UH NEWS ON TWITTER Get all UH news as it breaks at Project Boot Camp twitter.com/kaleo Micro buisness and mini skirts A THE VOICE at The Store K LEEOO Features 8 Serving the students of the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa since 1922 WEDNESDAY, FEB, 18, 2009 www.kaleo.org Volume 103 Issue 72 RIOs reduce, reuse for Mānoa Minute Compiled by Alice Kim [email protected] RecycleMania GIRL, MAKE YOUR MONEY GROW! “It reduces tipping fees to increased environmental awre- and organizations involved in Junghee Lee + Wednesday, 11:30 a.m. to Senior Staff Reporter get rid of items,” said Adams. “We ness, Adams said, but only if recycling,” said Adams. “Our have to pay in order to get rid of more people contribute to sus- goal is to reach the 50 percent 12:30 p.m., Queen Liliuokalani For many organizations on old desks and cabinets, but if we tainability efforts. mark and, with everyone’s help, Center for Student Services, campus, green is the new black. recycle them, then we can receive “We want more students it is possible.” room 412. Info: (808) 956- The University of Hawai‘i at money for it.” 8059, [email protected]. Mānoa’s geology club, which regis- The Office of Building and Grounds has been promoting tered the college to compete in the PREPARING FOR THE 2009 national RecycleMania com- recycling by providing registered PIN IT WHERE? CAREER FAIR petition, started recycling to raise independent organizations with CONDOM FAIR COMES TO CAMPUS CENTER + Wednesday, 1:30 to 2:30 funds for field trips. On average, recycling bins carrying signs that the geology club earns over $2000 read “reduce, reuse, recycle.” The p.m., Queen Liliuokalani each year through recycling. money received from recycling has Center for Student Services, “Every spring break, the club been used to purchase more bins. room 208. Info: Career travels to Death Valley for 10 days According to Engels, recy- Development and Student to learn field mapping techniques, cling is a three step process, in Employment, (808) 956- observe new types of rocks and which reusable materials are col- 7007, [email protected]. to see a different geology,” said lected, separated and distributed. Jennifer Engels, faculty advisor UH is in charge of collecting and for the geology club. separating. RAISED HANAI: This year marks the third time “The third party, who takes RECOLLECTIONS OF the geology club and Sustainable the recycling and gives us money, HAWAIIAN ADULTS Saunders, an environmental action consists of three different ser- + Thursday, 9 to 11 a.m., group devoted to increasing sus- vices, which are the Honolulu Henke Hall, room 109. Info: tainability efforts at Saunders Hall, Recovery Services, Hagadone (808) 956-8500. have participated in the national Printing and T and N Recycling RecyleMania contest. Services,” said Engels. “RecycleMania increased our Honolulu Recovery Services FAMILY VALUE$: recycling by about 10 percent collects bottles and cans, in accor- TEACHING YOUR KIDS more, but we could do better,” dance with Hawai‘i’s bevereage ABOUT MONEY said Roxanne Adams, landscape container deposit program, and + Thursday, 12 – 1 p.m., manager for the Office of Building also recycles cardboard and paper, Queen Liliuokalani Center and Grounds. said Engels. Hagadone Printing for Student Services, room Landscaping has become part collects glossy paper and books, 412. Info: (808) 956-8059, of responsible refuse collection, said while T and N Recycling Services [email protected]. Adams, which involves recycling collects electronic waste, such as bulky refuse like old desks and computers and cell phones. cabinets. “Hagadone and Honolulu 2009 JACOB PEACE Recovery reconstitute the recycla- MEMORIAL AWARD AND bles and resell them to process THE NOBUMOTO TANA- SCATTERED SHOWERS plants in Asia,” said Engels. “T and HASHI PEACE SCHOLAR- N strips components into different SHIP AWARD H:79° L:68° sectors and gives them to recyclers + For information on how to NORTH 3–6 WEST 2–4+ on the mainland.” apply see www.peaceinstitute. By helping to collect these ROBERT ROGNESS/KA LEO O HAWAIʻI SOUTH 1–2 EAST 1–3 hawaii.edu or email shields@ materials, campus clubs receive SOURCE: NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE UHM junior Tanya Schaffer (R), cheers on Justin Cadiz (C) as he attempts to pin a hawaii.edu. Applications are a percentage of the payment. condom on Jack at Campus Center last week Friday. Schaffer was a part of a Family due no later than Tuesday, Students, organizations and the A short-period North-Northeast swell will Resources 340 class that volunteered at the Condom Fair. March 31, at 12:00 noon. gradually build during the next few days. enviroment would benefit from 2 Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2009 [email protected] No space for sex Manipulated mice make offenders shocking discovery Risqué Beat Health Beat Mary Renee Reuter Sarah Fukumoto Senior Staff Reporter Staff Reporter As a college student, In the this week’s Risque Beat, MySpace