Marketplace welcomes students for Thanksgiving Feast Welcome	Students enjoy fruit-vegetable bar Fruit-Vegetable Bar	Chi Omega sorority sisters Lindsey and Kate enjoy fruit-vegetable bar Chi Omega sorority sisters	Pitt Cheerleaders Lauren Paoletti & Lauren Dmitsak sample fruit-vegetable bar Pitt Cheerleaders	Volleyball intramural player Shawna Haines serves herself from fruit-vegetable bar Volleyball Intramural Player
Students enjoy bread bar Bread Bar	Employees replenish the desert bar Desert Bar	Students start pouring into the Marketplace Students near cashier	More students start coming in Students come in	Casey and Josie get desert as other students contemplate what to get Desert Bar contemplation
A line starts forming inside the Marketplace Line inside	Students wait to get their main feast Main Feast	Marketplace manager Ryan Lacey asseses how much Turkey is left Manager Ryan Lacey	Students continue to get Turkey as it is about to run out Turkey	Employees make sure students are taken care of Employees
The line goes all the way to the back as students wait to get their feast Line backup	Managers open up a second line as the line circles the Marketplace Second line	The rush of students depletes the Turkey and students chant 'We want Turkey!,We want Turkey!' We want Turkey	Students wait patiently to get their main feast Main feast	Employees become excited to get more turkey for the students More turkey
Students are excited to get their turkey Excited students	Students Carrie and Julie leave after enjoying the feast Departing students

Photos by Ramesh C. Reddy

Ramesh C. Reddy
Editor-in-Chief

Editors Note: This is not a news story but my view of the feast!
 

           As 4:00 p.m. approached I got an inside view of the Marketplace where hundreds of students started to gather to enjoy the magnificent Thanksgiving feast. Whether it was cheerleaders, intramural players, sorority sisters they were all excited to be part of the Thanksgiving feast. The students coming in were not limited solely to those groups.

          John Martin, a former SGB candidate remarked that he did not even know there was going to be a Thanksgiving feast but decided to come as he was in the neighborhood. As he took his tray and plates he was enthusiastic for showing up.

           Students were able to choose from the fruit-vegetable bar, to the bread bar, to the desert bar before they got their main feast. As the night progressed and the management and employees did their best to serve the students, the lines kept growing.

           It was so busy that I saw management have to return blocks to students because they had to be in class and could not wait in the rush. Many students were so excited to enjoy the Thanksgiving feast they decided to wait out the line for their feast. Soon students starting asking when Sutherland would have their Thanksgiving Feast.

        As the night progressed, a unexpected second line had to be opened because students were circling inside the Marketplace. At one point when the line was not moving,  students started chanting, "We want Turkey, We want Turkey!"

        Through all it was a friendly and humorous atmosphere as students patiently waited in line. The employees faces lighted up as more turkey came in for the patient students. As students continued to get the feast, the evening started to wind down and it was almost closing time.

       By the end, more than 800 students took part in the Thanksgiving feast not counting the students who left because they did not have time to wait  in line. Lots of students had only words of praise for the Marketplace's willingness to treat the students with the feast and were hoping Sutherland Cafeteria would have their feast soon.

    Ryan Lacey, Marketplace manager felt it was success as students enjoyed the feast!