In wake of the tsunami warning was issued on Sept. 17, following a high-magnitude earthquake near Chile, no major waves swamped Hawaii, and minor effects were recorded along coasts as far north as Alaska, according to the Associated Press.

“The men have their priesthood meeting and we have the general women’s meeting,” said Olivia Tufanga, wife of the bishop’s second counselor in the Laie Park Ward, who is originally from Missouri.

The day begins at the break of dawn for Tiyarra Roanhorse, a sophomore studying exercise and sports science from the Navajo Nation in Northeast Arizona. She gets up and puts corn pollen on her head and some in her mouth to be connected with God.

Comprised of nearly 7 million members from all across the world, BYU–Hawaii students like Rebecca Vigoren, a junior from Washington studying peacebuilding, join the fight with ONE against world hunger. An international campaign and advocacy organization co-founded by U2’s Bono, ONE hopes to end extreme world hunger by the year 2030, according to its official website, www.one.org.

As a campus with native speakers of many different languages, BYU–Hawaii is a place with opportunities to study and practice language. Language is more than speech, said students and professors, as it influences the speaker’s way of thinking, actions and even personality.

Each year Americans catch more than 1 billion cases of the common cold, making the cold virus the most common infectious disease in the United States, as stated on mercola.com. Colds account for more school absences and missed work than any other illness, and are the No. 1 reason people visit their physicians, even though most physicians have little to offer in the form of treatment.

Mexican music, food, and games were a few of the ways the Club Dining Facility, or the Caf, celebrated Mexican Independence Day on Sept. 16. The BYU–Hawaii Latin American Student Association hosted the night in collaboration with the Caf to provide the entertainment.

Students should be persistent in contacting companies and take advantage of contacts and forums to land an internship, said members of the BYU–Hawaii Management Society at an internship workshop.

Todd Okuhara, local racing connoisseur, is looking to bring drag racing back to all-too-quiet Hawaii, Dragzine reports. The dragster reportedly owns a machine shop in Kaka’ako and dreams of bringing back Hawaii Raceway Park, which vanished as “another victim of urban sprawl, like Lions, and Orange County, and Ontario, and Irwindale in Southern California. All that’s left is what we can remember of it,” says Dragzine writer Susan Wade.