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UNIVERSIT Y O F H A W A I ‘ I A T M A N O A kaleo.org The Voice of Hawai‘i Vol. XCVI Issue No. 129 Tuesday, April 9, 2002 Musician sounds sex- Backing up the big ier live . boys behind the net Sade’s sexy, sultry sounds take on a new Warrior volleyball Senior Vernon Podlewski appeal with her first live album, “Lovers is enjoying his last year at UH. Find out what Live,” which dresses some of her classic drove him to become an All-MPSF Libero. tracks in a modern and more danceable outfit. See page 3 See page 8 ASUH Election Results Unofficial results of the Choy, Isaac 189 Associated Students of the University Chinen, Jon 55 of Hawai`i. Results will become official Secretary: when the senate meets to ratify the Lum, Shayna 752 election on April 15 at 6:30 p.m. at Campus Center 220. Treasurer: A total of 945 ballots were sub- Hayashi, Mel 735 mitted for this election. Senator-at-Large: (4 seats) Name Number of votes Chung Allison 409 President: Carvalho, Justin 372 Dahilig, Mike 461 Nagano, Ryan 346 Baker Kawika 412 Shimizu, Mea Aloha 346 Sugai, Jonathan R.T. 286 Vice President: Ninomiya, Daniel 235 Archer, Lu’ukia 330 See Results, page 2 Dayoan, Candice 304 COURTESY PHOTOS Cultural pride L-R: “Christ on a Cross Adored by Donors,” by El Greco and “Last of the Believers” by Daria Fand. Fand’s piece, which was banned from “The Art of Women” exhibit at Honolulu Hale, was based on the work of El Greco. Controversial piece on display at last University of Hawai`i at Manoa. Painting depicts extreme sacrifice, Her assignment was to create a personal parody or takeoff of some not religious comment, artist says masterwork. The style of her painting was inspired by El Greco, a Greek-born painter who spent most of his career By Lacy Lynn prised that the painting was not in Spain. He is renowned for his KA LEO CONTRIBUTING WRITER allowed in the show. emotional religious paintings, dark “It wasn’t even totally clear colors, and elongated depictions of After a year of banishment, to me that it was controversial or the human body. Daria Fand’s controversial paint- anything at the time,” she said. “It Fand kept the painting after ing, “Last of the Believers” was [the painting] was taken out of con- displayed at Honolulu Hale last text [and]...wasn’t meant to be any she graduated from UH Manoa in month. sort of comment on religion. It was 1993. The piece, depicting a nude just a symbolic thing to cue people “I brought it out because I woman being crucified, was origi- in to the notion of martyrdom and thought it really suited the theme of nally submitted as part of “The extreme sacrifice.” the show,” said Fand. “I was mostly Art of Women” exhibit for a 2001 In August, the Hawai`i trying to ask questions about the Women’s History Month event. American Civil Liberties Union sacrificial nature of being feminine However, the picture was not filed suit against the City and and how, to a greater or lesser County of Honolulu for violating degree, it sabotages women and Andrew Shimabuku • KA LEO O HAWAI‘I included in the show. Fand said that initially, city Fand’s First Amendment rights by their self-esteem.” The Kicaput Eskimo Dancers performed traditional Yupik/Cupik officials told her the painting was not displaying her painting. The suit Fand currently works on art songs and dances for the UH community at the Campus Center court- inappropriate for families, but later was settled out of court last month. projects for shows around Honolulu. yard yesterday at noon. cited the painting’s large size and Fand created the painting She has also extended her artis- late submission as reasons for its while enrolled in John Wisnosky’s tic reach into creative writing and exclusion. Fand said she was sur- Advanced Painting class at the tutoring writing. Page 2 Ka Leo O Hawai’i Tuesday, April 9, 2002 NEWS Results: UH student election becomes official next week Some children From page 1 Ninomiya, Daniel 69 actually speak Kaleoaloha, Ka’eo 230 Kohara, Ross 56 Conner, Vaimana 192 Senator: College of Education Kohara, Ross 130 (1seat) Yokote, Reid M. 12 in ‘Esperanto’ Senator:CollegeofArchitecture Meeder, Rebecca 5 (1seat) Leung, Lily W. 3 Senators:CollegeofEngineering KA LEO STAFF The children made the invent- Kaikaina, Jerrean A.L. 2 (2seats) ed language more expressive and Palama, Francine M.P. 1 Choy, Isaac 86 Children are speaking the rule-governed, speaking Esperanto Loy, Justin 81 artificial language Esperanto as faster than their parents and cre- Senators:CollegeofArtsand a native language, according to ating a fixed sentence order of