Jenna Staul Daily Kent Stater M ike Cover sat on a hallway bench in Bowman Hall, lap- top in hand, remembering the moment it occurred to him — soon he would graduate, and he needed to find a job. “Last spring I think it really hit me,” the senior political science major said. “Teachers and advisers need to actu- ally push students to start job sea much as students tend to ask ‘What can my student do with this major?’” Chan- dler said. “They’re making a very big DAILY KENT STATER Tuesday, March 2, 2010 • The independent student newspaper of Kent State University • Weather: Snow showers HI 31, LO 25 LATEST UPDATES AT KENTWIRED.COM Sign up to receive breaking news updates from Kent State student media at KENTWIRED.COM Home is where the hops are. Home brewing in Kent. P8 WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU: With narrow majors, students expect a specific job after graduation, which means the university must keep up with these demands. OFF-CAMPUS CRIME Rodents, like students, prefer alcohol to water Lauren Vogel Daily Kent Stater On a weekend night at the Water Street Tavern or Ray’s Place, as stu- dents sit down at the bar, one might never guess what animal could sit next to them and drink 50 times more alcohol without even getting a hangover. “Hamsters are used widely in alco- hol research, and we’re not the only lab that uses them, because they love to drink so much,” said David Glass, professor of biological sciences. When given the choice between a bottle of water and a bottle of 20 percent ethanol, hamsters will chose the ethanol 85-90 percent of the time. These golden hamsters, or Syrian hamsters, can drink the ethanol all day for months and show no ill effects. Glass is receiving funding by the National Health Institute for his studies in alcohol and its effects on humans’ circadian rhythms. The Encyclopedia Britannica defines the circadian clock as the 24-hour cycle in which a person sleeps about eight hours and is awake for about 16. During the hours people are awake, mental and physical func- tions are most active and tissue cell growth increases in the body. The National Health Institute also awarded Glass a $3 million grant to continue this work. “We’re asking very important and timely questions of the effects of drinking on our daily rhythms or our biological clocks,” Glass said. “The reason that this is significant is because drinking disrupts our daily rhythms, and when that hap- pens we lose sleep. If we have a job we’re not productive, we might not interact well with our families and so on.” Suspect says it was self defense Bo Gemmell Daily Kent Stater Kent City Police arrested a suspect following an off-campus assault early Sunday morning. Police charged 19-year-old Brandon M. Sams with assault and underage drinking. The arrest occurred shortly before 2 a.m. on University Drive, which meets East Main Street north of Rockwell Hall. The criminal case report lists Timothy J. McCauley, freshman psychology major, as the victim. McCauley said he and a couple friends were dancing at a party when a stranger came up to him and said something McCauley couldn’t understand. “All of a sudden he punched me and was about to stomp me,” McCauley said. “My friend pulled me out and got me out of there.” After leaving the party, he said he and his friends were followed. McCauley said a man punched another friend, and then police arrived. “My lip got busted up and part of my mouth was a little gashed, but I should be fine,” McCauley said. Sams, who said he is not a Kent State student, said the altercation began when somebody at the party hit him. “Dude punched me, so I punched him back,” he said. “In my end, it was self defense.” The alleged assault follows the assault and subsequent death of RACHEL KILROY | DAILY KENT STATER Biological sciences professor David Glass was awarded a $3 million grant from the National Health Institute to con- tinue his studies in alcohol and its effects on humans’ circadian rhythms. Hamsters: The biggest party animals PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY MATTHEW GRCIC | DAILY KENT STATER The Portage County Drug Task Force made three arrests in an undercover drug bust Friday evening at the Silver Meadows apartment complex in Kent. According to a press release by the task force, Rahsaan L. Carter, 32, was allegedly sell- ing crack cocaine from a Silver Meadows apartment. When officials entered the apartment, Carter attempted to dispose of the substances by flushing them down the toilet. Carter was charged with trafficking in crack cocaine, a first-degree fel- ony; tampering with evidence, a third-degree felony; possession of crack cocaine, a fourth-degree felony; and possession of crimi- nal tools, a fifth-degree felony. Nicole M. Clark, 30, and Kamisha S. Harris, 34, were also arrested at the apartment. Clark was charged with permitting drug abuse, a fifth-degree felo- ny, and Harris was charged with complicity to trafficking in crack cocaine, a first-degree felony. The crack cocaine sold by Carter had a street value of approximately $1,400, according to the press release. Officials also seized an undisclosed amount of cash, crack cocaine, marijuana and tools for packaging and sell- ing narcotics. All suspects are in the Portage County Jail pending arraignment. — Cody Francis Drug Task Force arrests three at Silver Meadows React to this story and more at Kentwired.com Busts continue without KSUPD Campus police look to expand Simon Husted Daily Kent Stater The heroin drug bust on Feb. 19 outside the Student Recreation and Wellness Cen- ter is the most recent arrest made by the Portage County Drug Task Force on Kent State’s campus. But the Kent State Univer- sity Police were not actively involved in that arrest, which leads some to wonder why. Safety Director John Peach said the Portage County Drug Task Force notified KSUPD about the drug bust prior to the incident but asked for no assistance. Some students said the bust being performed by an outside agency exemplifies the percep- tion that the KSUPD aren’t doing their jobs. “It sends a message,” said Lauren Parker, junior English major. “No one takes the cam- pus cops seriously, whether it’s their fault or not. And when anything big happens “ No one takes the campus cops seriously, whether it’s their fault or not. LAUREN PARKER STUDENT they’re going to be excluded. Simple as that. They’re not going to get the credit, even if they had a hand in it.” The Drug Task Force, which is responsible for the four on-cam- pus drug busts this school year, is made of officers from various police agencies, including the Portage County Sheriff’s Office, Portage County Prosecutor’s Office and the police departments of Kent, Aurora, Garrettsville and Streetsboro. Up until five years ago, the KSUPD had one full-time detective working at the Drug Task Force’s headquarters in Rootstown, Peach said. However, a gradual budget cut from the Ohio government forced the department to leave the Drug Task Force. See BUSTS, Page 6 How relevant is your major? investment, and they want to know what the return on that investment will be at the end of four years.” Chandler said the increased focus on narrow career paths isn’t a direct prod- uct of the recession, but it is changing the way the university approaches both new students and degree require- ments. “I think it’s been a growing trend, See MAJOR, Page 6 but the recession has exacerbated the issue,” Chandler said. “One of the rea- sons for the new 21st-century under- graduate philosophy and the four pillars that support it, as well as the new Kent Core curriculum, is to focus more on those skills and abilities that we want students to take away, rather than just learning information.” Off-campus assault ends in arrest See HAMSTERS, Page 6 John T. White, a graduate student at Kent State and Iraq War veteran. White, 28, was assaulted in down- town Kent on Jan. 23 and died about a month later. The suspects in White’s case, 21-year-old Akron natives John H. Ragin Jr. and Hallie E. Nuspl, have pre-trial hearings later this year. Another Kent State student, 23-year-old Christopher M. Kernich, died Nov. 21 of injuries sustained in a Nov. 15 assault. Adrian A. Barker and Ronald G. Kelly are scheduled to stand trial for Kernich’s mur- der this spring. See ASSAULT , Page 6
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Jenna StaulDaily Kent Stater
Mike Cover sat on a hallway bench in Bowman Hall, lap-top in hand, remembering the
moment it occurred to him — soon he would graduate, and he needed to find a job.
“Last spring I think it really hit me,” the senior political science major said. “Teachers and advisers need to actu-ally push students to start job sea much as students tend to ask ‘What can my student do with this major?’” Chan-dler said. “They’re making a very big
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Home is where the hops are. Home brewing in Kent. P8
WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU:With narrow majors, students expect a specific job after graduation, which means the university must keep up with these demands.
OFF-CAMPUS CRIME
Rodents, like students, prefer alcohol to water
Lauren VogelDaily Kent Stater
On a weekend night at the Water Street Tavern or Ray’s Place, as stu-dents sit down at the bar, one might never guess what animal could sit next to them and drink 50 times more alcohol without even getting a hangover.
“Hamsters are used widely in alco-hol research, and we’re not the only lab that uses them, because they love
to drink so much,” said David Glass, professor of biological sciences.
When given the choice between a bottle of water and a bottle of 20 percent ethanol, hamsters will chose the ethanol 85-90 percent of the time. These golden hamsters, or Syrian hamsters, can drink the ethanol all day for months and show no ill effects.
Glass is receiving funding by the National Health Institute for his studies in alcohol and its effects on humans’ circadian rhythms. The Encyclopedia Britannica defines the circadian clock as the 24-hour cycle in which a person sleeps about eight hours and is awake for about 16. During the hours people are
awake, mental and physical func-tions are most active and tissue cell growth increases in the body. The National Health Institute also awarded Glass a $3 million grant to continue this work.
“We’re asking very important and timely questions of the effects of drinking on our daily rhythms or our biological clocks,” Glass said. “The reason that this is significant is because drinking disrupts our daily rhythms, and when that hap-pens we lose sleep. If we have a job we’re not productive, we might not interact well with our families and so on.”
Suspect says it was self defenseBo GemmellDaily Kent Stater
Kent City Police arrested a suspect following an off-campus assault early Sunday morning.
