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Volume 9
Issue 4
The Case Middle School
Courier
March
2013
Produced by the Students of Punahou School, 1601 Punahou Street, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822
Classroom Technology:
What About
an iPad…?
By Kylie Yamauchi, Madison Imoto,
& Kaycie Lyn Matsukado
A
s you may know, Team 7W
got to try out iPads instead of
laptops for two cycles. The iPads
were used for school work and
some fun.
A lot of people enjoyed the
iPads, but some didn’t.
To measure the team’s reaction
to the experiment, the Courier
sent a survey to all 93 7W students, receiving a remarkable 68
responses (73 percent return).
On the whole, the students surveyed responded positively to the
experience.
Ratings:
13%—”OMG!”
16%—”Really good”
24%—”Pretty nice”
15%—”Just fine”
18%—”It was okay”
What did Team 7W students like
about the iPads? Shown above are
the most common responses.
Graphic created at tagxedo.com
Saving the World?
No Big Deal!
Author Derek Landy (at left) &
Skulduggery Pleasant.
Photo courtesy of Alex Holley &
Michelle Kass Associates, London
The remaining 14 percent did
not indicate a favorable experience
with the iPads.
Here are some of their opinions,
straight from the students themselves.
Q: What did you like about
using the iPads?
A: It was a lot lighter than the
By Daniel Yu
S
aving the world? No problem.
Flying across the sky in order
to get to the Alps? Easy. Looking
unsuspicious in a sleek, black,
Bentley? Happens every day.
Say hello to Skulduggery Pleasant—the fire-throwing, world-saving, ace detective … skeleton.
Created by Derek Landy, author of the Skulduggery Pleasant
series, this skeleton goes about
saving the world—about every
other day.
Mr. Landy lives in Ireland, and
kindly allowed me to ask him
some questions about him and his
series through email.
The questions and Mr. Landy’s
answers are hereby listed below.
1. What inspired you to become
an author?
I always wrote. In school I
loved writing short stories for
English class, and I loved reading.
Books, comics, it was all the same
to me.
Wanting to be a writer was a
natural thing.
2. What inspired you to start
the Skulduggery Pleasant series?
Skulduggery’s name appeared
in my head one day and suddenly
I was writing a book.
regular laptops and it was easier
to use for some things.
A: I liked that we could substitute the iPads for notebooks and
it became more of an interactive class because we could draw
things on it. It was also easier to
take home.
A: How it was so easy to locate
my pictures and do projects. I also
liked using it in math class with
the styluses.
Q: What was the easiest
thing to do on your iPad?
A: The easiest thing to do on
my iPad was probably taking pictures of geometric shapes for math
class.
A: The ability to have something
just be a swipe away instead of
having to look for things.
A: Drawing! For some of the
iPad lessons we made books for
math, evolution of inventions in
social studies, and myths in science.
Q: What was the hardest
thing to do on your iPad?
A: Typing. They didn’t give us
a keyboard to type on so we had
to type on the onscreen keyboard.
I found this quite difficult. I say
that if I had the choice to choose
between an iPad and a computer,
…continued on page 2
It really is that simple…!
3. How do you come up with
the Skulduggery Pleasant storylines? What’s your process?
There is no process anymore. I
came up with the storylines years
ago, just put all my best ideas in
there, so that now every time I
start a new book I know roughly
what it’s about.
From there, it’s just a matter of
day dreaming until I start writing…!
4. Of all of the powers that you
have created for the characters in
the series, which one would you
choose to have for yourself and
why?
I’d love to be able to fly, and
for ages that’s the power I’d have
chosen.
But then I started thinking—
probably the best power is teleportation. So I’d be a teleporter.
5. What did you want to grow
up to be when you were a kid?
A writer or an actor.
Or an artist.
6. When you started off your
Skulduggery Pleasant series, did
you mean for the first book to be
the only book? In other words,
did you imagine that it would be a
series?
The CMS Courier
March 2013
Just In Case:
Comet Comments
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his time for “Just In Case,” we
asked three 6th, 7th and 8th
graders and one faculty member
the following question:
If a comet the size of the moon
were hurtling towards Earth, what
would you do?
hurts to be prepared for anything,
so here are the answers:
Leiana Leong: “I would try and
find protection so I would be safe.”
Connor Kalahiki: “I would get
off this planet.”
Parker Murray: “I would want
to go kayaking.”
Taylon Manuel: “I would go
Of course, we hope this never
happens, but then again, it never
and hide underground.”
Scott Nakaoka: “I would run
and find somewhere safe.”
Weyland Kanada: “I would
enjoy the rest of my life by being
with my friends and family.”
Cole Hulick: “I would hide.”
Philip Tanton: “I would dig my
grave.”
Natalie Loui: “I would go and
hide.”
Mrs. Lake: “I would go home
and be with my family.”
I would choose a computer. I think
the iPad is good for fun stuff like
drawing and games, but not for
schoolwork.
A: I think that the hardest thing
to do on our iPads was changing the format of some things. If
I sent something from my home
laptop to the iPad, it wouldn’t open
Q: What did you mainly use
your iPad for?
A: Basically everything we used
our laptops for—except teachers
made lessons fit around using different apps on the iPads.
A: For when I was bored but we
also had many math and science
[projects]. But, we had to type
in the same format and it would
end up not being able to show up
on your iPad.
A: Accessing Japanese audio
files, and showing school work on
the Smart Board in English. We
had to email it to the teacher then
open it up there.
our English papers on it and it was
horrible.
A. We mainly used it for all the
cool new apps that were on it, for
classes.
A: Math problems. It was also a
great desk rest. (I rested my notebook on it while taking notes).
By Kylie Shimono & Lia Wong
T
Comet commentators, left to right,
top to bottom: Leiana, Connor,
Parker, Taylon, Scott, Weyland,
Cole, Philip, Natalie, & Mrs. Lake.
Photos by K. Shimono & L. Wong
4 iPADS IN THE CLASSROOM
…continued from page 1
The word clouds here summarize
the student survey responses. At
the left, what students thought
was easy on the tablets; at right,
what they felt was hard..
Graphics created at wordle.net
The CMS Courier
March 2013
A 7W Student’s
Opinion on the Recent
iPad Experiment
Above, 7W social studies teacher
Mrs. Silva using her iPad.
Below, iPads in protective casing
Top photo by C. Chang
Bottom photo courtesy of moshimonde.com
Viewpoint by Carl Chang
R
ecently, Team 7W’s laptops
were swapped for iPads. The
“experiment” lasted for about two
cycles. As a student of 7W I give
my opinion on this test.
Imagine writing a 500-word
speech on a small touch-screen
keyboard. That speech is the Damon Speech. I chose to use my
personal laptop but for many of my
classmates, the iPad was a pain.
This is one area where iPads are
behind laptops. Sure, you could use
a regular keyboard and hook it up
to your iPad but many classmates
complained the keyboards were
smaller than keyboards we are used
to, therefore making it hard to type.
A rare bright spot the iPads had
were being able to “mirror” your
iPad onto a laptop. We used this
several times during science class
to show various drawings. This app
was useful at times but it was usually very laggy and slow.
Something I especially didn’t like
was drawing on the iPad. Contrary
to popular belief, iPads are not the
easiest thing to draw on, even with
a stylus. Sure, I am not exactly an
artist but I thought drawing with
the iPads were difficult and didn’t
think they were much of an upgrade over laptops.
My favorite part about iPads was
being able to download apps. The
iPad came pre-loaded with various apps, including Scrabble and
Doodle Buddy. On one of the last
days of having our iPads we were
given permission to download apps
if they are “parent-approved, ageand school-appropriate apps.” This
caused a little bit of confusion but it
was still a pretty good incentive for
a few days.
Another thing I liked with the
iPads was being able to play Scrabble with my friends. During several
advisory periods we played in a
Scrabble tournament. The game
was pretty fun but not great.
Think our laptops are slow? Try
using an iPad. The speed of the
iPads was very painful and frustrating in our two-week trial. In particular, the web browsing speeds
were very slow. Another thing that
was very slow to do was printing.
At times it was impossible to print
with the iPads forcing us to “check
out” our laptops in order to print a
paper. I thought it was ridiculous
that we were forced to walk to our
classroom, sign our laptop out, turn
it on, print the paper, turn off the
laptop, sign our laptop back in, and
then pick up our paper.
Another difficulty with the iPads
was emailing papers. In English,
we were required to email our
papers to everyone. The difficulty
caused by the iPads caused some
of my classmates to be penalized
in English for “delay of game.” I
sympathized with those classmates
because they shouldn’t lose points
for a problem that was out of their
control.
Another problem with the iPads
is a public health hazard. Not
because of radiation, but because
of germs that can spread easily.
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In English class we were told to
email our thesis paper to Mr. Earle,
our English teacher. With about six
people each day touching and reading from Mr. Earle’s laptop, germs
are a major threat to our health. I
think this a major reason why we
should stick with laptops.
We are constantly reminded to
stop spreading germs and this is an
easy way to stop them.
Another issue I have with the
iPads is that they are a distraction
in class. The iPads have various
apps that are fun to play with,
including Scrabble, Glo Draw, and
Doodle Buddy. But they also have
two cameras and Photo Booth.
On numerous occasions I have
seen classmates using the cameras
when the teacher is talking or even
when someone is presenting.
There were several attempts to
thwart this problem but iPads are
still easy to play with when the
teacher isn’t looking.
Another reason why iPads cannot
replace laptops is because of the
size. You could use this in favor of
iPads but I think this is a reason
why they are bad. If you were to
drop an iPad it would easily break,
therefore making the owner to be
more careful than with laptops.
I also know that the iPads are
easy to lose or forget. The iPads are
small and someone may not even
know they forgot it until they open
their backpack.
It is rumored a reason why
laptops may be replaced with iPads
may be because of cost. I don’t
think that changing helps because
iPads can be easily damaged.
On one of the first days an iPad
screen became cracked. That was in
only one team space after a couple
days—imagine several grades for a
whole year. iPads are not as durable as laptops and the cases are
not durable (along with not being
aesthetically pleasing).
Another issue with the iPads was
the functionality. iPads currently
do not run Microsoft Word which
makes it harder for English class.
Another function it lacked was GarageBand. In Chinese class we were
assigned to record something. Many
of my classmates, including me,
could not figure out how to record
on the iPad. This is a problem that
can hurt our grades and our future.
Something that a teacher said
may happen is that we use our
iPads at school and bring them
home but we use personal laptops
at home for things like writing papers. I think this is a ridiculous idea
because why do we need to pay
extra for something that won’t help
us? If they want to rely on us having personal laptops, why are we
paying hundreds of dollars a year
for something we wouldn’t need?
The bottom line is that laptops
cannot be replaced with iPads right
now. At the end of the two cycles I
was glad to get my laptop back. I
think that iPads are great for playing
games but are not good enough for
school work. Maybe in the future we
could take another look at the iPads
but right now we would be taking a
step backward, not forward.
