The library serves BYU-Hawaii students in different areas they might not even know about, said Michael Aldrich, the library director. As the new semester starts, the doors of the library are open to help students succeed academically.“We approximately provide help up to 5,000 students each year,” said Aldrich. “Librarians are our main resource in the library. They are able to meet with students one-on-one and be very helpful.” If students are creating videos, slideshows, etc., the library workers are there to assist them in a very advanced way, Aldrich said.He also said librarians help students with research papers by guiding them through the whole process: finding sources, creating a thesis statement, writing citations, and integrating sources into their papers. "We don’t write papers for them, but we provide them everything they need,” said Zoia Falevai, a university librarian.The library has collections of books, academic databases, periodicals, subject guides, online tutorials, REFWORKS (citation program), and more, according to Falevai.She also said, “We help them with the computer lab, provide a study area, and we provide jobs to students as well." She added, “We have so much on our library websites, where we have way better resources that they can use, more helpful than Google.”The library is always open for new ideas from students, said Aldrich. “We are open to listen to any ideas they might have. Recently, we got rid of the ‘no food’ policy that was partially based on the student feedback. Also, the textbook reserve program works great, which was also recommended by students.”The ideas of improving library service comes from others libraries, students’ feedback, and the library administration, said Aldrich.The library is open Monday through Thursday, 7 a.m. until the midnight. On Friday, it is open from 7 a.m. until 8 p.m. and on Saturday, 9 a.m. until 9 p.m. More information can be found on https://library.byuh.edu/Uploaded January 22, 2015

S.W.A.T.T (Special Waste Action and Technology Team) is making a big impact in the goal of sustainability on campus. Three principles are at the core of this effort are reduce, reuse, and recycle.Reduce Most drinking fountains on campus have a fill station where people can refill their water bottles. Instead of continuously buying new water bottles, people can reuse the ones they already have. Les Harper, sustainability coordinator at BYUH, said the fill stations have significantly reduced the amount of drinking bottles that would have been used—and thrown away. “In total, the fill stations have been used over 100,000 times. That could potentially be 100,000 drinking bottles. It’s a program that’s gone basically unnoticed by most,” Harper added. ReuseA program that has received more notice for reuse is Give ‘N’ Take. “We literally take old stuff, add value to it, and make it possible for other people to use it instead of throwing it away,” said Gabrielle Sabalones, a senior from Indiana majoring in ICS. Sabalones works first-hand with the materials that come and go from Give ‘N’ Take. “In the past month, we gave away 4,233 items,” Sabalones said. Give ‘N’ Take is not designed to save the school money, but “it saves the church and students about 1/3 of a million dollars,” Harper said. Recycle The school collects paper, newspaper, cardboard and sometimes metal to recycle. Carlos Speranza, the sustainable program manager and pest control supervisor, said recycling these materials saves the garbage truck two trips to the landfill each week. “The trash guy used to go to the landfill six times a week. Now he goes only four times a week,” Speranza said. “He goes three times for free because we are a non-profit company. The other three times we had to pay $300, so we save $600 a week.”The garbage collector used to take a lot more plant debris to Honolulu as well. Leaves can be recycled into mulch to be used to grow more plants. Harper said, “Between the PCC and BYUH, we are always having to trim back trees and palms, to make the campus beautiful and safe. So we have resurrected a tub grinder. It’s a great, big, massive piece of equipment for grinding up the branches, and mulch comes out the other end.” The tub grinder saves all of these materials from having to be wasted and transported. Awareness/Involvement Speranza said students can help the sustainability workers by “putting the materials in the right bin.” Speranza said the recycle bins end up with trash in them, even though they are specifically labeled for cardboard only. “Just follow the signs and sort the material where it belongs,” Speranza advised. Harper added students can alert Facilities Management if there are places that aren’t being properly serviced. As part of their effort to help people become more aware of the recycling and sustainability programs on campus, the Facilities Management team also makes laundry detergent. The program is called Soap for Savings. “We’re not doing it to be nice. We’re doing it as an awareness program to say ‘Hey, we’ve done really well in recycling and this is why we’re giving you the soap’,” Harper said. The materials used to make a gallon of soap costs only $1, and one gallon can wash 16 loads of laundry, said Speranza. Uploaded January 21, 2015

