The Voices of Hawaii

What does it mean to be "local" or "Hawaiian" or "Hapa?" What is it like to be a Muslim man living in Hawaii, or a Filipino who recently migrated? These stories of local identity and ethnic media in Hawaii are covered by senior journalism students using videos, slideshows, photos, podcasts and print in this issue of UH TODAY.

Culture

• Let’s talk story in Hawaiian
• Jon Hawes: Music Man
• Ka‘ala Learning Center working to be self-reliant on Hawaii’s resources
• Musicians get industry survival tips in fall
• Manoa hunts bag 22 in first month
• Students take advantage of Hula classes
• UH celebrates 100 years of Filipino immigration
• UH alumnae rebuild He‘eia fishpond
• Political activist connects Hawaiian students with community
• Company offers community a place for private parties, gatherings

Government

• Smoking ban affects students on campus
• Hawaii residents support braille instruction
• UH nursing bill to be reviewed by legislature
• Sen. Sakamoto’s Committee passed bill for elementary blind literacy
• Oahu’s politicians struggle to help increasing homeless population
• Obama shows up for island party
• Forum held to discuss issues in the Pacific
• Youth braille education promotes equal opportunity
• Regent selection commisson one step closer to implementation
• Public Access Room “is for the public”
• Watada case debated at UHM

Campus

• Students say parking is inadequate and $3 is steep
• Escort service limits leave some students behind
• Parking woes on UHM campus
• Are UHM dorms safe?
• UHM has problems keeping students in
• Student mugged on University and Dole
• Life returns from the ashes of Lab School
• Officials break ground for $71M dorm
• Library lacks funding for books
• Plenty of praising and complaining on blogs about UH
• UH pays professor for “alleged damage to reputation” and other claims
• More than 200 cases brought to Ombuds Office since open last semester
• Trial between UH and former employee to begin next April
• Competing budgets costs improvements plan millions
• UHM struggling to retain its students
• Campus Center mural gets face-lift
• Woman files defamation suit against UH marine laboratory
• Despite health risks, many college students are hooked on hookah
• Campus Center Board aims to improve student life
• Necessity of Frear Hall's construction questioned
• UH Bookstore undergoes $1.27 million renovation
• Lawsuit sparked by dolphin deaths reviewed last month

Education

• Petty crime a hidden UH problem
• Future studies prove important at UH
• UH students dealing with stress on daily basis
• UH student majoring in stress
• International Student Services help ease transition to UH
• Psychology student conducting study to determine key to academic sucess
• BOR expected to apprice School of Hawaiian Knowledge in May
  
• UH professor pushes for future studies

Technology

• New website offers legal way to get music
• Dead cell phones save lives
• Study finds difference between colors used in South Korean and the U.S. ads
• Mauna Kea telescope plans on hold for now
• Honolulu sees rise in skyscraper construction
• Anabolic steroid-like supplements still on market despite recent ban