The CMS Courier
March 2013
Follow Up: Inaugural
Parade of 2013
Above, Mr. Briguglio. At right,
the Punahou Marching Band
at the 2013 Inaugural Parade.
Photos courtesy of Sterling (above)
and flickr.com (at right).
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about his reaction to the Inaugural
Parade.
Just to give you some background information, this was Mr.
Briguglio’s second time conducting
at the Inaugural Parade. He said
that even though this was the second time, it was still as important
and surreal to him as the first time.
CMS: How did you react
when you got to the Inaugural
Parade?
Mr. Briguglio: “I felt excited and
excited for myself and also for my
students to be part of such a historical event.”
CMS: Was it just as you
imagined it to be? Why or why
not?
Mr. Briguglio: “I have a big
imagination but it was even more
than I could imagine: the number
of people; the overall pride to be
with the Punahou Band that was
representing Hawai‘i to be the
first non-military band to be in the
parade.”
CMS: Was it scary or nerve
racking when you were performing? Why or why not?
Mr. Briguglio: “No, it was not
scary. We had practiced enough so
we just wanted to execute enough
when we performed.”
CMS: Were you guys well
prepared for the big crowd? If
so, did this require extra practice and classes with the band?
How often did you have to practice on your own?
Mr. Briguglio: “We practiced
group wise a lot—at least 3-4 times
a week for 2-4 hours. It required a
lot of on-yourown practice to
be caught up
with everyone
to be prepared
for the parade.
We had to extend the marching band season
for almost two
months instead
of November.”
CMS: How
did this make
your Punahou
Marching Band
experience
even better?
Mr. Briguglio: “To march at such
a high level and to be able to travel
as a big group makes it even better
and bonding is great. All the small
things, being at the airport, more
extra playing, and even eating
brought the marching band even
closer than before.”
CMS: What was the best part
of the parade?
Mr. Briguglio: “Definitely when
we marched passed the president
for about two-three minutes. All
the practice and marching was surreal. I felt like I was making history
and that I was part of history. Even
though there were fewer people,
it was still great because it was
unique in that you knew what was
coming.”
CMS: Has this experience
given you any life lessons? If so,
what are they and how are they
going to be valuable for you?
Mr. Briguglio: “Life lessons that
I learned? That anything can still
be accomplished. Anybody from
this little island can be able to be
president. If you believe in yourself enough and try your best, you
can do anything. Never quit because if you try hard enough you
can accomplish anything.”
I wrote it as a one-off book that
could BECOME a series. I always
kept that option open.
7. Question from a fan named
Micah: Of all the books that you
have written, which one is your
favorite and why?
Probably Kingdom of the Wicked
because it’s the most ambitious
and I wasn’t sure if I could make it
all make sense in the end!
8. About how many drafts of
each Skulduggery Pleasant book
do you write before the final draft?
Two or three proper drafts, then
countless smaller revisions.
9. What advice would you give
to your fans who would like to become authors, just like you?
Have fun. Write what you want
to write. Fun is contagious. If the
writer has fun writing, the reader
will have fun reading.
10. In what direction or directions do you see the series going
or your writing going?
Darker…!
11. Question from a fan named
Nicki: What is your favorite aspect
about the Skulduggery Pleasant
series? (As in characters, plot,
magic powers, etc...)
Characters. Definitely. Even
action scenes can get boring to
write, but characters never do.
12. Can you tell us something
about what Skulduggery will encounter in his next adventure?
The next book will PRIMARILY
be about war. Total, utter, WAR.
By Kaycie-Lyn Matsukado,
Madison Imoto, & Kylie Yamauchi
T
ake a minute and remember what happened around
six weeks ago. At that time, the
Punahou Marching Band was at the
Inaugural Parade in Washington
D.C. We interviewed Mr. Briguglio
The CMS Courier
March 2013
8th Grader Helped
Arrange Music
Played in D.C.
Karuna Pyle.
Photo by J. Hamada & K. Matsukado
Bobtail Squid
By Joli Hamada & Megan Itagaki
K
aruna Pyle, a Case Middle
eighth grader, helped arrange
one of the musical compositions
played by the Punahou Marching
Band for President Obama’s second
inaugural parade this past January. He was one of three Punahou
students (two in the Academy) who
worked on the composition.
The Courier caught up with Karuna via email to find out more....
Q: What was the process you
went through to get involved in
this? Can you explain?
A: The three of us had been
taking private lessons in composition with Dr. Magnussen for a
while already (I did for about two
years). He asked us in November
if we could do the project and we
agreed so we started working by
getting the piece assigned to us.
We each did one song. I did “Sons
of Punahou” and we first wrote it as
if it were for piano with a treble and
bass part. Then we fleshed it out
into four parts, still on the treble/
bass piano staff. After that we met
and spread the parts throughout
the band, and edited until it was
finished.
Q: Did you have any worry about
the composure?
A: I’m not really sure what you
mean by “composure.” If you’re
talking about how confident the
members of the band would be
when they played the piece, then
By Chloe Loughridge
I
Hi! My name is Bob—and I glow in
the dark.
Photo courtesy of news.wisc.edu
n the deep of night, when
shadows come out to haunt the
beaches, and the ocean becomes
a pool of never-ending darkness,
a silent hunter glides soundlessly
through midnight, moon-glossed
waters.
The vigilant predator settles
gently on the sandy bottom of the
sea while its eyes dilate and probe
the darkness for its secrets. This
little creature, the Hawaiian Bobtail
Squid, is delicate, sensitive, and
endemic to our islands. Although
we don’t know all of its secrets,
the small Bobtail Squid provides
huge possibilities for scientists.
Such a creature could be used to
solve problems plaguing our world
today, and it lives right in our own
backyard.
One of the squid’s more prominent characteristics is the fact that
it glows in the dark, which is quite
handy considering that it is nocturnal.
The Bobtail Squid is able to use
bioluminescent bacteria that help
it to glow. By doing this, the squid
is able to erase its own shadow.
Using a cavity on its underside,
the squid sweeps in certain bacteria from the ocean with the help of
cilia, or small hair-like structures.
The Bobtail Squid is actually
able to cultivate these bacteria,
which after reaching a certain
point, begins to glow in the squid’s
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not really, they’ve done things like
this before. If you mean to ask if
I was worried about how the final
piece would turn out, I wasn’t really
because we had meetings with our
teacher, and time to fix any errors
that we made.
Q: How did you feel about working with two Academy students on
making the medley?
A: I guess I felt like I would,
working with anyone else. It wasn’t
all that much a collaboration, seeing
as how we had our own pieces and
stuck to them, but it was nice to
work with other people on a project
like this.
Q: Did you feel any pressure
knowing that the composition that
you were making was going onto
national TV and to be presented in
front of the president?
A: I didn’t feel pressure working with older people—we weren’t
that much different in how good we
are at composing so it didn’t make
much of a difference. It’s not like
they knew a lot more than I did
about it.
Q: Do you have any musical
inspirations?
A: Not for this, at least. It was
an arrangement of Punahou songs.
For other pieces, I tend to come up
with most ideas just by thinking of
them. I don’t have that much conscious inspiration at least.
Q: Are you prepared to compose
more songs?
light organ. In other words, the
Bobtail Squid basically has a living flash light inside of itself—this
bioluminescent bacteria makes the
squid glow in the dark.
In fact, the Bobtail Squid can
even control the light intensity of
its bio-flashlight simply by controlling the amount of oxygen that the
bacteria receive.
In this way, the Bobtail Squid
simply blends into the starry canopy of night sky above, so that it is
practically invisible to any predator
that may be on the hunt. It also is
invisible to its own prey.
Scientists from around the world
are interested in this little creature’s symbiotic relationship with
the bioluminescent bacteria, and
every year, researchers are sent to
collect hundreds of Bobtail Squid
from our very own waters.
This is no surprise however,
because the squid’s ability to
cultivate and sustain such bacteria could be helpful in cancer
research—bioluminescent bacteria
could be used to mark cancer cells.
By understanding the symbiotic
relationship between the Bobtail
Squid and its bacteria, we may also
be able to understand more about
our own relationships with the good
bacteria in our bodies as well.
So, really, protecting the Bobtail
Squid is not just protecting another sea creature, but it is preserving and protecting future opportunities for ourselves.
The CMS Courier
March 2013
The Creative Leisure
Society Acts Very
Seal-ly for Improv
A few members of the SEALS
troupe: l. to r., in front, Erica,
Nathalie; in back, Keola, Teava,
Caleb, Jadie, & Keith.
Photo by M. Oberlin
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or some Punahou kids, when
they think of “seals”, they
think of the CLS Club, or the Creative Leisure Society. (The SEALS
take their name from saying CLS
very quickly.)
The Creative Leisure Society
is an improv
club that does
games, performances, and
has fun.
The CMS
Courier interviewed Erica
Ito, one of the
founding members of the club
for some information about
CLS.
CMS: How
did the CLS club
originally start?
Erica: Well, after POPs, Mr.
Wagenseller wanted to form a club
at lunch where students could just
do some improv. He emailed his
Improv 7/8 kids plus the emcees
from POPs and asked us to come
one day after school.
I think some of the original
members there were Ian Murikami, Michael Kiang, Anna Deryck,
Max Sensombath, Teava Torres de
Sa and I.
CMS: What is the Leadership
Council?
Erica: The Leadership Council is
a group of 8th graders that run the
club. They run the activities, exercises, and have fun. We then came
up with the idea of having officers
with specific roles to keep the club
running smoothly as it grew larger.
So, within the Leadership Council, we voted and formed the three
positions: Big Walrus (myself),
Elephant Seal (Caleb), and Monk
Seals (Jadie and Eric). The Monk
Seals are in charge of promoting
the club. They plan the shows with
Mr. Wagenseller.
The Elephant Seal is in charge
of being scary. He is supposed
to carry around the club “club
of power” (a Fijian war club Mr.
Wagenseller acquired in Fiji) and
tell people to sign in...or else!
The Big Walrus is kind of the
student head. I lead/explain the
games when no one else wants to.
Oh, and I don’t have to raise my
hand before I speak.
CMS: We understand that “yes
and...” is an important principle of
Improv. Can you explain that to
us?
Erica: It is probably the biggest
rule in improv. “Yes, and” basically
means that to create a successful
improv you must agree with and
support your partner.
Just like every day, in improv
you can’t be negative. Being
positive is the only way it will work
out.
If your partner (in the scene)
says something like, “Weren’t
those chicken pops the best?”
You don’t respond, “Ew, no.” You
say, “Yes! they were! Do you have
some more?”
CMS: Are there any performances coming up?
Erica: Currently we are working
on planning some 6th grade shows
before Spring Break to get them
interested in taking the improv
courses and/or joining CLS next
year.
