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ing about their vocations earlier in
their academic careers. When the
Wheelock Society was looking for
someone to coordinate the Tuck un-
dergraduate mentorship program,
Ching was a good match.
Ching refers to the Tuck under-
graduate program as a “test bit” be-
cause he is currently involved with
planning to start a new program in
the fall that may implement a class
or a series of classes through the
Wheelock Society’s Waterman Insti-
tute.
The end goal, according to Ching,
is to encourage undergraduates “to
think about vocation critically,
through the lens of faith.” | cu
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D A R T M OU T H | On Campus
‘I Sing for Christ’
A CAPPELLA GROUP HOSTS ‘WINTER WHINGDING’
By Jessica Tong, Dartmouth ’17
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Christian Williams ’19, X.ado’s
vocal percussionist and outreach co-
ordinator, helped design the collab-
oration with the Rockapellas. The
group sought to let attendees know
that their voices matter. number of artists that were able to
perform.
“We only had a few weeks to cre-
ate the show as we negotiated with
[the Dartmouth Rockapellas] to
spearhead Winter Whingding at the
“The inspiration for the event’s
theme stemmed from the tense cli-
mate in which we are living, We want-
ed to let anyone who feels as if their
voice isn’t being heard know that we
are here and we are listening,” he said.
According to Williams, some of
the challenges in putting the event
together included the short amount
of preparation time and a smaller beginning of the term. We were also
missing several key members during
this term,” he said.
Yet, Williams felt that his respon-
sibilities for the group reaffirmed for
him that “trusting in God is the only
way to truly make something like this
(and really anything) a success.”
Almost 200 members of the Dart-
mouth community attended the
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he Christian a cappella group
X.ado hosted a “Winter Whing-
ding” in February.
This concert was the showcase
event of the famous “Winter Carni-
val” weekend at Dartmouth, during
which alumni join with students to
celebrate in winter activities.
Each term, one of Dartmouth’s a
cappella groups is offered the oppor-
tunity to be featured in Dartmouth’s
largest performance auditorium. X.a-
do, whose name can be translated
from Greek as I sing for Christ, was
also the featured a cappella group in
spring 2014 when it partnered with
the Dartmouth Rockapellas, an all-fe-
male a cappella group.
This year, X.ado, a co-ed ensemble,
coordinated with the Dartmouth
Rockapellas again, as well as a dance
group, Street Soul, and a spoken word
performer, Michael Sun ’19. The show
was titled “Your Voice Is Heard.”
Some of the songs included “I Run
to You,” by the Pentatonix; “This Lit-
tle Light of Mine”; and an original
song, “Let It Breathe,” by Xanthe
Kraft ’16, a former member of X.ado.
The show ended with a joint perfor-
mance from X.ado and the Rocka-
pellas singing “Fix You,” by Coldplay.
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