Rape on Campus

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By Ansley Brown of students and employees. In 2001 there were 249,000 Ka Leo Contributing Writer Congress passed the Student victims of rape, attempted rape or Right-to-Know and Campus Security sexual assault. These are only the In college, parties are preva- Act in 1990 to require all Title IV reported incidents. College campuses lent, alcohol flows freely, and sexual eligible schools to publicly disclose have become an area of increased assaults are becoming commonplace. crime statistics and security policies sexual assaults. Based on a survey A study published this year with and procedures on campus. Fewer of 2,438 institutions, failure to report support from the U.S. Department than 40 percent of colleges and uni- all required data was common, as of Justice brings to light a new epi- were problems related to investigat- demic: the underreporting of sexual ing sexual assault cases. assaults. “There was All Title IV eligible schools are During September of this semes- required to provide Annual Security ter, there was a party on campus no crime Reports detailing the amounts of on- held annually by law school students. campus crimes including forced and Early that morning, the Honolulu because there was non-forced sexual assaults, burglary, Police Department and Campus theft and vandalism. Security responded to a call about no victim.” There are several problems that an apparent sexual assault. Several have arisen when reporting sexual male students reported seeing anoth- — Donald Dawson, crimes. As a result of highly publi- er male assaulting a female. UH campus security captain. cized campus sexual assault trials, When HPD and Campus Security there have been numerous allega- arrived, the girl had left. The wit- tions of reports being mishandled by nesses recounted what they had seen, school officials. Only 37.6 percent but, because the girl was gone, no versities are in full-compliance with of all schools require sexual assault formal report was made. University the law that requires crime statistics on rapes and sexual assaults. of Hawai‘i Campus Security captain See Rape, page 2 Donald Dawson stated that “there was no crime because there was no victim.” The University of Hawai‘i Women’s Center coordinates the Sexual Assault If the University of Hawai‘i Prevention Team, SAPT, a co-ed peer educational program that educates had policies allowing third-party students on sexual assault and relationship violence prevention. Peer reporting, this incident would have educators receive special training provided by the Women’s Center, been made public to all students and the Counseling Student Development Center, Campus Security, and the faculty while keeping the victim’s Kapi‘olani Sex Abuse Treatment Center. andrew shimabuku • Ka Leo O Hawai‘i identification confidential. Reporting sexual assaults is helpful in prevent- Debbie Kohn worked on a design for Kanewai District Park for a school Located at: Queen Lili‘uokalani Center for Student Services, Rm. 211, ing similar crimes from occurring Phone: 956-8059, Fax: 956-9314, E-mail: [email protected] project Monday afternoon in the architecture building. and in protecting the personal safety Clinton lectures Seaweed anyone? Volunteers participate at Waikiki Aquarium’s Alien on globalization Algae Clean-up on Saturday. By Andrew Whelan & Hilary struction of Germany after World Costa War II, as an example of the types The California Aggie of policies the United States should (U. California-Davis) be pursuing in the 21st century. If people receive American assistance (U-WIRE) DAVIS, Calif. — then they will be far less likely to turn Interdependence, integration and to terrorism, he reasoned. globalization. Just another lecture on “Foreign assistance is national an average day at the University security, not charity,” Clinton said, of California at Davis, but with a adding later that “it would be the best not-so-average lecturer: William money we ever spent.” Jefferson Clinton, the 42nd President “We need to spend more money to make more partners and fewer of the United States. Katie Block Visibly fatigued and hoarse- terrorists,” Clinton said, eliciting Ka Leo O Hawai‘i voiced from the early November elec- applause from the 1,800-person full tions, former President Clinton took house in Jackson Hall. the stage at the Robert and Margrit But the greatest and most impor- Mondavi Center for the Performing tant challenge facing today’s younger Arts to a resounding standing ovation generation is developing “habits of Sunday afternoon, following a brief the mind and heart to live in a global introduction by UCD Chancellor environment,” he said. Larry Vanderhoef. Citing spiritual doctrine from various faiths, Clinton emphasized Clinton, perhaps the highest- ticket in town since his lecture date was Lai announced that Clinton would stop mer President joked that the Freeborn profile speaker ever to visit UCD, the importance of embracing those announced weeks ago. The audience at Freeborn Hall before leaving UCD. audience was lucky not to have paid launched into a historical, scientific who are different. “People have consisted mainly of Mondavi Center Clinton pulled up to the west to hear him speak, then addressed the and mostly philosophical examina- always wanted to think more of donors, invited guests and students entrance of Freeborn Hall in a caravan crowd briefly about the impact individ- tion of the challenges we face in themselves by thinking less of other who waited overnight for the chance of of sport utility vehicles and police cars. ual citizens can make to affect change. today’s increasingly globalized envi- people,” he said. Clinton’s trademark personable- ronment. Speaking to the nearly 300 stu- securing one of 150 seats originally set With a flock of Secret Service agents aside for those enrolled at UCD. After in tow, he crossed the bike path and ness shined as he descended from the He painted a Hobbesian portrait dents in the audience, Clinton said stage to meet and greet his audience of life in the newly interdependent he is optimistic that the future will those tickets were sold, a waiting list shook hands with Patwin Elementary was created in case extra seats became School student Lucas Tuttle and his with handshakes and high-fives. The world: at best, insecure and confined; be a safer place because today’s stu- hall’s 27 rows of seats emptied as the available. father, Martin. Lucas thanked Clinton at worst, “miserable and deadly.” dents have more information, knowl- audience rushed to the Secret Service- After Clinton’s address at the for writing back after he sent the former Clinton discussed a security edge and, if nothing else, little option laden barricade, some climbing over strategy that strives for integration other than to establish a more secure Mondavi Center, the 635 students and President a letter. the chairs that stood in their way, for — an international atmosphere that world. community members who streamed into “I’m glad you received it,” Clinton a chance to get up close to the former thrives on cooperation and partner- “We will share the future Freeborn Hall to watch a live simulcast replied. ships between states. He cited the because we have no choice,” he of Clinton’s speech jumped to their feet Freeborn Hall again erupted with Marshall Plan, the U.S.-funded recon- said. Clinton’s speech was the hottest and cheered as ASUCD President C.S. applause when Clinton arrived. The for- See Clinton, page 2 Ka Leo O Hawai‘i TODAY IN HISTORY SURF FORECAST TODAY’S WEATHER On November 19, 1969, Brazilian South Shore ...... 1-3 feet Mostly Clear Soccer legend Pelé scores his East Shore ...... 0-2 feet Isolated Showers 1,000th professional goal against West Shore...... 