Circling the Green
• Youngest Sister: The College has a new sorority, its third, the national sorority Alpha Chi Omega. Some two-dozen women pledged this summer and plan an upper-class rush this fall. Acting president Beth Johnston '82 said the group wanted to combine a "strong sisterhood" with a diversity that would "allow different kinds of women to feel comfortable."
• Big Plans: Lo-Yi Chan '54, a partner in the New York City firm of Prentice and Chan, Olhausen Architects, was recently selected as the architect for the College's new Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences. Members of the Rockefeller family have pledged $3.75 million toward the $6.25 million project, which will incorporate Silsby Hall with a new building to be named Rockefeller Hall, providing common facilities as well as endowments for professorships and programs for the social sciences.
• Wise Woman: Marysa Navarro, a professor of history who heads the College's Women's Studies Program, was one of an even dozen women scholars named by Ms. magazine as advisers for their college issue. A purpose of the board of "wise women": "breaking down the barriers between the 'real world' and the 'lvory Tower.' "
• Contributor: Campus, the semiannual undergraduate magazine that made its first appearance last year, won the Milton Sims Kramer Award given to the campus organization deemed by the dean of students to have "contributed most to the College during the year."
• Winner: The Mathematical Association of America has presented a major award to Professor Ernst Snapper, citing an article he wrote for Mathematics magazine lamenting the neglect of the philosophy of the discipline.
• Permanent Program: The Native American Studies Program, following an outside review and a vote of the Dartmouth faculty and Board of Trustees, recently received approval to continue permanently, subject to the same review procedures that apply to academic departments. The review committee's report commended the program for its academic soundness, high standards, and for "making a unique contribution to the Dartmouth College curriculum."
