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Monday, April 15, 2002
By Lyndsey Sage
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of the bowl.
“My fiance’s ring was so cold when he final
ly got to it, he couldn’t even hold it between his
teeth,” Thompson said.
Like most seniors, Thompson dunked her
ring to adhere to tradition.
Friends threw a party for David Crowder, a
senior biomedical sciences major, to celebrate
his ring dunking.
“I dunked it in a pitcher of beer,” Crowder
said. “I have no idea how long it took me.”
Some students try to reach the ring in the same
amount of seconds as their class year, but
Jditions, ring dunking has joined the
i| of traditions. Although it is not offi-
lly recognized as a tradition by the
|iversity, ring dunking has become
dost as much tradition as having an
gie ring.
Kathy Thompson, a senior history
yor, said although she is not usually
ited about traditions she was sur-
sed to see how her feelings changed
en she got her ring.
■ “It was exciting to know that I had
Bally made it and gotten all my hours
case sparked u to" I needed to have,” Thompson said.
From bowls filled with ice cream to
chers of beer, from gallons of milk
whip cream pies, students make their
gdunking as memorable as possible.
Thompson, along with her fiance,
nked their rings in ice cream at
Swenson’s because she thought ice
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lie experience horrible. The two were
peered on by several friends as they
[dug into their bowls.
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Crowder said he was not concerned about that
aspect of the tradition.
“I wanted to dunk my ring because it was an
Aggie tradition,” Crowder said.
Unlike most students, Jennifer Jose, a senior
agricultural business major, had a motive other
than tradition for dunking her ring.
“I had a friend who passed away that
couldn’t, so I did it for him,” Jose said.
“1 always told him he was going to dunk
mine for me but when he passed away, I
did it for him instead.”
Jose and eight other girls dunked their
rings outside The Dixie Chicken last spring
during Parents’ Weekend. She said her par
ents were hesitant about the dunking
because they feared she would get sick.
“I can’t stand beer, but they told me if
I did it in anything else, I would get
sick.” Jose said. “I didn’t get sick but
some of the girls did. They had trash
bags in their belt for when they did.”
Erin Delcarson, a senior speech com
munications major, took an alternative
approach to dunking her ring.
“I didn’t want to do beer, so my friend
suggested I dunk it in a cake,” Delcarson
said. “She baked me a 9-by-13 inch
chocolate cake, stuck the ring in it while it
was cooling, covered it with icing, and
wrote 'Happy Ring Dunking’ on the cake.”
Set-off with a “ready, set, go” by her
friends, Delcarson’s hands were tied
behind her back and she found her ring
with only her mouth.
“I had icing up my nose and, eventu
ally, I just started spitting out the cake,”
Delcarson recalled. “I couldn’t find it for
the longest time so my friend gave me a
hint. She told me what half of the cake it
was in, except she told me the wrong half
so it took me even longer to find it. In the
end, I looked like a chipmunk.”
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