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Black holesUH astronomer
explores the evidenceNews 2
Boy band banterCatching up with Allstar Weekend
Features 3
Changing the gameNew SEC rules re-
ward whistleblowersOpinions 5
Summer-camp funRecruiting future
WarriorsSports 8
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Opinions Editor Davin Aoyagi reviews a sample survey planned for the New Student Orientation, aimed at fi nding out what incoming students would like their Mānoa Experience to be. The survey was discussed at the Wednesday June 15 meeting attended by the Mānoa Experience Workgroup and staff members of Ka Leo.
Defining the Defining the Mānoa ExperienceMānoa Experience
JESSI SCHULTZ
Associate News Editor
Last Wednesday, a group of students, professors and administra-tors met to discuss the Mānoa Experience, a new way of conceptual-izing time spent at UH Mānoa. The Mānoa Experience Workgroup was formed in spring 2010 by the vice chancellor of academic affairs to focus on the questions “What makes the Mānoa Experience unique?” and “What core val-ues and competencies should students develop by way of the Mānoa Experience?” The committee is chaired by Professor Jon Osorio, and includes members from Mānoa’s accreditation teams, representatives of the faculty senate and administrators. Together, they have been fos-tering discussion between current students, alumni, faculty and other
campus members to answer these questions. According to Myrtle Yamada, academic affairs program offi cer,one of the committee’s fi rst moves was to send alumni a survey regard-ing their college experiences. Over 800 responses were received fromalumni from the classes of 1950 through 2010. The survey asked a number of open-ended questions, and the answersranged from positive comments such as “Dorms were a great place to meetfriends” to more negative remarks such as “Parking was horrible.”
F INDING OUT WHATʼS IMPORTANT This year, the committee will be focused on obtaining studentinput and distributing it to faculty and administration. Their currentmission is to reach a consensus about what the Mānoa Experience See New ideas, page 2
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2011
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means to new students, current students and alumni. “If people feel some kind of sense of [a] unique [experience], they may not communicate it,” said Osorio. Yamada commented on the use of New Student Orientation sur-veys, “We tried to get a feel for why they chose Mānoa. How can we tap into current students?” “We didn’t just want a posi-tive image. We really want to know what students think. It ’s exciting to be collaborating,” said Osorio. At the meeting on Wednes-day, students and faculty shared ideas regarding the Mānoa Expe-rience. A blog is being developed, and tables at Campus Center will be organized to gather informa-tion from passersby as well.
BUILDING COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT The Mānoa Experience team is taking strides to better under-stand students, but also intends to make them more aware of oppor-tunities for involvement during their years at UH Mānoa. At the meeting, Bonnyjean Manini, from Student Life and Development, reviewed the activi-ties planned for the NSO. Several one-day sessions will be offered starting July 25. “We want to showcase this place, but we do not want to be a visitors bureau – not lū‘as or plas-tic leis – Hawai‘i is not all about Waikīkī. We want to be respectful of local customs,” said Maninini. “We would hope that the NSO and Welcome Back Bash ... would be the f irst of many opportunities for members of the Mānoa community to be -come involved in this init iat ive. We are hoping that we can in-tegrate our activit ies with ac-t ivit ies that are already being planned by [other groups on campus],” said Yamada.
KA LEO GETS INVOLVED “In terms of really covering what society [at UH Mānoa] islike, our goals are similar,” said Will Caron, editor in chief of Ka Leo, at the meeting. Caron explained that students can use Ka Leo to fi nd out about clubs as well as practical infor-mation, such as how to register for courses. It can also introduce mainland students to Hawai‘i’s culture. There are, however, oth-er resources as well. “I think that the involvement of Ka Leo will provide us an ex-cellent avenue for becoming more attuned to student life, but we will continue to seek others,” said Yamada. Ka Leo is planning to launch a “Mānoa Experience Contest”that will invite students to sub-mit essays, poems, videos, pho-tos or other creative entries that depict an aspect of their Mānoaexperience. “They [the students] can take charge of their own experience,” said Caron.
