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Inside News 2 Features 3, 5 Monday Commentary 4 September 11, 2006 Comics 6 Sports 7, 8 VOL. 101 | ISSUE 24 Serving the students of the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa since 1922 WWW.KALEO.ORG Highs and lows for ‘Idlewild,’ a stew the Wahine over of ‘too-muchery,’ the weekend lacks editing Sports | Page 7-8 Features | Page 5 Counter Poet from Aotearoa reads on campus costs; she tries her best to be sitting Strike New Zealand author whenever in her suitors’ presence. With her husband Sullivan, promotes recent book, Kennedy edits an on-line literary reinforces magazine called Trout. It can be ‘The Time of the Giants’ found at www.trout.auckland.ac.nz. The most recent issue of Trout was team work combined with Tinfish and edited by By Blaine Tolentino Susan Schultz. Elite players take Ka Leo Staff Reporter “[Hawai‘i is] a small place – we have much the same problem part in team Anne Kennedy, the University in Aotearoa (New Zealand). We’ve of Hawai‘i at Mānoa’s current resi- got 4 million people, but that’s still “rhythms” study dent writer, will be reading some small,” Kennedy said. “But that said, of her work tomorrow night at 7:00 [writing] festivals aren’t everything. p.m. at the Hawai‘i Institute of You can get too carried away with By Justin Hedani Geology auditorium. thinking festivals are writing. They’re Ka Leo Senior Reporter Kennedy says she feels her just the public face of it. Only writing most recent book, “The Time of the is writing. And there’s some amazing When someone says“Counter Giants,” a particular point of pride. writing happening here.” Strike,” many college students The book, actually a long narra- The UH English department think of a first-person shooter tive poem, explains the relationship offers several festivals a year includ- video game, a loaded rifle and between a young woman giant and ing the up-coming Colloquium and a group of college students with a - “medium-sized,” as she puts it Reading Series. nothing better to do. - man. To Kennedy, some especially For researchers at Pacific “Sometimes a storyline drops memorable writers have read works Telehealth and Technology at UH in the past include Mahealani Hui, which is associated with into your lap and I felt pleased Kamau‘u, W.S. Merwin and Martin the Department of Defense and this one had because it says some- Espada. Veteran Affairs, else can be said thing about the way we think young “There are small festivals going about the term “Counter Strike.” women should look and behave,” on here that are amazing,” Kennedy To them, it’s a scientific tool Kennedy said, whose husband, said. to measure teamwork. Robert Sullivan, teaches writing at Kennedy said that she is a fan Investigators stationed in the UH. “Young women seem to be of Rodney Morales, Gary Pak and East Wing of the Spark Matsunaga more concerned about conforming Haunani-Kay Trask. In Ka Leo VA Medical Center, located at than they were, say, a generation news, a recent article announcing Tripler Hospital, sent out fliers ago.” her arrival as the distinguished writ- and aired radio ads on KTUH Kennedy speaks of her giant DIANA KIM • Ka Leo o Hawai‘i er in the residence of the UH English girl as someone who is entirely Anne Kennedy, the UH English department writer in residence, reads a passage from her book willing to conform to the ideas of See Study, page 2 in February. She will be reading from her new book tomorrow at 7 p.m. society by hiding her height at all See Poet, page 2 Women’s Center hits on the serious issues undergraduate and graduate stu- Serving as a refuge dents regardless of their back- ground. This mission helps to and casual hangout strengthen the multicultural and gender-sensitive aspects of the for all genders university and fosters an environ- ment free of racism, sexism and By Nina Buck homophobia.” Ka Leo Contributing Writer The Women’s Center is home to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and The Women’s Center at the Transgender Student Services Queen Lili‘uokalani Center For Office, supported by students at Student Services is comfortable UH. It is also home to Program and air conditioned. There is a Against Violence To Women, fridge available for student use which deals with issues of partner as well as a microwave. There’s a violence, sexual assault and stalk- play area for children and a library ing on campus. fully stocked with hundreds of “Follow your gut,” Quemel books and magazines, journals and said. “If you have these bad feel- videos. ings, come to us because we are But the center is more than a going to try to make you feel safer place to hang