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MASON HIGASTAFF WRITER

Gov. David Ige signed into law a bill that allows for people to have their birth certifi cate changed to refl ect their gender identity without requir-ing gender reassignment surgery.

Under the new law, individuals with a birth certifi cate issued in Hawai‘ i may now present a state-ment from a doctor stating that the individual has had the appropriate clinical treatment for gender transi-tion and the individual’s new gen-der does not match with the gender printed on the birth certifi cate. After the new certifi cate has been assigned, the previous certifi cate is

sealed away with the courts and can only be opened with a court order.

“I know so many students who feel that it’s so important to have their identity respected, including their sex and their name. This bill makes it so much easier now that it’s a law,” said Camaron Miyamoto, coordinator at the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgen-der (LGBT) Student Services Offi ce.

OPENING DOORS FOR STUDENTSAccording to Miyamoto, some

people have put off applying to the University of Hawai‘ i because the gender on their identifi cation did not match the gender they identi-fi ed with. Now that the new law has taken effect, LGBT Student Services

has started to prepare for incoming transgender students.

“We’ve already started the process to get things going,” Miyamoto said. “We knew that [the law] was coming through, so I sat with the registrar and said, “Let’s get some things in line.”

The law will also impact students in other areas besides registration, such as athletics, fi nancial aid and housing assignments.

“I think this new law helps make it more easy for us to implement our policy of nondiscrimination for UH,” Miyamoto added.

UH’s nondiscrimination policy includes gender identity and gen-der expression.

IMPROVING EQUALITY FOR ALLMiyamoto said he felt the old

law was unfair because it provided an advantage to those who could afford gender reassignment surgery.

“Over the last couple of years, I got to meet with a number of [transgen-der] people who had trouble … get-ting basic documentation that the rest of us take for granted,” state Rep. Chris Lee (D), one of the cosponsors of the bill, said in a phone interview.

State Rep. Della Au Belatti (D), another cosponsor of the bill, said the bill was intended to reduce barriers.

“[The bill] treats transgender individuals with a lot more dignity that they deserve,” Belatti said in a phone interview.

During the legislative process, Belatti was very moved after hear-ing the testimony that the LGBT community gave.

“Even the simple act of show-ing your ID at the airport is being questioned, because your ID may not refl ect how you physically look,” Belatti said.

ADDRESSING CONCERNSAs the bill was being discussed,

some legislators debated over who could give approval and say that a person has a legitimate issue with their birth certifi cate, according to Lee. Others were concerned that some individuals might try to fraudulently hide their identities using this law.

To address these concerns, the law

requires a licensed medical profes-sional to give a statement. Belatti also clarifi ed that any legal obligations a person has does not go away when their birth certifi cate is changed.

Belatti said you could not pre-vent people from doing bad things with legislature and that individ-uals who intend to break the lawwould do so regardless.

“I think even [the law’s opponents can] agree now that the sky hasn’t fallen and nothing else has changed, except that now, we’re seeing peo-ple in our community who have long been marginalized have an easier time being who they are,” Lee said.

Students who are interested in receiving help with changing their records to match their gender iden-tity can contact Camaron Miyamoto of the LGBT Student Services offi ce.

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Patients will now have easier access to medical marijuana thanks to a new law Gov. David Ige signed.

Act 241, formerly House Bill 321 Relating to Medical Marijuana until its July 15 signing, prohibits zoning regulations that discriminate against licensed dispensaries and produc-tion centers and allows qualifying patients, caregivers and employees to transport medical marijuana in any public place. The bill also autho-rizes background checks for caregiv-ers and patients.

“The language of the bill that passed in the House and Senate will now be Hawai‘ i’s statute. How-ever, the Department of Health [DOH] will need to write administra-tive rules which will be the imple-menting mechanism,” said Susan Chandler, facilitator of the Medical Marijuana Dispensary Task Force, Public Policy Center Director and professor on campus.

While not legalizing marijuana fully, the new law is for legitimate people in need of medical mari-juana and dispensaries are set to open around next July.

“We know that our challenge going forward will be to adopt rules that are fair, cost effective and easy to monitor,” Ige said in a press release. “The bill sets a timeline. We will make a good faith effort to create a fair process that will help the people most in need.”