Police charged 19-year-old Brandon M. Sams with assault and underage drinking.
The arrest occurred shortly
before 2 a.m. on University Drive, which meets East Main Street north of Rockwell Hall.
The criminal case report lists Timothy J. McCauley, freshman psychology major, as the victim.
McCauley said he and a couple friends were dancing at a party when a stranger came up to him and said something McCauley couldn’t understand.
“All of a sudden he punched me and was about to stomp me,” McCauley said. “My friend pulled me out and got me out of there.”
After leaving the party, he said
he and his friends were followed. McCauley said a man punched another friend, and then police arrived.
“My lip got busted up and part of my mouth was a little gashed, but I should be fine,” McCauley said.
Sams, who said he is not a Kent State student, said the altercation began when somebody at the party hit him.
“Dude punched me, so I punched him back,” he said. “In my end, it was self defense.”
The alleged assault follows the assault and subsequent death of
RACHEL KILROY | DAILY KENT STATERBiological sciences professor David Glass was awarded a $3 million grant from the National Health Institute to con-tinue his studies in alcohol and its effects on humans’ circadian rhythms.
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The Portage County Drug Task Force made three arrests in an undercover drug bust Friday evening at the Silver Meadows apartment complex in Kent.
According to a press release by the task force, Rahsaan L. Carter, 32, was allegedly sell-ing crack cocaine from a Silver Meadows apartment. When officials entered the apartment, Carter attempted to dispose of the substances by flushing them down the toilet. Carter was charged with trafficking in crack cocaine, a first-degree fel-ony; tampering with evidence, a third-degree felony; possession of crack cocaine, a fourth-degree felony; and possession of crimi-nal tools, a fifth-degree felony.
Nicole M. Clark, 30, and Kamisha S. Harris, 34, were also
arrested at the apartment. Clark was charged with permitting drug abuse, a fifth-degree felo-ny, and Harris was charged with complicity to trafficking in crack cocaine, a first-degree felony.
The crack cocaine sold by Carter had a street value of approximately $1,400, according to the press release. Officials also seized an undisclosed amount of cash, crack cocaine, marijuana and tools for packaging and sell-ing narcotics.
All suspects are in the Portage County Jail pending arraignment.
— Cody Francis
Drug Task Force arrests three at Silver Meadows
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Busts continue without KSUPDCampus police look to expand Simon HustedDaily Kent Stater
The heroin drug bust on Feb. 19 outside the Student Recreation and Wellness Cen-ter is the most recent arrest made by the Portage County Drug Task Force on Kent State’s campus.
But the Kent State Univer-sity Police were not actively involved in that arrest, which leads some to wonder why.
Safety Director John Peach said the Portage County Drug Task Force notified KSUPD about the drug bust prior to the incident but asked for no assistance.
Some students said the bust being performed by an outside agency exemplifies the percep-tion that the KSUPD aren’t doing their jobs.
“It sends a message,” said Lauren Parker, junior English major. “No one takes the cam-pus cops seriously, whether it’s their fault or not. And when anything big happens
“No one takes the campus cops seriously, whether it’s their fault or not.LAUREN PARKERSTUDENT
they’re going to be excluded. Simple as that. They’re not going to get the credit, even if they had a hand in it.”
The Drug Task Force, which is responsible for the four on-cam-pus drug busts this school year, is made of officers from various police agencies, including the Portage County Sheriff’s Office, Portage County Prosecutor ’s Office and the police departments of Kent, Aurora, Garrettsville and Streetsboro.
Up until five years ago, the KSUPD had one full-time detective working at the Drug Task Force’s headquarters in Rootstown, Peach said. However, a gradual budget cut from the Ohio government forced the department to leave the Drug Task Force.
See BUSTS, Page 6
How relevant is your major?
investment, and they want to know what the return on that investment will be at the end of four years.”
Chandler said the increased focus on narrow career paths isn’t a direct prod-uct of the recession, but it is changing the way the university approaches both new students and degree require-ments.
“I think it’s been a growing trend, See MAJOR, Page 6
but the recession has exacerbated the issue,” Chandler said. “One of the rea-sons for the new 21st-century under-graduate philosophy and the four pillars that support it, as well as the new Kent Core curriculum, is to focus more on those skills and abilities that we want students to take away, rather than just learning information.”
Off-campus assault ends in arrest
See HAMSTERS, Page 6
John T. White, a graduate student at Kent State and Iraq War veteran. White, 28, was assaulted in down-town Kent on Jan. 23 and died about a month later. The suspects in White’s case, 21-year-old Akron natives John H. Ragin Jr. and Hallie E. Nuspl, have pre-trial hearings later this year.
Another Kent State student, 23-year-old Christopher M. Kernich, died Nov. 21 of injuries sustained in a Nov. 15 assault. Adrian A. Barker and Ronald G. Kelly are scheduled to stand trial for Kernich’s mur-der this spring.
See ASSAULT, Page 6
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Renovations to be completed
Ryan Stainbrook Daily Kent Stater
Risman Plaza won’t be the only thing changing in Fall 2010. After nearly 40 years of the same look, the first floor of the University Library will receive some renovations to make it look more appealing.
“This is the one area that everyone sees who enters the building that has never undergone any facelift in 40 years,” said Barbara Schloman, asso-ciate dean of Libraries and Media Services. “It was very overdue.”
The renovations are scheduled to take place right after the spring semester ends and should be com-pleted by the time the Fall 2010 semester begins.
“We try to do a majority of the work
while students are gone,” university architect Michael Bruder said. “As of now, we are right on schedule.”
The main purpose of the renova-tions is to make the library more wel-coming, and with the help the uni-versity’s architect department, that is what is planned to happen.
“The architect’s office is very inter-ested in creating more of a defined entry to the building, something that is more up to date,” Schloman said. “This, along with a facelift, would provide a more welcoming entry.”
Schloman and Bruder both hope the renovations will brighten the library.
“The big changes are on the first floor,” Bruder said. “The main focus is to update the lobby.”
Bruder also mentioned the library is one of the busiest places on cam-pus, and he hopes the renovations will help welcome visitors.
“There are some infrastructure things that we will update,” Brud-er said. “But the big message is to brighten it (the lobby) up.”
Schloman hopes the renovations will not only make the library look more appealing, but help with effi-ciency as well.
“The renovation provides a won-derful opportunity to reorganize both the front circulation area as well as the ‘backroom’ functions,” Schloman said. “Since the building opened in 1970, much has changed: technology, collection formats, even services. By relooking the space we use to do library functions as we know them today, it is possible to align space with function.”
John Weingart, sophomore physi-cal education major, thinks the new updated look of the library will be a good thing.
“I think it’s good that they’re updating it,” Weingart said. “I come in here from time to time, and it always looks so dark.”
Weingart also said the overall appearance of the library is impor-tant to the attitude he has when he comes in.
“When I come in here, it’s usually
Library lobby prepares for facelift
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Matt SedenskyAssociated Press
MIAMI (AP) — A killer whale that dragged a trainer to her death eluded SeaWorld workers who furi-ously unfurled nets while it swam pool-to-pool during the attack last week, according to witness statements released yesterday.
After minutes of frenzied work to save Dawn Brancheau, the whale was finally corralled but still refused to unclench its teeth and let go of her body, according to the investiga-tive reports released by the Orange County Sheriff’s Office. Investigators have said before that Brancheau died from multiple traumatic injuries and drowning.
“The whale would not let us have her,” another trainer, Jodie Ann Tintle, told investigators after the Wednesday attack.
In the investigative reports , Brancheau’s co-workers describe the swiftness of the attack and the furi-ous response that came after alarms sounded around the pool. Employ-ees who were at other pools, behind computers or emptying coolers of fish rushed to the scene.
The reports released yesterday include the first extensive accounts from employees who witnessed the attacks at the park in Orlando.
Jan Topoleski, whose job is to mon-itor trainers’ safety during shows, told investigators he saw Brancheau lying on the deck face-to-face with the 22-foot-long, 12,000-pound whale and communicating with him right before the attack. He said the whale, named Tilikum, bit Brancheau’s hair and pulled her into the pool in a span of about two seconds. He sounded an alarm and grabbed safety equipment.
Susanne De Wit, a 33-year-old tour-ist from the Netherlands, told investi-
gators her group had just walked to a window for a photo when she saw the attack. The attack occurred in front of about 20 visitors who had stuck around after a noontime show.
“Suddenly I saw (the whale) grab-bing the trainer ... and pulling her down in the water,” she said. “It was scary. He was very wild, with the trainer still in the whale’s mouth, the whale’s tail was very wild in the water.”
Tanner Grogan, who scrambled to help other employees unfurl nets to isolate Tilikum, said the whale at one point let go for several seconds, but snatched Brancheau again by the foot before anyone could react. The plas-tic, weighted nets — similar to tempo-rary fencing used at construction sites — were unrolled and dropped in the water to help direct the whale to a pool with a hydraulic lift.
It’s not clear how long it took workers to finally trap the whale in a pool with the lift, which they used to
Tourists watch as whale kills trainer
to study or do a project,” Weingart said. “If the entrance was brighter, maybe it would motivate me and make doing my work easier.”
