Vol.
10
Issue
8,
Mon,
October
19th
Created
by
Jessica
Caplin
Introduced
first
in
Sonkajärvi,
Finland,
wife
carrying
involves
male
compeQtors
who
race
through
a
special
obstacle
course
while
each
carrying
a
female
teammate.
The
sport
itself
is
said
to
have
originated
as
a
joke
in
• Friday
Night
Wine
TasFng:
Fri,
10/23
5‐8p,
Finland,
reminiscent
of
an
old
pracQce
in
The
Wine
BoOega,
Boston.
TasQng
of
6‐7
wines
which
men
courted
women
by
running
to
their
village,
from
the
tradiQonal
to
the
unexpected.
picking
them
up,
and
carrying
them
off.
Discounts
offered
on
all
wines
during
tasQngs.
CompeQtors
pracQce
several
types
of
carry,
including
• Burmese
Food
Fair:
Sat
10/24
4‐7p
7:00p,
the
piggyback,
the
fireman's
carry,
or
the
new
Estonian‐ InternaQonal
Community
Church,
Boston.
style,
in
which
the
wife
hangs
upside‐down
with
her
legs
• Divas
Unleashed
Halloween
Pet
Parade:
around
the
husband's
shoulders,
holding
onto
his
waist.
Sun
10/25
12‐2p,
DoggieDay
Play
Center
The
original
track
at
the
InternaQonal
Finnish
Wife
Carrying
CompeQQon
used
the
rough
terrain
with
fences,
rocks
and
brooks.
Today,
it
is
altered
for
modern
• Where
does
your
real
interest
lie?
condiQons.
The
following
rules
are
set
by
the
Int’l
Wife
• Where
does
your
real
loyalty
lie?
Carrying
CompeQQon
Rules
CommiOee:
• What
is
your
best
material,
non‐necessity
• The
length
of
the
official
track
is
253.5
meters
purchase?
• The
track
has
2
dry
and
one
1meter
deep
water
obstacle
• Why
is
there
so
much
squash?
• The
wife
to
be
carried
may
be
your
own,
the
neighbor's,
• Who
has
changed
you
the
most?
How?
or
you
may
have
found
her
further
afield;
she
must
be
17
• Would
you
rather
be
friends
with
batman
or
• The
minimum
weight
of
the
wife
to
be
carried
is
49kg.
If
superman
she
is
less,
she
carries
a
weighted
rucksack
• Contestants
run
the
race
two
at
a
Qme.
• The
most
entertaining
couple,
the
best
costume,
and
the
• The
white
rhino
is
actually
a
dirty
gray
color.
It
strongest
carrier
will
be
awarded
a
special
prize
name
is
a
mistranslaQon
from
the
Afrikaans
• The
prize
of
the
champion
depends
on
the
wife's
weight
‘weit’
(wide‐its
body
and
face
are
wider
than
in
beer
the
typical
black
rhino)
CompeQQons
take
place
in
such
unexpected
locaQons
• The
tusks
of
a
two‐tusk
narwhal
spin
in
the
as
Monona,
WI;
Minocqua,
WI,
and
MarqueOe,
MI.
The
same
direcQon.
The
tusks
of
all
other
two‐tusk
North
American
Wife
Carrying
Championships
take
place
animals
always
spiral
in
opposite
direcQons
each
year
on
Columbus
Day
Weekend
in
Newry,
Maine.
• The
pulse
of
an
elephant
is
only
25
In
2007,
40
couples
parQcipated:
an
all‐Qme
high.
beats
per
minute.
• Donald
Duck’s
middle
name
is
Fauntleroy
Go
to
80s
Dance.
You
have
nothing
more
important
to
do.
• Student‐Faculty
Dinner:
Mon
10/19
(DH)
• Old
Library
Luncheon:
Wed
10/21,
12p
(JCR)
• Prelaw:
Visit
by
HLS
Admissions
Office:
Wed
10/21,
5p
(SCR)
• Community
Night:
Th
10/22,
5:30‐7p
(DH)
• 80s
Dance:
Sat
10/21,
10p‐2a
(DH)
• Econ
Professor
Benjamin
Friedman,
discussing
his
new
book,
The
Moral
Consequences
of
Economic
Growth:
Wed
10/21,
LevereO
JCR,6p
• UNMASQUED:
CityStep
Masquerade
Ball,
Th
10/22,
9‐
1a,
Sheraton
Commander.
Cocktail
A_re
$15,
from
a
CityStepper
or
[email protected]
.
• Pops
Phones
Home:
Fri
10/23,
8‐10p,
Lowell
Lecture
Hall.
$6.
• LEVERETT
80S
DANCE!
WOO
HOO!
10pm‐2am,
dhall.
$5
before
11,
$7
aber
• Harvard
v.
Princeton‐Football:
10/24,
12pm
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2nd
Annual
Fast
Tracks
for
Africa
5k:
Sat
24th,
1p
Register
online:
www.hcs.harvard.edu/
hcaa/fasOracks5k.html.
All
proceeds
support
HCAA's
work
at
the
Ambatomasina
Primary
School
in
Madagascar.
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