Possession of a medical marijuana

card does not allow for the posses-sion or consumption of marijuana within housing premises, according to the Student Housing Services website.

MEDICAL MARIJUANA LAWS In 2000, Hawai‘ i became the fi rst

state to establish and acknowledge medical marijuana laws. According to the Hawai‘ i Medical Marijuana Dispensary Task Force, the laws covered certifying physicians, qual-ifying patients, and patient caregiv-ers obtaining medical marijuana.

Under the law, a patient may cultivate up to seven plants for personal use or designate one caregiver to cultivate up to seven plants on behalf of the patient.

However, no dispensaries have been provided for patients.

There are approximately 13,000 patients currently registered with the Hawai‘ i Medical Marijuana Pro-gram, but some of them lack the ability to grow medical marijuana.

ADJUSTING OLD METHODSIn 2014, HCR48 (House Concurrent

Resolution 48, relating to Medical Marijuana Dispensaries) requested to create a task force facilitated by the College of Social Sciences Public Policy Center. Its goal was to “develop recommendations for the estab-lishment of a regulated statewide dispensary system for medical mari-juana,” according to their website.

The task force has held six meet-ings throughout 2014 to discuss this system according the Public

Policy Center website. Thirty-eight recommendations were made to help improve on the old medical marijuana laws. These recommen-dations include number and loca-tions of dispensaries, inspections, tax structure and more.

“We heard a lot of testimony from very ill people who say it helps them during chemotherapy treatments; for glaucoma; pain reduction and for many other problems,” Chandler said.

Upon moving forward, medical marijuana is also becoming a more recognizable method of treating the ill, according to Chandler.

She said that the DOH usually takes around six months to imple-ment administrative rules and hopes to have them in place by Jan. 16, 2016. Then the DOH will conduct a bidding process to determine who will run the dispensaries.

MARIJUANA RESTRICTIONSMarijuana is established as a

Schedule I drug. Recreational use of marijuana in Hawai‘ i has not been made legal.

According to Chandler, there has been a pattern that every other state that set up medical marijuana dispensaries has led to full legaliza-tion of marijuana use. However, “our Task Force was very clear that we did not see this as a step towards legal-ization,” Chandler said.

Chandler said it is hard to study medical marijuana, since it is an illegal drug. UH has not done any studies so far on marijuana.

Under the new law, surgery is no longer a requirement

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The new law will create dispensaries to patients and caregivers.

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The University of Hawai‘ i at Hilo telescope is set to be decommis-sioned, along with the Caltech tele-scope, on Maunakea.

UH Hilo’s 36-inch educational telescope, Hoku Ke‘a, as well as the 10.4 meter Caltech Submilli-meter Observatory (CSO) are set to be decommissioned in compliance with the request from Hawai‘ i Gov. David Ige that 25 percent of tele-scopes on Maunakea be decom-missioned by the time the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) is ready for operation. However, some fear the loss of the Hoku Ke‘a will negatively impact UH Hilo.

“Losing Hoku Ke‘a means losing an essential facility to fulfi ll our mis-sion and to grow our undergradu-ate astronomy program,” UH Hilo Department Chairwoman of Physics and Astronomy, Marianne Takamiya, Ph.D., said in an email interview. “The news was devastating for the vision of our undergraduate program.”

IMPACT ON UH HILOTakamiya said the observa-

tory is essential for training stu-dents about telescope operations, performing scientifi c programs designed by the students, develop-ing small instrumentation projects, and conducting outreach activities for the general public.

“Our program is also aligned with the needs of Maunakea observato-ries in their search for local work-force,” she said.

According to Takamiya, a project to rebuild the facility was underway that would include modern, state-of-the-art technology.

“Because our site was arguably the best educational site in the world for astronomy, other national and inter-national institutions had proposed to collaborate with UH Hilo to conduct

research programs for undergradu-ate students,” she said.

The Hoku Ke’a was planned to be remotely controllable from UH Hilo. In addition, Takamiya says new lab-oratories were planned in the Phys-ics and Astronomy departments to make use of the telescope.

THE HOKU KE’A UH Hilo received funding from

the National Science Foundation (NSF) for an educational research telescope on Maunakea, and in 2008 the Hoku Ke’a was shipped from Colorado for installation.

From the start, the Hoku Ke’a faced a variety problems ranging from defective parts to an unreli-able dome roof.

