Monster Mash

5 Tips for the Ultimate Halloween Bash:

• Be sure everyone knows costumes are mandatory
• Try setting a theme for the party. For example, come as a group (imagine opening the door to all the Power Rangers), couples only (Adam and Eve), or spooky movie characters (The Joker from Batman)
• Spooky Music Playlist – check out some eerie sounds from the library, and keep Michael Jackson’s "Thriller" in rotation all night, along with "The Monster Mash." Feel free to play theme music from various scary films
• Set the atmosphere with draped cotton and plastic spiders hung in various places from fishing line.
• Serve assorted trays of gummy worms and spiders as appetizers

Plenty ‘Awa and Even More Aloha

Rows of tropical delicacies lined the fair tables

by Nani Anderson


E inu I ka ‘awa Ikaika ka makani:
“Drink ‘awa to make the spirit strong”

This past Saturday, the Upper campus of the University of Hawaii at Manoa was transformed into a place of sharing, community, aloha and plenty of ‘awa, a very different scene than the usual hustle and bustle of students on their way to class.

Domestic Violence: Raising Awareness

Domestic violence is an undiscriminating, devastating act, whose victims/survivors are those who are or have been involved in an “intimate relationship” with their abuser-in heterosexual and homosexual relationships.  

This could be a current or former spouse, partner, boyfriend or girlfriend.  Domestic violence is the systematic use of coercion, threats, intimidation, and domination to maintain power and control over an intimate partner.  The tactics used may include verbal, psychological, economic, physical and /or sexual violence.

UH Gets a scoop of fashion...A La Mode

                  

                 

So you were perusing the site with a couple hours to kill because, that paper that’s due Monday is, well, not due until Monday. 

You muse: “getting a head start on it would be the studious and even smart thing to do;” but honestly, you’ve never been a “knock it out ahead of time” type of person. Besides, you do your best thinking on the fly, with about a day or less left to turn in the final, typed, 3-page copy.

Suddenly, a word in the article title catches your eye. 

Facing Hawaii's Future: The Value of Hawaii

Fresh Café was the recent scene of a all-ages, all-day event, showcasing art and digital media workshops, slam poetry, bands, and multi-media installations.

Arts as a reflection of community values stood at the forefront of public discussion surrounding the newly released book, The Value of Hawai‘i: Knowing the Past, Shaping the Future.

Book review: Eating in the Light of the Moon

“Storytellers speak in the language of myth and metaphor, they tell us a truth that is not literal, but symbolic. If we hear the stories with only the outer ear, they can seem absurd and untrue, but when listened to with the inner ear, they convey a truth that can be understood and absorbed on a deeply personal level. In this way, stories help us connect with our inner world, to the natural rhythms and cycles of the earth, and to the power of our intuitive wisdom."

- Anita Johnston, Ph.D, author of Eating in the Light of the Moon

Campus Calendar

The Value of Hawaii: UHM Teach-In Series

 October 7, 12:00-1:15pm, Kuykendall 410

Ka ‘Oihana: Business, Military, Tourism, and Hawaiian Sustainability

Join us for an opportunity to meet and talk with a large number of The Value of Hawai‘i contributors in a special 5-week teach-in series for the UH Mānoa campus, organized by the UH Mānoa Chancellor’s Office.

How did we get here? Three-and-a-half-day school weeks. Prisoners farmed out to the mainland. Tent camps for the migratory homeless. A blinkered dependence on tourism and the military for virtually all economic activity. The steady degradation of already degraded land. Contempt for anyone employed in education, health, and social service. An almost theological belief in the evil of taxes.

At a time when new leaders will be elected, and new solutions need to be found, the contributors to The Value of Hawai`i outline the causes of our current state and offer points of departure for a Hawai`i-wide debate on our future.

Eat, Drink and be Greek!

By Taressa Ishimi

Lines, lines, and more lines! That would sum up the 30th Annual Greek Festival. Whether you were waiting in line for food, sitting in a row with other festival attendees, or holding hands with a complete stranger while taking your turn at a traditional Greek dance performed while in a...you guessed it, line, the Greek Festival was a wonderful series of lines.

Starving ARTist Contest Rules

UH students asked for an online magazine - and we delivered!


Ka Lamakua, the creative element at UH Manoa, announces the first ever...

“Starving ARTist” submission contest

Ever wondered what it would be like to be Governor for a day?

Now you have a chance to share your ideas as a "Starving ARTist"!

Answer the call, “If I were Governor for a day I would…"

Submit your original writing, photography, art, or video. Writing submissions can
include any genre of poetry, song, essay and should not exceed 5000 words.

All submitters receive a free t-shirt, with three winning entries to be selected by a panel of starving artists.

1st place - $100 prize value
2nd place - $50 prize value
3rd place - $25 prize value

Tell us, what would you do as “Governor for a day”?

Submission deadline: Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Visit www.kalamakua.org
or email kalamakua.org@gmail.com

Playing to Lose with Pikachu

How I learned to stop worrying and love the pedometer
By Chris Mikesell

“Is 3000 steps enough to get a Munchlax?”
“No, you have to walk 8,000. Ten-thousand if your pokèmon is the wrong type.”

March 14, 2010 marked the beginning of the latest chapter of the Pokèmon game franchise’s fanaticism: the “HeartGold” and “SoulSilver” editions.

My inner 12-year-old is enraptured with each new edition – but my outer 26-year-old doesn’t mind the maelstrom of consumerism, cockfighting, and morality that Pokèmon is and has been to this day.