Overall, the renovations need to be done, Schloman said, and the rest of the staff are excited about them.
“The overall facelift with improved lighting will make a huge difference to everyone who comes into the building,” Schloman said. “But I am most pleased that the staff in Circula-tion and Reserves will now have very pleasant and functional work areas. They have worked in such dated and makeshift circumstances for so long. This will be a wonderful change for them.”
remove him from the water. One wit-ness said it seemed like 10 minutes. Another said it could have been as long as 30 minutes.
Even after the whale was lifted out of the water, Brancheau still could not be freed.
“Tilly was not giving up Dawn,” said Robin Ann Morland, another Sea-World worker.
Numerous employees said the whale’s jaw had to be pried open to remove Brancheau, 40. But her hand remained in the clench of Tilikum and they had to pry his mouth open again.
When they finally got Brancheau free, her body was placed on the deck and her wetsuit cut off. Paramedics pronounced her dead, and her body was covered.
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Director of Community Affairs
Director of Programming
EDITOR’S NOTE: It’s that time of year again: Undergraduate Student Government elections. For the next week, the Daily Kent Stater will be running candidate profiles for the nine director and 16 senator positions. The USG election is Tuesday, March 9. Students can vote then by logging onto their FlashLine accounts.
Brianna LawhornBrianna Lawhorn served this aca-
demic year as Undergraduate Stu-dent Government’s director of aca-demic affairs, which she describes as “less hands-on” than what she wants to do. Seeing the work of the current director of community affairs, Lawhorn said she believes she has what it takes to do the job.
Jennifer ManiWhen Jennifer Mani first came
to Kent State, she served as the cor-responding secretary for Leebrick and Korb Hall Council. After three years in that position, she moved on to serve as the council’s president for two more years.
Mani, a senior psychology major, used to work with the current direc-
Jeffrey HammondJeffrey Hammond’s brother
served as the programming board chair for two years, and he said he has been involved with Under-graduate Student Government pro-gramming as early as high school. Hammond, a sophomore health and physical education major, is now running for USG’s director of programming in the hope of serving the Kent State student body.
Alex TuckerWhen Alex Tucker was a senior
in high school, he interned at the Grog Shop, a live music venue in Cleveland. He says he learned the skills there that will help him if he is elected as the Undergraduate Stu-dent Government’s director of pro-gramming.
Tucker, a junior communications studies major, spent a year on the All-Campus Programming Board
“If elected for this position, one of my main goals is to facilitate open forums between students and select members of the administra-tion. Many students may currently feel that their school does not care about their needs, when in truth, the school simply is not aware that such deficits exist. Open communication is the best path towards a fully suc-cessful academic experience.”
USGELECTIONS 2010
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Lawhorn, a junior middle-child-hood education major, is busy with her student teaching, current role in USG and as president of Pan-Hellenic Council, yet she still finds the time to campaign. She attributes this to her strong time-management skills.
Though Lawhorn is counting on the Greek vote, she hopes her lead-ership experience and passion will sway voters her way.
“There’s been a lot of issues,” Lawhorn said, mentioning last year’s College Fest incident and recent safety problems on campus. She wants to address these issues.
“I love getting involved with things,” she said. She hopes to bring some of her sorority’s events to student government, including a community service awareness week and another event focused on safety awareness.
tor of community affairs. She said he always seemed to enjoy it, so she would like to take the reins.
“I want to take (student) opin-ions and bring (them) to the city of Kent,” Mani said, “because I want to continue on with the relation-ship we have (with the city) so far and make it bigger and better.” She hopes to do surveys to get opin-ions that reflect the whole student body.
Because of her time on the Lee-brick and Korb Hall Council, Mani has had experience with Kent Inter-hall Council. She has worked as a tutor and currently works with a group home, which she says makes her a “really good role model.”
“I want the students who live on-campus and off-campus to feel comfortable with the city they’re living in,” she said.
Hammond is the vice president for loss prevention in Delta Upsilon, served on the food committee his freshman year and is currently the house chair for USG’s programming board.
“With the concerts,” Hammond said, “I want the students to actually be involved with what we’re trying to bring. I want to get input from them.”
He said he wants to bring bigger-named bands to Kent State by insti-tuting polls and surveys to receive feedback. Hammond also wants to check into speakers and comedians that students might want.
Hammond doesn’t have any specific people in mind because he wants to make sure all the program-ming at Kent State is what the stu-dents want, rather than the program-ming board.
“It’s not just USG’s campus,” Hammond said, “but it’s the student body’s campus.”
at Kent State, working as the Rathskel-ler programmer. He said he planned 30 shows, mostly concerts, while holding that position. He now works as the pro-motions chair for USG’s programming board.
“I just want people to know I have enough experience, and I want to make sure that we can get … a lot of good pro-grams to happen,” Tucker said.
He wants to book at least one more concert and comedian at Kent State, “the bigger, the better.” However, he knows budget constraints may hinder this goal. Tucker also said he would like to see bet-ter guest lecturers come, but he doesn’t have any specific lecturers in mind yet.
Tucker also said he hopes to add a Rathskeller liaison to the programming board to build a better relationship between USG and the Rathskeller.
He said he is aware that he can’t please every student with every event.
“As a whole, at the end of the year, I want to make sure all the students were happy about something,” Tucker said.
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SUMMARY: The Student Advisory Council is working on reforming its plagiarism policy, and the way it holds student
accountable. Some parts of the reforms make more sense than others, but no matter what reforms it decides to implement, it’s
important for the university to establish its stance.
It’s lonely and gray in Northeast Ohio, especially if you’re not from these parts.
In the last month there have been three major storms that have hit our little corner of Northeast Ohio, and every time the weather has deteriorated, I have missed a constant warmth in my life: the sun.
And it is for the things I have missed this month more so than usual that helped me decide what to write about this week. For a start: the sun, the warmth and the blue skies of home.
The month of February has been hard for both myself and a lot of other international stu-dents. For Chinese students, it was the New Year celebrations that reminded them of those they had left behind, places they know and traditions that were woven into their lives.
For me, it was simply miss-ing the people in my life. A hug from my sister, a phone call from friends and family, hanging out with my friends, gossiping, eating home-cooked food and devouring the atten-tion showered upon me by people that I care for; I craved all these.
It is not easy for interna-tional students to make friends here. But it feels like an impo-sition to ask to hang out, and it hurts to stay at home alone when in your country, you had a social life and a social direc-tory in which you featured prominently.
There are certain unique needs that international stu-dents have. One of the main
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WAYNE STAYSKAL’S VIEW
A reformed approach to plagiarism accountabilityAs students read over their course syl-
labi during the first week of classes, they may come upon the university’s plagia-rism policy, printed at the end of almost every class syllabus. Sometimes profes-sors briefly discuss the policy in class, sometimes they tell the students to read it and sometimes they mention nothing at all.
The official policy, posted on the uni-versity’s Web site, is long in its entirety, so most professors use an abbreviated version to print in the syllabus. But let’s be honest: With the amount of paperwork students are given during that first week, most students don’t even take the time to read what they’re given.
But the Student Advisory Council is trying to change that.
They’re in the process of creating a new statement that is more concise — one that students will be required to sign, to create more accountability on the stu-dent’s part.
The new statement, posted on KentWired.com, is certainly more digest-ible to students, clearly outlining the con-sequences of plagiarizing. Yet while sign-ing this contract, so to speak, might bring
a small sense of guilt to students thinking of plagiarizing; overall, students who are going to plagiarize or cheat are still going to do it.
Yet parts of the Student Advisory Council’s efforts make more sense.
They’re hoping that as soon as this fall, instructors will pass out pamphlets in freshman orientation classes. These pam-phlets will describe what plagiarism is, according to university policy, and they’ll give examples of what constitutes plagia-rism, in addition to examples of proper citation.
Many students probably see plagia-rism in different ways. Most were taught how to write a research paper in high school, and it’s understandable that dif-ferent schools taught different ways. Dif-ferent students have different interpreta-tions about what plagiarism really is.
It’s obvious that copying direct sen-tences from research materials is plagia-rism, but there are other areas that are cloudier.
For example, as time passes into the early morning, just hours before a 15-page paper is due, a student might decide to paraphrase one Web site for the
last seven pages of that paper, without including any of his or her own thoughts. Is that plagiarism? If not, what’s the proper way to cite something like that?
It’s unclear, and if these pamphlets address issues, it would clear up that uncertainty.
And though it might be a boring class period to students who are familiar with the process, it wouldn’t hurt for orienta-tion instructors to spend a class brief-ing students on Kent State’s policy. The advisory council asked for student input on this issue, and based on the suggested reforms, it seems that students aren’t clear what plagiarism is. It’s important for the university to establish its stance on such an important issue to academics, and we hope that the coming reforms will do just that.
The above editorial is the consensus opin-ion of the Daily Kent Stater editorial board, whose members are listed to the left.
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Sonali Kudva
Ben Wolford
In defense of human rights intervention
Letter to the editor: A better drug policy is needed
ones is that of companion-ship, of an understanding that despite the differences in culture and background, we all want the same thing. We can agree to disagree and we can believe different things and still have the same interests. The question is, how many people out there are willing and able to take the time to find this out?
