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NORTH TEXAS DAILY
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Student Life
Tuesday, October 18,2005 Page 3
Food Finds
Find out how Ruby's Diner rates to a
reporter's tasteblitis. Tomorrow
N s ewish students build sukkah or cel ebration
Hillel honors
patriarch with
festival
Leslie Wimmer
Life Intern
The NT Hillel Jewish Students
Organization set up a hut, or
"sukkah," said prayers and ate
pizza in front of the University
Union Sunday to celebrate the
Jewish festival of Sukkot.Sukkot
is a Jewish festival that pays
tribute to the 40-year journey
Moses and the Israelites took
through the desert after leaving
Egypt. Sukkahs are built to
represent the huts that Moses
and the Israelites built every
night on their trek through the
desert.
"IThe sukkah] symbol-
izes God's presence," James
Mcintosh, Dallas junior and
Hillel member, said.
Sukkot lasts for seven days,
and religious families celebrate
it by building a sukkah outside
of their homes and living in it
for one week.
Because NT is home to the
Hillel organization, members
build their sukkah outside of
the Union.
Traditionally, sukkahs are
made of wood and draped in
leaves, fresh fruits and vegeta-
bles that are in harvest. Religious
families make dinners with the
fruits and vegetables and eat
them in the sukkah.
Since the Hillel organization
is on a college budget, its sukkah
is draped with artificial leaves
and vines and artificial fruit. As
members said prayers in Hebrew
on Sunday, they enjoyed grapes,
grape juice and pizza.
Chad Grossman, Piano
freshman and Hillel member,
said he spent nine months in
Israel as part of a study abroad
program. He spent time traveling,
volunteering and got to experi-
ence Sukkot in Jerusalem.
"Everyone had a sukkah, and
they would build them on their
balconies," Grossman said.
Sukkot is also an agricultural
holiday, more familiarly known
to Christians as the Feast of
Tabernacles.
The Hillel's Sukkah will be
taken down Oct. 26, and NT
students are invited to join the
group for dessert and smoking
hookahs.
The NT Hillel Jewish Students
Organization has 127 members
and began in 2000. According
to the organization's faculty
adviser, Sander Martin, Hillel
is a Jewish sage.
NT Hillel also throws an
annual Israel Fair during the
spring semester on the campus
green in front of the Business
Administration Building.
Hillel members have monthly
meetings, and once a month,
they have Shabbat dinners.
Shabbat dinners symbolize the
Jewish Sabbath, much like the
Christian Sunday, and students
spend the day resting.
Hillel members often get
together to play broomball, a
game played on ice, like hockey.
But instead of hockey sticks, a
puck and ice skates, members
use brooms, a ball and tennis
shoes.
For more information on the
Hillel organization, students
can visit the group's Web site
at http://orgs.unt.edu/Hillel
or e-mail Marcee Schect at
marceeschect@hotmail.com
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NT's Hillel Jewish Students Organization built a "sukkah," or hut, covered in vines, fruit and
vegetables in front of the University Union Sunday in honor of Sukkot. The structure will stay up
until Oct. 26.
Anniversary of cavern discovery comes complete with food, reenactment
Texas caves
unearthed over
50 years ago
SONORA (AP) - It wasn't much
- just a ledge. But it was exactly
what the six men had come to
see.
They followed a path up, and
there was the narrow ledge,
maybe 25 feet high along the
wall in what was then called
Mayfield Cave. Jack Prince, 26,
was in the lead.
The ledge seemed wide
enough, so Prince shimmied
across, ignoring the concerns
of his friends.
Prince ended up at the opening
of a small passage, so he crawled
in, squeezing through until it
opened into an amazing cavern.
He ran back to get his buddies.
"Hey, you guys, come here," he
said. "This is really stunning."
Fifty years later, the Caverns of
Sonora is one of the most distinc-
tive caves in the world, renowned
for its beauty as well as its acces-
sibility to the public.
Prince and the two surviving
members of that initial caving
crew returned recently to the
cave they pioneered as the
cavern celebrated the 50th anni-
versary of the discovery of what
lies beyond its entrance.
The celebration included
barbecue, re-enactments and
a reunion of several cavers and
photographers who played a role
in the cave's discovery and its
opening to the public.
"They didn't find it all on the
first trip," said Bill Sawyer, the
cave's operations manager.
Prince and his partners
- Jack Allen, Allen Cain, Pete
Cobb, Claude Head and Danny
Sheffield - explored about 80
percent of the cave after they
discovered that more lies beyond
its entrance.
Discovery of the full depth of
the Mayfield Cave's beauty was
a multistep process.
The cave initially was merely
a 20-inch hole on the Sutton
County ranch of the Mayfield
family, blocked with rocks to
prevent accidental injury until
the 1920s, when so many sight-
seers explored the pit, they
destroyed its fragile forma-
tions.
For 30 years, the wonders of
the Mayfield Cave southwest
of Sonora remained hidden. In
1955, amateur cavers Bart and
Bob Crisman noticed the ledge
along the top edge of the pit.
"Nobody had ever crossed it,"
said Bart Crisman, who was 23
at the time. "It didn't look neces-
sarily that promising. We just
noticed it was there."
The Crisman brothers,
who explored caves by asking
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ranchers and town leaders if they
knew of any nearby, didn't have
time that weekend to explore the
ledge, so they told Prince and his
crew about it.
Thus it fell to Prince to discover
the cave.
"Jack was a new caver and
didn't know any better and went
across it," Crisman joked. "You
never know what's behind a little
tough crawlway or ledge."
In this case, it was millions
of helictites, rare and fragile
formations caused when pres-
sure forces mineral-rich water
into tiny tubes. Some are as tiny
as hair, others as thick as a pair
of antlers, all as unique as a
snowflake.
One particular set, shaped like
a butterfly, is world-famous.
Over the next few weeks, Prince
and his friends explored more of
the cave, going so deep into its
eight miles of passages that they
even spent a night inside.
"That was an experience," he
said. "There's nothing darker
than that."
Five years after the rest of
Mayfield Cave was discovered
and explored, the cave was
opened to the public under the
design and direction of Jack
Burch, who has commercialized
caves around the country.
Since then, thousands of tour-
ists have explored the Caverns
of Sonora in a way that allows
the public to enjoy its beauty
while preserving its delicate
formations.
The original explorers gradu-
ated from college and moved on
to full-time employment, usually
not in the spelunking industry.
Even Prince and his buddies, at
the time graduate students at
Southern Methodist University,
moved on after they finished
their education.
However, they never explored
another cave.
"We didn't mess around with
any other Texas caves from then
on," he said.
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