CMS: Why should people join
the club?
Erica: Because we have fun!
But like our CLS leader Teava always says, “You have to be prepared to leave your dignity at the
door.”
    
Another idea of SEALS improv
is the difference between a Pirate,
a Robot, and a Ninja. A Pirate is
happiest when he goes on board a
boat, ready to attack and has no
clue what will happen next.
That is the same with a “pirate”
improvisor. They make the crazy
choices that usually get the scene
started and keep them rolling.
A Robot improv person is constantly analyzing the scene, and
making sure it does not veer off
into crazy-land. She or he is the
counter to the Pirate, making sure
the scene is equally funny and
serious. A Ninja is the silent editor.
He or she is not necessarily the
main actor, but is very important.
They edit the scene and keep it
going when the others are out of
material.
The way that these three work
together is that the Pirate keeps
things silly as possible, the Robot
will justify his actions, and the
Ninja would edit all the scenes.
That way, all of them keep everything running smoothly.
A: Yeah, I compose for piano
most of the time. I do a lot of
composing, I have a lesson every
week. This is only my second project like this though. (Last year I
composed for “ETHEL”—the visiting
string quartet; one of the Academy
students did too.) I would be prepared to do more like this.
Q: Do you play any musical instruments? If so, what are they?
A: I play piano and I play trombone in the 7/8th grade Advanced
Band.
Q: Did you have musical pieces
in mind before you actually made
it? Or were you supposed to use
specific pieces? If so, which ones?
A: The official band people or
someone wanted specific pieces. I
didn’t get to choose.
Q: What do you think you got
out of the experience?
A: I learned about composing
for a large ensemble like a band—
never done that before—and keeping a similar style to other parts
that I didn’t compose ... certainly a
new understanding for composing
in a group effort.
By Marie Oberlin
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The CMS Courier
March 2013
Damon Speeches
Rule the World
Brennan Brown.
Photo by S. Kuriyama & C. Campbell
The Dress Code
Does Not
Kill Fashion
Get mad for plaid. Look for these
and other fashions/accessories
that won’t have you making visits
to your supervisor!
Photos courtesy of Gilly Hicks &
ohsoprettythediaries.com
By Sammie Kuriyama
& Christina Campbell
A
s 7th & 8th graders, we get
the great privilege to write a
Damon Speech. Each and every one
of the 7th and 8th graders have to
present a speech about anything
that they desire. Our peers judge
us on whether we did a good job
or not, and each section sends two
people to the team finals.
Then, after the team finals,
there’s a twist, and the teachers pick two from the teamspace,
rather than our classmates picking
two. You have to be extra careful
that the topic you’re speaking about
relates to both adults and kids,
since you are being judged by both
of those age groups.
The Damon Speech tradition has
been going on since 1873. It started when Reverend Samuel Damon
created a contest in memory of his
son, Willie Damon. Willie Damon
was a very excellent writer.
The Damon Speech event has
been going on for more than 135
years. This is a very important tradition to Punahou.
The finals will be held in Dillingham, on March 7th and 8th. Many
people go and watch the students
perform the speeches that took
them many weeks to prepare.
We have interviewed some of
your peers and asked them how
they feel about the Damon speech.
We first interviewed Brennan
Brown, the winner of the last
year’s 7th grade Damon speech
contest.
We asked, “How did you feel
about winning? Was this experience
By Nicki Lee & Maddy Wary
I
t’s 6:00 in the morning, and
you’re standing by your closet
trying to decide what to wear. You
think, “Oh, this is cute!” then sadly
realize it’s out of dress code.
Before you know it, five minutes
have gone by and all you’ve decided on is your pants. You
want to find something
fashionable to wear, but
you know that you have
to be in dress code.
Here are some tips on
how to get you started.
We asked Mrs. Tyau
what dress code rules
she sees kids usually break. She said,
“First, I do want to say
that most students are
thoughtful about their clothing
choices and make a sincere effort
to follow the dress code.”
“Most students who break dress
code do so because they are trying to keep up with fashion and
want to be in attractive clothing,
not because they are trying to be
disrespectful,” she added.
“The parts of the dress code
that seem to be difficult to follow,”
Mrs. Tyau said, “varies from year
to year depending on the current
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fun or stressful? Which presentation was the easiest and hardest for
you, section, Kuaihelani, or Dillingham? Were you nervous at any of
your performances? If so, what did
you do to conquer it? What inspired
you to write about your topic?”
In response, Brennan said, “I
didn’t expect for me to win and it
was a lot of hard work but it was
rewarding. This experience was fun,
because when you are writing about
something that is interesting, you
enjoy it more than if you are writing
about something just to get a good
grade. I definitely thought that
the section presentation was the
hardest because there is a smaller
number of people that you are
closer to.”
Brennan added, ”I thought that
the Kuaihelani presentation was
the easiest because it was easier to
speak to a larger number of people.
I was nervous, but if you work really hard and try your best you will
do fine. I chose the topic that was
most interesting and that was the
biggest issue.”
We also asked some 7th graders
about their topics for the Damon
Speech. Here is what these students said their choices were:
Yoojin Seo: “Too Much Technology”
Daniel Mizota: “Hawai‘i’s Firework Problem”
Isabelle Rhee: “The Importance of Being Yourself”
Cammi Murakami: “Gossip &
Rumors”
Some of the recent and popular
topics were; gun control, school
shootings, homelessness in Hawai‘i,
bullying, and social networking.
fashions. This year it has been
mostly low necklines sheer tops
that are worn over spaghetti strap
cammies.”
We know it can be frustrating
trying to find that perfect outfit
everyday, but you have to realize
that there are good reasons for
these rules. They are here to support our own learning,
and to help us focus
more on what matters.
There are many
clothing items that look
fashionable, and are
in dress code. Plaid,
for example, is coming
back. At Gilly Hicks and
many other clothing
stores, they have plaid
over-shirts that you can
wear above another Tshirt. A simple shirt can go a long
way.
Remember, the clothing doesn’t
have to be what makes your outfit
stylish. Why not add a necklace,
bracelet, some cute earrings, or
possibly even a hat?
The next time that you come
across the common problem of
fashion vs. dress code, maybe
you’ll think back to this article.
Maybe you’ll remember that the
dress code doesn’t kill fashion.
The CMS Courier
March 2013
Jasmine Mau —
State Record
Holding Champion
Jasmine Mau.
Photo courtesy of Colleen Mau
My advice to all the
swimmers in Middle
School is to be true to
yourself and find that
passion that spirals
and motivates you into
being the best that you
can be. Do something
that you love and not
just because someone
wants you to do.
—Jasmine Mau
By Megan Itagaki & Joli Hamada
J
asmine Mau is one of the
greatest swimmers that
Punahou has ever had. She does
not just swim as a hobby though.
She competes in swimming
matches and has broken five state
records. She was selected by USA
and Hawaiian Swimming to represent Team Hawaii in the Oceania
Championships that was held in
New Caledonia in May 2012.
We got the inside scoop on Jasmine Mau and what she hopes to
accomplish in the future.
Q: Are you prepared to try
out for the Olympics? If so,
how are you planning on training for the Olympics?
A: It’s every athlete’s dream
to represent their country in the
Olympics, but it is something that
I’m not focusing on.
Yes, I would definitely like to
be that athlete, however for the
moment, I am focusing on the
little things, that is, goals that are
within my reach which will hopefully eventually get me there, or
more importantly, into a good
college.
Q: What do you do to stay in
such great shape?
A: To stay in shape, I practice
everyday and work hard no matter
how I’m feeling. I also watch what
I eat and hydrate a lot. It’s important to take care of your body
outside of the pool because it does
affect your performance.
Q: How do you feel about
breaking five different state records in the past State Championships? What went through
your mind when you discovered you broke the different
records?
A: I was overwhelmed and
deeply humbled. Coming off of last
year where I missed the Olympic
Trial cut in the 100 butterfly by
three one-hundredths of a second
(0.03) was very disappointing, but
it made me hungrier for more.
It took time to recover mentally,
but eventually I got there and put
in really paid off during the State
Championships.
I was lucky to have done so well
at that meet—I truly believe that
the harder you work, the luckier
you’ll be. It is also with the support and encouragement from my
coaches, teammates and family
that I am able to achieve my goals
that I am truly grateful for.
Q: When did you start swimming? What made you want to
start swimming?
A: At a very young age, I was
introduced to all sports. For many
years, I played basketball and
swam competitively.
Some days I had double practices. I would attend swim practice
after school and then ran to the
basketball courts with dripping wet
hair.
I started competitive swimming
at the age of eight. I really wasn’t
interested in swimming, but was
pushed into the pool by my aunt
and had to make that choice to
either sink or swim.
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As we know, life is full of choices, so I swam instead.
I continued to play basketball
and swim for a few years. I was a
member of an all-girls select team
called Sting.
We won several NJB championships in the mainland. When I
entered high school, I had to make
that choice between the two sports
as they were both in the same
season... So here I am today.
Q: How often do you need
to go to the pool? Do you only
practice at Punahou? Or are
there other pools you swim at,
like at your house or a community center?
A: During the high school season, I proudly represent Punahou
School and throughout the rest of
the year, I swim with the Kamehameha Swim Club. For me, swimming is a year-round sport. I am in
the pool Mon. through Sat., 2 1/2
hours, at minimum, per day.
Q: What inspired you to become a swimmer?
A: At first, my interest wasn’t
in swimming, Like I said, I loved
basketball which made it difficult
to give up. I guess, as the years
went on, I started to love the water more.
I also swim for health reasons—
I have asthma. Swimming has
definitely changed my lifestyle.
I eat very healthy, hydrate a lot,
and most importantly, I try to
get to bed as early as I can. This
disciplined lifestyle has also helped
my performance in the pool and
classroom.
Q: Is it hard to manage both
school work and the endless
amount of swim practice, especially since you are a junior
trying to get into college?
A: Yes, anything in life can be
challenging, but the question is,
“How hard are you willing to work
to achieve you goals?”
I always take care of my schoolwork first. Once that is out of
the way, I am able to then fully
concentrate and focus on what
I need to do in the pool. Growing up, I had to manage my time
wisely as I was always involved
in multiple activities. The choices
we make every day define who we
are. I choose to be the best that I
can be. I always remember that I
am a student first as in “studentathlete.” Yes, at times it does get
overwhelming, but I just work
through it like anything else, one
step at a time.
Q: Is it really hard to prepare for the countless swim
meets you go to? How do you
prepare for them?
A: Proper Preparation Prevents
Poor Performance (5 P’s). I am
in a constant mode of preparation. I swim almost every day, all
year long. Each day, bank all that
hard work I put in. On the day of
the competition, I will withdraw
all that I need. Practice makes
perfect so I always try to practice
exactly what I would do in a race
so it comes natural during the real
competition.