Sure there are organizations willing to make sure that the international students have activities and events to stay busy, but it would be nice once in a while to see more local stu-dents get involved with these activities and events as well.
The main reason most international students (myself included) go to some of these activities is to meet peers with similar interests and make friends.
Are you lonely today? Well, that foreign student in the corner may just be feeling the exact same way.
Sonali Kudva is a journalism graduate student and columnist
LEICESTER, United Kingdom — Don’t get my friend from South Africa started about American exceptionalism. Don’t mention Western influence, either. And the United Nations is a touchy subject, too.
A Finn, a Swede and I found ourselves looking down the barrel of his pointer finger last week at dinner. The topic was human rights intervention, and he was against it.
What right, he asked, has the West to pry into other nations’ affairs? What are the real motives of intervention? Historically, “human rights” has been an excuse for other pursuits.
He said, perhaps correctly, “We see their cultural difference as deviance.”
In France, for example, lawmakers, coaxed by President Nicolas Sarkozy, are moving toward banning burqas in some public places. For a country founded on ideas of equality, any custom that forces women to hide themselves is only further-ing patriarchy and injustice. I admit I agree.
But I’m a Christian, Democratic college student brought up in a liberal democracy, stuffed with talk of equality, bills of rights and independence since the first grade, and I’ve never been to a Muslim country. I’m in no good place to tell anyone not to cover her face if she wants to.
I am in a place, however, to tell a mother — to force a mother — not to mutilate her daughter’s genitals if it’s going to cause
Dear Editor, I am a student at Kent State and feel quite
uneasy about the article “Drug busts just a coin-cidence” (Feb. 23) in the Stater. The article sug-gests that Kent’s large population and location near urban areas make it a drug “danger zone” of sorts. A young man from a “quiet, isolated suburb 20 minutes away from Pittsburgh” that was “secluded from violence,” however, was unsurprised by this news, and I assure you he is not alone.
It is evident to students like myself that cur-rent drug policies are ineffective. There has been no reduction in violent crime or consumption of controlled substances since the 1980s, and Officer Peach’s claim that this will change once “drug dealers feel threatened” seems problem-atic considering that the same person has been arrested twice for the same offense, and that the
“pain and trauma” and lead to “hemor-rhaging, infection, tetanus, cysts, sterility, pain during intercourse, complications in childbirth and sometimes death,” as Eliza-beth More writes in the Journal of Interna-tional Communication.
At that point, the issue becomes a con-cern for anyone with a half-developed con-science and a sliver a pity.
This is a case where the cultural dif-ference is a deviance. Even the oldest traditions can be intrinsically, and yes, universally wrong. There’s a good case in the study of ethics for cultural relativism, but when it comes to infections and death, relativism must compromise with universal notions of decency.
I hope I’m not being naively optimistic that such universal notions exist. I don’t think my American exceptionalism is showing.
In fact, I think the United Nations should intervene in the form of interna-tional pressure for the case against the
Drug Task Force had 133 cases open last year and the problem is still persisting as “the num-ber of drug busts has increased from previous years.”
Every year Americans lose more than $50 billion to fund a War on Drugs, which is waged against people like repeated offender Roderick Wheeler, yielding similar fruitless results. As imprisonment and federal spending increases, drugs have become more available to cartels, increasing the violence associated with the illicit drug market. In addition to the failure of the Drug War effort to stop illicit drug use, more than 200,000 students have been denied financial aid simply because they have drug convictions.
To ask students to essentially “tattle” on consenting adults who are using substances
death penalty and for gay marriage in the United States. Our country is blatantly vio-lating articles three and 16, respectively, of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (an admittedly Western-biased document, I should note).
And what about far less nuanced viola-tions of human rights? The genocide in Darfur. The rampant starvation in dozens of countries.
There are religious, cultural and politi-cal systems in place around the world that inhibit what I’m arguing are elemental, uni-versal human rights — things like life and freedom of thought and dignity. They must exist. Whether granted by God or reason or the collective will of mankind, they must.
But cultural mores also exist.I’m throwing my lot in with More: “Uni-
versalism in human rights must be infused with cultural sensitivity.”
So here’s my maxim: Any human rights intervention should be pursued with no objective other than to protect human rights, and it should be agreed upon by a broadly representative, multilateral body and by the state in question.
Ben Wolford is a junior newspaper journal-ism major and a columnist for the Daily Kent Stater. Contact him at [email protected].
that are banned by ineffective prohibition is to promote the support of these wasteful and futile policies. Instead of getting readers worked up about living in a drug danger zone, thoughtful drug policies like regulation of controlled sub-stances by the government that would decrease criminal activity, save money and keep hun-dreds of thousands of otherwise law-abiding citizens out of jail ought to be discussed.
Students can find credible information about the failing War on Drugs at drugwarfacts.org.
Caitlin Reilly is a member of Students for Sensible Drug Policy.
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POLICE BLOTTERThe blotter is a record of charges
filed by the police. The listings do not represent convictions or reflect guilt. It is the Daily Kent Stater’s policy to publish on-campus and off campus arrests, charges and incidents of interest to the public.
CITYTHURSDAYnElizabeth A. Reppermund, 22, of Kent was charged with drunken driving at the intersection of Lake Street and Temple Avenue.
FRIDAYnAlex V. Kuchuk, 23, of Aurora was charged with public intoxication at the intersection of East Main Street and North Water Street.
nBaljeet S. Soor, 20, of Northfield was charged with drunken driving and under-age drinking at the intersection of East Main Street and North Water Street.
nAshley C. Rinderle, 18, of Erie, Pa was charged with underage drinking at the 300 block of East Crain Street.
nHarry S. Clapp, Jr., 18, of Highland
Heights was charged with underage drink-ing at the 300 block of South Main Street.
nAmanda L. Calabrese, 18, of Solon was charged with possession of drug parapher-nalia at the 300 block of East Main Street.
nCody A. Powers, 19, of Wooster was charged with possession of drug parapher-nalia at the 300 block of East Main Street.
SUnDAYnMitchell A. Kasunick, 21, of Ravenna was charged with public intoxication at the 900 block of Lawrence Court.
nLucas K. Cassi, 23, of Kent was charged with obstructing official business at Ash Court Apartments.
nBrandon M. Sams, 19, of Euclid was charged with assault and underage drink-ing at the 200 block of University Drive.
nJavare C. Baker, 19, of Twinsburg was charged with underage drinking at the 200 block of University Drive.
nVincent A. Sferra, 24, of Kent was charged with drunken driving at the inter-section of East Summit and South Depey-ster streets.
nJeffery M. Fulper, 36, of Kent was charged with drunken driving at the 600 block of Longmere Drive.
CAMPUSTUESDAYnAnanya Guhabiswas, 20, of Mentor was charged with theft at the Student Recre-ational and Wellness Center.
nTanya O. Terpylak, 18, of Akron was charged with disorderly conduct at Koonce Hall.
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nTheft was reported at Eastway Center, Sat-terfield and Rockwell Hall.
nBurglary was reported at the Music & Speech Center.
nA miscellaneous drug offense was report-ed at McDowell Hall.
THURSDAYnCriminal mischief was reported at Verder Hall.
nAlcohol violations were reported twice at the M.A.C. Center.
nTheft was reported at the M.A.C. Center.
nA miscellaneous drug offense was report-ed at Koonce Hall.
nBrandynne A. Boose, 18, of Southing-ton was charged with underage drinking at Koonce Hall.
nHayley E. Tessler, 18, of Newton Falls was charged with underage drinking at Koonce Hall.
nRyan J. Hall, 19, of Warren was charged with underage drinking at Koonce Hall.
nEdie J. Sutton, 19, of Newton Falls was charged with underage drinking at Koonce Hall.
ndustin K. dorris, 19, of Newton Falls was charged with underage drinking at Koonce Hall.
ndavid A. Pagano, 18, of Newton Falls was charged with underage drinking at Koonce Hall.
nGary M. Ifft, 18, of Southington was charged with underage drinking at Koonce Hall.
nJonathon d. Bierman, 19, of Broadview Heights was charged with underage drink-ing at Allyn Hall.
nEric Z. Rish, 18, of Brecksville was charged with underage drinking at Allyn Hall.
FRIDAYnCriminal mischief was reported at Lake and Fletcher Hall.
nCriminal mischief was reported at Wright Hall.
nTelecommunication harassment was reported at the WKSU Broadcast Center.
SATURDAYnCriminal damage was reported at Engle-man Hall.
nMatthew L. Petersen, 19, of Ashburn, Va., was charged with underage drinking at McDowell Hall.
nRyan M. Higgins, 20, of South Wales, N.Y., was charged with underage drinking at McDowell Hall.
nElliot M. Killen, of South Wales, N.Y., was charged with underage drinking at McDowell Hall.
nCorey P. Shaffer, 19 of Warren was charged with underage drinking at McDow-ell Hall.
nScott A. Converse, 19, of East Aurora, N.Y., was charged with underage drinking at McDowell Hall.
nJohn J. Costa, 20, of South Wales, N.Y., was charged with underage drinking at McDowell Hall.
nKyle J. Folaron, 20, of Hamburg was charged with underage drinking at McDowell Hall.
nWilliam J. Marshall, 20, of East Aurora, N.Y., was charged with underage drinking
at McDowell Hall.
ndavid Z. Schlafer, 19, of Uniontown was charged with a miscellaneous drug offense at Fletcher Hall.
nKailee n. Palevich, 19, of Fairview Park was charged with underage drinking at McDowell Hall.
