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Inside News 2, 3 Features 5, 7 Thursday Editorials 4 August 10, 2006 Comics 6 Sports 8 VOL. 100 | ISSUE 11 Serving the students of the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa since 1922 WWW.KALEO.ORG Reminder: What to do with the On a scale from Ka Leo O Hawai‘i will not print the week of bird droppings 1 to 10, August 14 through 18. We on your car Herbert is 11 will resume printing on August 21. Features | Page 5 Features | Page 5 CampusBeat Shortened Compiled by Dannah Gonzales Unfinalized plan would summer Tuesday, August 1 8:15 a.m. – There was a confrontation sessions between a man and a woman after a road rage incident at the Varsity mollify online research mean longer Gate. It ended when the woman’s sons showed up. Digitalization How to digitize books Step 3: Upload to hardrive and crop class times According to Dave Reedy images. 10:23 a.m. – A staff member reported efforts are putting Pages are stored and page edges are that he tripped while running towards Step 1: Remove pages from the book visually adjusted to minimize page Proposal would the Sinclair Circle bus stop. with a bandsaw. irregularities. UH libraries online Pages must be removed from bind- change sessions 1:46 p.m. – A KOKUA staff member ing to process individually. Cutting Step 4: Save the files. requested that security assist a handi- By Keyana Stevens is done by hand to minimize curling Pages are archived into a database from 6 weeks to 5 capped individual who had a mishap and organized into manageable sec- Ka Leo Contributing Writer near the spine. on Campus Road. Security checked tions. By Dannah Gonzales the area and found no one in need of Step 2: Scan pages through a PDF assistance. If Bob Schwartzwalder has his Dave Reedy is a student at the UH Ka Leo Staff Writer way, students at the University of scanner. Stacks of pages are auto-fed through Botany Department who has digi- Hawai‘i at Mānoa will no longer have 1:53 p.m. – A report was made about a the scanner’s mouth, scanned into pdf tized a collection of literature for his While summer school stu- man harassing two women at the dor- to come down to Hamilton Library form and spit back out. A three-fourth personal archive. The digital collec- dents may be able to catch more mitories. Campus Security found the to do their research — they can sit inch thick book can be scanned in tion is particularly useful for botanists rays on the beach next summer, man in the laundry room. He said that at home in front of the computer less than five minutes. doing field research, he said. they may also have to face lon- he was waiting for his friend. instead. ger, more intense summer school Schwartzwalder, the Associate pletely destroyed; our machines were Currently, the library has digi- classes and course loads. 7:50 p.m. – A vehicle was found with University Librarian for Information destroyed,” Schwartzwalder said. “It tized several collections unique to the School officials have pro- an open trunk containing personal Technology at UH, is the leader of took us three months to reopen the UH Mānoa library: the Trust Territory posed shorter summer sessions belongings. However, security found an effort within the UH library sys- library, even though the floodwaters Photo Collection, which contains over for the University of Hawai‘i no signs of forced entry. tem to digitize documents and other didn’t touch most of the books. So if 50,000 photographs and 2000 slides; at Mānoa for implementation media and put them online for student you’re a student who’s trying to finish a collection of documents detailing this upcoming school year. Some 8:42 p.m. – A faculty resident com- use. Though the effort to create a a project or a paper to graduate, this is the Annexation of Hawai‘i, which reasons for a condensed class plained about people drinking and searchable Digital Archive Collection meaningful.” includes a full version of the Blount are: better preparation for stu- making noise by Mānoa Stream. (DAC) has been under way for two The library’s effort to put together Report, the Hawai‘i Organic Act, and dents, faculty and the university Security checked the area and did not network, in addition to attracting find any activity. years, flooding in October of 2004 a DAC focuses mainly on documents, the Kū‘ē Petition; and many articles postponed work on the digitization research projects and papers and col- from Hawaiian language newspapers more mainland students. If the proposal is approved, – A report was made by a effort while librarians focused on lections of photographs that were