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NOELLE FUJIIEDITOR-IN-CHIEF

In an effort to raise awareness for multilingualism, a small class translated common campus signs and posted its own.

“I took my students on a cam-pus tour, and we looked at all the signs on campus and they were all in English,” Second Language Stud-ies (SLS) instructor Angela Haeusler said. “And we thought, ‘Wow, that’s actually not really [refl ective of] this place – Hawai‘ i. And yeah, the campus maybe should mirror what is out there in the community.’”

Her SLS 480P, Second Language Pedagogy, class is composed of 11 students and fi ve different lan-guages: Pidgin, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean and German. Students iden-tifi ed signs that refl ected English as the norm — such as the one on Hamilton Library’s outdoor book return station — translated them into these languages and posted their signs.

According to Haeusler, other languages that are important to the campus and Hawai‘ i, such as Hawaiian, Marshallese and Ilocano were not represented in the class so they weren’t able to cover them.

“So what we did was we added a little add-on that said, ‘Where’s your language?’ to raise this critical awareness that none of these are actually there even though we have students, staff, faculty that are not only just from culturally diverse but also from a linguistically diverse background,” she said.

RAISING AWARENESSSLS 480P focuses on globaliza-

tion in language teaching. “We try to raise critical aware-

ness about the students – how to be a good English teacher, be ethi-cally responsible in addressing top-ics and some things that are a little

controversial or inconvenient. And I think that comes just with this issue of globalization, as the world becomes more diverse, and some-times it’s diffi cult to really address that in a big way.”

The class made about eight signs, all with translations in the languages the students in the class spoke. Loca-tions included Hamilton Library, Par-adise Palms, Sinclair Library, Queen Lili‘uokalani Center, the Art Building and Mānoa Gardens, Haeusler said.

The signs were posted July 27, and although some are no longer there, the one on Hamilton Library’s book

return station remains. According to Ann Crawford, asso-

ciate university librarian for plan-ning, administration and personnel, the library has no plans to take down the class’s sign.

As a library, and because the cam-pus is a research institution, a lot of time is spent dealing with materials that are not in English, she said.

“When we’re going to collect an item, we’re buying whatever lan-guage that happens to be written in,” Crawford said. “Our Hawaiian Pacifi c collection, again, is we’re buying and having it and mak-ing use, and helping people make use of it in whatever language it’s written in.”

The library has staff members that are competent in 22 differ-ent languages.

“So we have specialists in the library in other languages, whose job is to make sure that although our catalog is in English we’ve

done a good job representing what that material is,” she said. “I think we’re working to move forward the conversation of scholarship and research in whatever language it needs to happen in and should be happening in.”

UTILIZING A CLASS’ LANGUAGESHaeusler hopes her students

see it’s possible to take action on something if they go out and do it.

“Also that we together, as a group, can maybe raise awareness for something like this, for multilingual-ism, which is important for language

teachers, right? I think also, making people from diverse language back-grounds feel valued in all those dif-ferent resources that they bring to campus, not just a limited set, but actually language resources,” she said.

Senior Reynold Kajiwara thought the project was interesting because it utilized every language the class had to translate signs that foreign-ers can’t understand.

“It’s pretty interesting because English is ... the most dominant lan-guage in UH Mānoa, or UH in general, and then a lot of other languages aren’t represented in UH as much,” Kajiwara said in a phone interview.

Senior Kalene Peterson said while the students were posting the signs, others noticed the dif-ferent languages.

“I think, by posting these, peo-ple are aware that there’s different languages in Hawai‘ i – how multi-cultural Hawai‘ i is,” she said in a phone interview.

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NEWS

BIANCA SMALLWOODSTAFF WRITER

University President David Lass-ner will continue in his position for another year, due to a positive evaluation at a Board of Regents (BOR) meeting.

The BOR evaluated Lassner’s per-formance for the 2014-2015 school year based on six criteria, including an overall rating. Among the crite-ria goals set by the board, as well as Lassner, are the improvement of the state’s educational capital, economic change and diversifi ca-tion,and improving facilities.

The BOR’s evaluation of Lassner includes written comments from a personal assessment and the board evaluations from his peers.

In his self-assessment, Lassner addressed his recruitment of fi ve new vice presidents in the UH sys-tem and an interim chancellor for UH Mānoa. BOR Chairman Randy Moore said this was one of Lass-ner’s biggest accomplishments.