gives 90,000 sex memory impairment can off enders blue balls, new bills prove that the Hawai’i Legis- often cause excessive, unnec- lature can be sexy and a local bounty hunter isn’t such a dog essary stress. While informa- after all. tion retention is constantly being aff ected by a number GNU FRIEND REQUESTS DENIED of cognitive and biological After manipulating the amount of alpha-CaMKII in mice, scientists are one step closer to con- Last week, the online social networking site MySpace.com processes that most would firming the existence of selective memory. announced that 90,000 sex off enders have been removed from think invulnerable, memory the site in the last two years. After reports of teenage users being impairment is ultimately man- were mildly shocked, condi- chamber. The mice no longer abducted by sexual predators, MySpace began investing in back- ageable if the right eff orts are tioning the mice to associate froze when they were placed ground verifi cation by Sentinel Safe Tech Holdings Corps. made. the chamber and sound with there. Similar results were To enhance the tracking of sex off enders, law enforcement As Howard Eichenbaum, a receiving a shock. Eventu- acquired from the group of issued subpoenas to both MySpace and Facebook requesting exact neuroscientist at Boston uni- ally, when the mice would mice whose protein levels were fi gures of sex off ender use on the two sites. In the end, MySpace’s versity, said, “We should never enter the chamber or hear the altered while hearing the sound. fi gures were far higher than the 50,000 sex off enders originally ex- think of memories as being sound, they would freeze in Both groups continued to pected, but 50,000 sex off enders isn’t exactly a comforting fi gure. fi xed, they are constantly being anticipation of the shock. freeze when the shocking situa- While the results from Facebook are still pending, they’re renovated and restructured.” The researchers then placed tion was re-presented to them, expected to have fewer off enders due to their supposed the mice in the chamber or however, showing that alpha- enforcement of “real name culture,” according to a statement SLEEP played the sound while altering CaMKII is key in the recalling from the site. Despite the fi ndings, there is little doubt that Dr. Marcos Frank of the the amount of alpha-CaMKII, process of memory, and that the Tila Tequila and tacky teeny boppers will continue to post pho- University of Pennsylvania resulting in the erasure of the concept of selective memory is tographs of themselves in their underwear in a desperate plea School of Medicine recently memory of being inside the no longer limited to the movies. for attention. published a study documenting the correlation between sleep A THE VOICE LEGISLATURE GETS SEXY and memory. While his study K LEEOO While Hawai‘i’s state Legislature is in session, two new bills was conducted using animal EDITORIAL models, it provides insight as to have something to say about whom we have sex with and how Ka Leo O Hawai‘i Editor in Chief how human memory works. Taylor Hall we learn about it. House Bill 444 hopes to legalize civil unions University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Managing Editor Vanessa Sim “Memory is the actual in the state of Hawai‘i. Along with making domestic partners 1755 Pope Road, 31-D Chief Copy Editor Kyle Mahoney equal in the eyes of the law to “spouses,” Hawai‘i would also making and breaking of con- Honolulu, HI 96822 Associate Copy Editor Nichole Catlett recognize same-sex marriages and civil unions performed in nections between neurons. News Editor Kris DeRego Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont and New Jersey. The (study’s) fi ndings reveal Newsroom (808) 956-7043 Associate News Editor Glendalyn Junio Meanwhile, House Bill 329 fi nds that the former Bush that the brain during sleep is Advertising (808) 956-3210 Associate News Editor Mark Brislin administration’s penchant for abstinence-only programs was a fundamentally diff erent from Facsimile (808) 956-9962 Features Editor Yasmin Dar fl opping failure. HB329 declares “the legislature fi nds that it is the brain during wakefulness,” E-mail [email protected] Associate Features Editor Carly Yonamine the policy of this state to provide Hawai‘i’s youth with reliable said Frank. Web site www.kaleo.org Commentary Editor Chris Mikesell Sports Editor Ashley Nonaka information regarding contraception and protection from sexu- The study suggests that neural connections are strength- Associate Sports Editor Russell Tolentino ally transmitted diseases, as well as to provide our youth with ADVERTISING ened through a biological Comics Editor Will Caron comprehensive sexuality education that empowers them to act Ad Manager Erica Hwang Design Editor Nicole Gilmore responsibility and in their best self-interest.” The after-school process in the visual cortex that Business offi ce parallel to the bottom entrance of Photo Editor Kent Nishimura special business is thrilled.