0-2 feet Vasco da Gama. He scored 1,280 North Shore ...... 2-4 feet 82-88º goals in 1,363 games over his career. No Marine Warnings Trades 10-20 m.p.h. NEWSPage 2 | Tuesday, November 19, 2002 Associate Editors: Beth Fukumoto and Lisa Huynh | (808) 956-3221 | [email protected] Clinton: Students find Gender roles Bovine ex-prez ‘inspirational’ head From page 1 conflict with one another. Some came to the Mondavi Center add to rape on Sunday with another message: pro- found in After viewing the speech, many test. Members of various university By Myiah Hutchens by the time they reach college. were impressed by Clinton’s oratory employee unions and about 15 anti- Daily Evergreen Leibnitz said rape is partially skills and his message of hope for the war protesters demonstrated across the (Washington State U.) facilitated by the way men and future. “This is a great opportunity for street from the theater’s main entrance. women are socialized. UA dorm students to be exposed to such role Others, like Kevin Greene, were (U-WIRE) PULLMAN, Wash. — Women are taught to value models,” said junior Omid Bakhtar, unimpressed with Clinton’s speech. Sexual victimization may be more emotions, but men are taught to By Devin Simmons who had the chance to shake Clinton’s Greene, an anti-war protester and prevalent than many Americans value rules, she said. Women Arizona Daily Wildcat hand at Freeborn Hall. “It brings out the 1994 UCD graduate, called Clinton’s think. tend to favor a few close friends, (U. Arizona) humanitarianism in all of us.” $100,000 speaking fee a waste of This revelation comes from whereas men tend to favor groups. Sophomore Allison Okamoto was money. He said the money could have a study released by the National (U-WIRE) TUCSON, Ariz. — Two more than 80 spots down on the waiting For women, the function of lan- been spent on lecturers’ salaries or to Institute of Justice and the Bureau custodians disposed of a cow’s head list after spending three hours in line, guage is to create intimacy. For offset student fees. of Justice Statistics that sampled found at the bottom of the west stair- but last week she received a ticket for men, the function of language is Greene also said some of Clinton’s 4,446 women in two- and four- to determine hierarchy. well in Coronado Residence Hall last the 12th row at the Mondavi Center. year colleges across the nation. messages were contradictory, like his Leibnitz said she believes Tuesday. She called Clinton’s address “inspira- According to the survey, for The cow’s head had initially call for weapons of mass destruction to these factors, combined with the tional.” every 1,000 female students there been found by a student, who notified be destroyed in other countries when gender stereotypes that already “I think he’s a really good speak- were 35.5 rapes and 27.7 women a desk assistant. The desk assistant the United States owns a large stockpile exist in our society, leads to high- er,” she said. victimized. Some women are vic- then informed Valerie Ross, a custo- Mondavi Center charter member as well. er instances of rape. At the end of the speech, timized more than once, which dian on the premises. Sonja Armour of Elk Grove said she accounts for the lower number of Another problem faced by Ross and Elizabeth Raso of has been dismayed by the news she Vanderhoef announced that Clinton women raped as compared to the men and women is different Facilities Management cleaned up reads in the newspaper, but Clinton’s was donating $15,000 of his speaking number of rapes, according to the expectations and goals for com- the scene by putting the head in a speech gave her a sense of hope she fee toward the UCD General Student results. The survey is considered munication, Leibnitz asserted. trash compactor used by the custodial did not expect. Specifically, Armour Scholarship Fund — easily surpassing to be one of the most complete She explained that women staff, the police report stated. said she was touched by the potential the sum of money that students spent on surveys ever done because many tend to communicate more “This is the first time I have ever of people to come together instead of tickets for the event. surveys measuring sexual vic- through body language and tend seen anything like this,” Raso said. timization rely on only one col- not to be as forceful. Studies Raso also reported the unusual find lege, while this survey questioned show that unless a woman spe- to the University of Arizona Police females from multiple colleges cifically says “no,” the man is Department. of different sizes from different going to interpret her actions to Cmdr. Brian Seastone said it regions. mean “yes.” was difficult to determine whether The study looked at 12 dif- Men’s perceptions of social the discovery of the cow’s head was ferent types of sexual victim- norms also add to the high rate of a legitimate concern or just a tasteless ization, including attempted rapes, Leibnitz said. joke. and completed rape, threatened, She cited a social norms “I would say that something attempted or completed coercion, study that showed 90 percent of like this is definitely out of the blue,” unwanted sexual contact, stalk- males agreed with the statement, Seastone said. ing, and visual and verbal sexual “There is nothing cool about get- Some residents in the dorm had victimization. ting a woman drunk in order to no idea of the discovery, but said that Gretalyn M. Leibnitz, sexu- have sex with her.” But those this is a little more out of the ordinary ality education coordinator for same males said only 23 percent than usual. Washington State University’s of their peers would also agree. “I am not really surprised,” said Health and Wellness Programs, Piper said rape usually occurs Katie Anicich, a pre-nursing fresh- said the numbers in the survey man. “I have seen a lot of weird could be applied to WSU as well. in or near the victim’s house, and the rapist is usually someone the stuff in this dorm, but that is truly “WSU has approximately bizarre.” 8,500 women enrolled,” she said. victim knows. The reason many women do Allison Lee, another Coronado res- “That means there potentially ident and a psychology freshman, not report rape is because they are are 300 rapes happening to 235 expressed disbelief. afraid of being victimized again, women on campus.” “I don’t believe it — that is either by people not believing Andrea Piper, assistant direc- really out there,” said Lee. them, people thinking it was their tor for Alternatives to Violence The Campus Agricultural Center, on the Palouse, said one in four fault, or through embarrassment 4101 N. Campbell Ave., has livestock women will be sexually assaulted over the situation, Piper said. at the facility, but has not reported any cows missing. Rape: Victims tend to report more with support

From page 1 who remain silent. The most commonly mentioned policies and practices thought to the police or to campus security. facilitate reporting of sexual assaults However, two-thirds of rape victims include provisions for confidential, disclosed their experience to a friend. anonymous, and third-party reporting A substantial majority of these victims do not define their experiences using options. legal terms. That is, even though the UH’s annual security reports incident is legally a criminal offense, are only up to date through 2000 they do not call their victimization a with a reported five forcible sexual “rape.” Active support from friends is assaults that year. In February 2001, the primary factor that distinguishes there were reports of attempted sexual victims who report the crime to cam- assaults in the dorms, but these are the pus or local authorities from those most up-to-date statistics.

