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The science of
BEER By Emily Abshire | eabshire@indiana.edu | @emily_abs
Science on Tap will fulfill its destiny Tuesday night with the topic of the month: the science of beer. A panel of four speakers will answer questions about their area of beer and alcohol related expertise from 7-9 p.m. tonight at Big Woods Bloomington. The Science on Tap speaker series invites professors and experts from IU and the Bloomington community to speak about a different science topic each month. The crowd meets at Big Woods bar, grabs a beer and learns a bit about science. Tonight will feature two IU teachers, a student and a local winery manager.
“I never thought I would study beer. There’s actually things to do with seemingly ridiculous topics.” Aaron Ellis, Ph.D. candidate
SCIENCE ON TAP: THE SCIENCE OF BEER 7 p.m. tonight, Big Woods bar
Matt Bochman, Ph.D. Nickname “The Master of Yeast” or “The Yeast Whisperer” Expertise Yeast Favorite beer “Big Beers” At 7:30 a.m. Monday morning, assistant professor of biochemistry Matt Bochmanwent wild yeast hunting on his office desk. With the most important hunting tool – a plastic sandwich bag – Bochman pounced on an unsuspecting object perched on his desk and trapped it inside the bag’s confines. It could now be taken to the lab and examined for yeast. Almost anything has yeast on it, Bochman said. However, he normally takes his hunting activities into the great outdoors. “We’re tapping Mother Nature’s toolbox that brewers have ignored or lost over the centuries,” Bochman said. Different strains of yeast produce different flavors in beer, Bochman said, but he doesn’t have a favorite. “They’re like my children,” he said. “They’re all my favorite.” The species of yeast most commonly used in beer is called Saccharmyoes Cereuisiae, Bochman
said. It’s microscopic, and its job is to eat sugar. Bochman owns his own yeast business, Wild Pitch, where he grows and sells Indiana yeast to brewers. The business was created when local brewers were in pursuit of making an all-Indiana beer and realized there was no local yeast. For students interested in wild yeast hunting or just alcohol in general, Bochman teaches “Alcohol and the Science of Fermentation” in the spring. The course explores yeast, hops, wine, distilled spirits and other fermented substances such as turning oil into gas. Armed with experience and knowledge, Bochman said he will be ready to answer questions at Science on Tap about the molecular breakdown of beer. “We had some interesting conversation going on amongst us, so it should be very interesting on Tuesday night,” Bochman said about himself and the other panelists. “Certainly, I am the biggest yeast expert on the panel.”
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Former athlete speaks of addiction By Emily Miles elmiles@iu.edu | @EmilyLenetta
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By Katelyn Haas haask@indiana.edu | @khaas96
EMILY ECKELBARGER | IDS
Glenda Ritz, Indiana superintendent of public instruction, speaks to a room of people Monday evening at Hopscotch Coffee about her 2016 campaign for re-election. Ritz spoke about what she has accomplished during the past four years and what remains to be done in Indiana education.
She said expanding outreach and making sure kids are getting the services they need in schools directly in each region of the state is important going forward if she is re-elected. “Every single thing happens at the local level, it does not happen at the state level, whether it be the education of our children or the jobs we have, it happens at the local level.” Ritz said. She said all parents should get a tax deduction on textbooks and materials, something private
Jared Fogle’s ex-wife Katie McLaughlin filed a lawsuit against Subway on Monday and accused the franchise of ignoring information about Fogle’s inappropriate statements and behavior regarding children. Fogle plead guilty last August to distributing child pornography and paying for and engaging in sex acts with minors. He was sentenced to 15 years and eight months by Judge Tanya Walton Pratt. Fogle was also ordered to pay $100,000 in restitution to his victims. “On at least three occasions during Jared’s tenure with Subway, Subway received reports regarding Jared’s sexual interest in children,” attorneys wrote in the lawsuit. “With two of those reports, Subway responded by sending a public relations employee to ask Jared about the allegations. With the third report, Subway admitted the complaint was ‘not properly escalated or acted upon.’ Upon information and belief, Subway did not report any of
schools have — but public education does not. “I really don’t care where children go to school,” Ritz said. “It’s really about the instruction, the leaders in the schools, what happens in the school, not the type. That’s my job to support the schools going along with the public space.” The rest of the event was an open dialogue, with Ritz answering questions on student systems.
SEE BEER, PAGE 5
Ritz visits Bloomington to promote re-election
the coffee shop in a speech about her platform and how her campaign has been going so far. She talked about the removal of teaching to the test learning and encouraging equal opportunity for all students no matter the school. “Most people know the politics of things, they don’t really have a good sense of what we’ve been doing for the children,” Ritz said. “So getting the word out is important. The one thing I want people to know is you voted for me in 2012, and I’ve been doing my job.”
From IDS reports
Former IU basketball player Todd Jadlow said he wished someone would have told him he would spend 20 months in a 20-by-20-foot cell, lose his possessions and custody of his 2-year-old daughter and sit shaking with a revolver in his mouth. That’s what he told more than 100 students Monday night in Rawles Hall. They had never seen him make a layup in Assembly Hall. “Seems like yesterday I was running in and out of the Lambda Chi house,” Jadlow said. “I kind of know what you’re going through and what you’re dealing with here.” Jadlow was there to speak about his path from drug and alcohol abuse to the head of a recovery foundation. “We’re doing this to raise awareness of the various pathways to recovery,” OASIS Director Jackie Daniels said. “And his was pretty bumpy.” Daniels reached out to Jadlow when Sam Storey, a junior in Delta Tau Delta fraternity, contacted her about hosting a program with Delta Delta Delta sorority. Storey and Josh Piper, the chapter president, said they were glad Daniels presented the opportunity to hear a Hoosier tell his story, especially in Rawles Hall where students in and out of the greek community could attend. They were also glad to join the Tri Delts in raising money for the Todd Jadlow Give It Back Foundation, which helps people get into rehab centers and sober housing. The program coincided well with National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week, Daniels said, and it relates to OASIS’s relatively new group Students in Recovery. But for Daniels, there was a personal element. When she was 9, IU won the NCAA championship. “And Todd was on the winning team,” Daniels said. “So he was kind of part of my childhood growing up here in Bloomington.” Growing up in Salina, Kansas, Jadlow was teased incessantly. People told him he would never be athletic or smart enough to succeed in college. “At 14, I had my first taste of alcohol,” Jadlow said. “And I thought that was the answer.” Four rough years later, he walked onto the IU campus for the first time.
ELECTION 2016
Cookies, coffee and an appearance from Glenda Ritz drew Monroe County community members Monday night to raise awareness for the state superintendent of public instruction’s re-election campaign. The event at Hopscotch Coffee, which was open to the public, also aimed to raise campaign funds. All donations were payable to Ritz 4 Education. Jane Kupersmith, an owner of Hopscotch Coffee in Bloomington, said a regular at the coffee shop is connected to Ritz’s campaign manager. She said they were excited to be a supporter of the campaign by hosting the event. “I co-own Hopscotch, and my husband is an educator, it’s in his family.” Kupersmith said. “So I feel like we’re always kind of aware with the superintendent’s office, and it sort of trickles down locally.” Ritz attended the event as a meet-and-greet opportunity for community members to ask questions about her campaign and platform. Ritz said she feels the same strong energy she felt during her campaign in 2012, with educators spreading the word about what the department has been doing for children. People approached Ritz throughout the event, shaking her hand and asking her questions before her speech. She addressed the people in
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