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million in 2013 and is expected to increase to $2.5 billion by the end of the year. The total amount of new jobs to be created is expected to surpass 40,000 positions this year.
“It’s hands-on training in a science laboratory for quality assurance and hands-on training in the brewery itself.”
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brewery – if a particular beer isn’t consistent the consumer won’t buy it. The science of brewing, therefore, is the linchpin in the program. “If you cannot do the science, you will not succeed in this program,” Biafora said. The program, offered for $5,000, is available to nearly anyone who has passed a college level math or chemistry course. The program is taken over the course of three months and consists of an online lesson plan containing 10 modules in the first month, leading to an on-site internship that will be the final stage of the program. Though the program is not yet for course credit, and thus can’t be paid for by financial aid or Florida Pre-Paid, USFSP is looking into developing an accredited program in the future if this nascent program gathers enough interest and participants. “We wanted to first get this off the ground,” Biafora said. “The faculty that are hosting this program – that are teach-
USFSM to increase underclassmen, BOG approves funding proposal
USF Sarasota-Manatee can now allow a larger number of freshman and sophomores to enroll, following a decision by the Florida Board of Governors (BOG) on Thursday. According to the decision, USFSM is now classified as a Type-II campus within the Frank Biafora State University System and Dean of USFSP College of Arts and Sciences the previous 25 percent enrollment cap on underclassmen The report said the potenhas been removed. According tial growth for the craft brewto an article by the Bradenton ing industry in Florida is Herald, officials said the “immense.” change will be seen most In order to get into the lucraclearly in the spring and fall tive business and master the semesters of next year. brewing process beyond the Since 2007, the campus has one-off use of a simple brewhad more than 1,000 students ing kit, USFSP Dean Frank each year, with 1,162 in the Biafora said one has to know 2013-14 school year. In the the science. Quality assurance 2014-15 year, the campus had is what makes or breaks a n See BEER on PAGE 2 1,107 full-time undergraduate and 92 graduate students. The campus currently offers 23 degree programs and 11 certificate programs. The reclassification for USFSM follows a 2011 accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges, which found the campus able to probably complete degree programs and various student services. Though state universities must continue waiting for Gov. Rick Scott’s final approval on the state budget, Thursday’s BOG meeting also finalized what is expected to be $400 million in performance-based funding for state universities. Under the BOG’s final proIntern Desiree Chubb works hands-on in a brewing lab to test each batch of beer at 3 Daughters Brewing, posal, USF would receive part of a new program being developed by USF St.Pete. ORACLE PHOTO/CHRISTOPHER COLLIER n See BOG on PAGE 2
College students and beer have historically worked well together, but USF St. Pete is taking a new approach to get students working with beer. As breweries continue to pop up around Tampa Bay and St. Pete, the USFSP College of Arts and Sciences, in collaboration with 3 Daughters Brewing, have developed a program for people aged 21 and over, that will give its participants the tools they need to join the growing craft beer industry in Florida. According to a report released by the University of Florida and sponsored by the Florida Brewer’s Guild, the total economic impact of craft beer brewing in Florida was $301 million in 2012, $432
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the second-highest amount of funding in the state, second only to the University of Florida. USF is set to receive $58.8 million, with $23.6 million being added from state funds and $35.2 million restored to its budget from its investment in the performance-based funding model. UF, as the highest-performing school, would receive $30.6 million plus its returned investment funds. This is the third year in a row USF received a top ranking in performance funding, earning second place last year with $22.2 million, and tying for first with $2.6 million in the first year of the state’s performance-based funding model, which is decided by a series of metrics gauging performance and student success. Among other metrics, this year USF ranked high with its 75 percent of graduates either employed or continuing their education, a median
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average wage of $35,200 for graduates within one-year of graduation, an average degree cost of $25,490 and a six-year graduation rate of 66 percent. Also included in the state budget awaiting Scott’s signature are several projects for USF worth more than $29 million. These items include $17 million for the university’s new Morsani College of Medicine, which will be built downtown on the corner of Meridian Avenue and Channelside Drive, part of Tampa Bay Lightning owner Jeff Vinik’s billion-dollar plan to reinvigorate the downtown area. The state budget also includes $12.3 million for completing the construction of USF St. Petersburg’s Kate Tiedemann College of Business, $6 million for the construction of a new Florida Institute of Oceanography (FIO) research vessel and $5 million in recurring funds for the Florida Center for Cybersecurity housed at USF. — Staff report
