By Neera Chatterjee and EMMA FIDEL
Fall fraternity and sorority rush came to a close this week, as 273 women were offered bids and 308 men sunk bids from single-sex Greek organizations. Participation in both men's and women's rush increased this term.
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By Marielle Battistoni The Dartmouth Staff, The Dartmouth Staff
The United States needs Dartmouth students to "join the team" and solve the Middle Eastern crises facing our generation, John Abizaid, retired United States Army General and former commander of United States Central Command, said in a speech Tuesday afternoon. Abizaid visited campus this week as one of the Fall term Montgomery Fellows.
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By Shaun Akhtar
Barbara Thompson, a solar physicist for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, outlined variations in the Sun's magnetic field and described how scientists analyze such changes and their effects on the Eart in a speech Tuesday night in Wilder Hall. The lecture, titled "Living with a Star: Our Dynamic Sun and Its Impact on Near-Earth Space," is the first in the physics and astronomy department's annual public lecture series, and drew an audience of about 40 Dartmouth community members.
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By Ann Baum, The Dartmouth Staff
Student Assembly passed legislation to provide up to $1,000 for the student-faculty programming fund at the weekly meeting of the General Assembly Tuesday evening. The programming fund, which will pay for students to take their professors out for activities, was created late last Spring term, and has not yet sponsored any programs.
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By Ana Bowens
In the fall of his sophomore year, Jesse Victor '09 pledged the Greek organization he had felt the strongest connection to as a freshman, Alpha Delta fraternity. He soon realized, however, that AD was not the right fit for him and dropped out of the pledge process.
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