The Give ‘N’ Take is a student-founded and run operation that recycles used goods and gives students an opportunity to improve their standard of living. The Give ‘N’ Take was founded in 2010 by Kelly Ingold Nelson as a one-day senior project, but has caught hold at BYU-Hawaii and is now “almost its own little village,” stated Gabrielle Sabalones, the Give ’N’ Take student manager. Sabalones said BYUH is in a unique circumstance with students who come from all over the world. Students arrive here with very little to their name, and with support from the Give ’N’ Take, they are able to get cribs and toys for their babies, find clothes for themselves, and feel a part of the community. Give ’N’ Take has also partnered with a few charities from around the island to give excess clothes away and give back to the community of Oahu. “The benefits of the Give ’N’ Take are pretty obvious,” joked Cara Adams, a 2014 BYUH graduate and mother of a 9-month-old boy. “You give a little and are able to take advantage of the recycled goods of others.” Adams was able to use the Give ’N’ Take after she had her son. Adams also said, “There are many options for baby clothes over there and the workers really helped out to make sure I had a good experience with my baby as well.” Bogan Henderson, a transfer student from BYU in Provo, said, “The Give ’N’ Take is very useful for all students but especially me. I am new here to BYUH. I needed some things and I have found many good items here to help with the transition into the hales.” Henderson said he is a big supporter of the Give ’N’ Take and hopes others take advantage of the great resources on campus to save some money and give back. Helping the student community and seeing the standard of living go up is what keeps Sabalones working through the hot and humid days in the Give ’N’ Take containers. “That is what keeps me coming back every day. It is not necessarily fun or glamorous and it doesn’t pay that well, but to see what a difference it can make in students lives; that is worth it,” said Sabalones. The Give ’N’ Take is located behind Hale 5 and is open Monday-Friday, noon to 5 p.m. and on Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. To take advantage of all the resources there, just spend about 30 minutes helping Give ‘N’ Take organize or straighten up. Then you can take up to 10 items. You can drop items off in areas behind the hales, and there are drop boxes around campus as well.

Being multilingual is a common characteristic of students at BYU-Hawaii. For Filipino graduate Kit Nadado, who majored in TESOL, and Tiffany Ng, a TESOL sophomore from Hong Kong, a diverse lingual background has been a bridge to connect with other students on the personal level. Hello, nei hou, ni hao, and kumusta—Tiffany Ng is fluent in four languages and is learning a new one: Spanish. Ng grew up speaking Cantonese and Tagalog. In Hong Kong, people speak Cantonese, but she grew up in a home where her mother and Filipino grandmother spoke Tagalog. In school, Ng was required to learn Mandarin and English. At BYUH, she decided she wanted to learn Spanish as well. “First of all, I think that Spanish is really cool. I think that because I know four languages, Spanish will also help me in my future,” said Ng. Ng said she wants to learn Korean and American Sign Language to be a well-rounded linguist. She also wants to go back to Hong Kong and teach children the different languages she knows: “In 40 years, I want to teach kids sign language because I want to help kids to be able to communicate with lots of other people,” said Ng. The Philippines was once ruled by Spain, and because of this, Ng said the verbs and other words in Spanish are the same in Tagalog.Although Ng speaks English on campus, she most often speaks Cantonese with her friends. Tagalog has also helped Ng make more friends by being able to connect with Filipinos. As she said, “At BYUH, I have a lot of Filipino friends. When you speak their language, no matter what they think that you are a part of them.”She added, “I feel like, because I know a lot of different languages, I have a lot of different friends. I have learned a lot from our differences. It is really nice to be a student here.”Kit Nadado has a similar story. Knowing four languages, Nadado finds English, Tagalog, and two dialects from the Philippines—Ilocano and Cebuano—most comfortable. Nadado said he has picked up each language as he’s moved around. “I grew up with Ilocano, then went into English, which is started in the Philippines in kindergarten, but not spoken a lot. “My family moved to a Tagalog-speaking area and they also speak Ilocano there. Then I served a mission in Bacolod, Philippines speaking Cebuano.” Laughing, Nadado said, “It’s kind of a lot.” Now at BYUH, Nadado said the language he uses