Rita Sinha, ME ‘06, has been crowned Miss District of Columbia International 2007. Sinha, 23, hopes to use her title to do some good. Throughout her year’s reign as Miss DC International 2007, she will promote HIV/AIDS prevention in the nation’s capital by advocating the message of abstinence education in school systems, community organizations, and the offices of policy makers. READ FULL ARTICLE.

Robert Pierce Forbes, BA ’87, a lecturer in history at Yale University, has published a book that analyzes a crucial moment in American history. The Missouri Compromise and Its Aftermath: Slavery and the Meaning of America goes behind the scenes of the Missouri Compromise and discusses the high-level deal-making, diplomacy, and deception that defused the crisis, including the central, unexpected role of President James Monroe. Forbes’s analysis reveals a surprising national consensus against slavery a generation before the Civil War.