Vol. 90 Issue 25
October 13, 2011
CSUF financial aid disbursement delays
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Alcohol seeps into dorm parties
Occupy OC draws CSUF students
Students and resident advisers reluctant to talk about parties at the new student dorms
Organizers plan for long-term protest in downtown Santa Ana
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CAMYRON LEE
With newly built dorms, more students are able to live on campus and have the “college experience.” For some students, this can include new experiences with partying and drinking–something many residing in the new dorms said does occur but are reluctant to talk about. “It’s just college. It’s what everyone does, so I don’t really see it as a huge problem,” said Karen Lee, an undeclared freshman who lives in the dorms. This is the first semester for Lee living on campus, and although she said she has not attended any parties, she has heard of them taking place at the dorms. Lee, along with Shannon Chan, a business major who also lives on campus, said besides parties, they believe drinking is also something that takes place at the dorms. “I’ve heard of people getting caught drinking,” Lee said. In 2010, there were 141 offenses to liquor laws in University Housing reported to University Police, according to the annual Campus Crime Statistics report. “Since over 98 percent of the residential population is underage, we do not allow parties in the housing community,” said Fred Lipscomb, director of Housing and Residence Life. According to Lipscomb, parties are not common, but he acknowledges they do take place outside of the organized, nonalcoholic events that are held in each hall throughout the semester. See DRINKING, page 2
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Occupy Wall Street has made its way to Orange County, due to the efforts of a group of Cal State Fullerton students who are choosing to stand in solidarity with the nationwide movement. Occupy Orange County is an extension of the Occupy Wall Street movement, organized by a group of 10 CSUF students and alumni who each donated $40. Working with a budget of $400, the organizers made fliers, created Facebook and Twitter pages, and bought a domain name for the OC movement. “Wall Street is what controls this country at this point. They’re the ones who say who gets elected. They’re the ones that say if we go to war or not. They’re the ones who basically control everything, and they’re profiteering the 99 percent–which is you and I,” said Sam Aresheh, a public relations major at CSUF who is one of the organizers for the Occupy Orange County protest that is set to take place Oct. 22 in Santa Ana. CAMILLE TARAZON / Daily Titan University Housing officials try to keep students involved with nonalcoholic events, but some students have been caught drinking.
See OCCUPY, page 3
Weekend preview BROOKE McCALL Daily Titan
CAMILLE TARAZON / Daily Titan A Titan dribbles the ball up the field against Long Beach State. The women’s soccer team is ready to make a run in the Big West title hunt and make a trip to the NCAA tournament.
With this week coming to an end, Cal State Fullerton athletes are getting prepared for the busy weekend. Volleyball and soccer games are taking place this weekend as well as a crosscountry meet, men’s hockey and rugby games. Starting Thursday and moving through Sunday, here is a look at the sports schedule for this week. Men’s hockey plays Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Titan hockey is playing San Jose State, a nonconference game, Thursday at 9:30 p.m. at Westminster Ice. Titans are playing
Arizona State Friday at 9:40 p.m. in a West Coast Hockey Conference game at KHS Ice Arena in Anaheim. Men’s hockey wraps up the weekend Saturday with another WCHC game against ASU at 7:50 p.m. at KHS Ice Arena. “Expect Brandon Heethuis to be the starting goaltender for CSUF, but it wouldn’t be a surprise to see Alex Miller start one of the last two games of the weekend,” said Trevor Rabone, communications and media relations director of CSUF Titan ice hockey. See WEEKEND, page 8
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The dark black pint of beer was complemented perfectly with the low-key, relaxed atmosphere in the small warehouse. The shiny beer vats and the giant barrels filled with the delicious brew were arranged in one corner of the place, while a line of patrons awaiting their refill formed on the opposite side of the oddly comforting brewery. It’s a Thursday night at Bootlegger’s Brewery in Fullerton, and the 40 or so customers that are enjoying the various microbrews are anything but boisterous drunks. Some sit at the few available tables chitchatting. Some stand and quietly converse over a round of beers while others are gathered around the single flat-screen television set in the back corner of the brewery watching the New York Yankees against the Detroit Tigers. But the scene is far from what you’d find at many of the bars across the train tracks in downtown Fullerton, where the lightweight college kids get together to be loud and obnoxious over their jägerbombs, apple-tinis and cheap, foamy domestic beers. Oh no, this is a different crowd entirely. It’s a crowd often made up of what some call “beer geeks,” and others who just like good beer, many of whom look like they just got off a long day at work,
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Low attendance for Monday Night Football at the TSU Underground SEAN VIELE Daily Titan WILLIAM CAMARGO / Daily Titan Located near an abundance of trendy bars and clubs, Bootlegger’s in Fullerton houses its premium blends of beer they brew locally in beer jugs called ‘Growlers.’ Bootlegger’s offers five year-round beers among a slew others.
and some fresh out of early evening classes at one of the surrounding colleges. “It’s amazing,” said Edgar Mendoza, 24, a junior engineering major. “No rowdy people, everybody is chill. Everybody just wants to have a good time and have a few beers.” Mendoza meets up with a group of friends every Thursday night at Bootlegger’s Brewery after class to throw back a few. This night they brought along a first-timer. Jeff Addison, 23, also an engineering major, joined the crew for his inaugural visit to Bootlegger’s. “(The beer) is really good,” said Addison. “They’ve got a wide variety and a lot of interesting flavor.”
Bootlegger’s History and Early Success Bootlegger’s Brewery opened in April 2008 by Aaron Barkenhagen. Barkenhagen, 32, home-brewed for 10 years before opening his business, using friends’ garages to brew and perfect his craft. When he went back to school at CSUF to finish his degree in business administration with a concentration in entrepreneurship, one of his entrepreneurship courses required him to write up a business plan. See BREWERY, page 7
Aside from a few Bears and Lions fans watching the game, the Titan Bowl and Billiards TV lounge was almost vacant for Pigskin Mondays this week. Located in the TSU Underground, the Titan Bowl and Billiards offers plenty of seating and three big-screen television sets to view Monday Night Football every week from 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. If the weekly Monday Night Football watch party eventually catches on, Wolfy Keeney, 17, a freshman, thinks it would be “really cool.” “Instead of just watching it by
yourself or whatever, you can get together with a bunch of dudes or a bunch of girls or whoever wants to come down and watch as kind of a big social event,” said Keeney. Keeney thinks Pigskin Mondays will eventually pick up as the semester moves along. It is midterm time at CSUF, which perhaps was the cause for the small crowd of football fans in attendance. “I come for the big games that I want to see,” said Kayron Calloway, 21, a philosophy major. As a Detroit Lions fan, this game meant a lot to Calloway. The Lions were on the verge of starting 5-0 for the first time this century. But he admitted he didn’t necessarily know there was an organized event for Monday Night Football in the Titan Bowl and Billiards lounge at CSUF. See PIGSKIN, page 3
For the Record: A headline on the front page of the issue Wednesday, which read “Student travels after receiving grant,” is factually inaccurate. Evelyn Carol Case, the person whom the word “student” was referring to, is a faculty member at CSUF. Contact Us at dtnews@gmail.com