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ing in this program – are master brewers and chemists … distributors, business owners and so they don’t all have Ph.D.s.” Biafora stressed the importance of accreditation concerning a possible fermentation science program. Without a full staff of academically qualified individuals to meet accreditation standards, hosting a program like this one as an official credit-bearing curriculum would be impossible. “You might not have enough faculty with Ph.D.s or master’s degrees to be able to pull something off like this,” he said. “So, in time, we will be able to grow that because the interest is tremendous. But today, we can launch this without having to address that.” Currently, the university is developing a cohort of 20 participants for the preliminary trial of the program. According to Biafora, those participants will work together as a team for the time they are in the program. They will work together to learn the history of beer and brewing, how ingredients interact with each other, as well as other sides of the industry such as the business, retail, quality assurance and analysis. “As part of the hands-on experience in one of the breweries who signed up to do this, students will also have a mandatory rotation through a quality assurance science laboratory … and that’s what makes us different,” Biafora
said. “It’s hands-on training in a science laboratory for quality assurance and hands-on training in the brewery itself.” Amanda Milford and Desiree Chubb are two of the current interns at 3 Daughters Brewing. Milford recently graduated with a bachelor’s in biology from USFSP and Chubb, quality assurance manager for 3 Daughters, is also a biotechnology major at State College of Florida. According to Chubb, water is the most important ingredient in beer and any impurities in the water can change everything from the texture and bitterness to the overall quality of the beer itself. “When we’re doing water chemistry we look for alkalinity and hardness because we do need specific chemicals in our water for the brewing process,” Chubb said. “We also have a carbon filter which we use to wash our kegs and keep out contaminants. That’s really important because we don’t want any kind of contaminants in our keg areas so we don’t have any contamination when we put our beer out to the public.” The St. Petersburg water the brewery uses goes through several rounds of analysis. Every beer begins as a combination of water, a grain mash and hops that ferment in stills until the final product has been canned. “Since we have a canning line, it’s really important that we test how much oxygen is in our cans,” Milford said. “Where oxygen is also important in making the beer, if it’s in the can for long periods of
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time it will degrade the beer. So that’s why (canned) beer has about a three-month shelf life.” According to Chubb, labs such as these are uncommon in smaller breweries, however for larger so-called macrobreweries like Budweiser and Yuengling, there are several. Working in the lab, interns are able to detect any irregularities with the brew. Through regular communication between the lab and the brewers, the brewery staff decides if a batch is of poor quality and requires a change. As an adjunct chemistry professor at USFSP, Jim Leonard was approached by Biafora to arrange a lunch meeting between Leonard and owner of 3 Daughters Brewing, Mike Harting. “Mike told me … he’d had an inquiry to the university he said ‘I’m building a brewery and I’d like to have a lab as part of that process but I don’t know much about the lab, what the lab would do or what kind of equipment I need’ so he asked me if I would help out and I said sure,” Leonard said. “I wasn’t involved with brewing at the time but I did some research for them. That was about two years ago and now we have probably one of the best quality assurance labs in the area.” From his meeting with Harting, Leonard went about establishing a functioning lab. Leonard who is retired and now enjoys giving tours of the brewery, decided that the project would do well with up-andcoming students from USFSP and elsewhere.
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Updated classics announced at E3 By Christopher Collier A S S T .
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This year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles unveiled several titles that will come out this year and next. Receiving the most hype in the past two weeks has been the announcement of the fourth installations of the Fallout and Mass Effect series, as well as the new Star Fox Zero and the long-awaited remake of Final Fantasy VII.
Fallout 4 (Xbox One, PS4, PC) In Bethesda’s fourth installment of the acclaimed Fallout series, fans can expect a much larger world with options for customization and expression that are new to the series. The player will be able to build his own residence using materials found ingame. Although cagey about the details, Bethesda revealed a family the player will have in-game. The family consists of a wife, child and dog. The choices and consequences during the course of the game could have a larger impact on the overall development of the character and of the story overall. The pre-order bundle that comes with a functional replica of the Pip-Boy device, the primary inventory tool in the game, is selling out fast and costs between $120-$175 depending on the retailer or website. The release date is slated for Nov. 10 later this year.
Star Fox Zero (Wii U) Nintendo revealed the return of one of its classic and most beloved franchises at this year’s E3. Star Fox Zero will come in the holiday season of this year, incorporating both the Wii U GamePad and television for an experience the
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fans may not expect. The GamePad is used to aim the fighter’s weapons while the player controls a ship onscreen. The ship transforms at the player’s will into different machines based on what the player deems best for the mission.