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Editor:FEATURES Mikey Campbell | Associate Editor: Jason Paz | (808) 956-3218 | [email protected] Tuesday, November 19, 2002 | Page 3 Getting fit, the ROTC way

the shoul- University der press, chin of Hawai‘i,” said up and bar dip. Each Major Trey Johnson, UH competitor had two minutes ROTC faculty and event coor- to complete as many repeti- dinator. “This challenge is for tions and moved directly into the overall athlete ... someone excels the next activity. The weights in aca- By who is totally fit.” were based on the athlete’s Sandra Kim UH ROTC Executive demics body weight. The second half and leader- Ka Leo Officer Ray O’Donnell said, of the challenge was a three- Contributing “It’s a good program to reach ship. Johnson mile endurance run immedi- said that “the UH Writer out to the community to give ately after the completion of them a good view, and it’s a ROTC program is the five exercises. for the scholar-ath- The afternoon sun fun sports recruiting event “It’s more than challeng- scorched, the breeze to introduce them (JROTC lete-leader,” and hopes ing,” said Kellen Dickens, that he will be able to blew faintly as high- cadets) to the ROTC pro- an observer and active army recruit Hawaii’s finest energy music bumped, gram.” member from Fort Shafter. and more than 60 partici- In addition to high school high school cadets to join “It’s a lot harder to do it on the UH ROTC program. pants were pumped up and cadets from McKinley, command, and it’s hard to ready to test their strength Hilo, Farrington, Kaiser and skip from one exercise to Winners of the Strend and endurance in an ultimate Campbell, Damien Memorial, another. What’s really going body workout at Cooke Field college cadets, active army Fitness Challenge to determine this is the three- (listed from first to third) on Nov. 9. members, and other physically mile run because that takes JROTC Male: The University of Hawai‘i fit members of the community a lot of endurance especially Army ROTC sponsored also participated in the short Jon Cruz, Kaiser HS; Franklin after all those exercises.” Bravo, Farrington HS; Daniel the fourth annual STREND but grueling event. Trista “After completing a Kishinami, Damien Memorial Fitness Challenge, which was Mustaine, a senior and UH challenge like this, it’s a HS free and open to the public. ROTC cadet, noted that “the positive experience,” said The event was held in an event helps build confidence JROTC Female: Amber Marvis Vaiagae, UH ROTC Poling Kaiser HS; Natalie effort to involve the com- and cohesion between the Lieutenant. “It gives them munity with the UH ROTC high school JROTC programs Change, Kaiser HS; Shawna confidence knowing that they Sasaki, Kaiser HS program and to invite and and the UH ROTC.” can complete an event like encourage high school “It’s a good physical ROTC this.” Male: Ryan Thorton, UH; Junior ROTC (JROTC) workout,” added Sara Horak, The event started at 3 cadets to stay with the a senior at Hawai‘i Pacific Ranjan Singh, UH; p.m. and the last competi- Andrew Tapla, HPU program in college. University. “I think it tells tor crossed the finish line “As ROTC, we like people about the UH Army ROTC Female: at around 7 p.m. Each par- Lindsey Rowland, to host the event to ROTC program and the ticipant completed all five promote aware- importance of physical fitness HPU; Trista strength exercises and the Mustaine, UH; ness about the that should be built in every- three-mile run. Medals were opportunities one.” Sara Horak, awarded to the top three fin- HPU we offer as The event challenged the ishers in each division. Other a part physical capabilities of the non-ROTC participants were of participants with various tests also awarded medals. In addi- of physical strength. The first tion to being physically fit, half of the event consisted of Johnson also emphasized that five upper body strength a ROTC cadet is some- tests: bench press, one who also pull up, Photos Courtesy of Sandra Kim Ka Leo O Hawai‘i

OPINIONSPage 4 | Tuesday, November 19, 2002 on Drugs Editor: Lance Collins | (808) 956-3214 | [email protected] Layin’ the smack down is not what it’s cut out to be

felt great. Defy. Then all this shit began wearing me out and I felt GO ASK sick even when I did have smack. ALICE I felt like my insides were all rotten. I felt like my body was Heroin deteriorating and decaying. I felt so dirty and diseased. I knew I had to get clean, but the withdrawals I don’t want this to sound like were unbearable. I snapped out of another ‘heroin is bad’ story, and it when I almost over-dosed. in no way am I promoting or dis- In no time, we decided we couraging anyone from trying any should shoot it to experience the drug. But be warned. best high and we’d use less to get First of all, I’m an 18-year-old more fucked up. The first time ... white female who once lived in wow ... we felt like gods. The first a pretty conservative suburb. My time we injected, I shot everyone PHOTOS COURTESY OF www.erowid.org hometown was mostly filled with up because I knew how to do it. I For more information relating to these and other psychoactive substances check out www.erowid.org and contact people who were very religious, didn’t like doing it because I truly your local physician or lawyer. self-righteous, and clean-cut. But felt like I was bringing them one my five junkie friends and I were step closer to death. I felt guilty so never reluctant to admit what we got someone else to help us. drugs we did. The person who was supposed If anyone found out, who the to shoot us up kept fucking up. Crack tested my self-worth fuck cares ... until we tried smack. She’d repeatedly miss one of my We’ve tried every drug pretty friend’s veins and just keep poking kept loading the pipe up, and then, Tammy got arrested for passing bad much before coming across heroin. it over and over. She (unintention- within seconds after the last hit, I checks so I had the house to myself. One afternoon I was looking for ally) skin-popped my other friend was soaring. Every nerve-ending in I had crack addicts come in and some bud and my friend said he and poked through my boyfriend’s GO ASK my body was bustling and crackling smoke in the house in exchange for could get some smack. vein, losing the hit. ALICE I did heroin (snorted it) for the Seeing all the abuse my friends with energy. a cut of their crack. I even attempted first time that night. Shit ... I never were putting up with I shot myself Crack I felt vibrant and alive. My body to deal a little, but, after three deals, knew it hit you so fast. I felt like I up. As it turns out, the shit that I tingled and my mind whirled. I felt I’d gotten ripped off three times could do anything and I didn’t care shot was uncut, unlike our other invincible. I went charging around and was soon $60 in debt to another about any of my problems. I felt shit. I nodded off and passed the house whooping and yelling. dealer. After a three-day dry spell so good. I had my five best friends out right away. I woke up feel- I’d just turned 16 years old when I even started for the door, shout- and the miserable and painful with- with me, one of them was my ing unfucking believably sick in Jake, Lurch and I ran away from a ing a challenge to the police officer drawal symptoms that came with it, crush who finally asked me out the my boyfriend’s bed, alone. Later, psychiatric hospital in Baton Rouge, watching the house. Terry, Lurch I decided that if I didn’t get out of day before. Everything made sense I found out he was off with our La. Jake was from New Orleans and and Jake stopped me, and to calm that situation soon I never would. and things were great. ‘friends’ doing that shit. I broke had friends that would let us stay me down Terry thrust a gallon of It took me a week to make