Hot Wing Eating Contest
The fifteen contestants of the Hot Wing Eating Contest that took place on Thursday, November 4th waited eagerly for the signal to dig into their pile of spiciness. The award of $50 in Food Funds was waiting for the carnivore that could eat the most wings in five minutes. True Grit’s staff prepared to refill plates as they were emptied.
The air was tense, or maybe that was just the spicy aroma floating in and out of everyone’s lungs. With five minutes on the clock, Darryl Wolod (Director of Resident Dining), shouted, “Go!” and sauce started flying everywhere!
For some, the intensity drove them to rely on milk or water to help dilute the sauce.
As meatless bones started hitting the plates, one of the contestants seemed to be pulling ahead of the others.
Chris Krasias was his name. And with a determined look on his face, he kept calling for more wings from the staff. Right behind him was Ziang Lin.
Some thought he had outwinged Chris. The clock was still ticking and bones started to pile up on the plates. Who would be the victor?
Then the countdown started. The group of spectators counted along from ten down to zero. Time was up! And it was time to count the cleaned bones from the devastated trough of meat.
First, Ziang was counted. He managed to get 25 wings down in just five minutes!
Then, all eyes were on Chris. Everyone watched carefully as his bones were counted, “23, 24, 25, …” It was clear that he would surpass Ziang’s number. In the end, he finished off 29 wings! But it was all worth it. The free plate of wings and $50 to spend on food put a smile on Chris’s face as he accepted his award.
But there really were no losers in this contest; everyone got to enjoy some free wings!
Stay tuned for more eating contests from Chartwell’s in the future. There is talk of a watermelon or falafel event next semester!
Photos: Mark Tarkanick
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Database Trial: Morningstar Investment Research...
Full Title: Database Trial: Morningstar Investment Research Center - ends 12/10/2010UMBC now has trial access to the Morningstar Investment Research Center.
The Morningstar Investment Research Center is an all-inclusive investment research database designed specifically for libraries. It features data and analysis on over 11,000 international and domestic stocks, 24,000 mutual funds, and more than 1,000 exchange traded funds.
The trial runs through December 10, 2010.
For off-campus access, please login via VPN first (http://vpn.umbc.edu). Then follow the link under "News & Events" on the library homepage. For more info on remote access, see http://aok.lib.umbc.edu/services/remoteaccess.php
Feedback is encouraged. Use the form below or send directly to Drew Alfgren: alfgren@umbc.edu
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Mina's Legacies
I imagine the scene played out something like this: Bundled up in her winter coat, 12-year old Mina Appel longs to press through the throngs of passengers to claim a spot on the port side rail. But she has younger brothers and sisters to mind, and her mother Reise insists that they all stay away from the heart of the crowd, where little Franciska and Salli could be trampled. The breeze sweeping the deck of the Graf Waldersee stings Mina’s face and numbs her ears, but she welcomes the relief it provides from the sour smells of a damp 10-day voyage in steerage class.
Mina has a taste for adventure, but after the last two punishing weeks all she can think about is the life she has left behind in the town of Olublo, Hungary: her friends from school, the horses in their stables, the comforts of a house big enough for her family of 10. She knows she can expect a much harder life at the end of this voyage, in a foreign country whose language she does not speak, where her family does not have roots generations deep.
When Mina’s reverie is broken by cheers erupting from the rails and spreading across the deck, she stands on her toes and cranes her neck, eager to catch a glimpse of the copper-clad symbol of this new world: the Statue of Liberty. Later on this afternoon of December 29, 1905, Mina and her family will be processed on Ellis Island and, after some anxious hours, permitted to enter the United States at long last.
Mina’s father Sigmund awaits them in Milwaukee, where he has been staying with members of Reise’s extended family. In the old country, Sigmund had been a traveler by trade: a dealer in linens who carried his wares by horse and buggy from hamlet to hamlet across Eastern Europe. He is a stern and devout man, protective of Mina and his other children. One of Mina’s treasured possessions is a beautiful white kerchief embroidered with her initials, a special order Papa placed with one of his suppliers.*
In Sigmund’s mind this unwelcome, destiny-altering migration has been forced by events in Olublo. Anti-Semitism is on the rise. Sigmund believes he can no longer keep his family safe in Hungary. His inventory was looted on the night before Yom Kippur, and his oldest sons faced conscription into the army if they stayed. Sigmund sent the boys to Milwaukee two years ago, then followed them a year later, with plans for the rest of his family to join him once he had made arrangements in their new home.
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| Leo Spitz, 25, and Minnie Appel, 23, in July 1915. |
Mina will thrive in Milwaukee. An extraordinarily bright girl, she will learn English and catch up to her grade level in school within a year. Like most of the other members of her family, she will come to be known by an Americanized version of her name: “Minnie.”
Like her mother Reise (“Rose”) before her, Minnie will be married to a stern and industrious man through an arrangement by her parents. Leo Spitz, a tannery worker, will keep food on his family’s table during both the Roaring 20s and the Great Depression. Minnie will provide their four children, all girls, with a stable and comfortable home life.
Minnie and Leo’s third daughter, Ruth, an inheritor of her mother’s adventurous spark, will marry for love at age 19. Her husband Irv Krasno, a Russian immigrant, will work in his family’s Milwaukee egg business alongside his father and brothers. But the Krasno men are proud and stubborn, and their partnership will collapse into a battle of factions. Ultimately Irv and Ruth, with four daughters of their own, will seek their fortune in the west, in California, where they once spent an enjoyable vacation under sunny skies.
Irv and Ruth’s second daughter, Sandy, will meet her future husband Herb Hoffman at a college dance. They will marry in 1965, and have the first of three children in 1967. Sandy and Herb (the son of immigrants from Poland and Israel) will make steadiness and security priorities for their family. They will encourage their children to become members of stable and prestigious professions—doctor, lawyer, teacher—rather than risk-takers.
Their first child, a boy, David, will meet his great grandmother, Minnie Appel—Grandma Mimi—on two or three occasions when she visits from Milwaukee. She will pass away, at age 80, when he is five years old. He will retain only the vaguest firsthand impression of her personality: her affection, and her strength. But all his life he will navigate Mina’s legacies, and those of Sigmund and Rose, Leo, Ruth and Irv, Sandy and Herb: the yearning for adventure, and the bold, even rebellious willingness to risk everything for a better life, intertwined with the craving for stability and an end to upheavals, and the comforts of a well-worn path.
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| Minnie Appel Spitz (left), 75, and her younger sister Mary in December, 1967. The baby in Minnie's lap is me (age 2+ months); in Mary's lap, my cousin Julie. |
*More than a century later, Mina’s kerchief survives in a wooden box in my home.
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