Volume 124 Issue 99
Friday, February 17, 2012
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// SARA SNEATH
Eat This... VEGGIE LUNCH
PHOTO BY SARA SNEATH
As community members bustle through the front entrance of the Ecumenical Campus Ministries, Amy Thompson greets them with a hug, keeping an eye on the amount of food laid out for her guests. Thompson, a sophomore from Shawnee, says with an average of 200 veggie lunch attendees, there is a science to making sure there is the right
"If we put all the food out at once, people would take like, a ton of it," Thompson says.
Thompson, a veggie lunch coordinator, says the best meals are the ones that are unique, feed everyone and are under budget. Donations accepted during the lunch fund the $100 weekly budget, Thompson says, and the ingredients are all purchased at Checkers. This week's cook, Seth Wiley, was able to make veggie jambalaya for a whopping $75.
This is the first time Wiley, a junior from Topeka, has cooked for the Tuesday meal. He says he often attends the lunch and wanted to try his hand at cooking. All of the cooks volunteer through a sign up sheet at the ECM.
Thompson says there are a lot of exchange students who cook. "I think they
really want to share their culture with the community, which is really what it's all about." Thompson says.
Thompson says veggie lunch is more than just free food; she describes it as a gateway drug to the rest of the ECM. Thompson has been a veggie lunch coordinator since last summer, and around that same time that she also became a resident of the ECM co-op.
My favorite part of the veggie lunch was the table overflowing with bread. Every week, Einstein Brothers Bagels, WheatFields Bakery and Great Harvest Bread donate day-old bread. Underneath the table are paper bags for attendees to take bread home with them.
Drink This... WASSAIL
// SARA SNEATH
As I walk into Harlow Sanders's kitchen, I am greeted with a wall of cinnamon apple aroma. I can't imagine a house with three men living in it always smells this good, but tonight Sanders, a senior from Branson, Mo., is making wassail.
Wassail originates from England, and was actually a favored drink of Charles Dickens, according to npr.org. Wassail — pronounced WAH-sehl — is a sweet holiday cider heated with spices and fruit. Sanders says his mother used to make it every Christmas. He called his mother for the recipe last semester, but she no longer had it, he says. The recipe he is using tonight is one he found online that he has used in the past.
Harlow Sanders busy at work making wassail.
"This is the most in-depth recipe I could find. It makes a lot and will put you to sleep." Sanders says.
We begin by coring the apples and filling them each with a teaspoon of brown sugar. We place the apples in a baking pan with 1/8-inch of water. Next, we insert whole cloves into the oranges. Sanders uses a knife to puncture the oranges, to make it easier to insert the cloves about 1/2 inch apart. We place the oranges in a pan along with the apples and bake them
at 350 degrees for 20 minutes. While the apples and oranges bake, we combine the red wine, cider, nutmeg, ginger, cinnamon and sugar in a large pot. We heat the mixture slowly, without allowing it to boil.
When they are done baking, we throw the apples into the pot. Not all of the apples make it into the pot, as some are
diverted into my tummy. We cut the oranges in half and squeeze the juice into the mixture. Then, we add the orange rinds. We leave the brandy out to allow the drinker to add it to his or her individual taste.
The drink makes enough for 15 to 20 people and takes about 30 minutes to make; it is so rich it takes about the same amount of time to drink.
INGREDIENTS:
10 small apples
2 medium size oranges
Whole cloves
10 teaspoons brown sugar
2 bottles dry red wine
1/2 teaspoon grated nutmeg
1 teaspoon ground ginger
2 or 3 cinnamon sticks
1 1/2 cup extra fine sugar
12 to 20 pints cider
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The tournament used prison ball rules, which differ slightly from regular dodgeball rules. If you are hit anywhere on the body, including your face or head, you're out. The ball is live until it touches a ceiling, a wall or floors. This means a ball is still live if it bounces off a player, which is different from normal dodgeball, where a ball is only live if it has not touched anything.
A limited budget, a month of rehearsal and a cast and crew comprised completely of students could be a director's worst nightmare. For Jacci Lufkin, it was a dream come true.
Lufkin was excited about the chance to direct a project since opportunities for aspiring theater directors are often limited. But being in charge of the show isn't easy. Her first task was choosing a one-act play that could be successfully staged with the available
"You get a minimal budget, a minimal set so that it's only about your acting and your directing," Lufkin said. "This is supposed to be about the students that you're directing and what you can get out of them as far as your acting ability."
The second performance is tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the William Inge Memorial Theatre in Murphy Hall. Tickets are available on the University Theatre website.
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This year Lufkin, a junior from Melbourne, Fla., was the one student selected by the University Theatre Department to direct a one-act play.
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The length of the show also allowed Lukkin and her actors, Julie Miller, a senior from Hutchinson, and Alex Roschitz, a junior from Kansas City, Kan., to develop both the comedy and drama of the play. Roschitz said that being a part of a two person cast was something he had never done before, but it gave him an opportunity to explore his character and play off of Miller. Working with a student director instead of a professor or an outside director was also something new.
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1930s New Orleans, the story focuses on a mother soliciting gossip from her son, who is struggling with a secret. Lufkin was drawn to the one-act play because of its emotional intensity, but also because it required little set design.
"It's a totally different experience from anything I've had." Roschitz
"It's so raw; it's so easy without anything else," Lukin said. "You could do this in a park. You could do this in a stairwell."
"Whether it's dodgeball or something else, we would like to see this continue to help student organizations who have smaller budgets."
DAKOTA STRANGE
SUA Spirit Coordinator
After "Auto-da-fe," the recently formed group, Musical Theatre for Kansas, will perform a thirty-minute musical love story. Gil Perez-Abraham, a junior from Wichita, said the group members, like Lufkin, were excited to have a chance to show off skills that aren't always showcased in the theater department.
"It's so unique for a university to have this kind of opportunity for the students, just to have the group and the performance opportunities." Perez-Abraham said.
Student Union Activities hosted a dodgeball tournament that consisted of 10 teams, and each team had seven players with at least three women on the team. The tournament started out as double-elimination, which means a team must lose twice to be eliminated from the tournament. After half the teams were eliminated, the tournament switched to a round-robin format where all five teams played each other once. The teams with the two best records would face off in a best two out of three series.
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SUA opened the tournament up to all students, but it was geared more toward student organizations. The winning team received $225, and second place winners received $150
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Dakota Strange, spirit coordinator in SUA, was happy to see a student organization win first place. The tournament was originally exclusive for student organizations, but because of the lack of teams, SUA opened it up to all students.
We are holding a basketball tournament for the Boys and Girls Club," Marello said. "We are giving the kids free t-shirts, so the money will be put to good use."
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Strange said SUA held this tournament to benefit student organizations and to help with its budgets. He also hopes to make this an annual event.
"It was a good showing from student organizations, and we received a lot of positive feedback." Strange said. "We want to continue events like this in the future. Whether its dodgeball or something else, we would like to see this continue to help student organizations who have smaller budgets."
Edited by Corinne Westeman
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