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Volu me 105 I ssue 29MON DA Y, O C T. 4 t o T U E S DA Y, O C T. 5 , 2 010Ser v i ng t he st udent s of t he Un iversit y of Hawa i ‘ i at M ā noa si nce 19 22
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Life Foundation’s mission is to fi ght AIDS in Hawaiʻi and the Pa-cifi c, and will be featured on the radio this Friday to raise aware-ness and money for the cause. On Friday, Oct. 8, Star 101.9 is holding its second annual ra-diothon to help with AIDS pre-vention, treatment, and aware-ness. The event, called “Stars Against AIDS,” will benefit the Life Foundation, a local organiza-tion that provides free HIV test-ing and services for those living with HIV/AIDS. “There will be live on-air in-terviews with Life Foundation clients, staf f board members, volunteers, and there will po -tentially be an on-air rapid test, the administration of a HIV test and an explanation of the process,” said Kandice Johns, event manager. Life Foundation works with 769 HIV-positive men, women and children to ensure they re-ceive proper medical, fi nancial, and emotional care. As of Dec. 1, 2009, 4,015 AIDS cases have been
confi rmed in Hawaiʻi. “Star 101.9 has about 70,000 listeners, so it ’s a really great way to reach out to people and for people to learn about Life Founda-tion,” she said. “The purpose is twofold — to spread education and awareness of our services and raise funds for our services,” said Johns. The phone bank will be staf fed by volunteers, includ-ing students from UH Mānoa’sPublic Relations Student Soci-ety of America (PRSSA) and the National Society of Collegiate Scholars (NSCS). There will be prizes for those who raise the most mon-ey. The grand prize is a trip to Las Vegas for two. “We’re try-ing to make it fun for the volun-teers,” said Johns. “We are encouraging people to call in. It ’s a great opportu-nity to hear directly from people who have been affected by HIV/AIDS,” said Melanie Moore, di-rector of communications. The Star 101.9 hotline can be reached at 808-853-3232. Dona-tions may also be made online at www.lifefoundation.org.
Radiothon will benefit Hawai‘i AIDS causeRadiothon will benefit Hawai‘i AIDS cause
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Volunteers staff the phone bank at last year’s radiothon. This year’s event will take place on Oct. 8 on Star FM 101.9
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Young girls with higher body fat or height have a greater chance of getting their period early, according to a UH Mānoa study presented last Friday. “Most girls are tending to reach menarche earlier these days either be -cause of higher nutrit ion or lower phys-ical activity,” said Vinutha Vijayadeva, the author of the study and a junior
researcher in the Human Nutrit ion, Food and Animal Sciences department. “They tend to have more body fat than girls from, say, the 1990s.” Vijayadeva said that she found that both girls with higher percentages of ab-dominal body fat, as well as girls who were taller, were more likely to experience me-narche - their first menstrual cycle - ear-lier in life than other young girls. The study was conducted over three years with Asian and Caucasian popula-
tions of girls in Hawaiʻi between the ages of eight and 10 years old. One of the challenges of drawing con-clusions from this research, Vijayadeva said, is that it is difficult to determine what the correct age is for a young girl to reach that point in her development. “What we are trying to focus on here is the optimal range of girls reaching menarche,” said Vijayadeva. “Reaching menarche early is bad, reaching menar-che late is bad, so what is that optimal
level? That is what we’re trying to explain, which is difficult because there have not been many studies previously that have focused on these aspects.” Vijayadeva said that determining a more ideal menarcheal age range is criti-cal because menarche signals the body to begin producing the hormone estro-gen. The earlier it occurs, the longer a young woman is exposed to the female
Early female development linked to height, body fat in UHM studyEarly female development linked to height, body fat in UHM study
See Menarche study, page 3
hormone over time. Estrogen can be a risk factor for some diseases while being beneficial for others. “When a girl reaches menar-che earlier and is exposed to estro-
gen earlier, for a longer duration – for example, if I reach menarche at fi fteen as opposed to reaching it at twelve – that extra three years of exposure to estrogen makes
me more vulnerable to developing breast cancer,” said Vijayadeva. “But (to prevent) osteoporosis, you need more estrogen. It’s a bal-ancing act,” Vijayadeva said.
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Vinutha Vijayadeva, a junior researcher in the HNFAS department of the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, presented a study that correlated greater body fat and height with early me-narcheal development in girls. She found that physical activity had more of an impact than diet on the onset of menarche in the young women she studied.