the most on campus, beside English, is Tagalog. “A lot of Filipinos around here come from different parts of the islands, and we have kind of decided to speak Tagalog because everyone in the Philippines is taught Tagalog in school.” As a common language for the Filipino students, Tagalog creates an instant connection Filipinos from different cultures to come together. Nadado said there is a sense of ownership and identity that comes with being able to know another person better through language. Learning a language for the first time is not like learning how to ride a bicycle. Rather, Nadado explains, going through the process of learning different languages gets easier through the skills you acquire while learning. “The techniques I learned when picking up one new language I can apply to learning another; there are just different rules and different vocabulary with the new language,” he said. Nadado said being multilingual helps him to be informed, not fooled, and aware of what people are saying. As he said, “I can react correctly and respond correctly to people. It is easier to defend my beliefs and share my opinions.”Uploaded on January 21, 2015

Benny Kai Jr., BYU-Hawaii alumni and Ambassador of Aloha, passed away at the age of 54 in his home two days before Christmas, surrounded by his family after a year and a half of battling lymphoma cancer. “He shared his Hawaiian aloha spirit and entertained countless thousands of guests at the Polynesian Cultural Center. Aloha, Benny Kai. Aloha,” said the PCC Facebook page on the day of his death.Sharon Craighead Kai, his wife of 32 years, said Kai contributed to PCC’s entertainment for most of his life. “He started when he was 17 or 18 years old, right out of high school. When he first started working there, he was a dancer, then a musician, then he became the emcee at the Luau and Hawaiian ambassador.” Even after hospitalization, Kai continued to entertain. He would sing to other patients and he played for YouTube from his hospital bed, according to the Hawaii Reporter. Music helped him endure, Kai said before his death. “It almost ruined my will to live, but I always thought about my music,” Kai said to Hawaii News Now in May 2014.His music had made him a crowd favorite at PCC for over 30 years, and he was well known for playing his ukulele behind his head and with his teeth. The Hawaii Reporter wrote in May 2014 that Kai was active in the community as well by, “sharing his Hawaiian heritage to the students of La’ie elementary school and Na Kamalei preschool, teaching music and Hawaiian culture to the keikis with his characteristic zeal and enthusiasm.”The Kahuku, Laie and Hauula communities helped the Kai family in their time of need. Sharon said, “The community support was very much appreciated. It was other people wanting to do it, not us saying we need help. People just wanted to help.” To raise money for his stem cell transplant, a 5K was organized, as well as a concert at PCC. “When I saw just the tidal waves of love and people just helping, I was just blown away,” Kai said to Hawaii News Now last May. “I cry because I am so grateful for the love. In Hawaii, we may live on an island, but yet our hearts are as big as the island.”Kai never got his stem cell transplant, said his wife, Sharon. ”He didn’t because there was no match. Polynesian-Asian blood types are the ones who do not sign up for transplant. It is not an invasive transplant sort of thing—like bone marrow transplants—but people don’t know that. Its just stem cells like a blood donation. Good to know for everybody. I made all my kids sign up, even if it’s not a match for Dad.”Sharon continued, “We met at BYU-Hawaii in a health class. He would serenade me under my dorm window. Bring me roses. I already had my mind set on going on a mission, so he decided to go, too. He went to the Philippines and I went to England. We got married July 3, 1982.”Their daughter saw her parents’ strength in their final days. “The love my parents had for each other is priceless. With a courageous spirit, Dad tackled his race head on with Mom beside him. He has helped us heal with his bright smile,” Tasha Kai, daughter and Olympic gold medalist, said to former mayor Mufi Hannemann, who wrote of his own memories of the musician in Midweek. “He had a contagious smile and was a gifted musician. Through the years, when I would bump into Benny in the community, the wide grin was embedded on his countenance. Benny had a heart of gold,” wrote Hannemann. Sharon chuckled as she said, “He loved to bear his testimony, he loved to sing. He is probably still singing,” Uploaded January 21, 2015