plans, I was smacked out for 5 hours. down and cried for what seemed with them, so we spent the night milk into my hands and made me and during that time I was smoking All of us loved it. We kept doing like hours. I realized they didn’t hitchhiking. Once at the place, Jake drink the whole thing. Eventually I again. it. More and more. I had a three- give a flying fuck about me, even had to find his friends — since they calmed down, but the damage was Two days before I left I told day rule about doing drugs, but though we’ve been through eve- were crack dealers, they moved done: I’d tried crack, and I really everybody what I was planning on I blew that off pretty quickly. As rything together all through high often. liked what I’d experienced. doing. They were supportive and soon as we ran out we’d get more. school. After several hours, Jake found encouraging, but warned me to be We’d do this for six months. By I felt so cheated. I decided them. He introduced us to Terry, safe. I said my goodbyes, and the the end of the fourth month, I to get my shit together and get was shit-broke and started steal- Samantha and Jerome. They said we day before I left I paid a last visit to clean. I’d go through four relapses ing from my parents and friends. could stay with them and told us that Terry because he asked me to stop and one more overdose, but I got Mostly, I’d jack people at school. they were moving within the week “I felt vibrant and by before leaving. clean within two months. I was Rich fucking suburban kids always because their current house was I went to Terry’s and he invited had money. the only one from our group to under surveillance by the police. alive. My body me in, then he offered me a deal. By that time, my junkie bud- graduate last year. I felt like we all Every day, an unmarked police car He put up two $100 bills and about dies rarely showed up to school should’ve been there, like before. parked a not-so-discreet distance tingled and my $200 worth of crack and offered and when they did, I kinda wished Now, one of us is in jail, one in from the house and monitored them to me. He told me all I had to they’d stay home because they’d rehab, two still doing it, and I’m everything and everyone. mind whirled. I do was suck his dick and it was all be so fucked up and I became in college. My ex-boyfriend and It didn’t take long before Lurch mine. I told him no. Eventually, he paranoid that people would know I drifted apart at the peak of our and I were very curious about crack felt invincible.” had $1,000 cash and $300 worth use. I felt like he dicked our rela- “I” did heroin. I mean, shit, what and crack dealing. After all of the of crack on the table. I told him no tionship because he’d repeatedly kind of a lowlife does heroin? stories about the effects of crack, I — Anonymous. one final time and left. As I left his choose smack over me. I always thought that I would was curious to experiment. I said I’d apartment I knew I was doing the have to be the world’s biggest Be warned. Heroin fucks you up. It’s a bitch to stay clean. I fight like to try some, and Terry, the main right thing; I knew that if I stayed asshole to get addicted to smack dealer and supplier for the others, one more day his offer would appeal ... We’d do lines in the bathroom it every single fuckin’ day. Now I said he’d give me some. to me. between classes. Sometimes in have to live with the fact that no He dragged me into the back I continued to smoke crack for I left the next day. It took me class. We had a lot of security at matter what life brings, no matter my school, and it was funny when how good I have it, I’ll NEVER bedroom and loaded a twenty-rock the next month and, yet, I never one week to get home, and I never they stopped me in the hall right feel as good as I felt that first time (a piece of crack that sold for $20) paid for it. After we moved, Terry, smoked crack again. after I did some — I’d bullshit my shooting-up. into a glass pipe. He put the pipe to Samantha and Jerome each took one My story is not the rule, but way out of trouble. And they’d Because, when the smack my lips and lit the rock. In the next of us escapees — I ended up liv- rather, it is the exception. I was able have no clue. begins to flow, I really don’t care 15 minutes I smoked $70 worth of ing with Tammy, one of Jerome’s to move out of the situation. I had I got off on pulling it off. It anymore. crack. Nothing was happening, Terry girlfriends. A week after moving in, somewhere else to go, to flee to. I

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Web site: www.kaleo.org © 2002 Ka Leo O Hawai‘i OPINIONS on Drugs | Tuesday, November 19, 2002 | Ka Leo O Hawai‘i | Page 5 Cola is seductive yet A doobie helped destructive for some discover divinity like the cookie crumbs went straight When I was in through my heart and burned as they GO ASK did. That prepared the ‘sinner’ for the Cocaine: the glamour of a Hollywood movie final stage, my stomach, the pits of ALICE hell. It fell into the pits of hell and then and the sadness of Sunset Boulevard disappeared into oblivion. Cannabis I stood in my kitchen just preach‑ ing and preaching about this to abso‑ tiously in a disco bathroom. Coke no doubt that the TV’s innocuous lutely no one and I wished like hell was slick, urbane, grown-up, and flicker is really filled with a per‑ there had been someone there to listen GO ASK not stinky, gothic-dark and teenage- sistent, subliminal meta-stream of high school, I was a social pot-smoker. to me. ALICE suburban like smoking pot. thought-impregnating propaganda; I smoked with friends. But, one night I I realized that, although I was hun‑ And coke makes one FEEL one is sure that the TV screen itself was alone in my house and bored with gry, there was no way I could burn any Cocaine glamorous, like the sloe-eyed, cafe a nickel sack of bud just waiting to be more sinners, so I went to lay on my secretly doubles as a Jetson-esque smoked. I smoked the whole thing by society celebrities sullenly, pan‑ camera, with Men In Black analyz‑ myself in my garage out of a pipe I couch. I laid there for what seemed chromatically, frozen in the fawning ing your every eyeblink, monitoring had made out of the mouthpiece of a like hours, just thinking and thinking and thinking. white flash of a Warhol halftone. your coked-up masturba-thons in trombone. I’ve always had an interest in How can I best describe the I realized I was extremely stoned I closed my eyes and suddenly was front of porn videos. Everything taken inside my own brain for a psy‑ psychoactives. As a teenager, while feeling of a good coke high to is a vast conspiracy to EXPOSE when a chair in the garage started someone unfamiliar with it? Like floating, and I stumbled back into chedelic roller coaster ride within my other boys were exploring sports YOU, CATCH YOU, NAIL YOU, this: it’s like living, real-time, in my house to put away the pipe. After mind. It’s hard to describe, but I’ll try and forging vernal heterosexual BUST YOU, pin you down and my best. It was like a series of colorful a Hollywood movie. Have you doing so, I went to the kitchen and relationships, I was reading Carlos scrutinize you like a cockroach. tubes I was sliding through extremely noticed how, in a movie, only the stood there, just staring into space, Castaneda and Aldous Huxley. At thinking. My entire body felt like it fast, they were three dimensional salient and dramatic moments As paranoia begins to color present, I am 29, and am proud to every moment of the coke user’s was on fire and my spit tasted thick and attached to other tubes. Attached say that I have been sober for over of a character’s story are spliced to parts of the tubes were childhood life, stranger behavior creeps in: for and bittersweet. six months. During my teens and together? You