IDEAS STARTING TO FLOW At the meeting Wednesday, committee members threw around ideas. “We have talked about mak-ing a t-shirt,” Osorio commented. Another idea discussed was having students video record ex-periences, such as the fi rst week of college, meeting your roomate, or a fi rst commute. “What would draw college students?” asked Laiana Wong, assistant professor in the Kawai-huelani Center for Hawaiian Lan-guage. “It was food and booze when I was a kid.” “Then ’86 happened ... and it was 21 and over,” Manini laughed. The group will continue to develop ideas for promoting the Mānoa Experience. Osorio said, “This isn’t a school spirit thing. It’s much deeper.”
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ISABELLA HASTINGS
Contributing Writer Ezequiel Treister, University of Hawaii at Mānoa astronomer, recently led a team of scientists to fi nd the fi rst evidence of supermassive black holes in the early universe that have been growing at remarkable rates. Supermassive black holes are black holes with a mass of over one million solar masses and are found in the center of a galaxy. This discovery will hopefully lead to an understanding of how black holes initially formed in the universe. “I would like to understand the physical connec-tion between black hole growth and galaxy evolu-tion, but that will take more time and the next gen-eration of both ground based (such as the Thirty Meter Telescope, to be installed on the Mauna Kea summit) and space observatories,” said Treister. According to Treister, this particular study re-quired “the longest and most sensitive observations of the X-ray sky.” The Chandra X-ray Observatory, paired with a new analysis technique specifi cally designed for the
study called “X-ray stacking,” was used in order to reach the best statistical analysis possible. “X-ray stacking is a technique in which the pho-tons from sources that are individually undetected are co-added to obtain a statistically signifi cant de-tection of the average properties of a sample,” Tre-ister said. Launched nearly 12 years ago, the Chandra X-ray Observatory fl ies 200 times higher than the Hubble Space Telescope and gives astronomers a chance to observe aspects of space such as the Chandra Deep Field South, one of the deepest im-ages of space taken to date. “It is the fi eld in the sky with the most sensitive X-ray observations performed so far,” Treister said. The Chandra Observatory has been used by a num-ber of different scientists for different purposes since its launch. The information and data sets gathered by each scientist are put together as a survey, which researchers can use parts of for their own purposes. Treister hopes to further examine his fi ndings by get-ting more Chandra time in order to understand how these supermassive black holes fi rst formed in the universe.
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Boy band Allstar Weekend may be the new Jonas Brothers, but don’t judge them too fast; they’re fi nding their own niche in the music indus-try with the release of their new al-bum “All The Way” on July 19.
The four guys are bring-ing their energetic, punk/pop sound from California to Hawai‘i on June 25 at the Polynesian Culture Center. Ka Leo catches up with bass player Cameron Quiseng on the phone.
Where are you right now?
Right now I am driving to Rhode Island, I just
left Rochester, N. Y.
So where’s everyone else?
Michael [Martinez] is sleeping next to me,
Nathan [Darmody] is in the back, and Zach [Porter] is recording vo-cals in Albany today.
You guys seem to al-ways be together. Do
you guys ever fi ght?
Do we ever fi ght? We’re like brothers – we see
each other every second of the day – so we bicker about things. We argue about who’s sitting where, what we’re eating for din-ner, about girls ... but it ’s not like a real fi ght.
Have you ever been to Hawai‘i?
Zach has been [here] on vacation. I don’t think
Michael or Nathan has been. I have hundreds of family on O‘ahu, and I have a house on the Big Island.
So wait ... are you part Hawaiian?
Yeah, I’m Hawaiian and Filipino.
Cool, I didn’t know that. Is there some-
thing you always do when you come here?
I always surf! I like surf-ing on the Big Island
because it ’s not as packed, and North Shore is always so crowd-ed. Last time there were a lot of locals there and ... even though I’m Filipino and Hawaiian, I still look like a haole boy, so I look like a tourist ... but I love surfi ng, and I’ve been surfi ng since I was little.