SUnDAYnCriminal damage was reported twice at Prentice Hall.
nCriminal mischief was reported at Verder and Lake halls.
ndanielle L. delzoppo, 19, of Pickering-ton was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia on the University Esplanade near Olson Hall.
nVincent G. diBacco, 19, of Euclid was charged with a miscellaneous drug offense and drunken driving at the Verder R3 lot.
nMichelle L. Gram, 21 of Stow was charged with drunken driving at Jackson Drive near the Music and Speech Center.
nErin d. Fitzsimmons, 19, of Macedonia was charged with underage drinking at Eastway S37 lot.
Kathryn MooreDaily Kent Stater
There are three ways a person can learn information: visual, auditory and tactile.
At Student Accessibi l -ity Services they incorporate all three styles with modern technology in their Adaptive Technology Lab.
The lab has been in the works for the past four to five years and this semester, it becomes a reality.
Adaptive Technology Coor-dinator Mollie Miller is excited to have a space for her students to come to try out or work with different programs that would aid them with their learning.
“For years we used the con-ference room down the hall as a lab when testing wasn’t being done, but the problem was we never knew how many stu-dents were coming in until the day before,” Miller said. “Now, there will be a stationary area for students to work with the technology without having to be bothered.”
When the lab is complete-ly finished there will be six computers, two at each table, and a portable presentation TV unit, so if there are stu-dents in the lab Miller can move the demo presentation to another area and all the computers will be uploaded with different types of soft-ware to accompany the user.
At SAS, a wall had to be moved, new carpet was installed, the walls got a paint job, more computers were moved into the lab and storage needed to be stored somewhere else for the lab to become a real.
The lab can be used by anyone.
“You don’t need to have a disability to use the technol-ogy or the lab,” Miller said. “It’s universal.”
Appointments should be made ahead of time so they can be aware of who’s coming in to use the computers in the lab.
SAS Associate Director Amy Quillin can’t wait for the lab to be finished as well.
“It should be finished in about a month, but students can still come in and try it out,” she said.
When the lab is done, there will be a mass e-mail to all of SAS’s students to let them know it is now fully available.
Technology available in The
lab:
nStation 1: Learning Style QuizDetermines if you are a visual, auditory or tactile learner.
nStation 2: Read PleaseHighlights text on the screen as it is read out loud to the user.
nStation 3: Mind MappingCreates graphic organizers as a visual thinking and learning tool to plan, research and complete projects.
nStation 4: Kurzweil 3000Helps students keep up with reading with the aid of visual and auditory feedback.
nStation 5: DragonVoice recognition allowing users to type without touching the keyboard.
nStation 6: Smart PenTakes 70 pictures per second and links audio to writing through LiveScribe paper.
“I can put in other PCs and software that is readily available and add to it as time goes on,” Miller said.
Miller and Quillin both said the faculty is aware of the different software for the different ways of learning and are excited about it, especially since it is so adaptable for anyone to use.
The hours for the lab, when it’s completely finished, are as follows: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Tues-day, Wednesday and Friday; and 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Monday and Thursday. The first four days of the week the lab will be open to be used by anyone at Kent State. On Fridays, Miller will use that day for demos and to test the different types of software.
Kent Interhall Council will begin its election process for the 2010-2011 school year today with the presidential election.
During the month of March, each position on the President’s Executive Board will be chosen except for the two at-large repre-sentatives. Those two positions will be chosen in Fall 2010 because freshmen are eligible for this posi-tion, said Brendan Desetti, current KIC president.
According to the KIC bylaws for 2009-2010, each director of the President’s Executive Board assists in carrying out the organization’s goals, objectives and policies. Fur-ther, they also assist the president, vice-president and all other direc-tors in their necessary duties.
Andrew Weber, sophomore air traffic control major, was the only one to turn in his bid packet to run for the 2010-2011 president.
“I’ve been involved in KIC for quite some time now, starting out in my own hall council and then
moving up the ladder,” Weber said. “At this point I feel that it’s time to take on some more respon-sibilities and duties.”
According to the bylaws, stu-dents serving on a hall council must give up their positions to serve on the KIC
Previous to Weber’s position as representative at large, he was the assistant coordinator for Centennial Court A and B Activities Council.
“I feel that this process of going out and getting to know students and their own views across cam-pus will both help in this election and my president position, if elect-ed,” Weber said.
Secondly, students on the coun-cil must maintain a cumulative GPA of 2.25, be a resource person and be available for 10 office hours each week.
Lastly, students on the coun-cil must attend weekly executive board and general council meet-ings, workshops and KIC spon-sored programs unless the presi-dent and adviser approve his or her absence.
Although Weber is the only candidate running for president, his nomination doesn’t guarantee him the position.
“Since I am the only candi-date running, some might think that it would be an easy win, but that is not the case,” Weber said. “The KIC general council (which is comprised of representatives from each hall across campus) can be very brutal when it comes to voting executive board members, especially when it comes to the president. So I intend to prepare as if I was running against many
other qualified candidates.” Each candidate running to serve
on the KIC must be nominated and be present at the weekly meeting to accept the nomination.
Vice president will be chosen March 9, and the rest of the board throughout the month of March. Elections will end March 23.
The Kent Parks and Recreation board is holding a public meeting today to discuss ideas for the Riv-er Bend Park and the water access development projects.
The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. at the Roy Smith Shelter-house in Fred Fuller Park. Kent Parks and Recreation got an offi-cial approval a few weeks ago to proceed with its development projects, which will be funded in part by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources.
In addition to the $250,000 grant from the ODNR, the proj-ects will also be paid with $50,000 in park funds.
Kent Parks and Recreation Director John Idone said the idea of the projects is to increase the accessibility to the Cuyaho-ga River and to make the river user-friendly for less-experi-enced visitors.
“I think this is certainly one more thing adding to the qual-ity of life in Kent,” Idone said. “It’s helping make it a place you
would want to live and work. It certainly is consistent with the city’s goals in positioning Kent as an outdoor community.”
The plans for the park devel-opments are several years in the making. Kent City Manager Dave Ruller has mentioned these development plans more than once in his blog, Kent360. In a blog posted in April 2008, Ruller said conservation, recreation and economic development were the cornerstones of the Kent commu-nity’s priorities.
In a recent blog, Ruller advo-cated the parks’ enhancements.
“Whether you call it a white-water park or a river recreation, we think the project holds great promise for Kent,” he said.
Part of the development proj-ect is a new river access spot at River Bend Park. The seven-acre park, located on River Bend Boulevard, currently has no public parking area designated for park visitors.
Idone said one plan is to put in a small parking lot with a trail down to the river. Also, there would be a concrete ramp to create
easy access for boat launching.The other aspect of the project
includes making improvements along the Kent Dam. Idone said the current bypass around the dam is through old canal locks, which create for hazardous ter-rain, especially when the water levels are high.
“Someone not experienced with the route could get into dif-ficulty,” Idone said. “They could head into that area filled with debris and snags. When water is up, there are some safety concerns through that narrow chute.”
He said they also will put in a boat landing upstream of the Main Street Bridge with a set of stairs and a canoe rail where walking up the steps is easier when you can glide your boat up easily. There will also be a second set of steps constructed off of the deck to launch back into the river.
The publ ic meet ing wi l l mainly focus on the River Bend Park developments. Idone said he hopes residents from the Riv-er Bend neighborhood and other people interested in the project
Kent Parks and Recreation to hold public meeting on upcoming projects
will come and give ideas on how they would like to see the park developed.
A follow-up meeting will be held six to eight weeks after Tues-day’s meeting with preliminary designs. Idone said Kent Parks and Recreation selected R.E. Warner and Associates to be the design and engineering consul-tants for the projects.
“They have an impressive resume,” Idone said. “They’ve worked with local and state parks in Ohio for the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. They are highly qualified for this job.”
The project designing will continue throughout summer and with a 90-day estimated construction time, Idone hopes the projects will be completed by July 2011.
The bond hearing for John H. Ragin Jr. was postponed today to give the Portage County prosecutor’s office time to see if it will pursue a murder charge against Ragin following the death of John T. White.
White, who was assaulted in downtown Kent on Jan. 23, died Feb. 21.
Ragin original ly faced a charge of felonious assault, a second-degree felony, for his alleged role in the attack. Hallie E. Nuspl was also charged with one count of obstructing official business, a fifth-degree felony, and one count of misdemeanor assault.
Stephen Michniak, Portage County assistant prosecutor, said the prosecutor’s office is waiting on the Summit County Coroner’s autopsy report, which will be submitted to the grand jury prior
Ragin’s bond hearing postponedto Ragin’s arraignment.
There is no update avail-able from the Summit County Coroner ’s Office on the status of when the autopsy report will be ready.
