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As finals creep closer, Baltimore offers a welcome pause with a weekend full of holiday spirit. Enjoy twinkling markets, a beloved ballet and a movie night with a live orchestra before heading into the last stretch of the semester. Wishing everyone rest, warmth and a happy holiday season.
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Campus may be quiet for Thanksgiving break, but Baltimore is already in full holiday mode. Saturday is packed with choices from shopping local at Bazaart to exploring Festival of Trees before ending the night with improv mayhem at Bah Humbug. On Sunday, Hampden turns on the lights for Miracle on 34th Street, and the Grinch takes over the Hippodrome for one last burst of cheer.
Yes, I know it’s almost Thanksgiving and the main thing on your mind is when can you go home. When are you able to sit on the couch all day, maybe catch some NFL or NBA games, and drift into daydreams about never going back to school. As tempting as this sounds, you’ll be more thrilled to know about the success of our Hopkins sports team. Embrace your team spirit and combine it with your love for the school and you will realize that these Hopkins Sports games are can’t miss thrillers.
Every morning I wake up with an ache in my body that makes me wonder if monsters really do exist under my bed, and if they take turns using me as a trampoline through the night. If I turn my head slightly the wrong way, I fear it’ll just break clean from my neck; when I sit still in class for any longer than five minutes, my back will creak and crack loud enough to scare my classmates around me.
If one were to look up the definition of a traditional college football powerhouse, the Indiana Hoosiers would likely be the antithesis of that. Over the 127 seasons that Indiana has played, they have won only two conference titles, finished ranked in the final AP poll 7 times and won at least 10 games in a season once (last year). Until the last few weeks, Indiana had the most losses of any DI football program of all time, a stat that’s partially a product of how long the program has existed, but also due to perpetual mediocrity.
The FBI has arrested more than 30 players, coaches and other NBA affiliates in connection with an ongoing investigation into illegal gambling and insider betting. These indictments, which became unsealed in October, provide evidence of an alleged network of sports betting activity. They also exposed an underground poker operation, which they linked to organized crime. FBI director Kash Patel told the media that this was one of the largest gambling-related scandals in modern professional sports.
The University’s Student Government Association (SGA) gathered on Tuesday, Nov. 18 in Hackerman Hall for the fifteenth and last general body meeting of the semester. To begin the meeting, the SGA invited Lee Coyle, senior director of planning and architecture for the Johns Hopkins Facilities and Real Estate office, for a talk about the ongoing construction around the University.
The longest U.S. government shutdown in history ended on Nov. 12 after 43 days, leaving millions of Americans facing interruptions to federal programs and funding. Throughout October, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which offers cash cards to Americans at or below 130% of the poverty line, allowing them to purchase basic food items, continued on reduced funding; however, any extended shutdowns beyond 30 days, can pose difficulties in maintaining SNAP benefits for recipients. In Maryland, 668,000 individuals, including 259,000 children, are enrolled in SNAP.
Since the war between Israel and Palestine began on Oct. 7, 2023, universities across the nation have been scrutinized for their approaches toward combating antisemitism. In February 2024, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights announced that a Title VI investigation was opened into the University in light of antisemitic incident reports. Further, in January 2025 — with the arrival of the Trump administration — the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights entered into a joint resolution agreement with the University to outline tangible steps to address antisemitism on campus. The News-Letter investigated the plan’s effects on the Jewish student experience through interviews with students and a review of administrative records.
On Wednesday, Nov. 12, the Hopkins Common Question hosted a panel discussion on maternal health in Ghana. The panel included a mix of students and professionals who went on a trip to Ghana at the end of their “Experiential Research Lab: Transnational Birthing Justice — Ghana” class.
The Nexus of Open Science symposium took place on Nov. 14, bringing together leaders in neuroscience, clinical research, biomedical engineering and data science to explore topics ranging from FAIR data and software standards to improving the accessibility of AI tools in biomedical contexts like neuroimaging. Among the talks given, Georg Oeltzschner, Associate Professor of Radiology and Radiological Science at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, discussed a topic that may sound rather familiar to students with Organic Chemistry experience: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. To those without previous exposure, however, a NMR spectroscopy diagram may just look like a series of arbitrary peaks.
On Tuesday, Nov. 11, the Hopkins Political Union (HPU) hosted an open-forum debate on the future of the Democratic and Republican parties. The organization, formed in 2024 in collaboration with the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Agora Institute and the Heterodox Academy, aims to promote thoughtful political dialogue among students.
On Saturday, Nov. 15, TEDxJHU hosted their salon event titled “The Carousel of Ideas,” providing a platform for Hopkins students to share notable research, experiences or ideas. Speakers included Rachel Sholder, Mark Faust, Devothama Gundugurki Narasimhamurthy and Zaraf Khondoker.
On Nov. 12, the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences’ Advanced Academic Programs (AAP) hosted Nicholas Eftimiades, assistant teaching professor of homeland security at Penn State Harrisburg, for another entry in the Intelligence Analysis program’s Inside Intelligence lecture series. Eftimiades, who holds over three decades of experience in federal intelligence, provided the audience with an in-depth explanation of the contemporary Chinese espionage scene.
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