pro- published from 1834 to 1948. Several 11:23 p.m. each of the two regular summer UH dormitory resident complaining reopening Hamilton following severe duced or are owned by the UH system. of these documents are now available about people partying, shouting and water damages. “It’s not as if ... someone is doing a to view on the Hamilton Library web sessions will end a week earlier, making too much noise. “When the flood hit, within three research project and says, ‘I need the page. cutting the original six weeks business days, we had access to our entire text to a certain book,’” said “Our end goal is to be able to to five. The week cut from the Thursday, August 3 electronic journals’ backup, despite Jonelle Sage, who works at Hamilton offer library users access ... to our own schedule will be recompensed by changing each class from a 5:13 a.m. – A custodian reported see- the fact that our server was com- Library. library collections through our web ing a man lying on the grass beside his bike by the Sinclair Library. Security See LIBRARY, page 2 See SUMMER, page 3 found that the individual was intoxi- cated. He had fallen off his bike while riding down University Avenue. Friday, August 4 11:43 a.m. – An anonymous caller Success erupts for UH volcanologist By Katherine Visaya 350 to 400 assistant professors reported a man and woman playing who have received grants from chicken with cars on Dole Street. Ka Leo Staff Writer Security was unable to find the indi- the NSF’s Faculty Early Career viduals. Despite living in Kentucky Program in the same year of their — miles away from any “natural nomination. 1:24 p.m. – A woman accidentally cut bombs,” Julia Hammer fell in love Hammer was awarded a five- her finger at Bilger Hall. An ambu- with volcanoes. year $535,786 career grant in lance was called to tend to the injury. Hammer, who became assis- 2005. tant professor in the Department She focuses her work on mag- 4:12 p.m. – A woman reported that her of Geology and Geophysics at the matic processes and on how volca- purse was stolen by two men on bicy- University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, noes behave during eruptions. cles near the music building complex. was honored with the Presidential Hammer received her Bachelor The men were seen heading towards Varsity Gate. Early Career Award for Scientists of Arts degree in Earth Sciences and Engineers last month. from Dartmouth College in New 5:21 p.m. – Hawaiian Studies staff She received the award at the Hampshire. She attended graduate members informed security that the White House and at the National school at the University of Oregon imu at the Kānewai lō‘ī would be lit Science Foundation in Washington, where she received her doctoral all night. D.C. degree in geological sciences and “It was really exciting. We later learned the methods of exper- Saturday, August 5 met with the President, his policy imental volcanology at Brown ASHLEY BASTATS • KA LEO O HAWAI‘I 10:10 a.m. – A woman reported that advisor and the top administrators University in Rhode Island. she needed to return to Korea but did of the NSF,” Hammer said. UH volcanologist Julia Hammer, who recently won a National Science Foundation award for her In 2002 Hammer accepted her not have her visa. Her research focuses on work in studying volcanic eruptions, demonstrates how to open a pressure vessel. job at UH where she teaches five 6:17 p.m. – A group of football players “understanding the kinetics of geology courses. mineral growth in magma con- gy,” Hammer said. nated that someone would literally “I had never been to Hawai‘i tried to move their friend’s vehicle out A photograph in a magazine risk his life for a rock. It was then of a parking stall. duits and their chambers and has before my interview,” Hammer potential for transforming our inspired Hammer and brought her that I realized that there are excit- said. “So, I was really excited to Sunday, August 6 understanding of how fast and at to where she is today. ing careers out there.” move here and to have the oppor- 4:17 a.m. – An EMS dispatcher assisted what stage of the eruptive process “When I was a kid, I saw this Among the 20 recipients tunity to study Hawaiian volca- a person who fell off a bike. magmas crystallize,” as stated in picture in a National Geographic nominated by the NSF this year, noes.” the NSF web site. magazine of a volcanologist col- Hammer was the only geoscientist At UH, Hammer has devoted – Someone reported a man 12:00 p.m. “It’s sort of strange that I lecting rock samples during an to receive the award, which was sleeping at Kuykendall Hall.