“I think a major accomplishment is that he has hired a very good team of system level administrators and they work well together,” Moore said in a phone interview. “They’re committed to the achievement of the universi-ty’s strategic initiative and it’s really important for an organization to have a leadership team that is all rowing the canoe in the same direction.”

Lassner said that he can credit the work he has done since his appointment in 2014 to UH system faculty and staff.

“I am grateful and apprecia-tive for the work of our faculty and staff who have worked so hard over the past year to help more stu-dents advance toward completion, increase our level of extramural funding and improve our perfor-mance as a public institution,” Lass-ner said in an email interview. “As new senior leaders have joined the UH team over the past year, they have each made substantial con-tributions.”

UH MĀNOA ORGANIZATIONS VIEWSWhile the BOR gave Lassner pos-

itive reviews in their evaluation, Mānoa Faculty Senate President Robert Cooney said there are still problems at the fl agship campus that have not been addressed.

“[Lassner] has not demonstrated leadership in reforming the budget process, addressed issues raised by the Senate and other faculty

groups, or stemmed the growth of the UH System at the expense ofthe units that make up the system,” Cooney said in an email interview. “We continue to have bureaucratic duplication and waste in the sys-tem that particularly damages the mission of UH Mānoa.”

Cooney also said that while Lass-ner has yet to appoint a perma-nent chancellor for UH Mānoa and has not answered the question ofwhether or not one is needed, hisreadiness to participate in discus-sion is his strongest trait.

Bret Polopolus-Meredith, Graduate Student Organization (GSO) employ-ment and compensation chair-man, said that although Lassner has reached out to the GSO in regards to the Chancellor’s evaluation, they feel more voices are needed in all evalu-ation processes.

“As far as we know, none of the campus student governments were asked for input on President Lass-ner’s evaluation,” Polopolus-Mer-edith said in an email interview. “We’re also disappointed that Pres-ident Lassner was able to choose his own evaluators; such evaluations should be all-inclusive, rather than just the perspective of a hand-picked special few. The Board of Regents needs to be more directly involved with evaluation of UH’s administra-tors, especially the President.”

WORK IN PROGRESSLassner said that while things

have been improved at UH, there is still more that needs to be done.

“It is clear to me that UH is doing better today than when I began,” Lassner said. “That said, we have much more to do to unlock our potential and help Hawai‘ i and the world appreciate what a great insti-tution UH really is.”

Associated Students of the Uni-versity of Hawai‘i (ASUH) President Kelly Zakimi said that Lassner has attended various meetings to receive students’ thoughts and concerns and she hopes this will continue in his next year as president.

“Making it a priority to gather feedback from students and build an effective working relationship with the student body,” Zakimi said in an email interview. “In addition, I hope efforts to advocate for UH at the State Leg-islature and in the community are continued in order to enhance the University’s reputation amongst the community.”

Second Language Studies class aims to educate campus on its linguistic diversity

Lassner UH president for one

more yearExtension a result of positive reviews

from Board of Regents

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According to Haeusler, the project resonated with August being declared as Language Access Month in 2009.

Where is your language?

I think, by posting these, people are aware that there’s different languages in Hawai‘ i- how multicultural Hawai‘ i is.

– KALENE PETERSONSENIOR SLS 480P STUDENT

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CARLY YASHIKI STAFF WRITER

Vacationers traveling from dense urban settings soon may not enjoy an escape from their everyday lives because of O‘ahu’s upcoming rail. They come here hoping for a tropical paradise, but if they encounter famil-iar rail transit stations instead, it may not be to our economy’s benefi t.

One of the reasons we should value tourism is because it’s one of Hawai‘ i’s sources of economic sta-bility. Visitors’ interests are made better by O‘ahu’s unique beauty and traditional lifestyle, which we should consider an economic asset. A cheaper alternative to alleviating Honolulu’s infamous traffi c with-out building elevated structures is to use roundabouts.

SHOWING OFF O‘AHU’S BEAUTY “I think the rail will negatively

impact tourists’ perception of Hawai‘ i,” said Kelsi-Ann Matsumoto, a UH Mānoa travel industry man-agement major. “Many tourists come to Hawai‘i for natural beauty and are already surprised by the density of O‘ahu upon arrival. There is a possi-bility that rail will decrease the num-ber of returning visitors if there is this negative reaction.”

