldn’t see any of their faces, and only had body language to go on,” said Charisma. “But you could see their personalities. That’s what gave me the idea for this show.” The context of his photographs in-cludes art museums, offi ce buildings, airplanes and a safari. They all contain a spectacle or piece of art, as well as an ob-

server. “You are seeing what they see and you have to wonder how they see it,” said Charisma. “You also watch them and won-der who’s watching you.” On top of being a full-time student, James teaches at the Honolulu Academy of Arts. His roles as psychology student and art teacher have enriched his ar-tistic vantage point. “I think it’s easy to make random, pretty things,” he said. “I like when there’s a meaning to the story, something behind it that the artist is try-ing to communicate to me.” With his multiple roles as both stu-dent and teacher, Charisma’s art mir-rors his unwillingness to be confined to one particular medium. Charisma has given exhibitions in many forms, including one “faux archaeological find” of the golden McDonald’s arches

partially submerged in a case of sand. He has also launched an online maga-zine based on the local music scene, which will be back in production in the next few months. Charisma didn’t even create one of the art pieces he is particularly proud of. In 2007, an independent movie theater called the Varsity Twin Cinema across from Varsity Bar was slated for demoli-tion. Charisma broke into the theater and stole the “Varsity” sign from behind the snack bar. The sign was subsequent-ly put up for display at one of his exhibi-tions, and helped to keep the memory of the independent movie theater alive. “I’m not really a photographer … I’m not sure I even want to be an artist,” said Charisma. “I think I’m a much better thief than an artist.”

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Clockwise from top left: the McDonald’s arches at the Academy Art Center at Linekona from a January 2012 ex-hibit, the “Varsity” sign from the Varsity Twin Cinema from a 2011 show, Glazers patrons exaining Charisma’s work on display, a photo from the show “Sight Specifi c.”

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Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gary Snyder will visit the Mānoa campus for an afternoon talk. Sny-der is famous for writing about Asian culture and traditions, as well as environmental sustainability.

Cost: FreeWhen: Sunday, March 18; 3-4:30 p.m.Where: Orvis Auditorium; 2600 Campus Rd.Contact: 808-732-1360

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‘BERLIN ‘36’ SCREENING‘BERLIN ‘36’ SCREENING Set in Nazi Germany, “Berlin ’36” tells the story of Jewish high jumper Gretel Bergmann and the decision of whether she should be allowed to compete on the Ger-man Olympic Team for the 1936 Olympics.

Cost: $10 general admission, $8 for museum membersWhen: Sunday, March 18; 7:30 p.m.Where: Doris Duke Theatre, 900 S. Beretania St. Contact: 808-532-8768

What better way to spend St. Patrick’s Day than with a block party complete with great food, live music and, of course, beer? The open-air festival kicks off with a variety of food (including a seafood bar) and beer, with live entertainment by Doo-lin’ Rakes and the Piranha Brothers once the sun goes down.

Cost: FreeWhen: Saturday, March 17; 11 a.m.-10 p.m.Where: Murphy’s Bar & Grill, 2 Merchant St. Contact: 808-531-0422

The popular food truck festival returns to central O‘ahu this month. Make sure to bring your appetite as you dine al fresco from doz-ens of popular food vendors such as Xtreme Tacos and Korean Fresh Grill.

Cost: Free admission, bring money for food (cash only)When: Saturday March 17; 2-7 p.m.Where: Mililani Recreation Center 7, 95-1333 Lehiwa DriveContact: www.streetgrindz.com

KAWAII KON 2012KAWAII KON 2012 The seventh annual Kawaii Kon, Hawai‘i’s anime and manga convention and expo, starts today. The three-day event will entertain thousands of enthusiasts. Events will include cosplay, the Video Art Show-case Theater contest, karaoke, Artist Alley (where artists can sell their work) and more.

Cost: $26-$50 at the doorWhen: Friday, March 14; 10 a.m.-Sun-day, March 16; 6:30 p.m.Where: Hawai‘i Convention Center, 1801 Kalākaua Ave.Contact: www.kawaii-kon.org

Made famous by its hit single “Pumped Up Kicks,” which reached No. 1 on Billboard’s Alter-native Song Chart last year, Grammy-nominated band Foster the People will be giving an indie-pop performance at The Waterfront at Aloha Tower this Sunday.

