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Prefeast Manifesto - Preparing for the Thanksgiving Holiday

By Sean Kearney, Entertainment Editor
From Arcadia's The Tower, Volume XXIX Issue 3
(Edited by Ashley Pavone, CHC '11)

     Every holiday has its own form of preparation: get green clothes for St. Patrick's Day, get your presents together for Christmas, try to figure out what the hell Flag Day is about.  Thanksgiving's coming up and there's plenty to prep for.  Thanksgiving requires an iron constitution (stomach) and expert planning.  Here [are] a few tips for your turkey-related endeavors:

Stretch That Stomach:  Half the fun of Thanksgiving is the great American past-time of eating your face off.  A few days before Thanksgiving, start drinking tons of water to get your stomach to Thanksgiving-size.  You don't want to walk into dinner with a small plate, gingerly poking around at some peas and corn.  People who don't eat tons at Thanksgiving simply can't be trusted.  Stretch that stomach and dare your grandma to offer you another piece of pie.  Also, it will be good to stay hydrated during the inevitable post-dinner catatonic nap fest.

Pace Yourself:  Being at school now for a few months, you can expect to forget how good a home-cooked meal actually is.  This home-cooked feast will leave you wanting to munch at a frightening rate...don't do it.  You need to plan for the future, and by the future, I mean plates 2, 3, and the subsequent desert of pies and other seasonal baked goods.  You don't want to hit that coma stage early.

Conversation Pieces:  We all love our families.  You wouldn't be prepping for Thanksgiving if you didn't.  But let's face it - things change.  You've been away at school for a few months, meeting new friends, partying with the old.  Your old life and your new one might not see eye-to-eye.  When your

Annual Empty Bowl Dinner Back at CHC


Kaitlin Leonard ‘14
(From the Chestnut Hill College Griffin, November 2010)

CHC student DJ Lynch Serves Soup (Photo by Ashley Pavone, CHC '11)
     The Empty Bowl Dinner returns to the College Thursday, Nov. 18, providing students the opportunity to lend a helping hand as Thanksgiving, the season for giving, approaches.  One of the College’s most anticipated and charitable events, The Empty Bowl Dinner was originally held at Arcadia University. Twelve years ago, the event made its way to Chestnut Hill developing quite a following.  Each year profits increase; last year it reached $14,000.
  
Benefitters of the Dinner

The Empty Bowl Dinner is sponsored by Northwest Philadelphia Interfaith Hospitality Network (NPIHN), an organization that offers it’s services to those in need. NPIHN is mainly a volunteer-based network that provides housing, food, counseling and tutoring to families in need. Everything at the Empty Bowl Dinner has been donated by the community. The ceramic bowls are made by the community, the soup is donated by local restaurants (each are asked to donate at least 5 gallons), and Chartwells donates the bread and desserts. Students are asked to make a nominal contribution of $5 (admission is $15 for everyone else).

Quidditch Returns to CHC in 1st Ever Brotherly Love Cup!

Veronika Wilson, ’14
(From the Chestnut Hill College Griffin, October 2010)

     As Chestnut Hill’s regal campus begins to change this autumn, eager students anticipate a sport that was once only found in fiction. Quidditch season has arrived again, marking the College’s third year as a contender in the International Quidditch World Cup and tournament host.  The unique sport, adapted
for muggles or non-magical persons, was created at Middlebury College in Vermont, and has since proved to be one of Chestnut Hill’s most anticipated events.

 How Quidditch Began

CHC Ravenclaw vs Stony Brook (Photo by Nicole Mezzanotte, CHC '13)
     In 2008, when the Griffins were mere novices to the art of catching the snitch, the steadfast team managed to defeat the seasoned players of Princeton University at the World Cup, as well as several other hefty competitors.  The path to reaching such vigor isn’t necessarily a simple one. Although the law of gravity still applies, it doesn’t impede skilled players from swiftly swooping along the soccer field,
perched on their hand-crafted broomsticks. Actually, the broomsticks the College uses are authentic, Potter-approved brooms from accredited Quidditch supplier, Alivan’s.

Things to Know Before You Play

     Terms to be familiar with include the quaffle, a volleyball tossed by the chasers, and bludgers, dodge balls hurled by beaters. Chasers score goals by throwing the quaffle through one of the three goal posts while beaters take aim to