NOVEMBER 21, 2011
\nBy Sara Morano \u201914, Contributing Writer<\/p>\n
Furman students are notoriously polite, but there were elbows on tables and napkins off laps last night in the Paladen food court for Chi Omega\u2019s \u201cWings for Wishes\u201d event.<\/p>\n
These breeches of etiquette were excused, though, because, after all, it\u2019s hard to mind your manners when you\u2019re all bibbed up and racing eight other guys to eat 20 chicken wings before a cheering crowd.<\/p>\n
A team of two Furman baseball players secured victory by employing strategy that, to the lay crowd of wing-eaters, among them Jenna Macnair, looked like, \u201cThey were just shoving entire wings their mouth and spitting out bones.\u201d<\/p>\n
With such technique, it took the winners\u00a0just under four minutes to polish off their sauce-covered wings. The almost 300 other guests, however, ate their buffet-style chicken wing dinner at a more relaxed pace, dropping in to dine and mingle in\u00a0the University Center during the two-hour event.<\/p>\n
In addition to the\u00a0wing-eating competition between five teams, entertainment was provided by\u00a0an NFL game\u00a0playing in the Gauntlet recreation room.<\/p>\n
The combination of wings and football is\u00a0not\u00a0new for the\u00a0sponsor,\u00a0Wild Wings restaurant and sports bar in Greenville, but it is a new fundraiser for the Chi Omegas.<\/p>\n
Philanthropy Chair Jessie Wolfinger spoke enthusiastically about the ticket sales. Proceeds from the event will support\u00a0providing\u00a0a ticket, through the Make-A-Wish foundation, for a trip to Disneyland for\u00a0an eight-year-old boy with a terminal heart condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NOVEMBER 21, 2011
\nBy Sara Morano \u201914, Contributing Writer<\/p>\n
Furman students are notoriously polite, but there were elbows on tables and napkins off laps last night in the Paladen food court for Chi Omega\u2019s \u201cWings for Wishes\u201d event.<\/p>\n
These breeches of etiquette were excused, though, because, after all, it\u2019s hard to mind your manners when you\u2019re all bibbed up and racing eight other guys to eat 20 chicken wings before a cheering crowd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":225,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","category-greek-life"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}