The CMS Courier
March 2013
Sustainability Campaign:
Be a Gem & Save
Some Joules
“I would like to see this
project progress and see
the amount of energy
waste go down. Whether
it will be a success is up
to students like you.”
—Sandra Kohn
Photo courtesy of Sandra Kohn
4 JASMINE MAU
By Elizabeth Zerez & Rachel Pai
C
onserving natural resources
has always been a goal for
Punahou School—especially since
electricity has been used on a
greater scale these days.
In the Academy, one student
has decided to take action to
encourage sustainability with
a campaign right here on
campus. We interviewed
Sandra Kohn, a senior
at Punahou, who
is helping us save
electricity in our
everyday lives.
CMS: What inspired you to start
this sustainability
project?
Sandra: The
Luke aunties and I
came up with a list
of possibilities for
a service project,
and I ended up with
a list of things that
“bother me on campus”
in hopes of finding something to pick. I realized that
some lights were on when unused,
and so I started this project.
CMS: Is there anyone else involved in this campaign?
Sandra: The people who have
helped me are Aunty Carrie Morgan and some friends, like Kyra.
CMS: We have seen that you
have given the teachers cards
to help them remember to turn
off the lights and AC. Are there
any other ways you remind the
Punahou students and teachers to
be sustainable?
Sandra: I try to remind friends
and people who I am with to
waste less or to reuse certain
objects. I also encourage recycling
things like cans and paper.
CMS: Do you think Punahou will
keep your campaign going in the
future?
Sandra: Hopefully in the
future, Punahou will not need
Q: What would you say to all
the swimmers in Middle School
who want to be like you?
A: My advice to all the swimmers in Middle School is to be true
to yourself and find that passion
As a student athlete,
be that student first.
Remember that
school is ALWAYS the
priority. If you believe
in yourself and what
you can do, good
things will happen....
—Jasmine Mau
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reminders to do what is right for
our planet.
I would like to see this project
progress and see the amount of
energy waste go down.
Whether it will be a success is
up to students like you.
CMS: Sustainability must be
important to you. Do you take
steps like this at home?
Sandra: I don’t do anything radical at home,
but I am conscious of
how much water I
use.
Of course I don’t
leave the faucet
running or the
lights on when I
am not home.
One thing I
stopped doing a
few years back
is washing my
clothes every time I
wear them. I definitely wash clothes
that need it, but
most clothes we wear
at school don’t need to
be washed, especially jeans.
Over washing can even ruin your
clothes!
CMS: Are your cards given to
all classrooms and offices in the
school?
Sandra: The cards have made
it to all the classes K-12, and I am
currently working on the offices
and departments on campus.
    
Many of us want to give back to
Punahou, but aren’t sure how.
We have a great example of a
student who has taken action to
make a difference in this world.
We hope that through Sandra’s
campaign to make Punahou a better place, you will be inspired to
do something to help others.
We hope that many students
will choose to follow in Sandra’s
footsteps by giving back to
Punahou and helping to change
our world for the better.
that spirals and motivates you into
being the best that you can be. Do
something that you love and not
just because someone wants you
to do.
As a student athlete, be that
student first. Remember that
school is ALWAYS the priority. If
you believe in yourself and what
you can do, good things will happen (and sometimes you may even
surprise yourself).
Lastly, to give back and be
humble. At the end of the day,
people may not remember you
as the athlete, but the person of
character that you really are.
The sport of swimming takes a
lot of time, dedication and sacrifice, but you only have one life to
live.
So make sure you have fun also
and don’t give up! Go hard and
always finish strong—in everything
that you do.
The CMS Courier
March 2013
Survivors: A New
Series by Erin Hunter
Fame and Fortune
Comes at a Price:
The Daughters review
Review by Haley Uyeunten
N
ew books come out often.
One new book is the first
book of the Survivors series, by
Erin Hunter, about dogs surviving
in the wild.
Erin Hunter is also the author of
the Warriors series
about cats living in
a forest, and the
Seekers series,
about three bears
living in their
shrinking home.
All the series
show an explanation of what is
happening to the
environment by
humans.
The first book
in Survivors is
called, The Empty
City. It is about
dogs trying to find
their home when
everything seems
to be gone.
The dogs realize
By Hailey Zane & Allie Tom
H
ave some of you ever thought
about wanting to be famous?
Some children of famous singers get that chance, but not by
choice or hard work. The book,
The Daughters by Joanna Philbin,
is about three, and later
four children of famous
and rich couples. They
each go through different challenges, with the
support of their other
famous friends.
The Daughters is
based upon the character Lizzie Summers.
Lizzie Summers is the
daughter of THE Katia
Summers, a supermodel and writer for
the New York Times.
When Lizzie disses her
mom on live television,
Lizzie’s life turns upside
down.
First, the tabloids
accuse Lizzie of being
jealous because her
mom’s hot and she’s
not. To prove that Lizzie
can be just as good as
her mom, she decides
to start unique modeling when her mom’s
agent tells her not to.
Coming back from
England is Lizzie’s old
childhood friend, Todd.
He seems into her, but
also into the school’s
meanest girl, Ava.
When she was asked by a famous designer to model for him,
Lizzie immediately signs up and
walks out on the unique modeling.
While she was trying on an outfit,
Lizzie ripped the outfit, causing the
designer to have second thoughts
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that a “Big Growl” (an earthquake)
has happened.
The dogs discover that all the
humans, or longpaws, as they are
called in the story, have disappeared.
One dog, named Lucky, goes
off to find somewhere to live. He
decides to find his littermate, who
went to live with humans, and
realizes that all the humans are
gone.
Lucky is a loner, someone who
lives without the aid of other dogs
or people. He has no one to help
him, so he joins with other loners
and goes to find out where all the
humans went.
I thought this was a very good
book because it was an adventure
from an animal’s point of view, and
is a very interesting topic.
I would recommend this book
if you like animals, are interested
in animal behavior, have read the
Warriors or Seekers series and
have enjoyed them, or are just
looking for something to read.
On a scale of one-through-ten, I
would give this book a nine.
on hiring her.
When the designer tells her to
be stiff and boring, not fun, Lizzie
starts to have second thoughts
about working for the designer.
On the break, she overhears
the designer dissing her mom and
walks out on the job.
Before that, Lizzie changes her
paper that she submitted into the
school’s contest.
Instead of the story being about
an ugly girl who finds her way in
life, she changes it to being about
a girl who thinks she’s ugly, but
turns out to be beautiful all along.
Her English teacher says that
she should read Todd’s story, who
has won the school’s contest.
She figures out that Todd does
like her and they become a couple,
and Lizzie continues modeling, but
stays with the photographer that
discovered her.
Lizzie ends up fine where she is
as both a model and a writer.
Being famous comes with its
disadvantages—that’s one message—and it shows how most
famous people feel when they are
mobbed by the paparazzi.
This book shows young readers
that you should always be yourself
no matter what happens to you.
We highly recommend this story
to others who enjoy comedy and
drama.
Also, if you enjoy the first story,
then you will enjoy the next books
in the series, each one featuring a
different daughter, along with the
others.
In the most recent book, there
is a new daughter in town and
she teams up with Lizzie and her
friends and go on a wild adventure.
Have fun reading this book,
where we know you will be addicted and wanting more.
The CMS Courier
March 2013
Award-Winning
Journey Brings a
Wealth of Discovery
The Creators
of “Chaos”
From top to bottom: Deadmau5
and Skrillex.
Photos courtesy of vegasseven.com & nuvo.net
Review by Robert Kaikane Cox
I
magine you wake up in the
middle of a desert and you are
wearing a bright red cloak and a
bright red scarf. The only thing
besides endless desert is a tall
mountain with a shining light on
the top. As you wander toward
the mountain, you find traces of
an ancient civilization. This is just
a small piece of what you will discover in the game Journey.
Journey is the last game by
thatgamecompany (that’s their
official name) in a three-game
contract for Sony—the owner of
the Playstation 3. The other two
games were Flow and Flower.
The game is already highly acclaimed and has won many “Game
of the Year” awards. But in my
opinion, the most interesting thing
about Journey is that the story—
one of the most interesting plots in
all gaming history—is told without
words and instead is told through
short scenes and still images.
The graphics in this game are
some of the best I have ever
By Jake Gaughan
H
ave you ever heard that loud,
“bassy” music with very few
words? Well, that is “dubstep.”
Dubstep started in South London in
the UK between 1999 and 2000. It
has since grown to a huge business
industry.
Here are some of the biggername dubstep artists:
Skrillex: He first started out in
a rock band before breaking off to
go solo and later follow a dubstep
career. He is a widely known dubstep artist (otherwise known as a
“dubstep producer”).
He has won three Grammys in
2012 in the categories Best Dance
Recording, Best Remixed Recording Non-Classical, and Best Dance/
Electronica Album. He was also
nominated for Best New Artist.
He was also nominated for an
American Music Award in the Favorite Artist-Electronic Dance Music
category. His hit song “Bangarang”
was used in multiple “X Games”
commercials. He won three Grammys this year in the same categories as last year.
Nero: This group started in
London in 2004. The band consists
of Daniel Stephens, Joe Ray, and
Alana Watson, who came into the
band in 2008.
They have come out with an
album “Welcome Reality.” Their
song “Doomsday” was used in a
commercial for the video game
“Borderlands 2”. There is also a
“Welcome Reality +” album that
consisted of some of the same
songs as “Welcome Reality” along
with other added songs.
Calvin Harris: Harris is arguably a dubstep artist, although
some might call him more techno.
He has come out with hits such as
“Let’s Go (feat. Ne-Yo)”, “Feel So
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seen. It pushes the Playstation 3’s
graphics to its absolute limit. For
instance, there’s sand that moves
with the wind as well as a realistically fluttering scarf.
The sound track of Journey was
composed by Austin Wintory and
was nominated for a Grammy.
One major complaint that people have had with the game was
that it was “too short” because
you can finish the game in about
1.5-2 hours. But, honestly, this
game has so much replay ability
(due to such an interesting plot)
that I have played it through twice
and have watched someone finish
the game. Every time you beat
the game a new pattern is added
to your character’s robe. Also, you
can find these glowing objects that
when you collect them, your character’s scarf grows longer.
With these beautiful graphics,
an immersive world, and great
sound track, Journey has made
it as one of my favorite games of
all time—and at a price of only
$15 compared to most games
being $60.
Close”, and “Sweet Nothing (feat.
Florence Welch)” along with Rihanna in “We Found Love.”
He won the Best Electronic Video
category at the 2012 MTV Video
Music Awards for “Feel So Close,”
and won Video of the Year with
Rihanna for “We Found Love.”
He also won a Grammy for “We
Found Love.”
Deadmau5: Known for his signature mouse head costume, Deadmau5 (pronounced “dead mouse”)
has produced hits like “Raise Your
Weapon” and “Ghost ‘n’ Stuff”.
