PUBLICIZE YOUR LOVE Send your Valentine’s proposals to [email protected] Video Valentine THE VOICE Friday 1 to 3 p.m. Building 6 A Send your sweetheart a video valentine. K LEEOO Contact Steven at [email protected] Serving the students of the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa since 1922 WEDNESDAY, FEB. 11, 2009 www.kaleo.org Volume 103 Issue 70 UH students youngest ever By Taylor Hall the past two years. Editor in Chief Non-traditional students are barely registering, according to University of Hawai‘i stu- internal UH reports. The average dents may notice that there aren’t age of a UH Mānoa student has many older students in their classes remained steady at 25 for the past this semester, despite record-high three years. Only the UH West enrollment. O‘ahu campus showed a noticeable Overall, the UH system report- age change, with the average stu- ed 50,952 students enrolled for the dent dropping from 34.2 years old spring 2009 semester, surpassing the in 1989 to 30.6 in 2009, a result of previous high of 48,538, set in 1995. West O‘ahu’s addition of introduc- Community college attendance is tory classes to its curriculum. especially high, with the university’s According to Johnsrud, seven community colleges reporting the surge in younger applicants a 9.4 percent increase in enrollment could result from the coupling of over the previous year. decreased revenue for many fami- University officials believe the lies with UH’s tuition price, which economic recession may be driving is significantly lower than many the increases. mainland universities. “These record enrollments “I’m guessing that a lot of underscore the public’s willingness students who would have gone to to invest in education and training, the mainland have stayed here,” especially in tough times,” said she said. Linda Johnsrud, UH vice president UH Mānoa is currently in for academic planning and finance. the third year of a six-year tuition “The demand for what the univer- increase, which will see non-resident sity offers is at an all-time high.” tuition increase from $8,304 in 2009 CHARLES BRODIE/KA LEO O HAWAIʻI UH Mānoa was the only cam- to $11,616 in 2012. The higher costs Students and faculty head home after classes yesterday afternoon. The average age of a UH Mānoa student is 25. pus to report a drop in enrollment, could push UH students to attend though Johnsrud called the 0.2 per- higher education at the cheaper com- cent decline “flat.” munity colleges, Tanaka said. “Economies, during a down “The transfer rate is going up. waii.edu, www2.hawaii. ANTENNA ARRAY FOR time, tend to see an increase in More students are enrolling at com- Mānoa Minute edu/~culture ADVANCED WIRELESS enrollment,” said Carolyn Tanaka, munity colleges,” she said. “What COMMUNICATION associate vice president for exter- we’ve really worked on is allowing WINTER FOOTHOLDS: APPLICATIONS Alice Kim nal affairs and university relations. students to transfer from commu- PRIMETIME DANCE CON- + Thursday, 9 to 11 a.m., Hol- [email protected] Enrollment in UH Mānoa’s nity colleges to UH Mānoa.” CERT mes Hall 389 outreach program, which has a Presently, all courses taken + Wednesday, 8 to 10 p.m., Info: (808) 956-8500 at UH will appear on the STAR RECYCLEMANIA higher average age and doesn’t get Earle Ernst Lab Theatre, Ken- transcript system, an advancement + Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 4 factored into UH’s planning num- nedy Theatre bers, hasn’t changed, maintaining over previous years, when students p.m., Hawai‘i Hall lawn CARRYING COALS a population of 25,000 students for had to request a transfer and then Info: Jennifer Engels, (808) Ticket prices: regular – $14; FROM NEWCASTLE: deliver paperwork to the flagship 956-8489, engels@hawaii. senior, military, UH faculty/ A NORTHUMBRIAN campus through the U.S. Postal edu, recyclemania.org staff – $12; non-UH Mānoa MISSIONARY IN CHINA, ISOLATED SHOWERS Service or by hand. student – $10; UH Mānoa stu- 1897-1912 In a push to retain young- CASTE AND THE dent with validated ID – $5 + Thursday, Noon to 1:15 p.m., H:78° L:68° er students, the school has also Info: Kennedy Theatre Box Henke Hall 325 made 100- and 200-level courses DIFFERENCE IT MAKES: Offi ce, (808) 956-7655, the- Presenter: Brett Bodemer, Li- NORTH 4–6+ WEST 2–4 transferable between campuses, NEW DIRECTIONS IN SOUTH 1–2+ EAST 1–2+ Johnsrud said. POSTCOLONIAL THEORY [email protected], hawaii.edu/ brary and Information Science Program SOURCE: NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE “Our average age has gone + Wednesday, Noon to 1:30 kennedy A moderate swell will bring advisory-level down,” she said. “We are doing p.m., Burns Hall 4005 Info: Craig Howes, Center for waves of 8 feet or greater on the east- better at getting younger adults than Info: Patricia Hart, (808) HIGH PERFORMANCE