You guys wrote the soundtrack song for
the movie “Prom.” How was that experience?
It was really cool. We’ve had our song in
a soundtrack before, but “Not Your Birthday” was completely different because it was a perfect part of the movie. Not only that, but it was the fi rst single off the soundtrack, and when you share a soundtrack with people like Tra-vie McCoy and Neon Trees, it ’s really cool.
Did you go to prom in high school?
Yeah, prom was actu-ally the only dance that
I went to.
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Q&A with Allstar Q&A with Allstar Weekend’s QuisengWeekend’s Quiseng
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It was cool. Because of the way they make it seem in
the movies, I thought it was going to be a once in a lifetime experi-ence that I’d never forget, the best night of my life ... it really wasn’t like that! It turns out I really suck at dancing.
What keeps you guys grounded with all this
stardom? You guys were a ga-rage band and you shot up to fame so fast.
Yeah, right? It was so unexpected. I would say
our family definitely keeps us grounded. To be honest, we went to high school, had day jobs – we lived normal lives before any of this took off. The second any of us gets a big head and gets a little too cocky, we just shut him down.
Is it true that the band was originally called
Outerspace Politicians?
(laughs) Yeah, back when we were in high school.
It was such a great name!
Yeah, we thought so too! But our managers were
like, ‘we need to change that right now.’
How does the writing process go?
Most of the writing is done by Zach and Na-
than. Usually Zach will get a couple melodies in his head, or he starts working on some lines. He likes to say there’s no rhyme or reason and it ’s different ev-
ery time ... and Nathan will have some guitar riffs, and it starts from there.
Does writing for a primarily teen/young
adult fan base with Disney affiliations ever make you feel limited?
Not really. When we first started making music
we had no idea that Disney was going to be associated with us. I feel like that we still got to make the music that we want to make. At this point, we are branching out. ... We’re all 21 – well, Na-than’s 20 – but our new album ref lects the journey of our last year and how we’ve grown as musicians and people in general.
Disney was great for us as a greatplatform to start on, but we’rebranching toward more main-stream radio.
Do you ever havethoughts about going
to college?
Yeah, I was going tocollege before all this
started. I was in my f irst year.I was going to become a teacherbecause I used to work with kidsin my old job. As of right now,I almost have no thoughts forcollege because I’m focusingon Allstar Weekend, but if allfails, I would definitely go back.Working with kids is somethingI ... [am] planning on doing atsome point in my life.
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TAYLOR GARDNER
Staff Writer
Based on the new Securities and Exchange Comission (SEC) ruling on May 31, 2011, whistleblowers will receive up to 30 percent of any pen-alty exceeding $1 million. While preventing illegal white-collar activity is important, the implications of the new SEC legislation are far-reaching, with possible damaging effects. In ad-dition to the potentially high mon-etary award, the ruling lowered the standards by which informa-tion provided is considered for an award. According to the SEC’s
website, instead of requiring that the information acquired “would not have otherwise been obtained” and is “essential to the success of the action,” the SEC is requiring that information only signifi cantly contribute to the investigation. To some, the whistleblowers are simply reporting violations of securities laws and being re-warded accordingly. However, this hefty reward system lures whistleblowers away from in-ternal compliance procedures designed to prevent firms from paying large fines. The minimum reward a whis-tleblower will be eligible for in a
settlement is 10 percent on settle-ments over $1 million. That trans-lates into $100,000 for informa-tion that signifi cantly contributes to an investigation. And that’s just the minimum. Multi-million dollar settlements will kick back 10 to 30 percent of those sums in awards for whistleblowers. The US Chamber of Com-merce claims the large awards create a bounty program that will lure amateur sleuths in search of a big payday and are currently threatening legal action to block the SEC’s decision. Other oppo-nents fear that unnecessary whis-tles will be blown.