He’s been nominated for a
Grammy five times and, as yet, has
not won any. He has been ranked
as the 5th best DJ of 2012.
Albums include “Random Album
Title”, “For Lack of a Better Name”,
“4x4=12”, and “Album Title Goes
Here”.
Knife Party: A lesser-known
dubstep group, this duo from
Australia came out with their first
album in 2011—“100% Modern
Talking.” They have since produced
another album titled “Rage Valley”
and are reported to have started
work on a third album or EP.
Some other dubstep artists
include Zomboy, Swedish House
Mafia (maybe more techno),
Kaskade, Skream, Flux Pavilion, and many more. Here is some
more information on dubstep.
It is sometimes referred to
as dance music, EDM (electronic
dance music), or electro-house
dance music. Dubstep as it is
referred to in this article may be
also be referred to as “brostep” or
“post-dubstep.”There are sometimes dubstep remixes of nondubstep songs (ex. “Pumped Up
Kicks”).
So the next time you listen to
dubstep you might think a little differently about it.
The CMS Courier
March 2013
The New Romeo
and Juliet
It’s All About
the Ratings
There is a difference
between “not rated”
and “unrated”: Not
Rated literally means
the movie has not
been rated. Unrated
means the movie is
above all the other
ratings—literally the
worst-rated movie.
Review by Kirra Wardwell
“A
w....Ew”, these are the
things you will hear if you
catch the new movie Warm Bodies.
Warm Bodies is a movie about
a zombie named R who, while on
a hunting spree, meets a human
girl named Julie. Julie and her
group were raiding abandoned buildings looking
for medicine. Immediately
after seeing Julie for the
first time, R falls in love. He
decides to save Julie and
help her get back to where
all the humans reside.
The movie is from R’s
point of view and you will
hear his thoughts on everything. Also, throughout the
movie, you will see how R
slowly starts to regain his
humanity through his love
for Julie.
Warm Bodies stars
Nicholas Hoult as R, Teresa
Palmer as Julie, Analeigh
Tipton as Nora (Julie’s best
friend), and Rob Corrdy as
M (R’s best friend). Many
reviewers gave the movie
positive reviews and were
surprised that they actually
enjoyed it.
By Bella Yerton & Erica Sung
I
t’s always fun to go to the
movies with your friends, but
a problem that often occurs is
finding a movie with appropriate
ratings.
Because the rating system can
be strict, a common concern is
whether PG-13 movies are appropriate for 12-year-olds to view.
Well, whether it’s appropriate or
not is an opinion not a fact.
To give you an idea of what’s
“okay” and what’s not, we are
going to tell you a bit about the
rating system.
NR: not rated.
G: general audiences, all ages
admitted.
PG: Parental guidance suggested.
PG-13: Parents strongly cautioned
R: Restricted. Those under 17
require a parent or guardian.
NC-17: Anyone aged 17 and
under will not be admitted to movies.
If a movie is rated PG-13 people
often think that if you’re under 13
you can’t watch the movie. This is
wrong. You can watch the movie at
home or go to it with an adult.
There is a difference between
“not rated” and “unrated”: the
term “Not Rated” literally means
the movie has not been rated.
“Unrated” means the movie is
above all the other ratings—literally the worst-rated movie.
There is also a difference between a movie’s ratings and what
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Rotten Tomatoes gave Warm
Bodies a 78% approval rating and
Mary Pols of Time called it “an inventive charmer that visits all the
typical movie scenarios of young
love amid chaos and disaster...
There are so many clever lines and
bits of physical comedy worth revisiting that the movie seems like
a likely cult classic.”
I have also asked my classmates what they thought about
Warm Bodies and they described
the movie as the “best movie,”
“awesome,” and “so cute.”
Warm Bodies is a mix of comedy and romance—with a hint of
gore—so, guys, this is a movie for
you, too.
This movie is bit based off of
Romeo and Juliet, hence the character names R as Romeo, Julie for
Juliet, and other character names.
The movie is rated PG-13, so if
you’re planning to see it, ask your
parents first. Also if you get scared
easily then it might not be a good
idea to watch this movie, since
there are some zombie-eatinghuman scenes.
But overall Warm Bodies is a
well thought-out movie and is very
entertaining. So if you like comedy, romance, and a hint of action,
then this is your movie.
a movie is rated. A movie’s “ratings” are what critics and viewers
say about the movie, and they
either recommend it or say “it’s
not worth it, don’t go.”
What a movie is “rated” is a
general guideline of what authorities think is appropriate.
Using the word authorities may
be confusing. By that word, we are
referring to the group of American
parents who rate the movies.
Believe it or not the rating system is not a law, it’s completely in
filmmakers’ hands.
It’s simply a choice made by the
makers of the movie.
Hopefully you now know a bit
more about the rating system for
movies, and what you learned will
be helpful.
The CMS Courier
March 2013
We Choose the Top
10 Movies of 2012
Frankenweenie is about a boy and
his (reanimated) dog.
By Dean Sadaoka & Elijah Muzzi
Q
uite a few movies hit the big
screen this past year. Two of
our sixth grade reporters, Dean &
Elijah, give their views on which
ones ranked in the top ten.
We’ll begin our countdown with
the lesser movies of the year and
head down to our most favorite.
For position Number 10, we
picked The Grey. This movie is
about a group of six oil workers
who crash in Alaska. They are led
by a skilled huntsman and try to
survive until help arrives. But a
pack of merciless wolves are stalking their every move. Directed by
Joe Carnahan
The Number 9 movie of 2012
was Lincoln. Lincoln is about
Abraham Lincoln’s decision to free
the slaves during the Civil War and
the politics that made it hard for
him to accomplish that goal. Actor
Daniel Day-Lewis just received the
Oscar at the Academy Awards for
his portrayal of our 16th president
during Lincoln’s greatest trials and
his final days.
The Number 8 movie was The
Hobbit. The Hobbit is about the
quest of Bilbo Baggins. Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit (a race similar to
humans but with hairy feet and
about half our height).
Bilbo lives in Bag End, his home
in a quiet hobbit village. Everything changes after the arrival of
the great wizard Gandalf. Bilbo is
asked to go on a quest to retrieve
the dwarves’ treasure.
Our Number 7 movie pick was
The Hunger Games. In The Hunger Games, there are 12 districts.
There were 13 but the thirteenth
one was destroyed.
Katniss is the main character
and she loves to hunt.
The Hunger Games is about
the time when every district puts
two tributes (one girl and one boy,
for a total of 24 tributes) into the
Hunger Games where they fight to
the death.
On the deciding day of the
tributes, Katniss’s sister is chosen
to go to the games. Since Katniss
loves her sister very much, she
volunteers to go into the games
instead. Find out if Katniss survives the Hunger Games in the
movie The Hunger Games.
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Movie Number 6 was Taken 2.
Retired CIA operative Bryan Mills
gets kidnapped by European traffickers. (A trafficker is someone
who illegally deals or trades something.) But this is more than a regular kidnapping: this is revenge. It
is the same people from Taken and
they are out to even the score. He
and his wife have been abducted
by Merad, but Bryan contacts his
daughter via a hidden cell phone.
Now Kim must save her parents
from the people that want to make
her father pay.
The Number 5 movie of 2012
was The Life of Pi.
The Life of Pi is about a young
man whose family owns a zoo in
India, but they decide to leave
with their animals and sail to another country.
So, they go on a ship but a
storm comes and sinks the ship. Pi
(the young man) survives on a raft
and goes to sleep. When he wakes
up, he discovers that he is not
alone: there is a tiger on board!
Will Pi make it back home? Will he
save the animals? To find out you
have to see The Life of Pi.
Number 4 was Killing Them
Softly. This movie is directed by
Andrew Dominik.
In Killing Them Softly, three
low-level thieves mess up the
whole underworld economy and
the mob’s top brass hires Jackie
Cogan (Brad Pitt) to fix the problem. However his mission is complicated by an alcoholic hit man
who is well past his prime.
The movie that was rated Number 3 is called Total Recall. A man,
Douglas Quaid, lives in the colony
and goes every day to the confederacy of Britain. He hates his life
as mechanic so he goes to a place
called Total Recall.
At Total Recall they create
memories. Douglas Quaid creates a memory of him being a spy.
Then he gets stuck in the memory
and can’t get out. After that spies,
soldiers, and other people try to
bring him in for capture. Find out
what happens in Total Recall.
Number 2 on our list is Skyfall.
The movie Skyfall continues the
great legacy of James Bond. In
this movie 007 is played by Daniel
Craig. This is the 23rd movie in the
Bond series.
The filming budget for the film
was about $230,000,000 (about
the same as Quantum of the
Solstice.) About 90 percent of
fans said that they enjoyed this
movie. This movie is about the
spy service, M16, being infiltrated
by an old operative, Silva (Javier
Bardem). It’s up to Bond to save
the world. Again.
Our pick for the Number 1
movie of 2012 is Frankenweenie.
Frankenweenie is about a boy
named Victor Frankenstein who
creates movies starring his dog
Sparky. One day Sparky is hit by a
car. At school Victor learns about
reviving muscles with electricity.
While Victor is pleased, the neighbors are terrified. Then, Sparky
runs away. Find out what happens
next in Frankenweenie.
The CMS Courier
March 2013
Some
Wicked
Logistics
By Alyssa Lo
F
Mr. John Kolivas at work and
surrounded by his instruments.
Photo courtesy of Mr. Kolivas
Wicked, was by far,
the most challenging
to play as a musician,
and the most enjoyable
show I’ve ever done. The
orchestra was great,
(five musicians traveling
with the show and nine
local musicians) and
the cast was amazing.
—Mr. John Kolivas
rom the lights to the music, the
musical Wicked is a massive
production that has been worked on
by many hands. This article includes
an interview with one of the local
musicians that performed in the
show, and a behind the scenes look
at the Ozian
world.
Although
we may focus
on the beautiful singing of
the actors and
actresses, there
is an underscore
that is played
throughout the
entire musical
by a collection
of instruments.
In the original
Broadway score,
there are 24
different instruments in the
orchestra pit,
excluding the
impressive 59
different percussion instruments.
But because some of these instruments are large and would be
expensive to ship, a reduced score
was created for when the cast is on
tour.
This score consists of:
•Reed 1 : Piccolo, flute, alto
flute, recorder, penny whistle
in Eb
•Reed 2 : Oboe, English horn
•Reed 3 : E-flat clarinet, clarinet,
bass clarinet, soprano saxophone
•1 Horn
•2 Trumpets (and Flügel [Harpsichord])
•1 Trombone
•Drums and Other percussion
•Guitar (electric, acoustic, classical, E-bow, banjo, 12-string,
mandolin)
•Violin, Cello, Bass (Bass doubling electric)
•4 keyboards
The original music and lyrics was
written by Stephen Schwartz. From
Schwartz’s music, William David
Brohn helped arrange the orchestrations for Wicked (“orchestrations”
means the instruments that would
be assigned to specific sections of
the piece.) However, these talented
musicians don’t play all by themselves. They have a conductor. The
original conductor, Dominick Amendum, explained in a video what
things a conductor must do.
