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VOLUME 102 ISSUE 53 T H E V O I C E Storybook season for Warriors BCS rewards undefeated Hawai‘i with Sugar Bowl matchup with Georgia A Sports | Page 8 WWW.KALEO.ORG EO KServing the students of the UniversityL of Hawai‘i at Mānoa since 1922 ISOLATE SHOWERS Wahine singinʻ the Blues Leaving Iraq the hard way Professor Profiles Volleyball bows out of NCAA Soldier bios end for the year Living up to Pōmaika‘i MONDAY H:75° L:73° Sports | Page 8 Commentary | Page 4 Mixed Plate | Page 5 DEC. 3, 2007 A ‘SWEET’ FINISH By Glendalyn Junio Ka Leo Associate Sports Editor Warriors Sugar Bowl-bound after come-from-behind Believe. It’s a simple word win and nation’s only undefeated season that has followed the University of Hawai‘i football squad all season. A sold-out crowd of 49,566 watched the Warriors rally from a 21-point deficit against the Washington Huskies (4-9, 2-7 Pac-10) Saturday night at Aloha Stadium to finish their 12-0 season with a 35-28 win and ultimately a Bowl Championship Series berth. The Warriors finished at the No. 10 spot in the BCS standings released on Sunday afternoon, giving them a bid to the BCS’s Allstate Sugar Bowl on Jan. 1 against the BCS No. 5 Georgia Bulldogs at the Superdome in New Orleans, La. “(The feelings) are indescribable. We‘ve been fighting through adversity all season long (and) we got it done today, and it‘s the best feeling of my life,” said junior defensive back Ryan Mouton. “Our motto all year has always been ‘Believe.’ Believe that we can come back and win it, and that’s what we did.” Despite a 21-0 hold over Hawai‘i well into the second quarter, the Huskies grasp was limited by a Warrior defense that refused to fold and Colt Brennan’s Heisman Trophy performance, backed JORDAN MURPH • KA LEO O HAWAI‘I by a receiving corps that put up 28 University of Hawai‘i’s Colt Brennan, Timo Paepule (right) and the rest of the Warriors celebrate after the announcement that Hawai‘i will face Georgia in the Sugar Bowl in New unanswered points in the end. Orleans, La., during a BCS bowl selection party at the Stan Sheri Center yesterday. “(The team) was committed to getting a win tonight. They played hard and I can’t be more proud of ∆ ∆ ∆ them,” head coach June Jones said. THE ALLSTATE SUGAR BOWL “It’s unbelievable; the (regular season) could not have ended better.” (10) Hawai‘i Georgia (5) Brennan threw a 5-yard touch- vs down pass to junior wide receiver Tuesday, Jan. 1, 3:30 p.m. HST on FOX See Warriors, page 2 News 2 MONDAY SURF OUTLOOK Mixed Plate 3 Commentary 4 S HONOLULU TIDES NORTH 12-18 Wave heights Huge, advisory-level WE‘RE HIRING! HI 12:50 A.M. | 11:22 A.M. WaterLog 6 SOUTH 1-2+ reported northwest swells through Check out page 4 to see open PLEASE LO 6:26 A.M. | 6:09 P.M. Cartoons 9 WEST 8-12 Hawaiian style, the rest of the week. positions you can apply for today RECYCLE S HALEIWA TIDES Puzzles & Classi eds 10 EAST 1-2 about half face or go to WWW.KALEO.ORG INSIDE TODAY Sports 11 HI N/A | 10:20 A.M. heights. MAHALO LO 4:21 A.M. | 4:04 P.M. WINDS 5-15 mph NW+NE SOURCE: NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE 2 Monday, Dec. 3, 2007 [email protected] Warriors: Team undefeated after 35-28 win over Huskies From page 1 University of Hawai‘i wide KA LEO O HAWAI‘I ANNOUNCES receiver Jason Rivers (84) crash- A SPECIAL ADVANCE SCREENING es to the ground Thursday, December 6, 2007 • 7:30 pm with Washington free safety Nate Dole Theatre Williams (39) at Aloha Stadium on Saturday night. Hawai‘i beat Washington 35-28 to remain undefeated on the season. JORDAN MURPH KA LEO O HAWAI‘I Ryan Grice-Mullins to take their first lead of the game, Senior quarterback Brennan was near perfect on and Mouton intercepted a deflected pass in the end the night, throwing 42-of-50 for 442 yards, five touch- zone to secure their undefeated season and end any downs and no interceptions, including 6-of-6 on the Huskies hope of an upset finish. 