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Panelists discuss Asian/American issues

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The first time Akiko Okuda ’15 visited Dartmouth, she said her mother asked her, “Where are the Asians?” Last night this question was the defining theme of a panel, as six seniors — Carla Yoon ’15, Justin Sha ’15, Diksha Gautham ’15, Shweta Raghu ’15, Aditya Shah ’15 and Okuda — spoke to an audience of 150 people in Collis Common Ground about their experiences as Asian and Asian-American students at the College.


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Dartmouth participates in green power partnership

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Although Dartmouth and the University of Pennsylvania were the only two schools in the Ivy League to participate in the Green Power Partnership 2014-2015 College and University Green Power Challenge, the Ivy League comes in third out of about 39 participating conferences in terms of overall green power usage. This is largely due to Penn’s more than 200 million kilowatt-hours of green power, as compared to the College’s 7.3 million.




Sports

Senior Spring: Madison Hughes ’15, face of U.S. rugby sevens

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It’s probably safe to say that professional rugby player Madison Hughes ’15 has one of the more distinct D-Plans on campus. He has been off-campus for the last two terms of his senior year, completing his assignments while captaining the United States Eagles sevens squad. This past weekend, the Eagles dominated Australia 45-22 to win the Marriott London Sevens Cup final and claim win their first World Rugby HSBC Sevens World Series title.


Arts

Gospel Choir will bring interactive style to Spaulding

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This Saturday, the Dartmouth Gospel Choir will take the Spaulding Auditorium stage for its only concert this term, performing more than 10 songs. Highlights among the various pieces slated for the performance include a call-and-response rendition of the Lord’s Prayer and a cover of “Glory,” the Academy Award-winning track from the film “Selma” (2014), according to performers interviewed.


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College schedules two days of Saturday classes this fall

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Fall term classes will be starting on Sept. 16 instead of Sept. 14 to accommodate the Jewish holiday Rosh Hashanah, which begins on the 13th of the month and ends on the 15th and coincided with the original start date, college spokesperson Diana Lawrence wrote in an email. There will be classes on two Saturdays in the term, Sept. 26 and Oct. 24, to make up for the two missed days.








Sports

Track and field competes for NCAA regionals bids

The month between the Ivy League Heptagonal Championship and the beginning of the NCAA Championships provides the track and field teams with one final chance to chase qualifying performances for the NCAA regional meet over the last week of May.


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Twelve selected for Schweitzer Fellowships

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Ten first-year students from the Geisel School of Medicine and two first-year students from the College were selected as fellows for 2015-2016 New Hampshire-Vermont Albert Schweitzer Fellowship. The 12 fellows will each receive a $2,000 stipend for 200 service hours over the course of year. In addition, they have on-site faculty mentorship, along with other forms of support including orientation, retreats and meetings.


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Memorial Challenge will raise funds for cardiac research in honor of Steinberg, Tucker

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Students and community members alike will have the opportunity to participate in the Memorial Challenge this Saturday, an event dedicated to the memories of Blaine Steinberg and Torin Tucker, members of the Class of 2015, who both died suddenly last year due to heart complications. The event, which is centered around physical fitness, encourages participants to challenge themselves with CrossFit- and nordic ski-themed exercises as well as raise money for the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Heart and Vascular Center.


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Suzan Harjo discusses activism around Native American mascots

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Suzan Harjo’s fight for Native rights began as early as the second grade, when she debated the true details of the battle of Little Bighorn with her teacher and was thrown out a window and into a rosebush. Harjo recounted this experience, for which the teacher was not punished, as well as her lifetime of activism for Native American people, in a lecture held in Haldeman Hall on Monday afternoon.