Native Birds Claim Campus Trees As Home

Dealing with addiction Course leads to college success Underworld review Page2 Page4 Pagel Tuesday, September 30, 2003 University ofHawai'i Kapi'olani Community College Volume# 37 Issue 6 Native birds claim campus trees as home By Justin Hahn of its namesake. It is a delicate flier, News Editor and can be seen hovering among tree branches like a honeycreeper. Many Finches and pigeons. Sparrows and times, they glide along in a pair, mynas. Mourning doves, cardinals almost caressing the wind currents in and robbins. With so many intro a graceful ballet on their way to the duced species around, it is easy to ocean and back to where they nest. forget that native birds like the three In some ways, however, it is wrong to fairy terns in the trees above the Kalia say that they nest anywhere. building still call KCC home. "The mother lays her egg balancing Also known as the manu-o-ku, it on a branch;' said Robin Fujikawa, a is native to coasts around the trop KCC religion teacher and an avid fairy ics, but the residents of Hawaii in tern watcher. "It is there that the chick particular have a special affinity for is born and raised without any nest:' the bird. Many marvel at the bird's Fujikawa has watched this particular delicate appearance, calling it the breeding pair for a number of years. "Tinkerbell of the Sea:' Its feathers His office in Kalia allows him a good are pure white - so white in fact that view of the banyan tree in which the the wings appear nearly translucent birds roost. He also sees them in the when backlit by the sun. Its eyes are skies above the campus and around of the deepest midnight blue and are town. He observes not only the male likened to those of a stuffed animal and female, which mate for life, but both in appearance and their effect also their chick. He has tracked the on human hearts. Strangely enough, progress of the chick from the begin the skin beneath its milky feathers ning of its life in an egg, balancing is completely black, and its feet, legs tenuously on a branch, until now. He and the base of its beak are an irides cent blue. See BIRDS, page 5 Its behaviors, too, appear like those Future site of culinary school burns New birth control offers an By Justin Hahn The Department of Land and Natu Culinary Arts Program Chairperson, alternative to 28-day cycle News Editor ral Resources (DLNR) is set to trans a two-year program, like the one at fer the 7.5-acre property under the KCC, will not give students the prepa By Clint Kaneoka President of Barr Research, in a press In the wee hours of Sunday, Sept. 21 , Cannon Club in the next 1-2 weeks to ration they need to excel in the food Copy Editor release on Sept. 5. "For those women 'the abandoned Cannon Club caught the University of Hawaii. service business. More education is who prefer the convenience of fewer fire, burning much of the interior, but The building, which had been needed for higher positions. A new birth control product that periods, Seasonale offers a safe and not altering the University ofHawai'i's appraised at $450,000, was not a part If the college does offer this pro is designed to reduce the number of effective alternative to the traditional plans to develop it as a way to offer an of the plan for the culinary institute, gram, they will still be accredited as times a woman has her period from 28-day oral contraceptive regimen." advanced four-year culinary degree. according to KCC Chancellor John a two-year institution. However, it is 13 to 4 per year is scheduled to arrive Although Seasonale limits a wom "Nothing that happened changes Morton. still not known if KCC will operate the in pharmacies throughout the nation an's period to four times a year, the pill anything," said KCC Chancellor John "It was never the intention to use program alone, or in conjunction with in late October. itself is no different from the current Morton. the original building;' Morton said. one or more colleges. Seasonale, which is produced by one - except for its packaging. The pill The Honolulu Fire Department "It had to be torn down and rebuilt In addition to food, the restaurant Barr Laboratories, Inc., will work contains essentially the same ingredi said that the cause of the fire is still anyway." will also serve a purpose to the Dia under the same guidelines as the ents as the current pill, but will simply unknown. Most structure fires with The institute would be an extension mond Head area. In keeping with the current pill, except it will be taken be taken at longer intervals without a out criminal origins are sparked by an of the University of Hawai'i, and used Diamond Head Master Plan, the res on a 91-day regimen instead of on a placebo. electrical malfunction. The Cannon as a teaching restaurant. While the taurant's parking lot would serve as an 28-day one. The new product will be "It's nothing new, its something Club has not been in use for the past specifics are still being worked out, auxiliary lot for patrons of Diamond taken as 84 active tablets, followed by we've been doing for 20, 30 years;' six years, and thus, had no electrical the general idea is to serve reason Head State Park when the restaurant 7 placebo pills to trigger menstrua said Paul Norris, M.D., a professor of power. The HFD maintains that it ably priced dishes to the public while is not in use. The restaurant is meant tion, thereby allowing women to have obstetrics/gynecology at the Univer found no physical evidence to suggest providing students with a four-year to service customers in the evenings their periods seasonally. sity of Miami School of Medicine, in a foul play, however, and does not know culinary arts degree. and during the weekends. The restau- "With the approval of Seasonale, Sept. 5 interview with WebMD. "I have the extent of the damage or how much Currently, KCC only offers culinary women have a new choice when it has brought down the value of the education for the first two years of See CANNON CLUB, page 5 deciding on oral contraception;' See BIRTH CONTROL, page 4 property. college. According to Ron Takahashi, said Carole S. • Ben-Maimon, M.D., VIEWPOINTS KAPi'O My family's fight with addiction By Jesse Young captive by his manipulative ways and siblings were still at our long-time Staff Writer addictions. residence, and were still trying to find Eventually he began to abuse her an apartment. As luck would have it, What is your most 0 WE REALLY KNOW WHAT DRUGS CAN DO TO A mentally and she slowly began to a one bedroom was available right embarassing person, a family, a community, a city, a state, a nation, realize that he was more trouble than on the opposite side of my little one a world? I think we may be starting to. Hawai'i's recent he was worth. I was overjoyed when room studio, so I let them know about moment? she began to stand up for herself and it and they secured the rental. They D attention to our ice epidemic has brought about a new tell him that she'd had enough. They moved from a three-bedroom house awareness of drugs and their effect on our lives. I am just one of many would fight and make up, over and into a one-bedroom apartment, so who have encountered the destruction of drug addiction first hand. over again, but with each absence you can imagine the lack of space that This is my story... shined a speck of hope that he would was created by all of our possessions. be gone one day. My mother couldn't afford anything I have an early childhood memory. blink an eye, he had moved in with The day when he would be out of bigger, and was pressed for time, so I was around 7 seven years old, and us. He was a nice guy at first, but soon our lives did eventu;Uly come, even she settled for the small apartment. I went into my mother's room and he began to seem strange. Sometimes though it took five painful, frustrat I thought things were going to be opened up one of her dresser drawers. he was the nicest guy, at times he was ing and frightening years. However, -fine! I was living on my own and my I don't remember what I was looking a nervous mess and would yell and the way it happened brought on new family was still at arms length, were for, but that does not matter now. swear at the smallest things, and other problems for my family. We had been I could still eat my mother's home Inside her drawer I found a small times he would stare into space with living on property that belonged to cooked meals and look after them as dear zip lock bag with what looked no realization of anything happening my great grandmother, and when she I had learned to do through past years Karen Owen: "My pants fell off like parts of a plant. The bag had tiny around him. He would be paranoid passed away in 2001, the house went of struggle.

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