As a senior female going into her final semester at BYU-Hawaii, the first day of school presents a tough decision for me: make a last ditch effort to get married with a Pinterest-perfect outfit, or dress how I want- in sweatpants. This year I sat down with women in the same boat, figuring out the outfit that could make or break their image, dating life, “basically everything,” according to Alison Reece, a sophomore in hospitality and tourism management from Utah. “The important thing is looking good without trying too hard and taking advantage of the nice weather,” said Reece, a recently returned missionary who served in the Ukraine Donetsk Mission. On the first day of school, Reece opted for a flowy, feminine shirt and shorts, “because it’s January and we can get away with it.” The RM laughingly said she wore the shorts with pride since the rest of her family lives in Utah where, Reece analogized, the weather is like “Frozen” before Elsa could control her powers. “I had to wear my sandals because it’s January and well, I can,” said Reece, laughing to herself and looking out toward the warm sunshine.While Reece bragged about her sun-warmed shins to her family through Snapchat, for other women, getting ready for the first day of school was inspired by celebrities rather than bragging rights.“I Googled pictures of my fashion idol, Taylor Swift, for my first day of school outfit. She’s an icon and always looks great,” said Rina Tafua, a senior in university studies from California. “Her secret to looking good? Black sunglasses and a red lip. Boom! First day of school perfection.”Though iconic, the Swift-Tafua red lipstick didn’t fly for some BYUH women who opted for less glam and more spam. Armed with a musubi in hand, Amanda Winger, a junior in elementary education from Canada, lounged in the Seasider in sweatpants and a black BYUH basketball shirt. “Listen,” she said before taking a bite of spam musubi, “I’ve been here six semesters already, and no one really cares what you wear. Why dress up fancy on the first day of school? No one’s gonna keep that up, so we all might as well drop the pretense and wear what we want, and we all know it’s about the sweatpants, baby.” A table of freshmen girls smiled and nodded as Winger lifted her sweatpant-sheathed leg onto the table and showcased it with outstretched arms.Whether in sweats, in Swift, or in sunshine swag, the first day of school gives students the opportunity to start the semester how they want, and while that first outfit might seem like the make-or-break moment for a chance to get married, all Winger can say is, “I’m already engaged.”Uploaded January 21, 2015

The USS Missouri Memorial Association presented a plaque made from the original deck of the USS Missouri, or Mighty Mo, to representatives of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Dec. 5, 2014, in honor of the 15 years and approximately 27,000 hours of volunteered service by LDS missionaries and local members. Elder Daniel L. Johnson, of the Quorum of the Seventy, and President Stephen R. Warner, president of the Honolulu Hawaii Mission, accepted the plaque at the presentation ceremony along with 50 missionaries. According to Mormon Newsroom, Association President and CEO Michael A. Carr expressed his gratitude for the service of the LDS Church stating that, “their generous help was equal on our books to almost half a million dollars worth of in-kind services. The ship would not look like it does and be where it is today without volunteer help in general and, specifically, the work of the LDS volunteers.”During the ceremony, Elder Johnson thanked the association for giving missionaries and church members this service opportunity and talked about the importance of serving. “You cannot serve without loving,” said Johnson. “You can even love a battleship. As you serve one another, you come to love the people you serve. I hope as you serve on this ship…it will create something inside of you that will also help you value the freedom that this ship and others have helped to bring to us.”The USS Missouri was launched on Jan. 29,1944 and assigned to the Pacific Third Fleet during World War II. On Christmas Eve of 1944, the ship passed through Pearl Harbor before heading out to join American forces in the Pacific. Throughout the war, the battleship took part in the bombing raids over Tokyo, the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, and it was on the decks of the battleship where Japanese officials surrendered thus ending World War II.The Missouri would continue its service during the Korean War, and after refurbishment and modernization, was deployed in the Gulf War in 1991. In 1992, the Missouri was decommissioned and made Pearl Harbor its permanent home, overlooking her fallen sister the USS Arizona.Missionaries and members of the LDS Church now provide volunteer service every Wednesday morning. Volunteers clean, sweep, wipe handrails, move material on and off the ship, as well as setting up and taking down chairs, banners and flags for programs and ceremonies. “I don’t really find it surprising that the church is being recognized for its longstanding commitment to service to the USS Missouri Memorial,” said Trinity Waddell, a junior from Dayton, Texas, studying bio-medical science. “They always have and always will help others in exemplary ways. But it’s nice to see recognition that could translate into missionary opportunities.”

