FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture, a Baltimore-based art activist group, presented a talk Saturday on using culture jamming and creative digital media to spark dialogue about combating sexual violence.
The Greek Life Summit brought student representatives from different fraternities and sororities, including Kappa Kappa Gamma, Pi Beta Phi, Phi Mu, Sigma Phi Epsilon, and Alpha Delta Phi (Wawa) among others, together on Oct. 23. Dean of Student Life Terry Martinez organized the summit to discuss each chapter’s goals, policies and philosophies.
The SGA discussed several end-of-semester events during their general body meeting on Tuesday, including plans for an outdoor sculpture on campus and Blue Jay Pride Week, an event spearheaded by the Sophomore Class Council aimed at bolstering school spirit throughout the student body.
Real Food Hopkins hosted the fifth annual 100 Mile Meal, a dinner that only incorporated ingredients sourced from within 100 miles of campus, last Friday night in the Charles Commons Ballroom.
The Academy of Johns Hopkins and the Department of the History of Art celebrated the legacy of El Greco 400 years after his death on Oct. 24.
On Thursday, the Diverse Sexuality and Gender Alliance (DSAGA), along with the Office of LGBTQ Life, held a counter-protest outside of Charles Street Market in response to a protest earlier in the day by the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) that advocated for heterosexual marriage.
Yangkai “Kane” Li, 20, tragically passed away last Wednesday. A native of Guangzhou, China, Li had just declared a major in physics, was a member of the Johns Hopkins Society of Physics Students and was preparing to start research.
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.
Yik Yak is a relatively new social media platform that allows users to post their opinions anonymously and “up-vote” or “down-vote” posts they like or dislike. The app has spread to colleges across the country and allows students to express their feelings, which can be funny as well as brutally honest.
While many left Baltimore during the three-day Fall Break, around 20 faculty and graduate students gathered for a workshop titled “Law and the Local” on Friday afternoon.
The Stavros Niarchos Foundation will provide Hopkins with $5 million, enabling the University to work with the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) and the Maryland Film Festival to renovate the Parkway Theater. The theater, located near the corner of Charles Street and North Avenue in Baltimore’s Station North Arts and Entertainment District, is slated to open as the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Film Center in 2016.
Francis in the Schools, an educational festival for underserved urban children, was hosted for the first time on the East Coast at the Peabody Institute for more than 600 children on Friday.
Enabled by the University-wide Gateway Science Initiative, the physics department has begun offering an Active Learning (AL) variant of General Physics I. It is now in its second year of operation. The course was developed in part through site visits to other universities, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and North Carolina State University. The class is heavily modeled on MIT’s Technology Enabled Active Learning (TEAL) physics courses.
On Monday, the Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute invited Dr. Richard Krauzlis to speak about his new research findings.
John W. Rawlins III joined the Johns Hopkins community on Oct. 1 as the special assistant to Associate Vice Provost and Dean of Student Life Terry Martinez.
A record 27,000 runners participated in the Baltimore Running Festival on Saturday. The festival, now in its 14th year, consists of a marathon, a half marathon, a team relay, a wheelchair race, a 5K run and a Kids Fun Run. An estimated 25,000 people participated in these races.
The Student Government Association (SGA) discussed its plans for student outreach, reviewed new student groups, reformed its What To Fix (WTF) Hopkins page, appointed new members to the Judiciary board and the Committee on Student Elections (CSE) and temporarily suspended sections of the SGA constitution while reviewing compliance with those sections.
On Friday afternoon, an Insomnia Cookies employee was found dead at the store location inside Charles Commons.
Phi Mu won its third consecutive Panhellenic Powderpuff tournament on the Practice Field Sunday, defeating all four other Panhellenic sororities in the annual flag football competition.