Sciences(19seats) Senator:SchoolofHawaiian& research by Benjamin Bergen, an subject-verb-object. The children’s Baker Kawika 287 AsianPacificStudies assistant professor of linguistics at version of Esperanto appears to be Archer, Lu’ukia 268 (1seat) University of Hawai`i at Manoa. Chung, Allison 261 Bunag, Brandon Keoni 18 a fully formed language capable Esperanto was invented in the of expressing all facets of human 1880’s as a easy way for people of thought. Takara, Brooke 231 Senator:SchoolofOcean,Earth different countries to communi- To date, there are about 300 Chow, Connie 230 ScienceTechnology(1seat) cate. It has a regular, simple struc- George, Kalae 229 Dahilig, Mike 13 ture with a vocabulary drawn from recorded cases of children using Shimizu, Mea Aloha 225 Berger, Carolyn 4 international languages. Esperanto as their native language. Dayoan, Candice 221 Bergen studied eight children All of the children in Bergen’s Hayashi, Mel 217 Senator:SchoolofTravelIndustry who grew up speaking Esperanto, study were bilingual, speaking a Mellinger, Katherine 211 Management(1seat) and found that they adapted the variety of languages like French, Kato, Karina 207 Chiao, Alice 22 Hebrew and Russian. Nagano, Ryan 207 language much in the same way as children of immigrants to Hawai`i Bergen’s research appears dela Cruz, Claire F. 202 Senator:CollegeofTropical streamlined the rough plantation in last month’s “Journal of Child Conner, Vaimana 200 Agriculture and Human Resources pidgin of their parents. Language.” Berger, Carolyn 185 (1seat) Isaki, Aaron Boyes, Scott 18 176 Bolo, Aeza Mae 163 Chan, Sewell 163 Don’t go in the water Stice, Tara 155 Chinen, Jon 155 Texeira, Alan 144 Hawthorne, Jozel C. 136 Hunsinger, Nick 135 Luchs, Adam 134 Nakamoto, Kenneth 133 Johnson, Kirk 127 Martelle, Chris 107 Senators:CollegeofBusiness (2seats) exercise your mind, Read Ka Leo Diane Kohara • KA LEO O HAWAI‘I Oceanography 201 student Ryan Yorck watches as a hammerhead shark swims by, while on class field trip to Coconut Island. Tuesday, April 9, 2002 Ka Leo O Hawai’i Page 3 FEATURES Sade’s music still sounds sexy, seductive artful. With this album, listeners are fied. The song, “By Your Side,” Her new, live greatest hits album Influences of Massive Attack, treated to the different dimensions contrasts her original jazz style with Portishead, and Everything But the of Sade’s sounds. Where her origi- a melancholy, unplugged acoustic puts a fresh spin on familiar tunes Girl are apparent in Sade’s latest nal music focused more on instru- sound. Other notable songs include work. The beats on the live album ments like the saxophone, her later “Jezebel” and “Slave Song.” remain funky, however some of material sounds more like a lullaby Even with the modifications, the them are slowed almost to the pace By Jason Paz Here’s the kicker, though. It’s live. of trip-hop. The bass guitar also KA LEO STAFF WRITER The tracks selected for “Lovers remains funky, but sometimes has Live” are similar to the tracks on the drawn-out tempo of acid jazz. When I was a college freshman Sade’s greatest hits album. The For longtime fans, these changes in Atlanta, Ga., I had a hard time tracks stretch impressing the ladies. Luckily a from her self-proclaimed Don Juan lived breakthrough down the hall. He was at ease with release the ladies and had a different one in 1984, in his room every night. One day, “Diamond I revealed my problem to him. His Life,” and end The common belief is that Sade’s advice? at her come- “You need to be more romantic,” back album, music is to be shared behind closed he said in his heavy Puerto Rican “Lovers bedroom doors, not in a room with accent. Rock.” I was baffled. What did that The com- 8,000 other sweaty concertgoers. mean? mon belief is “You lay a trail of roses to a hot that Sade’s One listen to this live album will steaming tub that has scented bub- music is to be shatter that misconception. bly soap in it,” my friend explained. shared behind “You then offer her a glass of wine closed bed- and wash her hair. And remember, room doors, don’t forget the Sade music.” not in a room Needless to say, I didn’t follow with 8,000 other sweaty his advice. But I did buy a Sade concertgoers. CD, although I’d never heard of One listen to this live album will might sound appalling. But Sade before. shatter that misconception. The live for younger listeners, these fresh “Love Deluxe” turned out to be crowd wailing in the background innovations in the veteran’s sounds one of the most erotic of Sade’s adds a taste of excitement not felt are invigorating. CDs, and I was instantly seduced.