News-Letter

While appreciation for the new businesses in Charles Village may not be unanimous, it is heartening to know that so many students, locals and business owners are pleased with the neighborhood's new face. We harbored some misgivings at first, worried that existing stores would be put out to pasture by the new offerings, but it would appear that those concerns were unfounded.… Post the First Comment

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is, no doubt, one of the most widely despised organizations in the United States. Their lawsuits and threats have reached into the lives of thousands. Their shrill denunciations of peer-to-peer (p2p) file sharing continue unabated despite evidence that such methods actually accompany increased music sales and exposure for artists.… Post the First Comment

Every person on this campus has a responsibility to reduce our collective energy consumption, and we're all doing a poor job of it -- from the bottom up. We leave the lights on after we leave the room. We turn the heat up a few degrees higher than we need to.… Post the First Comment

For Baltimore's public schools, the statistics are dreary and getting worse. The most recent study shows that, with a shocking 38.5 percent graduation rate, the city's schools rank almost rock bottom among the nation's 50 largest school systems. Until recently, there seemed very little that Hopkins was able to do about it, aside from its admirable offer of free tuition to public school graduates through its Baltimore Scholars Program.… Post the First Comment