The Greek InterVarsity (IV) Christian group, an organization founded by members of the Hopkins Christian Fellowship (HCF) who are also involved in Greek life, has become a steadily growing fixture of student life in recent years.
Upcoming student elections, food improvement and streamlining of the Hub were all on the agenda for this week’s Student Government Association (SGA) meeting held on Tuesday evening in the Charles Commons Salon B.
Executive Sous Chef David Friendlich joined the staff of the Fresh Food Café (FFC) on Feb. 13 and is working to improve the service and increase the variety of food it serves in order to accommodate as many as students as possible.
The Foreign Affairs Symposium (FAS) held a panel in Shriver Hall on Wednesday to discuss ISIS’s strong impact on the Middle East and global strategies to counter their advances.
The choice to cancel classes, as the University did on March 5 and 6, is decided by a variety of factors in consultation with officials from Homewood and elsewhere.
The freshman class and many Hopkins faculty members gathered in the gymnasium of the Ralph S. O’Connor Recreation Center on Tuesday night for the sixth annual High Table, a dinner originating from the classical British tradition practiced at Oxford and Cambridge Universities.
In an email to the Hopkins community, University President Ronald J. Daniels announced the launch of the Idea Lab, a webpage where students, faculty and staff, either as individuals or in groups, can propose, vote on and debate innovative suggestions about how to improve the University and its medical facilities.
The high volume of midterms taking place in the weeks before spring break causes what students describe as an uptick in stress, as they are forced to balance their time between academics and extracurriculars. The University and student groups, such as Stressbusters, offer a variety of services designed to combat stress.
University President Ronald J. Daniels announced a new $40 million initiative on March 4 to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation. The plan is in response to a May 2014 innovation report, which called for three major proposals to foster innovation: a new, designated space in East Baltimore; seed funding and an investment fund; and more commercialization services, infrastructure, education and policies to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship.
Senior Maxwell Dickey presented three bills to the Student Government Association (SGA) at its weekly meeting on Tuesday in the Charles Commons Barber Room.
Travis Schmauss, a junior, sits in the kitchen of his North Calvert Street apartment, blasting electronic music from his speakers.
J Street U hosted Ali Abu Awwad, a Palestinian activist and pacifist, on Tuesday at Hillel.
The Coalition of Hopkins Activists for Israel (CHAI) held an Israeli election party at Hopkins Hillel on Monday to prompt students to discuss topics surrounding Israeli politics in preparation for the country’s March 17 elections.
University President Ronald J. Daniels released a progress report via email for his “Ten by Twenty” plan to the Hopkins community on Tuesday which included 30 “snapshots” of completed initiatives corresponding to the plan.
The fifth annual Dance Marathon (DM) raised nearly $45,000 to benefit the Johns Hopkins Children’s Hospital as part of the Children’s Miracle Network, which aims to raise money to treat children fighting cancer. Hopkins community members danced for the cause in the Glass Pavilion from 6 p.m. on Saturday to 2 a.m. on Sunday.
Avijit Roy, an American activist and blogger who denounced religious extremism, was murdered in Bangladesh on Feb. 26 after walking home from a book fair where he was promoting his latest book, Virus of Faith. His daugher, freshman Trisha Ahmed, has been working to spread awareness throughout the Hopkins community and beyond about Roy’s writings and about the circumstances of his death.
