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Yoga was offered for the first time at HTIC this term. Taught by Elizabeth Vitale, a Certified Yoga instructor who has taught Yoga at two YMCA’s and a YWCA, the course was immensely popular with students, with nine Liberal Arts students and nine College Prep students enrolled. Students in the class learned a variety of Hatha Yoga postures and enjoyed the physical workout as well as the relaxing atmosphere.

Another class which made up for the first time in quite some time was IS 105, Career/Life Exploration and Planning, taught by Robert Holliday. Eight students signed up for this one-credit course which allowed them to explore careers and to reflect on what they want to do with their lives. (article contributed by Dean Deanna Madden)

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Thirty-four HTIC students participated in a total of ten service learning events in the community during the Spring 2009 term. A few even accumulated more than 20 hours of service this term.

One of these events was the 10th Annual Lantern Floating Festival, for which HTIC students worked on weekends from March until May to help construct over 2,000 of the lanterns that were used in the Memorial Day ceremony held at Ala Moana Beach Park.
(http://www.lanternfloatinghawaii.com/volunteering.html)

Each year HTIC hosts the KZOO Radio Japanese Speech Contest. This year, eleven students helped out by setting up the auditorium, registering the contestants, and making sure everything ran smoothly. HTIC students enjoyed listening to the different experiences that the local high school contestants have had regarding Japanese culture.

When Spring is in the air, Hawaii looks forward to many carnivals and school fairs. HTIC students were involved in two of these, the Iolani Fair and the Friends of Waialae School Earth Day Event, where they either set-up or manned the different booths.

Another event that attracted student interest this spring was the 8th Annual Jamba Banana Man Chase. This 5K race raises funds for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. Nineteen of our students helped pass out water and bananas for participants who were trying to outrun a life-sized, Banana-costumed runner around the course.

A week after the Banana Man Chase, students volunteered at the 4th Annual Hawaii Book & Music Festival. At this two-day event, students were asked to pass out surveys, help keep the area clean, provide information for the guests and help out at the performer’s stage. All the students that volunteered for this event had a great time interacting with the local community.
(http://hawaiibookandmusicfestival.org/home.html)

Finally, on Saturday June 13, four students participated in the Waikiki Beach Clean Up. They went to work early cleaning the beaches of Waikiki near the Hilton Hawaiian Village. Later that same day, Student Support Specialist Mr Andrew Fujimoto drove two students to an on-going volunteer opportunity at Kalihi Waena Elementary School where they spent a few hours cleaning and removing litter from the stream bank. The work was tiring but the students enjoyed themselves and had the chance to work with many other local students in the community.
(http://kaupa4kalihi.org/index_files/page0001.html)

Overall, HTIC students had many opportunities to volunteer during this past Spring term. A good number of students took these opportunities to go out into the community, not only to help, but also to improve themselves as global citizens. For more information about how to volunteer, please see Andrew Fujimoto in Student Services.

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Student Presentation day took place on June 10, with six of the College's Liberal Arts classes participating.

Jeffrey Mead’s SP 151 students showed a video they had made about the the usefulness of the iPhone.

Doug Fuqua’s HIST 241 class, which studied about civilizations of Asia before 1500, gave two PowerPoint presentations, the first devoted to the Chinese novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and the second focusing on Confucianism and its continuing influence.

Deanna Madden’s Creative Writing students read some of their stories and poems that appear in the latest "Hawaii Tokai Review."

Toake Endoh’s POLSCI 220 (International Relations) students gave a PowerPoint presentation about “soft power” in international relations versus “hard power” (force or violence). Examples of “soft power” included the Japanese anime and the concept of mottaimai, Sweden’s welfare system, American jazz, the Fulbright Program, Libya’s rejection of nuclear power and terrorism, and South Korea’s soap operas and movies.

Robert Holliday’s PSY 170 (Psychology of Adjustment) class performed several skits demonstrating concepts they had learned this term, including Freud’s ideas about the Id, Ego, and Super-Ego; positive and negative reinforcement; cognitive-behavior theory; how people get depressed; and Type A and B personalities.

Freshman Experience students from Seleena Harkness’s HUM 100 class concluded the presentations by explaining the theme they focused on this term—Fate, Destiny, and Free Will—and summing up their thoughts after having read and discussed works such as Oedipus the King, Hawthorne’s “The Birthmark,” Amy Tan’s memoir, The Opposite of Fate, and a story from Tan’s The Joy Luck Club. (article contributed by Dean Deanna Madden)