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(01/28/16 8:17am)
The week before Thanksgiving break the student representatives of the Center for Social Concern (CSC) hosted a Social Justice Dinner where undergraduate students gathered to discuss social justice issues and community service on our campus. The student-led, staff-supported event served as an opportunity for students to voice their concerns about community service culture on campus.
(02/20/15 11:56pm)
This past weekend was an internationally recognized holiday celebrating love in the name of Saint Valentine, or, as others observe Feb. 14: Single’s Awareness Day. It was also the premiere weekend of the eagerly anticipated film adaptation of the book Fifty Shades of Grey.
(02/13/15 12:38am)
Come second semester, many freshmen and a select number of sophomores wonder what it’s really like to be part of a sorority at Hopkins. I have no idea what it feels like to be a member of the social Greek community here. I have never participated in Panhellenic recruitment either. This is truly the understanding of sorority life from the outside looking in.
(02/06/15 2:02am)
Upon arriving to a doctor’s office, as a new patient, I am typically asked to fill out a thick stack of papers held together by a sterile clipboard. The papers ask for my basic information, such as my name, address, age, etc. But almost immediately, I begin to hesitate as I fill out the forms. The paper asks me, “With which race do you identify?” and “What ethnicity do you consider yourself?” I do not know how to answer these questions honestly. Part of it may be because I am a twenty-year-old in a society that forces me to question who I am everyday, but a larger part of it is because I am adopted. I was adopted from South Korea as an infant and came to my family in America at the age of five months.
(12/04/14 9:34pm)
Earlier this fall, a children’s book that was originally released four years ago stood in the spotlight as many readers criticized its sexist portrayal of women in a professional environment. Barbie: I Can Be A Computer Engineer is an installment in the I Can Be series starring none other than Barbie herself. This sounds like the type of book that would empower young girls to engage with science and technology and encourage them that anything is possible through hard work. Instead we see that Barbie is only able to be a computer engineer if her male friends are there to fix all of her mistakes.
(12/04/14 9:34pm)
Earlier this fall, a children’s book that was originally released four years ago stood in the spotlight as many readers criticized its sexist portrayal of women in a professional environment. Barbie: I Can Be A Computer Engineer is an installment in the I Can Be series starring none other than Barbie herself. This sounds like the type of book that would empower young girls to engage with science and technology and encourage them that anything is possible through hard work. Instead we see that Barbie is only able to be a computer engineer if her male friends are there to fix all of her mistakes.
(11/20/14 9:07pm)
For the past few months, headlines about ISIS have been sweeping the news cycles. Tension in the Middle East has been on the rise for years now, but earlier this week, U.S. President Barack Obama announced that an additional 1,500 troops will be sent to Iraq to help train Iraqi army soldiers to combat ISIS on the ground. This change in our nation's approach to ISIS marks a shift in strategy from air missiles and drone strikes to boots on the ground and draws new attention to the events occurring in the region. The perpetual states of war experienced by Iraq and Syria are not only detrimental to its citizens, but also risks the lives of past civilizations of the Mediterranean.
(10/30/14 8:18pm)
Beauty pageants have been debated both ways: Some women find them empowering, while others view them as degrading. For some, beauty pageants are a lifestyle and a chance for women of all ages to use their grace, beauty, talents and mind to compete in a single competition. There is a stigma that surrounds the art of pageantry; outsiders often tend to judge contestants as shallow, vain individuals — only concerned with outer beauty. In competitions such as The Miss America Pageant, individuals have the opportunity to show who they are, inside and out, as they are judged in a talent segment, bathing suit segment, Q&A, dance and more. I often ask myself who would want to be judged on how “complete” of a “package” they are, but then I remember that some women find it enjoyable, and to that I say, “You do you.”
(10/23/14 1:58pm)
Earlier in the semester, University President Ronald J. Daniels released a University-wide statement addressing the issue of binge drinking on campus, specifically in regards to full-time undergraduate students. Johns Hopkins University, along with eight other Maryland universities, participated in the Maryland College Alcohol Survey, which found that out of the 4,200 students who completed the survey, nearly half had taken part in binge drinking. Daniels’s message echoes the University's mission to address this pervasive behavior and improve the health and safety of the Homewood community.
(09/04/14 2:00pm)
I envy the individuals who claim to have had butterflies fluttering in their stomachs before their first day of college. From what I remember about my experience a little over a year ago, my body was staging a coup against itself. I was borderline paralyzed with fear of the unknown as I was pulled from my car outside of Wolman last fall. In all honesty, I barely can remember my orientation experience; it was all a blur of confusion and disorganization. I remember wandering the back side of the Rec Center trying to find Bloomberg for my first Peer Ambassador (PA) meeting; upon finding the room, my PA that was nowhere to be found. I gave up on the orientation process after that. I guess I was on my own, along with a thousand other new kids.
