Daily Debriefing
By David Jiang
Published on Monday, October 6, 2008
The Kahurangi Maori Dance Theatre, a performing arts group from New Zealand, was honored at a dinner held in Collis Common Ground Sunday. The dinner featured a performance of a Maori welcome chant by Dartmouth students who participated in the anthropology department's foreign study program in New Zealand last winter. The dinner was hosted by Dartmouth's anthropology, Native American studies, and linguistics and cognitive science departments. The troupe, which specializes in indigenous dance and music from New Zealand's Maori tribe, will perform at Bones Gate fraternity on Monday and the Hopkins Center for the Arts on Tuesday, as part of its annual North American tour. This show will combine dance, chanting and oratory to showcase Maori culture.
The Dartmouth Outing Club hosted its annual Fall Weekend on Saturday and Sunday, holding a number of outdoor activities in an effort to encourage involvement in the DOC. The weekend was headlined by "The 50," a 24-hour hike that covers 53.5 miles, beginning at Robinson Hall and finishing at Moosilauke Lodge. Other weekend activities included climbing, hiking, trailwork, kayaking, mountain-biking and farming. The DOC also organized a shuttle that took students to the Lodge for dinner and a concert on Saturday evening.
Approximately 200 local residents raised $19,693.70 for the American Diabetes Association at the "Step Out: Walk to Fight Diabetes" fund-raising walk at Hanover High School this Saturday. The all-ages event featured one-, three- and five-mile hikes. Hanover is one of 200 cities in the United States participating in the Step Out program, and one of three in New Hampshire. Nashua, N.H., and Portsmouth, N.H., also held walks this year. In New Hampshire, 70,400 residents have been diagnosed with diabetes, according to the ADA web site, and 23.6 million children and adults in the United States suffer from the disease.