When I travel to the other states or internationally, I indulge in cul-ture, hoping to experience something different from my hometown. The opportunity to show off our island’s beauty is what lures many to visit it.

According to Hawai‘ i Tourism Authority’s (HTA) latest available data, in May O‘ahu was visited by 444,472 people, which equals 44.8 percent of the island’s resident population. Twenty-one percent of Hawai‘ i’s economy is sustained by the industry. Tourists accumu-late more than $7.7 billion per year

in O‘ahu alone, making them a key contributor to our fi nances.

With such a well-paying audi-ence, it is crucial that we maintain our island’s aesthetics. The Rail wouldn’t help. Panos Prevedouros, civil engineering professor at UH Mānoa, described the rail platforms to the New York Times as “compact football fi elds in the air.”

According to most recent data from HTA, 548,337 of the eight mil-lion visitors by air in 2013 are from the Los Angeles metro area. Even more — 633,738 — visitors came from Japan’s highly urbanized Kantō region, which includes Tokyo, Yokohama and Kawasaki. Both of these metro areas are accustomed to rail systems. They don’t come to Hawai‘ i to see more of them.

THE COURSE OF TOURIST TRAFFIC “The rail will scare away the tour-

ists. Also, it does not go to cer-

tain stops that tourists would be interested in visiting,” said Shayne Okuma, a UH Mānoa travel industry management major.

As tourists add 40 percent to O‘ahu’s population at any time, another question is if this project would be of much use to them. The rail route only extends from Kapolei to Ala Moana, which leaves out a great deal of tourist hot spots. As rated on the Travel Channel, some of the best beaches on O‘ahu are Waikīkī, North Shore and Lanikai, all of which are not rail destinations.

TAKING A DIFFERENT ROADAlthough the transit has already

been partially constructed, it is not too late to question its effects on tourism and O‘ahu’s aesthet-ics. Hawai‘i’s unique beauty attracts tourists and differentiates us from other states and tourist destina-tions. O‘ahu’s countryside and pris-

tine nature is a part of our identity;with rail, it may change for the worse.

However, there are other alterna-tives that can also be highly benefi -cial in alleviate O‘ahu’s traffi c whilebeing easy on the eyes. One popu-lar option is replacing intersectionswith roundabouts.

The total cost of one roundaboutranges from $5,000 to $10,000per year which is a bargain com-pared to spending $5.2 billion onrail. To break even with the cost ofrail, there would have to be 52,000roundabouts on O‘ahu – which isnot only more than what we need,but impossible to build.

According to a study in the Traf-fi c Engineering and Control jour-nal, transforming intersectionsinto roundabouts resulted in an89 percent reduction in traffi cdelays along with a 56 percentreduction in vehicle stops acrossthe three studied communities.

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Construction began in May 2012 in East Kapolei. Phase 1, from there to Aloha Stadium, is expected to open in 2017.

Examining its effects on Hawai‘i’s tourismExamining its effects on Hawai‘i’s tourism

KU‘ULEIALOHAONALANI SALZER

I am not Samoan, but I am Hawai-ian and I have noticed a growing trend of cultural ignorance. Let me start out by saying that as a Native Hawaiian I am proud of my cultural heritage. I was blessed to be raised in a family where culture is very import-ant and when I came to the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa my knowledge of the Hawaiian language and culture expanded through my classes. I was also blessed to have met my part-

ner who is from Samoa and is also very knowledgeable in his culture. When I saw the cover of this week’s Ka Leo I was intrigued by the title, “American Samoa? Where Nation-als, Not Citizens, Are Born,” because this has been a topic of discussion I always have with my partner. How-ever, as I looked closely at the picture it is a Maori man with a ‘Moko’, a tat-too that is indigenous to Aotearoa. I was astonished to see that here at the University of Hawai‘i, a division one school which prides itself in its

diversity and the largest university in the state, a display of cultural igno-rance. Aotearoa and Samoa are two different pacifi c nations with rich cul-tural heritages. To many people they see this as no big deal; a common mistake because both cultures are in the Pacifi c, but that is where the igno-rance starts and spreads. Ka Leo, you must do your due diligence when dis-playing items of cultural signifi cance. People have pride in their culture, please respect it.

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The cover of the July 27 issue incorrectly depicted the traditional tattoos of Samoa. When we realized themistake on the morning of June 27, the cover was fi xed and updated on kaleo.org (shown to the left of this). We regret our mistake and offer our sincerest apologies.