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At 21 years old, junior and Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences major Gabriel Sachter-Smith is al-ready known as a banana expert. He’s been called banana man, ba-nana guy, even a banana prodigy by those who know him in the Col-lege of Tropical Agriculture. But professionally, Sachter-Smith says he’s more of an aspir-ing amateur. “When I got into banana plants, it wasn’t because I liked eating the fruit, it wasn’t because I wanted to try to grow my own fruit,” said Sachter-Smith. “It wasn’t because of anything other than the fact that I was interested in banana plants.” And they are indeed plants, not trees, as Sachter-Smith is quick to point out - that’s what got him into this whole banana busi-ness in the fi rst place.
BANANA BEGINS When he was 14, his fellow class-mates at his Colorado middle school didn’t believe him when he told them that bananas did not, in fact, grow on trees, though he had seen them for himself fi rsthand on a trip to his aunt’s house in Maryland. “All the other kids were like ‘oh, you’re an idiot Gabe, of course bananas grow on trees,’” he said. “I got back (home) and I looked it up in a dictionary and an ency-clopedia and online and got all my sources, and proved them wrong.” Sachter-Smith took his inves-tigation beyond that initial bet, however. In July of 2002, he plant-ed his fi rst banana plant in the sunroom of his parents’ Colorado home - a rose banana cutting from Florida that promptly died with-out the benefi t of roots or leaves. Undaunted and armed with more knowledge, Sachter-Smith tried a second plant, a hardier dwarf cavendish cutting, and it survived. Soon his single healthy
For one prodigy, bananas have broader appealFor one prodigy, bananas have broader appeal
Spurred on by a childhood bet, Gabriel Sachter-Smith now grows more than 50 varieties of banana plants on the UH student farm in Waimanalo. Here, he displays a Na-tive Hawaiian varietal - its most dramatic characteristic is its orange-fl eshed interior when ripe.
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cavendish turned into a small col-lection of different varieties from a wide range of sources - some lo-cal, some online, but all adding bit by bit to his banana knowledge. “When I had four, fi ve, six, (my parents) started trying to regulate it,” said Sachter-Smith. “They didn’t want me to go nuts and just blow all my money on banana plants. “But there was a point – I don’t know at what point it was – where they said ‘hey, you know what you’re doing more than us,’ where they asked more questions and wanted to know what I was growing.”
MOVING TO HAWAIʻ I Eventually, his parents’ 100-square foot, two-story sun-room spent the Colorado sum-mers fi lled with 40 varieties of banana plants, along with some of CTAHR’s papaya.
Though he was studying ev-erything and asking everyone he could about bananas from his 8,300 foot high home in Colorado before he left for Hawai‘i in 2007, Sachter-Smith said that back then he often felt like he lacked practi-cal fi eld knowledge. But three years of growing ba-nana plants in at UH Mānoa as one of the founding members of the UHM student farm has certainly helped, along with some more specialized banana training. Yes, banana training. “I worked for a year and a half at the tissue culture lab on cam-pus,” said Sachter-Smith. He said that growing banana plants in a lab gave him an opportunity to see healthy examples of a lot of varieties that would normally suc-cumb to diseases like the bunchy top banana virus, hundreds at a
time sometimes. “You can grow them in test tubes and basically clone them. It sounds really intense, but any-body can do it.” Add to that the fact that Sa-chter-Smith was invited to attend the 2009 International Banana Symposium last September in Guangzhou, China, as well as the fact that he spent his most recent summer studying banana agricul-ture fi rsthand in Uganda, and you can understand why he garners the recognition he does. But perhaps the most impor-tant thing Sachter-Smith learned from those experiences was something that he couldn’t learn from a textbook or a horticultural hobbyist. He says that outside of developed nations like ours, ba-nanas are more than just some-thing sweet to slice up over your
cereal - often times they are the single staple starch of a culture. “There are places in the world where the word for banana is the word for food,” explained Sachter-Smith. “Often times the question isn’t ‘what are you going to eat today’ because it ’s literally bananas or nothing.” That realization gave Sachter-Smith the drive to study bananas beyond being a mere hobbyist. It shows every time someone asks, yet again, what one would expect people to ask a banana prodigy: what is his favorite kind of banana? He gets that question a lot. “I tell them what I’m going to tell you right now: I’m a terrible judge of banana taste because I really like the whole picture of ba-nanas. Eating and fruit quality, and how you like eating it, to me it’s like one piece of the bigger picture.”
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HoroscopesBy Nancy Black and Stephanie ClementsTribune Media Services (MCT)Today’s birthday (10/4/10). The universe challenges you this year to fulfi ll your mission at work and to develop your inspirational capacity. Make stress your internal barometer that measures how close you come to the mark with every activity you deem worthy of attention.To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most
challenging.Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is a 7 -- Your favorite person suggests a plan to test your excitement level. Handle responsibilities fi rst, then devote yourself to private time later.Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is a 7 -- You need personal attention today. Others recognize this and contribute, but possibly not how you imagined. Clarify your needs to get them met.Gemini (May 21-June 21) -- Today is a 6 -- You need to express your views concerning core values. Associates may see things quite differently and could suggest viable new solutions.
