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(11/06/03 5:00am)
Leaders of NCAA Division III reaffirmed their commitment last Thursday to a proposal that would eliminate the exception granted to Johns Hopkins to giving out athletic scholarships for its Division I lacrosse teams, even though it belongs to Division III. The proposed amendment, identified as proposal 2-69, will be put to a final vote of all 424 Division III member schools at the NCAA Convention in January.
(10/30/03 5:00am)
The President's Council of Division III is scheduled to meet on Thursday, October 30th to decide whether or not a crucial ammendment threatening Johns Hopkins' multi-divisional status will remain on a ballot for vote at the 2004 NCAA Convetion.
(10/23/03 5:00am)
All is not well with our current advising system. The purpose of having advisors in the first place is so that students have somebody to turn to who can act as a sort of guide through the wilderness of the modern day research university.
(10/16/03 5:00am)
It's 8:30 p.m. on a Tuesday night and 15 people are sitting in a classroom in the depths of Bloomberg, talking about poetry. But these aren't Hopkins students. They are a random assortment of people from all over Baltimore representing a wide array of ages and races.
(10/16/03 5:00am)
A new humanities program beginning in the spring will provide up to 16 Hopkins students with the chance to live, work, and study in the nation's capital while receiving academic credit.
(10/09/03 5:00am)
When the Charles Village Project is completed some time in the fall of 2005, it will have a significant impact on the way students feel at Johns Hopkins.
(10/09/03 5:00am)
Beginning next fall, the writing seminars will start offering a two-year graduate program that will lead to a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree.
(09/25/03 5:00am)
What makes the theater such a powerful medium of expression is its intimacy. There, right in front of your eyes, are actors turning into characters, and characters creating a story.
(09/11/03 5:00am)
For the first week's reading in the class Global Economy, we were as signed to read a book entitled Creating Modern Capitalism. In the introduction, Thomas McGraw of the Harvard Business School defines capitalism as "the psychological orientation toward the pursuit of future wealth and property."
(09/04/03 5:00am)
One of the most amazing and frustrating things about college is learning to live with someone you have never met before in a very limited amount of space.
(09/04/03 5:00am)
This year's Club Night, an annual freshman orientation event, was unexpectedly cut short Monday night after the manager of Redwood Trust decided the club had become too crowded and that students were damagingclub property.
(09/04/03 5:00am)
Four years is not a long time. In fact, when you consider that many people live well into their eighties and nineties, four years can go by as fast as a suburban kid running from a busted house party.
(05/01/03 5:00am)
Founded as an institution focused on graduate-level academics, Johns Hopkins has long given undergraduate education less attention than its peer universities. There were high hopes for changing this in January 2002, when President William Brody and Provost Steven Knapp created the Commission on Undergraduate Education (CUE), the mission of which was to come up with specific recommendations to improve the undergraduate experience, both inside and outside the classroom.
(04/24/03 5:00am)
In the first minutes of Tuesday morning, right past midnight, sophomore Carl Gay sat in the radio broadcasting booth located in the McCoy lounge. With the push of a button, Ozzy Osbourne's Crazy Train started to play and Hopkins student radio went back on air.
(04/24/03 5:00am)
As the university expands and builds additional undergraduate housing over the next decade, "theme" housing has been brought forward as one proposal to help develop community among students. Theme housing would involve housing students together by common interest, common race or even religion. While an experiment with common-interest housing might be worthwhile, it would do the University a great disservice to encourage student segregation by race or religion.
(04/17/03 5:00am)
Before leaving for the Hopkins vs. Maryland game on Saturday night, I climbed up the ladder into the rarely entered Gatehouse attic. There, behind piles of old News-Letter issues, was a little closet door. Inside, lay a treasure that any Hopkins lacrosse fan would cherish.
(04/10/03 5:00am)
Watching the war in Iraq on television, it's hard to get a sense of both the fear and joy the Iraqi people are experiencing. To the majority of Americans, it is a distant conflict that will have little effect on them.
(11/21/02 5:00am)
The Classics department at the Johns Hopkins University has come a long way since its inception by department founder Basil Gildersleeve in the 19th century. Gildersleeve, credited with bringing the modern graduate seminar class to the United States, was also in charge of the first graduate program in Classics in the country. But over the past century, the study of classics has become less and less popular, at Hopkins and elsewhere, for a variety of reasons. While the department continues to perform high-quality teaching and research, it is currently the smallest in the School of Arts and Sciences, with only four professors in its permanent faculty and an average of one to four majors per graduating class.
(11/17/02 5:00am)
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(11/17/02 5:00am)
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