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LAW ALLOWS FOR ACCESS TO MEDICAL MARIJUANA P. 2Act 241 removes various restrictions from the dispensation and transportation of medical marijuana.

TECHNOLOGY: A VACATION KILLER P. 3Vacations are a time to rest and be present,not on your phone.

WHAT ’D I MISS? Th e Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

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MONDAY, AUG. 3, 2015 KA LEO O HAWAI‘I: THE VOICE

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OPINIONS

DANIELLE WOOSTAFF WRITER

In February 2010, two inmates from Hawai‘ i housed in a private Arizona prison brutally murdered another Hawai‘ i inmate. Miti Mau-gaotega, Jr. and Micah Kanahele stabbed Branson Nunuha 140 times and carved gang initials into his chest. The perpetrators now both face the possibility of death pen-alty, as the act was committed in a state that allows it.

Controversy stirs as Hawai‘i does not condone execution, having had it banned in 1957. The American

Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Hawai‘i told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser it hopes Arizona will “respect Hawai‘i’s history and tradition of rejecting

capital punishment in their treat-ment of Hawai‘i’s inmates.” However, the fact that Maugaotega and Kana-hele are Hawai‘i residents does not excuse them from the consequences

they reap in other territories. A crime committed on Arizona soil should be dealt with according to Arizona laws, no matter the criminal’s residency.

Hawai‘ i is one of 19 states that do not have capital punishment. According to Civil Beat, the two inmates were sent to an out-of-state prison along with 1,400 oth-

ers because our state prisons lack space. Sending inmates away to states with different punishment laws is what makes this situation controversial.

Should Hawai‘ i death penalty laws still apply to Maugaotega and Kanahele even though they are imprisoned in a state with differ-ent statutes? After all, the state of Hawai‘ i is the one responsible for sending them away.

The answer is, no. Both full-grown men should have been aware of what their actions could have caused. Committing a heinous murder on the grounds of another

state should be left up to thatstate’s authorities. Hawai‘ i does not have jurisdiction over other states’ penitentiaries – we are payingthese states to house our inmates as they would any other. Accord-ing to Hawai‘ i Reporter, Correction Corp. of America and Hawai‘ i state offi cials denied any liability for thedeath of Nunuha. Hawai‘ i being against the death penalty does not mean it should waive all responsi-bility for the crimes of its citizens.Our islands are not a free pass from legal indictment.

If Arizona were to follow ACLU Hawai‘ i’s wishes, the controversy would be even bigger because of the ostensible special treatment. Why should criminals be off the hook because of their residency? A per-son’s residency has nothing to do with their character or moral value.

Similarly, if the roles werereversed and the two criminals were Arizona residents housed in a Hawai‘ i penitentiary, would that mean our state would haveto respect Arizona’s system and penalize the criminals with death?The problem with legal action taken according to residency is that it gives certain citizens a free pass from being executed. If that were the case, then what is stopping criminals from moving to states free of execution? The death pen-alty would be pointless if people could evade it as they pleased.

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KIRSTIE CAMPBELL STAFF WRITER

I am religious – specifi cally, a Christian. My personal beliefs and those of many people of my reli-gion, dictate that homosexual sex, premarital sex, polygamous sex and, for some, sex with one’s self – is sin.

And yet, in spite of historical abuses and concerns for those raised in non-monogamous homes, polygamy (multiple wives) and polyandry (multiple husbands) must be made legal in America. The stigma surrounding plural marriage and polyamory (romantic relation-ship between more then two part-ners) must come to an end because religious traditions cannot justify legislating people’s private lives. The separation of faith and gover-nance is a mainstay of American society. In addition, when there is little or no evidence for abuse, believers should endorse the Chris-tian values of love and compassion.

RELIGION AND GOVERNMENTAmerica is no stranger to reli-

gious controversy over social issues, as the same-sex marriage debate demonstrated. With verses in the Bible that prohibit both sex outside

marriage (Romans 7:3) and polyg-amous marriage (Corinthians 7:2), it is no wonder that many Ameri-cans — with 70.6 percent identifying with Christianity, according to Pew Research — still hold a sexually pro-hibitive attitude toward polygamy. With lawsuits for discrimination against religious people and sexual practices against Christian beliefs, it is easy to see why there is uproar.

