{"id":379,"date":"2012-04-27T19:39:49","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T23:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/activism\/?page_id=379"},"modified":"2012-08-01T10:49:43","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T14:49:43","slug":"hawaiian-luau","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/activism\/stories\/hawaiian-luau\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawaiian Lu&#8217;au"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the first day of Loudness Fall 2008, a campus wide celebration that commences the beginning and ending of each semester, the Student Programming Board (SPB) used an Hawaiian Lu\u2019au theme for that year\u2019s festivities. Some students were upset with SPB because they did not do an extensive background research about the origins of a Hawaiian Lu\u2019au. Rather, SPB resorted to the typical negative stereotypes associated with the Hawaiian culture. Some of the incorrect stereotypes SPB promoted were \u201ccoconut bras\u201d and generic \u201ctiki\u201d forms. Ironically, both of these stereotypes do not reflect the Hawaiian culture. Kris Ortiz, Class of 2009, was extremely offended by the Hawaiian themed party and expressed how the Loudness theme was culturally ignorant. A small student rally was held on the college\u2019s library steps and suggestions were made on how to prevent these sorts of events from happening in the future. SPB finally issued an official public apology to the student body two weeks after the incident took place.<\/p>\n<span class=\"facebook-like\"><fb:like layout=\"box_count\" show_faces=\"false\" width=\"45\" href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/activism\/stories\/hawaiian-luau\/\"><\/fb:like><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the first day of Loudness Fall 2008, a campus wide celebration that commences the beginning and ending of each semester, the Student Programming Board (SPB) used an Hawaiian Lu\u2019au theme for that year\u2019s festivities. Some students were upset with SPB because they did not do an extensive background research about the origins of a Hawaiian Lu\u2019au. Rather, SPB resorted to the typical negative stereotypes associated with the Hawaiian culture. Some of the incorrect stereotypes SPB promoted were \u201ccoconut bras\u201d and generic \u201ctiki\u201d forms. Ironically, both of these stereotypes do&#8230; <a class=\"readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/activism\/stories\/hawaiian-luau\/\">Read more&nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3165,"featured_media":0,"parent":648,"menu_order":23,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/activism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/activism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/activism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/activism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/activism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/activism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":773,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/activism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/379\/revisions\/773"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/activism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/activism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}