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September 16, 2025
September 16, 2025 | Published by the Students of Johns Hopkins since 1896

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Ben Yuhas talked about his work on presidential campaigns.

Hopkins alum talks campaign finance

Hopkins alumnus Ben Yuhas gave a presentation about political campaign spending in Gilman Hall on Thursday hosted by the Hopkins Undergraduate Society for Applied Mathematics (HUSAM). The talk, Moneyball in Politics, detailed how campaign teams spend money and how they collect and analyze data to spend it wisely.


Real Food Hopkins hosts regional training

Students from the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions attended the Real Food Baltimore Regional Action Training and Strategy Retreat, hosted by Real Food Hopkins, at Charles Commons from Feb. 11-14. The weekend’s events centered around protesting the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement, as well as planning new initiatives and strategies to promote “real” food on college campuses.


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Castilla, a Hopkins alumnus, discussed Peru’s economic strengths.

Peruvian ambassador talks economics, trade

Luis Miguel Castilla is the Peruvian Ambassador to the United States, which he characterizes as his country’s most important diplomatic post. He served as Peru’s Minister of Economy and Finance from 2011 to 2014 and has worked at the World Bank, the Development Bank of the Americas and the University of the Pacific in Lima.


SGA to fund travel for club championships

The Student Government Association (SGA) convened in the Charles Commons Multipurpose Room on Tuesday to discuss the Hopkins Club Championship Reserve Fund and co-sponsoring a Leap Year Gala with the Residential Advisory Board (RAB). Junior Adelaide Morphett was also sworn in as a member of the Junior Class Council.


Students protest Trans-Pacific Partnership at Cummings’ office

Led by Real Food Hopkins, students and community members protested the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) on Friday. The rally, which began at Pennsylvania Station and ended Representative Elijah Cummings’ office, drew students from across the East Coast, local citizens and activists from Baltimore and the Baltimore Police Department.


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During the first Student Involvement Week, which replaced the spring activities fair, student groups tabled on the Breezeway over five days.

Students uninterested in Involvement Week

This semester, students did not pack the Ralph S. O’Connor Recreation Center for the usual activities fair frenzy. Instead, organizations occupied the Breezeway for five days during the new Student Involvement Week.



Faulty heating plagues old dorms

With water heater failures, broken HVAC systems and drafty windows, some students have experienced the bitter cold of winter inside their residential halls.


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There have been multiple robberies at nearby 7-Eleven locations.

Campus Security to introduce safety app

Continuing crime in the Charles Village area has prompted Executive Director of Campus Safety and Security Lee James to consider additions to security technology used by the University to improve campus safety.



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The Elsayyad Medical Group is led by Elsayyad, Quraishi and Sonko, who all met and became friends at Hopkins as undergraduates.

Start-up connects health workers to new jobs

Ahmed Elsayyad, Zein Quraishi and Lamin Sonko, three friends and alumni of Hopkins, launched the Elsayyad Medical Group, a healthcare recruiting and consulting company, last September. The group works to connect healthcare providers with physicians and potential staff.


Seniors question the merits of giving to the Senior Class Gift

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.


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Kerman highlighted what she perceived as faults in the prison system.

OITNB author opens FAS season

Piper Kerman, the author of Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Woman’s Prison and a prison reform advocate, spoke in Shriver Hall Wednesday night as the first speaker of the 2016 Foreign Affairs Symposium (FAS).


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Y Combinator, a venture capital fund that focuses on providing start-ups with seed funds, visited campus to support student business ideas.

Students get start-up advice from Y Combinator

Hosted by Johns Hopkins Technology Venture’s FastForward, representatives from the startup accelerator Y-Combinator (YC) held an event in Hodson Hall on Friday. Visiting Hopkins as part of their Winter College Tour. Partner and head of admissions at YC Dalton Caldwell and hardware specialist Luke Iseman gave a presentation about the Silicon Valley-based company followed by a Q&A session with the audience.


BPD officers in Gray trial try to block appeal

Three of the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) officers implicated in the death of Freddie Gray are seeking to block prosecutors’ attempts to appeal a decision made by Judge Barry Williams on Jan. 20 regarding a fourth officer’s testimony.



Super Bowl 50 divides student body, but Broncos win

Students gathered to watch Super Bowl 50 on Sunday night. While many opted to view the game privately with friends, others attended organized screenings to enjoy the game between the Denver Broncos and Carolina Panthers, which ended in a 24-10 victory for the Broncos.


Snowden coming to FAS next Wednesday

Edward Snowden, a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and National Security Agency (NSA) contractor who in 2013 released thousands of classified documents to expose potentially illegal domestic surveillance programs, will speak as a part of the Foreign Affairs Symposium (FAS) Wednesday Feb. 17 in Shriver Hall at 8 p.m.


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President Obama has visited mosques before, but not in the U.S.

Pres. Obama visits mosque near Baltimore

United States President Barack Obama spoke out against anti-Muslim prejudice at the Islamic Society of Baltimore, which was originally founded by members of the Hopkins community, on Wednesday. It was his first visit to a mosque in America.


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