76-yard winning drive. The Warriors took a 35-28 lead “It was a great game. Coming in, I had a feeling after Grice-Mullins lunged into the end zone on a 5- that we were going to have to dig deep for the win,” yard slant pass with only 44 seconds left in the game. senior wide receiver C.J. Hawthorne said. “(Then), lo “Coach Jones trusted me on that last call. I and behold, we got into a 21-point hole. But, praise God we just kept believing, and kept digging, kept clawing and we were able to come out with a win.” See Warriors, page 11 Man photographing woman in shower sought By Michelle White “I grabbed my ceramics ond and third floors of Hale Ka Leo Staff Reporter knife and ran down the hall. I Kahawai, while males occupy saw a group of women and one the remaining two floors. The Early Friday morning, a man lady in a towel who was visibly doors at Hale Kahawai auto- took pictures, with his camera terrified,” Yahudah said. matically lock, and desks are not phone, of a female student show- Yahudah and other women manned at night because it is an ering at the Hale Kahawai dorm saw a man fitting the description upperclassmen dorm. of the University of Hawaiʻi at of the suspect. Campus Security issued a Mānoa. The student had been “The guy was pacing back crime alert at 10:16 a.m. that showering in the third floor and forth in the lounge. When he lists the suspect as 5-foot-8, 160 shower room when she heard a saw us, he ran out the door and to 180 lbs., possibly Asian or click and saw an arm holding a we chased him,” Yahudah said. Polynesian, with clean-cut dark phone. HPD also gave chase, but the hair, tan complexion, and wear- Yoerllah Yahudah, a student suspect was able to get away. ing a dark shirt and khaki shorts. and resident of Hale Kahawai, She added that she and oth- Security was not notified until woke to terrified screams at ers in the dorm are fearful. 6:23 a.m. Present your valid UH Student ID at the 6:07 a.m. Females occupy the sec- HPD is currently search- ing for the suspect, according to Ka Leo building from 12:00 noon today T H E V O I C E Gregg Takayama, the UH direc- A Ka Leo O Hawai‘i is the campus newspaper of the University tor of communications. to get your complimentary pass! K LEO of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. It is published by the Board of Publica- tions three times a week except on holidays and during “Measurements have been Ka Leo O Hawai‘i exam periods. Circulation is 10,000. 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Subscription rates are $36 for A meeting will be held with limited. One pass admits two. Web site www.kaleo.org one semester and $54 for one year. © 2007 Ka Leo O Hawai‘i residents to discuss options and ideas. [email protected] Monday, Dec. 3, 2007 3 Financial strain contributes to homelessness By Casey Chin A helping hand from UH Ka Leo Staff Reporter In effort to better understand The beaches are full, the parks what the contributing factors leading are closed, the shelters are over- to homelessness are, the Center on the flowing and Harmony Lauritzen Family at the University of Hawai‘i has no place to call home. Hawai‘i’s at Mānoa conducted to studies on the high cost of living and inadequate issue. The research of each revealed living wages make it is easy to how much the cost of living and become homeless. homelessness in Hawai‘i are related. “Anybody could be homeless,” The Homeless Service Utilization Lauritzen said. One of 150 people in Report 2007 was conducted by the Homeless Programs Branch of the the women’s shelter at the Institute Hawai‘i Public Housing Authority, as for Human Services, Inc, Lauritzen well as the university. has been homeless for about a year. “It really is the most compre- Lauritzen said she was just like any- hensive data system that’s available body else, until she became one of on the homeless,” said Sylvia Yuen, Hawai‘i’s more than 6,000 homeless one of the authors of the report.