First, a conductor takes the position as a music director. A music
director is someone that communicates the theme of the scene with
the actors and actresses.
Second, the conductor must
maintain the musical and is responsible for all of the music; both singing and instrumental. Being responsible for the music, this means that
the conductor must also control the
dynamics of the underscore—the
dynamics being the loud and soft
areas in a score.
Besides maintaining the music, a
conductor must also rehearse and
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prepare new cast members, as well
as warm up the voices of actors
before shows.
According to Amendum, conducting is the easiest part of the job.
I got a chance to interview one of
the local musicians who was in the
orchestrations, John Kolivas, who
also works on campus at Montague.
CMS: What was it like playing
in Wicked?
Mr. Kolivas: I’ve played in
many, “Broadway shows” here in
Hawai‘i, on tour, and in New York
City. Wicked, was by far, the most
challenging to play as a musician,
and the most enjoyable show I’ve
ever done. The orchestra was great,
(five musicians traveling with the
show and nine local musicians) and
the cast was amazing.
CMS: What instrument(s) did
you play?
Mr. Kolivas: I played the acoustic (upright) bass, a five-string electric bass, and a five-string fretless
electric bass.
CMS: What was it like being in
the orchestra pit?
Mr. Kolivas: The rhythm section, the keyboards, bass, drums,
percussion, and guitar were all
on headsets. I didn’t even have
an amplifier in the pit. My electric
basses were going direct to the
sound engineer. I could only hear
them by headset. The acoustic bass
had a separate line, which was also
going direct. The woodwinds and
horns were mic’d up and they could
be heard live. The drummer was
actually off-stage in a little sound
room by himself, and the percussionist was in a room to the side of
the pit. We all had video monitors to
be able to see the conductor. Everything worked well and I had my own
mixer to dial up what I wanted to
hear for all the instruments.
CMS: Were you nervous?
Mr. Kolivas: The music was difficult, and I had to switch quickly
between instruments, so there was
a little apprehension and nervousness involved. But thankfully it all
turned out well.
CMS: How did you become to
be one of the musicians performing?
Mr. Kolivas: I played my first
musical, Pippin, back when I was
a senior at Punahou in 1979 at the
Ruger Theatre, now called Diamond
Head Theatre. I’ve played in many
shows and have the experience
needed. I was called by the contractor, who knew about my abilities,
and was hired!
CMS: How long did you have
to practice and rehearse?
Mr. Kolivas: We got the music
(individual parts) a few weeks in advance so we could practice them on
our own. However, we only had two
rehearsals on the day before opening night. The day of the show we
had a sound check, and that was it!
CMS: Who was the conductor?
Mr. Kolivas: His name was
Andrew Graham. He was from New
York and has been traveling with
the show for some time. He did an
excellent job and I really enjoyed
working with him.
The CMS Courier
March 2013
Reviewing
The Musical
4 SOME WICKED LOGISTICS
From the drawings to
the final product, the
incredible costumes
that the actors
wear go through
many hands before
reaching the stage.
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alling all music and Korean
Drama lovers! If you want
heartwarming scenes, exciting
twists, and romance, this is the
drama for you!
Korean Dramas usually have
16-20 episodes. A typical series
is very dramatic and usually has
romance. We will review a specific
drama called The Musical.
The Musical, directed by Kim
Kyung Yong, is a Korean drama
which began Sept. 2, 2011. It has
15 episodes. The songs in this
show include “Sing For You,” “My
Man,” “A Drop of Tear,” “Drive,”
“Longing,” and “Musical Dream.
Ku Hye-Sun stars as Ko Eun Bi,
a medical student who dreams of
becoming an actress in a musical. Daniel Choi, starring as Hong
Jae-Hee, is a pop music songwriter
who once was a musical composer.
While singing in the park one
day, Eun Bi finds Jae-Hee and he
tells her that he wrote the song
she was singing but she does not
believe him. Soon she goes to an
audition but fails. With the help of
a mentor, she finally gets a part in
a musical. But you can watch to
find out what happens after that!
The Musical is a heartwarming
drama that draws your attention
from the first line.
With witty puns and exciting and diverse characters, The
Musical is very fun and attention
grabbing but, in some scenes, it
can be quite boring at times. The
songs, though, are exceptional
and emotional.
In conclusion, we would give
this drama 8 notes out of 10.
But remember to watch this
drama with a parent for it is rated
“R” for some language. But then
again, it’s all in Korean....
CMS: What was it like working with the musicians and cast
of a Broadway musical?
Mr. Kolivas: I’ve always enjoyed
playing in musicals.
They have a challenge that I
enjoy: staying with the conductor,
blending in with the other musicians, and playing under the vocals.
Wicked had a great cast, and every
night there were parts that gave me
“chicken skin” (especially Elphaba’s
“Defying Gravity”) and also made
me laugh (the “toss toss” scene with
Glinda and Elphaba in the middle of
the song “Popular.”)
The musicians were top notch, (I
did an additional gig with the guitarist and drummer from the show)
and many of the shows were sold
out. It was one of the best eight
weeks of playing I’ve ever had.
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From the drawings to the final
product, the incredible costumes
that the actors wear go through
many hands before reaching the
stage.
The Broadway costume designer,
Susan Hilferty, started her elaborate
costumes for Wicked with drawings.
From her drawings, the costume
coordinator, Amanda Whidden,
helped to make Hilferty’s drawings
into reality. But these costumes
aren’t just fabric and thread. They
are adorned with beads that make
the costume “pop.” Polly Kinney,
the bead designer, helped create
elaborate specific bead patterns that
really made the costumes sparkle.
In the process of creating the
bead pattern, designers would bring
in their sketches of the garment for
examination.
Then, the beading design would
be drawn in with pencil onto the
fabric. These drawings could take up
to seven hours for each design.
After the pattern for the beads is
completely stenciled in, a fabric is
then stretched tautly over a frame.
The frame rests on sawhorses
where an artisan will then start sewing on the beads one at a time.
However magnificent a garment
may be, a costume is not complete
without a wig. In preparation of
creating a wig, costume designers
must take several measurements.
Before creating the wig, designers must sketch the hairline of the
actors’ and actresses’ heads on a
plastic bag that is taped onto their
heads.
Three specific measurements are
then taken: the circumference, the
the top of the forehead to the back,
and from ear to ear.
According to the Broadway wig
supervisor, Jared Janas, there are
two ways to make a wig: from
scratch or from an existing wig.
The creation of each wig takes
15-40 hours to put every individual
strand in. In the Broadway production, there were 120 unique wigs.
In the traveling and international
performances, there are 109.
Wardrobe maintenance is another
vital part in the upkeep of Wicked.
The wardrobe maintenance team
examines over 400 costumes daily.
They check to see if there are any
rips in the fabric, missing beads, or
mechanical problems.
Without this team, the costumes
wouldn’t be able to make it through
eight performances weekly.
Although these actors and actresses may be stars, they can’t
shine on their own. It’s up to the
lighting crew to spotlight the emotions of these amazing performers.
Kenneth Posner, the original lighting designer, described the lighting
plot like an architect’s drawing.
Not only do these several plots
contain the location of the lights,
but also the type of lights used, the
gel cover that is placed over the
light, and specific settings.
On set, there are approximately
650 different lighting fixtures.
An interesting fact is that the
original Broadway set was not outfitted with the green LEDs that were
on the sides of Honolulu stage. They
were added for the London production and have been kept ever since.
Review by Jaeyun Ham & Everett Fan
C
The CMS Courier
March 2013
From Manga to
Anime to Otaku
Anime & manga come in many
varieties and genres.
By Maya Vita, Kelsey Ou,
& Abby Oshiro
“O
taku!” Have you heard that
term? Probably not. But
if you have—or have been called
that—we think you’ll like this article.
Oh, what is an otaku? “Otaku”
refers to a person who has a par-
ticular interest in something, and
in popular media is usually used to
describe someone with an interest
in manga or anime.
“Manga” are Japanese comic
books. Manga books are usually
read from right to left instead of
left to right like English books unless they’ve been translated into
English.
Some manga are based on
popular books. The Maximum Ride
series by James Patterson, the
Witch and Wizard series also by
James Patterson, and the Infernal
Devices series by Cassandra Clare
are good examples.
Manga can come in different
styles: romance, fantasy, adventure, mystery, and many more.
Manga, like regular comic
books, have antagonists and protagonists. Also, like these regular
stories, the “good guys” (protagonists) are usually the narrator or
main character or both.
Most popular manga are turned
into anime. “Anime” is a type of
Japanese cartoon and is usually
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animated in a particular art style.
Most of the really popular anime
series get “English dubbed,” or
translated into English. The same
goes for manga, where the Japanese “words” are translated into
English.
The most popular manga is
probably Naruto. It has more than
500 chapters and more than 50
volumes, and it is still expanding.
Naruto is divided into two
parts—Naruto and Naruto Shippuden.
Manga are sometimes different
from anime because some manga
continue in one direction and their
related anime continue in another
direction. Most anime are behind
the manga storyline since they
start after the manga does.
Sometimes, though, the anime catches up to the manga and
the anime needs “filler episodes,”
which are episodes in which nothing important to the story happens.
However, Naruto continues even
though is about 100-150 episodes
behind the latest chapter.
Some manga continue because
they are easier to write. Anime
usually stop when the first season
is over.
It is very rare that a manga
ends and afterward the related
anime starts a new season.
The CMS Courier
March 2013
About Otaku
S
o, we’re called Otaku....
We’re not your regular comic
geeks and we usually have some
great personalities, but we don’t
get very much credit for it, except for that we like anime.
Some of us like the action
packed, comedy, boy-ish stuff. But
we also like that girly, romance,
comedy, drama kind of thing.
You see, anime is where you
can get away from real life and
just dissolve into a fictional
world.
Anime isn’t like the normal
comics with superheroes, villains,
and stuff like that....
Anime, is sorta similar to that,
except it’s a universe with almost
anything you can imagine. You
see, anime originally was Japanese, and instead of a normal
book, it had pictures and animated people to tell the story.
Some people hardly care for
anime, but for some people, anime can change your perspective
about a lot of things.
Anime can help you create
new ideas, and when a mangaka
(comic book artist) makes a
book, it takes a lot of time, and
can be wonderful or bad. (Depending on your taste for drawing
or taste in genre.)
The most popular of all anime
genres is romance and comedy.
People might enjoy this genre
more because they can relate to
it more, and also it’s more entertaining to watch/read (depending
on your taste).
