Kia ora koutou katoa,
We are Te Roopū Māori (TRM), your Māori student voice on campus.
We started off the uni year in Ngāti Scarfie style. Wiki-O was a chance for our first year tauira to initiate themselves into our campus whānau. Our events included lazer tag, a whānau sports day, a social night, and ended with the live streaming of the Te Matatini finals. On the side, we also gave away some meke prizes! Odessa O’Connell scored herself a fitbit after being the last man standing in the ‘Hands on the Whare’ competition, while Celeste Tahitahi won a UE Megaboom for winning our weekly Instagram competition.
On Tuesday 14th March TRM held their SGM (Special General Meeting) to fill positions on our executive: Te Rito. We welcome Eli Toeke, Kirsten Porter and Maramena Tuna who were elected as the Tumuaki, Social and Events officer and Cultural Education officer respectively.
For our sporty tauira, TRM have entered two netball teams and a basketball team into the Unipol competition; if you feel like participating in some positive hauora then nau mai haere mai. Netball is on Monday and Tuesday nights and basketball is on Fridays!
For all our haka freaks out there our Kapa Haka practices have now started. Whether you’re Matatini ready or only know how to takahe, we welcome everyone.
Finally, we have 9 divisional roopū on campus!
HMSA
(Humanities Māori Students’ Association)
Ngā Mokai o nga Whetu
(Māori Dentistry Students’ Association)
Ngā Raukura o Tāne Whakapiripiri
(Māori Physio Students’ Association)
PEMA
(Physical Education Māori Students’ Association)
Te Oranga Ki Ōtakou
(Māori Medical Students’ Association)
Te Puna Kaitaka
(Māori Pharmacy Students’ Association)
Te Roopū Whai Putake
(Māori Law Students’ Association)
Te Ropū Putaiao
(Māori Science Students’ Association)
Te Tai Tuarua
(Māori Commerce Students’ Association)
Make sure that you get in contact with your roopū via Facebook or through their email address.
That’s us for now, make sure you come see us at the Whare or check out our Facebook page @Teroopumaori.
Ngā Mihi
Nā Te Rito