McDonald’s is leaving a bad taste in America’s collective mouth with its new commercial, which debuted after the Golden Globes, Sunday, Jan. 11. The commercial showed pictures of the famous golden arches with different messages written in the menu sign, which read, “Boston strong,” “Thank you Veterans,” “All of us weep for the Columbia families,” “God gave us a miracle,” and “We remember 9-11.” Though intended to better connect McDonald’s with their customers, according to Business Insider, critics found it manipulative and disrespectful.“I’m all for marketing, for advertising, letting a company show people how good they are, but I think there’s a line, and that ends with respect. Be respectful of the depth of people’s feelings. Using 9-11 in their commercial? Their mascot is a clown,” said Gabriell Sabalones, a senior in ICS.Headlines echoed Sabalones’ opinion with bold letters asking, “Should tragedy sell Big Macs?” and “McDonald’s Slammed for Using 9/11 to Sell Burgers,” from the Associated Press, the Christian Science Monitor, and other news organizations.McDonald’s advertising generally uses bright red and yellow cartoon graphics and tries to be humorous, even dealing in puns, like the "eco-nom-nom-nomics" of the Jalapeno Double Cheeseburger commercial released in August of 2014. Compared to this new commercial released six months later, which attempts to be heart-wrenching and emotive, critics say McDonald’s mocks rather than memorializes tragedy. Ironically, the McDonald’s website tells its employees, “Branding only works when an organization behaves and presents itself in a consistent way.” McDonald’s commercial is not particularly offensive in its marketing approach, as other companies have used similar tear-jerker tactics, like the SPCA Global Animal Rescue. While McDonald’s commercial features a children’s choir singing a cover of Fun’s “Carry On,” Sarah McLachlan sings “Arms of an Angel,” and pleads with viewers to aid dogs like the one she holds in the SPCA commercial. However schmaltzy the tactic, “It’s not the commercial so much as the context of it and the company it’s coming from,” said Alyssa Asplund, a freshman in graphic design from California. While Sarah McLachlan’s commercial is consistent with the other sad kitty advertisements released by the SPCA, “this isn’t McDonald’s business,” Asplund said, calling the new McDonald’s commercial exploitive. She said, "9-11 gets people. It changed people. To use that to get gain is degrading. It’s horrible. The commercial trivializes the lives that were lost.” Uploaded on Jan. 21, 2015

BYU-Hawaii graphic design Professor Brandon Truscott's poster for his class's ART 333 Type Face Cards exhibit was one of 25 winners of Print Celebrates Design, a national design competition hosted by PRINT magazine. Truscott said he hopes beginners in the graphic design field will see his win as an example of opportunities available in the graphic design community. Print Celebrates Design is "a design competition for your cards, gifts & invitations," according to Amanda Aszman, who posted the winners on PRINT magazine's website. The judge for the competition was the creative director at Etsy, Randy J Hunt. Etsy is a peer-to-peer online market for hand-made goods. "Hunt founded design studio Citizen Scholar and wrote Product Design for the Web and designs prints. Prior to becoming creative director at Etsy, he was recognized as Print New Visual Artist in 2009," wrote Aszman. The winners’ work was revealed January 9th, 2015.Truscott said he hopes his recognition this will help not only students, but also those getting certificates or those who are interested in design "realize that they can be competitive at a national level even if they feel they are from a small place. Even though things we do in class start as small, simple projects, they can be a gateway, if you approach it correctly, to national recognition. Anyone, student or otherwise, can use something like this as an opportunity to open doors." "We often think, 'This is a tough world with all this competition,' but when I've met people, peers at conferences, they are just like you. They do the same things you do when they create stuff and are generally pretty friendly in sharing techniques," said Truscott. Every semester that Truscott teaches an ART 333 class, he said one of the topics is about script and hand letterings. His class designed typography chalk signs with a playing card theme and exhibited them in late October 2014. He designed the advertising poster for the exhibit as the ace of spades, which ultimately won in Print Celebrates Design. "I was looking at the backs of cards, and the fronts, through several different decks. I based the letter forms on two typefaces: Rand Holub's Gillot 291 became the basis of Intertype's Monterey. I modified every little thing as I drew it out," said Truscott. He said "I encourage my students to be active online. Opportunities are rapidly increasing in design." Many of those opportunities come because of digitization and the Internet. "You can get more exposure and connect with a greater audience. So, I submitted mine to be an example." There are 3 million visits annually to the public gallery on printmag.com. For a student that is just starting their career, an award like this can be very advantageous. "It is something you can put on your resume or be a talking point in an interview. Someone might see some of your work they like, click on it, and contact you. It's all about gaining exposure, which can lead to other things," said Truscott, who has personal experience with getting work through such exposure. "People regularly contact me through my website, and ask me to design things" such as book covers, retail display, logos, and T-shirts. uploaded 1/15/15