Even though Christians have the constitutional right to hold that view, the courts don’t have the right to enforce it. According to the Bill of Rights, Congress cannot make laws “respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” The Establish-ment Clause clearly outlines the separation of church and state. While legalization of sexual acts contrary to religious prescriptions would bring the ire of the faithful, there is no logical or legal reason to deny adults the service of mar-riage based only on beliefs.

DOES POLYGAMY LEAD TO ABUSE? Critics of polygamy like ex-Lat-

ter-Day Saints (LDS) member Kathwren Steed often say that people from the church have had committed abuses. However, the cult marriages in which

a few members engage are not rep-resentative of all plural arrangements.

No one in the U.S. can deny that child marriage is a crime, and yet its practice does not make heterosex-ual marriage wrong. The marriage of a 14-year-old in a Christian sect is abominable. A monogamous mar-

riage like this would be condemned in court. In the same way, we cannot jump to conclusions about all plural marriages even if we can’t imagine ourselves in such an arrangement.

“We’ve created a marriage that is a true collaboration, which ensures that our opinions are valued, our needs met and our lives tightly linked together,” LDS member Vicki Darger wrote in her book “Love Times Three.”

Darger lives with two sister wives and after a tumultuous preg-nancy, her depression and isola-tion increased.

“In the end, what got me through this rough time was the steadfast devotion of my husband and my

sister wives,” Darger wrote. “They never gave up on me. They saw me at my worst and yet still loved me.”

It’s a knee-jerk reaction to hold that the practice of “plural marriage” among LDS members inevitably leads them to commit abuses. Stigmatizing the Mormon religion and ignoring at

least 53 social groups accepting of polyandry, this is a narrow view, rely-ing solely on anecdotal evidence.

CHILDREN, LOVE, JEALOUSY The Polyamory Society defi nes

“polyamory” as the “philosophy and practice of loving multiple people simultaneously.” In any controversy on conjugal arrangements, the effects on children inevitably come up and one can expect to see polyamorous families challenged on such grounds. However, there is no need for another moral panic. Author Benedict Smith described to Vice how normal his polyamorous family and his early life were, as his parents and their part-

ners held outings together and col-lectively protected the children.

“I never resented my parents forhanging out with their partners,” Smith said. “Good parents are good parents, whether there are one or two or three or four of them.”

Smith’s parents are part of the half-million families who practice polyamory, and who have discov-ered how to defeat jealousy. Accord-ing to Scientifi c American, jealousy in polyamorous relationships often takes a back seat to “compersion,” described as “the joy felt when a partner discovers love outside of you.” Love in this scenario is as valid as that of a monogamous marriage.

Plural marriage and polyamory inherently do not cause social ills. Rather, as in monogamous mar-riage, problems in society are refl ected in relationships people have. Should an adult desiring plu-ral marriage follow the same laws of consent, he or she must have the same right of those desiring monogamous marriage. As a Chris-tian, my beliefs in my personal monogamy are clear. However, just as a government cannot force me to abandon this practice, neither can it, or should it, forbid others from following their lifestyle of choice.

Next frontier to marriageThere is no reason to ban polygamy on religious grounds

Hawai‘i’s non-death penalty laws shouldn’t apply to prisoners in Arizona Hawai‘i’s non-death penalty laws shouldn’t apply to prisoners in Arizona

What happens in AZ, stays in AZ

Hawai‘ i being against the death penalty does not mean it should waive all responsibility for the crimes of its citizens.

There is no logical or legal reason to deny adults the service of marriage based only on beliefs.



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JOHN YABESSTAFF WRITER

Many people dismiss the local comedy scene as trivial. They are doing themselves a disservice and missing on a great experience. Hawai‘ i may not be the epicenter for comedy, but we do have strong talent amongst our ranks.

Sure, we may not have a Comedy Store or Laugh Factory like on the mainland, but the effort and deter-mination I have seen from our many comedians is inspiring. Local comedians commit themselves fully to establishing the local comedy presence and, more importantly, to the rest of the comedy world.

Ask a number of us and we would describe our scene as being more of an underground movement. A counter culture comprised of those unafraid to offend and chal-lenge but with the fi nal objective of laughter and provoking thought.

We stride headstrong against

the current, establishing a culture of acceptance and growth, instead of isolation and abandonment. Our scene is very unique in that sense. Instead of waiting hours on end to get a chance to perform at an open mic, we encourage people to sign up for their opportunity to perform and to join our community.

