Celebrating Thanksgiving in Baltimore
With just a week left until Thanksgiving, it is all that has been on my mind.
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With just a week left until Thanksgiving, it is all that has been on my mind.
It is always midway through November, right with Thanksgiving around the corner, that I start to get a bit homesick for those ever-familiar New York City streets.
Halloween comes full-force to Baltimore.
You would think that Highlandtown is pronounced HIGH-landtown.
Some will tell you that books are dead.
Maryland may be all about crab cakes, but Baltimore is about the Berger cookie.
Baltimore exists as a patchwork of neighborhoods — over 200 of them, actually. Just touching Hopkins, there are already five: Hampden, Remington, Charles Village, Barclay and Waverly.
Power Shift 2011, a youth-based conference advocating for a clean energy economy, took place this past weekend in Washington D.C. Drawing in notable speakers such as Al Gore and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson, more than 10,000 young people attended the event, including 15 students from Hopkins.
Baltimore was ranked the 11th most dangerous city in the United States according to the 2010-2011 City Crime Rankings report published by the CQ Press on Nov. 21 this past year.
Seniors Molly Dillon and Aliza Fishbein testified this past Wednesday in front of the Md. Senate and House Judiciary Committees in Annapolis in support of a bill that would require the installation of ignition interlock devices (IIDs) in vehicles for all convicted DUI offenders.
Chuck Hagel, former Republican Senator from Nebraska, spoke at the Foreign Affairs Symposium (FAS) yesterday evening. Hagel was the first speaker in this year’s series, the theme of which was global citizenship. Discussing a wide variety of international events, from the civic unrest in Egypt to the financial crisis, Hagel emphasized the important role of the individual in shaping our increasingly globalized world.
Hopkins’ grade on the Sustainable Endowment Institute’s (SEI) College Sustainability Report Card has dropped from a B- to a C+ this year. The Report Card grades over 300 universities across the UxaS and Canada on their environmental sustainability initiatives based on nine broad categories: administration, climate change and energy, food and recycling, green building, student involvement, transportation, endowment transparency, investment priorities, and shareholder engagement.
International sorority, Pi Beta Phi will be opening its 134th chapter this fall at Hopkins. Director of Greek Life Rob Turning cited the addition as primarily a student initiative. “We’ve had the interest [for a fourth sorority] and we’ve been able to show that at the National Pan-Hellenic Conference.”