Baltimore City to pay $6.4 million to family of Freddie Gray
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By CATHERINE PALMER
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Freddie Gray’s death has been ruled a homicide, and six officers have been charged in the case, Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby announced Friday.
Baltimore residents took to the streets this past week to protest the death of Freddie Gray, who died on April 19 from a spinal cord injury after his arrest a week earlier. While the protests have largely remained peaceful, pockets of violence erupted on Saturday evening, and by Monday night, riots caused the University to order students on Homewood Campus to remain indoors.
Editor's Note: This is a developing story and will be updated as more information becomes available.
The Diverse Sexuality and Gender Alliance (DSAGA) held its annual carnival as part of April Awareness Days in support of all sexual orientations and gender identities on the Freshman Quad on Friday.
Vice Provost for Student Affairs Kevin Shollenberger has formed a committee to evaluate the smoking policy at the Homewood and Peabody campuses. The committee plans to either make the campuses smoke-free or to limit smoking to designated outdoor areas.
David Plouffe, the manager of U.S. President Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign, headlined the final Foreign Affairs Symposium (FAS) event of the year, which was co-sponsored by the College Democrats.
Professor Niloofar Haeri, chair of the Anthropology Department, and Professor Lawrence M. Principe, a professor in the History of Science and Technology Department and the Chemistry Department, were chosen as recipients of 2015 fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
The Office of Student Life has created the position of Director of Gender Equity in an effort to more fully address the needs and concerns of both female and male students.
The University is currently redesigning JHU.edu for the first time since 2009 in an effort to simplify it and make important information more easily accessible. The finished product is expected to debut at the end of April.
Since the Alcohol Strategy Working Group released its recommendations for policy changes on March 2, it has been working on collecting feedback from the student body. The recommendations and feedback are now being considered by a small policy group, which will subsequently move forward with whatever policy changes they see fit.
Many students gathered in the Glass Pavilion on Wednesday to view and taste baked goods inspired by books at the second annual Read it and Eat it Edible Book Festival, hosted by the Sheridan Libraries.
Eleven students went to Vienna, Austria over spring break from March 15 to March 22 to learn about Austrian Jewish history and Viennese culture. The annual trip was organized and subsidized by Hopkins Hillel, which worked in conjunction with the Jewish Welcome Service, an organization in Vienna.
The Public Interest Investment Advisory Committee (PIIAC) — a group of students, faculty and staff that determines whether the University’s Board of Trustees is investing the school’s endowment in a socially responsible manner — is currently formalizing its procedures and guidelines before allowing members of the Hopkins community to come forward with investment proposals.
Executive Sous Chef David Friendlich joined the staff of the Fresh Food Café (FFC) on Feb. 13 and is working to improve the service and increase the variety of food it serves in order to accommodate as many as students as possible.
The choice to cancel classes, as the University did on March 5 and 6, is decided by a variety of factors in consultation with officials from Homewood and elsewhere.