And we wouldn’t be where we are without some of the people I would consider to the be the pillars of the local stand-up comedy scene.

Show runners like Shane Lucas Price, Chad Wago and James Mane of Mars Comedy, Jose Dynamite and Patrick Tyrrell of Comedy U, and others organize shows that feature professional comedians. They are also able to showcase local come-dians they feel are funny enough to open for such talented individuals.

Through this opportunity, they have brought in comedians such as Eddie Ifft, Doug Stanhope, Rory Scovel, Todd Barry, Tim Heidecker, Neil Hamburger and much more

to perform. I even got the chance to open for Graham Elwood, which was pretty awesome.

Of course, guys like Augie T, Paul Ogata, Andy Bumatai, Frank Delima established comedy on this island. Companies like Capone’s Produc-tions and BAMP Project bring in a steady stream of superb comedians like Katt Williams.

I encourage people to ven-ture out to other shows. Shows in Hawai‘ i are sporadic but there are some mainstays such as Hawai-ian Brian’s, Anna O’brien’s and O’Toole’s that are great places to laugh, have a drink or bring a date.

I’ve witnessed fi rst-hand the growing scene so much in just a year and I know at some point, Hawai‘ i will be a place for comedy. It was on this island I fi nally found my voice and the outlet to express myself. And that is why I will never regret starting my comedy career on this island.

There is no better place to start stand-up comedy then at an open mic. These are some things I have learned along the way when it comes to starting stand-up.

Practice your jokes and know how you want your jokes to be said. It is alright to have notes with you onstage if you lose track.

Respect other performers. Talking during other comics’ sets will erase goodwill.

Respect the light. The light is the host’s way of signal-ing you have one minute left onstage. Of course this varies between venues but all ulti-mately mean the same thing. The light will either come from a cellphone, flashlight or stage light and will be flashed at you. It is important to respect the fact that your time is up so others can go on.

Respect the venue. Whether a bar or theater, be accustomed to their rules. Knowing their rules will prob-ably strengthen your relation-ship with the show runner or venue and allow you to come back and tell more jokes.

Try to not punch down. Punching down is what some comedians refer to as making jokes about those who cannot defend themselves. This is a rule I have a hard time with as I do not consider most things off lim-its if you can make it funny.

Be prepared. Just as you would a job interview, knowing what you are going to say for every second of your set is key. Even bullet points with your bit on a napkin will help you in the long run.

Open micHawai‘i’s comedy scene through the eyes of a comedian

A guide to doing stand-up comedy

M O R E I N F O

These are some of the comedy open mics on this island

STATION BAR AND LOUNGE Tuesdays from 7 p.m. - 8 p.m., and Thursdays starting at 8 p.m.

ANNA O’BRIEN’S Wednesdays after the feature show.

HAWAIIAN BRIAN’S Saturdays at from 6 p.m. - 7 p.m., before the feature show.

Lastly, be open to feedback. Most feedback I have received has made me a better performer.

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An exquisite presentation and a satisfying sweetness are two things that come to mind when thinking about Japanese pastries. However, few bakers are willing to explore uncharted tastes and these treats can hurt your wallet.

An up-and-coming Japa-nese-style bakery nestled in the middle of Mānoa called Bread-box Hawai‘ i just may be the cure to both your adventurous cravings and your wallet’s woes.

Open the door and either a cashier or co-owner Alan Martin will strike up a conversation with you. They will provide recommendations as to what new creation you should try next. While you browse through the glass showcases, the upbeat staff will talk story with you.

A window behind the counter allows you to indulge your curios-ity and view the work that goes into crafting the morsels in front of you.

Mike Price and Alan Martin, the co-owners of Breadbox Hawai‘ i, offer creative and affordable offer-ings, such as the chocolate bacon cookies ($1.25). Chocolate chips ooze out and mingle with the bacon bits in your mouth, creating a har-mony between salty and sweet.

The “adult fl avored” desserts deliver your favorite alcoholic accents in pastry form. The bak-ery’s traditional Japanese sweets, such as the matcha melon pan ($2), a melon and green tea-fl avored pastry sprinkled with powdered sugar, have crisp, light textures that enhance the mild sweetness.

It may be diffi cult to belive that the fl uffy donuts have any calories. As far as taste is concerned, those donuts are anything but light. Sink your teeth into a donut, and the fl a-vor inside will burst forth and fl ood your mouth with a surging intensity that will compel your taste buds to give a standing ovation.

