The Hotel@MIT is being sold for an undisclosed price by the partnership of MIT and Forest City Enterprises to HEI Cambridge LLC, an affiliate of HEI Hotels & Resorts. The sale is expected to close by Dec. 5.

A total of $1,261.80 was raised through Alpha Phi Omega’s Unholiest huMan on Campus competition, which ended Nov. 2. The sum will be donated to Transition House, an organization combatting domestic violence.

John A. Thain ’77 won plaudits as Wall Street’s Mr. Fix-It by revitalizing the embattled New York Stock Exchange. Now, he faces what could be a more formidable challenge: turning around Merrill Lynch, the once-proud Wall Street firm battered by losses from the mortgage debacle.

At a time when most electronic gadgets come out of huge factories in Asia, Limor Fried ’03 works on a different scale.