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(04/06/07 5:00am)
The Student Activities Committee's 2008 budget, announced on Monday, specifies roughly $30,000 more in immediate-need funding for student groups, while denying some other groups over half of the funding they requested, raising concerns that these groups have outgrown the scope of the SAC.
(01/27/07 5:00am)
After a year of discussion, the University's Committee on Independent Work has decided to place a one-credit limit on internships, while independent study and research may still earn up to three credits, the equivalent of a full course or 120 hours, effective this spring.
(12/07/06 5:00am)
Just one day after being diagnosed with a meningococcal infection, History of Art professor Nancy Forgione, 54, died at St. Joseph Medical Center on Sunday.
(11/30/06 5:00am)
Holding signs that read "Honk if you support free speech" and shouting mantras by megaphone, a group of about 30 students gathered on N. Charles Street yesterday to protest the University's decision to suspend junior Justin Park until the spring of 2008.
(11/19/06 5:00am)
President Brody recently announced a renewed University commitment to achieving gender equity, after the presentation of a report entitled "Vision 2020" last week by Linda Fried, chair of the University Committee on the Status of Women (UCSW).
(10/04/06 5:00am)
If awarded the opportunity, who would turn down an all-expenses-paid trip to Germany? The thought occurred to freshman Valerie Caldas in her senior year of high school, when she won a scholarship by the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange Program to study and take on internships in various German cities. After working in a Waldorf kindergarten, helping in hospital wards and undergoing months of intensive German language training, Caldas is now back from her year abroad to continue with her formal education.
(09/16/06 5:00am)
Cake batter, pistachio, chocolate and coconut are some of the flavors that ice cream entrepreneur Jennifer Francis calls her favorites. Gaga's Ice Cream, the business she started 7 years ago, brought these and more flavors to the Charles Village community and became a local landmark.
(09/13/06 5:00am)
Months after the Carrollton Record, a conservative student publication at Hopkins, first published a controversial article suggesting that the Diverse Sexuality and Gender Alliance (DSAGA) used university funds to host a transgender-pornography director to speak, the uproar over first-amendment rights and student privacy issues has continued despite the case being closed by University officials.
(09/06/06 5:00am)
History professor Ben Vinson has been appointed as the first permanent director of the Center for Africana Studies (CAS), by his predassor, who was the first to hold the position. The fledgling, three-year-old academic center now includes 23 Hopkins faculty members and aspires to extend the Hopkins tradition of strength in the humanities.
(04/27/06 5:00am)
"Let it flow a little bit more, and let it also grow a little bit more. What is amazing about this opening is how peculiar it is -- how it kind of starts and stops," said world-renowned flutist Eugenia Zukerman to Goucher College student Gregory Peacock in a master class at Shriver Hall last Friday.
(04/13/06 5:00am)
The Digital Media Center (DMC) is facing cuts to its repair and replacement budget, a loss that will affect its ability to replace and update equipment and possibly force the center to charge students for membership.
(04/05/06 5:00am)
The Hopkins Emergency Response Unit (HERU) marked its transition from American Red Cross First Responder status to Emergency Medical Technician-Basic (EMT-B) by graduating its first class of Maryland Emergency Medical Technicians in January.
(03/30/06 5:00am)
Terrace Court Café closed over Spring Break and is undergoing renovations the University hopes will transform dining at Hopkins from typical cafeteria dining to made-to-order food.
(03/15/06 5:00am)
The College Board announced last Wednesday that it had miscalculated the SAT scores of 4,000 students, which is less than 1 percent of the students who took the newly formatted October SAT.
(03/09/06 5:00am)
The owner of the Inner Harbor club complex Power Plant Live and members of the Baltimore City Liquor Board are advocating new legislation that would ban 18-20 year-olds from entering clubs in Baltimore.
(03/08/06 5:00am)
I saw the first one posted on a door of Remsen Hall, a bright lime-green flier that read: "I-ran: n. the only country in the world overtly developing an illegal nuclear program while supporting terrorism abroad and suppressing human rights at home. See your conscience." It was signed "The Iran Awareness Project" and bore the Office of Residential Life's stamp of approval.
(03/02/06 5:00am)
Vision Xchange, a new student-run service and international aid organization, kicked off the semester with the second annual "Shots for Shots," a basketball tournament to raise funds for the African Measles Initiative.
(02/23/06 5:00am)
Struever Bros. Eccles & Rouse construction company (SBER) has announced plans to begin demolition this spring or summer on the 33rd Street block that includes the University MiniMart and the old Pi Kappa Alpha (Pike) and Alpha Delta Phi (WaWa) fraternity houses.
(02/16/06 5:00am)
Adam Falk, dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, announced this week via e-mail that the University is looking to sell Villa Spelman in order to rid itself of the financial burden associated with owning and maintaining the estate.
(12/01/05 5:00am)
The Committee on Leadership Appointments (COLA) is currently receiving applications to chair next year's Milton S. Eisenhower (MSE) Symposium.