Sierra Leonean writer and human rights activist Ishmael Beah spoke Monday as the final speaker of the President’s Reading Series. Beah, a former child soldier who fought in his country’s civil war in the early 1990s, discussed his childhood and writing career and read from his new novel, Radiance of Tomorrow.
Since 1880, the University has awarded 470 Honorary Degrees to accomplished leaders from a variety of fields. This year seven of such leaders will receive an honorary degree and join the likes of Dwight D. Eisenhower and Bill Cosby. The 2014 recipients include Susan Wojcicki, Norman Augustine, Taylor Branch, Fred Lazarus, Edith Windsor, Pamela Flaherty and Roberta Kaplan.
As the closing event for Sexual Assault Awareness Month, the Hopkins Sexual Assault Resource Unit (SARU) sponsored a lecture by feminist writer Sara Alcid titled SARU Presents Law and Order: SVU vs. Reality on Friday in Mudd Hall.
The Student Government Association (SGA) held its final meeting of the school year on Tuesday in Mason Hall. The meeting’s main focus was on modifying the “Resolution Regarding a Change in the Johns Hopkins University Sexual Violence Policy.”
Professor Erica Schoenberger will be teaching a new class next fall called Environment and Society. This course will explore the environmental implications of societal decisions and resource use.
Hopkins faculty and visiting experts from across the country came together at Mason Hall on Saturday as part of a Program of Latin American Studies conference titled Shifting Portrait: Latinos, Public Health, Inequality.
Thirty-two finalist teams competed for a total of $72,000 at the 15th annual Business Plan Competition on Friday.
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.