Biographical Research, (808) facing shores Thursday. older, but we need to do both.” 944-7593, culture@ha- HYBRID SMART 956-3774, [email protected] 2 Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2009 [email protected] Germany hosts adolescent sex change Phelps’ rep vice, at the age of 16. lutants can travel through. Health Beat Despite being born By adding a detergent takes a hit physically male, Petras has mix, researchers were Susannah Manupule identified herself as female able to partially disrupt Staff Reporter since she was 2 and has the bundling and success- Gossip Beat been undergoing hormone fully decrease the size of From sex changes for therapy since she was 12. In mucus holes. Particles of Mary Renee Reuter minors to the healing pow- Senior Staff Reporter recent years she has ap- 200 nanometers in diam- ers of Tetris, the health peared on various televi- eter, which had previously industry is continuously Psst. Come closer. This week’s gossip includes a swim- passed the mucus barrier, mer gone overboard, a sequel to a cult classic and a Britney adapting to meet the needs sion shows, modeled for a were trapped by the new Spears lawsuit. Yes, another one. of our world. national hair salon chain and released a CD. chemically treated mucus mesh. Tests have yet to be WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE MINOR SEX CHANGE conducted on humans. INCREDIBLE SHRINKING In photographs that MUCUS HOLES surfaced last week, Mi- Kim Petras, born Tim TETRIS CURES TRAUMA Petras, has become the chael Phelps, winner of 14 Researchers at Johns world’s youngest teenager Olympic gold medals, is Hopkins University have Research conducted by seen smoking marijuana to get sex reassignment Oxford University psychol- out of a bong at a party at surgery. According to discovered a way to chemi- cally shrink holes within ogists suggests that playing the University of South German law, she would be visuospatial games, such human mucus. Mucusal sur- Carolina in November. ineligible for this surgery as Tetris, after watching a Phelps released a state- faces are part of the human until she reached the age traumatic event decreases ment apologizing for immune system. The study of 18. However, after much the frequency of flashbacks acting “in an inappropri- deliberation by medical found that mucin fibers by interrupting memory ate way, not in a manner officials, Petras underwent naturally bundle together, consolidation processes; people have come to the procedure, sponsored creating gaps that patho- these tasks selectively com- expect from me.” by the German Health Ser- gens and other foreign pol- pete for the same cognitive In all fairness, he’s resources used in the visual true to form: It makes sensory-perceptual process- sense that the 23-year-old NOTW.CO.UK THE VOICE A EEOO ing of traumatic images. swimmer, who was sus- Olympian Michael Phelps takes a hit off a bong K L Flashbacks are the promi- pended from competition in November. This photograph, which surfaced EDITORIAL nent symptom of post-trau- for three months by USA only recently, has caused a media frenzy. Ka Leo O Hawai‘i Editor in Chief Taylor Hall matic stress disorder. Swimming, would prefer University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Managing Editor Vanessa Sim To test the validity of the more aquatic bong over a bowl or a blunt. 1755 Pope Road, 31-D Chief Copy Editor Kyle Mahoney the therapeutic effects of Honolulu, HI 96822 Associate Copy Editor Nichole Catlett visuospatial tasks, re- DARKO, THE SEQUEL News Editor Kris DeRego searchers conducted an Newsroom (808) 956-7043 Associate News Editor Glendalyn Junio A sequel to the 2001 cult classic “Donnie Darko” is in the Advertising (808) 956-3210 Associate News Editor Mark Brislin experiment on 40 partici- works, focusing on Donnie’s younger sister Samantha. The Facsimile (808) 956-9962 Features Editor Yasmin Dar pants. Volunteers watched story will pick up seven years after the original, in 1995, just E-mail [email protected] Associate Features Editor Carly Yonamine a short film of traumatic before Samantha turns 17. Web site www.kaleo.org Commentary Editor Chris Mikesell scenes including graphic Writer Richard Kelly will return for the sequel, and Sports Editor Ashley Nonaka surgery, fatal accidents and Daveigh Chase will reprise her role as Samantha. According Associate Sports Editor Russell Tolentino drowning. After a 30-min- to imdb.com, the movie will carry some of the same apoca- ADVERTISING Comics Editor Will Caron ute break, 20 participants lyptic themes that made its predecessor popular. Ad Manager Erica Hwang Design Editor Nicole Gilmore played Tetris while the Business offi ce parallel to the bottom entrance of Photo Editor Kent Nishimura the Bookstore. Web Editor Alexis E. Jamison other 20 sat idly for a SPEARS FAMILY FOLLIES 10-minute period.