Mass Effect: Andromeda (Xbox One, PS4, PC) EA and Bioware have brought back the wildly successful Mass Effect series for a new generation of consoles. As the title suggests, this new adventure will be in the Andromeda Galaxy and features a new cast of heroes and villains. According to a blog post on bioware. com, the story will “take place far away from and long after the events of the original trilogy” and so it appears that Commander Shepard will not make an appearance, although anything is possible. The game’s lead role will still be human with the choice between a man and a woman like the other games in the series and will feature squad-based combat. With a release date slated for the 2016 holiday season, more information will be revealed as time passes.
Final Fantasy VII (PS4) At last the Final Fantasy VII remake that fans have been hoping for has been announced. The remake isn’t going to simply be an HD remastered version of the original PlayStation game, which was first released in 1997, but instead a full-fledged remake that will stand on its own. Bloomberg reported that Square Enix stock went up almost three percent after the announcement. Most details are still under wraps, as well as the release date, but the game’s profits are expected to be one of the largest the video game industry has ever seen.
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Slater on Saturday, Mathews recommitted to the Bulls after he previously decided to explore other options in March. The 5-foot-11, 180-pound Mathews has been recruited by 20 schools, including Arizona,
LSU, Wisconsin, Missouri and Louisville. “It’s been a long process and I’ve seen a lot of great places but this is the place for me and I’m 100% committed to the University of South Florida,” Mathews said in a Tweet. “Thanks to all the coaches that have taken the time to recruit me, I’m thankful for all the opportunities you’ve given me.”
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The South needs to let go of the Confederate flag The Confederate flag, still donned on belt buckles and license plates, has long accessorized the notion of Southern pride, one that won’t quit regardless of the circumstances. After a 21-year-old white man murdered nine people gathering for bible study at the predominantly black Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., last Wednesday, the state’s Capitol continued to fly its Confederate flag 30 feet in the air the next morning, as reported by the New York Times. Especially considering the racial motivation behind the crime, the insensitivity of the flag still being up has brought upon the lasting debate on whether to display the flag at all. Those supporting the flag tout “heritage, not hate.” Yet, the fact that the flag undoubtedly represents a racist history makes it impossible to see it as anything but hateful. Along with his recently released manifesto, photos of Dylann Roof, the suspect of the Charleston massacre, brought his white supremacist attitude to the forefront. In addition to photos of Roof posing with apartheid-era flags of South Africa, he is also seen on a car with a license plate with the Confederate flag. It’s irksome to know a state’s government building continues to display the Confederate flag after one of its cities faced a vile hate crime that garnered national attention. It’s not enough to keep it just because some regard the flag as an emblem of Southern culture instead of racism. The battle flag, as mentioned by the Anti-Defamation League, was one of the many flags the Confederacy used. It was just the one chosen by groups such as the Sons of Confederate Veterans and later by white supremacists in the 20th and 21st centuries to represent the Confederacy. Seeing the flag as symbolic of
culture and heritage doesn’t stand in comparison to its history of slavery, along with it long being a symbol of the Ku Klux Klan and white supremacist groups of the Citizens’ Councils. As pointed out in a column on Vox, the flag represents all of these things and bears the same meaning it did during the Civil War. This oppressive, violent history can’t be forgotten by putting a positive veil on it. South Carolina’s flag was first raised in 1962 in opposition to the civil rights movement, as mentioned in the Washington Post. State Gov. Nikki Haley’s press secretary told ABC News that Haley lacked the authority to remove the flag, as doing so would require permission from the state’s Legislature. Regardless, the flag should have been removed a long time ago. Flying it as Charleston mourns the Emanuel A.M.E. Church is undeniably a heinous reminder of a racist ideology that people continue to cling to. Sadly, a Pew Research Center poll found that a mere 30 percent of Americans had a negative reaction to the Confederate flag, with 58 percent having no reaction and 22 percent of white Southerners even having a positive reaction. Still, it’s time for the flag to go. Last Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled Texas is not violating the First Amendment in not allowing the Confederate flag to be shown on specialty license plates. In 2001, Florida had its Confederate flag removed from Tallahassee. However, Florida still flies a 50-feetby-30-feet battle flag — which is proclaimed as the world’s largest Confederate flag — in Brandon along I-75 that can be viewed miles away. The flag is heavier than Southern pride and representative of more than heritage. As tragedies such as the attack in Charleston still happen, it’s obvious the hatred behind the flag is still with us.
