Huddled in a tent, a group of Ball State University students smoked hookahs in LaFollette Field on Thursday night. Coal sparks flew and the tent heaved in the blustery wind, but event organizers said they were pleased with the number of people who turned out for Ball State Hillel's first hookah bar.
"I can't say no to hookah," Ball State freshman Ethan Jackson said. "It's classy. It's like the classiest thing ever."
Jackson, who enjoyed the peach and apple flavored tobaccos, said he had never smoked from the water pipe until that evening.
"This is my first time smoking hookah," he said. "This is my first time, and I hope it's not the last."
Students paid $1 each for mouth pieces to use on the nine hookahs that offered smokers several different flavors of tobacco.
"We aren't allowed to sell tobacco," Hillel member Valerie Pritchet said. "So they're buying the tips to smoke with."
Ball State junior Megan Sharp said she liked the peach flavored tobacco the best.
"I only tried a cigarette once and it was awful," she said. "This is easier. It tastes a lot better and it's not as bad for you."
Ball State Hillel vice president Phillip Werbel said Jewish Heritage Week events will close out tomorrow with an Israeli dinner beginning at 5:30 p.m. in the Yuhas Room of the L.A. Pittenger Student Center.
"Israeli food is something a lot of people haven't had before," he said. "I guess you could classify it as Mediterranean."
Werbel said the buffet style dinner will feature a variety of Israeli and Jewish foods like hummus and Kugel, a traditional noodle dish.
Werbel said today's Israeli dinner will be the first ever held on Ball State's campus. In the past, Temple Beth El on Jackson Street played host to the event.
Pritchet said the dinner, Hillel's largest fundraiser of the year, will cost $7 for Ball State students and $15 for guests.
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