“In particular, the mirror of the telescope had the wrong fi gure … [which] results in bad images,” Takamiya said. “The telescope was delivered with no operational soft-ware and … the dome leaks when it rains or when the snow accumu-lating on its roof melts.”

According to Takamiya, repairs were possible but deemed too expensive to meet program require-ments, such as remote observations from UH Hilo during class days or closing down fast enough to prevent damage if bad weather rolled in.

However, Takamiya says that through a close collaboration between the Institute for Astronomy and UH Hilo, funds to replace the faulty equipment were identifi ed and new telescope was going to be pur-chased weeks after the announce-ment of the decommissioning.

“Unfortunately, from an educa-tional point of view, we are losing the only observatory dedicated to training UH Hilo students to oper-ate the larger one,” Takamiya said.

According to a UH news release, UH Hilo will begin the process of decommissioning the Hoku Ke‘a in early 2016. The university says

it will follow the decommission-ing process outlined in the Offi ce of Mauna Kea Management’s Com-prehensive Management Plan. The process is scheduled to be fi nished in 2018, after the CSO’s decommissioning.

THE CSOThe CSO began operations in

1986 and was operated by the Cal-ifornia Institute of Technology (Caltech) via a contract by the NSF in conjunction with UH and the University of Texas, as well as inter-national partners.

According to the CSO Caltech website, astronomers from around the world have used the observatory to pursue research and to accom-plish groundbreaking achievements in submillimeter and millime-ter astronomy – the study of light emitted by atoms, molecules and dust grains in the interstellar space where stars and planets form.

Plans to decommission the CSO have been in the works since April 2009, according to a Caltech article. The decommissioning of the CSO is due to the construction of the next generation of radio telescope, the Cornell Caltech Atacama Telescope (CCAT), to be located in Chile.

“The international community of astronomers that rely on CSO will have a seamless transition as CCAT comes online just as CSO is decom-missioned,” said Tom Phillips, direc-tor of the CSO and Altair Professor of Physics in Caltech’s Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astron-omy, in the article.

Caltech will begin dismantling the CSO in 2016. In regards to both telescope sites, UH says that no new observatories will be built after the land is restored to its natural state.

UH Hilo telescope to be decommissioned

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The American fl ag has 50 stars corresponding to 50 states, but few people realize this is not the true number of American administra-tive divisions. The United States also occupies “territories,” lands with no voting rights and other benefi ts that nevertheless follow federal laws: Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa.

The latter is the only place in the U.S. in which one is not granted automatic citizenship through birth, a constitutional right given to every-body born on American soil. This goes against our most fundamen-tal rights and is unfair to people born in American Samoa. The terri-tory has the most successful Army recruiting station in the U.S. and continues to make enormous con-tributions to the nation’s sports. Yet these soldiers, veterans, and sports-men are not even allowed to vote and have a voice in our legal system.

It has been over half a century since the abolishment of racial seg-regation in public spaces.

It is time to end this sort of senseless dehumanization, and give the American Samoans their constitutional rights. There is noth-ing “American” about American Samoa if they aren’t granted auto-matic citizenship through birth on their soil.

TUAUA V. UNITED STATESIn February, Leneuoti Tuaua and

the Samoan Federation of Amer-ica sued the American government

over denying citizenship to peo-ple born in American Samoa. The Constitution’s Fourteenth Amend-ment, section one reads, “All per-sons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”

“If we are Americans, then why not citizens?” said Tuaua, a retired court-marshall.

According to advocacy non-profi t Equal Rights Now, residents of American Samoa have to “pay nearly $700 in naturalization fees and pass an English language and civics exam” to become U.S. citizens.

“Many of our people swore an oath to defend the Constitution when they joined the military,” President of the Samoan Federa-tion of America Loa Pele Faletogo said for Equal Rights Now. “Now they fi nd themselves unable to vote in state and federal elections because they are labeled ‘non-citi-zen national.’ That’s not right.” 

‘INSULAR CASES’ However, the Obama administra-

tion responded to Tuaua’s lawsuit by citing a series of racist Supreme Court opinions from the early 1900s known as the Insular Cases. These regulate the status of the inhab-itants of the new territories the United States acquired after the Spanish-American War in 1898; people from Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines are referred to as “savage” and “alien races.”

