European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 12, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Stateside Alapai Kahuena a Kahuna or elder plays a ukulele while leading her hawaiian culture class in song. Hawaiians learning to speak like natives by Angela s. Miller the associated press t he students gather outside their classroom door and chant an ancient hawaiian poem a Uku Mai Nei aug a Palau of a 7.&Quot they respectfully Tell. Their teacher of their desire for learning and ask for permission to enter the place of instruction. The teacher chants Back Quot a Mai e a Lehua a Quot or come Forth my Young Lehua blossoms Quot and the eager students file into the classroom. This scene is repeated each school Day at seven Public schools across Hawaii where hundreds of pupils Are taught exclusively through the hawaiian language. The program began 10 years ago when a group of native hawaiian parents saw their language disappearing As older speakers died and they looked to the next generation to revive it. The parents started their own preschool in Hilo on Hawaii is and it where their children would be taught exclusively in hawaiian. They called it Purana Leo or nest of language. Quot we re not just teaching them hawaiian we re teaching them through hawaiian Quot say i Kauanoe Kamana a hawaiian studies professor at the University of Hawaii at Hilo and one of the parents involved. Quot people who think English is the key to All Success Are narrow minded Quot she says. Quot you need to know English but it is not the essence of All  at first Volunteer teachers and parents instructed the classes using donated materials. They later won the support and financial backing of the state department of education which gradually established hawaiian language immersion programs through the eighth Grade in seven Public schools around the state. About 1,000 students Are registered for the immersion classes for the fall and the department of education recently approved extending the program through High school. At the program s inception some lawmakers and educators questioned the value of an education through hawaiian where English is taught an hour each Day As a second language. They feared the students would lag behind their counterparts in writing and articulating in English. But Hawaii school superintendent Herman Aizawa says the students in the All hawaiian classes Are performing As Well or better than students in the same Grade level taught in English. At the same time enrolment in hawaiian language and culture classes at the University of Hawaii s main Campus has risen to nearly 1,700 students from just 700 five years ago with hundreds of others on a waiting list. But the largest interest in learning the language can be seen in the general Community. Just a decade ago Only about 1,000 people mostly historians and elders spoke hawaiian fluently. Today that number has More than doubled in the Wake of a cultural  it s my language the language of my ancestors my culture if nobody continues it Well lose it forever Quot says Hiapo Perreira a 19-year-old University student who is one fourth hawaiian on his Mother s Side. New twists on an old language As the hawaiian language grows in popularity and applications modern Day speakers Are finding the need for expanding the hawaiian lexicon. Language scholars translating modern science math and history textbooks for use in hawaiian language schools need words for things unfamiliar to the hawaiian islands in the 18th Century says hawaiian studies professor Larry Kimura. Kimura chairs a committee of a hawaiian language scholars formed to compose new hawaiian words to fit the modern  its formation in 1987, the committee has devised 2,500 new words to add to the hawaiian speakers vocabulary. Each new word is carefully researched and formulated according to sound linguistic principles Kimura says. Then it is tested by real speakers to see if it is pleasant sounding to the hawaiian ear. Kimura says in making new hawaiian words the scholars try not to borrow from English. Quot instead of taking English words for. Animals and plants we consult native american language words because they were there in America before the English speaking  he says. Quot if you were there first you should have the right to have your word  a the associated press wednesday october 12,1994 the stars and stripes Short subject can a musical Genius make students smart by Alex Ross the new York times Beethoven is no longer the worlds greatest composer. He still glowers from the pantheons of our older concert Halls but he Hasni to been the greatest for More than a decade. His place has been taken by the one beloved of god the supreme artificer of music the Sublime Mozart who was also a nicer Guy. If there was still doubt in anyone a mind researchers at the Center for the neurobiology of learning and memory at the University of California at Irvine have determined that listening to Mozart actually makes you smarter. Last october in the pages of nature they revealed that in scores of College students Rose nine Points after exposure to 10 minutes of Mozart. Now they have shown that Mozart assists in the solution of spatial puzzles involving folded cutout shapes. Undergraduates listening to Philip glasses music in changing parts did not perform As Well. A a these startling results raise Many questions. Is Mozart the Best possible composer for the enhancement of learning and memory would Bach or Hindemith do As Well is an amorphous curvilinear composer like Rachmaninoff bad for spatial reasoning what would 84 undergrads do with folded cutout shapes if they were listening to Mozart heavy Metal and if Mozart makes you smarter Why do mostly Mozart audiences at new Yorkus Lincoln Center still break into applause in the Middle of pieces after slow movements As Well As fast a the politics of composer in chief Are always changing. Around the turn of the Century the Man of the hour was Wagner and no one could get enough of him. Subsequent events however caused his Stock to drop. For a Brief moment fascinatingly the Mantle seemed to pass to a living composer Sibelius was voted no. 1 symph Onist by new York philharmonic subscribers in 1935. But Sibelius did not last Long. Arturo Toscanini put his full weight behind Beethoven whose reputation crested during world War ii. Then in the�?T60s and�?T70s,. Leonard Bernstein led the great Mahler revival and it seemed that Mahler might Rise to the top. But Mahler a sprawling Neur biologically tumultuous scores were ill suited to Coffee commercials and intermission Chimes. The same difficulty attended on the somewhat Over solemn Bach who was hot around the time of his tricentennial in 1985. No Mozart was the coming Man. He carried Superb credentials from the musical elite Tchaikovsky and Richard Strauss worshipped him Mahler died with the name Mozart on his lips. The taste mongering Stravinsky pointedly touted him Over Beethoven. Mostly Mozart and the film amadeus helped bring in the masses. Now to Clinch the Deal Mozart is the composer who gives you an Edge on the sats. 15