Unity Week at Ball State University is a chance for students to experience different cultures, and Wednesday night the Multicultural Center gave students a taste of the world.
The center hosted A Cup of Culture and filled students' stomachs with ethnic foods, such as Norwegian soup, Spanish meals, Serbian food, spicy Italian spaghetti and Laotian fried rice.
Graduate assistant Tawana Jackson said the event's goal was to give students a taste of culture.
"The foods are representative of different ethnicity to help promote awareness," she said. "We wanted to take a new avenue to teach about different cultures as opposed to a sit-down speaker."
Tiffany Washington, assistant director of Student Life, said she wanted to give students a rare eating experience in honor of Unity Week.
"We didn't serve the typical all-American food; therefore, students got to taste something unique," she said.
Megan Cress, a sophomore elementary education major, said she attended A Cup of Culture to support her friend who is in the upcoming pageant. She has lots of friends from different backgrounds, and she said she liked what she tasted.
"The food was really good, I'm glad I attended," she said.
Kent Robinson, senior music education major, said he was invited to the event by a friend but also came because he wanted to experience something new.
"I wanted to come to enjoy some different kinds of food, meet some new people, and of course, it doesn`t hurt that the food was free," he said.
Washington said she was pleased with the number of students who showed up.
"I wouldn't have expected any more people or any less," she said.
Washington said the free recipe books students received helped attract people to the event.
"We made 65 recipe books, and they were gone pretty quickly," she said. "Therefore, it's good to know at least 65 people showed up."
Junior Amanda Ostoich, Miss Unity 2006, said this was one of the more relaxed events of the week.
"This was a more laid-back and fun event," she said. "It was a good chance for a broad portion of the student body to come in and participate in Unity Week."
Washington said she hoped the final Unity Week events would be as successful as A Cup of Culture.
"I would like everyone to give the same support to this event to the rest of the week's events," she said.
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