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(09/08/05 5:00am)
It was Christmas 2004. I was at a typical Hansen Family Christmas Party, and all was going well. I had holed myself up in a corner to play Life with some cousins with a double-rum cup of eggnog. I saw my aunts and uncles hovering, about to come over and ask questions about my future.
(04/20/05 5:00am)
The Middle East is apparently not an important region of study for Hopkins International Studies students. Judging from the course selection and corresponding language program, it seems that the administration assumes that students must not be interested in studying the Middle East.
(03/30/05 5:00am)
The cold war of Charles Village is finally heating up. The childish squabbles between students and Charles Village residents have been going on for decades, each side painting an effective picture of the other's Evil Neighborhood Empire. Charles Village residents paint Hopkins students as constantly trying to live out an Animal House dream, while Hopkins students generally think Charles Village Residents are immutable hippie jerks. Neither side will see the reality that students are merely hoping to salvage their already pathetic social lives, and that Charles Village residents are simply trying to avoid having their flowers watered with urine. Yet, students will always be obnoxious. Charles Village residents will always be a pain. How can anyone win this war?
(03/30/05 5:00am)
With his sunglasses on and a Conga drum in his lap, Matthew McConaughey asked me in a recent interview if his latest movie, Sahara, was worth seeing. I paused. "It's a good ride," was all I could muster up. I was honest. The low grade Indiana Jones-type action movie, starring McConaughey, Penelope Cruz and Steve Zahn, is a good ride, much like a mediocre amusement park ferris wheel. However, it's not much more than that. It's not the rollercoaster we would expect out of Indiana Jones and his fellow high-caliber heroes. Of course, it still does hit a few of the essentials for a movie of this sort, and I would recommend this movie for anyone who doesn't want to be stimulated beyond seeing McConaughey flash his pearly whites.
(02/17/05 5:00am)
In my family, true bonding requires casserole. This weekend, I returned home to my mother and her mother for whirlwind tri-generational quality time. Although it was a constant celebration, going out to eat would have been a slap in the face to two generations of French Canadian-American cooks. I was amidst two women who had never been afraid of using cheese with abandon, of sauteing onions in butter. It's rumored that my great grandmother, Flora LeBlanc, would make doughnuts at 4 a.m. saying, "Well, I woke up, and I could feel a pit in the bottom of my stomach." Another person's cooking hardly ever satisfies the culinary needs of the Quebecquoise palate.
(02/03/05 5:00am)
For those of us who are still grieving Linda's passing this past week, the weeks to come will be some of the hardest we have ever had. Simply put, life is moving on, when some of us are not ready to. But one of the hardest things to deal with so far is the varied inappropriate and insensitive responses across campus--ranging from ignorance to unthinkable disrespect. It's sad that, while the vast majority of students have been very thoughtful and concerned, so many more do not understand basic tact and manners. It is appalling how many people in my immediate community make no effort to empathize with their fellow human beings.
(02/03/05 5:00am)
Under festoons of pink toile in the Ralph S. O'Connor Recreation Center, Hopkins students, faculty and staff joined friends and family of Linda Trinh to celebrate the life of the 21-year-old senior who was killed last week.
(12/02/04 5:00am)
Hopkins professor of computer science and e-voting expert Avi Rubin spoke with News-Letter Opinions Editor Francesca Hansen, about the 2004 presidential election, voter fraud and the future of electronic voting in the United States.
(11/18/04 5:00am)
Intersession can be a very bleak time at Hopkins. The campus is empty, gray sleet and rain dominates the forecast, and the brick walkways ice over. Aside from the miserable weather, it will be especially hard to be on campus this January, knowing that where you once had an opportunity for credits, you now only have promises of fun through learning that are dubious at best. The new change in Intersession policy is a disappointment in practice, if not on paper.
(11/04/04 5:00am)
One day after a scarily easy victory for The Incumbent, I am amongst the scores of disheartened Kerry supporters, but I refuse to set aside hope for my country. For all of us in the 49 percent Kerry half, it may not be so easy. The election has divided America into two distinct halves that are unable to understand each other. For those of on Kerry's side, it's difficult to understand what to do now, but the answer is not to move to Canada.
(09/23/04 5:00am)
News-Letter Opinions Editor, Francesca Hansen, sat down with Dr. Ruth Westheimer on Tuesday to ask her about her past and her current views on America.
(09/23/04 5:00am)
If there's anything to be learned from Britney Spears' recent wedding, it's that sometimes you have to embrace the more, shall we say, laid-back side of life.
(09/16/04 5:00am)
The backhoes and bulldozers are in full force on the Charles Commons block of 33rd Street. The brick building that housed Hillel, and much of the Ivy dormitory are only a distant memory.
(09/09/04 5:00am)
The latest polling figures show Kerry is trailing by 11 percentage points. This is abhorrent to many, but should be a surprise to none. More than ever before, the political scene has been hijacked by mudslinging and lies to the detriment of the country. Between the failure of the Kerry campaign to effectively establish themselves as anything more than "Anti-Bush" and Bush's propoganda machines, there is now an advantage for the dauphin. Furthermore, these are not farm workers in Iowa that have been swayed -- it is apathetic students such as the ones that grace Hopkins' brick sidewalks. Take, for example, a musician/philosphy major I overheard recently. His first response to why he might vote for Bush, was, "Well, why shouldn't I vote for Bush?" He knew very little either way, but seemed to be producing a knee-jerk political reaction to blinding anti-Bush rhetoric. He simply wasn't saved by good Kerry politicking.
(09/09/04 5:00am)
America is left without one culinary aesthete as she awaits jail sentence, but we have been permanently deprived of another, more important culinary prophet: Julia Child. Every kitchen in America is a little more empty after her passing this August, but her memory lives on. Julia Child's memory lives on in every American citizen that grabs butter instead of margarine, that herbs her omelet, that throws fabulous dinner parties and plays around in the kitchen.
(09/02/04 5:00am)
There are plenty of reasons to be afraid of Baltimore. There's no excuse for being afraid of taking the bus in Baltimore. I've had it with Hopkins students who can't tear themselves away from the shelter of their dark green Passat and imagine taking public transportation. Get over it. You may live in the Hamptons, but it's time to actually ride the bus with people from a lower tax bracket. I charge you, the incoming freshman class, to be done with this travel ignorance before second semester begins and you start to think that "exploring the city" involves taking the shuttle to Super Fresh.
(09/02/04 5:00am)
Relationships, like many things at Hopkins, require a lot more work but aren't necessarily better.
(09/02/04 5:00am)
Construction on Hopkins' long awaited Charles Commons broke ground this week, a few months later than expected.
(04/29/04 5:00am)
Blues greats, like soldiers, should fade away. 'Even if they're young like Keb Mo, they should fade away long before they record something like his latest album. Keb Mo's "Keep it Simple" is a weak mix of new age pop and folk and a betrayal of the blues roots that made him famous. Mo has forgotten the blues and gone for Blues Lite instead. He has tried to produce a sad merger of genres that is utterly disappointing and not even worthy of your latest soft jazz station.
(04/29/04 5:00am)
The Middle States Assessment (MSA) evaluators have come and gone, but the school improvement process for Hopkins is just beginning, again.