The simplest way for a firm to avoid being forced to pay these hefty fines is to prevent illegal actions from within. However, as has been shown, this is easier said than done. Even the best laid founda-tions for internal compliance are threatened by the awards the SEC proposes, as more whistleblowers will skip internal compliance and go straight to where the cash is. Now competing directly with the SEC, internal compliance needs to modify its tactics to keep mat-ters within the firm. A possible course of action for f irms wishing to keep mat-ters within the company could be to simply lure whistleblowers
in with a more competitive pay-out than that which the SEC of-fers. While expensive, this can still prove less costly than the large f ine the SEC would assign the company. Of course, this assumes that internal compliance can ac-curately assess the value of the fine the SEC would place on the violation. In this scenario, the whistleblower and the firm end up benefiting – the employee in the form of an award, and the em-ployer in the form of avoiding a hefty SEC fine. Greed may continue to cor-rupt corporate America, but the SEC plans to use that same prin-ciple to sniff out violations.
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2011
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MARC ARAKAKI
Sports Editor
While the focus is on the 2011 season, Warrior football head coach Greg McMackin spent the last two weeks eyeing out poten-tial recruits for the seasons ahead.
The Warriors hosted the 2011 Hawai‘i Football Summer Camps for students ages 13 through 17 the past two weeks at Cooke Field. The Big Man’s Camp for offensive and defensive linemen was from June 10-12, while the Skills Camp for wide receivers, defensive backs, quarterbacks, running backs, and tight ends was from June 17-19.
“We’re recruiting for 2013 and 2014 now, [and] obviously 2012,” McMackin said. “We’ve got a lot of offers out for 2012. You’re always looking for talent.”
But the main goal for the week is to let the students have fun while learning.
“It ’s my responsibility to put on an inexpensive camp for the kids of Hawai‘i,” McMackin said. “We want them to know that they can call us and use us as references ... They’re part of our ‘ohana. And then we work the technique and fundamentals
and make sure they have a good experience.”
And the camps weren’t just focused on football – McMackin said he feels academics are just as important as athletics.
“To the high school guys we had a [one hour] session for the two days for the kids and the par-ents about academics and gradu-ating,” McMackin said. “[For] a lot of these parents and kids, this is their fi rst experience at the Uni-versity of Hawai‘i.”
RECRUIT ING PROCESSThe Hawai‘i coaching staff is
able to take away a few positives from the camp as well.
“The values we get out of it is we get to know the kids of Hawai‘i, so if we see a guy that’s a good athlete [then we can recruit them], and we’ve offered about four scholarships and fi ve or six in the last couple of years [of the camp],” McMackin said. “They can do the drills and we can see what they’re like, and it gives them a chance to show their stuff to us, too.”
But there are many steps the coaching staff must follow to properly recruit a player.
“We can’t talk to a kid until he’s a senior,” McMackin said. “They can call us anytime, but we can’t call them until it ’s time to recruit them as a senior. They can send us their videos, put it on YouTube, and send us letters. We can follow them and talk to their coaches in the fall. It ’s a year-round process.”
And for Kamehameha Big Island senior wide receiver Keo-ni Wong, f lying out to O‘ahu for the camp was very important to get recognized.
“This camp is good because it helps us with our skills and getting better, and it also gives us a chance to meet the coaches and [it] gave us some exposure to colleges,” Wong said. “It ’s harder to get noticed on the Big Island because not too many camps come down there, but we need to make the effort to come up here to get noticed.”
UP NEXTThe football camp season
concludes this Saturday and Sun-day with the Kids Camp for ages 5 through 12. Both sessions will run from 9-11 a.m.
“We put on – which is my favorite camp – the keiki camp,” McMackin said. “It ’s a little-guy camp. We try to teach technique and make them have a positive ex-perience and have fun.”
To register for the Kids
Camp and other UH
summer camps, visit
hawaiiathletics.com
MARC ARAKAKI / KA LEO O HAWAI‘I
Coach Greg McMackin and his staff teach the importance of being a well-round-ed student and athlete in a series of football summer camps, which wrap up this weekend.
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