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What you said In light of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton recently speaking in favor of automatic, universal voter registration, editor Isabelle Cavazos asked students their thoughts on automatic registration.
“There is a value to getting the registration card. Once you get it yourself, you know that you can vote.” — Chelsea Ruff, a senior majoring in communication
“I think it’s more convenient. People will be more inclined to vote.” — Estefany Yanqui, a junior majoring in cell and molecular biology
“A lot of people don’t register and they don’t take the time. If it was done for them, they’d be more motivated to go.” — Ryan Haft, a junior majoring in mass communications
“It’s our duty to vote. I don’t think it’ll make a difference in how much people participate.” — Winter Harbison, a junior majoring in science education
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Coach Willie Taggart and the USF football coaching staff bolstered their “Mack Attack” in the backfield Saturday when three-star Charlotte High running back Elijah Mack committed to the Bulls along with two other recruits. Saturday was a busy day for Taggart and the Bulls, as the team gained commitments from Mack, three-star defensive end Kordell Slater of Port Charlotte and three-star athlete Armunz Mathews of North Florida Christian. Mack rushed for 1,120 yards on 183 carries in his junior
season last year at Charlotte. He also scored 16 touchdowns in 11 games for the Tarpons. He was being recruited by nine schools, including Arizona, UCF and Cincinnati, but the 5-foot-11, 215-pound junior chose to stay close to home with his commitment to the Bulls. Slater, a close friend of Mack’s, committed to USF shortly after. “Elijah is like my brother and we got each other into football in the first place and we always wanted to play together in college, so this is perfect for both of us,” Slater said to rivals.com. The 6-foot-5, 250-pound defensive end was recruited by linebackers coach
Raymond Woodie, according to rivals.com. “Coach Woodie has been on me since I was in the 10th grade and he has been my main guy most of the time. Coach (David) Reaves also had my area at one point and he is a good guy too,” Slater said. “With coach (Tom) Allen the new defensive coordinator from Ole Miss, I feel like the new scheme is perfect for me and they have a lot of guys graduating soon so there will be a good opportunity for me there.” Slater was being recruited by Virginia, East Carolina, Georgia Southern and Colorado State before settling on USF. After gaining Mack and
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Kiefer compiles strong schedule for Bulls By Vinnie Portell S P O R T S
Coach George Kiefer ensured the Bulls’ strength of schedule won’t keep them out of the NCAA Tournament, scheduling six teams that made the tournament last season. SPECIAL TO THE ORACLE
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After failing to reach the NCAA Tournament for the first time in eight seasons, USF men’s soccer coach George Kiefer scheduled a tough slate of games for the 2015 season. USF will play 14 of its 17 games this season against opponents who had a winning record last season, including six teams that made the NCAA Tournament. “The schedule is designed to meet the expectations of our players. They want to play good teams so we have met that want,” Kiefer said in a statement. “As a group we are looking forward to the 2015 journey.” Beginning with Georgetown on Aug. 30, USF will begin a three-game stretch where it will also play Notre Dame and Indiana. All three teams finished the 2014 season
ranked in the top 20 teams in the nation according to topdrawersoccer.com.
American Games. The tournament will take place July 21-25 in Toronto, Canada.
Two Bulls take talents overseas
Former USF receiver signs with Falcons
USF men’s basketball players Ruben Guerrero and Nehemias Morillo will return home for the summer as they prepare to represent their countries in international basketball tournaments. Following his first season with the Bulls, Guerrero will play for the Under-20 Spanish National Team in the European Championships from July 7-19 in Italy. Guerrero previously played for the U-18 Spanish National Team before coming to the U.S. After averaging 10.1 points per game as a starter for USF last season, Morillo will play for the U-25 Dominican Republic National Team, which will play in the Pan
Former USF receiver Carlton Mitchell lasted only two seasons with the Cleveland Browns after being selected in the sixth round in the 2010 NFL Draft, but will now have another chance to stick in the NFL after signing with the Atlanta Falcons on Thursday. The 6-foot-3, 215-pound receiver has caught three passes in his brief NFL career, but impressed the Falcons enough in a tryout to earn a contract. But despite signing the deal, Mitchell will still have to impress the Falcons coaching staff enough to survive the next round of cuts before stepping back on the gridiron on Sundays.