In the Downes v. Bidwell case, regarding the enforcement of the Constitution in Puerto Rico, Jus-

tice Edward White opined that granting citizenship to an “uncivi-lized race” in a new territory would “ infl ict grave detriment on the United States” from “the imme-diate bestowal of citizenship on those absolutely unfi t to receive it.”

Legal scholars like First Cir-cuit Judge Juan Torruella have denounced the Insular Cases.

“The Supreme Court has created a political ghetto in the territories, from which there is no escape or solution by inhabitants because they lack the political power to infl uence the political institu-tion that can make the necessary

changes to the situation,” Torruella said in 2007 at the University of Vir-ginia Law School.

“My biggest problem at this present time is with the fact that I believe that the United States is in clear violation of not only the Con-stitution but also the treaties that we have entered into, which are of course the law of the land.”

To remedy this, Torruella recom-mended that the Supreme Court “steps forward to correct the wrong it created.”

SECOND CLASS CITIZENSIn the documentary “State-

less Voices: Part Time Americans,” Johnny Siliga, a 52-year-old Califor-nia resident, holds up his U.S. pass-

port that is “uniquely different.” Its last page reads, “The bearer is a United States national and not a United States citizen.”

“It makes me look like I’m an out-sider. It demeans me as a person,” Siliga said in the documentary.

On Sept. 9, 2014, the U.S. Army Recruiting Station in Pago Pago, the capital of American Samoa, was ranked number one in the world. The station enlisted 153 men and women, which is more than any of the 885 recruitment offi ces around the globe. American Samoa is the nation’s powerhouse when it comes to recruiting committed soldiers.

However, the system excludes these unquestionably patriotic people from basic American rights like voting, carrying concealed weapons and holding many govern-ment jobs because of their status as U.S. nationals and not citizens. To be awarded citizenship, nation-als need to go through a naturaliza-tion process, which can take years.

‘FOOTBALL ISLAND’American Samoa has the reputa-

tion of being the “Football Island.” Forbes contributor Leigh Steinberg wrote in May that there are now 30 NFL players of Samoan descent and 200 plus playing in Division I col-lege. University of Hawai‘i’s 2014 98-player roster held four born in

American Samoa, but many others with Samoan roots and connections.

According to statistics by Football Study Hall in 2013, American Samoa’s per capita rate of producing football players recruited by the FBS was 12.6 recruits per 100,000 people, more than 6.5 times that of Louisiana, which was the most successful state with a rate of 1.83 recruits.

“What if there were 120 million Samoans? How many Samoans would there then be in the NFL?” Pittsburg Stealers safety and two-time winner of the Pro Bowl Trophy Troy Polamalu said for “60 Minutes.”

Scott Pelley’s 2011 report paints a contradictory picture. On one hand, Nu’uuli Voc-Tech High School hasno playing fi eld, but only a lockerroom – a rusted shipping container stacked with donated helmets and other protective gear.

“It’s actually equipment thatwould never be allowed to use in the states,” coach Ethan Lake said.

Samoana High School’s footballteam not only lacks a locker room and weight room, but their playingfi eld is also unlined and contains pieces of jarring lava rock.

On the other hand, Nu’uuli Voc-Tech has one player in the NFL and Samoana has three.

The U.S. is wrong for not giving American Samoans a voice to fi ght for their rights. However, they have proven themselves as fi rst-class Americans, whether on the football fi eld, fi ghting for our country in a for-eign land or participating in “Ameri-ca’s got Talent.” The least we could do is give them their citizenship.

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Nationals, not citizensWhy a group of American Samoans sued the governmentWhy a group of American Samoans sued the government

NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION

The American Samoa Legislature, or Fono, building located in Fagotago.

It makes me look like an outsider. It demeans me as a person.

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The Pew Research Center reported more than 60 percent of Americans own smartphones.

Technology destroys vacation travels

AMBER NUNN KHANASSOCIATE OPINIONS EDITOR

I have been traveling on vaca-tion for the past month and a half. Yosemite, Arches, Grand Canyon and Yellowstone National Park are among the places I will never for-get visiting.

Or will I? While trying to see what these parks had to offer, I found myself juggling two cameras, a phone and a laptop. As time went by, the use of technology ruined my vacation.