out. It is where many on campus.” students go to feel safe. The Women’s Center is locat- “You can come to us in good ed in room 211 at the Queen times and in bad,” said Women’s Lili‘uokalani Center for Student Center director Christine Quemel. PHOTO BY GABE EL-SWAIFY • Ka Leo o Hawai‘i Services. It’s the only place in the The center offers crisis refer- The Women’s Center at UH is a place where students not only go to hang out, but to receive referral services in times of crisis. building where students can get ral services to connect individu- feminine sanitary products. Men als with resources for emergency tion, the Women’s Center spon- Month and October is Domestic Sexual Assault Awareness Month. are also welcome at the center. situations such as intimate partner sors various programs and special Violence Awareness Month. In According to their Web site, “It’s a safe space for every- violence, sexual assault, homeless- events. March, they celebrate Women’s “The Women’s Center is devoted one, where everyone feels wel- ness and legal problems. In addi- September is Women’s Health History Month, while in April, it is to supporting the careers of both comed and invited,” Quemel said. Ka Leo o Hawai‘i News Page 2 | Monday, September 11, 2006 Editor: Matthew K. Ing | (808) 956-3221 | [email protected] all from different parts of the US,” said “Beast,” adding despite that, they all had a commonality in Study shooter video games. Poet Participants included 30 From page 1 From page 1 male college-educated students, 75.8 percent White, 12.1 percent informing the public of the research Native Hawaiian, and 6 percent department, Kennedy cited Flannery being done, which required advanced Asian, all averaging an age of O’Connor and Alice Monroe as two X-Box players to participate in a about 26 years old. of her favorite writers. study to examine the components of At the end of the session, Though Kennedy does admire well-performing teams. each player filled out a question- other writers, she does not want to “We basically were looking at naire about how time passed dur- mirror their styles. “I admire those team performance, a group rhythm,” ing game play and how each indi- writers greatly – Flannery O’Connor explained Dr. Leigh Jerome, the Hui’s vidual felt about his leadership for the grotesque thing she has going Director of Extramural Research. status within the group, giving – but you can’t set out to write like With the use of wearable biosensors, the researchers a psychological another writer. the SenseWear PRO2 armband and ground for evaluation. “For one thing, you have to have the LifeShirt vest, researchers moni- Participants received a $20 your own voice. Writing is about tored players’ biometrics to obtain gift card of their choosing. “Beast” voice. If you have a voice you can do physiological data from the player. took one for Longs Drugs. The anything with it,” Kennedy said. “So The PRO2 measured body tem- best performing team received a in fact reading a writer you hugely perature, skin temperature, water NANCY FARAJ • Ka Leo o Hawai‘i one year subscription to X-Box admire could be a disadvantage while content in the skin and movement. Investigators are now tapping into the dynamic of popular first-person shooter videogames. Live. you were in the intense stages of writ- The LifeShirt basically took readings ing a particular piece. Janet Frame, Male students at UH are the sole subjects of the research. Based on physiological vari- from the heart and certain parts of the ables only, measured by the arm- one of our most esteemed writers inner body. The PRO2, weighing 2.9 difficulty levels we started form- outside of it. band and the vest, the researchers from Aotearoa, said she didn’t read ounces and the LifeShirt weighing ing attack strategies which helped “It wasn’t just about a video could predict 27 percent of the any fiction at all while she was writ- eight ounces allowed for minimal us when levels got harder, we also game, it was about the team,” said team’s performance ranking. ing a novel. She only read poetry.” discomfort while playing. got to know each other’s strength “Beast,” adding that if a team mem- “We found that certain teams Kennedy calls the teaching that “Teams played against the and weaknesses,” said “Beast”, a ber was late or did not show up to a do have more of an advantage... individuals on fellowships have to do computer on three different maps at Counter Strike participant’s, in-game session, the overall score for the team [and] that you can distinguish an “American thing,” something not increasing difficulty,” Jerome said.

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