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Our Suggestions
The “otaku” writing this article
suggest that you should check out
the anime/manga listed below:
English dubbed (anime) or
English written (manga):
Soul Eater, Naruto, Black
Butler, Fruits Basket, Ouran
Highschool Host Club, Sgt.Frog,
Angel Beats, The World Only God
Knows
English subtitles (anime)
not translated (manga):
Shugo Chara, , Lovely Complex, Gakuen Alice, Kamisama
Hajimemashita
Half of the series is dubbed,
half is not:
Full Moon Wo Sagashite
4 MANGA
In Black Butler/Kuroshitsuji, the
anime continues into Black Butler
II/Kuroshitsuji II. It is an anime
exclusive containing new characters and a new storyline.
Some manga have a spinoff or
a new fun storyline but it doesn’t
affect the previous manga. It happens after the original manga, for
example, Soul Eater. The spinoff
was Soul Eater Not.
Manga usually do not have just
one main character but at least
two.
There are many side characters
as well.
Sometimes manga have a
similar storyline, as when you
have Naruto and another one with
ninjas, too. It is similar.
It is not very uncommon to
have manga crossovers. There
are already a few we could name.
Kuroshitsuji had a Naruto crossover. Lucky Star had a Kuroshitsuji
crossover.
It varies on the opinion of the
reader to determine whether he/
she likes the manga. Different
opinions can affect the rating of
the manga. Although some manga
can be bad, badly written, badly
drawn, make little sense, etc.,
most are very good.
Most people agree that a good
manga has to have a good storyline, good characters, and the
storyline cannot get too repetitive.
For example, Shugo Chara is
about a group who help kids realize their dreams. It has a good
storyline. However, at one point
the same thing happens over and
over again in different chapters/
episodes.
If you think manga series are
the same as comics, you’re wrong.
Manga is its own thing.
The CMS Courier
March 2013
Before
Broadway
Bound, Part II
By Madeline Rose Wary
[Editor’s note: this is the second
of a two-part series by reporter
Maddy Wary detailing, in depth,
an interview she held with two
Broadway luminaries: Richard Vida
(actor) & Bob Billig (conductor).]
Left to right:
Richard Vida, Bob Billig.
Photos courtesy of
Mr. Vida & Mr. Billing
“Always start with
theater. Always.
That’s where the best
training is going to
be. Acting is acting,
finding that emotion,
the substitution
needed to create that
character always comes
from the theater.”
—Richard Vida
T
hinking about performers
besides actors, I remarked,
“Well, you guys have talked a lot
about acting and that kind of thing.
But maybe for musicians or people
who are only dancers what kind of
opportunities would be for them,
or would they have to learn extra
things like singing and acting?”
Richard replied: That’s a great
question because today, they don’t
have massive budgets where 40
years ago on Broadway you had a
singing chorus and a dancing chorus and a 40-piece orchestra.
Now you have a nine piece
orchestra and you’ll have six guys
and six girls for an ensemble of 12
and they’ll all have to sing, they’ll
all have to dance and act, and
hopefully you will get to do small
parts.
For people who are dancers
only, there’s tremendous opportunity because they will always
need a specialty dancer. They will
always need a great technician but
so out of those twelve, there will
be two or three that can barely
sing “Happy Birthday.”
But they’re fantastic dancers!
So they’ll get specials, solos—
but their voices really aren’t the
problem. [The directors] can cover
that with the other nine. But the
dancers are still going to have to
be able to—if they want musical
theater—squeak out a song.
They don’t have to have the
biggest voices but must know what
their part is and not be tone deaf.
But most dancers can do that.
If you’re strictly a dancer then
I would suggest [go for a] ballet company or company work,
because Broadway now is a little
difficult to just be a dancer.
It’s important, even for any
artist, to then take a voice class.
[This] doesn’t mean you’re going
to be a professional singer, but you
should understand what the singers do. It’s only going to enhance
your dancing.
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Take an acting class so you
know what actors do. Because,
even as a dancer or singer, we’re
always acting. If you don’t know
why you’re dancing or why you’re
singing those lyrics, it’s just somebody singing: it doesn’t move you.
So, the more you expose yourself to every discipline, even if you
just take a class, that is participating. And it then enhances your
strengths. Because it opens your
world up to another way of looking
at what you do. Because it’s really
all the same, just different mechanics on how we move the body
and how we tell the story.
But the basic foundation is still
the same and normally people find
out that, “Wow, I really can act”
or “I can only dance, I don’t sing
so well, but I can get a featured
part.” I mean look at Christine
Chenowyth, this incredible singer
who’s 4’11’’. I mean, really, who
would ever think! She has this
freakish voice.
She was an opera major but she
also took dance class every single
day to make sure she could hold
her own. As a dancer, she had that
trick voice so they gave her the
little feature because she was so
funny.
She became a star.
Mrs. Wary: (Maddy’s mother,
Tina Wary, was in the room, and
clarified.) She’s the one that— remember the Charlie Brown play
and the YouTube video of the lady
singing the song the girls had to
sing? That’s her.
Richard responded:
Yes, she was also the original
Glinda in Wicked and now she’s a
big TV star, movie star—she’s in
everything. And she is tiny with
this huge voice. She can sing with
the greatest operas in the country or on Broadway. But that just
came, again, [from] knowing who
she was and taking class in every
discipline.
Acting on camera, however, is
“thought put into words.”
You do absolutely nothing.
It is very difficult for a theatre
actor who is trained in the theatre
to transition to film because they
feel—we feel—we’re not doing
anything.
On camera you do nothing. All
you have to do is think it and your
face, right in front of the camera,
picks up what you’re thinking.
Otherwise, it’s very big.
So, on stage, we’re much bigger
because we have to get all the way
to the back row. And we’re also
projecting. [He shows how.]
If I were on camera, I would
never pick up my voice like this. If
I were yelling, I would just increase the tension in my voice.
Camera work is putting your
thoughts into words.
You’re not physicalizing anything, whereas on stage you’re
physicalizing everything.
Watch great movie stars: nothing ever moves. Even when they
cry, the tears just come down, all
the emotion is just thought, no
physical motions.
The CMS Courier
March 2013
Music’s Biggest Event
Makes History
4 BEFORE BROADWAY BOUND
“In any case, it’s
all a discipline.
And you have to work
and develop your
craft whether as a
musician [or an actor].
Musicians practice all
the time. All the time.
First of all you have
to develop, get to a
point where you excel
on your instrument.’”
—Bob Billig
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n February 10, 2013, one
of music’s important nights
arrived. The 55th
GRAMMY awards
took place in the
Los Angeles’s
Staples Center.
The ceremony
aired live on CBS
Television at 8:0011:00 (ET/PT).
A new artist has
made a strong appearance.
The band “Fun.”
won the award for
New Artist. Their
song “We are Young” featuring
Janelle Monae won the award for
the Song of the Year. “Fun.” made a
fantastic impression on everyone.
Gotye won two awards for his
song “Somebody that I Used To
Know” featuring Kimbra.
The song won the Best Pop
Duo/Group Performance and record of the year.
His album “Making Mirrors” won
the Alternate Album of the Year.
The Black Keys hit “Lonely Boy”
was voted Best Rock Performance.
Their album “El Camino” earned
Best Rock Album.
The Black Keys
represented the
music of rock
splendidly.
Skrlliex got us
moving with their
upbeat electronic
rhythm.
Their hit “Bangarang” featuring
Sirah was voted
best dance recording along with
the best dance/
electric album.
These are just a few of the
many winners. There were many
more winners as well as many
other awards, genres, and many
wonderful performances.
You can see more GRAMMY
Award moment and winner at
http://www.grammy.com. Hopefully the next GRAMMY Awards will
be another great success!
Maddy: So acting on camera
and acting on stage are two completely different things?
Richard: Yes, and in America,
they are completely separate industries
Maddy: So for someone who
wants to become an actor, they
should probably start looking at
which one they want to do.
Richard: Always start with theater. Always. That’s where the best
training is going to be.
Acting is acting—finding that
emotion, the substitution needed
to create that character—that always comes from the theater.
There’s a difference between
good movie stars who are actors:
all start in the theater. Celebrity is
different. They’re not really actors.
They’re famous for being pretty or
whatever they do.
But they’re not known for their
great work or for being anything in
particular other than that they sell
[tickets].
You can learn to put thought
into words, but the foundation is
the theater.
Maddy: Anything else you guys
would want to tell the readers of
this? Anything—not just about acting but music and other things?
First, Bob answered: In any
case, it’s all a discipline.
And you have to work and
develop your craft whether as a
musician [or an actor].
Musicians practice all the time.
All the time.
First of all you have to develop—get to a point where you excel
on your instrument.
In musical theater, it used to
be in New York and the music
scene, you had the big orchestras,
the elite musicians. And then you
had your studio musicians who
did recordings for movies and for
television and for commercials and
jingles.
They would throw a piece of
music in front of you and you
would record a 30-second spot in
like a half an hour, record it and
get it done....
Then of course, as like the certain other areas like the commercial area, it kind of slowed down
and dried up. Better musicians
were starting to come to Broadway.
So now you have very fine musicians, good quality musicians on
Broadway.
In any case the orchestral
writing is difficult. You have to be
good, you can’t be just so-so. And
it’s the same thing with anything.
Richard: But along with that,
live your truth. If people are telling
you “no” or are not supportive of
you, don’t give them any energy.
Do what you want to do and
then be truthful about it.
Show up, that’s what I tell everybody—show up.
Nothing’s going to happen in
any aspect of your life if you don’t
show up. And there are many
people in all facets of life who just
sit on the couch and complain that
nothing’s ever happened for them
and that they are victims.
No, there is no such thing.
You’ve got to get off your butt
and you’ve got to do something
[to get] anything.
Participate—for school, for everything.
You don’t have to be an “A” student but you’ve got to show up.
You know, to fail? That just
means, even if you can’t grasp it,
it’s pretty difficult to fail. Failing
just means you’re not even trying,
you’re not even showing up.
Live your truth, what that truth
is for you, and be honest with
yourself and show up, participate.
By Sara Cerda & Geralynne Amasol
O
The CMS Courier
March 2013
Manti Te‘o:
the Player, the Hero,
the Legend
Manti Te‘o
Photo courtesy of bleacherreport.com
By Micah Kamalei
I
t was a warm Monday evening here in Hawai‘i and many
Americans piled around the TV,
eager to watch the College Football
National Championship. For most, it
was an ordinary National Championship, but for us on O‘ahu, it was
game time for their favorite player
and hero, Manti Te‘o.
For those of you who have never
heard of Manti Te‘o, I have to start
at the beginning. Manti Te‘o lived
in Laie and practiced football every
day in his backyard with his dad,
Brian Te‘o. One day, as Punahou
scouts watched Manti play, they
were astounded with his skill and
asked him to come play for them.
He eventually agreed.
In 2006, Manti played in the
varsity league and with his incredible performances, he made the
second-team all-state roster. At this
time he was only a sophomore. The
next year, Manti was named the
state defensive player of the year
as a lineman. This time, as a junior,
he made the first-team all-state
honors.