Cancer (June 22-July 22) -- Today is a 6 -- What would you really want, if you could have anything, be anything or do anything? Imagine that this is all accomplished. Then what would you create for others?Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is a 5 -- An outsider raises questions concerning your goals. A creative plan goes on hold while you sort out the implications. Family members provide key information.Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- A problem could arise if you become overly anxious about tomorrow’s business. Stick to tasks
that must be completed today and use your talents.Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- You question the group’s mindset. Clarify your reservations with visual aids. Then see if you can connect the dots. If so, then move forward.Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is a 7 -- Finalize one more question before you present your ideas to the group. Consider the feelings of others as you add the finishing touch.Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is a 7 -- Time gets away from you as you’re having fun. Everyone wants to share ideas and stir things up. Don’t
plan on fi nalizing anything just yet.Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) --Today is a 7 -- You want everything to be perfect. You get more done if you relax a bit and accept excellence. Very little is lost in the process.Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is an 8 -- Find out what delights your partner. Then adapt today’s plan to accomplish as much of that as possible. You make stunning progress.Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Todayis a 7 -- Your need for recognition can wait until you’ve completed the project. There’s still plenty to do to make this the wonderful piece you envisioned.
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Though bipartisan politics limits the choices in leadership, it is how the government is run in the land of the free. The candidate who fails to prove him or herself a “true” Democrat or Republican will likely fall short in votes. American politics is always the same story. Two political par-ties go head to head in a race for the hearts, minds, and votes, of the American public. Parties play a dominant role in major elections and also in determin-ing the primaries within the con-stituency of a single party. In the most recent Democrat-ic Party primary elections, Neil Abercrombie surprised Hawai‘i residents with an overwhelming victory in the gubernatorial race. He captured nearly 60 percent of
the votes against the initial favor-ite, Mufi Hanneman. There were many contribut-ing factors to this victory, but the most discussed and controversial issue was the implication that Mufi Hanneman displayed elitist views in his remarks regarding public schools and his empha-sis on his own prestigious back-ground. This apparent elitism diverged from traditional Demo-cratic Party values. Democrats tend to favor a stronger central government, with more funding toward pub-lic institutions such as schools. Public education is a specif ical-ly strong factor in Hawai‘i poli-tics because everyone is aware of the budgetary problems the system faces now. Most voters agree that the public education system needs improvement.
However, to deride public edu-cation while running as a Demo-crat is a poor choice, because voters may question a candidate’s commitment to “Democratic” val-ues like education. Regardless of party affi liation, it is important to keep in mind the party’s traditional values during a primary. Radical views have a shifting role in elections, depend-ing on public opinion at the time, but to sway from fundamental party politics in a primary cam-paign is almost the equivalent to candidate suicide. Primary elections are the waters where the true nature of a candidate is tested. The vot-ers want to f ind the candidate who will be able to swim with the current of party polit ics while of fering enough change to parallel the important issues of their party.
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The issues with bipartisan politics are rarely at the top of students’ priorities. Greater awareness among our gneration might change that.
EDITOR RUSSELL TOLENTINOASSOCIATE MARC ARAKAKI
MONDAY, OCT. 4, 2010
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Senior slot receiver Kealoha Pi lares is K a L eo Athlete of the Week for his record-breaking per formance in the Universit y of Hawai‘ i ’s 41-21 win on Saturday against the L ouisiana Tech Bul ldogs. Pilares had 18 re-ceptions, 217 yards, and two touchdowns. He now holds the school record for receptions in a single game, which was for-merly held by teammate
senior Greg Salas. Pilares also set a career-high in reception yards in a single game, which is the seventh-best performance in school history. Early in the second quarter, Pilares caught a 7-yard pass from ju-nior quarterback Bryant Moniz to give the War-riors a 17-0 lead. However, the longest run of Pilares’ night came less than three minutes later, when Moniz con-nected with Pilares once again for a 66 -yard touch-
down pass. Pilares has scored in every game this season and leads the team with nine touchdowns. Along with Pilares, Moniz and Salas had mon-ster games of their own on Saturday night. Moniz threw for a career-high 532 yards, completing 42 of his 58 passes, with four touch-downs. Salas added 10 re-ceptions, 197 yards, and two touchdowns. The Warriors are now 3-2 and 1-0 in the Western Athletic Conference.
Kealoha Pilares Warrior FootballPosition: Slot ReceiverClass: SeniorHeight: 5’11Hometown: Wahiawā, OāhuHigh School: Damien Memorial High School
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