Embrace Hopkins, but also pressure it to change its ways
Eight months ago, I wrote an article from the perspective of a senior who still had eight months left at this school and at this newspaper. I don’t anymore. It’s time to say goodbye.
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Eight months ago, I wrote an article from the perspective of a senior who still had eight months left at this school and at this newspaper. I don’t anymore. It’s time to say goodbye.
In my four years as a Writing Seminars major, I was often asked if I would double with something else. The answer was always no — I reveled in my specific coursework, thought the Writing Sems requirements were broad enough and thought that nothing else was so compelling that I should devote more time to it than a few classes. I also didn’t love the implication that I needed to add a second major for practicality purposes. I was determined to be just Writing Sems, in all its glory.
I didn’t study abroad during my time at Hopkins. I stayed on campus for all four years and got to live vicariously through my friends posting on Instagram from cities across the globe: London, Buenos Aires, Rome, Sydney, Paris, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, the list goes on. Sometimes I wished I was with them. But at the end of it all, as a second-semester senior, I’m glad I’ve spent four whole years at Hopkins.
I wanted to formally interview my peers for this piece, but people aren’t especially open to talking about their hookup experiences on this campus. I had to dig into what my friends thought by asking deep and nosy questions about their sex lives. I had to complicate things by asking about technology. It was eye-opening. Here’s what I learned:
For years, Baltimore City Public Schools has faced unprecedented debt, overcrowded classrooms and faculty cuts that result in limited opportunities for students to explore the arts.
Megyn Kelly’s struggle moving from Fox News to a morning show on NBC has been well-documented, as has her subsequent lack of personality. What made Kelly so divisive (and terrifying) at Fox has changed: In her new position, she is utterly palatable and utterly bland.
For a school full of academically accomplished people, Hopkins is a school with an inferiority complex. This is a strange complex to claim and an even stranger one to prove. There are no statistics that can speak to the crippling anxieties and tendencies toward comparison that run through our campus.
This Monday, the U.S. News & World Report released their 2018 Best Colleges rankings. Hopkins had been No. 10 in the nation, but we’ve dropped to an 11th-place tie with Dartmouth and Northwestern. This is the biggest news in the Facebook meme group since... Well, the page didn’t exist when we first made it into the top 10.
Hi, freshmen. Welcome to your first year at this crazy institution of higher learning. If you fit the Hopkins mold, as we all do, you’re probably excited and a little terrified to begin.
In 2016 I tweeted: “concept: people at this fricken school actually respect each others’ majors,” and I hope to reiterate that argument more eloquently now. I’m a Writing Seminars major. You might hear that and think it’s pretty cool. I do, too. I love writing, with all its struggles. However, the reaction I get too often is one of almost-pity, disinterest and mild laughter.
We live in an era of press sabotage, attempted destabilization and absurd exclusion. I don’t have to mention Trump’s name for you to know who I’m referring to. Given our circumstances, journalists and publications have a responsibility to remain committed and come together to produce the best work possible. That’s what the Panama Papers represent: commitment to our cause.
As a student journalist I understand the importance of checking the facts: There are serious consequences if a publication gets something wrong, and printing incorrect facts has the potential to damage both reputations and whole lives. Fact-checking is one of the most essential principles of journalism.
Screenwriter John Gregory Dunne is planning a film called The Post, to star Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks, that will depict how the Pentagon Papers saga developed in The Washington Post newsroom. Hanks will star as Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee, and Streep will play The Post’s publisher Katharine Graham.
The New York Times, CNN, Politico, LA Times and BuzzFeed were all barred from the gaggle. The Associated Press and Time boycotted the conference in solidarity with their banned colleagues.
Hare is a journalist with a history. She’s reported from newsrooms in Minneapolis, Miami and Washington, D.C. among others, giving readers a first-hand look at the challenges these news organizations are facing in this new era of journalism.
This month, the Times issued another check up, this time called the 2020 report. Unlike its 2014 cousin, this report is a mere 37 pages long, and better still, it’s not nearly so negative. Instead of describing a struggling paper, the 2020 report shows readers how the Times has begun to refute its own self criticisms and close gaps between itself and other papers. It’s a much more hopeful prognosis this time around.
My parents know who they’re voting for in this election, and it’s not Trump.
Greek life can be all about parties, paying for your friends and scandal. Greek life can be synonymous with the most worrisome evils of college. And Greek life can be your parents’ worst nightmare.
At least 31 people died and 300 were wounded in explosions that struck two Brussels locations on Tuesday. The Zaventem Airport and Maelbeek metro station experienced explosions at the hands of four terrorists, two of whom were confirmed to be brothers and Belgian nationals. On Wednesday Brussels authorities determined that 24-year-old Najim Laachraoui, who had been linked to the November 2015 Paris attacks, was the second airport suicide bomber. The identity of the third airport bomber is unknown. Daesh claimed responsibility for the attacks in a statement released via the Amaq News Agency, a group that’s been linked to the militant extremists, according to NPR. The attacks forced Brussels into lockdown until about 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday.
This year’s Spring Fair lineup were revealed Wednesday night at PJ’s Pub Charles Village. Almost 100 students and Baltimoreans paid the $10 entrance fee for a slice of pizza and two drinks to watch the reveal.