At the beginning of my trip, I took pictures and video everyday and posted them to social media. I didn’t think much of it. “This is a cool thing I’m doing, everyone I know should see how great this place is and how awesome I am for being here.” Let’s be honest, who doesn’t think that when traveling? When we’re with our smartphones on the road, we want to Instagram and Snapchat our experiences.

INSTAGRAMANIAMy five friends and I were trav-

eling for about a week when something upsetting happened. We arrived in Redwood National Park and we got out of the car. Before anyone even said an “Ooh,” or “Ah,” I saw five cameras block my friends’ faces. I made a comment about the trees but I was shushed. They were taking pictures and trying to find Wi-Fi to post them. It was a time-sen-sitive process that shouldn’t be interrupted.

This made me think, why do we vacation? I’m sure there are many answers out there. I vaca-tion to spend time with people I love in places I love. This time, however, one of those compo-nents was missing. I was where I wanted to be, but the people I wanted to be with were preoc-

cupied with their cameras and phones. I’m guilty of it as well.

I was in a beautiful place, but I still felt the constant weight of my cameras and computer pull-ing me down. My mind would go to the best shot, then to which app I would use to edit it, then to fi nding Wi-Fi. My computer would pull me back to daily emails about fi nan-cial aid, work, classes and bills. I was never fully present in the place I was in. It was exhausting.

DEFINE VACATIONAccording to a 2013 online Tech

Timeout survey presented by For-esters, a fi nancial services com-

pany that challenged the public to unplug from technology, 47 per-cent of North American parents think that technology “ruins family vacationing.” The more time I saw my self spending with technology, I enjoyed myself less and less.

When I realized that, I declared a war. I vowed to post zero pictures online while I was still on vacation. This was my vacation, and I was taking it back.

The defi nition of vacation accord-ing to the Scott Foresman Advanced Dictionary is, “time of rest and free-dom from school, business or other duties.” According to this defi nition, I was not on vacation.

If your defi nition includes daily use of a phone, camera, computer, and Internet access, then go for it. Everyone has their preference.

WHY LIVE VICARIOUSLY? I realized two things. One, vaca-

tions are time set apart to rest and be present, and technology in its

various forms will hinder this. Sec-ond, society as a whole has an addiction to social media.

I can look at Half Dome in Yosemite National Park through my computer screen at home. Why would I travel thousands of miles to get there and look at it through another screen? It didn’t make sense to me.

Seeing things through a screen prevents us from emotionally con-necting with the living history around us. After taking one pic-ture and putting my camera away, I remember looking at it and think-ing about how Half Dome was formed and what the Native Ameri-

cans would have thought of it. I even noticed the smell of the nearby deer dung, which was oddly pleasant.

BREATHE FREE Without technology occupying

your brain, you have the freedom to look at what your eyes are see-ing and think about it, learn about it and connect with it. You are given more opportunities to establish a genuine relationship with the peo-ple around you.

Rather than using a smartphone to fi nd where you are, ask someone for directions. It creates more space for the unknown to happen.

I may be old school, but once I put away my phone, camera and computer, I was able to enjoy myself. I even read a book. It was enjoyable; give it a try next time you’re on vacation.

Put your smartphone Put your smartphone down and enjoy the view. down and enjoy the view.

The more time I saw my self spending with technology, I enjoyed myself less and less.

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ANGUSINA CAMPBELL STAFF WRITER

Bacon jam, goat cheese and reductions of balsamic vinegar – these are typical ingredients in owner Justin Parvizimotlagh’s sand-wich restaurant, EARL (Eat a Real Lunch): a sandwich experience.

Parvizimotlagh said that he created his menu through his experiences as a cook working at his father’s restau-rant since he was young.

“I never had any formal chef training or anything like that,” Parvizimotlagh said. “I just had a journal I kept [fi lled with] advice from all the people I worked with throughout my career.”

EARL opened in March 2014, and has since appeared at local mar-kets and events. The restaurant uses local ingredients whenever possible, some of which are available year-round because of Hawai‘ i’s climate.

MENUSandwiches are offered with

various choices of bread that are baked daily: ciabatta rolls, wide and soft, or baguettes, nar-rower and crisper. Pesto chicken salad, with baby romaine, romano cheese, tomato, pesto, homemade croutons and salad dressing; was available for gluten-free custom-ers.