Michniak said the bond hear-ing will take place during the arraignment, which is yet to be determined.
He said Ragin’s defense attor-ney, Danny James Weisenburger, is stepping down and will be replaced by James L. Burdon.
Following Ragin’s arraign-ment, Michniak said the trial is likely to start during the first week of June.
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“It became an issue of staffing for the department,” Peach said. “I had to determine whether to still commit a full-time officer to the drug task force or assign a person to here on campus where there’s a real need.”
At the time, he said there was more of a need for an officer on campus because student popu-lation was growing and alcohol problems were increasing.
Pat Burns, Drug Task Force commander, said the agency offers many benefits for any police department to join.
“You’re in the loop in all of the investigations,” Burns said.
A police department wishing to join the Drug Task Force com-mits one detective to work inside the agency. Not only does that detective act as an informational
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Real World Experience
Cover, for his part, entered college as a mathematics major, envisioning a career as a teacher before making the switch to political science.
“I came here focused on career training,” Cover said. “Now, I think I might end up getting a teaching certificate to teach government.”
In the meantime, Cover said he is focused on build-ing his resume and apply-ing for internships with the help of the political science department.
As students more quick-ly hone in on a career path, educators are touting expe-riential learning opportuni-ties, including internships. Chandler said he expects that in time, every student at Kent State will be required to complete an internship before graduation.
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MAJORHow relevant is your major?
Glass warned this sort of behav-ior can cause people to drink more and can eventually lead to full-blown alcoholism.
The hamsters have three unique enzymes in their brain and liver that allow them to rapidly break down alcohol. Glass explained that because of these enzymes, the hamsters in the lab are drinking the equivalency of three or four bottles of Jack Daniels a day without feeling drunk or experi-encing a hangover.
“So they’re drinking about 50 times more than, normalized for weight, a human who weighs, say, 180 pounds,” Glass said.
Glass explained many scientists believe these animals are able to drink so much because, from an evo-lutionary standpoint, these hamsters collect fruits and hide them in their tunnels. If the fruits were left too long, they would naturally ferment and produce ethanol, exposing the animals to large amounts of it.
Mice are also used in the lab for this research, but they are geneti-cally altered animals. These mice have a mutation of genes called cir-
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HAMSTERHamsters: The biggest party animals?
Games at Penn State, BC highlight football schedule
The Kent State football team announced its 2010 schedule yesterday. The schedule includes non-conference games at home against Murray State and Army and away against Boston Col-lege and Penn State.
After opening the season with a home game against Murray State on Thursday, Sep. 2, the Flashes will play on the road in five of their next six games. The sole home game will be against Mid-American Conference rival Akron on Homecoming weekend.
Last year, Kent State finished the season with a record of 5-7 (4-4 MAC). The Flashes will replace three starters on offense and four on defense from the 2009 season.
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2010 Kent State football schedule
Home games are in bold* denotes Mid-American Conference game
“ T h e r e ’ s a t r e m e n d o u s amount of effort to constantly keep the experiential learn-ing opportunities up-to-date, refreshed and alive,” said Timo-thy Moerland, dean of the Col-lege of Arts and Sciences, citing the Washington and Columbus programs for political science majors.
Moerland said the economic downturn hasn’t kept students from majoring in the liberal arts — College of Arts and Sciences hasn’t seen any dips in enroll-ment in recent years.
But college keeps an eye on the ever-changing job market — computer science is once again an in-demand field for new grads, Moerland said.
“I have a daughter who is a graduate student in philosophy, not here but elsewhere,” Moer-land said. “And I’m concerned about that. But philosophy is a great steppingstone to another career. Everything is relevant, but you have to understand the pathway to a career.”
The Big Picture Ohio Education Chancellor
Eric Fingerhut said students
shouldn’t enter college with a narrow career focus, despite Gov. Ted Strickland’s push for a closer tie between higher educa-tion and economic growth.
“Many jobs today rely on people innovation and creativ-ity and communication,” Fin-gerhut said. “There’s a much higher focus on jobs, but it’s consistent with broad-based higher education.”
Though career preparation has remained a part of discus-sions to alter the university’s curriculum, a liberal education will always be its backbone.
“There’s not an automatic disconnect between a good liberal arts experience and job training,” Moerland said. “A good person with a good edu-cation will find a job.”
liaison between the Drug Task Force and the department, but he or she can also investigate drug offenses and suspected dealers as a plain-clothes detective.
Unlike a typical uniformed offi-cer, Burns said a detective at the Drug Task Force can blend with crowds and investigate suspects and drug activity.
“Just like this week, we can catch these people before they continue wreaking havoc on people’s lives,” Burns said
Burns added the detective also investigates cases outside his or her department’s jurisdiction.
Aside from paying for the salary of the detective, Burns said the police department is responsible for pay-ing a $10,000 annual fee to the Drug Task Force. In return, the department receives some financial compensa-tion when money is confiscated from a crime scene and is ordered by the court system to be dispersed throughout the departments that comprise the Drug Task Force.
“You don’t join this (the Drug Task Force) to earn a profit,” Burns said.
Peach said the department wish-es to be a part of the Drug Task Force again, but the department first needs to regain a sufficiently sized staff.
This year, three new officers were hired earlier this semester and three more are budgeted to be hired some-time later in 2010. The new officers will bring the department’s work-force back to 31, the same it was five years ago, Peach said.
However, he added, training is needed for the new officers before the department recovers in staff.
Even though the KSUPD and Drug Task Force have no formal connection, Peach said the two have a good cooperative relationship.
“When we get information about drugs we share it with them, wheth-er it’s suspects, offenses or so forth,” Peach said.
cadian clock genes that allow them to drink more than their littermates. Glass explained this is another tie-in with the biological clock system and the propensity of drinking large amounts of alcohol.
“In humans, certain individuals also have that type of mutation and that is highly correlated with alcohol-ism,” Glass said. “That’s a really nice link between the basic research we’re doing with the rodents and how it extends to understanding alcohol-ism in humans.”
Spike TV’s “Manswers” tracked Glass down to feature the hamster study on its show. Glass agreed to do the show because although it was a bit racy for him, he felt it was a great way to get the science out and make it understandable and exciting to others.
Glass explained that this study is important because many people may suffer from or have a close friend or relative that may suffer from alcohol abuse or alcoholism.
“What we’re trying to do is under-stand how to break that vicious cycle of drinking and circadian disrup-tions so that we can help prevent the effects of alcohol and alcoholism,” Glass said.
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Today’s birthday (3/2/10) Over the next year you find your dreams take on far greater signifi-cance. Track them in a journal to identify key symbols that recur to deepen your understanding. You notice that some dreams have epic significance while others boil down to one simple message.
To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
Aries (March 21-April 19) Today is a 7. Boost your imagina-tion by surfing the Internet or read-ing fiction. Images drive creative effort. A partner provides reason-able feedback, if you want it.
Taurus (April 20-May 20) Today is a 6. What you hear isn’t necessarily the final word on what’s required. Ask leading questions if you have to. That way you discover the feelings behind the demands.
Gemini (May 21-June 21) Today is an 8. Now that you’ve fully articulated your message, you can race ahead to convince others that your creative logic will work. Don’t forget to inject lots of enthusiasm.
Cancer (June 22-July 22) Today is a 6. If you travel, remem-ber to take your passport. Harmo-ny at home could be jeopardized. Make sure you’ve left enough money to cover expenses.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) Today is a 7. Money remains an issue, but you find a way to adjust spending or spread out the pay-ments. Creative efforts produce an alternate income stream.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Today is a 7. Continue to address issues presented by others. Unless you truly care, allow them to have their way. Meet your own needs later in the day.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Today is an 8. Everyone’s on the same page now, and you reach agreement on the magical quality of the work. Logic still provides the foundation.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Today is a 5. Find concrete words to describe elusive feelings and ideas. You know what you mean. Make sure others get the point. Dream large.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Today is a 6. What seemed impos-sible yesterday becomes almost ordinary now. There could be a flood (literally), but the solution is self-evident.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)Today is a 6. Do exactly what you want in a social situation. Others have a separate agenda that you don’t need to follow. Manage your own responsibilities.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Today is a 6. Someone could talk you out of your cash unless you’re careful. Listen to emotional per-suasions, then season them with practical logic.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) Today is a 6. Get your message out to the public loud and clear. Be sure to stress why it’s urgent. Get under their skin. Also encourage feedback.
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Want to make a difference for Kent State University? Consider working for the PhoneCenter! Applications are being accepted for full-time students who want to gain useful job experience in a professional, fun work environment. We offer flexible scheduling for students, evening and weekend work, and pay $8/hr. For an application and/or further information, contact Nicole at [email protected] or leave a message at 330-672-0409 today!
Office assistant needed. Kent area apartment community is looking for an office assistant. Full Time Summer help. General responsibilities include customer service, general office responsibility, phones/computer and some sales. The successful candidate will be organized, self-motivated, outgoing and possess good communication skills. Fax resume to (330) 677-4651 attention Jeanette. A drug free work place.
