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July 7, 2025
July 7, 2025 | Published by the Students of Johns Hopkins since 1896

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Annual bake-off fundraises for Relay for Life

The Hopkins Organization for Programming (HOP) hosted its second annual baking contest last Thursday in the Glass Pavilion, raising $460 for Relay for Life. The entries — baked by the 36 participating groups — ranged from macaroons to blue frosted cakes to cookies in the shape of swans.


SGA focuses on myriad of issues in weekly meeting

At Tuesday’s Student Government Association (SGA) meeting, members discussed the creation of a new organization called the Undergraduate Student Society for the Promotion of Campus Life, a freshmen mentorship program and a potential prank war against Loyola University Maryland.


Hopkins professor helps create Zerocoin currency

Matthew Green, assistant research professor at the Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute, is making waves for leading the team in the computer science department that created Zerocoin, a digital currency meant as an extension of Bitcoin. He presented the product at the 2013 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Symposium on Security and Privacy in Oakland, Calif.


HOPE urges action on mental health disparities

This year’s Health Disparities Week kicked off on Monday with a lecture from keynote speaker Tamar Mendelson of the Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her lecture, titled “Promoting Social and Emotional Well Being in Urban Youth,” stressed the social determinants of mental health.


Class teaches students to think like spies, leaders

With the sound of wailing babies and jeopardy music blaring in the background, sophomore Connor Sebastian frantically tried to read the articles in front of him while yelling to his teammates about how they should prepare a report on the situation.


Italian Club returns to Homewood Campus

After a brief hiatus, the Johns Hopkins Italian Club has been restored under a new management with a new vision for the direction of the club. Above all, the Italian Club is now seeking to take on a novel social dynamic which will make it more accessible to a larger proportion of Hopkins students.


Musician Thomas Dolby to join faculty in fall

Thomas Dolby, most well known for his 1982 New Wave hit “She Blinded me with Science,” is joining the Hopkins faculty as the first ever Homewood Professor of the Arts. Dolby is currently preparing to take the reigns of the Sound on Film course, which focuses on the creation of film soundtracks.


New club teaches acrobatic skills

After petitioning for University approval for the past year and a half, the Aerial Circus Club has officially launched this semester, receiving the Student Government Association’s approval on March 4.



Dance Marathon breaks fundraising record

More than 350 students danced for eight hours into the early hours of the morning this weekend as part of the fourth annual JHU Dance Marathon, which this year raised $35,000 for the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center.


Administration debates Latin honors system

Last semester, members of the Academic Committee of the Student Government Association (SGA) approached the deans of the Krieger School of Arts & Sciences (KSAS) and the Whiting School of Engineering (WSE) regarding the installation of a Latin honors system at Hopkins.


Hopkins tuition continues to rise steadily each year

Tuition for full-time Hopkins undergraduate students for the 2013-2014 academic year stands at $45,470 — a figure $15,376 greater than the national average for private non-profit four year Universities, which the CollegeBoard reports to be $30,094.


Week aims to promote healthy body image

Last week, the Center for Health Education and Wellness (CHEW) and the Counseling Center co-sponsored a series of events for National Eating Disorders Awareness Week (NEDAW). Spanning from Feb. 23 to Mar. 1, the week included displays of positive messages around campus, do-it-yourself (DIY) projects and social media campaigns.


Loyola professor speaks on adolescents and stress

Dr. Alison Papadakis, who will join the Psychological & Brain Sciences Department this fall, gave a lecture on Wednesday evening titled “Adolescent Angst: Self and Peer Factors Related to Depression and Social Anxiety in Adolescents.”


Freshmen reps host High Table Dinner

Approximately 640 freshmen students and 60 faculty and administrative members dined together at the fifth annual Freshman High Table Dinner. Held Tuesday evening in a transformed Ralph S. O’Connor Recreation Center gymnasium, the event was sponsored by the Student Government Association (SGA) to promote unity among the Hopkins class of 2017.


UC professor talks about Filipino migration

Robyn Rodriguez, an associate professor of Asian American studies at the University of California, Davis, gave a seminar on Wednesday night as part of a series of talks in the Sociology Department this year. She spoke to an audience of about 20 people in Mergenthaler Hall on her 2010 book, “Migrants for Export: How the Philippine State Brokers Labor to the World.”


Doctors say second newborn possibly cured of HIV

In a hopeful instance of déjà vu, a second baby born with HIV has been possibly cured of the virus after intense and early post-birth treatment — by a team including Dr. Deborah Persaud, a physician at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center.



Black History Month wraps up with lecture

The Hopkins Black History Month Committee wrapped up its month-long series of events by hosting Katrina Bell-McDonald, an associate professor in the Department of Sociology, for a lecture on Feb. 27 at the Office of Multicultural Affairs.


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