never, for example, Hoping to get rid of the taste, I memories, but not actual memories, instance, sure that the world beyond twenties I experimented with a wide have to slog through the on-screen picked up a cookie sitting on the coun‑ more like memories of dreams I’d had my house was intent on spying on variety of narcotics, stimulants and character’s having to clip his toe‑ ter and attempted to eat it. I felt the as a child or things I had imagined. me, I bought yards and yards of hallucinogens, both pharmacologi‑ nails or pay bills or pop a black‑ crumbs sprinkle down into my stom‑ It was intense. I remember scream‑ black rayon fabric, and tacked up ach as I swallowed, and they felt as if ing and holding my head and rolling cal and botanical, so I have a pretty head, or listen to long interstices of they fizzled out of existence as they hit around the couch and yelling ‘oh broad experimental base of using silence in the ramble of a desultory bizarre, Addams-Family-looking conversation. curtains over EVERY window and fire. my god!’ over and over. During this psychotropes of every stripe. That’s when my ‘religious experi‑ This is reality for the coked: EVERY door (even electrical out‑ experience I had the most vivid under‑ Now, about coke, or ‘cola,’ as ence’ started. My friends laughed standing of imagination, childhood, life is poetry; accelerated, shined, lets!!) of my house. we initiates used to call it. If we when I told them because they know dreams, memory, how the human tweaked, pruned of its prosaic, called it ‘cola,’ we could allude to it I would find myself spending I don’t believe in heaven or hell, or mind interprets information, and just pedestrian footage. Every utter‑ casually and safely in telephone and long moments gazing furtively out organized religion. life in general. ance you or your fellow stonees Everything from the cookie to my grocery store conversations with my windows, scanning the lawn, After the trip was over I passed out. make seems to be sharp, dramatic, stomach became symbolized. The our eavesdroppers none-the-wiser; trees and street for flickers of I didn’t realize that marijuana could be witty, encapsulated — just like cookie was a sinner and there were that intense. I’m glad I smoked it alone we could be talking about stockpil‑ human or mechanical movement. specifics for what made it a sinner that movie dialogue. Little transitional that day because otherwise my friends ing soft drinks for all they knew. At one point, I became convinced I can’t remember anymore. My tongue moments disappear: you find your‑ may have disturbed my understand‑ I first tried coke in Las Vegas that a bird chirping in a nearby tree, was coal, like purgatory almost, burn‑ self engaged in group chatter one ing. I have never tripped out that bad in 1993, when I was 20 years old. was really a Tiki-Room-style clock‑ ing the ‘sinner’ and preparing it for the moment, then looking into their before or since and it changed my life work, his chattering wooden bill next level. My heart was fire and it felt I had befriended the piano player bathroom mirror the next, just like and my perception of myself. programming me with encrypted of a major R&B diva. After a sell‑ in an elegant film edit. Above all, out concert at one of the Strip’s there is an imminent thrill in your commands from the military. My big casinos, he took me backstage loins that something exciting — one pupils, dazed and dilated from drug to party with other Vegas show‑ doesn’t know quite WHAT — is and insomnia, started to produce biz types. At 20, I was already a going to happen. Any second now. will-o’-the-wisp lights twinkling in Crystal Meth not my connoisseur of the finest pot, had What I didn’t know about the dark peripheries, which I mis‑ dabbled in ‘shrooms & morning coke at the time I began using it took for camera flashes from some glory seeds, and had ingested cap‑ frequently (up to an 8-ball a day), unnamed, yet zealous, inimical best drug experience sules of amphetamine at late-night is that coke usage has a very pre‑ paparazzi. discos. So, I was surprised to find dictable trajectory of effect in the It is at this time that I began to that the two lines of coke I snorted intensified greatly and everything habitual user that is consistent from feel a stifling, anxious self-aware‑ I’ve always tried around me was a different color than here did absolutely nothing for me! user to user, from country to coun‑ ness, whose only balm was for GO ASK usual and many things were shooting I remember my right leg feeling try. In other words, scientists know me to crawl under my bedclothes, sparks and rays of light. There was a numb or something, and my lips what it’s going to do to you if you pulling the covers over my head till ALICE shadow of another person constantly too, but that was it. stay with it over a certain amount of next to mine who kept whispering the unnamable fears subsided, The Methamphetamine random words in my ear. I could no Then, for many years, it never time. Enemy retreated. crossed my path. Later, when I was longer breathe without consciously There is the so-called initial During this phase of coke use, making myself do it so I spent every 25, I was working as a musician ‘honeymoon phase’ of coke usage the sniffer rarely feels pleasure few seconds remembering to breathe & stand-up act in a nightclub. My in which every toot opens cur‑ anymore: at morning’s first toot he to explain to people how some drugs for fear I would die. buddies, the bartenders and waiters tains on a shining, stimulating, just aren’t meant for everyone and, I walked to the bathroom to launches IMMEDIATELY into the in the club, showed me their trick funny evening. But gradually, the recently, I verified this personally. splash some water on my face, gray-blue grip of The Big P. The for appearing chirpy and responsive dopamine neurochemistry in one’s I’m a big fan of LSD and have used which was very hot and there was a user is now buying larger quantities it for years without problems. Many to customers all night long without brain begins to erode, exacerbated, man pointing to the light switch with people, however, have explained to enthusiasm as if waiting for me to flagging: ‘cola.’ surely, by the accompanying lack of coke, and more frequently, but finding that the resultant intolerable me how much they don’t like it, so turn it on. I couldn’t even see myself And coke, as any user will tell of sleep and inconsistent nutrition I accepted the fact that it wasn’t for paranoia is tweaking his conscience in the mirror because it had turned you, makes you speak more frankly of the frequent user. The effects of everyone. white. I was worried but I didn’t (also essential to good comedy). coke change imperceptibly from to flush the remaining expensive A short while ago I started using panic because I didn’t feel any dif‑ Some dam of inhibition is sun‑ euphoria, mirth, concupiscence & powder down the bathroom sink, meth regularly simply because my ferent than when I was normally on town was dry of LSD and meth is dered, and you feel just great about excitement, to irritability, inability and hide all the single-edged razor meth. I was just hallucinating. I con‑ blades and demi-snipped pepper‑ everywhere and cheap. I soon real‑ tinued to have many hallucinations discussing the intimate crannies of to concentrate, and then eventually ized that I wasn’t meant for all drugs mint-striped Dairy queen straws. that would take forever to list and I your sexuality, for instance, with paranoia. either. I had used meth several times became worried that I may end up relative strangers. It feels surpris‑ No drug can produce a paranoia It is at this phase that the coke in the past but never for days at a schizophrenic when the drug wore ingly, refreshingly good to do