More than 30 people gathered on the Green last night for a candlelight vigil to reflect on world hunger.
Many people at the vigil had also participated in a 24-hour "Fast for a World Harvest," which ended with a "Break-the-Fast-Dinner" at Food Court following the vigil.
The dinner was the final event in the Tucker Foundation's Hunger Awareness Week.
Despite the hand-numbing cold, students and professors came to share stories and reflect on personal experiences with the problem of hunger.
"We've been fasting as a symbol that amid the plenty in which we live, so many others are hungry," Rabbi Daniel Siegel said. Siegel is the College's Jewish chaplain.
Eliana Marcenaro '97, a student from Colombia, said she was ignorant of the poverty in her home country until very recently because she went to a privileged high school.
Marcenaro added that students in an isolated environment like Dartmouth do not realize the extent of worldwide hunger.
Reverend Gwendolyn King, read from Arthur Smith's novel "Bread for the World." "People are hungry because they are poor," she read. "We cannot understand hunger without coming to grips with poverty."
The vigil ended with the participants singing "The Circle Song," led by Reverend King.
