This weekend marked Hopkins’s 43rd annual Spring Fair, the largest student-run festival in the country. Organized by a team of 45 undergraduates, along with two faculty advisors, the Charles Village tradition featured food trucks, a beer garden, carnival rides, live performances and contests. This year’s theme was Heroes and Villains.
A block-long sinkhole opened up on the corner of 26th Street and North Charles Street due to heavy rainfall Wednesday afternoon. About a dozen parked cars fell into the hole, and residents were evacuated from the area, which is four blocks south of campus.
As Hopkins continues to come under scrutiny for its treatment of laboratory animals, an in-depth investigation by The News-Letter reveals that the University has consistently been found in violation of federal law and government regulations.
The Hopkins chapter of Supporting Hospitals Abroad with Resources and Equipment (SHARE) hosted the SHARE fair in Charles Commons Ballroom on Saturday afternoon.
Phi Gamma Delta (FIJI) and the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) hosted The PUSH on Saturday, in which teams of eight take turns pushing a Humvee 80 yards down Homewood Field. The event drew over 300 participants and raised approximately $10,000 for the United Service Organizations (USO), a charity that benefits members of the armed forces and their families.
A criminal case that was launched against 20-year-old Mohammad Hassan Khalid two years ago drew to a close on April 17. Khalid was charged with aiding convicted terrorist Colleen R. LaRose, who is known online as Jihad Jane, in a plot to kill Lars Vilks, a cartoonist from Sweden. The members of the terror cell considered Vilks’ depictions of Mohammad, the Muslim prophet, to be offensive. In May 2012, Khalid pleaded guilty to collaborating with the group on plans to murder Vilks. Khalid had put together a package with false identity documents for the other members of the terror cell. Khalid’s case was unusual due to his young age, which caused his hearing at the U.S. District Court in Philadelphia to command special attention.
The results of the Class Council elections were released by email on Monday. This election, which chose next year’s presidents and senators for the Classes of 2015, 2016 and 2017, followed the Student Government Association (SGA) Executive Committee election, in which SGA President, Vice President, Treasurer and Secretary were chosen. The SGA Committee on Student Elections compiled the results.
Environmental activist groups on campus teamed together to organize Earth Week, a series of events to inform students of Hopkins’s environmental impact.
Seniors in the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship program presented the culmination of four years of research Wednesday at the annual Woodrow Wilson Senior Poster Session.
The Taiwanese American Students Association (jhuTASA) drew over 400 people to its 12th annual Night Market in the Mattin Courtyard on Sunday, sharing homemade Taiwanese food and collaborating with fellow Asian interest groups.
To continue spreading awareness of sexual assault on campus, College Democrats, Voice for Choice, the Hopkins Feminists and the Sexual Assault Resource Unit (SARU) sponsored the Hopkins Against Sexual Assault petition-signing and photo contest Wednesday on the Keyser Quad.
Students for Life of America, a national pro-life organization of which Hopkins Voice for Life (VFL) is a chapter, recently published an article on its website that assailed Hopkins Voice for Choice (VFC) and their latest fundraising event.
The Student Government Association (SGA) and the Office of Transportation have spearheaded the expansion of the Blue Jay Shuttle service to include a new route that goes to Hampden. For the past four Saturdays, the new shuttle line has run from 12:30 p.m. to 5:45 p.m.
The Spring Open House and Overnight Program (SOHOP), presented by the Hopkins Hosting Society, returned this spring drawing nearly 1,000 accepted students to visit campus. SOHOP gives potential incoming freshmen a glimpse of undergraduate life at Hopkins and enlists current undergraduates to act as their overnight hosts. This year Hopkins held two overnight sessions, one from April 9-10 and another last night.
tside of the Ralph S. O’Connor Recreation Center to take part in the 12th annual Blue Jay 5k benefiting the Lymphoma Research Foundation on Sunday. The student-run fundraiser was organized by the men’s and women’s track and field teams.
The Foreign Affairs Symposium (FAS) honored Shabana Basij-Rasikh, the 24-year-old co-founder of a boarding school for girls in Afghanistan, on Friday in Shriver Hall at its first-ever Anne Smedinghoff Memorial Event.
Jessica Jackley, co-founder of KIVA.org, spoke to an audience in Mudd Hall on Wednesday as the final speaker of the Foreign Affair Symposium’s (FAS) 2014 speakers series.
The Hopkins chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha (PIKE) is under investigation by the administration, according to Coordinator of Greek Life and Orientation Rachel Drennen.
The JHU College Republicans and Hopkins College Democrats held their annual debate Monday in Mudd Hall.
