VOLUME 102 ISSUE 98 T H E V O I C E Weekend Venue Indie games, virtual reality & rising game developers A Weekend Venue | Page 7 WWW.KALEO.ORG EO KServing the students of the UniversityL of Hawai‘i at Mānoa since 1922 ISOLATED SHOWERS So corny! Mind blowing–McCain has free beer? Sporty smart Food crisis looms large “Fourth wall” hits the presidency Athletes recognized for academic achievements THURSDAY H:79° L:69° Commentary | Page 4 Cartoons | Page 13 Sports | Page 16 MAY 1, 2008 The Hokule’a UH efforts for International CampusBeat sails for By Michelle White education Ka Leo Senior Staff Reporter Year of the Reef Tuesday, April 15 By Tracy Chan and Nodoka Fuse Ka Leo Staff Reporters • The driver of a vehicle that ran The Hokule’a, the tradition- the gate at East–West road at 1 a.m. al voyaging canoe that is leg- was cited for trespassing. endary for her journeys around Polynesia, Japan and the United • A mo-ped was stolen from the States, is ready to set sail in rack near the Athletics Complex new waters, and students from locker room at about noon. Honolulu Community College are going along for the ride. Wednesday, April 16 Currently she is docked at the HCC Marine Education • Campus Security responded to a Center, where students have fire alarm at Hale Ilima at 1:30 a.m. been working since January to When officers arrived they found repair the canoe from her last that someone had lit paper on fire in voyage. It has been an oppor- the trash chute room. There were no tunity for other students and injuries other than tired students. visitors to see and learn about the Hokule’a and Polynesian Friday, April 18 voyaging as well. Kai’ulani Murphy is a navi- • Campus Security found a resi- gator who has worked with the dent of Hale Lehua in possession Polynesian Voyaging Society, of another person’s property. The the organization that owns the owner of the property was notified Hokule’a. For a decade, she has and the suspect has been referred COURTESY PHOTO • WWW.SOEST.HAWAII.EDU helped guide the Hokule’a on the to the vice chancellor and student canoe’s last voyage. “Through Researchers at the Hawai‘i Institution of Marine Biology at Coconut Island, shown here, are hoping to explain why O‘ahu’s housing. voyaging, we learn more about coral reefs are bleached and diseased. this place,” she said. “Living on a Sunday, April 20 canoe is like living on an island.” • Murphy, who will soon begin By Tiffany Hill and Brandi Salas ciation with UH Mānoa, sponsored a free reef A Playstation and Wii were taken teaching students how to navigate Ka Leo Staff Reporters expo for the public featuring 20 interactive in a burglary at Hale Noelani. The using wind, waves and stars, is booths and coral ponds. theft occurred sometime during the enthusiastic about training poten- For years the University of Hawaiʻi at “It’s to show the public, our visitors, who’s early morning hours. A report was tial new crew members. Mānoa has been the ideal place to study marine out there doing things to conserve and manage filed with HPD. “Students that go through life, but this year researchers and the com- the environment,” said Dan Van Ravenswaay, Monday, April 21 these courses and are very munity alike are paying extra attention to the coordinator for the International Year of the interested and want to continue homes of marine animals: coral reefs. Reef event at the aquarium. • would be able to” she said. The university and the local community On the research side, university profes- A student reported that their mo- “They would have that basic have teamed up with International Year of the sors and graduate students at the Kewalo ped was stolen from the Moore foundation of knowledge that a Reef, a nonprofit organization working to help Marine Lab are conducting studies on coral Hall rack. It was taken at about crew member needs to sail the increase awareness about preserving the impor- preservation and research on invasive species 8:30 a.m. tant natural resource. See Hokule‘a, page 2 In April, the Waikīkī Aquarium, in asso- See Reef, page 3 See Beat, page 2 News 2 THURSDAY SURF OUTLOOK Commentary 4 S HONOLULU TIDES NORTH 1–3 High surf advisory in Mixed Plate 7 Wave heights HI 12:31 A.M. | 1:44 P.M. effect for South shores. The BOSTON’SBOSTON’S SOUTH 4–6 reported PLEASE LO 7:11 A.M. | 7:36 P.M. Southerly swell is expected Cartoons 13 Hawaiian style, Check out page 16 for WEST 3–5 to diminish throughout the RECYCLE Puzzles & Classi eds 14 S HALEIWA TIDES about half face HI ––––– | 12:42 A.M. EAST 1–2+ rest of the week. INSIDE TODAY heights. Sports 16 LO 5:06 A.M. | 5:31 A.M. 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The first game that I can recall ever playing that had some sort of 3-D was a classic NES racing title called “Rad Racer” from Square. The same com- pany that would make one of the most ironically titled game series ever, “Final Fantasy.” But that’s a different story. COURTESY PHOTO • IGN.COM Rad Racer, like the prior Because of Pablo Belmonte, a number of people were convinced that Nintendo’s next big thing was something called the Nintendo Square release “3-D World ON. The system, whilst resembling a bike helmet, supposedly was made up of a stationary scanner and a wireless visor. However, the Runner,” had an option to dis- entire machine was fabricated. play it’s graphics in the good ole blue and red style of 3-D with doing was creating a flicker. A field. Alas, the “Virtual Boy” revealed the Revolution which awesome blue and red glasses. total of six games were made would be one of the shortest would later be renamed the Wii Of course without the glasses for use with the 3-D glasses, lived creations from Nintendo. to much schoolyard giggling. you’d more than likely crash, but Sega apparently gave up on Within a year, a laundry list Chung Lee, a PhD student which I did, whenever the but- the peripheral with their subse- of complaints and problems at Carnegie Mellon University, ton to switch into 3-D mode was quent Master System II since it resulted in not only the system took the technology of the Wii accidentally hit. lacked the proper hook-ups. being canned, but its creator and turned it into a headtracking Sega, ancient nemesis of Scooting forward through Yokoi as well and 3-D went into display. Headtracking creates an Nintendo, also took a stab at 3- time and out of the 1980s, in hibernation. illusion of depth by changing 1995 Nintendo rolled out a con- Roughly three years ago, D except they decided to forgo the image on a screen according centrated attempt at stereoscopic Pablo Belmonte, an industrious the blue/red technique in lieu of to the position someone is view- gaming with the “Virtual Boy.” Nintendo fan, created and post- something more “high tech”. ing it. A video of him showing The Sega Master System Created by Gunpei Yokoi, who ed a video that had a number of off this application received a had a pair of glasses that, once along with other achievements folks convinced that Nintendo’s lot of traffic on YouTube. hooked up properly, would is considered to be the father of next big thing was something It’s anyone’s guess as to alternate opening and closing the Game Boy, the system con- called the Nintendo ON. The shutters over each eye. This sisted of a huge pair of goggles system, whilst resembling a how we might be looking at allowed game makers to cre- mounted on a small tripod with bike helmet, supposedly was video games in the future. With ate 3-D effects in full color as wired controller coming out of made up of a stationary scanner games quickly hitting a glass opposed to blue, red, and mush. the goggles. and a wireless visor. Of course, ceiling of sheer realism / pretti- However it didn’t work on Each eye would look into a few days later at the annual ness in the graphics department, all TVs, and some fairly percep- its own screen which would Electronic Entertainment Expo the only way up may be through tive people felt like all it was result in the illusion of depth of (E3) trade show Nintendo some means of innovation.