On Saturday, the South Asian Students at Hopkins (SASH) hosted their first major event of the fall semester, the SASH Class Bash. The event consisted of small competitions to promote competition between the freshman, sophomore, junior and senior classes.
The New Political Society continued its lecture series with Robert Johnson on Tuesday. The club, which was formed in the spring of 2014, is designed to expose students to new thoughts.
Every week in the Mattin Center, students meet in the Caplan Dance Studio for ballet and modern dance classes. These courses include open sessions, as well as advanced classes for company members. They each run for one semester and are non-credit.
The Organización Latino Estudiantil (OLÉ) held a kickoff event in Charles Commons Friday evening to celebrate the beginning of Latino Heritage Month.
The development of a Hopkins-sponsored early child care center near the Homewood campus moved forward with the closure of a University employee parking lot on Oct. 4, according to a notice by Transportation Services.
This Saturday, the historic Baltimore neighborhood of Fells Point held its 48th annual October Fun Festival. The festival, which took place on Thames Street, is steeped in tradition.
Hopkins Students for Justice in Palestine (HSJP) hosted a performance of My Name is Rachel Corrie, a one-woman, one-act play based on the true story of an American who was killed in Palestine. The show took place in the Arellano Theater on Friday.
The Career Center has partnered with Convergence, LLC., a financial information company, to offer services for students interested in all aspects of the financial industry.
The Student Government Association (SGA) welcomed its freshman class president and senators at the organization’s meeting Tuesday night.
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.
The Committee on Student Elections (CSE) announced Friday that Anna Du will serve as the freshman class president for the Class of 2018. Alex Darwiche, Heidi Woll, Elise Rodrigues, Kwame Alston, Alberto Pepe Muniz and Sarah Zappone were elected to be class senators.
Both Ends Burning (BEB), a non-profit organization that advocates for the rights of orphaned children, presented the award-winning documentary Stuck in Krieger Hall on Sept. 24 as part of its national campus tour.
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).
For their debut event, the New Political Society (NPS) hosted radical economist Dr. Richard Wolff for a talk entitled “Understanding American Capitalism” on Tuesday in Mudd Hall.
On Monday Bon Appétit and the Residential Advisory Board (RAB) teamed up to host a dining meeting, inviting students to voice their opinions regarding campus dining over a catered dinner.
The Feminist and Queer Theory Reading Group hosted a conversation on Against Equality: Queer Revolution, Not Mere Inclusion as one of its biweekly talks of feminist and queer theory texts on Monday at the Greenhouse.
A collection of student groups and professional offices known as the Healthy Jays hosted their Health Fest on Monday at the Ralph S. O’Connor Recreation Center. The Healthy Jays consists of the Center for Health Education and Wellness (CHEW), Recreational Sports, Housing & Dining, the Meatless Monday campaign and Friday Night Films.
At this Tuesday’s meeting, the Student Government Association (SGA) covered a varied agenda. They discussed several bills and proposals, including Halloween plans, a Deloitte-JHU Diversity Panel, and Blue Jay Spirit Week. They also discussed new initiatives to showcase the SGA’s service to the student body.
The Center for Leadership Education (CLE) will introduce an undergraduate Marketing and Communications minor on Nov. 1.
Christopher Elser, a junior in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, was fatally stabbed during a burglary at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) fraternity house on Apr. 17, 2004. Bridget Phillips, a graduate student, was brutally murdered in her off-campus apartment on March 22, 1989. Ten and 25 years later, respectively, both cases remain unsolved.
