Frat-Ed, an event aimed at educating freshmen women about how best to navigate the fraternity scene was held last night in Carson L02. The event was conceived and organized by Rob Esposito '07, a member of Chi Heorot fraternity. It featured representatives from most campus fraternities who will tell attendees about the general character of their house, what kind of events they put on, who tends to hang out there and any measures that have been implemented to make their house a safer place for women. Members of various sororities also spoke at the event, offering advice and sharing their own experiences, both positive and negative, with fraternities.
Matt Dunne, associate director of training and education at Dartmouth's Rockefeller Center and a Vermont state senator, secured the Democratic Party nomination for Lieutenant Governor of Vermont on Sept. 12. Dunne, a resident of Hartland, Vt. and graduate of Hanover High School, won the nomination over State Rep. John Tracy. He will face the Republican incumbent, Brian Dubie, in the general election this November.
Dunne's duties at the Rockefeller Center include training students in the center's Public Impact Program, as well as its Civic Skills Training program, which prepares students for internships in Washington, D.C. He graduated from Brown University in 1992 and since served eight years in the Vermont House of Representatives before becoming a state senator.
Popular Science magazine is featuring Dr. Jerry Goldstein Adv'00, a space physicist at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas as one of the magazine's annual "Brilliant 10" young scientists to watch in the magazine's October issue.
Goldstein's work focuses on the Earth's plasmasphere, a region which produces weather phenomena that, among other effects, can interfere with the accuracy of Global Positioning System satellites. His research has been highly influential in the search to correct such problems, which affect aircraft, automobiles and military systems.