Its yuzu donuts ($1.25) contain the tangerine-like fl avor of the yuzu fruit within a generous layer of glaze coat-ing the exterior. Matcha green tea donuts ($1.25) carry a thick helping of green tea-fl avored icing and will be sure to leave you craving the next bite, the next doughnut and the next visit.

Breadbox Hawai‘i has won over fi rst-timers and turned them into

regulars with its breads. The crisp epi bread ($5) is shaped like a stalk of wheat and stuffed with fi llings such as pastrami or pepperoni. Sweet vari-eties, such as the hit apple cinnamon sweet bread ($1.25 per slice, $6 per loaf), are moist and crumble apart in your mouth without any effort, ensuring that the savory morsels spread throughout the rest of your body to enjoy. The bakery also offers fresh loaves of shokupan ($7 per full loaf, $4 per half loaf), a square, fl uffy Japanese bread, to put on your table-tops to make light sandwiches with.

Breadbox Hawai‘ i’s greateststrength is also its greatest weak-ness. As a small operation serving bargain fresh products free of pre-servatives, stabilizers and condition-ers, it ensures top-notch quality at the cost of quantity. Most pastries do not stay put within the show-cases for long before other custom-ers come in and clear out the trays. To add to the problem, the bakery does not allow for holds or reser-vations. Additionally, there is no set schedule as to when each product will make its way to the front.

The assortment that you fi nd each day will always be different. The bak-ery’s spontaneity is one of its stron-gest aspects, as you will never run out of new creations to try. Whether you see an azuki-blueberry glazed donut one day or a ginger yuzu-glazed cinnamon roll the next, Breadbox Hawai‘i delivers when it comes to satisfying your adventur-ous spirit without breaking the bank.

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LOCATIONManoa Marketplace2752 Woodlawn Dr., Ste 5-108

HOURSTues.-Sun., 7:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.

CONTACT988-8822

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Former ESPN personality and radio show host Colin Cowherd was fi red on July 24 for his com-ments on baseball players from the Dominican Republic.

And rightfully so.“I’ve never bought into that

‘baseball is too complex,’” Cow-herd said during his radio show two weeks ago. “Really? A third of the sport is from the Dominican Republic. The Dominican Republic has not been known in my lifetime as having world-class academic abilities. A lot of those kids come from rough backgrounds and have not had opportunities academ-ically that other kids from other countries have.”

Cowherd has the right to his own opinion, however indecent it may

seem. But Cowherd was a cornerstone for ESPN; a face of the its brand.

Nevertheless, the decision to fi re Cowherd was easy since he was set to leave the fl agship company to work for FOX Sports anyway.

His words gave ESPN a bad taste in its mouth and Major League Baseball (MLB) unnecessary hard-

ship. In recent months, ESPN has already had its hands full with its anchors, on-air reporters and talk show hosts mouthing off in the public eye.

Had Cowherd instead just re-upped with ESPN, he’d have been slapped with ESPN’s usual one or two-week suspension for improper conduct similar to Tony Kornheiser, Stephen A. Smith and, most recently, Britt McHenry.

“Colin Cowherd’s comments over the past two days do not

refl ect the values of ESPN or our employees,” ESPN said in a state-ment on July 24. “Colin will no lon-ger appear on ESPN.”

ESPN says that Cowherd’s com-

ments don’t refl ect the compa-ny’s values, but its recent track of sticking with its controversial on-air personalities says otherwise. McHenry, despite the public outcry for her dismissal from ESPN, is now one of the most recognizable faces of the company. There really is no such thing as bad press.

With his future up in the air, Cow-herd reached out to Twitter with an apology saying, “I did not intend to offend anyone [with] my com-ments. I realize my choice of words was poor and not refl ective of who I am. I am sorry.”

But his apology isn’t enough to make up for his ignorance. Base-ball is a complex sport, littered with analytical data and statistics that would make an average sports fan’s head spontaneously com-bust. Some of the best players in the MLB are from the Dominican

Republic (David Ortiz, Albert Pujols and Robinson Cano). If some of the best baseball players in the world are Dominican, shouldn’t that mean that they have a high baseball IQ and are, indeed, intelligent?

“As a veteran of 15 MLB seasons,I can assure you that our sport is infi nitely more complex than some in the media would have youbelieve,” said Tony Clark, the MLB Players Association executive direc-tor. “To suggest otherwise is igno-rant, and to make an ignorant point by denigrating the intelligence of our Dominican members was not‘clunky’ – it was offensive.”