Cost: $29.50 general admission (in advance)When: Sunday, March 18; 7 p.m. (doors open), 8 p.m. (show starts)Where: The Waterfront at Aloha Tower, 1 Aloha Tower Dr.Contact: info@bamproject.com

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JUSTIN FRANCISCO

Associate Opinions Editor

Technology – as far as personal communication goes – has proven to be a social devolution. Text messages, emails, Tweets, Facebook chats and blogs have all completely transformed the way we communicate, and many argue it’s been for the worse.

CREATING ISOLATION While technology has enabled us to reach global levels of connec-tivity by maintaining contact with childhood friends, viewing baby photos of new relatives and provid-ing an array of new contacts, it has also distorted how we communicate intimacy with people right in front of us. Alex Lickerman of Psychology Today writes, “We may feel we’re connecting effectively with others via the Internet, but too much elec-tronic relating paradoxically engen-ders a sense of social isolation.” So not only are we isolating our-

selves, we are becoming less effective in-person communi-cators because of it.

ENABLING COWARDICE Numerous relationships to-

day are initiated by dating sites, maintained through text mes-sages and severed on Facebook: so-and-so is single – yay! In a Huffi ngton Post article, Man-dy Appleyard asserts, “The text is the pygmy of communication methods. It’s a Post-it note, a P.S. It’s minimum investment, minimum effort. It’s often cowardly – a way to avoid face-to-face contact.” Through the innate convenience of technology, people have chosen to forgo the diffi culties of face-to-face communication in lieu of in-person confrontation. Lickerman addresses the same problem. “Precisely because elec-tronic media transmit emotion so poorly compared to in-person inter-action, many view it as the perfect way to send diffi cult messages: it blocks us from registering the nega-tive emotional responses such mes-sages engender, which provides us the illusion we’re not really doing harm. Unfortunately, this also usu-ally means we don’t transmit these messages with as much empathy.” Technology creates a paradox: People shudder away from one-on-one controversy, but are quick to lament their feelings to the entire world. The etiquette that fi lters what you say in person does not exist in

the electronic world because you don’t have to take responsibility for it.

WEAKENING COMMUNICATION Ultimately we are weaker com-municators because we don’t need to handle diffi cult situations in person. Of course technology has en-hanced our ability to maintain rela-tionships as well. Couples today don’t have to be torn apart by busy sched-ules. Parents don’t need to be wor-ried sick by meandering children. Friends aren’t separated by oceans. What is happening though, is that we haven’t yet discovered how to keep up with changing trends effectively. The people born before the technol-ogy explosion are fi xated on the old ways, while the people born during or after the communication technol-ogy boom are trying to establish new ways. In a USA Today article, author Marco R. della Cava articulates, “hu-man beings have been ‘shifting sig-nal-sending processes’ for centuries … our mushrooming technological bounty simply means getting used to new codes and signals.”

STRATEGIES FOR BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS Lickerman states simply, “For transferring information effi cient-ly, the Internet is excellent. For transacting emotionally sensitive or satisfying connections, it’s not.” The advice: leave the serious con-versation for face-to-face time. This includes break ups, proposals, fi rst dates, arguments, intellectual con-versations – all things that require the respect and acknowledgement of dialogue. With electronic messag-ing, you are capable of spouting your opinion while completely disregard-ing the other person’s response. This isn’t fair, and it doesn’t build relation-ships. Technology can be used to get connections, but personal interaction maintains them. Technology isn’t going anywhere – nor should it. The decision is when and how to use it.

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Competition was tough and wins were hard to come by for the Warrior volleyball team the past few weeks. However, its win last week, which ended a four-game road trip, may turn its sea-son around. “We’ve been battling so hard and it was just fi nally nice to squeeze one out,” freshman opposite Taylor Averill said on the win at Stanford. “I’ve got to be honest, it was a great feeling. It was one of the fi rst games where everyone stepped up.” Hawai‘i’s (7-12, 4-10 Mountain

Pacifi c Sports Federation) win at then No. 3 Stanford was its fi rst vic-tory in Palo Alto, Calif., since 2008. “It was exhilarating,” sophomore middle blocker Shane Welch said. “Ending the road trip on a good note was a major help coming back here.” “Being in that locker room afterwards, we were so stoked be-cause it was tough,” senior middle blocker Jarrod Lofy said. “The gratifi cation that you get from win-ning a hard match is way greater than just bowling over teams.”

