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(05/05/11 8:09pm)
We are approaching the end of the year, and to many people, that means long hours in the library. The library will most likely be jam-packed with people trying to salvage what they can of this semester’s grades before it’s too late. Indeed, everyone’s going to be there, because if there’s anything that ties this school together, it’s the fact that everyone’s serious about studying, regardless of gender, extracurricular activities or ethnicity.
(04/28/11 6:17pm)
As the end of the academic year draws to a close, the campaign to raise money for the senior class gift is in full gear. The Seniors for The Hopkins Fund, the group in charge of the campaign, has received donations from 397 seniors, which amounts to $13,641, as of last Monday.
(04/14/11 7:45pm)
Last Monday, Vision XChange, a student organization devoted to raising money for charity through unique events like Hopkins Top Model and Hopkins Got Talent, held an event called the Date Auction. The auction, whereby representatives from 22 student groups across campus were bought off by admirers and friends in exchange for a date at one of the local restaurants, collected over $1,000, which will be used to help underprivileged girls in Nepal.
(04/07/11 7:52pm)
This past Monday night, Hopkins student group SHARE — Supporting Hospitals Abroad with Resources and Equipment — organized an informational speaker event, with hosts Dr. Richard Redett and Dr. Fizan Abdullah, in the Charles Commons Banquet Room. A completely student-run group, SHARE aims to collect unused or reusable medical supplies usually thrown out by Hopkins Hospital, eventually sorting, packaging and shipping them abroad.
(03/10/11 7:50pm)
Professor Charles L. Bennett of the astrophysics department recently won the 2010 Shaw Prize in Astronomy, which comes with $1 million dollars in cash, for his groundbreaking contribution to the measurement of the age and content of the universe. He was able to do so in his capacity as Principal Investigator of NASA’s highly successful Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), an observational satellite that his team of scientists built.
(03/03/11 11:34pm)
With rush over and pledging in process, the number of new members projected to join fraternities is slowly taking shape.
(02/18/11 1:25am)
Renowned filmmaker Charles Burnett came to Hopkins to sit in on a screening of one of his own movies, Nightjohn, and talked about the movie and his career after the showing last Thursday.
(12/03/10 12:18am)
Hopkins received a grade of an F in August from the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) on grounds that the University provides an inadequate general education. ACTA conducted its second annual “What Will They Learn” project, whose goal was to ensure that students have a broad general education. 718 schools were graded on having seven core classes, which included composition, a survey of literature, economics, American history or government, mathematics, science and an intermediate knowledge of a foreign language.
(11/05/10 12:52am)
As a foreign student studying at an American college, I have gotten used to encountering cultural norms that baffle the hell out of me. But there is one thing that humbles all: the ways in which people talk about, lead up to and evaluate sex. Let me elaborate.
(09/16/10 11:24pm)
Frederick Jelinek, professor of electrical and computer engineering, passed away last night. According to Lieutenant Mark Long of Campus Safety and Security, Jelinek was found in a computer science restroom in an unresponsive state at 9:36 PM and was taken to Union Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead by natural causes at 10:27 PM. He was 67.
(09/10/10 12:46am)
Approximately 1,100 under- and upperclassmen gathered on the Lower Quad on Monday to celebrate First Night, the annual ceremony of officially inducting freshmen into the student body.