There is no place for racism or ignorance in sports, and there is no place where Colin Cowherd should be allowed to broadcast himself if he continues to discrim-inate against other nationalities for his personal gain.

DAVID MCCRACKENSPORTS EDITOR

The NFL Hall of Fame induction ceremony is supposed to be a time of celebration of a former player being immortalized as one of the best to ever the play game of football.

The NFL nearly ruined that moment for one of the best linebackers to ever step onto the gridiron.

It’s diffi cult to move on from the case of former linebacker Junior Seau and his tragic suicide that occurred in 2012. His induction should be a living testament to the

great football player he was as well as how much he loved and took care of his family. That side of his story was likely to never be told, until the NFL and Hall of Fame decided to do right by the Seau family.

Before he took a shotgun to his own chest, before he began show-ing serious signs of depression and withdrawal, Seau had told his daughter, Sydney, that if he made the Hall of Fame, he wanted her to introduce him.

Sydney was originally going to introduce her father on Satur-day, Aug. 8, but wouldn’t be able to honor her father with her own words. She was just supposed to introduce a video montage of highlights from her father’s sto-ried career, but it was announced this past Saturday morning by the NFL that Sydney will be given the opportunity to speak in honor of her father with no exception. It was suspected that the NFL refused to allow the Seau family to speak during the ceremony due to the NFL’s fear of a speech con-cerning her father’s death caused by Chronic Traumatic Encephalop-athy (CTE) or in layman’s terms, serious head trauma.

The game he sacrifi ced his mind and body for has fi nally given Junior and his family an opportu-nity to freely express themselves to an audience. Whether or not Syd-ney addresses the issues concern-ing CTE or head trauma, it is a step in the right direction for the NFL to allow her to honor her father.

The NFL is frightened; fright-ened of a growing legal case against them by former players

who are still suffering long after their playing days were over, but the Hall of Fame induction cere-mony should not be an occasion for mourning. After all, it isn’t a funeral; it’s a celebration.

The Seau’s have fi led a wrong-ful-death lawsuit against the NFL – but according to the family, that, in no part, had anything to do with the late linebacker’s ceremony.

In a statement, the family said that it never intended to use the Hall of Fame as a “platform to dis-cuss the serious mental health issues facing the NFL today.”

“We all grieve for the fact that he is not here,” said C. David Baker, president of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. “Everyone at the Pro Foot-ball Hall of Fame is a Junior Seau fan. But this is a policy that was implemented before Junior retired, before he died, and there’s prece-dent for it that was before he was selected.”

However, much changed on Sat-urday as Baker sidetracked his orig-inal statement – which turned out to be the best for both sides.

“Our goal is to maintain our policy regarding enshrinement speeches, but also show compas-sion and understanding,” Baker said Saturday morning.

The NFL season has already begun, as training camps began last week with preseason action set to kick off on Sunday, Aug. 9. But no matter how much the league wants to move on to next season and for-get about the past, no one will for-get Junior Seau; in life or in death.

By allowing Sydney or her fam-ily to speak at the ceremony, the

NFL has fi nally shown an area forcompassion and sympathy that they have failed to show previously for former players who have suf-fered from traumatic brain inju-ries. But give the league and Hall of Fame credit for changing its pol-icy for Seau. This is a win-win forthe NFL and the Seau family, and the ceremony should be a heartfelt moment for everyone involved.

Justice for Junior

Cowherd-ly comments

... to make an ignorant point by denigrating the intelligence of our Dominican members was not ‘clunky’ – it was offensive.

– TONY CLARK, MLBPA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

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In January 2013, the Seau family sued the NFL over Junior’s brain injuries.

The NFL does right by the Seau family

F A C T O I D

JUNIOR SEAUSTATISTICS● 1,849 career tackles● 56.5 career sacks● 18 career interceptions● 18 fumble recoveries● 268 career games

ACHIEVEMENTS● Fifth overall pick in 1990

NFL Draft● 2x AFC Champion ● 12x Pro Bowl Selection ● 8x First-Team All-Pro● NFL Defensive Player

of the Year ● Walter Payton Man of the

Year (1994)● AFC Player of the Year (1992)● NFL 1990’s All-Decade Team● San Diego Chargers

Hall of Fame ● 2x Second-team All-Pro

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