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University considers closing department
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University considers closing department
The Humanities Center (HC) was founded in 1966 under the guidance of Milton S. Eisenhower, then president of the University. Eisenhower’s goal was to promote the study of the humanities at Hopkins, which had been undermined by a significant shift in the University’s academic focus toward the study of the sciences.
With Election Day coming up in less than three weeks, there is nothing quite as relevant and topical as U.S. politics right now. And with Irrelevant History being the archetype of a relevant and topical column, I’ve decided to write a two-part series on some cows and a pig that played an important role in the history of American politics.
“Why does he want his face there?” I asked my parents.
Starting out as a sewing machine salesman in the early 1900s, Charles Hatfield would wander through the dry, godless wasteland known as Southern California. There, he would preach to farmers, small towns and city councils that he could bring salvation and that he could baptize the dirt of the earth with his “moisture accelerating recipe.”
Hopkins alumnus Michael Bloomberg announced that he will donate $300 million to the Bloomberg School of Public Health on Thursday, Sept. 15. The donation will establish the Bloomberg Public Health Initiative, which will work to improve five focus areas affecting public health: drug addiction and overdose, obesity, gun violence, adolescent health and environmental threats.
The University was once again ranked 10th among national universities in the U.S. News & World Report released on Tuesday, trailing behind Unniversity of Pennsylvania and Duke University.
This is a column by an easily distracted, Wikipedia-loving college student who can’t identify run-on sentences and isn’t even majoring in history. So be prepared for a lot of guessing and a strong prejudice for the absurd, weird and, above all, irrelevant. Here we go.
Nine East 33rd, commonly known as “The New Building,” first opened its doors to student residents on Aug. 21. The building’s upper levels are designated as off-campus student housing, with retail space on its first floor.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) Civil Rights Division released an extensive report on Aug. 10 reviewing the policing practices of the Baltimore Police Department (BPD). The report revealed that there has been a pattern of violations of federal and constitutional law and systemic discrimination against African Americans by the BPD.
There are a lot of different types of chairs. There also are a lot of different types of professors at Hopkins. Here’s what would happen if some of those professors became chairs. Or maybe these chairs turned into professors. How do metaphors even work anyway?
Student groups have mobilized and formed the #ReCover Hopkins Coalition in protest of the University’s decision to end covered grades in the fall of 2017 and the University’s lack of transparency in finalizing the decision.
Historiography is all about studying the study of history. This makes it twice as much fun and promiscuous. Okay I’m going to stop romanticizing historiography now. Studying this is actually difficult and I’m pretty crappy at it, but it’s a very important thing to know when you look at any sort writing that involves history.
The University’s website, jhu.edu, won a 2016 Webby Award in the School/University Category on Tuesday. Within this category, the website was awarded the People’s Choice Award for having received the most online votes.
Johns Hopkins European Horizons, a new student think tank started last month on campus, aims to foster and promote student interest in European affairs. The group plans to bring in speakers and provide networking opportunities for students with a desire to engage with issues in Europe.
Students celebrated the Hindu festival of Holi on the Beach last Sunday. The event was organized by the Hindu Student Council (HSC) and the Association for India’s Development (AID). Free shirts were provided, along with Indian food and music and colored powder that participants could throw at each other.
I’m a freshman, so I don’t really know what to expect out of Spring Fair. I’ve heard a lot of hype about the food and events and am pretty excited for it. I just hope it doesn’t end up anything like what happened at Khodynka Meadow in May 1896.
The results for the 2016 Student Government Association (SGA) Executive Board elections were released Tuesday afternoon.
The Committee on Student Elections (CSE) held a Student Government Association (SGA) Executive Elections Candidate Meet and Greet on Sunday night. The event operated in a town hall format with students submitting questions to the moderator, Associate Dean of Student Engagement Tiffany Sanchez. The floor was later opened up for students to ask additional questions, and each candidate was limited to a one minute response.