Brimfield Curves looking for part time worker for 3-8pm shift, M-F, just 2 evenings/ week. (330) 968-4966
Campus Company Promotions CoordinatorEnergetic students needed to create buzz about new college student Web site. Contact: [email protected]
Renew Psychological Services. P.C.C. or psychologist to provide counseling in a well-established, Christian, private group practice. Prime location- Hudson. Dr. McMorrow, (330) 655-2674
Well-established landscape design/build company in Hudson area seeking hardworking, goal oriented person to fill immediate full-time foreman position. Clean driving record required. Subject to background check. CDL a plus. 3-5 year foreman experience required. Fax resume to 330-656-1944 or email to [email protected]
Riverside Wine Bar 911 N. Mantua St., Kent—Food service, retail, server and bar help needed. Non-smokers only, must be 21. Apply in person Monday-Friday 12-4 pm. Apply only if available for employment for 1 year and willing to work a minimum of 3 shifts/week. We schedule around classes.
Local part-time furniture mover needed. Must be available at
least 2 full days a week. Monday-Sunday. $11/hour to start for
helpers. $13/hour for drivers (clean license required) 330-689-1900.
Ladies’ Night at Empire every Thursday 6:30-9 pmFree Henna Body ArtEmpire 135 E. Main St. Kent
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The sisters of Alpha Xi Delta would like to congratulate Karly
Cohen for being sister of the week!
Found money in parking area of Circle K on Main Street in Kent across from Whitehall on Thursday, Feb.4, 2010 at approximately 8:30 am. If you can describe the number of bills, their denominations, how they were folded and the total amount, arrangements will be made to return it to you. Email: [email protected]
Field Jacket found on campus - contact Peggy 330-672-5822.
NOW LEASING FOR FALL5,4,2,1 bedroom Houses.Efficiency. Good Location Near KSU.Call (330) 554-8353
Whitehall East Townhomes - 4 or 5 bedroom leases, with 3 bathrooms, great rent options with all inclusive plans. Some newly rennovated, all units washer/dryer and dishwaher included. Call or text today 330-990-4019. www.whitehall-east.com
Shrewsberry Rentals 3, 4, and 6 bedrooms starting at $900. 4 bedrooms $1475. 6 bedrooms $2,000. Trash, sewer, and recycling paid. 330-221-2881
Spacious 2&3 bdrm apts @ Holly Park. Gas heat paid Sign up now for fall and receive $100 off first 6 months based on a twelve-month lease. (330) 678-0823
Now leasing for fall. 2br apt $699-750 a month includes gas, water and trash. Many great amenities. Hurry in now, before you get locked out. (330) 673-8887
Now accepting applications for summer and fall! Studios, 1&2 bedrooms still available-Hurry In! 330-678-0746
**Summer and Fall Specials** Furnished/unfurnished studios, 1&2 bedrooms, Call now 330-678-0123
Rent in KentEnjoy spacious 4&5 bedrooms duplexes with 2 full baths. Great condition, great location, A/C, W/D, dishwasher, deck, garage. $1,200-1,750. 330-808-4045
GREAT PRICES! GREAT PROPERTIES!3, 4 & 5 bdrm properties starting at $1000/mo. Call Rich at 330-807-6090
Now Leasing for Summer and Fall.2 BR Apts. Heat, Trash & Water pd.Pool, Pets welcome, $665-$725.Close to KSU 330-673-5364
NO WATER BILL! NO GAS BILL!4&5 Bedroom duplex available for fall starting at $330/mo!Each side has 2 bath, W/D. Dishwasher, deck, garage, etc. Close to campus and on bus route. Last one I have available! Call Sweeney (740)317-7294.
Remodeled, University Town Home, 5 BR, W/D, Dishwasher, 2.5 Baths, $275 per room, Will go fast, 330-808-4045
University Townhomes 5 bedroom 2.5 bath. $265/month tahays-management.com, 330-612-0767
Stow: 2 & 3 bed townhomes with one car garage. Pets welcome, 10 min from KSU. Prices $665-$850 call (330)686-2269.
Kent- 3&4 bdrm townhouses for fall, $395 pr rm includes gas & trash 330-678-3047 or BuckeyeParksMgmt.com
Kent- 1 bdrm & efficiencies for fall, starting at $450 pr mth includes ALL UTILITIES 330-678-3047 or BuckeyeParksMgmt.com
Kent- 2&3 bdrm for fall, starting at $425 pr rm some include ALL UTILITIES 330-678-3047 or BuckeyeParksMgmt.com
3 bedroom, 3 bath, 2 car garage, condo-styled duplex, on two acres, $1100/mo. 330-221-4533
Tired of a roommate? Live in our newly remodeled one bedroom apt for $495, you only pay electric. (330)678-0972.
Two bedroom apt near KSU $615 per month all utilities except electric included. Call (330)678-0972.
4-5 bedroom University Townhomes for rent August 2010. Starting at $270/month. Water included. 440-336-6761 www.kenttownhomes.com
All real estate advertised herin is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act, which makes it illegal to advertise “any preference, limitation or discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin, or intention to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination.” State and local laws forbid discrimination based on factors in addition to those protected under federal law. We will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate that is in violation of the law. All persons are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised are available on an equal opportunity basis. If you feel you have been wrongfully denied housing or discriminated against, call the FHAA at 330-253-2450 for more information.
KENT/BRIMFIELD. Newer 3 & 4 Bdrm duplexes. 1 car garage. $900-$1100 per month. 330-338-5841 or 330-329-1118
Kent - 1,2&3 bedroom. $500, $590 and $750. 330-677-5577
STUDENT RENTALS FOR THE ‘10-’11 YEAR
Are you looking for a 1 or 2 bedroom apartment, a studio, a duplex, a house, or a student
rooming house with 4, 5, 6, 7 or 8 bedrooms?
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Spacious 3 bedroom, 2 bath duplex. LR and Family Room, W/D, A/C, $960/mo, Available July (330)630-9285.
Kent—3 bedroom, 1 full bath. 2 levels. Newer carpet+flooring. Paid water w/appliances. $750 a month. 330-815-2869.
Kent near downtown and campus 2 bedroom apartment, all utilities paid except electric, $350/bedroom + security deposit. (330)676-9440
Now Leasing for Fall a beautifully newly redecorated 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath duplex. $275/person, (330)687-6122.
NOW LEASING FOR FALL1 block from KSU Beautiful newly redecorated 2 bedroom, 1.5 bath townhouse apartments $325/student 330-687-6122
SAVE $$$Leasing for Fall, beautiful, newly redecorated, 2 bedroom apartments. FREE gas, water and trash. $275/student. 330-687-6122.
For 2010-11: One Month Free Close to Campus 2 huge apartments, licensed, private parking, large yard, large front porch. 4 bedroom $1300/$325 each. 4/5 bedroom $1400, $280-$350 each. (330) 626-3957
1, 2, &3 Bedroom Houses & Duplexes all close to downtown available June and August (330) 678-7901
Available Fall: Triplex, each unit 3 Bedrooms, 1 bath house, large yard. $800. Also Large Duplex, each unit 2 bedrooms, 1 bath with garage $650; (440)953-8687 info www.yourhomerental.com
University Townhomes: 1-2 bedrooms. Available now. $225/month, Air Conditioning, Washer/Dryer, clean. On bus route. 330-760-0451
University Townhomes: 4-5 bedrooms. Available August. $265/month, AirConditioning, Washer/Dryer, clean. On bus route. 330-760-0451 www.vargorealty1.com
Kent Condo! Very close to campus! (S. Lincoln St.) Now renting for Fall. 2 bedroom,1.5 baths Assigned parking, water, trash & heat paid! $750/month + electric. Accepting Visa/MC (330) 676-0796
AVALIABLE NOWone large bedroom in house244 East Main$320 utilities included(330) 333-1531
For Fall: 3 bedroom apartments $400/month per room, security deposit required. Heat included, laundry room. No pets. Across from KSU. (330) 554-3024
For Fall: 4 bedroom and 3 bedroom apartments $400/month per room, security deposit required. Heat included, laundry room. No pets. Across from KSU. (330) 554-3024
528 S. Lincoln Street - 2 bedroom, $650/month plus gas and electric. 330-678-4741.
4-5 bedroom house for rent. 319 East Summit. 1 block to campus. $350/month. 1 year lease starting in July. 330-212-0992
Hidden Pines Townhouses, 4 lg BR’s, 2 bath, W/D, wood floors, ceramic tile. Spacious, very clean! ALL utilities included option as low as $365/BR. www.hidden-pines.com/ or 440-708-2372
Kent- 3 bedroom house. Close to downtown on bus line. $750/month plus utilities. Available August 1st, 330-678-0932
Great campus condo. 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath. Available August. Call Dr. Miller at (330) 618-7764
Apartments for Rent:3 bedroom apartment Half of a home. Living Room, kitchen,bath. No pets. One bedroom available now $330/month. 330-673-85051 bedroom apartment in a house. Kitchen, living room, bath. Separate entrance. No pets. One year lease. Available in August. 330-673-8505
3 Bedroom house available for Fall. Great condition, full appliances, $350 bedroom 1, $325 per bedroom 2 and 3. Close to Campus 330-673-1225
FALL—1 Bedroom Apartment. $450/month all utilities included. 1 year lease. NO PETS. (330)678-3489.
