THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
MONDAY,NOVEMBER 25,2002
Cook,compete,consume Students partake in dumpling contest
ByJenna Goepfert
jgoepfert@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
With secret weapon in tow, Yih Sing Loh came to the Community Building, 115 W. 11th St., to win.
The Gemencheh, Malaysia, senior gathered with the Taiwanese Student Association Saturday afternoon for a festival featuring a rice dumpling cooking competition. The rice dumplings is a traditional Chinese food for celebrations.
"We usually eat these at the end of the year in wintertime," Loh said as he sized up the competition.
He brought along his secret weapon, a mixing bowl with food coloring and a mold to shape the dumplings, but he said he had "no idea" how to make them.
No matter, said he and his
teammate, Wei-Ming Chang, Taiwan senier. Chang's mother and third teammate, Tjantik, would help guide them.
The seven teams, each with three members, lined up in the basement of the building as the association's treasurer, Yvonne Yu, went over the directions in Mandarin.
The teams competed first for quantity, then for height as groups stacked the tallest dumpling tower, and finally for style.
The dumplings are made from a rice powder and shaped into nickel-sized spheres. Water and powder are added to create the right consistency. Grandmothers usually passed the technique down to younger generations, but times have changed, Loh said.
"Nowadays, they just go to the convenience store and buy the package." Loh said.
Experience ruled the first round of competition, as three "grandmas" won with 74 completed dumplings. Loh and the Changs placed fifth.
By the time the style competition came around, Loh, Chang and Tiantik were ready to win.
The teams were given red and white dough. Red is the color of happiness, said Yang Chuan Chang, Lawrence resident, who used to make rice dumplings with his mother.
Competitors stepped back and clapped their hands, sending puffs of rice powder into the air.
The team learned it would have to do without its secret weapon bowl, as the rules stated that no outside utensils could be brought in. After a few minutes, they finished their creation — "Heroes Save the Princess."
The team took second place.
Eric Braem/Kansan
(From left) Wei-Ming Chang, Taiwan senior, his mother Tjantik, and Yih Sing Loh, Malaysia senior, attempt to build the tallest rice dumpling tower. The team was one of seven involved in the Taiwanese Student Association's festival and competition Saturday, which included three dumpling-related events.
"The old ones have experience and the young guys have creativity," said Yang Chuan Chang of the winners. "It makes sense."
The association organizes sev
eral events every semester to help bring all the Taiwanese students together, but Saturday's event had a different focus, said the association's webmaster, Hardy Chang.
Taiwan senior.
"Eating is our main thing," he said.
Diverse couples blur the line between religion and love
—Edited by Ryan Malashock
By Aaron Passman
apassman@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
The University of Kansas has more than 25,000 people on campus, all coming from different religious and ethnic backgrounds.
With such a wide-variety of people and beliefs, it's not surprising that many students with different beliefs find themselves in relationships together.
Beth Blizzard, Overland Park senior, and Jeff McClure, Wichita junior, met at a party in June 2001 and have been dating
for nearly a year and a half. Blizzard is agnostic and McClure has been Buddhist for the past seven years. Despite this difference in beliefs, the two said they were deeply committed to one another.
Blizzard and McClure's interfaith relationship appears to be indicative of a blurring of the lines between religion and love.
The American Religious Identity Survey (ARIS) was conducted in 2001 by sociologists at the Graduate School of the City University of New York as a follow-up to a 1990 survey.
ARIS 2001 used a sample of
50,000 Americans to determine various religion statistics across the country.
According to the survey, ARIS 2001 found that among all households with either a married or domestic partner couple, 22 percent reported a mixture of religious identification among the couple.
ARIS went on to conclude that about 28 million American couples, married or otherwise, live in mixed-religion households.
McClure said he had several Buddhist friends and after spending time with them, he became
attracted to Buddhism. He said being Buddhist means thinking of the world differently than you would otherwise and learning to rely on yourself.
"With Buddhism you are the higher power, as opposed to depending on another higher power," said McClure. "It's about disciplining your mind to achieve whatever you want to achieve in life."
Blizzard said, despite her agnosticism, there were advantages to dating someone so committed to his faith.
"Being in a relationship with a Buddhist has opened my eyes a
lot." Blizzard said. "I've learned a lot from Jeff about Buddhism and East Asian societies. But at the same time, I definitely don't agree with some of the ideas of Buddhism, like reincarnation and the Buddhist view of women."
McClure said Buddhism helped him stay calm during stressful times and he used daily meditation to relax himself.
"Taking spiritual time out of your day is hard to fit in, but you have to try to find time," McClure said.
— Edited by Chris Wintering
"I've learned a lot from Jeff about Buddhism and East Asian societies. But at the same time, I definitely don't agree with some of the ideas of Buddhism, like reincarnation and the Buddhist view of
women."
Beth Blizzard Overland Park senior
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