Add-ons consisted of Caesar salad ($3), avocado ($2), bacon jam ($2) and chips ($1). The spe-cials had sold out by the time we arrived, around 12:40 p.m., but options included six sandwiches crowned by Parvizimotlagh’s num-ber one sandwich – the French Dip, roast beef with au jus and fennel onion marmalade.

Another special was the Fun Guy, sautéed mushroom with assorted vegetables, hummus, the marmalade and balsamic vin-aigrette. The sandwiches are $8-9.

Mexican soda and ginger beer are offered for an extra charge.

DECORThe restaurant has a small rect-

angular dining space. Custom-ers can sit bar-style and pick from four or fi ve red chairs with white and blue glass-tiled counters on each side. The kitchen is at the front, with a large open window to place your order on the left and the pickup window to the right. Col-ored-chalk writing marks the large blackboard menu on the wall. The other wall has large windows, one glass and one open-air frame.

TASTEI ordered the Goat Cheese sand-

wich ($8.25) which was goat cheese with herbs, sautéed asparagus, halved cherry tomatoes and a bal-samic reduction on a baguette. My friend ordered the Turkey Jam Sam ($8.50) which was turkey salad, let-tuce, tomato and bacon jam on cia-batta bread.

Parvizimotlagh described the bacon jam as caramelized spread-able bacon, made from onions, fresh bacon, wine and spices that takes three to four hours to process.

We received our sandwiches 10 minutes after ordering them. Each sandwich was neatly cut and pre-sented in two fi ve-to-six-inch pieces in black oval mesh baskets lined with brown paper. My sand-wich had goat cheese spread on the bottom baguette half, with a single layer of asparagus spears on top. Halved cherry tomatoes were strewn on top, and the balsamic reduction had pinked the bread in places. The Turkey Jam Sam had bacon jam and turkey salad topped with sliced tomatoes and whole let-tuce leaves.

The Goat Cheese baguette was crusty and because there was less soft bread inside, I was able to

taste more of the ingredients. Theasparagus spears were tender andeasy to bite off but not stringy ormushy. I liked how the cherry toma-toes, slightly cooked and softened, provided a contrast to the aspara-gus, but I felt they could have been omitted. The balsamic reduction’s fruitiness combined well with the goat cheese, but the herbs in the cheese seemed to detract.

The Turkey Jam Sam had a good balance of ingredients but lacked a standout fl avor. The jam tasted more like onions, probably because the bacon was fresh, not smoked. The disappointment may have been because I associate bacon with a smoke fl avor.

VERDICTEARL serves fl avorful, quality

sandwiches at reasonable prices.and service is prompt and friendly.

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Owner Justin Parvizimotlagh said that he closes EARL when he runs out of bread.

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LOCATION1137 11th Ave. #102, Honolulu, HI, 96816

HOURSClosed Wed.Mon.-Sun. 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

CONTACT200-4354

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ROBERT GRIFFIN IIIWhat a collapse.The former Heisman trophy win-

ner and second overall pick of the 2012 NFL Draft, Griffi n is facing the end of the line with the Washington Redskins franchise. It’s been well-doc-umented about his troubles with for-mer head coach Mike Shanahan and his inconsistent play after returning from a torn ACL in the playoffs from his rookie year, but there is no more room for excuses. Griffi n will be enter-ing his second year under the tutelage of head coach Jay Gruden and must prove his worth in order to obtain his contract as free agency approaches in a year’s time. Griffi n still has the potential to be an elite player in the NFL as a dual-threat quarterback and has shown fl ashes of game-chang-ing ability, but this summer will be his last opportunity to create chem-istry with his coaching staff and wide receivers before the season starts in September.

VICK BALLARDAnyone remember Vick Ballard

from 2012?The Indianapolis Colt running back

rushed for over 800 yards as a rookie in 2012, looking to become a solution to the running back crisis that the Colts have faced over the past few years. However, Ballard tore his ACL in the fi rst game of the 2013 season and was lost for the year. The very next season, Ballard tore his Achilles at the start of training camp; another tough break for the young running back drafted out of Mississippi State.