Don’t laugh. Pokèmon games have sold over 200 million copies combined over the past 14 years. They must be doing something right.

Jacked In: Tech and How It's Changing our Bodies and Our Spaces

And when I say "changing us," I mean our physical bodies and physical spaces. (We've already got enough people talking about how Facebook has changed our social lives.)

Have you ever heard of the transhumanist movement? Wikipedia it real quick and you'll find that there are a bunch of individuals out there who are looking for ways to modify their bodies and become more mechanical. Think of it as taking your own step in evolution. You know those medical leaps and bounds in prosthetic limbs? Some transhumanists believe that we'll start engineering limbs superior than our "real" ones. Once this happens, able-bodied people may elect to swap their limbs with man-made ones. I mean, there are already debates about whether prosthetic legs give athletes an unfair "advantage."

Pretty trippy stuff huh? I know if they invent amazing digital eyes, I'll definitely get rid of my yucky nearsighted ones.

Stevie Ray Vaughan Forever

 By Rachel Wagenman

Replica of Elvis Presley's car above the bar

The tribute concert honoring Stevie Ray Vaughan and the 20th anniversary of his passing, started at 9PM on Friday August 27th at Hard Rock Café, and as soon as the doors opened, the house was already a rockin’.

Brain Waves: "Wake Up your Brain with Meditation"

This installment continues the discussion on how you can improve your performance in school and throughout the day.

Daniel Amen in his book, Making a Good Brain Great, and on his TV show "The Brain in Love" on PBS TV has made a very strong point about the value of increasing blood flow to all parts of the brain for improving interpersonal relationships and success in life. Dr. Amen uses brain imaging to determine blood flow to the brain. When blood flow increases to the brain it also increases to the heart and the rest of the body.

A Big Fat Greek Festival

Nisiotes dancers. Image from
http://www.greekfestivalhawaii.com

Event preview by Taressa Ishimi

My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Hercules (Disney version and Kevin Sorbo alike), Brad Pitt as Achilles, and of course hummus… I don’t know about you, but for me this is sadly the extent of my exposure to Greek culture. So I am definitely excited about the 30th Annual Greek Festival happening on August 28 and 29 at McCoy Pavillion in Ala Moana Park.

Brain Waves

Sail Through the Semester with these Stress Reduction Techniques

Challenges are abound in college, especially with the start of the semester. Simple and effective techniques for stress reduction include the following: 

• Walking daily for 30 - 40 minutes is very effective for restoring balance to the mind and body. 
• Sports such as tennis and ping pong bring in a terrific mind-body connection to the exercise. One has to continually compute the speed of the ball coming at you and then how to strike the ball to hit the target location. 
• Listening to relaxing music (we like classical or Hawaiian music) offers relief from stress.

Smoking in the Dorm Room

 

Written by Kaui Awong

In a distant, alternate reality somewhere far away, where college students (heaven forbid) smoke marijuana… *gasps*, dorm residents often make strapping attempts to get away with their prohibited habits in the comfort of their rooms. The question is: How can college students get away with it? 

Being up against the forces of smoke detectors, RAs, and anti-smoking neighbors, it requires tact to maneuver around and rise high above “the man.”

If, by some slim chance, a college kid would ever want to become a master of concealing activities involving marijuana, these are steps he or she might take.

That’s So Akamai!

 

Waking up in the early hours of the morning to get to work or school is hard enough. Add the unknown traffic conditions and the possibility of spending hours in traffic because you turned right instead of left, and you’re back in a nightmare from the night before.

What if you could wake up from this nightmare?

GoAkamai (www.goakamai.org) is a new website by the Hawaii State Department of Transportation and the City & County of Honolulu DOT Services that provides transportation information. Not only do they provide real-time traffic updates and alerts, but they also provide public transportation information, links to flight times and carpool services, and even surf and weather reports.

I'm Not a Fan. Really.

Driving past He‘eia Kea Pier each day, I found myself increasingly transfixed by the quasi-pirate ship, its occupants, and the increasing waves of Pirate fans.

But, though my interest was piqued, I had fancied myself a writer of important stuff. No way was I going to waste my time with movies or movie stars.

However, after a few beers at a baby luau, I got bold and decided to check it out. Having convinced my girlfriend that “just one look” was enough to satisfy my curiosity, we headed out to the pier.

While there definitely was a buzz about, with police at the entrance and big dudes in yellow security coats skirting around like bumble bees, I had yet to see any Pirate cohorts – much less the infamous, Jack Sparrow, aka Johnny Depp.

Courses: PLAN 740 Imaging the City

PLAN 740

(CRN 76436)

IMAGING THE CITY

Mike Douglass with Henry Mochida and Vera Zombonell

Department of Urban and Regional Planning

Saunders Hall Doc Center, Wednesday 1:30-4:15

Fall 2010

Imaging the City focuses on the visual and aural (text, art, sound, photography, film) presentation of cities in social research and planning. The course is concerned with connections between imaging as representations of the urban condition, as insights into planning theory, and as tools for social mobilization and taking action. It seeks to bridge social science and planning theories with filmmaking techniques and methodologies for deliberative planning.

Ku Rising: The Roles and Responsibilities of Hawaiian Men Today

August 10 - Bishop Museum

A panel discussion featuring three cultural practitioners and scholars: Tom Kaulukukui, Keawe Kaholokula, and Ty Kawika Tengan. 6-8 pm. Museum's Atrium. For information: 808/848-4190
http://www.bishopmuseum.org/visitors/visitors.html