so, quite like cocaine can. On pot, user KNOWS he is addicted, and is time. Well, one day I tweeked as off. and your listeners are often dazzled you wondered if your mommy & not sure what to do about it. If he is usual after doing about two lines The only blessing in disguise I and waited another eight hours to do and impressed by your candor — daddy might catch you toking; on lucky — as I was — he will have had was that, when I realized I was acid, you wondered if you’d ever more to renew my high. The next unable to sleep for obvious reasons, that is, unless they are also tooted trusted people in his life who will two lines I did made me feel the sleep again; but on coke you begin I just stopped making myself breathe up and are racing ahead on their tolerate the hallucinations and delu‑ usual tweek until about four hours and within a minute or two I was own juggernaut of conversational to be convinced that somebody’s sions and support him in kicking into it when I noticed that things unconscious. I considered the fact clouds. watching you, listening to your this pernicious, diabolical habit. were glowing as if I was mildly hal‑ that doing this may kill me, but I fig‑ I quickly learned why coke was every word, even plugged into When you finally do kick coke, lucinating. ured that when I fell asleep my body I remember thinking to myself the preferred drug of choice dur‑ your inner thoughts and ideations be prepared for a month or two of would return to breathing automati‑ all the time. Whomever you deem that this wasn’t too strange because a cally and thankfully I was right. ing the 1970’s New York, Studio monstrous depression and anhedo‑ lot of people I know had commented to be Big Brother: your folks, the I now choose to wait for LSD 54 years: coke can be glamorous. nia (inability to find pleasure in any that they had mild hallucinations local police, the Feds, the Narcs, and don’t particularly feel the need For one, it’s prep and usage can life pursuit or activity), and maybe sometimes. So I ignored this and to become schizophrenic out of the military/industrial complex, the occupied myself by talking to my be enhanced with various aesthetic a colossal weight gain. In my case, boredom. I don’t really know if this accouterments, such as a 24-carat- Mafia, the FBI, the CIA, the Rand friends online. About an hour passed will help anyone, but I felt the need Corporation, Madison Avenue, I took up smoking like Patsy Stone and I shut off the computer and gold, or glass, nasal straw-let; or to express the fact that drugs do Scotland Yard, the KGB, Interpol on Absolutely Fabulous. I later read walked to get a drink. I looked over different things to different people. mysterious little amber or cobalt & Deutschebank — surely they that nicotine tickles the same ‘plea‑ at my cats who happened to be fight‑ I’d also like to add that four other glass apothecaries; coy little neck ing and out of nowhere they started have tracked you down, the devi‑ sure centers’ of the brain that coke people did the exact same meth with pendant/caches, or sexy, lozenge- shouting obscenities at each other. ant miscreant that you are, using does. me and none of them experienced shaped, beveled coffee-table mir‑ My face had a look of shock upon it anything like this so there is no their latest supersonic, high-tech, Do I regret my two-year ‘coke as I realized that this wasn’t some‑ rors. I loved the ritual of it all, chance of it having an additive such laser/ultrasound, infrared/ultraviolet phase’? No. All of life’s experi‑ thing that happened to other people which could be conducted in some‑ as PCP unless they are all immune. espionage/surveillance devices. ences are valuable learning experi‑ with such small amounts. So experiment carefully and find one’s den, or sexily and surrepti‑ Suddenly, the coke user has ences. ‘non, je ne regrette rien.’ By this time the glowing had your drug of choice.‑ Ka Leo O Hawai‘i

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FEATURESEditor: Mikey Campbell | Associate Editor: Jason Paz | (808) 956-3218 | [email protected] Tuesday, November 19, 2002 | Page 7 Homosexual lifestyle is normal This is a story of one Italian-American family’s de facto acceptance of their family’s gay and lesbian members and how one of them came to “the gay paradise”

By Jamie Vituscka start — good education, Italian wife, That actually went on for about a because someone participates in a Beach. Special to Ka Leo large house, beautiful children. It year, until a friend came over and homosexual act doesn’t necessarily There is an exclusively gay didn’t exactly turn out how my fam- found us in bed together. make him or her gay. restaurant called Angles Bar and When my cousin Jeff decided to ily had planned. Then I was forced to confront In fact, homosexuality has exist- Grill and numerous hotels, includ- tell the family he was gay during I was trapped in someone else’s all of my fears and confess to my ed throughout history. Europe is far ing the Aston Waikiki Grand and Thanksgiving dinner two years ago, life. I looked around one day and family that I was gay. They were ahead of the United States in terms Cabana, which cater to the large gay I thought he was crazy. In a huge realized that I needed to make a few shocked. My father tried taking me of social acceptance of gays and les- tourism industry. The GLCC (Gay Italian family, you just don’t do that changes or I was never going to be out to strip clubs in hopes of curing bians. and Lesbian Community Center) sort of thing. But the speculations happy. I had a few experiences with my “sickness.” Although my mother Many still believe that homosex- is an organization that provides and rumors simply got too much guys in high school, but I never was the most accepting from the uality cannot be a genetic trait. I am assistance and counseling for the for him to handle, and when one of thought that I was gay. beginning, my only brother told me convinced that it is purely a genetic LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and my aunts asked him during dinner, My parents taught me that gay that he hopes that I decide to “come characteristic. On my mother’s side Transgender) community here in he chose to come clean. The initial people were sinners and that homo- back to the other side.” of the family alone, I have nine gay Hawai‘i. reaction was bad. sexual acts would lead to a life in My grandmother, who just hap- cousins. In many ways, I am still There are numerous activities to pens to be born and raised in Sicily, I can still remember my grand- hell. So, I believed them. I came to forced to repress my sexuality to fit participate in, such as the weekly told me that she knows a “great mother running around the house Hawai‘i three years ago with one of in. gay cruises, art shows and theatrical in a frenzy. She looked as if she my fraternity brothers. At work and at school I act more productions. The gay community is were going to have a heart attack. I One day I woke up and told my masculine to conform and to avoid very proud here in Hawai‘i. could tell that Jeff was scared. Some girlfriend that I could no longer any confrontation with closed- Still, there are things that could people left the room. I then stood up be with her because I didn’t feel “My parents minded individuals. The problem is be done that would make gay life and told them all that I, too, am gay. attracted to her anymore. She didn’t that most people still cannot see that even easier. The Human Rights From that point things got bizarre. A understand how that was possible. taught me that a man can love another man no less Campaign has helped in the nation- silence came over the room. She was gorgeous. She was smart. unconditionally than a man can love wide fight for equality. Many chang- She could have any guy that