Fortunately for Ballard, he is back and healthy for training camp this year and has his eyes set on the backup running back position on the depth chart behind former San Francisco 49ers’ half-back Frank Gore. Gore is basically guaranteed the starting job after his impressive work from Organized Team Activities (OTAs) so Ballard will have to battle against Daniel ‘Boom’ Herron and Zurlon Tipton for a roster position this coming fall.

TRENT RICHARDSONIt’s no exaggeration to call this

is the biggest summer of TrentRichardson’s life.

His once promising career is hang-ing in the balance as he joins theOakland Raiders, his third team infour seasons. After a decent rookieyear with the Cleveland Browns in2012 where he scored 11 touchdowns,Richardson was infamously traded tothe Indianapolis Colts in exchangefor a fi rst round pick. What was sup-posed to be a franchise-altering movefor the Colts, turned out to be one ofthe biggest busts in franchise history.No longer with the Colts, Richardsonis vying for the starting running backposition for the Raiders along withsecond year back Latavius Murray andformer Redskin Roy Helu Jr. Both HeluJr. and Murrary have proven to be fac-tor backs in this league, but it’s nottoo late for Richardson to erase the‘bust’ label. However, if he can’t provehis mettle in the next month, this willlikely be his last shot at becoming anNFL running back.

DAVID MCCRACKENSPORTS EDITOR

From 1997-2008, nobody was bet-ter than Tiger Woods.

It’s been seven years since he last won a major and, though he’s occasionally signaled a renaissance in his career - most recently with a top-20 fi nish at The Master’s – a run of scores in the 80s and missed cuts at big tournaments have resulted in the subsequent end of the Tiger Woods era.

Once the scandal broke concern-ing Woods’ adultery with multiple women several years ago, his play suffered on the golf course.

Woods was the perfect jolt for a sport in need of someone to take it to the next level in the late 90s. Someone not only capable of

energizing hardcore golf fans, but of also putting the sport into the mainstream. He was the poster boy for a sport that needed attention as he was one of few golfers who really took the sport by storm.

While Jack Nicklaus had challeng-ers like Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Lee Trevino and Tom Watson during his time on top of the golfi ng world, Woods had very little competition to speak of. Phil Mickelson con-tended for a while, but he too has trailed off over the past few years.

A new era of golf has arisen, and is led by the youth movement of Jor-dan Spieth and Rory McIlroy.

Woods doesn’t look comfortable on the green, and hasn’t looked com-fortable for a while now. He looks awkward with the club in his hand; he’s either pushing the ball way right or getting crossed up and pulling it left. Meanwhile, McIlroy and Spieth are winning majors by confi dently bombing the driver and then hitting easier clubs into the green.

As long as the other is around, neither Spieth nor McIlroy will set-tle into the dominance that sig-nifi ed Tiger’s run from 1997 to 2008. That’s not to say that Spi-eth or McIlroy aren’t elite talents (because they are), but it’s diffi cult to replicate dominance in golfi ng in today’s game due to the infl ux of competition.

With six majors between them at the ages of 26 and 21, respec-tively, McIlroy and Spieth already appear to be taking the sport by the scruff of its neck, putting themselves into position to repli-cate the success of Palmer, Player and Trevino. And even if neither ultimately reaches the Woods/Nicklaus heights of 14 majors and beyond, they are both sure to carry the torch until the next golf phenom comes to fruition.

McIlroy and Spieth are now the faces of golf as Woods takes a back-seat. Woods’ golf game may never recover after the scandal, not to mention his multiple back issues, and the hopes of catching Nicklaus’ major record is a thing of the past.

And even if he does win another major, it will just be another major. It won’t be a part of the Tiger Era. That era is now over.

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Woods has missed the cut in four of his last eight tournament appearances.

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Trent Richardson was suspended for the final two games of last season for the Colts.

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With NFL training camps starting off this week, there are many players who fi nd themselves in do-or-die situations with their respective teams. From rookies trying to make an impression with new teammates and coaches, to NFL veterans who are trying to save their career, training camp is a time to show your worth; eat, or be eaten.

There are some players in tricky predicaments and others who are surrounded by opportunity to take a starting job in the league. Here are three players who are vying to keep their NFL careers alive, even though it wasn’t too long ago that they were potential franchise-changing players.

NFL players facing the end of the lineNFL players facing the end of the line

Staying afloat

Woods doesn’t look comfortable on the green, and hasn’t looked comfortable for a while now.

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