(05/01/14 5:11am)
Generation Y strikes again with loud voices and confidant aims as they strive to build momentum in issues of social change. There is nothing innately wrong or distasteful with activism, but lately, it has reached a dead end. Activists are pulling a push-door, expecting to get through it somehow. Here is a list of the top five activist issues that we all should put to rest; they are overdone, overused and very much past their primes. These issues are already out in the world, and it is up to individuals to make the change for themselves; no amount of protests or info-pamphlets will change their minds. This is not to say that I disagree with their purpose, but I certainly see room for improvement in their means of creating the changes they desire.
(04/22/14 10:57pm)
What would you do if you only had a month to live? This hypothetical question for most healthy individuals is the unfortunate reality for many terminally ill patients. Death is as inevitable for those who are healthy as a horse as it is for those battling incurable diseases; the only uncertainty in this matter is time. We do not know when we are going to die, but in the back of our minds, we know that at some point the blood will stop pumping through our veins and the world will continue without us. Most of us view death as an unfortunate occurrence, a painful loss. This is certainly true in many and perhaps most instances. However, we sometimes forget that death can also mean the end of suffering, or the ultimate source of closure. As complicated as death is, it is dichotomously simple. Because of its complicated consequences, physician-assisted suicide is a popular topic of debate in America’s changing health care policies. The American Medical Association (AMA) formally rejects the validity of physician-assisted suicide. However, it has already been legalized in 4 states. In appropriate times, physician-assisted suicide can serve as a solution, and should be a legal and viable option for Americans.
(04/22/14 7:31pm)
In Teller’s latest film, Tim’s Vermeer, the Director/Producer explores Johannes Vermeer as the Master Dutch painter of reality. The question that many art historians and scholars alike have asked is: “How did Vermeer paint photo-realistic paintings so many years before the advent of the photograph?”
(03/07/14 7:51am)
With February being Mental Health Awareness month, Hopkins students have recently been bombarded by Facebook statuses, emails, and flyers on the Breezeway promoting the topic. Most of us understand the gist of it: don't stress too much, talk to someone, look for red flags from our friends, etc. We are also aware, to some extent, of the prevalent role that mental health disorders and diseases play in competitive and ambitious environments.
(02/14/14 5:41am)
With the Winter Olympics in full swing, all eyes are on Russia. The Games at Sochi are attracting a surplus of media attention, ranging from reports on the unfinished hotel rooms to the invasive surveillance program implemented to avoid terrorist attacks. Earlier this month, however, exposé writer Jeff Sharlet reported an even more somber Russian reality in an article in GQ Magazine, titled “Inside the Iron Closet: What it’s like to be gay in Putin’s Russia.” For those looking for a worthwhile read (or even just procrastinators bored of BuzzFeed), I highly recommend this short report on a world far away from our own.
(02/08/14 11:39pm)
We college students are often referred to as “Generation Y,” underwhelmingly defined as technology-frenzied, over-parented, high-spirited, and entitled. The last generation of young adults in our country were associated with technological advancements and praised for their innovation. But in Generation Y, these innovations have transformed into an invasion so pervasive that it distorts the expectations and understanding of social interactions in today’s society.
(12/06/13 5:21am)
Every day of my life, I am granted the privilege of choice. I choose who I speak with, how to engage with my classes, and where I go. Most importantly, I choose how I treat my body. This includes what I eat and how I exercise. I have the knowledge available to me to make informed and educated choices on these matters. But this past November, the FDA took it upon themselves to ban trans fats in American food products. If this ban succeeds, I will lose the ability to choose what I will and will not eat. Someone will have already chosen for me.
(11/23/13 11:24pm)
There seem to be two distinct groups of students at Hopkins: the BMEs, and the rest. From the moment we freshmen go around the room and introduce ourselves at orientation, everyone knows who the BMEs are. It only takes a few months on the Homewood campus for this unspoken, self-imposed undergraduate hierarchy to solidify. From superior to inferior, the ranking on campus goes as follows: BMEs, other engineers, pre-meds in the Krieger School, and then everyone else. We are judged based on our majors and what we choose to study. People make empty assumptions about workload and degree of difficulty of classes. Not everyone thinks this way, but enough do to create a strata that bounds the students in both the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and the Whiting School of Engineering.
(10/18/13 3:20am)
After a long week of midterms and papers, Friday night finally rolls around. The last of the problem sets are turned in, Brody slowly empties out, and power naps are acquired in anticipation for the weekend ahead. As the street lights flicker on and the sun sets behind Gilman Hall, the mood on campus begins to change.
(10/05/13 9:57pm)
Blogging, tweeting, texting, status updating – the list goes on. Whatever happened to long, handwritten notes to friends just because they were on your mind? And what about printed publications? Where are the stacks of magazines that once cluttered the coffee-tables all across America, or the poorly refolded Sunday paper that would still be on the kitchen table come Monday morning?