she a woman. My grandfather stood up as if gay people were es must be made before this equality my cousin and I were going to get wanted. But I was gay. In fact, I don’t think that I am is achieved. Current laws still do not the most severe beating ever. My Then there was Chris. gay because I cannot have sex with sinners and that give us many of the same benefits grandfather said in an unusually Chris and I had known each other a female. I surely can have sex with that heterosexual people have. Gay angry voice, “Doesn’t anyone in this for only a year. During that time, a female and find it as rewarding as homosexual acts and lesbian couples still don’t have family like pussy anymore?” Dead we had shared a room in the fra- sex with a male. So then, would that the same basic rights as heterosexual silence. ternity that we were both members would lead to a make me a heterosexual if one day Coming from a small town in of. We were sitting in our room one I decided to have sex with a female couples. southern New Jersey, I see Hawai`i day when a special about Hawai‘i life in hell.” again? Right now I am very comfortable as a “gay paradise” of the United came on the TV. By that time, I was The answer is no. I define myself with my life. I am living the way States. Sure, it has many drawbacks, already pretty much in love with as gay because I cannot fall in love that I choose to live. one of which is an overtly sexually him. He asked me if I wanted to get with a woman. My views on homo- A man can confess to the world shrink” who can help with my active and promiscuous gay youth out of “this shitty state,” and I was sexuality changed when I realized his love for a woman. It can be writ- “problem.” I braced myself for the scene that revolves around drugs more than willing to go anywhere just how accepting Hawai‘i is of ten in huge letters across the sky. It worst possible outcome, but hoped and partying. But at the same time, that he wanted me to. my lifestyle. Hawai‘i has to be one can be screamed down the busiest of for the best. I didn’t want my family Hawai‘i is still more accepting of At the end of the semester, we of the most accepting places in the city streets. I still must whisper on to think any less of me. At the same gays and lesbians than most places told our parents that we were going world for a gay or lesbian person to this street. I cannot be heard when I time, I wasn’t about to live a lie to in the world. Words such as “fag- to move out to Hawai‘i together. live. keep getting silenced. I am silenced conform to other’s ideas about what got,” “queer,” “homo” and “fairy” There was nothing really they could True, I don’t necessarily look or by a society that tells me to love a my life should be. have completely different meanings do to stop us. Why Hawai‘i? It act feminine, but at the same time I certain way. I felt in the end that my fam- to me now than they did three years seemed logical at the time because have never once been discriminated My problem is that the traditional ily would love me no matter what ago. it was the farthest from New Jersey against here. It wasn’t until I went way leaves no room for choice. I am choice I made. Luckily, I was right. gay, and that is my choice. I decided to move to Hawai‘i we could get while remaining in the Within a year after I “came out,” back home last December to visit when I was 20 years old. At the United States. eight of my 32 cousins decided to my family in New Jersey that I real- Dialog on Diversity time, I was attending Rutgers We knew nothing about the way admit that they, too, are gay. The ized how wrongly gays and lesbians Panel Discussion University in New Jersey, and I was of life here. Neither one of us had family had no choice but to accept are treated on the East Coast. the corresponding secretary of a ever been to Hawai‘i. In fact, we it. It is as different as night and Creating Safe Campus Environments: well-respected social fraternity nick- only had $500 each, three suitcases, The hardest obstacle for me is day. Not only is the treatment of named “FIJI.” and no place to live. finding an identity in a world that gays and lesbians better here, but Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and I was engaged to my girlfriend It has not been an easy road. For labels me because of my sexuality. there are many organizations and Transgender Issues in the UH System Courtney, a beautiful and intelligent the first year, I was still not able to I see my sexuality as the smallest activities that cater to the gay life- Italian girl who wanted to be a vet- accept being gay. I thought about style. There is a slew of gay bars part of who I am. For some reason, Today erinarian. Actually, I was miserable. how wrong I felt it still was, and most people believe that it is more and nightclubs here in Hawai‘i, such I was raised in a prominent I refused to ever let anyone know. as Angles and Fusion. And even an 1:30p.m.-2:30 p.m. important than that. There are acts Marine Science Building Roman Catholic Italian family. Life Chris and I even went so far as to all-gay beach called Queens Surf that can be homosexual, but just Room 100 was planned out for me from the tell people that we were brothers. that is located at the end of Waikiki Ka Leo O Hawai‘i

SPORTSPage 8 | Tuesday, November 19, 2002 Editor: Lori Ann Saeki | Associate Editor: Benjamin Chaffin | (808) 956-3215 | [email protected] UH de-feathers Owls at ‘The Nest’

By William Ching 28-yard field goal late in the second daylight in the Warriors’ 4-4 defen- Ka Leo Staff Writer quarter to cut the Owls’ lead to 14- sive scheme and raced 60 yards to 10 at intermission. Ayat also added cut the Warriors’ lead to two. Playing in the city of Houston, a 21-yard field goal in the third The resilient Warriors answered it was Houston Ala who halted quarter. back in the fourth quarter on the Owls’ last minute attempt to Chang, who suffered two of his Mitchell’s second touchdown run of upset Hawai‘i last Saturday at Rice worst performances of his collegiate the night. The score from 3 yards Stadium. career against Rice, finished 35-of- out gave the Warriors their biggest Ala’s tackle of Greg Henderson 64 for 369 yards passing but was lead of the game at 33-21. Mitchell on fourth down late in the final under pressure at times, especially finished the game with 75 yards on quarter sealed a heart-pounding in the first half. Senior defensive five carries, including a thundering 33-28 Western Athletic Conference end Brandon Green, Rice’s leader 41-yard dash in the third quarter. victory for the Hawai‘i Bowl-bound on defense, sacked Chang for a 3- Hawai‘i, who was second in University of Hawai‘i Warrior yard loss at the end of the first quar- the nation in total offense averag- football team (8-2, 7-1 WAC). Rice ter. ing 520 yards per game, racked up University (4-7, 3-5 WAC) ended In contrast, Herm and the Rice 529 yards of offense against Rice, their season with the loss to the offense managed a balanced attack including an uncharacteristic 160 Warriors. utilizing their flex-bone offense. yards on the ground. They also The Warriors struck first on a The Owls gained 121 yards rushing managed to win the possession crisp opening drive, highlighted and passed for 88 yards in the first battle for only the second time this by a 31-yard Timmy Chang shovel half. season (the other time being against pass to redshirt freshman receiver In a tale of two different halves San Jose State). Nate Ilaoa. Senior running back for Hawai‘i, the second half opened Hawai‘i made several key third Thero Mitchell capped off the series with Hawai‘i gaining momentum down conversions in the second by powering his way past Owl line- in all three facets of the game. Led half. Ilaoa led the receiving corps backer Jeff Vanover for a 4-yard by linebacker Pisa Tinoisamoa, the with a career-high 10 receptions touchdown, and Hawai‘i took an Warrior defense held the Owls’ run- for 108 yards. Senior wide receiver early 7-0 lead. oriented offense to a three-and-out Justin Colbert also contributed 80 The Warriors would struggle for series. Tinoisamoa amassed 10 tack- yards on eight receptions. the rest of the first half. Although les in the game, including three for Sophomore quarterback Greg Chang passed for 184 yards in the losses. The senior also added a sack Henderson, who guided Rice to a half, he was often inaccurate and good for a loss of nine yards. 