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The Dartmouth men’s rugby team has had a seasoned history of success since it first started in 1951

By Caitlyn McGovern | May 14, 2018

Since 1877, rugby has been part of the College’s athletic landscape. The Dartmouth Rugby Football Association was founded in 1880 and later transitioned into traditional American football in the 1890s, but returned to the roots of the sport with the establishment of Dartmouth Rugby Football Club in 1951.  In its history, the club has toured Argentina, Bermuda, Ireland, Italy, South Africa, Spain and Uruguay.

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​Honorable Mention: Big Bad Vlad

By Ray Lu | May 14, 2018

Honorable Mention: Big Bad Vlad Last Tuesday, 20 of my buddies and I drove down to Manchester to watch the New Hampshire Fisher Cats take on the Portland Sea Dogs — partially to have a good time, partially because groups of 20 or more get free hats, mostly to see 19 year-old Vladimir Guerrero Jr.

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Capital campaign to establish new entrepreneurial center

By Berit Svenson | May 14, 2018

In response to the need to prepare its students for an increasingly modern and innovative society, the College will establish a new center for entrepreneurship as part of its $3 billion capital campaign, entitled “The Call to Lead.” The center, which will be named the Magnuson Family Center for Entrepreneurship, will serve as the official organizational structure for Dartmouth’s current and future entrepreneurial programming and resources, Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network director and the center’s future director Jamie Coughlin wrote in an email statement. With an ultimate investment goal of $40 million, the College has already accumulated $36 million for the new center, which includes a donation of $20 million from Allison and Rick Magnuson ’79.

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College seeks to improve mental health resources

By Sunny Drescher | May 11, 2018

The increase in student demand for mental health resources — both at Dartmouth and at the national level — has led “The Call to Lead” capital campaign to allocate $17 million towards supporting student mental health resources on campus, according to Dean of the College Rebecca Biron.

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Green Key will feature Tinashe as headliner

By Abigail Mihaly | May 11, 2018

The sixth annual Green Key weekend is just around the corner. This year, the traditional Friday night concert on Gold Coast Lawn will feature headliner Tinashe, as well as Quinn XCII and Coast Modern. “It’s going to be a show ... It’s going to be just nonstop fun,” Programing Board concert director Mary Clare Seeman ’18 said. Performances on the Collis Center porch throughout the weekend will include a variety of more “indie” artists, including the Skins, according to Collis Governing Board chair Michelle Wang ’19.

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Study examines stream temperatures at the Second College Grant

By Jacob Chalif | May 10, 2018

While most use the Second College Grant — a 27,000 acre area of land in Clarksville, New Hampshire — to canoe or fish, environmental studies professor Lauren Culler A&S’13 used its data to quantify the relationship between warming air temperatures and streams. A recent Dartmouth-led study published in April found that an air temperature increase of one degree Celsius over five days corresponded to an increase in maximum daily stream temperature of 0.5 to 0.8 degrees Celsius, which could affect local ecosystems and brook trout populations.

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