Manti’s seasons of 2008 and
2009 were just as, if not more,
incredible than his first two. In
2009, Manti was accepted into the
legendary college of Notre Dame.
To the dismay of many Hawai‘i
residents, Manti did not start on
the Notre Dame defense. However
during Notre Dame’s fourth game,
he finally made his starting appearance as a Notre Dame linebacker.
Even though, during the 20102011 seasons, the NFL was offering
Manti millions of dollars to play for
them. However, he never accepted.
At the end of the 2011, those offers
were at an all-time high.
Manti’s feelings were mixed but
in the end his decision made us
love him even more. He told his
father, “Dad, I didn’t give Notre
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Dame all I have yet,” and that was
the end of that conversation.
On September 11, 2012, Manti
suffered the loss of both his girlfriend and his beloved grandmother
in the span of one day. Manti was
hurting, but that did not stop his
playing. A few days later, he led the
team to a 13-6 win against Michigan. Through these
two windows to his
character, Manti Te‘o
became a fan-favorite
player.
During the last few
games Notre Dame
was third in the Nation behind Alabama
and Georgia who were
both undefeated.
However to many
people’s pleasant
surprise, Notre Dame
won their next game
while the other two
teams lost theirs. This
put Notre Dame in the
number one spot in
the nation.
Now, back to current time. Manti Te‘o
suited up, ready to
play for the national
championship.
Unfortunately,
Notre Dame lost to
Alabama in a 42-14
defeat. This made
them runner up in the
National Championship in college football.
Many of us were heart broken.
However, we recently discovered
that Manti had lied about his girlfriend’s death when a woman called
Sports Center inquiring why her
picture was shown on the show.
The picture of the woman was supposedly of Manti’s dead girlfriend.
But it wasn’t true.
If this is your first time hearing this, confusion or anger may
be running through your head. Tell
them to run on. First let me say
that Manti Te‘o’s “girlfriend” was
created through the internet.
A friend of Manti’s, Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, created a fictional girl as a
prank on Manti. Unfortunately, the
prank grew out of control as Manti
started thinking of this fictional
woman as a girlfriend.
Tuiasosopo then decided to “kill”
his fictional character and only later
confessed the truth to Manti, who
continued to speak to the press
about her death even after he
realized it was a hoax. This is why
Manti said his girlfriend had died.
Some say this was to get attention
but I don’t believe that. Manti did
what most of us would, he tried to
avoid embarrassment.
Tuiasosopo apologized to the
woman on Jan. 16.
Will Manti losing the championship combined with the fake girlfriend story be enough to affect his
future? Will it ruin his chances to
play with a great team in the NFL?
Will he even enter the NFL?
Until then we will just have to
trust Manti Te‘o: the player, the
hero, the legend.
The CMS Courier
March 2013
Top 10 NBA
Point Guards
The point guard has
always been known
as the ball handler,
leader, and elite passer.
However, recently, the
position has received
a lot of young, topnotch talent. Some
players who would
have been on this list
a few years ago now
don’t even register in
the same category.
Pictured: Derrick Rose, #1 of the
Chicago Bulls and #2 on our list.
Creative Commons photo by
Keith Allison via Wikipedia
By Micah Kamalei
T
he point guard has always
been known as the ball
handler, leader, and elite passer.
However, recently the position has
received a lot of young top-notch
talent. Some players who would
have been on this list a few years
ago now don’t even register in the
same category. This list is based
on skills, knowledge of the game,
and leader abilities.
So without further ado here
are the Top 10 point guards of the
2012-2013 season.
Number 10: Stephen Curry
Stephen Curry is one of the
most spot-on shooters playing the
position. He has never shot lower
than 42% shooting from 3-point
range. He would be higher on this
list, however his over-all shooting
has dropped to 42.4% from the
court. He averages 19.9 points per
game and 6.3 assists per game.
Number 9: Damian Lillard
Damian Lillard may be a surprising name on this list. However, he definitely deserves it. He
already averages 18.1 points per
game, 6.6 assists per game, as
well as 3.3 rebounds per game
and he is only beginning his NBA
career. Additionally, his points per
game would be higher if he hadn’t
been shooting cold from the field
on Sun., Feb. 10, when he only
scored 4 points—a career low.
However, he racked up 12 assists that game making the best of
a bad situation.
Number 8: Steve Nash
Steve Nash won back-to-back
MVP from 2005-2006. This makes
him an instant candidate for the
Top 10 list. He would also be a lot
higher if he were still in his prime.
However, bordering on 40, he still
is able to crack the top 10.
He averages 14.4 points per
game, 8.6 assists per game, and
3.0 rebounds per game.
Number 7: Kyrie Irving
Kyrie Irving deserves a spot
in this list. His incredible ballhandling skills makes him a major
danger on the court as well as his
shooting skills in which his career
average is higher than all previous
names on this list. He averages
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20.9 points per game, 5.5 assists per game, and 3.7 rebounds
per game. Some would argue he
deserves to be in the top 5 of this
list, but with only a year’s experience, he can only rank so high.
Number 6: Tony Parker
Tony Parker runs the offense of
the San Antonio Spurs and with his
incredible plays, makes them one
of the deadliest teams in the NBA.
While his career stats aren’t
Number 6 material, his playing this
season is. He racks up 20.7 points
per game, with 7.7 assists per
game.
He also helps with the boards
averaging 3.0 rebounds per game.
Number 5: Deron Williams
Deron Williams has a very real
chance of making the top 3. However his recent playing makes me
drop him a couple of levels. After
being traded to Brooklyn Nets,
he has fallen from his stature,
decreasing all of his stats. He is
now known to force too much too
often. Before his trade he averaged 18 points and 10 assists per
game and this season he averages
only 16.7 points and 7.6 assists
per game. He still has the ability
to play in the top 3, however he
needs to play much smarter.
Number 4: Russel Westbrook
Russel Westbrook, along with
Kevin Durant, power the Oklahoma
City Thunder’s offense, making
them a title contender. With his
explosive playing style he can get
to the rim with ease and puts up
pretty big numbers assists-wise
as well. However, he only averages 19.5 points per game and his
numbers will stay this low as long
as he has Kevin Durant at his side.
If he were alone, Russel Westbrook would undoubtedly put up
bigger numbers.
Number 3: Rajon Rondo
It would be absurd to put Rajon
anywhere on this list but in the top
3. Rajon’s career stats are not top
3 material, for sure: 11.1 points
per game, 8.3 assists per game,
and 4.5 rebounds per game.
However, his creative passing and
court sense are some of the best
in the NBA. On top of that, this
season he has upped his game to
13.7 points per game, 11.1 assists
per game, and 5.6 rebounds per
game. This puts him at the number 3 spot on this list.
Number 2: Derrick Rose
The number 2 spot may be a
little high for a player who is currently injured and I agree that we
will have to see how he plays after
coming out of rehab for his knee
before getting an accurate assessment of his abilities.
However, Rose has come back
from injuries before and still
makes himself a widely known
player. In fact, this 2011 MVP winner beat out Lebron James for MVP
that year. His explosive game and
elite passing makes him instantly a
contender for the #1 spot on this
list, even when he is injured. While
healthy, Rose can do anything on
the floor from throw an alley-oop
pass, to slam dunking over Lebron.
The CMS Courier
March 2013
2013 Super Bowl
By Harrison Fulbright
T
wo football teams faced off
during the 2013 XLVII Super
Bowl, held at the Mercedes-Benz
Super Dome in New Orleans.
The two teams that played
were the Baltimore Ravens and
the San Francisco 49ers.
The game was literally a battle
between brothers. The coaches
for the teams are biological
brothers, John Harbaugh and Jim
Harbaugh.
The final score of the game
was 34 to 31, with the Ravens
winning.
During the first
half, the Ravens
scored 26 points,
while the 49ers
scored 6.
The halftime
show was performed by singer
Beyoncé.
With his second half kickoff, player Jacoby Jones, who
played for the
Ravens, broke
the previous
world record for
longest kick-off.
The previous
longest kick was
104 yards, but
Jacoby punted it
108 yards.
4 POINT GUARDS
At 6'0", Chris Paul is not the tallest
tree in the forest, but he stands tall
in our ranking.
Creative Commons photo by elfidomx
He also shows himself to be one
of the most athletic point guards,
leaping to heights thought impossible a short while before. Rose
puts up great career averages but
even more impressive is his 20112012 season stats: 21.8 points
per game, 7.9 assists per game,
and 3.4 rebounds per game. These
stats as well as his Hall of Fame
level of play secures him the number 2 spot on this list.
Number 1: Chris Paul
With Rose injured, Deron Williams not playing his best, and
Steve Nash’s age barrier, who else
could be the number one player on
this list but Chris Paul? He plays
amazing games almost frequently.
I say “almost” because of his poor
showing against the Heat on Feb.
8th, where he only got 3 points on
the board, and, unlike Lillard, only
put up 2 assists as well.
However, even with this minor
setback in his stats, he still is an
amazing point guard, already in
the Earvin “Magic” Johnson league
this All-Star Game. He put up 20
points with 15 assists—only the
3rd player ever to do that in an
All-Star game, the other two being
Magic Johnson and Isiah Thomas.
Paul averages 18.6 points per
game, 9.8 assists per game, and
4.4 rebounds per game.
While he doesn’t have the explosive power to get to the rim like
Derrick Rose or Russel Westbrook,
he is a good shooter and has the
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During the third quarter, there
was a blackout, which was probably the most memorable part of
the game.
It lasted for 22 minutes and
the game was delayed for 34
minutes.
In the second half, the 49ers
scored 25 points and the Ravens
scored 8.
In the end, the Ravens won
because of the huge lead that
they got in the first quarter.
It was an amazing game made
even more amazing because the
two coaches were brothers.
ability to put up big numbers like
Rose/Westbrook.
His scoring is enjoyable to
watch, but it is a side-show compared to his passing. His court
vision is unrivaled in the league
today. Not even Rajon Rondo can
pass like Paul can. Paul blends
scoring and passing together in
perfect harmony.
If you are wondering why I have
not put some players on this list,
you can ask me but I will try to
answer a few potential questions
here.
Ricky Rubio?
He is an excellent point guard,
however his stats are too low to be
top 10 material.
Jrue Holiday?
Holiday has stepped up his
game this year and made this
year’s All-Star team. However,
looking at his career stats, his
2012-2013 stats are too low to
balance out his past play. He is
certainly a close 11th however.
Ty Lawson?
Another case similar to Holiday,
Lawson’s playing abilities were not
enough to pass the top 10. In the
future, he may crack the top 10,
but that may not be until he can
win a major award.
If there are any other point
guards you think I have overlooked, you may contact me
through our Case Middle School
Courier editor, Mr. Wagenseller
([email protected]).

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