27-24 victory over Hawai‘i last sea- threw his 13th interception of the After a 31-yard Travis Hale punt, son as a freshman, was summoned Jordan Murph • Ka Leo O Hawai‘i season in the second quarter. A pass the Hawai‘i offense took over and by Rice head coach Ken Hatfield Senior running back Thero Mitchell evades the Tulsa defensive line in a game intended for wide receiver Neal marched 57 yards, capped off by midway through the fourth quarter earlier this season. He ran for 75 yards and two touchdowns against Rice. Gossett found its way into the hands an 8-yard Chang touchdown pass to replace Herm. Herm threw for 88 of Owl reserve cornerback Clifford to junior wide receiver Jeremiah yards on 3-of-11 passing and one their own 17-yard line with 1:52 WAC. The Warriors may still finish Cockheran. interception. Sparks at the Rice 4-yard line, remaining. Henderson engineered with a share of the WAC title if cur- killing a potential Warrior scoring On the ensuing kickoff, reserve Henderson almost immediately a 10-play drive that took the ball rent WAC leader Boise State loses opportunity. defensive back Lono Manners worked his magic again. Battle was The Owls tacked on 14 points recovered a fumble by Rice’s Sean on the receiving end of a 54-yard down to the Hawai‘i 11-yard line. at Nevada this week. in the first half on a pair of Robbie White. Three plays later, Chang touchdown toss from Henderson to On fourth-and-three, Ala broke Beck touchdown runs. In the first threw a 17-yard pass to a wide-open make the game interesting at 33-28. through the line and brought down Notes: Hawai‘i is ranked num- quarter, Beck scored from 4 yards Britton Komine for his team-leading Battle literally had to battle through Henderson for a 4-yard loss to ber 25 in the nation, receiving 86 out. In the second quarter, he took eighth touchdown reception of the two Warrior defenders to obtain secure the victory. Henderson was points in the latest ESPN/USA a handoff from quarterback Kyle season. The Warriors led 23-14 at possession of the ball and catch his 4-of-7 for 95 yards in the final Today Coaches Poll. The Warriors Herm and sprinted pass the Warrior that point. second touchdown of the season. He quarter. As a team, Rice gained 410 will begin a three-game home defense en route to a 32-yard touch- Rice, who had never previously finished with five receptions for 133 yards of total offense with 227 of non-conference schedule starting down scamper. Beck finished with lost to Hawai‘i, answered immedi- yards. the yards coming on the ground. with Conference USA member eight carries for 41 yards. ately. Running a reverse, Rice fresh- After an unsuccessful UH With the victory, Hawai‘i will Cincinnati Bearcats this weekend at Hawaii’s Justin Ayat nailed a man receiver Marcus Battle found series, Rice regained possession at finish no lower than second the Aloha Stadium. UH tested in Fresno, Chang qualifies sweep past San Jose for NCAAs again By Stanley Lee of 24. Arizona State finished a distant second, totaling 70 points. Ka Leo Staff by five, and then winning the fourth State’s second place finish (22-5, Ka Leo Senior Staff Writer The two schools earned the West by an ominous eight. 10-3 WAC). The close victory came region’s two automatic team berths The University of Hawai‘i Second team All-WAC (2001) The University of Hawai‘i after a loss to Stanford, now ranked Rainbow Wahine cross country at the NCAA championships. Rainbow Wahine volleyball team fin- outside hitter Christy Burnett con- number one in the country, and team had a good weekend. For Yesterday, the NCAA also ished the regular season this week- tributed 16 kills after sitting out in extended the ‘Bows streak to 64 con- one, it placed ninth out of 28 awarded both 21st-ranked UCLA end, beating Fresno State in five Hawai‘i due to an injury in practice secutive WAC wins. teams, its best finish ever at a and 24th-ranked Washington at- games (30-19, 30-34, 25-30, 22-30, before October’s game. Outside hit- That streak went to 65 Saturday regional. Secondly, junior Victoria large team 15-10) and defeating San Jose State ter Kristen Fenton led the team with as the Rainbow Wahine dispatched Chang qualified for the National bids to the in three straight sets (30-18, 30-19, 22 kills Friday night and middle the San Jose State Spartans in three. Collegiate Athletic Association champion- 30-17). The Rainbow Wahine (25-1) blocker Carrie Hartt also contributed ships. Two Hawai‘i did not let the Spartans Cross Country Championships. ended the season in first place in the 16. runners from break 20 points, as Willoughby put Chang finished 12th out of Western Athletic Conference with a Hawai‘i edged out the Bulldogs 189 runners at the regionals last UCLA and down 19 kills at .471. The ‘Bows perfect 13-0 conference record. in hitting percentage, .318 to .282. Saturday. The top four individuals one from In Friday’s contest against The Rainbow offense relied on junior came up with 65 digs and 14 blocks, not on a qualifying team from each Washington Fresno, the Rainbow Wahine played left-side hitters Kim Willoughby and holding the Spartans to a .024 region automatically qualified for placed ahead a match that went five games for the Lily Kahumoku. Willoughby came attack percentage. Kahumoku hit the championships to be held Nov. of Chang, CHANG first and only time this season. When up with 30 kills and Kahumoku had .400 Saturday night, with 16 kills. 25 in Terre Haute, Ind. Chang’s but because Fresno State visited Hawai‘i at the great numbers, hitting .418 with Following her performance last 12th-place overall finish at region- they are now heading to Terre Haute with their end of October, the ‘Bows won in a career-high 33 kills. Senior set- weekend, she was voted WAC Player als made her the second individual three straight, but the Bulldogs came ters Jennifer Carey and Margaret teams, Chang was able to move of the Week for the second time in qualifier from the West region. The out and nearly took game one. When Vakasausau contributed 30 and onto the list of automatic individu- her career. She also was named the junior transfer previously qualified asked what the difference would be 39 assists, respectively. Melissa for Nationals as a freshman run- al qualifiers from the West region. National Player of the Week yester- playing in Fresno, head coach Dave Villaroman played her way to the ning for Stanford. Also scoring for the Rainbow Shoji had said it would be dropping second highest number of digs in day. Chang’s former Cardinal squad Wahine at last weekend’s region- that first game. Hawai‘i, however, Wahine history, coming up with 33. Hawai‘i now goes into the WAC took the team competition at its als were freshman Hanna Bremler, won the first two in California deci- Hawai‘i was able to pull it out tournament as the number one seed own Stanford Golf Course, with senior Jennifer Crumley, junior sively. It was in the third when the in the fifth game to remain unde- and ranked number two in the nation. four of five scoring runners finish- Robin McRobbie, and junior Teryn Bulldogs made their move, winning feated in the WAC and affirm Fresno Play begins Nov. 22 in Reno, Nev. ing in the top five for a team score Bentley.