Thursday, January 7. 2021

Today's schedule is: 

9:15 - 11:50 C Block Social and Environmental Sciences 

12:30 - 3:05 B Block Legal Studies 

C Block Social and Environmental Sciences - Today you'll start with Young in 115. We'll watch some of the Mauna Kea Native Hawaiian protest videos from Tuesday's blog post and then I'll have you work on your Mauna Kea questions. Remember, use the following:

The Heart of the Hawaiian Peoples’ Arguments Against the Telescope on Mauna Kea By Doug Herman
Why Native Hawaiians are fighting to protect Maunakea from a telescope By Trisha Kehaulani Watson-Sproat

1. What is the history of the United States acquisition of Hawai'i? Look at Hawaiian Annexation or How the Americans destroyed the Kingdom of Hawaii or Americans overthrow Hawaiian monarchy to help.

2. What are the Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) beliefs surrounding the mountain?
3. What is “ceded lands” or "crown land" and how has it played a role in this conflict? Look at What Are the ‘Ceded Lands’ of Hawaii? to help
4. What agreements over astronomical use of the mountain have taken place?
5. What is the astronomical value of the location?
6. What are the ecological, economic and scientific impacts of currently operating telescopes at Mauna Kea?
7. What is the current proposal for construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope?
8. Summarize the arguments for and against the construction of the TMT
9. In a perfect world, what is the "best outcome" solution to the conflict? Explain why you have that opinion

Also check out 

Mauna Kea Ignited A New Wave Of Hawaiian Pride. Where Does It Go From Here?

Hawaii Is a Paradise, but Whose?

For the second part of the block with Benton (in room 145) you’ll be doing a mountain ecology section on Hawai’i, looking at the establishment and evolution of ecosystems in Hawai'i in pre Polynesian contact times and then through both Polynesian and then American times. You'll try to see how volcanic mountains affect ecosystem development. 

Hawaiian Ecosystems

Hawaiian Ecosystems and Culture

Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk project (HEAR)

D Block Legal Studies - To help with your project look at the Controlled Drug and Substances Act in Canada. We'll examine the legal definition of a "drug" (with the LeDain Commission explanation) and discuss what depressants, stimulants, and hallucinogens are. We'll examine schedules I - VIII in the act that prohibit and restrict substances (Opium Poppy, Coca, Amphetamines, Barbiturates, Anabolic Steroids, and a host of others that I can not spell or pronounce) and see what possession and trafficking are. Tomorrow we'll look at defenses. After we'll continue in the learning commons / library for work on your Criminal Law activity where you need to choose two of the ten hypothetical criminal cases I gave you and provide a one-page memo/letter for each. Remember, use the memo template I gave you and the explanation after them to help you write the response to the two cases you choose. Each case is a scenario and at the end of each is a question-set of questions you need to try to answer.