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Jewish student groups Alpha Epsilon Pi, Harvard Hillel, Harvard College Progressive Jewish Alliance, and Harvard Students for Israel hosted a number of events yesterday to recognize the 61st anniversary of Israel’s independence. There was a barbeque at the MAC Quad, a “Cheap Eats for Grads” event at Hillel, and a film screening of the Israeli film “The Troupe”—all intended, organizers said, to bring people together and celebrate Israel Independence Day. For AEPi, a national fraternity committed to charity work, the barbeque event...
...administrators were right, at least initially. Membership fell once the fraternities were no longer listed in CU directories and the school stopped handing over free address lists of incoming freshmen. At the Sigma Alpha Epsilon house, membership dropped to 24 members in 2005. "No one saw the half-page ad the fraternities placed in the college newspaper," says Stine. "That's where Facebook, MySpace and e-mail entered the picture...
...telescope is scheduled to launch in the spring of 2009, and Backman said that it will first look at Epsilon Eridani, in part because of the discovery of its triple-ring system...
...inner ring appears identical in composition and mass to the asteroid belt in our solar system located between Mars and Jupiter, and the outer one is 20 astronomical units from Epsilon Eridani—about the distance from Uranus to the Sun. The outer ring of icy mini-planets surrounding Epsilon Eridani is similar to the Kuiper Belt that is located just beyond Pluto...
...Epsilon Eridani holds a particular hope in the search for extraterrestrial life. Deemed one of the “Fabulous Four” by the Spitzer telescope team, Epsilon Eridani is one of four stars that have debris disks—a sign that planets may have formed. The star shares many physical similarities with the Sun, but it is only 850 million years old compared to the Sun’s 4.5 billion...