Students protest police brutality, racism in BLC die-in
While much of the Homewood campus was concerned with studying for upcoming finals, a group of students drew attention to a larger national issue.
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While much of the Homewood campus was concerned with studying for upcoming finals, a group of students drew attention to a larger national issue.
The Triple Helix held its second Science Café of the year in the Wolman Multipurpose Room this past Monday. The topic for the open forum debate was “Discussing the Intersection Between Science and Religion,” and it centered around Pope Francis’s recent remarks that the Big Bang Theory and the existence of God and creationism are not mutually exclusive.
A team from the Blue Jay Battalion of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC), which consists of 102 Cadets from Hopkins, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) and University of Maryland-Baltimore City (UMBC), recently won the 4th Brigade Cadet Commander’s Ranger Challenge competition at Fort Pickett, Va.
On Wednesday, Phi Mu hosted its annual philanthropy event, Mr. Phi Mu, an interfraternity competition. The event benefited the Katie Oppo Research Fund, which endows ovarian cancer research at Johns Hopkins University Hospital. Admission was $5, and each attendee got five votes.
The Earth & Planetary Sciences Department hosted climatologist and aerosol specialist Lorraine Remer of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center on Thursday. The Bromery lecture, held in Olin Hall, was titled, “Aerosols and Climate Forcing: New Thoughts, Future Direction,” and focused on how aerosols contribute to the global heating and cooling cycle.
Yannis Galanakis, a member of the Faculty of Classics at the University of Cambridge, gave a lecture entitled “The Diplomat, The Dealer, and The Digger: Writing the History of the Antiquities Trade in Nineteenth-Century Greece.” The talk took place last Friday to an audience of undergraduate and graduate students as well as patrons of the Baltimore Society of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA).
The Black Student Union (BSU) held a protest on Thursday in response to the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, an African American 18-year-old, by white police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Mo. on Aug. 9.