TUESDAY, M ARCH 4, 2014
Volume 95, Issue 19
Toasting to local brews Craft Beer Advocacy and Home Brew Club favors local breweries MICHAEL HUNTLEY Daily Titan
Many people go to bars and order corporate beer that can be considered watered-down and overpriced. However, some people do not realize there is an alternative to domestic beers in the form of microbreweries. The Cal State Fullerton Craft Beer Advocacy and Home Brew Club favors the alternative. People may argue that local craft beers taste better than corporate beers due to them being unaware of craft beers or are misinformed about what craft beer actually is. “What do you think is a craft beer? Typically people say something like Blue Moon. They are owned by Coors. That’s not craft. That’s corporate kind of hiding as craft,” said Brennan Wallace, the club’s faculty advisor. According to the Brewers Association, to be considered a craft beer, it must be small, independent and original. The beer must also have an annual production of six million barrels or less. Less than 25 percent of the craft brewery can be owned or controlled by an alcoholic beverage industry member who is not themselves a craft brewer. The club started in fall 2012 by Wallace and Skyler Irish. They would drink craft beer at breweries together and figured other students enjoy craft beer, too. The pair invited fans of craft beer and went through the club registration process. “Craft beer is something I find very interesting from the way it’s made; the different ingredients that are brewed with each batch and how it has become somewhat a way of life for our generation,” said club member Manny De Anda. “Once I realized we had a club on campus I wanted to join and continue learning and spreading the word
about great craft beer and homebrewing.” The club meets biweekly at local craft breweries, such as Bottle Logic in Anaheim, The Bruery in Placentia and HopScotch in Fullerton. Members vote online in the club’s Facebook group on where they want to have the meetings. “A typical meeting consists of everyone ordering a different beer,” said Joseph De Anda, another club member. “We drink it, we analyze it. You kind of give your input on it, like what you’re tasting, what you’re smelling, the style, what brewery makes it and what other beers they make.” The club has been able to explore breweries on group tours and see how craft beer is made. The Bruery in Placentia has worked with the club to give members experiences that are restricted for other patrons. “They’ve given us tours of their barrel room in the past which is kind of a closed-off thing. They don’t let the general public in there,” Wallace said. “They also let us have a meeting in their meeting room.” A few of the club’s members are homebrewers. Irish was one, but Joseph De Anda is the club’s lone homebrewer now. He works at Bottle Logic, a new craft brewery in Anaheim. He said the main ingredients of beer are water, grain, hops and yeast. Certain beers contain different wheats. The process of brewing beer at home can take up to six hours, he said. Although the club is one of the smaller ones on campus, Wallace prefers it that way. “We had 15 people at the first club meeting which is enough for us,” Wallace said. “Anything bigger than that and it’s too hard to talk at a brewery or get tables.” Wallace would like to keep the club small, but he is open to new members. De Anda said the club was created to educate CSUF students about craft beer and help people realize that making craft beer is an art.
MARIAH CARRILLO / Daily Titan Beer club members explore how craft beers are made.
From WSJ to CSUF, journalist joins staff Veteran reporter receives grant to teach business journalism AMAL ROCKN Daily Titan
Courtesy of CSUF Sigma Nu Victor Sandoval’s Sigma Nu fraternity brothers visit him in the hospital where he is being treated for leukemia (top). The banner on Sigma Nu’s GiveForward page reads “V is for victory” (bottom).
Brothers united
Sigma Nu fraternity rallies to raise funds for cancer treatment MICHAEL HUNTLEY Daily Titan
In the wake of a surprise cancer diagnosis, the Sigma Nu fraternity is reaching out to the Internet and to the campus to help fund the treatment of Victor Sandoval, a sophomore accounting major. They have so far raised over $1,000 from friends, family and strangers. Sandoval was jogging with his brother on a normal January day at Cal State Fullerton when he started to feel out of breath. He had been an athlete and was used to being out of breath, but he said this time felt different. “I had to completely stop. I had to sit down to catch my breath. I was coughing; I couldn’t take a deep breath in and it just felt strange to me,” Sandoval said. He immediately went to the Student Health and Counseling Center on campus to see what was ailing him. After hearing Sandoval describe his symptoms, the nurses decided blood work was needed. They found that he had three times as many white blood cells as he should have had. He also had a very low red blood cell count. On Jan. 10, Victor was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, cancer of the white blood cells. “We were all pretty sad,” Sandoval’s friend and Sigma Nu brother Quinn Royston said. “I started thinking of ways to get involved and ways
Courtesy of CSUF Sigma Nu Victor Sandoval, a sophomore accounting major, is currently in the hospital fighting a form of leukemia. The Sigma Nu fraternity, to which he belongs, is campaigning to raise money for treatment.
that I can support.” Royston decided to try crowdfunding to raise money for Sandoval by seeking small amounts of money from a large number of people using the Internet. “I started thinking, ‘I’ve heard crowdfunding works. I wonder if they have a crowdfunding platform for medical stuff,’” Royston said. “Cancer can be very expensive depending on the treatment and how long you’re doing it and insurance.” Royston wanted to help his fraternity brother,
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and started researching crowdfunding. “I found this platform called GiveForward and they did it for a pretty low rate and they send the check directly to them,” Royston said. Once the funding reaches $500, a check can be sent directly to Victor’s family. As of Monday, $1,115 has been raised to help with Sandoval’s medical expenses. Sigma Nu has been discussing different ways to raise money.
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His career in business journalism spans from the Wall Street Journal to Bloomberg News. Joe Winski, a veteran journalist, is one of the two latest Reynolds Visiting Business Journalism Professors at Cal State Fullerton. He was invited through a $1.67 million grant from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation. The five-year program will ultimately create 11 visiting professorships at 11 different schools, according to the Society of American Business Editors and Writers website. The grant, up to $50,000, is funded by the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation with the goal of helping to launch business journalism programs at campuses around the United States. Winski’s experience in business journalism helped him become elected to teach at CSUF, an accredited journalism school. He studied English at Ohio State University in addition to business administration, and after graduating, he satisfied his interest in writing by teaching high school English for three years. “Although I liked teaching the kids, I found that I still had an urge to write, and this didn’t really satisfy my urge,” he said. Winski said he applied to several graduate schools and got his master’s degree in journalism at the University of Illinois. He began his career as a reporter at The Pantagraph in Bloomington, Ill. Before working for Bloomberg News, he was a reporter and columnist for Crain Communications in Chicago, business reporter for the Chicago Tribune and reporter and editor in the Chicago bureau of the Wall Street Journal. For the last 18 and a half years of his career, Winski held many positions at Bloomberg News, including bureau chief in Chicago, Tokyo and Washington. During the last six years of his journalism career, Winski was the managing editor of Bloomberg News and eventually retired in December 2012. John McCorry, executive editor of the New York bureau for Bloomberg, was hired by Winski in Chicago and worked with him from the mid-1990s until the end of his career in 2012. SEE JOURNALIST, 5
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