ON THE OPPONENT The No. 11 Warriors will host No. 4 BYU (15 -4, 11-3 MPSF) to-

day and tomorrow. Both matches are slated for 7 p.m. in the Stan Sheriff Center. All UH Mānoa students get in free with a vali-dated ID. This week marks the fi fth week in a row that the Warrior volleyball team will play a team ranked in the top four in the country. “It ’s a pretty unheard-of stretch, every week, to play some-body that highly ranked,” head coach Charlie Wade said. “It ’s just a quirk of the schedule. We know the league’s tough, but usually it ’s balanced out a little more. We want to make sure we want to get as many wins as we can against

the top half of the field and come out of it a better team.”

RETURN HOME Two key fi gures in Hawai‘i volley-ball will be making their return to the islands. Former Warrior head coach Mike Wilton, now an assistant coach on BYU’s staff, will be on the Cougar bench this weekend. Wilton amassed a record of 316-167 in 16 seasons at Hawai‘i. Also on the other side of the net will be Cougar senior middle block-er Futi Tavana. Tavana, a native of Saipipi, Samoa, and a graduate of Kaua‘i High School, will make his last appearance in the Stan Sheriff Center as a Cougar. A well-rounded

athlete, Tavana completed last sea-son named to the AVCA All-Ameri-can First Team as well as the MPSF All-Academic Team. “That’s a very familiar name,” Welch said of Tavana. “He’s a huge guy at my position and I’m stoked to see what [Warrior middle blockers] Nick West, Jarrod Lofy, I and whoever else gets in there can do. He’s a great oppo-nent and fun to play against. I remem-ber last year when we went into Provo, seeing he was a junior and I was a fresh-man, it was pretty fun. But I feel like I might have the upper hand this time because he’s coming back from some injuries that I heard about. I know I’m coming back – and I’m hungry.”

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The University of Hawai‘i is cementing itself in NCAA history. Hawai‘i is one of 16 schools that is fi elding a women’s sand volleyball team this season in hopes that it will eventually become an NCAA-sanctioned sport. To kick off the Rainbow Wahine’s in-augural season, the team will face Hawai‘i Pacifi c and Nittaidai of Japan this Satur-day at the Queen’s Beach Sandbox.

HAWAIʻ I VS. JAPAN While HPU has been a longtime foe for Hawai‘i athletics, Nittaidai and Hawai‘i

have recently renewed their relationship after an 11-year hiatus. The Hawai‘i men’s volleyball team beat Nittaidai twice during a two-match exhibition series in February. The Rain-bow Wahine indoor volleyball team also defeated Nittaidai in four sets during an exhibition match on Wednesday. “It ’s going to be interesting,” said head coach Scott Wong. “Naturally, you look at them and you see ball control. You see a pretty neat offense. I’m kind of excited to see what they look like on the beach.”

TAKING THE RIVALRY OUTS IDE As for Hawai‘i Pacifi c, the Lady Sea Warriors will take on UH in volleyball for

the fi rst time since the 2010 season, when they were dominated by the Rainbow Wa-hine at the Stan Sheriff Center. “I’ve been to a tournament last year with some of the [Hawai‘i Pacific] girls and they’re good, so it will be fun playing them,” said sophomore Emily Hartong.

ʼBOWS READY FOR INAUGURAL SEASON Despite having the home-court ad-vantage in the program’s f irst match, the Rainbow Wahine should not get used to the fr iendly conf ines of Queen’s Beach. UH will only enjoy playing as the home team once more this season, during a rematch with Hawai‘i Pacifi c in April.

While away from O‘ahu, the team will be playing in Florida and California against schools with top-10 indoor teams, such as USC, Florida State and Pepperdine. “There’s a big unknown out there be-cause nobody’s played each other before on the beach,” Wong said. If the season goes well for Hawai‘i, its schedule will ultimately land the team in Gulf Shores, Ala., for the inau-gural American Volleyball Coaches As-sociation Championships. “I think our team has a great under-standing of the game, and I think we can go really far,” said Wong. “There’s a lot of extra work starting something new, and it ’s an honor to represent our state.”

Although they seem similar at first, sand and indoor volleyball are two vastly different sports.

In sand volleyball, a team wins a match by winning two of three sets that are first to 21 points. If a third set is needed, it is played to 15.

Instead of having six players on the court at once, the team is split into five teams of pairs, with each doubles match worth one point toward winning a meet. A team wins a meet by taking three of five matches.

“Defensively, you have to cover a lot more court [because] there are only two of you. So you have to be more aware and know where your hitters are going,” said sophomore Emily Hartong.

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After spending four seasons on Hawai‘i’s indoor volleyball team, senior Elizabeth Stoltzman (center) will spend her last semester of eligibility on the Rainbow Wahine sand volleyball team.