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(04/09/16 3:01am)
Sophomore Jessa Wais created a petition calling for a one week delay in the Student Government Association (SGA) elections along with an additional debate for students to voice their concerns. As of press time, the petition had 353 signatures out of a requested 500.
(04/08/16 6:37am)
Student Government Association (SGA) Executive Secretary candidate Christopher Beckmann withdrew from the 2016 elections Thursday night due to an off-campus academic program he will be participating in next semester.
(04/07/16 8:04pm)
(04/07/16 7:50pm)
In the wake of multiple major terrorist attacks around the world, several Hopkins groups organized a vigil on Friday evening to provide a moment of reflection for students.
(03/31/16 9:56pm)
Eugene Kontorovich, a professor of law specializing in international law from Northwestern University, had a conversation with School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) professor and former UN official Ruth Wedgwood on Wednesday. They discussed the merits and faults of using a framework of international law to analyze Israel’s position in the world. The event was hosted by the Israel on Campus Coalition, Hopkins Hillel, StandWithUs and the Department of International Studies.
(03/31/16 6:11pm)
Born in Germany in 1875, August Engelhardt lived in the foreboding years leading up to the catastrophic First World War. Except he didn’t care at all about that. What Engelhardt did care about was living in accordance with nature. To him that meant nudism and vegetarianism.
(03/24/16 6:20pm)
The Career Center has gone through a thorough restructuring of both staff and services in the past year. The center has been shifting its model to focus more on career academies than career counseling.
(03/10/16 4:33pm)
Ezra Klein, journalist and editor-in-chief of the news site Vox, spoke at Shriver Hall on Wednesday as part of the Foreign Affairs Symposium (FAS). Klein is also a noted political and economic columnist and has worked for the Washington Post, Bloomberg and various MSNBC programs.
(03/10/16 4:29pm)
Jo Handelsman, associate director for science at the White House’s Office of Science and Technology, spoke in Mason Hall on Tuesday about pervasive unconscious biases against employing women and minorities in the STEM fields.
(03/10/16 3:37pm)
Our fascination with these felicitous felines is a defining aspect of our time. Future historians will look back upon this time period and write theses and dissertations on the implications of this mad idolatry of cats in the peculiar years of the late 2000s and early 2010s.
(03/03/16 4:09pm)
Crepe Studio, located in Charles Street Market, has experienced managerial changes since its establishment in the fall, and employees are concerned about wages and loyalty to the business.
(03/03/16 4:03pm)
On Wednesday, a one-alarm fire damaged a large portion of The Book Thing, a free popular book exchange located near Greenmount Avenue and 30th Street. The building held an estimated 200,000 books. Fire crews responded at around 5:15 a.m., and the fire was declared under control after 45 minutes.
(02/25/16 10:24pm)
Naomi Klein, environmental activist and writer, spoke in Shriver Hall as part of the Foreign Affairs Symposium (FAS) on Tuesday. Klein, a Canadian, is known for her critically acclaimed books This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate and The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, which discuss the relationships between climate change and capitalism, and the role governments should play in the economy.
(02/25/16 8:57pm)
After starting to write this column, I realized I should address this issue sooner or later. History at face-value is useless. Knowing the results of the Election of 1824 would not improve the quality of life I live right now unless it were to show up on a history test. Since elementary school, our education has been divided into four general subjects: English, math, science and history.
(02/25/16 8:37pm)
Dining staff at Hopkins work every day through the cold, snow, heat and rain to serve students. To allow the students to get to know these dedicated people a little better, The News-Letter interviewed some of the staff about their thoughts and experiences working at Hopkins.
(02/18/16 3:38pm)
Edward Snowden, controversial NSA whistleblower, spoke to a packed Shriver Hall on Wednesday at the Foreign Affairs Symposium (FAS). In June 2013, Snowden revealed documents containing secret NSA surveillance practices to journalists, which began a debate on the role of privacy rights in government surveillance.
(02/11/16 11:04pm)
I’m not entirely sure what happened in 440 B.C. I’m not sure if anyone really knows what happened then. When things are that far in the past they get hazy, so much of this is probably false. But something important to know about history is that what actually happened doesn’t always matter — what people believed to have happened arguably matters more. One thing that supposedly happened in 440 B.C. was that Democritus tried cutting cheese an infinite amount of times and hypothesized the existence of atoms from that experience (that was a fart joke). Another thing that supposedly happened in the same year was the publication of Histories by “Father of History” Herodotus.
(02/11/16 8:59pm)
Fewer Hopkins seniors give money to the University than seniors at peer institutions. The Hopkins Senior Class Gift Committee, an organization of seniors who encourage others to give back, is trying to increase giving among seniors and understand why Hopkins has a lower rate than other schools.
(02/04/16 7:04pm)
Congressman Elijah Cummings (D-MD) spoke to Charles Village residents and Hopkins students at the Homewood Friends meetinghouse on Sunday. He addressed issues affecting the Baltimore community, focusing particularly on racism and education by using personal experience and anecdotes.
(01/29/16 12:31am)
Some people thought the First World War should’ve been won by Christmastime. Except it wasn’t. There shouldn’t have been many casualties. Except there were. The Napoleonic Wars, the last huge conflict in Europe had 3.5 million casualties throughout Europe over the course of 12 years. In less than half a year there were more than a million casualties just on the Western Front. Following the First Battle of the Marne in September 1914, the border between France and Germany was lined with impassable trenches and dotted with machine gun nests and snipers. WWI had many unexpected events. Usually unexpectedly bad. But a couple of times something unexpectedly good happened, like during the Christmas of 1914.