At a meeting of the Sikh Student Association, four students sat in a room in the Interfaith Center on Sunday afternoon. Accompanied by music played from a phone, the students meditated, chanting the name of the Sikh god, Waheguru, and focusing on the divine nature.
Acclaimed writer and producer Sayed Kashua, an Arab citizen of Israel, opened the New Political Society’s spring speaker series on Thursday night in the Charles Commons East Room.
With a current membership of over 150, the co-ed service fraternity Alpha Phi Omega (APO) has a formidable presence on the Homewood Campus and is involved in activities with the local community.
Gloria Steinem, women’s rights icon and political activist, spoke about domestic violence and gender equality to a packed Shriver Hall as the second speaker in this year’s Foreign Affairs Symposium (FAS).
The Student Government Association (SGA) granted Senior Class Senator Parth Patel undergraduate status to avoid impeaching him in their meeting on Tuesday.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will look into whether the University breached the Animal Welfare Act after multiple citations of accidental animal deaths in research labs, including a rabbit that died from asphyxiation in a cage-washing machine and two monkeys that were strangled by chains in their cage.
Following sorority recruitment, LGBTQ students have mixed views regarding their place in Panhellenic sororities. These students feel generally accepted by the organizations as a whole but wonder if all individual sorority members feel the same way.
The Carey Business School, the Center for a Livable Future and the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences presented “Feeding the 21st Century,” a panel this past Tuesday in Mudd Hall on the modern-day problems cities encounter.
Over 550 members of the Hopkins community gathered at the Engineers Club on Friday to attend the second annual Commemoration Ball, which was held to celebrate the University’s founding.
When sophomores return to campus for Intersession or the spring semester, they are faced with the looming problem of having to acquire housing off-campus. For most students, this marks the first time that they have to seek out their own living accommodations.
In June 2015, junior Nathan Choe will be one of many undergraduate students who graduate early this year. There has been a considerable rise in the number of undergraduates who decide to forgo cap-and-gown tradition with their classmates and graduate early instead.
Two veterans of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) shared stories about how their military service shaped their lives in an event hosted by the Hopkins American Partnership for Israel (HAPI) and the Coalition of Hopkins Activists for Israel (CHAI) in the Charles Commons Barber Room on Sunday.
Sponspored by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) as part of Israel Apartheid Week, “Brutality by Design: Responses to Racist Security Regimes” sparked discussion over the Israel-Palestine conflict and drew on alleged similarities between police militarization both overseas and in the U.S. on Tuesday in Charles Commons.
Shake Shack, a New York City-based restaurant chain known for its fast food burgers and shakes, opened in the Inner Harbor last Monday at 400 E. Pratt St.
The Taiwanese American Students Association (jhuTASA) rang in the Lunar New Year, which is celebrated by many Asian cultures, at its first general body meeting of the semester on Thursday night in the AMR I Multipurpose Room.
Christine Chen, a junior at the Peabody Institute, died on Sunday. Chen, a Taiwanese citizen, was studying the recorder at the conservatory.
On Dec. 9, the Iota Tau chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha (PIKE) at Hopkins notified the University of its decision to forfeit its charter. The chapter, which has retained a charter for 22 years, informed its international fraternity of this decision on Jan. 26.
Senior Class Senator Parth Patel faces impeachment at the next meeting of the Student Government Association (SGA) on Feb. 25. Junior Mahzi Malcolm, a former senator, filed a complaint through the SGA Judiciary Board about the nature of Patel’s appointment process.
University President Ronald J. Daniels named Beverly Wendland as the James B. Knapp dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences (KSAS), effective immediately.
Nelly, the St. Louis rapper best known for his early 2000s hits “Hot in Herre,” “Dilemma” and “Ride Wit Me,” will perform in the Ralph S. O’Connor Recreation Center on April 24 as part of this year’s Spring Fair.
