Spring Break
Students experience foods from other cultures at I-week
By: Nathan Ball
Issue date: 3/3/08 Section: News
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The ticket line stretched across the second floor of the MSC and down the stairs before the event started.
"ISA is expecting at least 1,000 tickets to be sold," said Mandar Kulkarni, president of ISA. "This I-Buffet and variety show is the biggest event of the year. We've been preparing since last semester. Go ahead, enjoy your food and I hope that next year the I-buffet is even bigger and better."
International student organizations were ready to serve when the doors opened at 7:00 p.m. Twenty different student groups cooked different foods from their home countries.
"This is easily the largest annual culinary event at Texas A&M," said Elsa Kosegarten, ISA's vice president of marketing.
The Indian table was especially popular. Tandoori chicken, spicy strips of meat which are dipped in a green sauce, was provided as the main course, followed by a bean-milk, fruit, and a rice dessert drink. Priyanka Guha, a construction science graduate student, said that lots of work went into preparing the food. Ten people marinated and cooked the chicken and prepared the other dishes over the course of three days.
Trouble began downstairs at the MSC box office when the windows closed at 7:20 that evening. Hundreds of American and international students still waiting in line to buy tickets for the event clashed with staff members who were supposed to go home at 7:00. A box office manager, Erin, physically placed herself between the windows and the crowd, saying "Y'all have to go, it is past our closing time."
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