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Kyle Morog is typical. He studies managerial marketing at Kent State. He has a humble, rented abode in the Eagle’s Landing apartment complex. He has a girlfriend and a guitar, and he cannot start his day without coffee.
One thing sets him apart from most college students, however. When Morog is feeling thirsty for some beer, he can reach into his fridge and grab a bottle from his homebrew collection.
Making beer has been a part of Morog’s life since childhood. Grow-ing up, his dad brewed beer as a hobby, turning the family home into a microbrewery and subsequently exposing Morog to the art and cul-ture of making beer.
Now, at 24, making beer is a pas-sion for Morog. The fresh-bread smell of boiling grains and hops regularly creep under the crack of his apart-ment door, filling the hallway with the scent of soon-to-be beer.
This past Sunday was a brew day for Morog. Like a surgeon preparing for work, he assembled all the neces-sary ingredients and utensils to make a continental pilsner, a lightly colored beer with mild hop flavors and a crisp finish. The ingredients he used were mostly from a homebrew kit. To give the beer more flavor and higher alcohol content, Morog added an extra pound of dry malt to the recipe. He bought the kit at Abruzzo’s Wine and Homebrew in Brimfield for $31. It will yield 50 to 60 beers, he said.
“This is one of my favorite beers to make,” he explained while pour-ing two and a half gallons of distilled water into the brew kettle, a witch’s cauldron of sorts where the raw grains, malts and hops slowly sim-mer and boil during the brewing pro-cess. “It’s a very drinkable beer.”
A Drinkers’ DestinationTom Bell, a Wadsworth resident,
wandered into 101 Bottles Monday afternoon on a mission. It was his first time in the store. A friend told him he could find any beer he wanted there. The beer he wanted was Bell’s Brew-ing Company’s “Expedition Stout,” a beer brewed with dark chocolate malts that packs a 10.5 percent alco-hol by volume punch.
“The taste,” he said. “Beer is all about the taste.”
Bell is also a home brewer. His quest for taste is of great importance to his creative process.
“I try to clone any beer I like at home, usually stouts and IPAs,” he said. “I want to master making one or two beers.”
Bell found what he was looking for at 101 Bottles and bought two six-packs of it. Justin Clemens, the store’s owner, cashed Bell out, told him to enjoy the beers and thanked him for his business.
“It’s our niche,” Clemens said. “We have more than 600 beers. Peo-ple drive from Cleveland, Canton and Akron to buy their beer here. Some people spend hundreds of dollars stocking up, because they know they can’t find what they want around them.”
Clemens understands the strug-gle of finding good beer. He lives in downtown Cleveland, and he said nothing in Cleveland comes close to the beer selection that can be found in Kent.
“You wouldn’t think in a town of 25,000 people you’d find the best beer selection,” he said. “But a lot of beers find their way here.”
He said he thinks the mix of people in Kent make it a dynamic city for beer consumption. He noted the range of palates and their corre-sponding demographics, from the professors and graduate students who buy the “extreme brews” to the undergrads who collectively con-
sume “hundreds of cases” of Natural Light and Keystone every weekend.
Watching people transition from typical college beer consumers to more sophisticated beer drinkers excites Clemens.
“It’s fun watching the Natty drinker become a Dogfish Head drinker,” he said. “As the under-grads get older, they migrate to more sophisticated beers.”
The Kitchen BreweryBy 8 p.m. Sunday, Morog’s
kitchen was fully transformed into a brewery. The brew kettle, which appeared gargantuan on the small apartment stovetop, was now home to “wort,” the first milestone in the brewing process.
Morog explained wort as being like a tea. Distilled water is heated to 160 degrees Fahrenheit. Then the crushed grains and malts are put into cheesecloth, submerged into the water and left to soak for 20 minutes. When 20 minutes is up, the grains are removed and the water is now wort.
Morog’s girlfriend Holly Miller, junior language arts major, joined the festivities by this time. They have a special bond with brewing beer.
Morog said he suggested brewing beer for one of their first dates because it was a chance for them to spend time together, talk and cooperate with one another to make the beer.
“It was memorable for me,” Mill-er said. “No one asked me to make beer before. The experience definitely stood out.”
“Plus, after you make the beer, it puts you in the mood to drink beer,” Morog added.
After the wort was made, the pro-cess got technical.
“You have to make sure every-thing is sanitary,” Morog said while he soaked a wooden spoon in a sanitary rinse in the sink. “Any foreign microbes or bacteria can taint the batch and stop the fer-mentation process.”
Timing is essential in this part of the brewing process. The wort is brought to a rolling boil and the hops are added. Morog said the hops give beer its bittersweet characteristics and aromas. The intensity of the fla-vors and scents can vary based on how many and what kinds of hops are used. The continental pilsner used three kinds of hops — bittering hops, flavoring hops and aroma hops.
The bittering hops were added first and boiled into the wort for 40 minutes. The flavoring hops were added next and boiled for five min-utes, followed by the aroma hops, which were boiled for 10 minutes. When all the hops are done boiling, the mixture must cool down to 70 degrees Fahrenheit.
“This is the part where patience is needed,” Morog said while he placed the brew kettle into the deep snow outside his apartment.
The Homebrew Way of LifeMatt Pruszynski worked as an
engineer in Akron for 10 years. But about seven and a half years ago, he quit his engineering job to follow his life passion: making beer and wine at home.
Now, Pruszynski, a fifth-gener-ation brewer and winemaker in his family, owns Abruzzo’s Wine and Homebrew Supply in Brimfield.
He said the advantages of brew-ing beer at home are plentiful.
“You get to meet a ton of great people,” he said. “When you teach someone how to make beer, and you see their eyes light up, you take pride in what you are doing.”
For Pruszynski, pride is what making beer is all about.
“When you are a home brewer,
it’s not about drinking and getting drunk,” he said. “It becomes an educational thing, a culture thing, it’s a chance to get together with friends, brew two or three beers and have conversations.”
Abruzzo’s mission, carried out by Pruszynski, is all about educat-ing and sharing the knowledge of crafting beer and wine with the community. The store offers free classes every Saturday for brewing beer and making wine at home. Not only can people come to Abruzzo’s and learn how to make beer and wine, they can also go to Pruszyn-ski’s house prior to the class and sample beers he’s made.
He said the brewing culture found in Kent is making the city a destina-tion for the industry. People come from Pennsylvania and all over Ohio to attend his classes and buy supplies for their own creations.
Pruszynski said the diversity in his customers and the joy they get from making beer keep him excited.
“I’ve seen people who are anal about brewing and getting their recipe just right,” he said. “And I’ve seen people who just want to make cheap alcohol. But either way, when you are making something you enjoy and sharing that with friends, it’s all about pride in the product.”
Sharing is CaringMorog brought the kettle of
hopped wort in from the cold. He asked Miller to grab a siphon tube from the sanitized sink water. She siphoned the wort from the kettle into the sanitized, airtight ferment-ing bucket. She cringed a little bit as the unfermented mixture hit her lips and started flowing freely.
After the wort is done siphoning, another two and a half gallons of distilled, room temperature water is added, making it five gallons of beer-to-be. There is one more magic ingre-dient to add, the pitch yeast, before it starts fermenting.
“We have to be careful with the yeast,” Morog said. “It’s temperature sensitive. If it’s too hot, the yeast will die and it won’t ferment properly.”
He double checked the tempera-ture of the water and slowly dis-solved the yeast into the wort, stir-ring it thoroughly. Miller grabbed the lid for the bucket and sealed the wort, using all her force and body weight to snap the lid in place, ensuring an airtight seal.
Morog prepared the fermentation indicator, which is a plastic tube filled with water that gets affixed to the top of the bucket. He said when the fer-mentation starts, carbon dioxide is emitted, causing the water to bubble. When the water in the indicator stops bubbling, fermentation is done. He said it takes about a full week to fer-ment. He slid the bucket under the kitchen table, out of the light.
“Light is bad for the beer,” he said. “That’s why beer bottles are brown. The cooler and darker it is, the better the beer will be.”
Miller and Morog moved from the kitchen to the living room, taking seats next to one another on the sofa. He grabbed his acoustic guitar and jammed on a blues riff while she sat smiling, taking in the sounds. After a few minutes, he put the guitar down and picked up a mug of beer from the coffee table. The glass mug had a metal plate on the side engraved with the words “Morog Drinking Company.” He sipped a refreshing gulp and set the mug down, turning his attention back to Miller. Beneath the kitchen table, the day’s efforts started coming alive.
removes the steeped malt from the brew kettle. The wort remains in the kettle.
Kyle Morog adds liquid malts to the wort during a recent home-brew session.
Kyle Morog checks the temperature of the wort for his home-brewed beer. The wort must cool from a boil to 70 degrees.
Holly Miller siphons the cooled wort from the brew kettle to the fermentation bucket.
Kyle Morog dis-solves the yeast into the cooled wort. This step of making beer is delicate because too much heat will kill the yeast, and then the beer won’t ferment.
Holly Miller seals the air-tight lid on the fermen-tation bucket. The beer needs about one week to completely ferment.
As carbon diox-ide is released during the fermentation process, bubbles occur in the fermentation gauge.
