SGA discusses tragedy in Japan, post-break events
The SGA Meeting on Tuesday started off with President junior Mark Dirzulaitis discussing the tragedy in Japan.
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The SGA Meeting on Tuesday started off with President junior Mark Dirzulaitis discussing the tragedy in Japan.
1970 marked the first year that Hopkins accepted women into its undergraduate program. In honor of Women’s History Month, The News-Letter is featuring some of the women who enrolled in the undergraduate program in its first coeducational year.
Forty years have passed since women were first included in the undergraduate program at Hopkins in 1970. In that first year, 90 undergraduate women were accepted and for this year’s Women’s History Month, The News-Letter will be profiling a few of these women and their experiences at Hopkins.
Women’s History Month at Hopkins officially began last night with an opening ceremony featuring Vice Provost for Institutional Equity Caroline Laguerre-Brown. About 25 people attended the event.
At the end of January, Hopkins began participating in the Recyclemania Tournament, a recycling competition between 630 colleges across the nation to promote waste reduction on campuses. The competition will last for 10 weeks with the first two weeks not counting towards the actual score. Hopkins is currently in fifth place with a cumulative recycling rate of 29.76 percent.
This Monday, the Hopkins Undergraduate Engineering Society (HUES) hosted the “Power of Tower” competition. 15 different teams comprised of students, alumni and even middle school students who competed to see who could build the tallest tower out of pasta and marshmallows.
The Center for Education and Research (CER) brought TeamSpot technology to Hopkins through a pilot program. The technology will help students work together by connecting multiple computers to one large screen, enabling students to see what their group members are doing, and be able to work on the computer screen at the same time as each other.
Most Hopkins students know Professor Louise Pasternack as the teacher of Intro to Chemistry Lab — what many students may not know that she has done extensive research for the Navy and is married with four children.
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.
The Hopkins chapter of the American Marketing Association (AMA) held its second annual alumni panel on Monday. Five alumni came to talk to students about their experiences with marketing, and to give students tips on how to get jobs and internships in the field.
Katherine Newman, the new Dean of Arts and Sciences this year, has enthusiastically taken on her new position.
The Johns Hopkins Sustainability Initiative is trying to eradicate all use of plastic water bottles on campus. The group is currently working towards a proposal to do so. The movement is spearheaded by a group of freshmen. Nationally, only 10 percent of all water bottles used are recycled, causing large amounts of unnecessary waste.
It takes guts to climb up from an immigrant working-class status to a prominent economist. It takes even more guts to decide not just to take a job for the salary, but for the pursuit of knowledge. Economics professor Louis Maccini was born in the immigrant area of Cambridge, Mass., and he’s done both.
Philosophy is for those who are not afraid to think and question how the mind works, and consider what is ethically right and wrong.